I hate vista, other than the newer font rendering, its bugs drive me crazy. The links in desktop that tell you "Permission Denied"... The hidden directories. UAC smacking you in the face. The whole OS basically does 2 things. 1. Stops you from doing a task. 2. Annoys you with bugs.
Now Windows 7, hard link bugs are gone, faster, that great font rendering is there. Super fast tcp, firefox is faster (or at least to the eye..) M$ hid directories even with show directories is on in explorer, thats not really cool, but I understand it.
Biggest problems? Applications pause if its waiting on a resource, very noticeable and annoying. The window changes color and pauses. Some of my favorite apps dont work yet on x64 version. (aka demon tools) Had to hack my registry to get sound in flash for firefox (fix it adobe, its been broken since vista, should not have to use a registry hack)
My work laptop uses XP, and when I switch to Vista/Win7 the font rendering is like night and day. Vista/Win7 is crisp and clear. Ubuntu 9.04 is getting closer, 8.10 not so good... No idea what font rendering techniques are different from 9.04 vs 8.10 but its noticeable...
Microsoft made its money by shitty contracts with iron clad loopholes that fucked you over if you signed. If you didnt sign, you paid more. They used their strong arm tactics because there was no real alternatives at the time. Things are better, but still not quite there yet. And m$ did a good job at killing off anyone might compete.
Maybe now is a good time for people to start hitting up companies and explaining all these expensive microsoft contracts are hurting them.
If we just blurred all maps, the terrorists couldn't even find their targets!
We're thinking along the wrong lines. Why not just outlaw looking at maps with the intent to commit terrorism?
No, Because terrorism is already against the laws. Creating ancillary "use laws" just helps the government battle non-terrorist activities.
Owning fertilizer is not against the law. But if "using fertilizer in a terrorist act" becomes a crime, an oppressive government could go after people who own fertilizer they want to censor. Intent can be sold by a sharp prosecuting attorney to an average people jury, even when its not true.
If anything in the last 10 years, learn from how many laws have been created to fight terrorism has been used against terrorists vs. outspoken citizens.
Wikipedia works because it has information people want. Experts frequently cull information they deem 'unworthy' of documenting, there's a whole host of articles on wikipedia about culture and entertainment stuff that would not normally be in a regular encyclopedia.
Not really. Its the peer groups idea of what is "worthy".
Take the mens rights article. Since there are no national mens rights movements. None that are a non-profit or officially accepted to speak as an Acceptable source for documentation. The major sources are infotainment reporters such as Glenn Sacks. The largest group of loosely related sites are Men going their own way (MGOTW), but its article and links on Mens Rights are often deleted due to the "popularity" concerns.
None of the active editors are familiar with Mens Rights issues, the websites, and often some are active in Womens Rights. And such think that mens rights articles are an attack on womens rights.
People have to backdoor issues in with Fathers rights, as its more media friendly. There are movies about fathers seem to get the approval under popular mainstream references.
The "personal belief" issue of Wikipedia editors is the reason older and mature editors are needed. The young editors with no life experience and knowledge cant recall the events of more than a couple decades of life experience. They had to use what they learned so far, maybe from college or personal experience which isn't always realistic as a whole.
Thats big reason the Simpsons, Futurama and any media is always allowed, everyone can agree, it just happened.
Those kinds of check and balances probably produce entries that aren't always perfect, but it's a lot better than the alternative in my mind.
This is also why articles are deleted on wikipedia, the editors are biased by their cultural knowledge. If its believed to be correct by their peers, then an alternate and possibly correct view cant be published due to the editors belonging to the same peer group.
This is really difficult area when it comes to politics, groups/clubs, companies, history, ethnic, gender, minority, etc. You only get one side. Thus the reason it cant be used in colleges, its mass agreement by a very common peer group. And a good portion of the editors are very close in its peer groups.
With the blandness of the superbowl ads this year, porn would be a step up. Even the half time show and pregame shows are all simple bands.. Really sad they took the extreme measure of making it so bland.
When I was working at ATT, they moved our operations group into an EIT building, Our group sysadmins/dba's/network guys all are citizens, the rest of the building was full of H1B visa holders.
I didnt even realize ATT did this, and I was employed there for over 7 years. The building was down the road, one of a dozens of buildings ATT owned for various groups in Bothell Washington.
I started talking to these guys, most had a hard time with english, and live with multiple roommates and road the bus into work. I never asked about pay, but the rumor was they made around 35K, way below market pay. About 125-150 H1B visa people in this building, our group was about 30 operations folks.
Later I found out the VP for Billing was heavy into outsourcing. This was also the cause of the major problem when Number portability opened up, and people wanted to move away or too ATT. The VP of the billing group let most people go, and outsourced almost the entire group to H1B workers. Nobody knew what was going on, and that extended the outages and caused over millions of dollars A DAY in fines.
Funny, ATT isnt only one doing it. Its happening way more. And I know lots of unemployed sysadmins/project managers, etc that cant find work. And its only getting worse. Lots worse, but dont make the corporations upset and pull their H1B visas, or they will just close down entire outfits and screw over the local cities.
We basically setup America to fail so corporations can outsource overseas, or insource and remove american middle class pay. Good job. Gold star.
The no additional charge, isnt really true, I already have over 30gigs of games on steam, thats a chunk of a download on a new computer, and digs into my comcast download cap... And newer games do have DRM, not valves choice.
One of the reasons I dont buy games on Steam, the freedom to buy a game at a store and install it anytome, is more important than the convince of one-click buys. (And normally the same price to boot)
Same goes with music thats DRM enabled, email, rss reader, etc. Online might be quicker, but they lock you in, its hard to export and make a backup. Sometimes its easy, but what about converting to other formats, other providers?
Its lock in, and if you dont think its lock in, you are not paying attention. Companies stop churn by making it hard to leave. Its business after all.
Hes spot on. Lock in, just like microsoft, apple does, and even google does to degrees.
While I'd like to think the legal system is responsible, if you have paid any attention to history and news lets review some of the things courts have done, its amazing people still trust the courts.
1. Pushed political agendas 2. Made careers for DA's prosecuting innocent people. 3. Court rulings overturned multiple times all the way to the supreme court. (No consensus about what is the law) 4. Family courts stripping away fathers rights or rights of parents. 5. Supreme court deciding to rule on law or precedent, screwing over citizens. 6. Plea deals used to convict innocent people. 7. Juries, 1 in 6 vote incorrectly. 8. Increase in divorce cases going to civil court. 9. Denial of appeals to prisoners, or reduced/barred appeals 10. Fast track to execution (aka the Timothy McVay speedy death penalty) 11. Ignoring new evidence if already convicted 12. Filing deadlines for court papers used as a method to ignore cases 13. Court rules ignored by some judges, yet still legal. 14. Double jeopardy bypassed by having using different courts (Criminal vs Civil) 15. Federal court trials without notification and/or participation (not even counting war-crimes) 16. Ethnicity or Gender as a factor in sentencing. (Aka, the female rapist getting probation issue, etc) 17. Incorrect Science used by courts as fact. 18. Constitutional rights being decided at the state level (Gay Rights, Fathers Rights, etc) 19. Ban of jury trials for teens. 20. Reducing 12 man juries to 6, and the allowance of majority vote from juries (aka, 4 out of 6 jury members majority rule)
I don't think I scratched the surface of the major issues. I'm sure the video game wont take "Law" into the game. Its already a game, doesn't matter whos right, matters who's lawyer is a better salesman.
I played Battletech moo for a 4+ years, that was free.
There is nothing wrong with opensource and free MMO's, its that most of those developers work fulltime jobs and are not getting paid. Now soon as an MMO can turn some profit, and hire a few developers, there is no reason they cant compete.
Even WOW is looking dated now compared to newer MMO's and games.
I read all those Win2008 makes a better desktop than Vista, and on a x64 system, so I gave it a try.
Compared to Vista x64 with SP1, Win 2008 ran all my software, was full x64, and the drivers worked for vista. Sound, Video. Codecs worked. Boots quicker, file system ran smoother, files copied at normal speeds.
Even vista after sp1 is still a dog... And god, I hate the new file explorer, I've had to revert back to Directory Opus..
Craiglist was in the right spot to open another auction site, very easy for them. Then came ebay, and bought it. Ebay wont let any competition, it will simply buy them up. They bought paypal to cover both the sale and the buyers, double dipping their profits.
But, the slimy thing, is Paypal wants to act like a bank, but not be regulated as one, and Ebay is acting pretty heavy handed on sellers.
They are just too big, and too horrible, but they have the money act like m$ and just buy anyone who would threaten them..
I don't think its a hidden agenda, wikipedia does censor ideology the editors support. Thats where wikipedia stops being balanced on issues. There are editors that use wikipedia to support their hobbies and beliefs over a nuteral article. There has been many blog stories about editors routinely deleting articles they dont support. Google for deleted articles.
Its rather disturbing to see wikipedia abused by its editors, but it happens all too much, they cant be taken seriously when personal agendas are so obvious by the comments and deletions.
Another side note, the elderly and older generation have a hard time putting in popular events when the younger editors delete to not being popular. Seems its ok to have futurama broken into 100 articles, listing jokes and etc, but not articles on older subjects.
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Its not a Justice system, its a Legal System. And the law is foobar'd.
I hate vista, other than the newer font rendering, its bugs drive me crazy. The links in desktop that tell you "Permission Denied"... The hidden directories. UAC smacking you in the face. The whole OS basically does 2 things. 1. Stops you from doing a task. 2. Annoys you with bugs.
Now Windows 7, hard link bugs are gone, faster, that great font rendering is there. Super fast tcp, firefox is faster (or at least to the eye..) M$ hid directories even with show directories is on in explorer, thats not really cool, but I understand it.
Biggest problems? Applications pause if its waiting on a resource, very noticeable and annoying. The window changes color and pauses. Some of my favorite apps dont work yet on x64 version. (aka demon tools) Had to hack my registry to get sound in flash for firefox (fix it adobe, its been broken since vista, should not have to use a registry hack)
My work laptop uses XP, and when I switch to Vista/Win7 the font rendering is like night and day. Vista/Win7 is crisp and clear. Ubuntu 9.04 is getting closer, 8.10 not so good... No idea what font rendering techniques are different from 9.04 vs 8.10 but its noticeable...
Microsoft made its money by shitty contracts with iron clad loopholes that fucked you over if you signed. If you didnt sign, you paid more. They used their strong arm tactics because there was no real alternatives at the time. Things are better, but still not quite there yet. And m$ did a good job at killing off anyone might compete.
Maybe now is a good time for people to start hitting up companies and explaining all these expensive microsoft contracts are hurting them.
If we just blurred all maps, the terrorists couldn't even find their targets!
We're thinking along the wrong lines. Why not just outlaw looking at maps with the intent to commit terrorism?
No, Because terrorism is already against the laws. Creating ancillary "use laws" just helps the government battle non-terrorist activities.
Owning fertilizer is not against the law. But if "using fertilizer in a terrorist act" becomes a crime, an oppressive government could go after people who own fertilizer they want to censor. Intent can be sold by a sharp prosecuting attorney to an average people jury, even when its not true.
If anything in the last 10 years, learn from how many laws have been created to fight terrorism has been used against terrorists vs. outspoken citizens.
Wonder what the cpu equivalent for would be for 30K loaded vm's running at full cpu loads. Thats the test of the host hardware id like to see.
Wikipedia works because it has information people want. Experts frequently cull information they deem 'unworthy' of documenting, there's a whole host of articles on wikipedia about culture and entertainment stuff that would not normally be in a regular encyclopedia.
Not really. Its the peer groups idea of what is "worthy".
Take the mens rights article. Since there are no national mens rights movements. None that are a non-profit or officially accepted to speak as an Acceptable source for documentation. The major sources are infotainment reporters such as Glenn Sacks. The largest group of loosely related sites are Men going their own way (MGOTW), but its article and links on Mens Rights are often deleted due to the "popularity" concerns.
None of the active editors are familiar with Mens Rights issues, the websites, and often some are active in Womens Rights. And such think that mens rights articles are an attack on womens rights.
People have to backdoor issues in with Fathers rights, as its more media friendly. There are movies about fathers seem to get the approval under popular mainstream references.
The "personal belief" issue of Wikipedia editors is the reason older and mature editors are needed. The young editors with no life experience and knowledge cant recall the events of more than a couple decades of life experience. They had to use what they learned so far, maybe from college or personal experience which isn't always realistic as a whole.
Thats big reason the Simpsons, Futurama and any media is always allowed, everyone can agree, it just happened.
The purpose of Wikipedia is to approach consensus, not truth.
And one way is to shut out the people who don't agree.
Those kinds of check and balances probably produce entries that aren't always perfect, but it's a lot better than the alternative in my mind.
This is also why articles are deleted on wikipedia, the editors are biased by their cultural knowledge. If its believed to be correct by their peers, then an alternate and possibly correct view cant be published due to the editors belonging to the same peer group.
This is really difficult area when it comes to politics, groups/clubs, companies, history, ethnic, gender, minority, etc. You only get one side. Thus the reason it cant be used in colleges, its mass agreement by a very common peer group. And a good portion of the editors are very close in its peer groups.
With the blandness of the superbowl ads this year, porn would be a step up. Even the half time show and pregame shows are all simple bands.. Really sad they took the extreme measure of making it so bland.
When I was working at ATT, they moved our operations group into an EIT building, Our group sysadmins/dba's/network guys all are citizens, the rest of the building was full of H1B visa holders.
I didnt even realize ATT did this, and I was employed there for over 7 years. The building was down the road, one of a dozens of buildings ATT owned for various groups in Bothell Washington.
I started talking to these guys, most had a hard time with english, and live with multiple roommates and road the bus into work. I never asked about pay, but the rumor was they made around 35K, way below market pay. About 125-150 H1B visa people in this building, our group was about 30 operations folks.
Later I found out the VP for Billing was heavy into outsourcing. This was also the cause of the major problem when Number portability opened up, and people wanted to move away or too ATT. The VP of the billing group let most people go, and outsourced almost the entire group to H1B workers. Nobody knew what was going on, and that extended the outages and caused over millions of dollars A DAY in fines.
Funny, ATT isnt only one doing it. Its happening way more. And I know lots of unemployed sysadmins/project managers, etc that cant find work. And its only getting worse. Lots worse, but dont make the corporations upset and pull their H1B visas, or they will just close down entire outfits and screw over the local cities.
We basically setup America to fail so corporations can outsource overseas, or insource and remove american middle class pay. Good job. Gold star.
The no additional charge, isnt really true, I already have over 30gigs of games on steam, thats a chunk of a download on a new computer, and digs into my comcast download cap... And newer games do have DRM, not valves choice.
One of the reasons I dont buy games on Steam, the freedom to buy a game at a store and install it anytome, is more important than the convince of one-click buys. (And normally the same price to boot)
Same goes with music thats DRM enabled, email, rss reader, etc. Online might be quicker, but they lock you in, its hard to export and make a backup. Sometimes its easy, but what about converting to other formats, other providers?
Its lock in, and if you dont think its lock in, you are not paying attention. Companies stop churn by making it hard to leave. Its business after all.
Hes spot on. Lock in, just like microsoft, apple does, and even google does to degrees.
Freedom to walk away with your data, anytime.
I bought an ATI card for my mac back in the day.. Way too expensive, but only option..
Now how to I get my check?!
While I'd like to think the legal system is responsible, if you have paid any attention to history and news lets review some of the things courts have done, its amazing people still trust the courts.
1. Pushed political agendas
2. Made careers for DA's prosecuting innocent people.
3. Court rulings overturned multiple times all the way to the supreme court. (No consensus about what is the law)
4. Family courts stripping away fathers rights or rights of parents.
5. Supreme court deciding to rule on law or precedent, screwing over citizens.
6. Plea deals used to convict innocent people.
7. Juries, 1 in 6 vote incorrectly.
8. Increase in divorce cases going to civil court.
9. Denial of appeals to prisoners, or reduced/barred appeals
10. Fast track to execution (aka the Timothy McVay speedy death penalty)
11. Ignoring new evidence if already convicted
12. Filing deadlines for court papers used as a method to ignore cases
13. Court rules ignored by some judges, yet still legal.
14. Double jeopardy bypassed by having using different courts (Criminal vs Civil)
15. Federal court trials without notification and/or participation (not even counting war-crimes)
16. Ethnicity or Gender as a factor in sentencing. (Aka, the female rapist getting probation issue, etc)
17. Incorrect Science used by courts as fact.
18. Constitutional rights being decided at the state level (Gay Rights, Fathers Rights, etc)
19. Ban of jury trials for teens.
20. Reducing 12 man juries to 6, and the allowance of majority vote from juries (aka, 4 out of 6 jury members majority rule)
I don't think I scratched the surface of the major issues. I'm sure the video game wont take "Law" into the game. Its already a game, doesn't matter whos right, matters who's lawyer is a better salesman.
Hope you get your day in court!
I love command line, but why use default 80x25?!
Add this to your boot prompt in grub on the
vga=775 and get some good 160x60 loving 1280x1024.
This was the feature I was waiting for, was hoping to hear more about it when Fedora 9 was released.
The article (or snippit) says Fedora 9 has kernel based mode setting..
http://www.osnews.com/story/19661/A_Preview_of_Kernel-Based_Mode-Setting
Anyone test it yet?
Greasemonkey broke again, /sigh
Every update it seems to break, what keeps changing that this addon breaks every time?
Well if you don't like them, go register your domain somewhere else!
Oh wait.
I played Battletech moo for a 4+ years, that was free.
There is nothing wrong with opensource and free MMO's, its that most of those developers work fulltime jobs and are not getting paid. Now soon as an MMO can turn some profit, and hire a few developers, there is no reason they cant compete.
Even WOW is looking dated now compared to newer MMO's and games.
I read all those Win2008 makes a better desktop than Vista, and on a x64 system, so I gave it a try.
Compared to Vista x64 with SP1, Win 2008 ran all my software, was full x64, and the drivers worked for vista. Sound, Video. Codecs worked. Boots quicker, file system ran smoother, files copied at normal speeds.
Even vista after sp1 is still a dog... And god, I hate the new file explorer, I've had to revert back to Directory Opus..
> If you want crap, Craigslist is available too.
Craiglist was in the right spot to open another auction site, very easy for them. Then came ebay, and bought it. Ebay wont let any competition, it will simply buy them up. They bought paypal to cover both the sale and the buyers, double dipping their profits.
But, the slimy thing, is Paypal wants to act like a bank, but not be regulated as one, and Ebay is acting pretty heavy handed on sellers.
They are just too big, and too horrible, but they have the money act like m$ and just buy anyone who would threaten them..
Googled, but guess its too new, does AVG and Clam scan for mebroot yet?
I don't think its a hidden agenda, wikipedia does censor ideology the editors support. Thats where wikipedia stops being balanced on issues. There are editors that use wikipedia to support their hobbies and beliefs over a nuteral article. There has been many blog stories about editors routinely deleting articles they dont support. Google for deleted articles.
Its rather disturbing to see wikipedia abused by its editors, but it happens all too much, they cant be taken seriously when personal agendas are so obvious by the comments and deletions.
Another side note, the elderly and older generation have a hard time putting in popular events when the younger editors delete to not being popular. Seems its ok to have futurama broken into 100 articles, listing jokes and etc, but not articles on older subjects.
I resemble that comment. I'm even BBS'ing again. :P