I do not care what software comes with it. Fedora/debian and may other distros come with TONS of software. But, I can uninstall it. And its not a big deal. I cannot uninstall IE, or WMP. These also pose a security threat. So, not only do I not want the programs there, now I have to maintain them to prevent my machine being hacked. This is what I don't like. If I was able to uninstall it, I would be much more inclined to purchase it.
And, with the way MS works, doesn't anybody think that nobody is buying it because of what MS does? Do you think MS gives dell the same discount on Xp N as they get on XP?
Well, all in all... oh wait, I forgot, Im posting this from linux so I guess I don't have to worry.
300 year life expectancy? what in gods name? do you KNOW how long this is? most people dont even like working till they are 65. that is a looooong time.
I know that I do not want to live that long.
In terms of medicine and such, I would say we have gone totally backwards in the USA. people think that medicine is getting better, and smart, but its getting much worse. more people are taking more medication, and the average number of prescriptions has gone way up per person.
My step dad always said in the 60s, people thought the 90s would be like the jetsons. and, were arent even close. and he still says in 20-30 years we will be living like the jetsons. nope. sorry. try again.
I must admit, technology has been coming along way, but! I think that we will destroy ourselves politically/religiously or what ever dumbass reason our politicians have to war monger about. Technology is evolving, not the people in charge, and most of the people of the population.
last but not least, all of you fatasses in the usa. you will all die of heart attacks before any of this happens.
ok, first off, dont take this as me bragging, but, to illustrate a point, I will compare, me and my brother, since the background is similar.
Me and my brother are almost 4 years apart. We both grew up on computers, and we both used them a lot. My brother is in his 2nd year at a university studying cs. My brother did better in school then i did. I have not yet been to a school after highschool.
I recently said to my brother , "My friend is building a dual dual core opteron box" and he asked me, "what is an opteron"
I mention other hardware stuff and he was completely clueless as to what cache was, or a system bus. So, i will give him the fact, maybe he is a software guy, and not a hardware guy. I have a friend who makes 90k/yr programming at ms, and he couldnt install the heatsink on his p4. I had to do it. go figure. So i start talking about software stuff, and he is completely clueless about that. so, here is where i begin to worry. he doesnt seem to know a lot about computers, and after further probing, he really doesnt know much at all. and I wonder. we pretty much spent the same amount of time on a computer, why is he so clueless?
One word: Passion
I have a real passion for computers, you can hear it in my voice when i get über excited about the 2gb of ram I just installed. or the one kilo fanless heatsink i just installed. He doesnt. He just says, cool. I never hear him get excited about anything tech wise. I can code ok. SO, can my brother. only in java. Im a linux monkey, he is a windows mouser. So, who do you want? Someone in school? or someone who cares about what he does? Do you want someone who actively partakes in the programming community and is productive with his computer or do you want someone who as soon as the homework is done starts playing games?
I love my brother, but, I honestly dont understand why he is taking cs. But, this was to just illustrate a point. My brother is not the only person like this. I know many cs grads that need my help in fixing their computers. or how much they dont know overall.
My last roomate was a technical recruiter. Everyday he would come home from work and say, hey - i have the perfect job for you. We would always talk about tech stuff, and I could always answer his questions. without any problems. Funny how that works. anywhoo... there are plently of uneducated computer junkies that know a lot. there are also plently of uneducated computer junkies that dont know sh*t. there are plently(mostly, from what i have encountered) cs grads that dont know shit. there are also some who do.
My point is this---Education doesnt matter, the person who takes advantage of it, or doesnt. Do they grow from it and use the knowledge? or does it become statistical junk? Do they become an individual or do they become just another product of the wonderful education system of the USA?
I didnt read the last 500 comments, so I dont know if this was already posted.
But, to comment on, if its hurting the gaming industry by kids playing this all the time instead of buying other games like need for speed-
well, first of all, need for speed is a crappy game, like a lot of other games. Not, using this specifially, but what I mean, is... is this hurting the industry? no. frankly, I wouldnt buy games like need for speed because they suck. a lot of games suck. WoW is a great game. So, other game companies need to get their ass in gear and make a good game, one that can compete with WoW. So, hopefully companies will realize this, and if they do, yes it will be good for the industry. But, in what ways could it be bad? well, i hope ea does go under. I cant stand to see another madden. Or else Im going to puke.
3d hdtv? great, thats good thinking.
smells? yeah, just what I want. To be able to get upclose and personal and smell some football player's smelly nutsack.
and how do they intend on "extracting" the smell?
i think that has gone a little too far.
So we can just fuck it up before we get there. Great thinking, then when we get there, we can just say, "We didn't do it, it was like this when we got here."
This has to be coming from the US, one of the few countries that thinks global warming is from people leaving on their heaters when people are out of the house. Bush, just says,
"It's ok, y'all have , stuff, i mean, shoot, what was that word, ugggh, god, Rove, can you give me a hand here, ugggh, god. If you fool me once, you are a , what. umm, how damn. what. I forgot. What are we talking about? Aw, fuck it. You going to do that last line rove?"
at 1.5%(current growth rate) yearly growth of the world population in 600 years there will be so many people, each person will have 1 sq meter to themselves. (If spread out equally over the world)
Nobody understands exponential growth. I mean, people understand it, but nobody looks at it and really does the math.
Sure, some of these 'flu scares' and 'population' bombs. But just look at the new sicknesses introduced in the last 50 years.
The population in 1950 was just under 3 billion people, now it is 6.4 billion people. So, in roughly 50 years the population has doubled. So, in 50 more years we will need double of everything, double the food, energy, space?!?!
And when it doubles you will need more then everything else in the past combined. Nobody looks at these numbers, but with our resource dwindling away... Everybody looks, oh, just 1.5% growth... Nothing big. But it adds up quickly. at 7% you are doubling every 10 years.
Another comparison on doubling - Take a grain of wheat on a chess board, and then double it in the next squar, then double it in the next square... so 2^64. That amount of wheat on the 64th square is 400 times the worlds total wheat harvest in 1990.
Some bitch in an Excursion is backing into me since she can't see me. But, she can't hear me honking because her cell phone the size of a grain of rice has fallen into her inner ear and she is trying to get it out.
He is so far in the closet he is finding Christmas presents...
My handwriting is soooo sloppy I can't even read it. It is really difficult. I bought a laptop for when I start school in January, and I plan to type out all my notes in class and record the audio session.
I am all for typing out equations though, as long as it looked cool like in the text books, and not some crappy font.
I mean, would you really want to live to be 1000 years old? That is a loooong time. Then what about the health of people? People have enough problems starting at 60 years old, to barely being able to move at 100... are they sure they could engineer us to be 10x better? I'd like to live my 70 years, and then be a spectator for the rest... you know? Like a football game or something, play for 70, then sit in the stands and watch the rest of the world blow itself up.
With the uncertainty of the future(Bush's war against everybody who isn't Christian) it feels like this is the beginning of the end. And, I personally don't want to be around to see it.
Then the other issue... Why must we continue to mess with nature? Whats wrong with people taking on their natural path in life? Poeple are afraid of death, which is funny, since it's the only thing that is guarenteed in life. Nothing else.
My suggestion is, do what you can to better yourself and the earth and be happy for what you get.
DRM in longhorn will be implemented into the OS. It will also support Hardware level DRM. Meaning, an mp3 you download not might work in certain players due to the licensing of the player.
I am a geek, you wouldn't think so by looking at me. I am 5'4", 187lbs and a body builder.
My girlfriend is very good looking. She is a graphic design student. I was so proud of her... I walked in on her the other day in my room reading my books on learning linux. LOL! That was a day for me...
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If the digital tape format & (USB/FireWire?) interface were standardized...
What is the deal with tapes? Digital tape this, digital tape that... Now VHS that can record HDTV. VHS and tape styled anything should be phased out now. I do not know why people/companies insist on fixing old 'tape' technology. Cd's/DVD's or any small round plastic media is far cheaper to produce and buy then tape. And with Blu-Ray/HD-DVD around the corner... Storage capacity will increase greatly. Especially with Blu-Ray at 50gb per DL disc.
Just my.o2 Euros...
I am not american, I am german. But I have lived in the US for a little while. I have a one way ticket back to europe leaving in December.
I like the Canadian judge's reference... p2p software shouldn't be banned. Its like a copy machine, people can copy copyrighted material on that. So should we ban those too? Thats not verbatim, but same reference.
Uggh, when's lunch?
It's already known that they clean their lists of addresses with the word 'spam' in them, so as to avoid "bob_IHateSpam_@bob.com" and such. So perhaps the domain contact address should be "AbuseAndSpamFree@mydomain.com" ?
Why do they not email adds with spam?
The way I take care of spam...
I have a yahoo.de name, not.com
I never registered the name, the only people who have it are my friends. I use a hotmail account that will get spam no matter what, then all the crap filters there. The other thing with the.de name though, is its in german. I speak german, so it isn't an issue for me. but just so you other people know, try something in another language you speak.
OH yeah! I remember that now. For some reason that stuck in my head for mortal kombat. I remember playing double dribble, my brother would always get pissed because I found a way, to pass at the right time, and shoot, and it always worked on him. He would start crying(we were really young) and I would remember getting upset when my stepdad would play and beat me all the time.
that was the code for mortal kombat for the sega version to allow blood and the original fatalities?
Personally... I cannot vote. Would have I voted for bush? No.
Just for the one fact he is a freakin idiot. He talks like english is his 2nd language.
I have fedora core 2 final... if this is just r3 and not a final, i will wait to upgrade...
I love fedora and the driver support! I had no problems running it. My new laptop should be here wednesday, so lets see how well it supports the ipw2200!
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I do not care what software comes with it. Fedora/debian and may other distros come with TONS of software. But, I can uninstall it. And its not a big deal. I cannot uninstall IE, or WMP. These also pose a security threat. So, not only do I not want the programs there, now I have to maintain them to prevent my machine being hacked. This is what I don't like. If I was able to uninstall it, I would be much more inclined to purchase it.
And, with the way MS works, doesn't anybody think that nobody is buying it because of what MS does? Do you think MS gives dell the same discount on Xp N as they get on XP?
Well, all in all... oh wait, I forgot, Im posting this from linux so I guess I don't have to worry.
we are not healthier...
More people are taking medications today, and each person is taking more medication.
That does not mean we are healthier.
ok, let me break it down like this -
300 year life expectancy? what in gods name? do you KNOW how long this is? most people dont even like working till they are 65. that is a looooong time. I know that I do not want to live that long.
In terms of medicine and such, I would say we have gone totally backwards in the USA. people think that medicine is getting better, and smart, but its getting much worse. more people are taking more medication, and the average number of prescriptions has gone way up per person.
My step dad always said in the 60s, people thought the 90s would be like the jetsons. and, were arent even close. and he still says in 20-30 years we will be living like the jetsons. nope. sorry. try again.
I must admit, technology has been coming along way, but! I think that we will destroy ourselves politically/religiously or what ever dumbass reason our politicians have to war monger about. Technology is evolving, not the people in charge, and most of the people of the population.
last but not least, all of you fatasses in the usa. you will all die of heart attacks before any of this happens.
ok, first off, dont take this as me bragging, but, to illustrate a point, I will compare, me and my brother, since the background is similar.
Me and my brother are almost 4 years apart. We both grew up on computers, and we both used them a lot. My brother is in his 2nd year at a university studying cs. My brother did better in school then i did. I have not yet been to a school after highschool.
I recently said to my brother , "My friend is building a dual dual core opteron box" and he asked me, "what is an opteron"
I mention other hardware stuff and he was completely clueless as to what cache was, or a system bus. So, i will give him the fact, maybe he is a software guy, and not a hardware guy. I have a friend who makes 90k/yr programming at ms, and he couldnt install the heatsink on his p4. I had to do it. go figure. So i start talking about software stuff, and he is completely clueless about that. so, here is where i begin to worry. he doesnt seem to know a lot about computers, and after further probing, he really doesnt know much at all. and I wonder. we pretty much spent the same amount of time on a computer, why is he so clueless?
One word: Passion
I have a real passion for computers, you can hear it in my voice when i get über excited about the 2gb of ram I just installed. or the one kilo fanless heatsink i just installed. He doesnt. He just says, cool. I never hear him get excited about anything tech wise. I can code ok. SO, can my brother. only in java. Im a linux monkey, he is a windows mouser. So, who do you want? Someone in school? or someone who cares about what he does? Do you want someone who actively partakes in the programming community and is productive with his computer or do you want someone who as soon as the homework is done starts playing games?
I love my brother, but, I honestly dont understand why he is taking cs. But, this was to just illustrate a point. My brother is not the only person like this. I know many cs grads that need my help in fixing their computers. or how much they dont know overall.
My last roomate was a technical recruiter. Everyday he would come home from work and say, hey - i have the perfect job for you. We would always talk about tech stuff, and I could always answer his questions. without any problems. Funny how that works. anywhoo... there are plently of uneducated computer junkies that know a lot. there are also plently of uneducated computer junkies that dont know sh*t. there are plently(mostly, from what i have encountered) cs grads that dont know shit. there are also some who do.
My point is this---Education doesnt matter, the person who takes advantage of it, or doesnt. Do they grow from it and use the knowledge? or does it become statistical junk? Do they become an individual or do they become just another product of the wonderful education system of the USA?
I didnt read the last 500 comments, so I dont know if this was already posted. But, to comment on, if its hurting the gaming industry by kids playing this all the time instead of buying other games like need for speed- well, first of all, need for speed is a crappy game, like a lot of other games. Not, using this specifially, but what I mean, is... is this hurting the industry? no. frankly, I wouldnt buy games like need for speed because they suck. a lot of games suck. WoW is a great game. So, other game companies need to get their ass in gear and make a good game, one that can compete with WoW. So, hopefully companies will realize this, and if they do, yes it will be good for the industry. But, in what ways could it be bad? well, i hope ea does go under. I cant stand to see another madden. Or else Im going to puke.
Martin
3d hdtv? great, thats good thinking. smells? yeah, just what I want. To be able to get upclose and personal and smell some football player's smelly nutsack. and how do they intend on "extracting" the smell? i think that has gone a little too far.
at 1.5%(current growth rate) yearly growth of the world population in 600 years there will be so many people, each person will have 1 sq meter to themselves. (If spread out equally over the world)
Nobody understands exponential growth. I mean, people understand it, but nobody looks at it and really does the math.
Sure, some of these 'flu scares' and 'population' bombs. But just look at the new sicknesses introduced in the last 50 years.
The population in 1950 was just under 3 billion people, now it is 6.4 billion people. So, in roughly 50 years the population has doubled. So, in 50 more years we will need double of everything, double the food, energy, space?!?!
And when it doubles you will need more then everything else in the past combined. Nobody looks at these numbers, but with our resource dwindling away... Everybody looks, oh, just 1.5% growth... Nothing big. But it adds up quickly. at 7% you are doubling every 10 years.
Another comparison on doubling - Take a grain of wheat on a chess board, and then double it in the next squar, then double it in the next square... so 2^64. That amount of wheat on the 64th square is 400 times the worlds total wheat harvest in 1990.
Real diamonds are not exspensive either.(Wholesale) There is a ton of markup in diamonds.
The larger the SUV the smaller the cell phone.
Some bitch in an Excursion is backing into me since she can't see me. But, she can't hear me honking because her cell phone the size of a grain of rice has fallen into her inner ear and she is trying to get it out.
Microsoft VS Home Depot for selling pirated versions of windows, multi-pane windows. Home Depot says their windows are more stable...
I don't mean to sound queer, but unicorns are kick ass.
Same thing with drugs -
If you simply are caught using, its just a misdemeanor.
But if you are caught selling its a felony.
Absolutely not, your p4 prescott will produce so much heat it alone will have a major affect on global warming, in a bad way.
There is nothing really natural about anything we do anymore is there?
He is so far in the closet he is finding Christmas presents...
My handwriting is soooo sloppy I can't even read it. It is really difficult. I bought a laptop for when I start school in January, and I plan to type out all my notes in class and record the audio session.
I am all for typing out equations though, as long as it looked cool like in the text books, and not some crappy font.
I mean, would you really want to live to be 1000 years old? That is a loooong time.
Then what about the health of people? People have enough problems starting at 60 years old, to barely being able to move at 100... are they sure they could engineer us to be 10x better?
I'd like to live my 70 years, and then be a spectator for the rest... you know? Like a football game or something, play for 70, then sit in the stands and watch the rest of the world blow itself up.
With the uncertainty of the future(Bush's war against everybody who isn't Christian) it feels like this is the beginning of the end. And, I personally don't want to be around to see it.
Then the other issue... Why must we continue to mess with nature? Whats wrong with people taking on their natural path in life? Poeple are afraid of death, which is funny, since it's the only thing that is guarenteed in life. Nothing else.
My suggestion is, do what you can to better yourself and the earth and be happy for what you get.
DRM in longhorn will be implemented into the OS. It will also support Hardware level DRM. Meaning, an mp3 you download not might work in certain players due to the licensing of the player.
I think ogg is better!
I am a geek, you wouldn't think so by looking at me. I am 5'4", 187lbs and a body builder.
My girlfriend is very good looking. She is a graphic design student. I was so proud of her... I walked in on her the other day in my room reading my books on learning linux. LOL! That was a day for me...
What is the deal with tapes? Digital tape this, digital tape that... Now VHS that can record HDTV.
VHS and tape styled anything should be phased out now. I do not know why people/companies insist on fixing old 'tape' technology.
Cd's/DVD's or any small round plastic media is far cheaper to produce and buy then tape. And with Blu-Ray/HD-DVD around the corner... Storage capacity will increase greatly. Especially with Blu-Ray at 50gb per DL disc. Just my
I am not american, I am german. But I have lived in the US for a little while. I have a one way ticket back to europe leaving in December.
I like the Canadian judge's reference... p2p software shouldn't be banned. Its like a copy machine, people can copy copyrighted material on that. So should we ban those too? Thats not verbatim, but same reference. Uggh, when's lunch?
It's already known that they clean their lists of addresses with the word 'spam' in them, so as to avoid "bob_IHateSpam_@bob.com" and such. So perhaps the domain contact address should be "AbuseAndSpamFree@mydomain.com" ? .com
I never registered the name, the only people who have it are my friends. I use a hotmail account that will get spam no matter what, then all the crap filters there. The other thing with the .de name though, is its in german. I speak german, so it isn't an issue for me. but just so you other people know, try something in another language you speak.
Why do they not email adds with spam?
The way I take care of spam... I have a yahoo.de name, not
OH yeah!
I remember that now. For some reason that stuck in my head for mortal kombat. I remember playing double dribble, my brother would always get pissed because I found a way, to pass at the right time, and shoot, and it always worked on him. He would start crying(we were really young) and I would remember getting upset when my stepdad would play and beat me all the time.
that was the code for mortal kombat for the sega version to allow blood and the original fatalities? Personally... I cannot vote. Would have I voted for bush? No. Just for the one fact he is a freakin idiot. He talks like english is his 2nd language.
I have fedora core 2 final... if this is just r3 and not a final, i will wait to upgrade... I love fedora and the driver support! I had no problems running it. My new laptop should be here wednesday, so lets see how well it supports the ipw2200!