So Wal-Mart will glady sell me a pump shotgun, ammo, and a bandoleer strap, everything needed for a killing spree, but they won't sell me a video game with titties in it?
Christian America has some very, very fucked up priorities.
"...you'll be shelling out your cash for a new spiffy Mac w/ a 64-bit processor,..."
Given the rather ludicrous cost of Apple computers compared to X86, I won't ever be shelling out for another Apple. I got suckered into it once, from now on I am 100% cheap X86 whitebox.
"Critics -- notably Intel -- argue that most desktop users have no need for 64-bit processing. " Anyone trying to surf the web with OS X's ungodly slow 2D graphics processing certainly needs all the power he can get!
Having amazed everyone by creating a sensible, usable Linux desktop environment for the masses, Lindows will clean up the internals of the OS. Installs and post-install configuration will start getting better and better. Sales of pre-loaded Lindows boxes will spread out of the Wal-Mart niche, and the Linux desktop revolution will gain serious steam.
Red Hat will continue their work integrating KDE/Gnome into a single usuable desktop, spurred on by the growing praise for Lindows. Mandrake, currently the king of the desktop Linux world, will go full steam ahead on matching the desktop work that Lindows and Red Hat are doing, throwing another vendor's hat into the make-the-linux-desktop-not-suck ring.
Sun Microsystems will move into the desktop market, giving a familiar hardware name to Linux desktops, making it eaiser for IT staff to bring Linux PCs into their networks. HPQ will do the same, and Dell will rejoin the Linux desktop world to keep up.
Apple will be keeping an eye on this, and keep refining OS X. OS X will gain popularity with the computer users who favor minimal administration. Mac users will learn the value of Open/Free software, and communication between the Mac/Linux world will grow.
Microsoft will sit in the background, watching the TCO of Windows rise and the TCO of Linux drop, and the path for Linux domination will be ready for the world to walk down.
of what NOT to do. I spent my teenage years watching GenXers bury themselves in college loans, car loans on BMWs, ludicrous mortgates, etc..
Unsure what to do with my own future, I made a big point of not following in their footsteps. Rather than sink into debt for an unsure future, I left college and went to work. I eschewed credit cards and bought a cheap Honda. Now I am happy in a great job, making a great salary, and paying my way through school without loans, working toward a goal that I understand.
None of this really would have happened had Generation X not fallen on their faces. Their unguided life choices and foolish financial habits left a legacy of how to NOT handle life as a twentysomething in a wildly successful capitalist society, and by doing the opposite I and many others have been able to enjoy our lives by understanding the dangers that exist in modern America.
Patent it for the financial potential. People in other countries (And probably your own.) will release open-source knockoffs that start with "Gnu," "K," and "G" anyway, and eventually will find a workaround or prior art somewhere.
What we really need is a technology protection amendment to the US Constitution that prevents a technology from being outlawed just because it can also be applied illegally.
As long as we keep trying to fight the problem with individual laws, corporations will respond by throwing more money at the problem than we can, eventually overwhelming us by buying out all everyone working on Capitol Hill. By striking preemptively with an amendment to clearly protect all technology, we can shut the corporations down before they mobilize at a level we cannot handle.
Following is WorldCom's maintenance announcement about today's work, which I recieved because WorldCom is my company's broadband ISP.
During the Normal operations window on Oct 3, 2002 WorldCom will be performing the following scheduled maintenance activities.
This activity is scheduled to take place from 3:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.
(local hub time) in the contiguous US and elsewhere from 3:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. (local hub time) and may affect your connectivity. The following customer ID will be impacted: XXXXXXXXX.
If you have any questions, please contact our local Customer Network Support Center. Please reference the internal ticket number 645346.
WorldCom United States 1-800-900-0241 (select the following options in order: 2, then 4, then 1) WorldCom Denmark (45) 80.30.50.50 WorldCom Italy (39) 02.3600.1887 WorldCom Sweden (46) 8.750.88.50 WorldCom Switzerland (41) 1.580.86.11
I was more preferring to people pretending that their imagined ideas are correct. For example, the same church that came up with: - Bathing is bad. - The world is flat. - The universe revolves around the Earth.
Now presents that the theory of evolution cannot be true because it does not fit into their view of things... Lame.
What Red Hat is doing is a great example of open source in action. Rather than release yet another Linux distribution that screws users by trying to make KDE and Gnome both work as intended by the two UI teams, Red Hat has taken what they fell is the best of both worlds and made it into something user-friendly. Hopefully Red Hat will also have the sense to strip apps of silly, nondescriptive names as well, and we can have a major desktop Linux distro that grandma can use.
For the people who think Red Hat is crippling KDE, or Gnome, or whatever, deal with it the simple way- just download the official releases yourself.
I would really appreciate it if the Slashdot crew and link submitters would note the license that software is placed under when said software is released as open source. Anyone else agree?
This is one of the things that bugs me about science; scientists who work to prove a theory instead of testing a theory. Pressure from society, government, employers, and often arrogance gives us scientists who sacrifice the truth to validate their ideas, knowing that somewhere down the line the falsehood will be discovered.
I guess things like this just show that science and religion are not so different as some would think.
OpenOffice 1.0 on Windows is excellent. It is not perfect, but it does not crash nearly as much as Office XP does, and StarCalc can be like crack to spreadsheet users.
Do NOT run OS X on an ibook. ibook G3 CPUs are not fast enough to run OS X at a usable speed when doing anything that shows off a lot of 2D stuff (A few days ago I wrote a simple C++ program that finds prime numbers and displays them in real-time, and the terminal updates were using almost as many CPU cycles as the number generator was.). Java is also very slow on the G3 ibooks. Other ibook issues include:
- DVD/CD-Rom flakiness on OS X (The DVD/CD drive doesn't always recognize a CD after the disc has been in a while. - Power management problems. OS X does not always wake up after the ibook has been closed/opened. - CPU heat. The G3 CPUs in ibooks put out enough heat to be very uncomfortable when in one's lap.
We are supporting Microsoft! We are supporting Linux! We are going to move forward with HP-UX and Tru-64! Compaq hardware will keep on truckin! We love AMD and Hammer! We love intel and Itanium!
We will say anything to try and keep our stockholders from noticing that we made a former Lucent exec our CEO and are letting her run one of the most wacked-out mergers ever seen!
In my experience (Given I have only been using Mozilla for about 2.5 years now.) Navigator installed alone is fast and stable, as soon as composer/mail/etc.. are tossed in Mozilla starts running slowly and crashing. This has become much better over time, and I have not bothered keeping a plain navigator install around since 1.0, but it is food for thought...
I live in Reston Virginia, and my cable is managed by Comcast. Cablemodem users here pay ~60 USD (After taxes!) for service that also includes basic cable. Service is excellent, and transfer speeds really do live up to promises. For those of you in areas where the local cable company is screwing you, I suggest you have your community leaders look at dumping your current local monopoly provider in favor of the pricing model we have here.
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So Wal-Mart will glady sell me a pump shotgun, ammo, and a bandoleer strap, everything needed for a killing spree, but they won't sell me a video game with titties in it?
Christian America has some very, very fucked up priorities.
"...you'll be shelling out your cash for a new spiffy Mac w/ a 64-bit processor,..."
Given the rather ludicrous cost of Apple computers compared to X86, I won't ever be shelling out for another Apple. I got suckered into it once, from now on I am 100% cheap X86 whitebox.
"Critics -- notably Intel -- argue that most desktop users have no need for 64-bit processing.
"
Anyone trying to surf the web with OS X's ungodly slow 2D graphics processing certainly needs all the power he can get!
This would be really cool if Microsoft had not shut Lik Sang down, because without a mod chip this doesn't really do me much good.
Having amazed everyone by creating a sensible, usable Linux desktop environment for the masses, Lindows will clean up the internals of the OS. Installs and post-install configuration will start getting better and better. Sales of pre-loaded Lindows boxes will spread out of the Wal-Mart niche, and the Linux desktop revolution will gain serious steam.
Red Hat will continue their work integrating KDE/Gnome into a single usuable desktop, spurred on by the growing praise for Lindows. Mandrake, currently the king of the desktop Linux world, will go full steam ahead on matching the desktop work that Lindows and Red Hat are doing, throwing another vendor's hat into the make-the-linux-desktop-not-suck ring.
Sun Microsystems will move into the desktop market, giving a familiar hardware name to Linux desktops, making it eaiser for IT staff to bring Linux PCs into their networks. HPQ will do the same, and Dell will rejoin the Linux desktop world to keep up.
Apple will be keeping an eye on this, and keep refining OS X. OS X will gain popularity with the computer users who favor minimal administration. Mac users will learn the value of Open/Free software, and communication between the Mac/Linux world will grow.
Microsoft will sit in the background, watching the TCO of Windows rise and the TCO of Linux drop, and the path for Linux domination will be ready for the world to walk down.
80% of Chinese computers run Windows.
of what NOT to do. I spent my teenage years watching GenXers bury themselves in college loans, car loans on BMWs, ludicrous mortgates, etc..
Unsure what to do with my own future, I made a big point of not following in their footsteps. Rather than sink into debt for an unsure future, I left college and went to work. I eschewed credit cards and bought a cheap Honda. Now I am happy in a great job, making a great salary, and paying my way through school without loans, working toward a goal that I understand.
None of this really would have happened had Generation X not fallen on their faces. Their unguided life choices and foolish financial habits left a legacy of how to NOT handle life as a twentysomething in a wildly successful capitalist society, and by doing the opposite I and many others have been able to enjoy our lives by understanding the dangers that exist in modern America.
Patent it for the financial potential. People in other countries (And probably your own.) will release open-source knockoffs that start with "Gnu," "K," and "G" anyway, and eventually will find a workaround or prior art somewhere.
Any bets on how long it will take MS to get exclusive, multi-billion dollar contracts with US Government Agencies to help secure Microsoft products?
And are an US taxpayers interested in suing both parties when it happens?
Why haven't they been sued/restrained yet?
What we really need is a technology protection amendment to the US Constitution that prevents a technology from being outlawed just because it can also be applied illegally.
As long as we keep trying to fight the problem with individual laws, corporations will respond by throwing more money at the problem than we can, eventually overwhelming us by buying out all everyone working on Capitol Hill. By striking preemptively with an amendment to clearly protect all technology, we can shut the corporations down before they mobilize at a level we cannot handle.
Following is WorldCom's maintenance announcement about today's work, which I recieved because WorldCom is my company's broadband ISP.
During the Normal operations window on Oct 3, 2002
WorldCom will be performing the following scheduled maintenance
activities.
This activity is scheduled to take place from 3:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.
(local hub time) in the contiguous US and elsewhere from 3:00 a.m. to
7:00 a.m. (local hub time) and may affect your connectivity. The
following
customer ID will be impacted: XXXXXXXXX.
If you have any questions, please contact our local Customer Network
Support Center. Please reference the internal ticket number 645346.
Quality System Management-Global Maintenance Planning
Worldcom (http://www.uu.net)
1(800) 900-0241 / +1(703) 886-5440
WorldCom United States 1-800-900-0241 (select the following options in
order: 2, then 4, then 1)
WorldCom Denmark (45) 80.30.50.50
WorldCom Italy (39) 02.3600.1887
WorldCom Sweden (46) 8.750.88.50
WorldCom Switzerland (41) 1.580.86.11
Who cares about copying, I just want to watch DVDs without breaking the DMCA!
Does anyone else remember when the really great thing about an Nvidia card was incredible performance at great a great price, and not gimmicks?
I was more preferring to people pretending that their imagined ideas are correct. For example, the same church that came up with:
- Bathing is bad.
- The world is flat.
- The universe revolves around the Earth.
Now presents that the theory of evolution cannot be true because it does not fit into their view of things... Lame.
What Red Hat is doing is a great example of open source in action. Rather than release yet another Linux distribution that screws users by trying to make KDE and Gnome both work as intended by the two UI teams, Red Hat has taken what they fell is the best of both worlds and made it into something user-friendly. Hopefully Red Hat will also have the sense to strip apps of silly, nondescriptive names as well, and we can have a major desktop Linux distro that grandma can use.
For the people who think Red Hat is crippling KDE, or Gnome, or whatever, deal with it the simple way- just download the official releases yourself.
I would really appreciate it if the Slashdot crew and link submitters would note the license that software is placed under when said software is released as open source. Anyone else agree?
This is one of the things that bugs me about science; scientists who work to prove a theory instead of testing a theory. Pressure from society, government, employers, and often arrogance gives us scientists who sacrifice the truth to validate their ideas, knowing that somewhere down the line the falsehood will be discovered.
I guess things like this just show that science and religion are not so different as some would think.
OpenOffice 1.0 on Windows is excellent. It is not perfect, but it does not crash nearly as much as Office XP does, and StarCalc can be like crack to spreadsheet users.
Do NOT run OS X on an ibook. ibook G3 CPUs are not fast enough to run OS X at a usable speed when doing anything that shows off a lot of 2D stuff (A few days ago I wrote a simple C++ program that finds prime numbers and displays them in real-time, and the terminal updates were using almost as many CPU cycles as the number generator was.). Java is also very slow on the G3 ibooks. Other ibook issues include:
- DVD/CD-Rom flakiness on OS X (The DVD/CD drive doesn't always recognize a CD after the disc has been in a while.
- Power management problems. OS X does not always wake up after the ibook has been closed/opened.
- CPU heat. The G3 CPUs in ibooks put out enough heat to be very uncomfortable when in one's lap.
dorks.
"Have Motorola's chips really lagged behind Intel?"
Motorola's chips have always lagged behind intel, at least in the performance arena.
We are supporting Microsoft! We are supporting Linux! We are going to move forward with HP-UX and Tru-64! Compaq hardware will keep on truckin! We love AMD and Hammer! We love intel and Itanium!
We will say anything to try and keep our stockholders from noticing that we made a former Lucent exec our CEO and are letting her run one of the most wacked-out mergers ever seen!
In my experience (Given I have only been using Mozilla for about 2.5 years now.) Navigator installed alone is fast and stable, as soon as composer/mail/etc.. are tossed in Mozilla starts running slowly and crashing. This has become much better over time, and I have not bothered keeping a plain navigator install around since 1.0, but it is food for thought...
I live in Reston Virginia, and my cable is managed by Comcast. Cablemodem users here pay ~60 USD (After taxes!) for service that also includes basic cable. Service is excellent, and transfer speeds really do live up to promises. For those of you in areas where the local cable company is screwing you, I suggest you have your community leaders look at dumping your current local monopoly provider in favor of the pricing model we have here.