Hubble found that nearby objects are red shifted and objects farther away are even more red shifted.
These observations were explained by saying that the universe is expanding and doing so at an accelerating rate. We've now spent decades trying to adjust this theory to fit new observations.
What if the original explanation of the observations was backwards?
Our observations of an expanding universe can also be explained by a collapsing universe. If you simply let the universe fall into a singularity that is at an infinite distance away everything will appear red shifted in exactly the same way it does now.
Objects closer than us to the singularity will appear to be accelerating away. Although objects further away from the singularity will still be falling in, they won't be accelerating as fast as us (who are nearer) so they'll appear to be shooting away from us as well.
Objects perpendicular to the direction of acceleration will appear blue shifted but only if they are *exactly* perpendicular. If the singularity is an infinite distance away that slice of space were blue shifting will occur will be infinitely thin (hence won't exist).
Ah it wasn't actually a troll but an observation on how Slashdotters usually react to a Microsoft employee interview. I didn't really expect anyone to respond since I didn't exactly say anything "interesting".
It will hopefully be a long time until we need on for linux. The marketing guys are going to want to know what the firefox users are doing too I'm afraid.
I'm actually a Windows user and don't have spyware problems though. I just stay out of the back alley of the internet and actually pay attention if I get an installation dialog out of the blue.
You have it backwards. MS isn't defending on too many fronts. They are attacking on more and more fronts. They won't have to worry about defending as long as they win.
History is filled with great conquerors who attacked on multiple fronts and just kept going. It's quite possible to take your victories to your grave like Qin Shi Huangdi, or Alexander the 3rd (the great).
MS isn't even breathing hard yet. Heck, they just expanded their campus in Redmond!
Microsoft taking a stand on spyware because everyone griped about it.
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Someone griping about it because they are abusing their monopoly by taking a stand on spyware.
??
Wouldn't it be nice if your grandma's computer had a firewall, antivirus and anti-spyware when she took it out of the box? It might give the back of my firewall a break. It probably won't happen though. People will get sue happy as usual with MS. I'm surprised ZoneAlarm and Blackice and those guys haven't sued about the XP firewall yet (even though it's trivial). The lawyers at McAfee and Symantec already have their game plan ready if MS bundles an anti-virus. Heck if the EU lawyers had their way in America my 2005 PC wouldn't even be able to play music when I took it out of the box!
As usual MS entered a new market swinging and everyone is crying foul when it looks like they have a hit.
They are targetting SLI more at people like me than you I think.
I don't run my games at 800x600 or 1024x768. If I did, I would just go buy a console instead.
I need a high end card to drive my 22" monitor at the resolution it should be displaying. 1280x1024 with 4xAA or 1600x1200 without is about as low as I really want to go. I'm not concerned about the absolute maximum FPS I can get but there is a minimum that varies from game to game. For Doom3, 40-60FPS at the desired resolution. For a 'twitch' shooter I need the minimum framerate to be pretty close to the monitor refresh rate.
Finding a second card at some point in the future shouldn't be too difficult as long as you choose wisely. PNY for instance cranks out such a volume that there will be PNY 6600GTs tucked away in every nook and cranny of online retailers for years to come. Heck, you could still find an 8mb or 12mb Voodoo2 SLI out there if you look hard enough.
The other thing that's nice about SLI is something you kindof mentioned. The next generation of cards might be DirectX v10 or OpenGL 4.x or whatever but it typically takes a while for games to catch up to these features. It's a drag to pay ATI or nVidia research recoup dollars when you aren't using the features. SLI will allow a bit of 'raw horsepower' without paying for added fluff. By the time DX, OGL, Shaders and whatnot really take off it will be upgrade time anyway (SLI or not).
FYI - Doom 3 looks so good at High detail, smooth FPS and 1600x1200 that it makes you drool. I can't wait to laugh at the XBox version.
You should find this board outrunning the 6800Ultras. This is basically a $400 board outrunning a $500 board (that goes for as much as $600 depending on brand/features).
The lowdown (using individual boards here but the dual is about the same): Doom3 1600x1200: 6600GT SLI = 77.1fps, Cost = $376 (188x2) 6800Ultra = 73.9fps, Cost = $489
According to a great article on www.Anandtech.com it doesn't really outperform two individual boards though. It may be wiser to get a single 6600GT now and SLI later.
This board somewhat defeats one of the great features of SLI: future upgrades. The idea is you can buy a "good" card today and at some point when it gets a little bit dated you can add more performance at a lower future cost.
However, a single board SLI solution should help offset the nasty cost of an SLI motherboard right now. The NF4 SLI boards are running about $100-$150 over where they should be simply due to shortages (spanking new product overdemand).
$255, Gigabyte NF4 SLI mobo $188, 6600GT today $59, 6600GT 2 years from now (Based on the cost today of a $200 graphics card two years ago, the GF4 4200)
Total: $502
Or you can opt for 6600GT performance today and tomorrow without SLI in the picture: $149, Gigabyte NF4 non-SLI mobo $188, 6600GT today $269, 6800Ultra 2 years from now (Based on the cost today of a $500 graphics card two years ago, the GF 5900 Ultra)
Total: $606
As you can see even with the badly overpriced SLI motherboards it's still a better deal in the long run. If SLI motherboards get back to reality you could see the savings increase from $104 to ~$200 as well but that's just speculation.
References: All new prices are from www.newegg.com. For the older boards (4200 & 5900U) that are not available at Newegg I used pricegrabber. Anandtech was used for the benchmark and 2 year old reference articles.
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The original point was that in the interview the man is taking pride in how well his product has done. In typical slashdot fashion the anti-MS bias interpreted this as something negative like "gloating".
The tough thing about prejudice is you usually can't tell when you have it.
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Sony and Nintendo both have a huge installed base of both users and games. The number of available games for the PS2 when the XBox was released was a daunting challenge for any new competitor. Yet Microsoft is now a serious threat. They did NOT get this way by using any underhanded business tactics or abusing a monopoly or anything like that. Stop whining. The XBox got where it is today by being a solid product. XBox Live for instance is what multiplayer gaming should be like. Sony and Nintendo both had internet play capability available to them from the start but failed to properly execute.
You're not mad because there isn't competition in the console industry. You're mad because Microsoft is winning. You're not mad because you know at some point someone will get knocked out of the game and the number of competitors will be reduced. You're mad because Microsoft won't be the one to lose. If they play fair and win you're going to have to suck it up. Sony entered the fray a few years ago with the original playstation and now Sega is knocked out of the game. Why isn't anyone crying foul over that?
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It's because if you don't hate MS here (oops, meant M$) at slashdot then you are a commie.
I'll probably get modded for flamebait or trolling but here's my honest take on this:
1. The author of the article has some strong bias that rips through any credibility that he may have. He may have some decent points but I dismissed them. Threw the baby out with the bathwater so to speak.
2. If you get on your soapbox and thump your chest about command line being king then it's likely that you hate MS (oops, I meant M$) more than you really care about command line. Yeah, you know it's true.
3. If you proclaim GUI is king then you're probably not a very good "power" user. You might even be a newbie. You are likely the one that the command line guys are laughing at.
The real answer to efficiently telling the computer what you want is a hybrid of GUI and command line. Some examples:
For MS (sorry, M$) users this means it's faster to hold down the Windows key, hit 'R' to bring up a run dialog then type 'winword' to bring up MS Word than it is to navigate the start menu.
Once in word and you want to bullet point a paragraph it's easier to drag a box around it and hit the bullet point button in the GUI.
Hybrid see?
Navigating to a file and deleting it? Windows+E for an explorer window (keyboard) then navigate to it and select it (mouse), shift+delete to delete it skipping the recycle bin (keyboard).
Renaming a file? GUI+keyboard is faster. Gui to get there and select it, keyboard (obviously) to type the new name.
Renaming a group of files? Gui to get there (if you have "cmd here" option) + keyboard to use wildcards. No "cmd here" option? Wildcards and autocomplete from the command line are the fastest route.
Run a program? Gui. Run a program with arguments? Gui+keyboard (yes you can drag a file from the GUI to the command line and it will autotype itself.)
Navigating around? Depends on the situation. Everyone knows you can whip around pretty quick in a well written GUI shell. Wildcards and autocomplete will let a good touch typist get around just as fast.
There are some tasks that will always be better for GUI like web surfing. There are some tasks that will always be better for command line like scripting. If you are pretty decent at both you'll leave everyone behind who excels in just one.
I personally think both GUI and command line will be changing with new technologies. With any luck this discussion will someday switch to, "Which is faster? Eye tracking (GUI) or Voice Recognition (command line)". I'll be there to tell you again that the answer is a hybrid of both.
I guess if I imply inbreeding I get a +1 Funny, but if you actually say it you get a -1 Flamebait.
Hm.
Chaos theorists should be watching slashdot with more interest. If they can get the patterns figured out here, weather prediction should be a piece of cake.
The Commodore 64 had a program that would do this.
Basically it had two modes. Mode 1 would display a visual kalidescope of colors that would change hue as you relaxed. Mode 2 was this game that you had to control a hot air balloon as it flew over and under obstacles.
All they need to do is get two game developers to go to Louisianna. Then they breed them to create two better developers. Then they breed those two and so on.
Soon you'll have Super Game Developers and they will be unstoppable!
What license allows you to take open source software, modify it then sell it closed source for profit provided you pay someone their fair share for the original works?
When you signed up for it did you start getting lots of spam?
No? You mean they really didn't sell your personal info to everyone?
Has anyone broken into their server and stolen your information? No? If they did would they have anything really important like a credit card number?
As usual you guys just love to gripe about Microsoft whether you have something to gripe about or not.
In this case be careful what you ask for. All of you jumping with glee about this are officially banned from bitching about the New York Times registration the next time an article comes around. You better get used to it since a lot more sites are going to be doing it soon. You better hope those new registrations don't sell your info or have insecure servers. I assure you that MS, sorry M$, has invested quite a bit in the security of passport. They also know that to make it work they must ensure privacy. Others may not care.
You're right! It's Microsoft writing all the viruses!
Give me a break. The griping about MS gets sooo old. There were 100,000 viruses. 100,000! Do you think you get 100,000 of anything without a LOT of work? These dicks are clearly ready to put in a lot of work to cause trouble. MS just gets clobbered all the time because:
1. They are on EVERY computer.
2. You still failed to update your grandma's computer with MS04-011 so you got Sasser because you failed to learn your lesson when you got "Blasted" after MS03-039.
3. They are on EVERY computer.
Once OS X, Linux or some other OS gains enough market share I'm sure the dicks will stop writing worms and viruses. Not. You'll probably start blaming Linus then right? Not.
The top viruses of 2004 all revolved around security issues *that had already been fixed* by Microsoft. How is it that I run MS software and I have NEVER once been infected with a virus? People act like MS ships a virus with Windows or something. I don't care if you run Linux, Windows or even OS/400: Patch your shit people.
And put blame where it's due: The dicks that wrote the viruses.
["I'm tired of your bitch assed whining" rant]
Oh and before anyone even gets started with, "
MS shouldn't have had the security holes in the first place" Please! Show me any program outside of "hello world" that was perfect the first time through. Every MS OS released has been more secure than the previous version. Go compare Windows 95 to Windows Server 2003. Of course everyone always gripes that MS wants you to upgrade. (They are in the business of selling software, Duh!) So upgrade or STFU about security (and take your crap off the stinkin 'net while you're at it). [/"I'm tired of your bitch assed whining" rant]
I think you are highlighting one of the core problems.
I'm more from the proprietary / traditional paid software (ie Microsoft) side of the fence looking in and, right or wrong, this is how I see it:
When I hear "Free Software" I think software without cost. If I read the context correctly I *may* come to understand they mean "free speech" rather than "free beer" or "freeware" but it's not my default assumption.
When I hear "Open Source" I think of "free beer" or GPL. I assume you mean software that must be distributed for free along with the source code and any changes. I don't assume you mean software I'm allowed to view the source of but not modify for my own profit (FreeBSD and such).
If there is some difference in these terms that I should readily know about or some clarification it hasn't come yet. Honestly this is just another aspect of Free Software/Open source that seems poorly organized or centralized to me and does little to dispel prejudice that free/open source = cheap or poorly written.
The "open source" community has put together some great works but their lack of organization shoots them in the foot time and time again. It's nice to be able to debate "free software" versus "open source" but it would be nicer if you had a solid definition and could move on to more important things.
Yes we should definately spend our time researching future power sources that consume "food" and oxygen then convert it into energy, waste and CO2. Yes that's definately the best idea. We don't have enough of that on this planet. Real robots should be like real men. They should eat meat and burp.
Making something that consumes waste, CO2, and sunlight then converts it into oxygen and energy is a stupid idea. Only idiots would take this approach. Solar cells are for tree huggers and commies.
I've seen nothing that works as well as Outlook 2003 for managing incoming and outgoing data and communication. I can receive a constant stream of incoming email and deal with it on the fly. No other email client works as well. Here is why:
All incoming emails pop up a small note in the notification area. This note contains the name, subject and a few lines of the email. It will fade and disappear after a few seconds. Before it does I can bring it up, flag it (more about that later) cause it to disappear immediately, or delete it immediately.
All emails can be flagged with different colors with a mouse click. You know how it goes when you are "catching up" on email after lunch or in the morning? You go down through a ton of unimportant messages, see a few that need taken care of and occasionally hit that one that is so important it's worth immediately breaking away from going through your mail. With OL2003 you do your "catch up" with flags. You can blow through the whole list and flag stuff that you need to go back to, red-flag those critical items, maybe blue-flag the personal stuff you'll get to on your lunch hour. You don't have to remember to get back to something or break off from email to handle something before you forget. I've not seen anything else that has this feature and it makes a HUGE difference when you are catching up. When you get something done, you just click the flag and it turns to a check box. At the end of the day you can make a quick glance to the built in search that shows you any orange-flags (for instance) that you left unchecked.
It also integrates with messenger. If you start to send someone an email the moment their name is completed it will check their online status. You may start typing your short email only to notice that the person is online. A quick right click and you're in IM instead of email.
Cleaning up your inbox/outbox? There are tools built in that will let you see "All the old crap that's big or has an attachment" for instance. Sure every email client lets you setup rules or already has one built in that's similar but nothing does it as well.
There are other features that I never think about until I'm stuck on another email client. I was typing something on Lotus Notes (the suck) and without thinking, right clicked a particular word. I was expecting a list of synonyms to come up but no such luck. The polish and attention to detail in OL2003 is unmatched. With many of the other Office 2003 apps I can get by just fine in any other product, Wordperfect, Open Office etc. OL2003 though is head and shoulders above the competition right now. It's the first time in a long time that I can actually say a piece of software has increased my productivity.
Now since I'm paying MS, oops sorry I meant M$, a compliment here it's the law that someone needs to come bash me personally or rant about M$'s evils.... Outlook 2003 is still the shit though.
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Hubble found that nearby objects are red shifted and objects farther away are even more red shifted.
:P
These observations were explained by saying that the universe is expanding and doing so at an accelerating rate. We've now spent decades trying to adjust this theory to fit new observations.
What if the original explanation of the observations was backwards?
Our observations of an expanding universe can also be explained by a collapsing universe. If you simply let the universe fall into a singularity that is at an infinite distance away everything will appear red shifted in exactly the same way it does now.
Objects closer than us to the singularity will appear to be accelerating away. Although objects further away from the singularity will still be falling in, they won't be accelerating as fast as us (who are nearer) so they'll appear to be shooting away from us as well.
Objects perpendicular to the direction of acceleration will appear blue shifted but only if they are *exactly* perpendicular. If the singularity is an infinite distance away that slice of space were blue shifting will occur will be infinitely thin (hence won't exist).
So there.
Ah it wasn't actually a troll but an observation on how Slashdotters usually react to a Microsoft employee interview. I didn't really expect anyone to respond since I didn't exactly say anything "interesting".
It apparently "trolled" you in though didn't it?
hehe
Let the out of context quotes and subsequent bashing of M$ begin!!!! :)
It will hopefully be a long time until we need on for linux. The marketing guys are going to want to know what the firefox users are doing too I'm afraid.
I'm actually a Windows user and don't have spyware problems though. I just stay out of the back alley of the internet and actually pay attention if I get an installation dialog out of the blue.
You have it backwards. MS isn't defending on too many fronts. They are attacking on more and more fronts. They won't have to worry about defending as long as they win. History is filled with great conquerors who attacked on multiple fronts and just kept going. It's quite possible to take your victories to your grave like Qin Shi Huangdi, or Alexander the 3rd (the great). MS isn't even breathing hard yet. Heck, they just expanded their campus in Redmond!
Two or three anti-spyware products? Geez dude!
..GrumblegrumbleKodakgrumble Bastardsgrumble..
I run zero. Never had a problem with spyware.
The only time I've ever had it is from a Kodak photo-CD that the wife used while in my admin account.
How much time does it take between:
Microsoft taking a stand on spyware because everyone griped about it.
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Someone griping about it because they are abusing their monopoly by taking a stand on spyware.
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Wouldn't it be nice if your grandma's computer had a firewall, antivirus and anti-spyware when she took it out of the box? It might give the back of my firewall a break. It probably won't happen though. People will get sue happy as usual with MS. I'm surprised ZoneAlarm and Blackice and those guys haven't sued about the XP firewall yet (even though it's trivial). The lawyers at McAfee and Symantec already have their game plan ready if MS bundles an anti-virus. Heck if the EU lawyers had their way in America my 2005 PC wouldn't even be able to play music when I took it out of the box!
As usual MS entered a new market swinging and everyone is crying foul when it looks like they have a hit.
They are targetting SLI more at people like me than you I think.
I don't run my games at 800x600 or 1024x768. If I did, I would just go buy a console instead.
I need a high end card to drive my 22" monitor at the resolution it should be displaying. 1280x1024 with 4xAA or 1600x1200 without is about as low as I really want to go. I'm not concerned about the absolute maximum FPS I can get but there is a minimum that varies from game to game. For Doom3, 40-60FPS at the desired resolution. For a 'twitch' shooter I need the minimum framerate to be pretty close to the monitor refresh rate.
Finding a second card at some point in the future shouldn't be too difficult as long as you choose wisely. PNY for instance cranks out such a volume that there will be PNY 6600GTs tucked away in every nook and cranny of online retailers for years to come. Heck, you could still find an 8mb or 12mb Voodoo2 SLI out there if you look hard enough.
The other thing that's nice about SLI is something you kindof mentioned. The next generation of cards might be DirectX v10 or OpenGL 4.x or whatever but it typically takes a while for games to catch up to these features. It's a drag to pay ATI or nVidia research recoup dollars when you aren't using the features. SLI will allow a bit of 'raw horsepower' without paying for added fluff. By the time DX, OGL, Shaders and whatnot really take off it will be upgrade time anyway (SLI or not).
FYI - Doom 3 looks so good at High detail, smooth FPS and 1600x1200 that it makes you drool. I can't wait to laugh at the XBox version.
Amen.
You should find this board outrunning the 6800Ultras. This is basically a $400 board outrunning a $500 board (that goes for as much as $600 depending on brand/features).
The lowdown (using individual boards here but the dual is about the same):
Doom3 1600x1200:
6600GT SLI = 77.1fps, Cost = $376 (188x2)
6800Ultra = 73.9fps, Cost = $489
According to a great article on www.Anandtech.com it doesn't really outperform two individual boards though. It may be wiser to get a single 6600GT now and SLI later.
This board somewhat defeats one of the great features of SLI: future upgrades. The idea is you can buy a "good" card today and at some point when it gets a little bit dated you can add more performance at a lower future cost.
However, a single board SLI solution should help offset the nasty cost of an SLI motherboard right now. The NF4 SLI boards are running about $100-$150 over where they should be simply due to shortages (spanking new product overdemand).
$255, Gigabyte NF4 SLI mobo
$188, 6600GT today
$59, 6600GT 2 years from now (Based on the cost today of a $200 graphics card two years ago, the GF4 4200)
Total: $502
Or you can opt for 6600GT performance today and tomorrow without SLI in the picture:
$149, Gigabyte NF4 non-SLI mobo
$188, 6600GT today
$269, 6800Ultra 2 years from now (Based on the cost today of a $500 graphics card two years ago, the GF 5900 Ultra)
Total: $606
As you can see even with the badly overpriced SLI motherboards it's still a better deal in the long run. If SLI motherboards get back to reality you could see the savings increase from $104 to ~$200 as well but that's just speculation.
References:
All new prices are from www.newegg.com. For the older boards (4200 & 5900U) that are not available at Newegg I used pricegrabber. Anandtech was used for the benchmark and 2 year old reference articles.
The original point was that in the interview the man is taking pride in how well his product has done. In typical slashdot fashion the anti-MS bias interpreted this as something negative like "gloating".
The tough thing about prejudice is you usually can't tell when you have it.
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Sony and Nintendo both have a huge installed base of both users and games. The number of available games for the PS2 when the XBox was released was a daunting challenge for any new competitor. Yet Microsoft is now a serious threat. They did NOT get this way by using any underhanded business tactics or abusing a monopoly or anything like that. Stop whining. The XBox got where it is today by being a solid product. XBox Live for instance is what multiplayer gaming should be like. Sony and Nintendo both had internet play capability available to them from the start but failed to properly execute.
You're not mad because there isn't competition in the console industry. You're mad because Microsoft is winning. You're not mad because you know at some point someone will get knocked out of the game and the number of competitors will be reduced. You're mad because Microsoft won't be the one to lose. If they play fair and win you're going to have to suck it up. Sony entered the fray a few years ago with the original playstation and now Sega is knocked out of the game. Why isn't anyone crying foul over that?
It's because if you don't hate MS here (oops, meant M$) at slashdot then you are a commie.
I'll probably get modded for flamebait or trolling but here's my honest take on this:
1. The author of the article has some strong bias that rips through any credibility that he may have. He may have some decent points but I dismissed them. Threw the baby out with the bathwater so to speak.
2. If you get on your soapbox and thump your chest about command line being king then it's likely that you hate MS (oops, I meant M$) more than you really care about command line. Yeah, you know it's true.
3. If you proclaim GUI is king then you're probably not a very good "power" user. You might even be a newbie. You are likely the one that the command line guys are laughing at.
The real answer to efficiently telling the computer what you want is a hybrid of GUI and command line. Some examples:
For MS (sorry, M$) users this means it's faster to hold down the Windows key, hit 'R' to bring up a run dialog then type 'winword' to bring up MS Word than it is to navigate the start menu.
Once in word and you want to bullet point a paragraph it's easier to drag a box around it and hit the bullet point button in the GUI.
Hybrid see?
Navigating to a file and deleting it? Windows+E for an explorer window (keyboard) then navigate to it and select it (mouse), shift+delete to delete it skipping the recycle bin (keyboard).
Renaming a file? GUI+keyboard is faster. Gui to get there and select it, keyboard (obviously) to type the new name.
Renaming a group of files? Gui to get there (if you have "cmd here" option) + keyboard to use wildcards. No "cmd here" option? Wildcards and autocomplete from the command line are the fastest route.
Run a program? Gui. Run a program with arguments? Gui+keyboard (yes you can drag a file from the GUI to the command line and it will autotype itself.)
Navigating around? Depends on the situation. Everyone knows you can whip around pretty quick in a well written GUI shell. Wildcards and autocomplete will let a good touch typist get around just as fast.
There are some tasks that will always be better for GUI like web surfing. There are some tasks that will always be better for command line like scripting. If you are pretty decent at both you'll leave everyone behind who excels in just one.
I personally think both GUI and command line will be changing with new technologies. With any luck this discussion will someday switch to, "Which is faster? Eye tracking (GUI) or Voice Recognition (command line)". I'll be there to tell you again that the answer is a hybrid of both.
You're wrong.
I guess if I imply inbreeding I get a +1 Funny, but if you actually say it you get a -1 Flamebait. Hm. Chaos theorists should be watching slashdot with more interest. If they can get the patterns figured out here, weather prediction should be a piece of cake.
The Commodore 64 had a program that would do this.
Basically it had two modes. Mode 1 would display a visual kalidescope of colors that would change hue as you relaxed. Mode 2 was this game that you had to control a hot air balloon as it flew over and under obstacles.
All they need to do is get two game developers to go to Louisianna. Then they breed them to create two better developers. Then they breed those two and so on.
Soon you'll have Super Game Developers and they will be unstoppable!
What license allows you to take open source software, modify it then sell it closed source for profit provided you pay someone their fair share for the original works?
Yeah, despite the fact that I was responding to a Troll I get modded a troll for defending Microsoft.
It's not the bias that bothers me around here it's how close minded and blind people can be. You gotta hate "the man" to fit in.
When you signed up for it did you start getting lots of spam?
No? You mean they really didn't sell your personal info to everyone?
Has anyone broken into their server and stolen your information? No? If they did would they have anything really important like a credit card number?
As usual you guys just love to gripe about Microsoft whether you have something to gripe about or not.
In this case be careful what you ask for. All of you jumping with glee about this are officially banned from bitching about the New York Times registration the next time an article comes around. You better get used to it since a lot more sites are going to be doing it soon. You better hope those new registrations don't sell your info or have insecure servers. I assure you that MS, sorry M$, has invested quite a bit in the security of passport. They also know that to make it work they must ensure privacy. Others may not care.
You're right! It's Microsoft writing all the viruses!
Give me a break. The griping about MS gets sooo old. There were 100,000 viruses. 100,000! Do you think you get 100,000 of anything without a LOT of work? These dicks are clearly ready to put in a lot of work to cause trouble. MS just gets clobbered all the time because:
1. They are on EVERY computer.
2. You still failed to update your grandma's computer with MS04-011 so you got Sasser because you failed to learn your lesson when you got "Blasted" after MS03-039.
3. They are on EVERY computer.
Once OS X, Linux or some other OS gains enough market share I'm sure the dicks will stop writing worms and viruses. Not. You'll probably start blaming Linus then right? Not.
The top viruses of 2004 all revolved around security issues *that had already been fixed* by Microsoft. How is it that I run MS software and I have NEVER once been infected with a virus? People act like MS ships a virus with Windows or something. I don't care if you run Linux, Windows or even OS/400: Patch your shit people.
And put blame where it's due: The dicks that wrote the viruses.
["I'm tired of your bitch assed whining" rant]
Oh and before anyone even gets started with, " MS shouldn't have had the security holes in the first place" Please! Show me any program outside of "hello world" that was perfect the first time through. Every MS OS released has been more secure than the previous version. Go compare Windows 95 to Windows Server 2003. Of course everyone always gripes that MS wants you to upgrade. (They are in the business of selling software, Duh!) So upgrade or STFU about security (and take your crap off the stinkin 'net while you're at it).
[/"I'm tired of your bitch assed whining" rant]
If you are clearly admitting that you didn't even read the whole article why are you talking?
You aren't capable of commenting on the article you are only capable of spewing your opinions that you formed long before.
STFU perhaps? hmm?
I think you are highlighting one of the core problems.
I'm more from the proprietary / traditional paid software (ie Microsoft) side of the fence looking in and, right or wrong, this is how I see it:
When I hear "Free Software" I think software without cost. If I read the context correctly I *may* come to understand they mean "free speech" rather than "free beer" or "freeware" but it's not my default assumption.
When I hear "Open Source" I think of "free beer" or GPL. I assume you mean software that must be distributed for free along with the source code and any changes. I don't assume you mean software I'm allowed to view the source of but not modify for my own profit (FreeBSD and such).
If there is some difference in these terms that I should readily know about or some clarification it hasn't come yet. Honestly this is just another aspect of Free Software/Open source that seems poorly organized or centralized to me and does little to dispel prejudice that free/open source = cheap or poorly written.
The "open source" community has put together some great works but their lack of organization shoots them in the foot time and time again. It's nice to be able to debate "free software" versus "open source" but it would be nicer if you had a solid definition and could move on to more important things.
Yes we should definately spend our time researching future power sources that consume "food" and oxygen then convert it into energy, waste and CO2. Yes that's definately the best idea. We don't have enough of that on this planet. Real robots should be like real men. They should eat meat and burp.
Making something that consumes waste, CO2, and sunlight then converts it into oxygen and energy is a stupid idea. Only idiots would take this approach. Solar cells are for tree huggers and commies.
I've seen nothing that works as well as Outlook 2003 for managing incoming and outgoing data and communication. I can receive a constant stream of incoming email and deal with it on the fly. No other email client works as well. Here is why:
All incoming emails pop up a small note in the notification area. This note contains the name, subject and a few lines of the email. It will fade and disappear after a few seconds. Before it does I can bring it up, flag it (more about that later) cause it to disappear immediately, or delete it immediately.
All emails can be flagged with different colors with a mouse click. You know how it goes when you are "catching up" on email after lunch or in the morning? You go down through a ton of unimportant messages, see a few that need taken care of and occasionally hit that one that is so important it's worth immediately breaking away from going through your mail. With OL2003 you do your "catch up" with flags. You can blow through the whole list and flag stuff that you need to go back to, red-flag those critical items, maybe blue-flag the personal stuff you'll get to on your lunch hour. You don't have to remember to get back to something or break off from email to handle something before you forget. I've not seen anything else that has this feature and it makes a HUGE difference when you are catching up. When you get something done, you just click the flag and it turns to a check box. At the end of the day you can make a quick glance to the built in search that shows you any orange-flags (for instance) that you left unchecked.
It also integrates with messenger. If you start to send someone an email the moment their name is completed it will check their online status. You may start typing your short email only to notice that the person is online. A quick right click and you're in IM instead of email.
Cleaning up your inbox/outbox? There are tools built in that will let you see "All the old crap that's big or has an attachment" for instance. Sure every email client lets you setup rules or already has one built in that's similar but nothing does it as well.
There are other features that I never think about until I'm stuck on another email client. I was typing something on Lotus Notes (the suck) and without thinking, right clicked a particular word. I was expecting a list of synonyms to come up but no such luck. The polish and attention to detail in OL2003 is unmatched. With many of the other Office 2003 apps I can get by just fine in any other product, Wordperfect, Open Office etc. OL2003 though is head and shoulders above the competition right now. It's the first time in a long time that I can actually say a piece of software has increased my productivity.
Now since I'm paying MS, oops sorry I meant M$, a compliment here it's the law that someone needs to come bash me personally or rant about M$'s evils.... Outlook 2003 is still the shit though.