2. idiots which believe they can't find even a single copy of the software they need
Please give me a link to a copy of the Professional Write 3 (PW) software app. for MSDOS 6.
Yep, I had that very problem some years ago when I was cleaning my room and found several 5 1/4 disquettes which contained the.pw extension. No way to find the program.
Just to put a bit of perspective on that. The reason why Mr. Slim got Telmex and in great degree, all the money he has is because a very well known (and hated) Mexican corrupt ex-president (Mr. Carlos Salinas de Gortari) privatized the then state-controlled Mexican Telephone company (TELefonos de MEXico) giving Mr. Slim a lot of advantages over other offerers. And after the acquisition, providing him with government policies to make him increase its power. Slim practically saved the country from stagnating in the information era.
I do remember those time too, and I do not believe what you say is completely true, just look at the Mexican federal Electricity commission (CFE), one of the best worldwide, excellent technology and service and it is also state controlled.
... If they sue the same developers that program on their platforms. I will never develop for a closed platform like Windows which such EULAs, NDAs and whatever else license they put... you never know with what will they come up next in their licenses.
Personally I do Java and love it. I have programmed in C# (Visual studio 2005 I think) and I prefer Eclipse, for production (read, real enterprise applications) environments.
. In the days of new video cards costing nearly as much as a PS3, I don't really buy the whole price tag thing. Not too many people complain about the Xbox 360 price and it was only $100 cheaper.
Lolz... I just yesterday went into a Virgin store, there you had, PS3 - £425, Xbox360 £275 Wii - £250. They were bundles, but of course the PS3 bundle was the machine + 1 game (of a 2 game list hehe), while the Xbox360 was the system + 2 games and the Wii was the system + 2 games + extra controller, etc etc.
Besides that, what you could see in the PS3 stand were the PS3 boxes and just 3 or 4 different titles, on the Wii, it was the Wii boxes, some controllers, memory cards, and lets say 10 different titles... while on the Xbox360 you could see the console boxes, more than 25 titles (including the Guitar Hero biiig attention grabbing box) and plenty of other accessories... if I wasn't a Nintendo "fan" (because I am no hardcore player and I bought the Wii for the casual 1 hour playing I do some weekends) I would deffinitely spend £275 in the Xbox and the rest in several of the games for it... instead of spending £425 and pwning nothing but a good debt...
I'm not blaming my family for not allowing me do all this. Afterall, most of my happiness is derived from my family, but it also lead me to own and depend on too many unnecessary gadgets. But some day, I will return to a gadget-free life.It is quite possible in Indian villages.
From your post it seems that you are letting your family "suffer" from the gadget vice, you might be able to pursue your dreams if you let the members of your family help you on them, what about taking your children or spouse to your farmland or village to help you take care of it?, spend time with them on those "outside" actions so they do not have to spend all the time in front of TV?, I do not know about India, but I know in the USA and in Mexico (where I am from) that would *really* be helpful, as parents spend less and less time with their children and relatives.
Go ahead and free your relatives from the TV-zombinator, try to offer them several activities and then choose some of the ones they like and some of the ones you like or if it is possible, some of the ones both of you like. My father used to take us to his ranch each weekend. I hated it as I preferred to stay watching TV and playing Nintendo, but he forced us. In front of the ranch there is also a beach, we used to go there and as my father likes kayaking, wind surfing, kite surfing and all those kinds of things (he is a biologist), we experimented with that. I liked some of those but not as much as my Ninja Gaiden, until he got a very small sailing boat (for 2 people) and god I really liked going out to the sea with my dad for hours. I also enjoyed a lot when he took me scuba diving (he is a prof. diver)...
What with all that? well, some of the things you *think* your kids will like, they wont. But some others they will like and even after hating going spending my weekends on the ranch (sometimes camping, sometimes sleeping in a hamaca) nowadays I really am glad my dad took us to all those places, because even though I am a geek (programmer, like gaming, love computers, doing a PhD in AI), I know I can go to lots of places without depending on technology. (I just went camping last weekend with my bro... granted it was for the Download 2007 festival, but it was really cool =o))
Go and read Mr. Schwartz blog post. The reason is there, and as with other propietary software wanting to be opened, it is because sometimes it is not on the hand of the company to open up the software, i.e., there are third parties involved, and it might be difficult if not impossible to contact all of them to get their permission for the license... It is similar to what happens with the so hated graphics drivers...
Itunes since version 4 has been a beast on windows, I had switched to it (from Winamp) because it honestly seemed the best music player, but its got bigger, slower and more encumbered since version 4 was released. I'm actually using windows media player 11 right now because it provides me with the features I want in a music player (sync music to phone), its quick and handles all media.
I *tried* to use iTunes once also but find it really horrible. I felt as if I just cant do anything with my music library, in that way i felt iTunes similar to what what the GNOME ppl do (remove every feature for the sake of "simplicity" until you cant do anything). I used to use Windows Media Player also, which I really hate. Usually I returned to barebones Winamp... (I've got my 60GB mp3/ogg/flac/ape media library ordered by folders/subfolders).
All that nightmare was ended when I found MediaMonkey from another poster here in Slashdot. I have been using it for almost one year and I wont look back anytime soon.
As a side rant, my brother is visiting me in the UK, he's got an iPod (I dont like them for the lockdown and DRM, I have a great OGG/MP3 Samsung YPZ5)... he was making fun of me because of my "hatred" against apple... until he needed to delete some songs from his iPod... and the only way to do that? using iTunes... but as I do not like Apple software (not iTunes, nor Quicktime...) I do not have it installed in my computer... therefore he is locked out, with his piece of shit brick until he can find a PC that allows him to install iTunes... on the other hand every PC where I connect my el-cheapo YPZ5 sees it as a external memory and I can add and delete music as I please without downloading any spyware or adware.
The original Dragon Quest game for the NES could be finished in about 6 hours, including all the secrets. However it is a really nice game and it was better for its time. I do not care if a game "effective" play time is about 6 or even 4 hours, but if they are *quality* 6 hours then it is worth it. I even preffer that to the 200 hours games like Zelda T.P. for the Wii were only 5% of the playing time is quality and the other 95% is the stupid "go fish to get the cat to take it to granma to get the flute to sing a song to..." or like Metal Gear 2 (the last I attempted to play) for PS2 where the other 95% are prerendered crap.
And I am a happy Wii owner... stiiiiiiiillllll waiting for games =o(
It seems to me that Google is trying to beat Microsoft at its own game. Unfortunately, I have my doubts about Google being able to pull it off. Especially since it would require quite a bit of Evil(TM).
In Mexico we have a saying that goes: "El enemigo de mi enemigo es mi amigo" and means something like "The enemy of my enemy is my friend". I guess that if Google is "Evil(TM)" against Microsoft I would not cry a bit or be sad for that matter. The problem I see is that once Google is evil against MS and the shareholders see what can be achieved by being evil, then Google wont be able to stop being evil to continue its stock prices growing (which is what shareholders only care about).
Something similar to what happened to Slashdot after they removed the comments of Scientology, once you do it one time, you can not put a straight face saying "we do not remove any comment"... because any company willingly enough will come and tell you that you already did it once and hence you can do it again.
I believe this issues are one of the few which have a Black or White stand.
Since people in Digg started posting "news" which are pure speculation adding a question mark to the title it seems it has infected slashdot as a plague... for the love of whatever you like, not only it does not looks professional it is wrong and even the grammar is terrible:
Does Dell Think Ubuntu makes hardware more fragile?
That goes into ask slashdot... not as a piece of speculation FUD...
It is quite friendly and does not beep-beep-beep-beep at me by incessantly when trying to edit a simple file... and it has quite a good number of plugins and you can record macros and so for...
Dont know why people like hurting themselves trying to learn all those:q!WW!qHH^H^Hlllkkkkjjjjj shortcuts... the less time I spend "learning" this tools is more time I get to make what I like.
Hehe, for me it is the King of Fighters series the ones that would make me buy my classic controler... and download one of those. Of course I am a bit skeptic after buying Super Mario Bros for the VC as it runs faster than normal (PAL issue)*, its flickery and has other general playability issues... which in my opinion make the games not worth the overpriced price.
* Yeah, I have already applied the updates and tried with 50 and 60 HZ configuration... and the game still runs *faster* than normal (including the timer and the sound...). It really blows... and for £5... I preffer Nestopia and my precious Acktek PS2-like gamepad...
to release new hardware? or to release a patch to let us use network or USB storage?
To release new hardware of course... just look at all those overpriced hardware accessories for the iPod, Xbox, PS? and other equipment which are available in "standard" form factor. If they let you use your Maxtor HD then they wont see a penny of that.
It is written as if it is a good thing beacuse the issue is that if they do not support DRM, you cant play such X or Y content, if they do not support "Broadcast flag" you cant see X or Y channel.
They did not make DRM they are just making their cards able to *read* such stream of data...
Yeah, lets add jEdit if you want to be able to make a coffee, drink it, make some tea, get some crisps and talk over the phone while the darn thing crawls...
If there is one software which I would show as an example of how *slooooooow* is Java Swing, it would be jEdit...
And I like Java (the programming language) and program most of my simulations using RepastJ. But hell, having NotePad++ or other great stuff why the fuck use that ugly monster called jEdit.
MS Word the standard, but we had a site license for EndNote. Does LaTeX have a similar plugin or ability?
As another guy said, Bibtex is the Latex bibliography database. Although it is only a database file; I suggest JabRef as a really good reference database based on Bibtex, it can interact with Lyx, WinEDT and others (Too bad it does not interact with TecNixcenter).
In his first post he states that he is a "NSF-funded researcher" and in a later post he write "I'm a computer security Ph.D. candidate"... do, he is just a PhD Student in is high horse...
For fucks sake, I am an Artificial Intelligence Researcher funded by my country's Federal Science and Technology Council and within project N (working hand to hand with X and Y researchers who are very recognized in the field in very prestigious UK universities...). But for fucks sakes, I am a PhD student. Thats all...
That is something I have always hated about some "Doctors", a lot of them get very pretentious and become assholes...
Fortunately in my field, it seems there are a lot of really nice researchers even though they are funded by UK or US defense departments...
The only thing i believe it is a good idea is that if you encrypt it only once, they can try the different standard algorithms via "trial and error" until they get some plain text. Whereas if you put a second layer of encryption, they might not know they got the right algorithm/password as they will at most get the random-like bytes produced by your first encryption layer.
Is rent such space in my house for advertising... do you imagine how much would V1Agr4 companies would pay for such a position? Alternatively, print an 2A0 goatse picture and hang it over there... you can bet google wont like to zoom-in over there.
Online play might work for gamers, and maybe it would have been a nice addition, but I don't think it as "required".
The main problem I see is that, I must arrange a "party", "meeting" or whatever with whatever friends I've got here in the UK (I am originally from Mexico) in the not much *spare* time I've got (doing my PhD) in order to play those games, whereas if they had on-line play I would be able to get into my flat (after a 12 hour office day), log in and have fun playing 1 (or 2) games of Bowling/Tennis/etc... against other players.
Also, my rank in tennis is between 2100 and 2200 (dont remember the exact number now) and I can beat any of my friends very easly... I would really enjoy playing against other people in the world which are equally good.
So, for me, the lack of online playing on the Wii *is* very bad. They should have added online play on the VC games too, that way I would have bought SF2 or some other SNES game just to play with my girlfriend (who is in Mexico now)... as I said in another post, this is 2007 !!?? , the hardware is there, these are NINTENDO games... WTF happened?
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2. idiots which believe they can't find even a single copy of the software they need
.pw extension. No way to find the program.
Please give me a link to a copy of the Professional Write 3 (PW) software app. for MSDOS 6.
Yep, I had that very problem some years ago when I was cleaning my room and found several 5 1/4 disquettes which contained the
Just to put a bit of perspective on that. The reason why Mr. Slim got Telmex and in great degree, all the money he has is because a very well known (and hated) Mexican corrupt ex-president (Mr. Carlos Salinas de Gortari) privatized the then state-controlled Mexican Telephone company (TELefonos de MEXico) giving Mr. Slim a lot of advantages over other offerers. And after the acquisition, providing him with government policies to make him increase its power.
Slim practically saved the country from stagnating in the information era.
I do remember those time too, and I do not believe what you say is completely true, just look at the Mexican federal Electricity commission (CFE), one of the best worldwide, excellent technology and service and it is also state controlled.
... If they sue the same developers that program on their platforms. I will never develop for a closed platform like Windows which such EULAs, NDAs and whatever else license they put... you never know with what will they come up next in their licenses.
Personally I do Java and love it. I have programmed in C# (Visual studio 2005 I think) and I prefer Eclipse, for production (read, real enterprise applications) environments.
Wow, two of the most defended groups featured together for a fight... it will be nice to read all the ultra-zealotry comments on slashdot hahah.
. In the days of new video cards costing nearly as much as a PS3, I don't really buy the whole price tag thing. Not too many people complain about the Xbox 360 price and it was only $100 cheaper.
Lolz... I just yesterday went into a Virgin store, there you had, PS3 - £425, Xbox360 £275 Wii - £250. They were bundles, but of course the PS3 bundle was the machine + 1 game (of a 2 game list hehe), while the Xbox360 was the system + 2 games and the Wii was the system + 2 games + extra controller, etc etc.
Besides that, what you could see in the PS3 stand were the PS3 boxes and just 3 or 4 different titles, on the Wii, it was the Wii boxes, some controllers, memory cards, and lets say 10 different titles... while on the Xbox360 you could see the console boxes, more than 25 titles (including the Guitar Hero biiig attention grabbing box) and plenty of other accessories... if I wasn't a Nintendo "fan" (because I am no hardcore player and I bought the Wii for the casual 1 hour playing I do some weekends) I would deffinitely spend £275 in the Xbox and the rest in several of the games for it... instead of spending £425 and pwning nothing but a good debt...
I'm not blaming my family for not allowing me do all this. Afterall, most of my happiness is derived from my family, but it also lead me to own and depend on too many unnecessary gadgets. But some day, I will return to a gadget-free life.It is quite possible in Indian villages.
From your post it seems that you are letting your family "suffer" from the gadget vice, you might be able to pursue your dreams if you let the members of your family help you on them, what about taking your children or spouse to your farmland or village to help you take care of it?, spend time with them on those "outside" actions so they do not have to spend all the time in front of TV?, I do not know about India, but I know in the USA and in Mexico (where I am from) that would *really* be helpful, as parents spend less and less time with their children and relatives.
Go ahead and free your relatives from the TV-zombinator, try to offer them several activities and then choose some of the ones they like and some of the ones you like or if it is possible, some of the ones both of you like. My father used to take us to his ranch each weekend. I hated it as I preferred to stay watching TV and playing Nintendo, but he forced us. In front of the ranch there is also a beach, we used to go there and as my father likes kayaking, wind surfing, kite surfing and all those kinds of things (he is a biologist), we experimented with that. I liked some of those but not as much as my Ninja Gaiden, until he got a very small sailing boat (for 2 people) and god I really liked going out to the sea with my dad for hours. I also enjoyed a lot when he took me scuba diving (he is a prof. diver)...
What with all that? well, some of the things you *think* your kids will like, they wont. But some others they will like and even after hating going spending my weekends on the ranch (sometimes camping, sometimes sleeping in a hamaca) nowadays I really am glad my dad took us to all those places, because even though I am a geek (programmer, like gaming, love computers, doing a PhD in AI), I know I can go to lots of places without depending on technology. (I just went camping last weekend with my bro... granted it was for the Download 2007 festival, but it was really cool =o))
Go and read Mr. Schwartz blog post. The reason is there, and as with other propietary software wanting to be opened, it is because sometimes it is not on the hand of the company to open up the software, i.e., there are third parties involved, and it might be difficult if not impossible to contact all of them to get their permission for the license... It is similar to what happens with the so hated graphics drivers...
Itunes since version 4 has been a beast on windows, I had switched to it (from Winamp) because it honestly seemed the best music player, but its got bigger, slower and more encumbered since version 4 was released. I'm actually using windows media player 11 right now because it provides me with the features I want in a music player (sync music to phone), its quick and handles all media.
I *tried* to use iTunes once also but find it really horrible. I felt as if I just cant do anything with my music library, in that way i felt iTunes similar to what what the GNOME ppl do (remove every feature for the sake of "simplicity" until you cant do anything). I used to use Windows Media Player also, which I really hate. Usually I returned to barebones Winamp... (I've got my 60GB mp3/ogg/flac/ape media library ordered by folders/subfolders).
All that nightmare was ended when I found MediaMonkey from another poster here in Slashdot. I have been using it for almost one year and I wont look back anytime soon.
As a side rant, my brother is visiting me in the UK, he's got an iPod (I dont like them for the lockdown and DRM, I have a great OGG/MP3 Samsung YPZ5)... he was making fun of me because of my "hatred" against apple... until he needed to delete some songs from his iPod... and the only way to do that? using iTunes... but as I do not like Apple software (not iTunes, nor Quicktime...) I do not have it installed in my computer... therefore he is locked out, with his piece of shit brick until he can find a PC that allows him to install iTunes... on the other hand every PC where I connect my el-cheapo YPZ5 sees it as a external memory and I can add and delete music as I please without downloading any spyware or adware.
The original Dragon Quest game for the NES could be finished in about 6 hours, including all the secrets. However it is a really nice game and it was better for its time. I do not care if a game "effective" play time is about 6 or even 4 hours, but if they are *quality* 6 hours then it is worth it. I even preffer that to the 200 hours games like Zelda T.P. for the Wii were only 5% of the playing time is quality and the other 95% is the stupid "go fish to get the cat to take it to granma to get the flute to sing a song to..." or like Metal Gear 2 (the last I attempted to play) for PS2 where the other 95% are prerendered crap.
And I am a happy Wii owner... stiiiiiiiillllll waiting for games =o(
It seems to me that Google is trying to beat Microsoft at its own game. Unfortunately, I have my doubts about Google being able to pull it off. Especially since it would require quite a bit of Evil(TM).
In Mexico we have a saying that goes:
"El enemigo de mi enemigo es mi amigo" and means something like "The enemy of my enemy is my friend". I guess that if Google is "Evil(TM)" against Microsoft I would not cry a bit or be sad for that matter. The problem I see is that once Google is evil against MS and the shareholders see what can be achieved by being evil, then Google wont be able to stop being evil to continue its stock prices growing (which is what shareholders only care about).
Something similar to what happened to Slashdot after they removed the comments of Scientology, once you do it one time, you can not put a straight face saying "we do not remove any comment"... because any company willingly enough will come and tell you that you already did it once and hence you can do it again.
I believe this issues are one of the few which have a Black or White stand.
Technology advances always arrive late...
I hope it is not the case for the great Prof. Hawkins... people like him might benefit from this...
This reminds me of a joke...
...
Do you know why girls see the porn movies to the end?
Because they are waiting to see if they marry and live happily ever after...
hohoho... thank you thank you...
I'll be here all night
Since people in Digg started posting "news" which are pure speculation adding a question mark to the title it seems it has infected slashdot as a plague... for the love of whatever you like, not only it does not looks professional it is wrong and even the grammar is terrible:
Does Dell Think Ubuntu makes hardware more fragile?
That goes into ask slashdot... not as a piece of speculation FUD...
I use something called Notepad++
:q!WW!qHH^H^Hlllkkkkjjjjj shortcuts ... the less time I spend "learning" this tools is more time I get to make what I like.
It is quite friendly and does not beep-beep-beep-beep at me by incessantly when trying to edit a simple file... and it has quite a good number of plugins and you can record macros and so for...
Dont know why people like hurting themselves trying to learn all those
Of course I am not as l33t as those.
Hehe, for me it is the King of Fighters series the ones that would make me buy my classic controler... and download one of those. Of course I am a bit skeptic after buying Super Mario Bros for the VC as it runs faster than normal (PAL issue)*, its flickery and has other general playability issues... which in my opinion make the games not worth the overpriced price.
... I preffer Nestopia and my precious Acktek PS2-like gamepad...
* Yeah, I have already applied the updates and tried with 50 and 60 HZ configuration... and the game still runs *faster* than normal (including the timer and the sound...). It really blows... and for £5
to release new hardware? or to release a patch to let us use network or USB storage?
To release new hardware of course... just look at all those overpriced hardware accessories for the iPod, Xbox, PS? and other equipment which are available in "standard" form factor. If they let you use your Maxtor HD then they wont see a penny of that.
this is written as if its a good thing!
It is written as if it is a good thing beacuse the issue is that if they do not support DRM, you cant play such X or Y content, if they do not support "Broadcast flag" you cant see X or Y channel.
They did not make DRM they are just making their cards able to *read* such stream of data...
Yeah, lets add jEdit if you want to be able to make a coffee, drink it, make some tea, get some crisps and talk over the phone while the darn thing crawls...
If there is one software which I would show as an example of how *slooooooow* is Java Swing, it would be jEdit...
And I like Java (the programming language) and program most of my simulations using RepastJ. But hell, having NotePad++ or other great stuff why the fuck use that ugly monster called jEdit.
MS Word the standard, but we had a site license for EndNote. Does LaTeX have a similar plugin or ability?
As another guy said, Bibtex is the Latex bibliography database. Although it is only a database file; I suggest JabRef as a really good reference database based on Bibtex, it can interact with Lyx, WinEDT and others (Too bad it does not interact with TecNixcenter).
In his first post he states that he is a "NSF-funded researcher" and in a later post he write "I'm a computer security Ph.D. candidate"... do, he is just a PhD Student in is high horse...
For fucks sake, I am an Artificial Intelligence Researcher funded by my country's Federal Science and Technology Council and within project N (working hand to hand with X and Y researchers who are very recognized in the field in very prestigious UK universities...). But for fucks sakes, I am a PhD student. Thats all...
That is something I have always hated about some "Doctors", a lot of them get very pretentious and become assholes...
Fortunately in my field, it seems there are a lot of really nice researchers even though they are funded by UK or US defense departments...
The only thing i believe it is a good idea is that if you encrypt it only once, they can try the different standard algorithms via "trial and error" until they get some plain text. Whereas if you put a second layer of encryption, they might not know they got the right algorithm/password as they will at most get the random-like bytes produced by your first encryption layer.
Is rent such space in my house for advertising... do you imagine how much would V1Agr4 companies would pay for such a position?
Alternatively, print an 2A0 goatse picture and hang it over there... you can bet google wont like to zoom-in over there.
Hi, I was just looking at your iPod launch comment:
:)
There is Apple's market. Pretty slim, eh? I don't see many sales in the future of iPod.
Lol... You'd better continue working with computers
Qué, te quedó el saco?
Online play might work for gamers, and maybe it would have been a nice addition, but I don't think it as "required".
The main problem I see is that, I must arrange a "party", "meeting" or whatever with whatever friends I've got here in the UK (I am originally from Mexico) in the not much *spare* time I've got (doing my PhD) in order to play those games, whereas if they had on-line play I would be able to get into my flat (after a 12 hour office day), log in and have fun playing 1 (or 2) games of Bowling/Tennis/etc... against other players.
Also, my rank in tennis is between 2100 and 2200 (dont remember the exact number now) and I can beat any of my friends very easly... I would really enjoy playing against other people in the world which are equally good.
So, for me, the lack of online playing on the Wii *is* very bad. They should have added online play on the VC games too, that way I would have bought SF2 or some other SNES game just to play with my girlfriend (who is in Mexico now)... as I said in another post, this is 2007 !!?? , the hardware is there, these are NINTENDO games... WTF happened?