One of my quests has been to find a tweak for Windows 2000 that turns off auto-mount of CDROMs. You're right. The whole fricking system comes to a standstill, all Explorer windows freeze, etc.
CDs should mount when you access them and not before.
Well, heck, then. The average corporation spends millions on producing promo films to lead into the main presentation at the anual shareholder's meeting. Often they are tremendously good production values.
You just need to buy a share each of a bunch of multinational's stock. Think of it as a 'movie ticket you can sell back for (often) more than you paid for it.'
Enjoy the 'production value,' dood. Don't complain about the pallid content. You imply it doesn't matter.
The real charm of the old show was that it was produced in an era when good script writers could occasionaly slip one by the producer. The best Star Trek episodes were written by master screenwriters.
The 'production cost' of a work is irrelevant. Some of the best theatre in history has been produced with nearly unpaid actors.
The expectation of 'special effects' has destroyed the value of the film in modern times. There's this thing called establishing an aesthetic distance. The strings that hold the spaceship prop in the air need to be minimally visible but that's all that is necessary, if the actors are doing their work well.
But now I've spoiled your 'Widescreen Seventeen-speaker-sound' extravaganza by making it seem silly.
Then all you have to do is write highly portable code in the first place, and multiply your QA time by your number of platforms...
You do realize, however, that 'highly portable code' is a cost multiplier as well as multiplying your QA costs. You're on the verge of promoting exponential development cost increases to game development companies.
I also think it would help widen the appeal of the Mac as a family machine, if the kids could use it for gaming.
I remember once standing in line in front of a woman and her small bawling child. He kept pointing at computer games piled strategically around the store, and she kept telling him 'it won't work on a Mac.'
It has always brought to mind a good slogan: "Macintosh: making small children cry."
Can you blame me for being inaccurate? I was playing with legos and playing kick-ball, not playing with computers (well, the Apple IIe in school back then, but I didn't really know what it was until later). I'm more focused on current and future technology, not ancient history (which is what Windows 1.0 is to modern computer tech).
Then quiet down on topics you know nothing about. To blather on just generates noise and false history.
I will agree that back in the days when I ran Windows 1.0 it was for the express purpose of running a single productive program on it (Micrografx In-A-Vision), so technically it was a 'productivity environment' for me.
You'd pay $400 for the 'benefit of only playing older games' ???
I pretty much only play 'older' games myself. And they all run great on the machines I pay low-two-figure amounts for second hand. I mean, a first Generation PIII system plays anything from the early 00's fairly well.
With your teeming obsession for 'making an argument' you continuously gloss over the arguments I have offered. I have said NOTHING about 'a demonstration is required to commit Civil Disobedience. I simply said that CD is committed in the open, and you valorously face the consequences. Part of the process of debunking the law you oppose is going through the motions of facing the legal machinery down.\
But I'm sure you have some catch-phrase to label whatever form of offensive evasion I have now committed.
Really, you belong in the echo chamber of a debating society, dude. It's starting to seem like you've got a well thumbed copy of Robert's Rules of Order next to the keyboard.
I don't have to consult an online encyclopedia to understand what Civil Disobedience is. Have you ever participated in a political movement that practices CD? Have you even an inkling what you're talking about? Have you read Thoreau's classic work titled 'Civil Disobedience'? How about Ghandi? Studied any of his writings about CD?
I am not 'appealing to authority' I am simply trying to point you to some of the classic writings about Civil Disobedience so you will stop making a fool of yourself.
A thousand peers, not luminaries 'at the top.'
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Open Source needs to be about broad teams of user/developers. Not about luminaries and celebrities.
The heros of OS are an inspiration, but I think they'd rather have a team of peers to work with than a sort of paparazzi experience.
tell that to the Sierra Club, the Nature Society, the National Space Society, Armadillo Aerospace, Burt Rutan, the EFF, the ACLU, the NAACP, your local school board, anyone who has actually petitioned local government about something,
You're equating the above to Mac Advocacy?
Come on. The world is not changed by one button mice. Picking a certain brand of computing hardware does not make you a hero.
You and a lot of other people are such partisan paranoiacs that you never, ever quote the Diebold CEO's comment in context.
What he was saying in essence was that his machines would be the channel for a Bush victory. Nothing more than that. It is entirely similar to a limousine service saying at some public event that he will be proud to be carrying passengers to Bush's inaugural ball.
Carry on paraphrasing out of context, though. It fools a lot of dupes, and those are your people.
The culprit? The exit pollers finshed up about 4pm. Voters kept coming until 7pm. Very different voters after 5.
To be fair, it's common knowledge that everybody whose opinion matters has their beret on and is at the coffeehouse sipping a latte by five. The exit pollers certainly knew that. So WHAT THE HECK IS UP?
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One of my quests has been to find a tweak for Windows 2000 that turns off auto-mount of CDROMs. You're right. The whole fricking system comes to a standstill, all Explorer windows freeze, etc.
CDs should mount when you access them and not before.
Can I be the one to lob 2x4's with nails in them onto the freeway in front of it from the overpass??
The problem is that the Star Trek franchise has not kept up with the edge. Now they're afraid of the edge.
Isn't 'The Edge' just some late 80's New Wave pop singer or something??
SciFi isn't all sharks with lasers attached to their heads.
Furthermore, good SF almost exclusively is not television
Yes. I've started reading old John Brunner novels again. And Fredrick Pohl and other good stuff.
Well, heck, then. The average corporation spends millions on producing promo films to lead into the main presentation at the anual shareholder's meeting. Often they are tremendously good production values.
You just need to buy a share each of a bunch of multinational's stock. Think of it as a 'movie ticket you can sell back for (often) more than you paid for it.'
Enjoy the 'production value,' dood. Don't complain about the pallid content. You imply it doesn't matter.
The real charm of the old show was that it was produced in an era when good script writers could occasionaly slip one by the producer. The best Star Trek episodes were written by master screenwriters.
The 'production cost' of a work is irrelevant. Some of the best theatre in history has been produced with nearly unpaid actors.
The expectation of 'special effects' has destroyed the value of the film in modern times. There's this thing called establishing an aesthetic distance. The strings that hold the spaceship prop in the air need to be minimally visible but that's all that is necessary, if the actors are doing their work well.
But now I've spoiled your 'Widescreen Seventeen-speaker-sound' extravaganza by making it seem silly.
Then all you have to do is write highly portable code in the first place, and multiply your QA time by your number of platforms...
You do realize, however, that 'highly portable code' is a cost multiplier as well as multiplying your QA costs. You're on the verge of promoting exponential development cost increases to game development companies.
They won't go for it.
I also think it would help widen the appeal of the Mac as a family machine, if the kids could use it for gaming.
I remember once standing in line in front of a woman and her small bawling child. He kept pointing at computer games piled strategically around the store, and she kept telling him 'it won't work on a Mac.'
It has always brought to mind a good slogan: "Macintosh: making small children cry."
What if gp is an RPG fan?
Then all he needs is a card table, a bag of dice, and some friends.
Can you blame me for being inaccurate? I was playing with legos and playing kick-ball, not playing with computers (well, the Apple IIe in school back then, but I didn't really know what it was until later). I'm more focused on current and future technology, not ancient history (which is what Windows 1.0 is to modern computer tech).
Then quiet down on topics you know nothing about. To blather on just generates noise and false history.
I will agree that back in the days when I ran Windows 1.0 it was for the express purpose of running a single productive program on it (Micrografx In-A-Vision), so technically it was a 'productivity environment' for me.
A Mac and it's user is like a 2 year old and it's first chocolate cake.
Hopefully the linen can be washed out.
You'd pay $400 for the 'benefit of only playing older games' ???
I pretty much only play 'older' games myself. And they all run great on the machines I pay low-two-figure amounts for second hand. I mean, a first Generation PIII system plays anything from the early 00's fairly well.
With your teeming obsession for 'making an argument' you continuously gloss over the arguments I have offered. I have said NOTHING about 'a demonstration is required to commit Civil Disobedience. I simply said that CD is committed in the open, and you valorously face the consequences. Part of the process of debunking the law you oppose is going through the motions of facing the legal machinery down.\
But I'm sure you have some catch-phrase to label whatever form of offensive evasion I have now committed.
Really, you belong in the echo chamber of a debating society, dude. It's starting to seem like you've got a well thumbed copy of Robert's Rules of Order next to the keyboard.
Or, as I am now doing, I'd rather run windows, and put linux in a vm so I can run linux software.
All the user-friendliness of Linux, combined with all the stability of Windows, eh?
I check CDs out of the library and rip them on NetBSD.
What's a 'rootkit'??
Buying CDs??
Don't you have a library card?!?
I'm glad you got a clue and read it. Or did you just hyperlink it so you can keep it around as a cite in the future?
My paperback copy of Thoreau's Civil Disobedience is probably older than you are.
I don't have to consult an online encyclopedia to understand what Civil Disobedience is. Have you ever participated in a political movement that practices CD? Have you even an inkling what you're talking about? Have you read Thoreau's classic work titled 'Civil Disobedience'? How about Ghandi? Studied any of his writings about CD?
I am not 'appealing to authority' I am simply trying to point you to some of the classic writings about Civil Disobedience so you will stop making a fool of yourself.
Open Source needs to be about broad teams of user/developers. Not about luminaries and celebrities.
The heros of OS are an inspiration, but I think they'd rather have a team of peers to work with than a sort of paparazzi experience.
The Mac is a Buick, in a world full of Chevy drivers.
I wish people would just get OFF all the 'BMW or Mercedes' bull. Apple's product lines are NOT on a similar tier.
A safer parallel would be to compare the Mac to Bose.
I like my Beige G3 Mid-tower. But then I am not a fashion princess.
tell that to the Sierra Club, the Nature Society, the National Space Society, Armadillo Aerospace, Burt Rutan, the EFF, the ACLU, the NAACP, your local school board, anyone who has actually petitioned local government about something,
You're equating the above to Mac Advocacy?
Come on. The world is not changed by one button mice. Picking a certain brand of computing hardware does not make you a hero.
Get over it, dude.
You and a lot of other people are such partisan paranoiacs that you never, ever quote the Diebold CEO's comment in context.
What he was saying in essence was that his machines would be the channel for a Bush victory. Nothing more than that. It is entirely similar to a limousine service saying at some public event that he will be proud to be carrying passengers to Bush's inaugural ball.
Carry on paraphrasing out of context, though. It fools a lot of dupes, and those are your people.
About your tagline:
I don't want the safety net. And I am willing to volunteer to help form a private community-based organization to mop up the floor once in awhile.
The culprit? The exit pollers finshed up about 4pm. Voters kept coming until 7pm. Very different voters after 5.
To be fair, it's common knowledge that everybody whose opinion matters has their beret on and is at the coffeehouse sipping a latte by five. The exit pollers certainly knew that. So WHAT THE HECK IS UP?
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