I was replying to someone claiming to be Doug Miller our interview guest.
Even if Windows didn't crash I would have left. The fact is, the windows user community doesn't want innovation, and whatever innovation they do want they're scared (not unsatisfied) if it isn't Microsoft doing it.
Things that turned me away:
1. Microsoft makes the best software, so just buy Microsoft okay before we the Windows users have a nervous breakdown and we start shooting people. Just fucking buy Microsoft you communist!
2. Microsoft sucks but they own everything so what's the point? Just be a man, and buy their shit and their stock. Their stock always goes up.
You argue like a little girl, you linux commie!
I can't say whether it was the little girl in me or the commie (which is kind of ironic cuz I grew up in a communist state and I can tell you it sucks ass) who made the decision, but I realized you simply can't make money in the Windows world regardless what your product is if you compete with Microsoft products. It isn't Microsoft who sees you as a threat, Bill Gates has money to burn and frankly I wish him well. Windows zealots are the ones who are threeatened by you. They're the ones who will snipe and flame if you even try to get near them.
So I left. I've found a similar case w/ linux users but most of them are too busy coding to be a menace. And most linux zealots mature into civilized citizens eventually.
3. I looked at the net and all I could see was AOLers who never had a cause to fight for in their lives buying all sorts of tools to make the Net behave. I just couldn't stand to see that. So I needed to support a group that could grow which didn't think that way.
I tried BeOS, that didn't work at the time. I tried Linux and I was on the net within a few hours. And the rest is history. Now if the Amiga works I'll be so happy.
I can run AmigaOS, Linux, NetBSD, AROS, Amiga Unix, Windows, MacOS, and MorphOS on it.
I can put a G4, an Alpha, a PPC, a MIPS, a Celeron, a 68K, and a Sparc in it at the same time and run software on all of those CPUs at the same time.
Disclaimer: I use Debian. I love it. I will use it soon on my Amiga 3000 once I get it going (my A1200 is the desktop running OS3.9). Windows crashes while I'm writing emails. That's been my experience. Now that I've exposed my own bias...
I think the IE argument for breaking up the company is bullshit. IE is called IE because if you told consumers it was one of the object libraries that coordinate everything, you'd never get them to get a copy. In consumerland object oriented design is not in the dictionary, so you guys called it IE. I used to agree w/ the DOJ until I understood IE. In fact, ironically I learned about it from a talk Miguel de Icaza gave regarding bonobo the CORBA core for GNOME.
Don't get me wrong, I think MS pulled a few tricks I seriously disagree with which are grounds for some action against it. For example, the way it acquired DirectX by buying out one of three cooperating companies and leaving the others in the dust, or that little thing between Bill Gates and Jay Walker and his patent think tank Walker Digital. Can't say I like Jay Walker either but I digress.
That aside, what is your opinion of an independent
group that provided tech information that could be applied quickly and reliably to legal cases so that the courts keep up with the times. They could trust the source rather than spending years coordinating what amounts to in court computer science classes for jurors. Would Microsoft sponsor such a project?
I've about had it with these hypocrites. Now they're trying to tell me I can't use an online distribution channel because my songs aren't on their approved list. Note this includes having my songs jump from one service to another, which increases the distribution for me. Essentially I have to constantly search the net for every sharing service to inform them that they can distribute because if I don't they'll get sued by the RIAA, a group I don't belong to.
WHAT THE FUCK?!
I used to think the worst thing they did was to put people in debt to them and then call their work work for hire. I mean when was the last time you went for a job and you were in debt to the employer if you left?
Then explain why the FSF charges $5,000 for CDS of custom compiled software? Or why does RedHat charge $1000+ for their enterprise server package if they are only allowed to charge for distribution? How could the FSF promote charging for services if you can only charge for distribution? And speaking of services, that would be for the exact copy yoor distributor uses, siuce that's the one they know best.
Incidentally...
People don't protect people that's the whole point. Cops get there too late, cops use a legal loophole so that they're never responsible for failing to protect, people steal, people attack, people rape, etc. Guns are simply tools and can be used to attack or to defend.
Wrong. A collection can be copyrighted even if the stuff is public domain.
For example, classical music is public domain, but I can still sue you for copying my collection because the order of the songs is actually a secret code.
And when you find it doesn't work as well as the original you'll pay $5 several times.
Someone looking to rip people off isn't going to keep updating their system.
You shouldn't be considered, because Computer Science is largely an overview of tools and technologies to make programming easier and has little to do with making a product work properly.
It's not enough for a product to "look good enough", it has to be engineered.
I just said that video games and media in general DO play a major role in violent youth crimes.
But you haven't supported your claim. That's the problem I have. That said, I should probably be grateful you bothered to stay in the discussion. Most people are too full of themselves to respond to criticism.
Anyway back to the topic.
In fact I can find a few studies that have shown that there are significant differences between the reactions of people playing the exact same violent games for the same period of time. All became somewhat excited. For some it was the temporary adrenaline rush. For others it was more personal and lasted much longer. Guess what? Pastors become quite excited while giving a sermon. Lawyers can get excited while making arguments. People get excited at sports events. And some even get excited while jogging. Then there's the individuals who have no presence of self, no sense of reality and insufficient maturity to deal with a little excitement. Age has the least bit to do with it. I've seen 13 year olds more mature than 31 year olds.
Since when were video games supposed to prepare people for the "real world"?
Since when does someone saying that getting rid of A works against the goal of B, imply that someone is arguing that A is good or even related to the goal of B?
Next you'll be telling me that if I punch you in the face gracefully I will make you graceful.
I wasn't talking about chip arch. I was speaking of motherboard arch. AMD is releasing a high speed main bus which is API compatible with PCI but blows Intel's 1-bit serial bus (Infiniband or something like that) out of the market.
The ISA is a consumer issue not an Intel issue. Nobody gives a damn except consumers who already have old software.
IDT Winchip uses a MIPS core with an x86 ISA. MIPS is one of the most cost-effective power-saving high-performance cores you can buy. If they would just advertise. I love AMD. It's great, but now that I've heard of IDT's use of MIPS I have to try it in an Amiga sometime. (yes you can use multiple CPUs at the same time with software running concurrently)
AMD tried their 29K system with their own ISA. It smoked Intel's crap. Guess what? Nobody wanted it. Why? Software wouldn't run on it. The people holding the pursestrings as far as ISA is concerned are consumers not Intel.
1st tier is as pointless as grains of film to a wedding photographer.
No one cares about the ISA. It's purely a compatibility feature.
You'll note Merced/Itanium was announced almost two years ago and still it hasn't hit the market. The ISA is a road block to the owner as well as the competition.
Guess what? AMD is beating Intel there too. Intel is trying to bait users with more performance but added vendorlock. AMD convinced API, one of the leading Alpha system producers to use their bus. Why? Intel uses a 1-bit high frequency bus, AMD uses a slightly lower frequency variable width bus which gets you 8-bit,16-bit,32-bit, and I believe 64bit and 128-bit are possible with some tweaking. Intel's bus still shares the bandwidth among devices. AMD's is almost peer to peer.
McAfee WebScan blocks out competing products and very little else.
Censorware companies block out criticism and send threats to peacefire.org.
It's called censorware for a reason. Tell your parents that the next time they can't see www.whitehouse.gov, it's because the weather report on the site says, "Winter is hard on cars".
Several censorware companies routinely and broadly block out university students' web pages or those of homestead users, such as users of geocities, fortunecity, homestead.net, just to fill in their quota.
I don't get it. During the BBS days you had to provide a copy of your drivers' license to prove you were old enough to view adult content.
You could even prevent certain phone numbers from being dialed.
Are people so lazy they can't request home to home DSL access instead of full blown Internet?
Yes, I know it's not offered yet, but neither were a lot of features now available. The same people who can keep ISPs from daring to set-up metered access can't take the time to request the services they want?
Imagine for example:
You set up an agreement with a neighbor that one DSL modem dial number is for full blown Internet and one for the home-to-home net. Give your kids the home-to-home net and access the Internet yourself on your own time.
What if the laws were not passed for corporations, but for individuals? That then would include corporations and individuals in the same group.
A business has a right to be paid. An individual has a right to be satisfied (pursuit of happiness is a serious issue not the butt of jokes its been in the past).
It was called Shogun. You literally went around making promises to make certain people disappear or make them your friends to get followers and you had to find the guy had the Buddha. I was 10 years old when I played it. That's all I remember.
The spammer should be forced to hire someone to build a filter against his spam, and maintain that such that he filters no one else so his filters are less dangerous than censorware.
Trademarks are directly related to the owner of the the trademarks. A trademark says I am responsible for this type of thing. You can't claim you're responsible in one case but not others.
A copyright says I worked on this thing. I can do whatever the hell I want with it.
A patent says I thought about this thing I'll tell you about it if you don't make any of these, but feel free to improve on it.
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I was replying to someone claiming to be Doug Miller our interview guest.
Even if Windows didn't crash I would have left. The fact is, the windows user community doesn't want innovation, and whatever innovation they do want they're scared (not unsatisfied) if it isn't Microsoft doing it.
Things that turned me away:
1. Microsoft makes the best software, so just buy Microsoft okay before we the Windows users have a nervous breakdown and we start shooting people. Just fucking buy Microsoft you communist!
2. Microsoft sucks but they own everything so what's the point? Just be a man, and buy their shit and their stock. Their stock always goes up.
You argue like a little girl, you linux commie!
I can't say whether it was the little girl in me or the commie (which is kind of ironic cuz I grew up in a communist state and I can tell you it sucks ass) who made the decision, but I realized you simply can't make money in the Windows world regardless what your product is if you compete with Microsoft products. It isn't Microsoft who sees you as a threat, Bill Gates has money to burn and frankly I wish him well. Windows zealots are the ones who are threeatened by you. They're the ones who will snipe and flame if you even try to get near them.
So I left. I've found a similar case w/ linux users but most of them are too busy coding to be a menace. And most linux zealots mature into civilized citizens eventually.
3. I looked at the net and all I could see was AOLers who never had a cause to fight for in their lives buying all sorts of tools to make the Net behave. I just couldn't stand to see that. So I needed to support a group that could grow which didn't think that way.
I tried BeOS, that didn't work at the time. I tried Linux and I was on the net within a few hours. And the rest is history. Now if the Amiga works I'll be so happy.
I can run AmigaOS, Linux, NetBSD, AROS, Amiga Unix, Windows, MacOS, and MorphOS on it.
I can put a G4, an Alpha, a PPC, a MIPS, a Celeron, a 68K, and a Sparc in it at the same time and run software on all of those CPUs at the same time.
The machine was built 7 years ago!
Disclaimer: I use Debian. I love it. I will use it soon on my Amiga 3000 once I get it going (my A1200 is the desktop running OS3.9). Windows crashes while I'm writing emails. That's been my experience. Now that I've exposed my own bias...
I think the IE argument for breaking up the company is bullshit. IE is called IE because if you told consumers it was one of the object libraries that coordinate everything, you'd never get them to get a copy. In consumerland object oriented design is not in the dictionary, so you guys called it IE. I used to agree w/ the DOJ until I understood IE. In fact, ironically I learned about it from a talk Miguel de Icaza gave regarding bonobo the CORBA core for GNOME.
Don't get me wrong, I think MS pulled a few tricks I seriously disagree with which are grounds for some action against it. For example, the way it acquired DirectX by buying out one of three cooperating companies and leaving the others in the dust, or that little thing between Bill Gates and Jay Walker and his patent think tank Walker Digital. Can't say I like Jay Walker either but I digress.
That aside, what is your opinion of an independent
group that provided tech information that could be applied quickly and reliably to legal cases so that the courts keep up with the times. They could trust the source rather than spending years coordinating what amounts to in court computer science classes for jurors. Would Microsoft sponsor such a project?
I've about had it with these hypocrites. Now they're trying to tell me I can't use an online distribution channel because my songs aren't on their approved list. Note this includes having my songs jump from one service to another, which increases the distribution for me. Essentially I have to constantly search the net for every sharing service to inform them that they can distribute because if I don't they'll get sued by the RIAA, a group I don't belong to.
WHAT THE FUCK?!
I used to think the worst thing they did was to put people in debt to them and then call their work work for hire. I mean when was the last time you went for a job and you were in debt to the employer if you left?
Yikes a self-correcting /.er! What's this world coming to?
Can't be too hard, can it?
Then explain why the FSF charges $5,000 for CDS of custom compiled software? Or why does RedHat charge $1000+ for their enterprise server package if they are only allowed to charge for distribution? How could the FSF promote charging for services if you can only charge for distribution? And speaking of services, that would be for the exact copy yoor distributor uses, siuce that's the one they know best.
Incidentally...
People don't protect people that's the whole point. Cops get there too late, cops use a legal loophole so that they're never responsible for failing to protect, people steal, people attack, people rape, etc. Guns are simply tools and can be used to attack or to defend.
Wrong. A collection can be copyrighted even if the stuff is public domain.
For example, classical music is public domain, but I can still sue you for copying my collection because the order of the songs is actually a secret code.
Windows is not secure.
Why not just buy a Pinto?
And when you find it doesn't work as well as the original you'll pay $5 several times. Someone looking to rip people off isn't going to keep updating their system.
You shouldn't be considered, because Computer Science is largely an overview of tools and technologies to make programming easier and has little to do with making a product work properly.
It's not enough for a product to "look good enough", it has to be engineered.
I just said that video games and media in general DO play a major role in violent youth crimes.
But you haven't supported your claim. That's the problem I have. That said, I should probably be grateful you bothered to stay in the discussion. Most people are too full of themselves to respond to criticism.
Anyway back to the topic.
In fact I can find a few studies that have shown that there are significant differences between the reactions of people playing the exact same violent games for the same period of time. All became somewhat excited. For some it was the temporary adrenaline rush. For others it was more personal and lasted much longer. Guess what? Pastors become quite excited while giving a sermon. Lawyers can get excited while making arguments. People get excited at sports events. And some even get excited while jogging. Then there's the individuals who have no presence of self, no sense of reality and insufficient maturity to deal with a little excitement. Age has the least bit to do with it. I've seen 13 year olds more mature than 31 year olds.
Since when were video games supposed to prepare people for the "real world"?
Since when does someone saying that getting rid of A works against the goal of B, imply that someone is arguing that A is good or even related to the goal of B?
Next you'll be telling me that if I punch you in the face gracefully I will make you graceful.
I'd much rather have a 20% faster processor than a 200% faster PCI bus.
Yeah but if your 3D model is taking up huge amounts of space, wouldn't you want your faster CPU to not have to wait for the data?
Not only that their openness about it is going to give Intel a run for their money. Intel s the only company to be selling IB.
Hypertransport/LDT will be coming from a hundred directions with AMD scoring on licensing.
In summary your post was 3/3 based on incorrect information. :)
I wasn't talking about chip arch. I was speaking of motherboard arch. AMD is releasing a high speed main bus which is API compatible with PCI but blows Intel's 1-bit serial bus (Infiniband or something like that) out of the market.
The ISA is a consumer issue not an Intel issue. Nobody gives a damn except consumers who already have old software.
IDT Winchip uses a MIPS core with an x86 ISA. MIPS is one of the most cost-effective power-saving high-performance cores you can buy. If they would just advertise. I love AMD. It's great, but now that I've heard of IDT's use of MIPS I have to try it in an Amiga sometime. (yes you can use multiple CPUs at the same time with software running concurrently)
AMD tried their 29K system with their own ISA. It smoked Intel's crap. Guess what? Nobody wanted it. Why? Software wouldn't run on it. The people holding the pursestrings as far as ISA is concerned are consumers not Intel.
1st tier is as pointless as grains of film to a wedding photographer.
No one cares about the ISA. It's purely a compatibility feature.
You'll note Merced/Itanium was announced almost two years ago and still it hasn't hit the market. The ISA is a road block to the owner as well as the competition.
Guess what? AMD is beating Intel there too. Intel is trying to bait users with more performance but added vendorlock. AMD convinced API, one of the leading Alpha system producers to use their bus. Why? Intel uses a 1-bit high frequency bus, AMD uses a slightly lower frequency variable width bus which gets you 8-bit,16-bit,32-bit, and I believe 64bit and 128-bit are possible with some tweaking. Intel's bus still shares the bandwidth among devices. AMD's is almost peer to peer.
Check your connection process sometime there is in fact a number that is being passed that allows you to get into the network.
McAfee WebScan blocks out competing products and very little else.
Censorware companies block out criticism and send threats to peacefire.org.
It's called censorware for a reason. Tell your parents that the next time they can't see www.whitehouse.gov, it's because the weather report on the site says, "Winter is hard on cars".
Several censorware companies routinely and broadly block out university students' web pages or those of homestead users, such as users of geocities, fortunecity, homestead.net, just to fill in their quota.
I don't get it. During the BBS days you had to provide a copy of your drivers' license to prove you were old enough to view adult content.
You could even prevent certain phone numbers from being dialed.
Are people so lazy they can't request home to home DSL access instead of full blown Internet?
Yes, I know it's not offered yet, but neither were a lot of features now available. The same people who can keep ISPs from daring to set-up metered access can't take the time to request the services they want?
Imagine for example:
You set up an agreement with a neighbor that one DSL modem dial number is for full blown Internet and one for the home-to-home net. Give your kids the home-to-home net and access the Internet yourself on your own time.
What if the laws were not passed for corporations, but for individuals? That then would include corporations and individuals in the same group.
A business has a right to be paid. An individual has a right to be satisfied (pursuit of happiness is a serious issue not the butt of jokes its been in the past).
It was called Shogun. You literally went around making promises to make certain people disappear or make them your friends to get followers and you had to find the guy had the Buddha. I was 10 years old when I played it. That's all I remember.
The spammer should be forced to hire someone to build a filter against his spam, and maintain that such that he filters no one else so his filters are less dangerous than censorware.
Trademarks are directly related to the owner of the the trademarks. A trademark says I am responsible for this type of thing. You can't claim you're responsible in one case but not others.
A copyright says I worked on this thing. I can do whatever the hell I want with it.
A patent says I thought about this thing I'll tell you about it if you don't make any of these, but feel free to improve on it.