And notice I got labeled flamebiat for daring to point this out? The amount of brainwashing by the MSM is frankly horrifying when it comes to outsourcing. Choosing the best person for the job isn't the problem, the problem is a race to the bottom where we just export misery upon the third world.
That is why I say they only fair and decent thing to do is replace free trade with FAIR trade. Allowing those that have no environmental laws or workers rights to compete against those that do isn't fair to the workers in EITHER country, and it just feeds the race to the bottom. I have already read where corps after poisoning China are now looking to Vietnam and Malasia to export the misery now that Chinese workers are getting fed up. When they leave the Chinese will have their own superfund sites like we have in the USA, and for what? Record profits for the CxOs of some multinational?
There can be NO FREE TRADE as long as it allows corps to export misery and pollution upon the workers of this planet. We need FAIR trade NOT free trade. All we are doing now is spreading misery, pollution, and suffering, to workers who get the choice of cancers and other diseases or not having food on the table. What kind of choice is that?
Actually its quite simple: While the big name plays don't affect the overall outcome of the game what they DO affect is how many butts are in the seats, and since it all comes down to making $$$ that is why they get the big bucks, because they draw more people and thus make more money for the owners. See? Simple.
You know what I find hilarious? The fact that Linux guys as a group are fricking obsessed with getting "the big bad MSFT" and completely missing the real enemy about to seriously hurt them. It reminds me of "Pirates of Silicon Valley" where Jobs was completely obsessed over IBM and Gates quietly snuck in and stomped his ass. It is like the sheep laughing at the old toothless tiger while leaning up against his bestest buddy the BB Wolf.
Who is the hidden enemy you might ask?:Let me put it this way: Notice anything...funny...about Android? Like the fact that there is not a spot of GPL V3 code to be found? Why do you think that is? I'll tell you, because thanks to "the TiVo trick" GPL V2 is about as worthless as can be. Hell you might as well release it all as BSD, because that is what's gonna happen anyway. That is why RMS had to come up with GPL V3 in the first place, because thanks to the TiVo trick the four freedoms mean squat as long as they stick with GPL V2, and Google hasn't touched a single drop of GPL V3.
So you might want to be looking closer at who is guarding the henhouse instead of caring about the old grudges. MSFT is the past, sure they'll keep the desktop and office but just like the mainframe was once the center of computing so too will the office PC end up with a niche that frankly doesn't really grow. PCs have gotten "good enough" for the vast majority and people don't just upgrade everytime MSFT does a new OS anymore. They are the past and mobile is the future and if you don't watch it Linux will end up winning the battle but losing the war. After all what good is Linux being everywhere if there is no more freedom than any proprietary OS thanks to the corps simply using GPL V2 and the TiVo trick?
As for TFA, just let them fricking die already. Hell it isn't even any fun making fun of them anymore, McBride has lost everything and the company is a corpse. It's like going to laugh at your asshole neighbor for old times sake now that he is sleeping in his car by the 7/11. Sure McBride was a douche and the company went from being an actual company with actual products (I kinda liked DR-DOS back in the day myself) to yet another worthless troll,but its over. Now more drama, no more McBride crazy talk, the fat lady is down the street having a sandwich. What's next/. gonna have an article when they sell the office furniture?
I think the problem is other countries are gonna look at us and realize we're full of shit. I watched Glenn Beck the other day and for the first time in history he said something I agree with, and amazingly his so called fellow conservatives were calling him all kinds of things for even daring to say it.
He said "Look at the people we have been supporting in the third world, does it match up in ANY way with the values we are supposedly for?" Sure we talk a good game about "freedom" and "rights" but then we hand out billions to scum like Mubarak in Egypt, the Shah, hell look back at the last 70 years and it has been one truly evil bastard after another being propped up with US dollars.
So I have to say I agree with the man, it is time for the US to be Switzerland. It is time for us to leave everyone else the hell alone and worry about our own country for once. He showed rioters in the streets shouting hate to America in Egypt, and can you blame them? He has been getting the second largest check from us in the middle east, and he is a vicious monster.
It is high time the USA just left everyone else the hell alone. We are ass deep in debt, we can't afford to be passing out billions anyway, and all we have done is prop up one dictator after another. If the Chinese want freedom there are a hell of a lot more of them than there are of us, let them work for it! It is not our job to be the world's policeman, the world's daddy, or the world's boss. Leave everyone else the hell alone and mind our own business. I can't believe I'm saying this but Glenn Beck was 110% right on this IMHO, just stop it.
Actually yes I do, especially for music. Imagine if you will a "copyright free zone" where anyone can take what they want and do with it what they will. I could get together with a friend and make cool "DOS on a disc" that would let you play all those classics for free simply by putting in the CD, artists would be able to sample and remix, new twists and ideas would spring up like daisy all over the place.
Because of this free bonanza the current media brokers would have to compete. No more of this "$20 a DVD, $15 a CD" and endless repackaging crap, they would instead have to compete on value by giving us MORE and better deals for our money..
I would argue the reason you see the latest releases on TPB is simply the penalty is the same if it is a 5 minute old movie or a 50 year old one, you'll get the same fines and court BS, so why shouldn't they take the latest and greatest? Will the *.A.As go "Oh, you were just getting classic, that's okay then" hell no, so why should they care?
The problem with that is they don't play by our rules and therefor the whole argument is bogus. Let me spell it out: FREE TRADE IS A LIE. It is a lie spread by multinationals that want to pollute, that want to pay shit wages, that want to dump toxins and leave superfund sites. Why in the hell would you think that is in any way, shape, or form a good thing?
Look at the air in China, look at the water in India? Are we doing them a favor by poisoning them? All this is doing is creating a "race to the bottom" using people's lives instead of products, and it is sickening. If it were free trade it would work both ways, hence the word "trade". But China and India don't buy from us, do they? Hell India is even building an entire aerospace industry from scratch, all to keep from depending on us for planes and arms. You see that is what is called "being nationalistic" which to hear the media is hunky dory for them and bad for us. Why?
Because in the end you and all the "free traders" are missing the elephant in the room: All we are doing is passing on misery by allowing companies to pay ever shittier wages and to depress markets than allow everyone to rise with demand. Is it any wonder our middle class is DOA? Should we tell the corps here to dump lead and mercury and other toxins in our water, just so we can compete? Maybe you should look at some stats about what has been happening in this country then maybe you'll see why this "race to the bottom" leaves everyone but the 1% at the top losers.
Actually I'd say mod the parent (and you) down, because you seem to miss the point that the *.A.As of this world want to have their cake and eat it too and you seem to think that is fine, which it is not. Here's an example:
According to the EULAs and the *.A.As you are NOT buying any copy, you are getting a license which is how they think they can get around Fair Use. Okay, I'll play. That means that since I bought a license that means I get a replacement when it gets torn up or broken, right? After all I already have a license! Oh no no no, that is when they say you bought a copy and know you have to buy it again!
BULLSHIT! total bullshit! Never in history have you been allowed to use licenses and physical objects in a "whichever way we feel today" change at will. It is either A OR B which have clear legal definitions based on them, not this BS where they get to claim the legal protections of both but the legal obligations of neither.
That of course don't even bring up the fact that they used treasonous bribery to make the clearly worded" by securing for limited Times clause of the constitution into "forever minus a single day" perversion of the law. The entire system has been allowed to be so corrupted that We, The People don't get a voice in the discussion, and until we do then copyrights should be treated as the shame that they are.
Never forget its original intent, now broken by bribery: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." It was supposed to be a TRADE, nothing more. In return for a LIMITED time to profit We, The People got a richer Public Domain which allowed us to "stand on the shoulders of giants" only now those shoulders are owned by the *.A.As, and this leads to stagnation and processed crap like we have now.
How anyone can support this sick joke is beyond me. It is a perversion of everything our Founding Fathers wrote on the subject.
You think CoD is bad, at least it has a little fun to be had. Pick up the MoH 10th anniversary and watch a series slowly die. It goes from good (MoH:AA and the expansions) to okay (MoH:Pa) to "OMG WTF!" with MoH:Airborne which actually had fricking slow mo power ups like something out of Painkiller. Man it is painful, and the AI makes Forrest Gump look like Albert Einstein.
As for TFA, it was the fricking bazillion and one controllers IMHO that did it in. When the controllers cost more than a system you are in trouble, and it got to the point my GF who loves to go to garage sales would point out the endless stacks of GH and RB controllers at every single yard sale she drug me to. That is when I knew it was toast.
Can this not be turned off? Because I can see my local cableco giving some poor Indian bastard a script that says 'To use our network please to be following the instructions I will be giving you". Personally I hope you're right but with Cox cable (boy does that name fit) on one side and AT&T AKA "we only care about wireless anymore" DSL on the other side the one thing I have learned is if there is a way to increase profits it WILL be done, period.
Sadly the same reason why my MS Office 2K is a nice light word processor and 2K7 is a little piggy, it is called feature creep. You see bug fixes aren't sexy and don't sell copies of software, whereas whiz bang new features do. Every year you have some PHB saying "Where's my new bullet point list of goodies to hand to the salesmen?" and you had damned well better have that bullet point done son!
Of course the fact that we have truly insane amounts of hardware don't help either. I remember during the days of Win 3.x if you would have put out a 10Mb+ reader that sucked memory like a drunk sucking whiskey your company would have been gone quicker than you can say DBase 4. But coding tightly written apps cost money and thanks to our ever going race to the bottom the answer is usually "Ehh just throw more (insert RAM, HDD, CPU) at it".
So we had just better get used to it, because to allow interoperability the FOSS guys have to jump on the bandwagon too, just compare OO.o 1.1 Vs the latest to see the bloat. Nobody writes slim tight code anymore, sadly it has gone the way of the floppy and the 486.
Where is that written? Who will enforce this "rule"? You seem to be forgetting the cardinal rule of ISP: Gouge baby gouge!. So what will most likely happen IRL is this: The ISPs to "prevent an IPV6 shortage" will give you a SINGLE address and then charge $5-$10 PER ADDRESS for more. Why shouldn't they? It is easy profits baby!
Then some Chinese manufacturer that don't give a shit about your rules will hack together an IPV6 NAT because he sees profits to be had. It will be a seriously hacked together POS, but because the bunch in charge of IPV6 were too high and mighty to even consider NAT we will end up with the kludge that WILL become the standard.
Never forget the first rule of big business: ALWAYS charge for everything you possibly can!!
Don't forget that they've recently grabbed domains that simply linked to where you can watch sports feeds, gotta protect the money those megacorps spent on the superbowl!
What is pathetic is how blatantly the federal arm is used as nothing but free attack dogs for the megacorps. Can't be spending their time and our taxpayer money actually trying to keep our country safe, heaven for fend, no we must insure that these multinational megacorps can enjoy their God given right to ever increasing profit margins! When you see crap like this and read information like how much we've lost thanks to kissing the corporate booty is it any wonder this country is falling on just about every scale you can find? Hell we've lost 42,000 factories in just the last decade!
I give it about another decade tops before the rich in this country get to re-enact the fall of Saigon. You simply can't print your way out of debt without becoming another Zimbabwe and pretty much the only thing keeping the peasants from following Egypt's example is the checks being passed out by the fed. You have an ever growing underclass with no jobs, no hope, and no future. With an ever growing underclass it won't take long before we get our own Lenin or little German to stir the underclasses into following Egypt, my guess is it will be right about the time those checks the fed keeps cranking out won't even buy a loaf of bread.
I like Yahoo Search. Sure it uses the Bing engine but the UI is MUCH better and that makes all the difference IMHO. For example the "more" tab. If you do an initial search in Yahoo you will find a "more" tab after that first search (it is the little blue button below the search box on the page) and there you will find a ton of "jumping off" points to help guide your search.
If you search for say "Dark Knight" you will find Heath Ledger, Christopher Nolan (found a really good interview with that one) etc, that really help your swing off the initial search. Google has a few similar at the bottom of their page, but it never seems as deep or as good as Yahoo's, and in UI position is everything and the Yahoo More lets me drill from the top of the search.
So I'd say give it a try, it isn't like it costs anything to give it a go. Funny thing is as someone who works on machines all day, you know what the #1 home and search page is for common folks? The plain Jane Yahoo portal. I swear that cluttered mess is the most popular BY FAR compared to anything else. The really weird part is watching people use it they will use the Yahoo search at the top to get to Google because they don't even realize that Yahoo Search is a search engine! All they know is their friends tell them to "Google something" so that is what they do. But you want to see a home user get pissy you change their home page away from Yahoo. For some reason they just love that fugly mess.
First of all to quote the million pedantics we have here "Linux is a kernel NOT an OS" and second, which fricking one? There are about a bazillion Linux based distros out there, and ANY one they choose will be considered shite by the Linux geeks: Ubuntu? kiddie newb OS according to the guys here.
And then of course is the elephant in the room: Linux is only used by geeks that actually know enough about an OS to work on it and therefor are more secure simply by having more knowledge and experience. It is like the different between an Air Force flight mechanic and the guy that works on airplanes at the backwoods airport, in that one always lives with a wrench in his hand and is constantly working on different things (just like the Linux geeks I know which try different distros like normal people try on clothes) and the other that knows just enough to be dangerous, like the average Windows or Mac user I have to clean up after.
But in the end it is companies like Google that care about this, and with them it all comes down to demographics. Linux users are more likely to use Chromium because they actually care (or even know) about privacy issues, and are likely to tweak everything they run. Windows and Mac users run defaults a good 99.995% of the time and THAT is what companies like Google want to find out: Will their defaults make it easy to hack or not. Linux simply brings nothing to this discussion,anymore than letting someone like me go into the Windows machine and set everything up beforehand so it would be less of a target.
I'd say the biggest mistake was not gas nor water, but in not stopping at a truck stop and talking to an experienced trucker beforehand. I've found the safest bet from getting to point B from point A without ending up in the middle of the damned sticks is to just talk to a long haul trucker that has been running them roads since before you were born.
They ain't gonna run down no shitty "bob's road" if there are any other roads available because it will beat the hell out of the rig, they know where the food and lodging is at, and in five minutes or less of walking into any truckstop you'll find an old hand that'll be happy to point out the easiest hassle free route on your map (and I've found especially with Google maps or Mapquest they'll be at least one "What the hell are they sending you down THAT road?" exclamation) and get you off to an easy run.
So even though I have access to the tech I've found the simplest ways are still the best, just a plain map and an experienced trucker with a marker. I've had to drive into some truly shitty backwoods middle of nowhere places and with the trucker method I've never been steered wrong, and even knew where the best food was at along the way!
What seems weird to me is that normally libertarian/. seems to be missing an angle on this story, and it is that it is the USERS data and NOT Google's so frankly it is none of their business. If I opt in to share my searches with MSFT, Yahoo, hell Dr Tongue's 3D house of searches, it is MY data and MY searches and I'll do what I please with it.
So I don't see what Google has a right to bitch about when it is the user that chose to share THEIR searches with Bing and that frankly isn't Google's no matter how much they like to treat user's data as their own property.
Exactly! What is the problem in giving parents more control over a child's game playing especially if the parents work. Though personally it would probably be easier to do through the hardware the household uses than coding it into every individual game. I mean who uses a "bare" connection without a router/firewall nowadays?
I have set up a ton of the things over the years for customers, from the cheapest bottom of the barrel models to the most expensive and frankly I can remember the last time I saw a router without basic filtering built right in. Even the bottom of the line Trendnet that is quite popular with my home consumers allows you to set specific times for connectivity per PC as well as blocking for specific IP addresses, so while I see nothing wrong with the Chinese trying to give more controls to parents it would have probably been easier and more cost effective to simply publish a list of how tos for the dozen or so most common routers along with pushing router manufacturers to place tutorials on their website to walk parents through it and finally a link or two to filtering software for those that are hooking bare.
And OT but when is/. gonna fix these stupid comment boxes?!?!? It is insane that on a widescreen monitor I have to squint while I type in this teeny tiny box that looks like it is designed for tweets more than anything else. I have noticed the number of comments per article going down and I have to wonder how many are like me and starting to get irritated at the stupid new layout and just not bothering. If they don't fix this mess soon I'm gonna have to find some other part of the net to lurk, because frankly these tiny boxes are giving me a headache. Fix the fricking code Slashdot!
I was frankly surprised when I read it that they decided to sue THIS particular review, as I was expecting the usual blogger crap (this sux ass LOL!) but instead it is frankly a very well written review. You can tell by reading it the guy has plenty of experience with this type of cuisine, doesn't make a big deal like others here over the chef's lack of presentation skills, and instead simply runs down the quality of the meal from dish to dish in a VERY professional and polite manner.
So from the looks of it the ONLY thing they would have to complain about is that it ultimately is a bad review, but that's their own fault for hiring bad chefs and using lower quality ingredients, isn't it?
Oh and as far as chicken goes it usually comes out chewy or rubbery if it is undercooked and tough as leather when overcooked. That is why I tend to stay away from chicken when trying a new restaurant unless the chicken has been recommended before hand, as it is hard for a place to get chicken "just right". It is one of those things like really good BBQ that it takes a good chef with plenty of experience to bring out the texture and flavor without either overwhelming it with spices or ruining the meat by bad preparation. When done right both chicken and BBQ are incredible, but when done wrong they are frankly awful.
Hi Peach Rings! You don't know what it does? Well allow me to elucidate!
When you choose to make a restore point Windows first makes a backup of the registry (which is what takes a few seconds when you first choose to make a point) it then monitors the file system during software installations (which have to conform to standard conventions which is why if you want a particular installation monitored you should change the name to "setup.exe" in case they use a funky installer) and uses Volume Shadow Copy to make backups of any file the installer alters or replaces. Then if you choose to use system restore it replaces any alterations in the registry or file system with the backups, and voila! System Restore.
But this is why when you do a system restore you may find an empty folder of the original program name in/user name/programs, because system restore is monitoring for changes in the Windows and Users settings but doesn't care about simply making a new folder in programs. As I said I wouldn't recommend these instead of backups, and if you want an even more robust system (especially on WinXP) I would use Comodo Time Machine which provides a boot up recovery option AND seems to catch any and all alterations done by installers better than System Restore (and it uses VERY little resources to boot) but for a built in recovery and undo button system restore works and works quite well.
Not to mention there is more than just Chrome which shows up AS Chrome so that will skew the results if you strictly go by net stats as well. For example just off the top of my head there is Chromium and Comodo Dragon and IIRC both of those show up as Chrome under UA, and I'm sure there are probably other Chromium based that also show up as Chrome under UA. Does Flock show up as Chrome as well?
Me personally I am just damned glad we have plenty of choices now, screw the whole "who has the biggest" ePeen BS. I remember when you had the "choices" of Internet Exploiter on one hand and Nutscrape on the other, which was kinda like saying "Would you rather be punched or kicked in the balls?" as having choices in the matter. Now we have Gecko based- Firefox, Seamonkey, Kmeleon, you have webkit based Chrome/Chromium, SWIron, Comodo Dragon, Flock, Safari, and you even have trident based like Maxthon and Avant, and of course Opera all by itself running Presto.
So I am just glad we have a wealth of choices, so that when one company screws the pooch when it comes to the browser we are not stuck with a choice of that or IE. As far as IE goes I think this picture sums it up best.
I believe I have the perfect MSFT logo: A picture of Ballmer with his tongue out wearing a beanie that says "I heart Apple" since his rein has been a whole bunch of "me too" plays such as Zune and it would be certainly more topical than the Gates borg.
I mean you can just picture the guy at meetings going "And with this next product we will make MSFT just as cool and hip as Apple with consumers! Yes we will! We will! STOP LAUGHING AT ME!!!"
Not only that but they don't have a leg to stand on as it is laid out as a standard critique. He points out when it is his own tastes (preferring a stronger sauce for instance) vs when it is just badly prepared (chicken was chewy) or bad ingredients (vegetables left bad aftertaste).
So frankly unless reviews aren't allowed in Kuwait they don't have a prayer. The review was polite, pointed out where they had done well as well as where they failed, it was about as professional a restaurant review as one would expect from any experienced restaurant critic. After reading it the only thing they'll be able to claim is they don't like the public knowing their food sucks, but that is kinda the whole point of reviews isn't it? To find out what sucks and what is good before laying down your money?
While this is true, you'll never see tubes completely die, neither will you see reel to reel tape, for one VERY important reason: Music. Tubes amps and analog tapes give a nice musical freq response we so far haven't been able to completely replicate with solid state. I have heard a few that sounded close, especially on acoustics, but so far no dice.
I have a little studio setup and having a tube preamp is definitely a must to "warm up" the digital recordings. I have also started hitting pawn shops and yard sales to pick up early solid state as I'm finding those early germanium chips and single use devices were also more musical IMHO than the new DSPs. I picked up an old high end reverb tank and the difference in tone between it and those DSP chips especially on vocals and drum tracks is huge, so I'm sure just like you can still get reel to reel multitrack tape you'll be able to get tubes for quite a long while yet.
Personally I would have said ISA card PCs a few years back, but now that I have run into a couple of industrial machines that run on the things I wouldn't be surprised if ISA card PCs are still being built for controllers for these expensive automated industrial machines. Maybe the guy is right and once invented tech just doesn't really completely die out?
It just goes to show you how rabid the blind hate and fanboyism is here on Slashdot. I mean when you point out the entire OS is fitted onto a 16Mb flash and hardwired to ONLY run a single app and connect to a single address and they STILL think it "is a security risk"?
I'd sure as hell hate to have these guys work on anything at any of my SMBs as they are probably the type that thinks you can just slap any Linux or Mac on the net with no firewall or anything because "its not Windows and is safe from viruses" or some such rot. Shame we have so many here that don't seem to understand basics like it is impossible to infect files that don't exist or to do a malware driveby when it only goes to a single address on a corporate network. Just ridiculous.
But as someone who actually built a couple of boxes using embedded Win98 it is actually VERY nice. I was able to use a fanless SFF 200MHz P1 with 32Mb of RAM as a frontend for a VB6 GUI that hooked into a DB at the main office. It was incredibly quiet, instant on thanks to the compact flash card replacing the HDD, only used a max 18w of power, could run in an un-air conditioned warehouse, and thanks to embedded Win98 I could just use the off the shelf drivers for the box.
For devices such as kiosks, warehouse PCs, etc it actually works quite well and allows you to use really cheap throw away hardware to make really tough industrial PCs.
Why is that? We are talking about an embedded OS not some desktop where you could surf with the thing. Most likely you would simply have a VPN connection to the main server to say process CC info for a purchase. And don't forget we are not talking vanilla Win9X but a stripped down version with only enough files/features to run the single app you are using it for.
So I think you and the rest of the guys here are looking at it the wrong way. You can't judge this by running vanilla win9X on the net because the thing would only go to a single address and perform a single function so you would have to physically hack the machine or break into the corporate network from the other side, no different than any other kiosk.
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And notice I got labeled flamebiat for daring to point this out? The amount of brainwashing by the MSM is frankly horrifying when it comes to outsourcing. Choosing the best person for the job isn't the problem, the problem is a race to the bottom where we just export misery upon the third world.
That is why I say they only fair and decent thing to do is replace free trade with FAIR trade. Allowing those that have no environmental laws or workers rights to compete against those that do isn't fair to the workers in EITHER country, and it just feeds the race to the bottom. I have already read where corps after poisoning China are now looking to Vietnam and Malasia to export the misery now that Chinese workers are getting fed up. When they leave the Chinese will have their own superfund sites like we have in the USA, and for what? Record profits for the CxOs of some multinational?
There can be NO FREE TRADE as long as it allows corps to export misery and pollution upon the workers of this planet. We need FAIR trade NOT free trade. All we are doing now is spreading misery, pollution, and suffering, to workers who get the choice of cancers and other diseases or not having food on the table. What kind of choice is that?
Actually its quite simple: While the big name plays don't affect the overall outcome of the game what they DO affect is how many butts are in the seats, and since it all comes down to making $$$ that is why they get the big bucks, because they draw more people and thus make more money for the owners. See? Simple.
You know what I find hilarious? The fact that Linux guys as a group are fricking obsessed with getting "the big bad MSFT" and completely missing the real enemy about to seriously hurt them. It reminds me of "Pirates of Silicon Valley" where Jobs was completely obsessed over IBM and Gates quietly snuck in and stomped his ass. It is like the sheep laughing at the old toothless tiger while leaning up against his bestest buddy the BB Wolf.
Who is the hidden enemy you might ask? :Let me put it this way: Notice anything...funny...about Android? Like the fact that there is not a spot of GPL V3 code to be found? Why do you think that is? I'll tell you, because thanks to "the TiVo trick" GPL V2 is about as worthless as can be. Hell you might as well release it all as BSD, because that is what's gonna happen anyway. That is why RMS had to come up with GPL V3 in the first place, because thanks to the TiVo trick the four freedoms mean squat as long as they stick with GPL V2, and Google hasn't touched a single drop of GPL V3.
So you might want to be looking closer at who is guarding the henhouse instead of caring about the old grudges. MSFT is the past, sure they'll keep the desktop and office but just like the mainframe was once the center of computing so too will the office PC end up with a niche that frankly doesn't really grow. PCs have gotten "good enough" for the vast majority and people don't just upgrade everytime MSFT does a new OS anymore. They are the past and mobile is the future and if you don't watch it Linux will end up winning the battle but losing the war. After all what good is Linux being everywhere if there is no more freedom than any proprietary OS thanks to the corps simply using GPL V2 and the TiVo trick?
As for TFA, just let them fricking die already. Hell it isn't even any fun making fun of them anymore, McBride has lost everything and the company is a corpse. It's like going to laugh at your asshole neighbor for old times sake now that he is sleeping in his car by the 7/11. Sure McBride was a douche and the company went from being an actual company with actual products (I kinda liked DR-DOS back in the day myself) to yet another worthless troll,but its over. Now more drama, no more McBride crazy talk, the fat lady is down the street having a sandwich. What's next /. gonna have an article when they sell the office furniture?
I think the problem is other countries are gonna look at us and realize we're full of shit. I watched Glenn Beck the other day and for the first time in history he said something I agree with, and amazingly his so called fellow conservatives were calling him all kinds of things for even daring to say it.
He said "Look at the people we have been supporting in the third world, does it match up in ANY way with the values we are supposedly for?" Sure we talk a good game about "freedom" and "rights" but then we hand out billions to scum like Mubarak in Egypt, the Shah, hell look back at the last 70 years and it has been one truly evil bastard after another being propped up with US dollars.
So I have to say I agree with the man, it is time for the US to be Switzerland. It is time for us to leave everyone else the hell alone and worry about our own country for once. He showed rioters in the streets shouting hate to America in Egypt, and can you blame them? He has been getting the second largest check from us in the middle east, and he is a vicious monster.
It is high time the USA just left everyone else the hell alone. We are ass deep in debt, we can't afford to be passing out billions anyway, and all we have done is prop up one dictator after another. If the Chinese want freedom there are a hell of a lot more of them than there are of us, let them work for it! It is not our job to be the world's policeman, the world's daddy, or the world's boss. Leave everyone else the hell alone and mind our own business. I can't believe I'm saying this but Glenn Beck was 110% right on this IMHO, just stop it.
Actually yes I do, especially for music. Imagine if you will a "copyright free zone" where anyone can take what they want and do with it what they will. I could get together with a friend and make cool "DOS on a disc" that would let you play all those classics for free simply by putting in the CD, artists would be able to sample and remix, new twists and ideas would spring up like daisy all over the place.
Because of this free bonanza the current media brokers would have to compete. No more of this "$20 a DVD, $15 a CD" and endless repackaging crap, they would instead have to compete on value by giving us MORE and better deals for our money..
I would argue the reason you see the latest releases on TPB is simply the penalty is the same if it is a 5 minute old movie or a 50 year old one, you'll get the same fines and court BS, so why shouldn't they take the latest and greatest? Will the *.A.As go "Oh, you were just getting classic, that's okay then" hell no, so why should they care?
The problem with that is they don't play by our rules and therefor the whole argument is bogus. Let me spell it out: FREE TRADE IS A LIE. It is a lie spread by multinationals that want to pollute, that want to pay shit wages, that want to dump toxins and leave superfund sites. Why in the hell would you think that is in any way, shape, or form a good thing?
Look at the air in China, look at the water in India? Are we doing them a favor by poisoning them? All this is doing is creating a "race to the bottom" using people's lives instead of products, and it is sickening. If it were free trade it would work both ways, hence the word "trade". But China and India don't buy from us, do they? Hell India is even building an entire aerospace industry from scratch, all to keep from depending on us for planes and arms. You see that is what is called "being nationalistic" which to hear the media is hunky dory for them and bad for us. Why?
Because in the end you and all the "free traders" are missing the elephant in the room: All we are doing is passing on misery by allowing companies to pay ever shittier wages and to depress markets than allow everyone to rise with demand. Is it any wonder our middle class is DOA? Should we tell the corps here to dump lead and mercury and other toxins in our water, just so we can compete? Maybe you should look at some stats about what has been happening in this country then maybe you'll see why this "race to the bottom" leaves everyone but the 1% at the top losers.
Actually I'd say mod the parent (and you) down, because you seem to miss the point that the *.A.As of this world want to have their cake and eat it too and you seem to think that is fine, which it is not. Here's an example:
According to the EULAs and the *.A.As you are NOT buying any copy, you are getting a license which is how they think they can get around Fair Use. Okay, I'll play. That means that since I bought a license that means I get a replacement when it gets torn up or broken, right? After all I already have a license! Oh no no no, that is when they say you bought a copy and know you have to buy it again!
BULLSHIT! total bullshit! Never in history have you been allowed to use licenses and physical objects in a "whichever way we feel today" change at will. It is either A OR B which have clear legal definitions based on them, not this BS where they get to claim the legal protections of both but the legal obligations of neither.
That of course don't even bring up the fact that they used treasonous bribery to make the clearly worded" by securing for limited Times clause of the constitution into "forever minus a single day" perversion of the law. The entire system has been allowed to be so corrupted that We, The People don't get a voice in the discussion, and until we do then copyrights should be treated as the shame that they are.
Never forget its original intent, now broken by bribery: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." It was supposed to be a TRADE, nothing more. In return for a LIMITED time to profit We, The People got a richer Public Domain which allowed us to "stand on the shoulders of giants" only now those shoulders are owned by the *.A.As, and this leads to stagnation and processed crap like we have now.
How anyone can support this sick joke is beyond me. It is a perversion of everything our Founding Fathers wrote on the subject.
You think CoD is bad, at least it has a little fun to be had. Pick up the MoH 10th anniversary and watch a series slowly die. It goes from good (MoH:AA and the expansions) to okay (MoH:Pa) to "OMG WTF!" with MoH:Airborne which actually had fricking slow mo power ups like something out of Painkiller. Man it is painful, and the AI makes Forrest Gump look like Albert Einstein.
As for TFA, it was the fricking bazillion and one controllers IMHO that did it in. When the controllers cost more than a system you are in trouble, and it got to the point my GF who loves to go to garage sales would point out the endless stacks of GH and RB controllers at every single yard sale she drug me to. That is when I knew it was toast.
Can this not be turned off? Because I can see my local cableco giving some poor Indian bastard a script that says 'To use our network please to be following the instructions I will be giving you". Personally I hope you're right but with Cox cable (boy does that name fit) on one side and AT&T AKA "we only care about wireless anymore" DSL on the other side the one thing I have learned is if there is a way to increase profits it WILL be done, period.
Sadly the same reason why my MS Office 2K is a nice light word processor and 2K7 is a little piggy, it is called feature creep. You see bug fixes aren't sexy and don't sell copies of software, whereas whiz bang new features do. Every year you have some PHB saying "Where's my new bullet point list of goodies to hand to the salesmen?" and you had damned well better have that bullet point done son!
Of course the fact that we have truly insane amounts of hardware don't help either. I remember during the days of Win 3.x if you would have put out a 10Mb+ reader that sucked memory like a drunk sucking whiskey your company would have been gone quicker than you can say DBase 4. But coding tightly written apps cost money and thanks to our ever going race to the bottom the answer is usually "Ehh just throw more (insert RAM, HDD, CPU) at it".
So we had just better get used to it, because to allow interoperability the FOSS guys have to jump on the bandwagon too, just compare OO.o 1.1 Vs the latest to see the bloat. Nobody writes slim tight code anymore, sadly it has gone the way of the floppy and the 486.
Where is that written? Who will enforce this "rule"? You seem to be forgetting the cardinal rule of ISP: Gouge baby gouge!. So what will most likely happen IRL is this: The ISPs to "prevent an IPV6 shortage" will give you a SINGLE address and then charge $5-$10 PER ADDRESS for more. Why shouldn't they? It is easy profits baby!
Then some Chinese manufacturer that don't give a shit about your rules will hack together an IPV6 NAT because he sees profits to be had. It will be a seriously hacked together POS, but because the bunch in charge of IPV6 were too high and mighty to even consider NAT we will end up with the kludge that WILL become the standard.
Never forget the first rule of big business: ALWAYS charge for everything you possibly can!!
Don't forget that they've recently grabbed domains that simply linked to where you can watch sports feeds, gotta protect the money those megacorps spent on the superbowl!
What is pathetic is how blatantly the federal arm is used as nothing but free attack dogs for the megacorps. Can't be spending their time and our taxpayer money actually trying to keep our country safe, heaven for fend, no we must insure that these multinational megacorps can enjoy their God given right to ever increasing profit margins! When you see crap like this and read information like how much we've lost thanks to kissing the corporate booty is it any wonder this country is falling on just about every scale you can find? Hell we've lost 42,000 factories in just the last decade!
I give it about another decade tops before the rich in this country get to re-enact the fall of Saigon. You simply can't print your way out of debt without becoming another Zimbabwe and pretty much the only thing keeping the peasants from following Egypt's example is the checks being passed out by the fed. You have an ever growing underclass with no jobs, no hope, and no future. With an ever growing underclass it won't take long before we get our own Lenin or little German to stir the underclasses into following Egypt, my guess is it will be right about the time those checks the fed keeps cranking out won't even buy a loaf of bread.
I like Yahoo Search. Sure it uses the Bing engine but the UI is MUCH better and that makes all the difference IMHO. For example the "more" tab. If you do an initial search in Yahoo you will find a "more" tab after that first search (it is the little blue button below the search box on the page) and there you will find a ton of "jumping off" points to help guide your search.
If you search for say "Dark Knight" you will find Heath Ledger, Christopher Nolan (found a really good interview with that one) etc, that really help your swing off the initial search. Google has a few similar at the bottom of their page, but it never seems as deep or as good as Yahoo's, and in UI position is everything and the Yahoo More lets me drill from the top of the search.
So I'd say give it a try, it isn't like it costs anything to give it a go. Funny thing is as someone who works on machines all day, you know what the #1 home and search page is for common folks? The plain Jane Yahoo portal. I swear that cluttered mess is the most popular BY FAR compared to anything else. The really weird part is watching people use it they will use the Yahoo search at the top to get to Google because they don't even realize that Yahoo Search is a search engine! All they know is their friends tell them to "Google something" so that is what they do. But you want to see a home user get pissy you change their home page away from Yahoo. For some reason they just love that fugly mess.
First of all to quote the million pedantics we have here "Linux is a kernel NOT an OS" and second, which fricking one? There are about a bazillion Linux based distros out there, and ANY one they choose will be considered shite by the Linux geeks: Ubuntu? kiddie newb OS according to the guys here.
And then of course is the elephant in the room: Linux is only used by geeks that actually know enough about an OS to work on it and therefor are more secure simply by having more knowledge and experience. It is like the different between an Air Force flight mechanic and the guy that works on airplanes at the backwoods airport, in that one always lives with a wrench in his hand and is constantly working on different things (just like the Linux geeks I know which try different distros like normal people try on clothes) and the other that knows just enough to be dangerous, like the average Windows or Mac user I have to clean up after.
But in the end it is companies like Google that care about this, and with them it all comes down to demographics. Linux users are more likely to use Chromium because they actually care (or even know) about privacy issues, and are likely to tweak everything they run. Windows and Mac users run defaults a good 99.995% of the time and THAT is what companies like Google want to find out: Will their defaults make it easy to hack or not. Linux simply brings nothing to this discussion,anymore than letting someone like me go into the Windows machine and set everything up beforehand so it would be less of a target.
I'd say the biggest mistake was not gas nor water, but in not stopping at a truck stop and talking to an experienced trucker beforehand. I've found the safest bet from getting to point B from point A without ending up in the middle of the damned sticks is to just talk to a long haul trucker that has been running them roads since before you were born.
They ain't gonna run down no shitty "bob's road" if there are any other roads available because it will beat the hell out of the rig, they know where the food and lodging is at, and in five minutes or less of walking into any truckstop you'll find an old hand that'll be happy to point out the easiest hassle free route on your map (and I've found especially with Google maps or Mapquest they'll be at least one "What the hell are they sending you down THAT road?" exclamation) and get you off to an easy run.
So even though I have access to the tech I've found the simplest ways are still the best, just a plain map and an experienced trucker with a marker. I've had to drive into some truly shitty backwoods middle of nowhere places and with the trucker method I've never been steered wrong, and even knew where the best food was at along the way!
What seems weird to me is that normally libertarian /. seems to be missing an angle on this story, and it is that it is the USERS data and NOT Google's so frankly it is none of their business. If I opt in to share my searches with MSFT, Yahoo, hell Dr Tongue's 3D house of searches, it is MY data and MY searches and I'll do what I please with it.
So I don't see what Google has a right to bitch about when it is the user that chose to share THEIR searches with Bing and that frankly isn't Google's no matter how much they like to treat user's data as their own property.
Exactly! What is the problem in giving parents more control over a child's game playing especially if the parents work. Though personally it would probably be easier to do through the hardware the household uses than coding it into every individual game. I mean who uses a "bare" connection without a router/firewall nowadays?
I have set up a ton of the things over the years for customers, from the cheapest bottom of the barrel models to the most expensive and frankly I can remember the last time I saw a router without basic filtering built right in. Even the bottom of the line Trendnet that is quite popular with my home consumers allows you to set specific times for connectivity per PC as well as blocking for specific IP addresses, so while I see nothing wrong with the Chinese trying to give more controls to parents it would have probably been easier and more cost effective to simply publish a list of how tos for the dozen or so most common routers along with pushing router manufacturers to place tutorials on their website to walk parents through it and finally a link or two to filtering software for those that are hooking bare.
And OT but when is /. gonna fix these stupid comment boxes?!?!? It is insane that on a widescreen monitor I have to squint while I type in this teeny tiny box that looks like it is designed for tweets more than anything else. I have noticed the number of comments per article going down and I have to wonder how many are like me and starting to get irritated at the stupid new layout and just not bothering. If they don't fix this mess soon I'm gonna have to find some other part of the net to lurk, because frankly these tiny boxes are giving me a headache. Fix the fricking code Slashdot!
I was frankly surprised when I read it that they decided to sue THIS particular review, as I was expecting the usual blogger crap (this sux ass LOL!) but instead it is frankly a very well written review. You can tell by reading it the guy has plenty of experience with this type of cuisine, doesn't make a big deal like others here over the chef's lack of presentation skills, and instead simply runs down the quality of the meal from dish to dish in a VERY professional and polite manner. So from the looks of it the ONLY thing they would have to complain about is that it ultimately is a bad review, but that's their own fault for hiring bad chefs and using lower quality ingredients, isn't it?
Oh and as far as chicken goes it usually comes out chewy or rubbery if it is undercooked and tough as leather when overcooked. That is why I tend to stay away from chicken when trying a new restaurant unless the chicken has been recommended before hand, as it is hard for a place to get chicken "just right". It is one of those things like really good BBQ that it takes a good chef with plenty of experience to bring out the texture and flavor without either overwhelming it with spices or ruining the meat by bad preparation. When done right both chicken and BBQ are incredible, but when done wrong they are frankly awful.
Hi Peach Rings! You don't know what it does? Well allow me to elucidate!
When you choose to make a restore point Windows first makes a backup of the registry (which is what takes a few seconds when you first choose to make a point) it then monitors the file system during software installations (which have to conform to standard conventions which is why if you want a particular installation monitored you should change the name to "setup.exe" in case they use a funky installer) and uses Volume Shadow Copy to make backups of any file the installer alters or replaces. Then if you choose to use system restore it replaces any alterations in the registry or file system with the backups, and voila! System Restore.
But this is why when you do a system restore you may find an empty folder of the original program name in /user name/programs, because system restore is monitoring for changes in the Windows and Users settings but doesn't care about simply making a new folder in programs. As I said I wouldn't recommend these instead of backups, and if you want an even more robust system (especially on WinXP) I would use Comodo Time Machine which provides a boot up recovery option AND seems to catch any and all alterations done by installers better than System Restore (and it uses VERY little resources to boot) but for a built in recovery and undo button system restore works and works quite well.
Not to mention there is more than just Chrome which shows up AS Chrome so that will skew the results if you strictly go by net stats as well. For example just off the top of my head there is Chromium and Comodo Dragon and IIRC both of those show up as Chrome under UA, and I'm sure there are probably other Chromium based that also show up as Chrome under UA. Does Flock show up as Chrome as well?
Me personally I am just damned glad we have plenty of choices now, screw the whole "who has the biggest" ePeen BS. I remember when you had the "choices" of Internet Exploiter on one hand and Nutscrape on the other, which was kinda like saying "Would you rather be punched or kicked in the balls?" as having choices in the matter. Now we have Gecko based- Firefox, Seamonkey, Kmeleon, you have webkit based Chrome/Chromium, SWIron, Comodo Dragon, Flock, Safari, and you even have trident based like Maxthon and Avant, and of course Opera all by itself running Presto.
So I am just glad we have a wealth of choices, so that when one company screws the pooch when it comes to the browser we are not stuck with a choice of that or IE. As far as IE goes I think this picture sums it up best.
I believe I have the perfect MSFT logo: A picture of Ballmer with his tongue out wearing a beanie that says "I heart Apple" since his rein has been a whole bunch of "me too" plays such as Zune and it would be certainly more topical than the Gates borg.
I mean you can just picture the guy at meetings going "And with this next product we will make MSFT just as cool and hip as Apple with consumers! Yes we will! We will! STOP LAUGHING AT ME!!!"
Not only that but they don't have a leg to stand on as it is laid out as a standard critique. He points out when it is his own tastes (preferring a stronger sauce for instance) vs when it is just badly prepared (chicken was chewy) or bad ingredients (vegetables left bad aftertaste) .
So frankly unless reviews aren't allowed in Kuwait they don't have a prayer. The review was polite, pointed out where they had done well as well as where they failed, it was about as professional a restaurant review as one would expect from any experienced restaurant critic. After reading it the only thing they'll be able to claim is they don't like the public knowing their food sucks, but that is kinda the whole point of reviews isn't it? To find out what sucks and what is good before laying down your money?
While this is true, you'll never see tubes completely die, neither will you see reel to reel tape, for one VERY important reason: Music. Tubes amps and analog tapes give a nice musical freq response we so far haven't been able to completely replicate with solid state. I have heard a few that sounded close, especially on acoustics, but so far no dice.
I have a little studio setup and having a tube preamp is definitely a must to "warm up" the digital recordings. I have also started hitting pawn shops and yard sales to pick up early solid state as I'm finding those early germanium chips and single use devices were also more musical IMHO than the new DSPs. I picked up an old high end reverb tank and the difference in tone between it and those DSP chips especially on vocals and drum tracks is huge, so I'm sure just like you can still get reel to reel multitrack tape you'll be able to get tubes for quite a long while yet.
Personally I would have said ISA card PCs a few years back, but now that I have run into a couple of industrial machines that run on the things I wouldn't be surprised if ISA card PCs are still being built for controllers for these expensive automated industrial machines. Maybe the guy is right and once invented tech just doesn't really completely die out?
It just goes to show you how rabid the blind hate and fanboyism is here on Slashdot. I mean when you point out the entire OS is fitted onto a 16Mb flash and hardwired to ONLY run a single app and connect to a single address and they STILL think it "is a security risk"?
I'd sure as hell hate to have these guys work on anything at any of my SMBs as they are probably the type that thinks you can just slap any Linux or Mac on the net with no firewall or anything because "its not Windows and is safe from viruses" or some such rot. Shame we have so many here that don't seem to understand basics like it is impossible to infect files that don't exist or to do a malware driveby when it only goes to a single address on a corporate network. Just ridiculous.
But as someone who actually built a couple of boxes using embedded Win98 it is actually VERY nice. I was able to use a fanless SFF 200MHz P1 with 32Mb of RAM as a frontend for a VB6 GUI that hooked into a DB at the main office. It was incredibly quiet, instant on thanks to the compact flash card replacing the HDD, only used a max 18w of power, could run in an un-air conditioned warehouse, and thanks to embedded Win98 I could just use the off the shelf drivers for the box.
For devices such as kiosks, warehouse PCs, etc it actually works quite well and allows you to use really cheap throw away hardware to make really tough industrial PCs.
Why is that? We are talking about an embedded OS not some desktop where you could surf with the thing. Most likely you would simply have a VPN connection to the main server to say process CC info for a purchase. And don't forget we are not talking vanilla Win9X but a stripped down version with only enough files/features to run the single app you are using it for.
So I think you and the rest of the guys here are looking at it the wrong way. You can't judge this by running vanilla win9X on the net because the thing would only go to a single address and perform a single function so you would have to physically hack the machine or break into the corporate network from the other side, no different than any other kiosk.