A friend of mine bought his daughter one of those Barbie Camersa for her birthday (hey, $60.00, why not?). It's a piece of crap. Horrible pictures at really low rez. You need a huge amount of light to get color pictures.
I've tried 4.x several times. I hate it. I really dislike the way the FUBARed the entire interface. 3.x is very simple and straightforward, everything I want to do is right there. 4.x is a convoluted, badly thought through and bloated turd. Given the choice between 4.x and Opera I know which I'd choose.
Hell, I'll take Be's NetPositive (with all of it's lack of features) over Netscape 4.x.
Netscape needs to stop adding useless features and trying so damned hard to look like Internet Exploder and spend the time fixing the bugs.
Galactica was crap! I can't believe anyone would want to make a movie based on it (well, there was the movie "version" of the pilot, but I don't like to remember painful things like that).
Batlestar Galactica was a textbook lesson in how to make crap Sci-Fi and how much Sci-Fi junkies will delude themselves into thinking it's cool (kinda like the first three years of Star Trek : The Next Generation).
It looks like it's time to write to your Congress(persons) and your Senators.
I am going to take a little time to compose a well thought out and rational letter to my representatives (sp?).
I think that all of us who choose to write in owe it to ourselves to stay as rational and composed as possible. What we (I) want is to be taken seriously. Coming off half-cocked and pissed off is only going to detract from the message and make us (oe "me" if I should act this way) look like a nut (or a criminal).
It is sad how so many Americans have just gone along and allow the Federal Government (both Republican and Democrat) turn this country into a Police State.
It's not the computer, nor the OS on it that is causing productivity to fall in recent years; it is the people using the computers that are the cause.
About ten years ago I had the pleasure of working with the last of the "classically trained secretaries" that I ever met. She was the type of highly trained employee that did everything ONCE, no printing ten slightly different drafts of the same damned thing, just one. She KNEW what her boss wanted and how to create it in one go.
All the other secretaries (sp?) in that office were new to the profession (er, "job") and had learned their way arround computers before they learned thir actual jobs. In the same amount of time it took one of these people to do one document on a computer the secretary in my previous paragraph could get four done, on a computer or on a typewriter.
Of couse, she also got paid a lot more than the other, but she had been with that firm for 20+ years.
In all my other jobs involving office staff I have never seen professional office staff, just entry level people looking for better work while muddling through this job.
Productivity has gone down because business no longer looks at clerical support as a profession, and niether do those who enter the field. Women used to go to college to learn to be professional clerical staff. Now it's whomever knows how to type faster than 10 words a minute.
Add to this the fact that we expect one person to do on their computer what four to ten people used to by hand and we get a clearer idea of the problem.
Leave it up to a hungry scientist to find the silk purse in the sows ear.:) It's still a bummer that the satalite can not fulfill its orginal goal (and another $70,000,000.00+ will be spent replacing it most likely) but at least it is not a total loss.
Now if only I could work out the finite improbablity of that danged Infinite Improbability Generator NASA's been trying to build....
I've gotten a few emails asking about ICQ and FTP from behind a Sygate server.
For FTP I have used plain old Windows FTP and the GNU version of FTP that comes with BeOS. Both work fine. I used to use WSFTP back when I used WinGate, and it also seems to work with Sygate.
While I do not use ICQ I did see some items about using multiple ICQ clients behind the Sygate server on their FAQs page on their web page: http://www.sygate.com
As for multiple people playing Quake, have never tried it. I'm the only person in my house that plays Quake(1,2,3A) and I have never seen the need to play it on two computers at the same time (nor would I have the skill, as anyone who has kicked my ass in Quake can tell you).
Well THAT showed him! You really tore down all of his arguments with scathing logic and your incredible powers of reason.
This may be news to you but you are aware that you can disagree with someone without stooping to insulting them and behaving like an ass, don't you?
Give it a try someday. Someone might actually take what you have to say seriously rather than just tossing aside your comments like the badly thought-through drek they are.
A has been pompous ass...
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It's funny. I liked THX1138 (in an odd art-film kind of way). I enjoyed the hell out of Amrican Graffiti. I Have seen Star Wars (the first one, or "SW: A New Hope" for the hardcorp twits out there) more times than I have ever seen any other movie (somewhere between 50 and 70, I forget), at least 30 times in the theatre.
I saw "Empire" twice. It was okay.
I Saw "Jedi" twice. Ewoks must die.
I saw "Menace" once. I never, EVER want to see it again. Ever.
After $200,000,000.00 (US) and two years of actual work (preceded by 16 years of sitting on his ass) he spews forth one of the worst movies of the year and has the unmidigated gaul to blame the Internet for the fact that people hated it?
Earth to George! The movie is a piece of CRAP! People hate Jar Jar because he's inane, stupid and the most painfully obviouse "new toy sensation" in the history of film.
Next time spend more time actually writing your damned movies and less time on the licensing contracts and you might just luck out and make a movie worth the (recently raised) price of admission.
At one time George had The Magic. Now all he has is sad, wornout slight of hand tricks.
TPM could have been a good movie (provided it was scripted and directed by someone else) but it's not.
My favorite aspect of my job is that 8.5 hours afyer I walk in the door (the 30 minute luch break is my own doing, I'd rather leave a bit erlier than spend 60 minutes in the lunch room) I get to GO HOME.
Yes, my hobbies do overlap my work a bit (they both involve computers) but at home my computers are MINE, they are more powerful than what my office has (save the HP mini), the Net connection is faster and best of all, my wife lives at my house.
I _LIKE_ going home and being able to do what I want. I like leaving the office and leaving work behind.
Let's not forget the (badly done and slow) Doom like game hidden in an older version of Excel.
If the programmers would pull their heads out of their butts and write tight code and FIX THE DAMNED BUGS instead of sticking in easter eggs MS products might just suck a little less.
I wonder how Bill feels about his employees goofing of on his dime? Me, I'd fire them.
My take on it is that they are afraid. Out of (virtually) nowhere (well, it was gestating on PowerPC hardware but what geek cares about Macs?) comes along an OS that has so many of the things that Linux lacks and is gaining favorable press.
I *think* (and I could be wrong) that they are afraid that Be will steal Linux's thunder and Linux will be an also0ran to yet ANOTHER comercial OS.
Of course it could also be the strong neo-communist "if it ain't free it's crap" ethos in the Linux community.
I've tried Linux a few time in the last eight years (starting with an SLS distrobution based on a 0.9x kernel) and ending with RedHat 5.2. I never got it working to my satisfaction because of all the time I needed to spend futzing around under the hood (time I'd rather spend USING apps).
Be was up and running in just a few minutes (release 3, 3.1, 4 and 4.5) and the _ONLY_ text file I had to fart with was the hosts file.
(Having to edit a TEXT file to tell your WM what options to put on the on-screen menu, who thought that up?)
1: Obiwhine and Cal-Gon Jim were sent NOT by the senate but the nitwit the Queen had voted out of office, and he sent them in secret (you did READ the opening text, didn't you?).
2: Luke made the Ewoks (spit!) fight the Empire? Really? Not in the movie I saw.
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If you read the rest of todays BluesNews you'll see that the finger script is broken.
They lied. Pure and simple.
A friend of mine bought his daughter one of those Barbie Camersa for her birthday (hey, $60.00, why not?). It's a piece of crap. Horrible pictures at really low rez. You need a huge amount of light to get color pictures.
Take the games.
I've tried 4.x several times. I hate it. I really dislike the way the FUBARed the entire interface. 3.x is very simple and straightforward, everything I want to do is right there. 4.x is a convoluted, badly thought through and bloated turd. Given the choice between 4.x and Opera I know which I'd choose.
Hell, I'll take Be's NetPositive (with all of it's lack of features) over Netscape 4.x.
Netscape needs to stop adding useless features and trying so damned hard to look like Internet Exploder and spend the time fixing the bugs.
What possible reason should I give a damn? Netscape 4.x is a fat, bloated, buggy and badly designed piece of crap.
Me, I still use 3.04. Pages that require 4.x, don't bother to read them.
Good one. Very funny.
Galactica was crap! I can't believe anyone would want to make a movie based on it (well, there was the movie "version" of the pilot, but I don't like to remember painful things like that).
Batlestar Galactica was a textbook lesson in how to make crap Sci-Fi and how much Sci-Fi junkies will delude themselves into thinking it's cool (kinda like the first three years of Star Trek : The Next Generation).
It looks like it's time to write to your Congress(persons) and your Senators.
I am going to take a little time to compose a well thought out and rational letter to my representatives (sp?).
I think that all of us who choose to write in owe it to ourselves to stay as rational and composed as possible. What we (I) want is to be taken seriously. Coming off half-cocked and pissed off is only going to detract from the message and make us (oe "me" if I should act this way) look like a nut (or a criminal).
It is sad how so many Americans have just gone along and allow the Federal Government (both Republican and Democrat) turn this country into a Police State.
(Don't blame me, I voted for Alice Cooper.)
It's not the computer, nor the OS on it that is causing productivity to fall in recent years; it is the people using the computers that are the cause.
About ten years ago I had the pleasure of working with the last of the "classically trained secretaries" that I ever met. She was the type of highly trained employee that did everything ONCE, no printing ten slightly different drafts of the same damned thing, just one. She KNEW what her boss wanted and how to create it in one go.
All the other secretaries (sp?) in that office were new to the profession (er, "job") and had learned their way arround computers before they learned thir actual jobs. In the same amount of time it took one of these people to do one document on a computer the secretary in my previous paragraph could get four done, on a computer or on a typewriter.
Of couse, she also got paid a lot more than the other, but she had been with that firm for 20+ years.
In all my other jobs involving office staff I have never seen professional office staff, just entry level people looking for better work while muddling through this job.
Productivity has gone down because business no longer looks at clerical support as a profession, and niether do those who enter the field. Women used to go to college to learn to be professional clerical staff. Now it's whomever knows how to type faster than 10 words a minute.
Add to this the fact that we expect one person to do on their computer what four to ten people used to by hand and we get a clearer idea of the problem.
That's my rant for the day.
Leave it up to a hungry scientist to find the silk purse in the sows ear. :) It's still a bummer that the satalite can not fulfill its orginal goal (and another $70,000,000.00+ will be spent replacing it most likely) but at least it is not a total loss.
Now if only I could work out the finite improbablity of that danged Infinite Improbability Generator NASA's been trying to build....
I've gotten a few emails asking about ICQ and FTP from behind a Sygate server.
For FTP I have used plain old Windows FTP and the GNU version of FTP that comes with BeOS. Both work fine. I used to use WSFTP back when I used WinGate, and it also seems to work with Sygate.
While I do not use ICQ I did see some items about using multiple ICQ clients behind the Sygate server on their FAQs page on their web page:
http://www.sygate.com
As for multiple people playing Quake, have never tried it. I'm the only person in my house that plays Quake(1,2,3A) and I have never seen the need to play it on two computers at the same time (nor would I have the skill, as anyone who has kicked my ass in Quake can tell you).
I am using a NAT program called SYGATE on my NT Server box (hey, ot works!) that connects my LAN to the Internet.
I have played Quake, Quake2, Quake3A Test (1.05 - 1.07) and a whole host of other games on the Internet.
The only problem I have ever had is with FTP clients. I got one that supported pasive mode and everything worked fine.
Well THAT showed him! You really tore down all of his arguments with scathing logic and your incredible powers of reason.
This may be news to you but you are aware that you can disagree with someone without stooping to insulting them and behaving like an ass, don't you?
Give it a try someday. Someone might actually take what you have to say seriously rather than just tossing aside your comments like the badly thought-through drek they are.
It's funny. I liked THX1138 (in an odd art-film kind of way). I enjoyed the hell out of Amrican Graffiti. I Have seen Star Wars (the first one, or "SW: A New Hope" for the hardcorp twits out there) more times than I have ever seen any other movie (somewhere between 50 and 70, I forget), at least 30 times in the theatre.
I saw "Empire" twice. It was okay.
I Saw "Jedi" twice. Ewoks must die.
I saw "Menace" once. I never, EVER want to see it again. Ever.
After $200,000,000.00 (US) and two years of actual work (preceded by 16 years of sitting on his ass) he spews forth one of the worst movies of the year and has the unmidigated gaul to blame the Internet for the fact that people hated it?
Earth to George! The movie is a piece of CRAP! People hate Jar Jar because he's inane, stupid and the most painfully obviouse "new toy sensation" in the history of film.
Next time spend more time actually writing your damned movies and less time on the licensing contracts and you might just luck out and make a movie worth the (recently raised) price of admission.
At one time George had The Magic. Now all he has is sad, wornout slight of hand tricks.
TPM could have been a good movie (provided it was scripted and directed by someone else) but it's not.
George will get no more of my money.
That I'd like to see. "Pistols or daggers, sir?"
(Sorry, I don't usually spell-flame (like I have any right to), but I could not resist. ;)
Why was this post (whic you probably can't see) moderated down? The poster has a valid point in regard to the thread at hand.
Please moderate it back up to at least "0".
My favorite aspect of my job is that 8.5 hours afyer I walk in the door (the 30 minute luch break is my own doing, I'd rather leave a bit erlier than spend 60 minutes in the lunch room) I get to GO HOME.
Yes, my hobbies do overlap my work a bit (they both involve computers) but at home my computers are MINE, they are more powerful than what my office has (save the HP mini), the Net connection is faster and best of all, my wife lives at my house.
I _LIKE_ going home and being able to do what I want. I like leaving the office and leaving work behind.
I never did like dorm life.
If my employees (I don't have aby, I'm a wage slave) were spending time and resources programming unaurthorised projects on my dime I'd fire them.
Unless I could make money on their project, which I would legally own...
Dammit! I was going to bring that up! ;)
Let's not forget the (badly done and slow) Doom like game hidden in an older version of Excel.
If the programmers would pull their heads out of their butts and write tight code and FIX THE DAMNED BUGS instead of sticking in easter eggs MS products might just suck a little less.
I wonder how Bill feels about his employees goofing of on his dime? Me, I'd fire them.
My take on it is that they are afraid. Out of (virtually) nowhere (well, it was gestating on PowerPC hardware but what geek cares about Macs?) comes along an OS that has so many of the things that Linux lacks and is gaining favorable press.
I *think* (and I could be wrong) that they are afraid that Be will steal Linux's thunder and Linux will be an also0ran to yet ANOTHER comercial OS.
Of course it could also be the strong neo-communist "if it ain't free it's crap" ethos in the Linux community.
I've tried Linux a few time in the last eight years (starting with an SLS distrobution based on a 0.9x kernel) and ending with RedHat 5.2. I never got it working to my satisfaction because of all the time I needed to spend futzing around under the hood (time I'd rather spend USING apps).
Be was up and running in just a few minutes (release 3, 3.1, 4 and 4.5) and the _ONLY_ text file I had to fart with was the hosts file.
(Having to edit a TEXT file to tell your WM what options to put on the on-screen menu, who thought that up?)
True, but Star Wars was GOOD. Phantom Menace is not. Phantom Menace is a piece of badly thought out crap.
All I wanted was a good movie. What I got was a piece of crap with an amphibious Teletubby in it.
After 16 years Lucas can do better than that! Or maybe he can't. Regardless, I really doubt I'm going to bother with Episode 2.
1: Obiwhine and Cal-Gon Jim were sent NOT by the senate but the nitwit the Queen had voted out of office, and he sent them in secret (you did READ the opening text, didn't you?).
2: Luke made the Ewoks (spit!) fight the Empire? Really? Not in the movie I saw.
Landover Babist Chruch is a joke. Do a little reading on the site.