Actually, I DO beleive that a lot of cheesy SciFi (like "Tom Corbet! Space Cadet!", Buck Rogers, etc) of the 50's were very instrumental in growing the public momentum towards the US space program in the 60's, altho it was a combination of many things incl. the cold war/sputnik/space race, Werner Von Braun (also SciFi influenced), commitment by President and congress, etc, etc...
where a horde of monsters called 'users' keep trying to install defective and bloating software on your trusted production machines because they keep falling for the ads, and you have to quickly go around uninstalling them and scanning for virual trojan email attachments before it takes your whole business out. That'd be a cool game. Wait, it's real! Arrrrggggghhhhh!!!!!
to me - sure, there's all the cynics suspicious of some kind of conspiracy on RHAT's part (I mean, looking at who's top dog, no wonder!) but it seems that the more open source floating around the more they have to fold into a coherent, integrated distro - just like all the other distros, you know, more OSS projects floats everyone's boat, that sail in these waters anyway.
those ink jet carts used to come with a little plug on the top that you could punch out and refill w/ ink, sometimes it would work - naturally HP would have none of that, now, and the plug has disappeared but I think there are other refill options.
that used to be the buzz-statement during the 80's, anytime a talking head was asked almost anything re: the future, they were "cautiously optimistic". Personally I enjoy reckless abandon to irrational exuberance....;)
Get a load of thispatent - "... thereby sending the signal at a speed faster than light. "
Something's definitely rotten in Crystal City.
I spent a summer there way back, and gave many a patent application for 'some neat software burned into a common ROM' a resounding smack of the ol' reject stamp, but that was before the judge liberalized the place to include business procedures etc.
those innovations just keep on coming! Personally I can't wait to see what patented software Rube Goldberg anti-email-virus scheme they're going to come up with post love.Bug. Should lift stock prices some.
simply because they've royally pissed off enough technically adept folks and are such a large target - if the DOJ/Courts doesn't take care of their unfair trading practices, the underground assassins will.
Something along the lines of the devil's dictionary of an absolute monarch: He can do anything he pleases, so long as he pleases the assassins.
Corpus callosotomy involves the severing of connections between the right and left sides of the brain
with the left brain being allowed to chair the OS division, and the right brain the App division.
While primarily used to control intractable epileptic seizures, this procedure may have impact on his obvious megalomania and delusions of producing world class quality software.
My sentiments almost exactely - I really wouldn't mind a monopoly IF it was a really good product like a Mercedes or the local power company (which is 'up' really reliably) but this land mine filled, quality disclaimered garbage?
I'm particularly primed for Msft bashing this week after having mistakenly installed PPTP on our production server w/o doing a lab run first to weed out the tricky spots - now our main Internet dialout is F****d, I had to whip up a 'band aid' box for access untill I can spend a Saturday in here cleaning up Msft's puke (What's this adapter [5] and why is there a registry error when trying to delete it?? Arrrggg!!! This wasn't in the white paper!!! REboot-boot-boot-boot-boot-boot... repeat ad-nauseum). Yet business people who don't know any better love this crap. I swear, we've got to break this iron triangle where clueless business decision lords pick Msft products for little other reason than "but they're a multi billion dollar outfit! It must be great, quality products, and therefore any problems that arise are the admin's faulty work". Utter B.S.
Buddhist Extremists Attack Temple Disassociated Press (DP) - Dhaka, Banglehesh
Bhodidharmilt, the paramilitary wing of the radical Buddhist extremist party staged a predawn raid at several area Christian churches this morning, killing at least 3 priests and kidnapping dozens of little children from daycare. "All I could see were orange robes, gas masks and blazing machine guns" said parishoner Albert Walker, who survived by hiding under a pew in the Choir Loft. "We were in the middle of morning vespers when we heard a commotions outside and suddenly the doors were bashed in with some strange god-headed battering ram, followed by dozens of bald headed, mantra chanting monks.".... blah blah blah
with the original post - computer's are both relentless logical and complete arbitrary. However arcane it appears at first, people willing to learn a little pick up on LiSt (ls) and conCATenate (cat) - unix and c really do grow and mature well. There is, however, complete freedom to alias commands to anything you want, from dir to zous for 'ls'. I think the major cause of Msft 'blotoware' is the fact that they are pandering to contradictory demands of illogical users, i.e., trying to please everyone - it has to be 'easy to use' for beginners, which it pretty much fulfills, and 'powerful' for experts, which it could but tends to fall short, experts not being their primary target market. People want it to automatically correct spelling errors, but they don't want it to change foreign words in docs, blah blah etc etc.
that swishes across the bottom evertime you startup, even if you've been using it for 4 years. Oh and an awesome Brian Eno ambience wooshing sound every time you start up. Um, screensavers, cool wallpaper, CD player - Uh, I guess that's it!
"...a colossal, ugly hairball -- a tissue of bad design and worse improvisations. Hacking on it and trying to get any re-use out of it would be probably about as much fun as a picnic in a toxic-waste dump. " ESR
Geesh, w2k had to do SOMETHING about that, quick!:\
A couple of years ago, as a fresh new MCSE, I got involved in the Ralph Nader discussion board as a Defender of Msft (i.e., in hostile territory)- one morning while checking backups and having composed several paragraphs of a scathing reply in notepad, a SCSI tape drive error bluescreen'd the server - poof. Pure irony.
that habitual users of Msft products show a definite increase in agressive marketing behavior, with a marked tendancy toward intrusive advertising, spam, telemarketing and development of a pathological ability to overhype the capabilities of their software while obscuring and concealing bugs, blaming others and evading responsibility for it's defects.
How about, everyone who feels cheated read the pub, if you see your post, put in a claim for a share of the books' profits that you don't want to go to someone's favorite charity - there should be some ways of verifying ID and that you actually did write it.
However there's definitely the stench of hipocritical narcisstic solipsism - anything *you* create *I* want to be able to use anyway I want, but anything *I* create I want to control and regulate. Pfft. I'm not a professional writer, and anything I post anywhere is gratis and would be pleased to see it get mass attention, just as long as it's credited to my handle or 'a slashdot discussion contributor', and nobody outright claims to have written it verbatim. I'd even allow for subconscious plaigurism - i.e., someone reads my post, forgets about it, and later on repeats a part as if they'd thought of it. That's just saying they pretty deeply agree.
The misguided millions who understand little about computers, gaming, networking, and other intellectual persuits, and who consider it a breeding ground for pathological criminals are the one's in need of enlightenment - hopefully they can turn off the sleeze-TV long enough to even read.
As a kid I used to stay in the library to dodge bullies, jocks and other wild animals - they didn't fit in there.
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Actually, I DO beleive that a lot of cheesy SciFi (like "Tom Corbet! Space Cadet!", Buck Rogers, etc) of the 50's were very instrumental in growing the public momentum towards the US space program in the 60's, altho it was a combination of many things incl. the cold war/sputnik/space race, Werner Von Braun (also SciFi influenced), commitment by President and congress, etc, etc...
where a horde of monsters called 'users' keep trying to install defective and bloating software on your trusted production machines because they keep falling for the ads, and you have to quickly go around uninstalling them and scanning for virual trojan email attachments before it takes your whole business out. That'd be a cool game.
Wait, it's real! Arrrrggggghhhhh!!!!!
...so that companies like Microsoft and AOL have a way to tear us down.
See t his
to me - sure, there's all the cynics suspicious of some kind of conspiracy on RHAT's part (I mean, looking at who's top dog, no wonder!) but it seems that the more open source floating around the more they have to fold into a coherent, integrated distro - just like all the other distros, you know, more OSS projects floats everyone's boat, that sail in these waters anyway.
more here
those ink jet carts used to come with a little plug on the top that you could punch out and refill w/ ink, sometimes it would work - naturally HP would have none of that, now, and the plug has disappeared but I think there are other refill options.
that used to be the buzz-statement during the 80's, anytime a talking head was asked almost anything re: the future, they were "cautiously optimistic". Personally I enjoy reckless abandon to irrational exuberance .... ;)
mp3.com defense budget - $ 35,192.63
RIAA prosecution budget - $2,462,898.35
Any questions?
Get a load of thispatent - "... thereby sending the signal at a speed faster than light. "
Something's definitely rotten in Crystal City.
I spent a summer there way back, and gave many a patent application for 'some neat software burned into a common ROM' a resounding smack of the ol' reject stamp, but that was before the judge liberalized the place to include business procedures etc.
those innovations just keep on coming! Personally I can't wait to see what patented software Rube Goldberg anti-email-virus scheme they're going to come up with post love.Bug. Should lift stock prices some.
simply because they've royally pissed off enough technically adept folks and are such a large target - if the DOJ/Courts doesn't take care of their unfair trading practices, the underground assassins will.
Something along the lines of the devil's dictionary of an absolute monarch: He can do anything he pleases, so long as he pleases the assassins.
"Sulu, launch shuttlecraft with ambassador Vilhelmits to planet surface, mark 324.7923, range 199 million miles..."
"Aye Sir"
[smash, crash, ka-bleuie]
"Uh, make that 119 million miles"
"Are those nautical or English miles, sir?"
Corpus callosotomy involves the severing of connections between the right and left sides of the brain
with the left brain being allowed to chair the OS division, and the right brain the App division.
While primarily used to control intractable epileptic seizures, this procedure may have impact on his obvious megalomania and delusions of producing world class quality software.
piss-off-the-judge-and-get-a-harsh-ruling-that's-o verthrown-in-appeals-court trick - very clever!
"just good enough"- not excellent.
My sentiments almost exactely - I really wouldn't mind a monopoly IF it was a really good product like a Mercedes or the local power company (which is 'up' really reliably) but this land mine filled, quality disclaimered garbage?
I'm particularly primed for Msft bashing this week after having mistakenly installed PPTP on our production server w/o doing a lab run first to weed out the tricky spots - now our main Internet dialout is F****d, I had to whip up a 'band aid' box for access untill I can spend a Saturday in here cleaning up Msft's puke (What's this adapter [5] and why is there a registry error when trying to delete it?? Arrrggg!!! This wasn't in the white paper!!! REboot-boot-boot-boot-boot-boot... repeat ad-nauseum). Yet business people who don't know any better love this crap. I swear, we've got to break this iron triangle where clueless business decision lords pick Msft products for little other reason than "but they're a multi billion dollar outfit! It must be great, quality products, and therefore any problems that arise are the admin's faulty work". Utter B.S.
Chuck the defrocked McSE
is the link at the bottom to an Onion article, "Travolta Hospitalized with critically low E-Meter readings"
Buddhist Extremists Attack Temple
.... blah blah blah
Disassociated Press (DP) - Dhaka, Banglehesh
Bhodidharmilt, the paramilitary wing of the radical Buddhist extremist party staged a predawn raid at several area Christian churches this morning, killing at least 3 priests and kidnapping dozens of little children from daycare. "All I could see were orange robes, gas masks and blazing machine guns" said parishoner Albert Walker, who survived by hiding under a pew in the Choir Loft. "We were in the middle of morning vespers when we heard a commotions outside and suddenly the doors were bashed in with some strange god-headed battering ram, followed by dozens of bald headed, mantra chanting monks."
with the original post - computer's are both relentless logical and complete arbitrary. However arcane it appears at first, people willing to learn a little pick up on LiSt (ls) and conCATenate (cat) - unix and c really do grow and mature well. There is, however, complete freedom to alias commands to anything you want, from dir to zous for 'ls'. I think the major cause of Msft 'blotoware' is the fact that they are pandering to contradictory demands of illogical users, i.e., trying to please everyone - it has to be 'easy to use' for beginners, which it pretty much fulfills, and 'powerful' for experts, which it could but tends to fall short, experts not being their primary target market. People want it to automatically correct spelling errors, but they don't want it to change foreign words in docs, blah blah etc etc.
that swishes across the bottom evertime you startup, even if you've been using it for 4 years. Oh and an awesome Brian Eno ambience wooshing sound every time you start up.
Um, screensavers, cool wallpaper, CD player - Uh, I guess that's it!
being characterized as:
:\
"...a colossal, ugly hairball -- a tissue of bad design and worse improvisations. Hacking on it and trying to get any re-use out of it would be probably about as much fun as a picnic in a toxic-waste dump. " ESR
Geesh, w2k had to do SOMETHING about that, quick!
A couple of years ago, as a fresh new MCSE, I got involved in the Ralph Nader discussion board as a Defender of Msft (i.e., in hostile territory)- one morning while checking backups and having composed several paragraphs of a scathing reply in notepad, a SCSI tape drive error bluescreen'd the server - poof. Pure irony.
...not the MickyMouse themePark B.S. 'innovation' of those other guys.
"...the performance overhead of libsafe is negligible. "
It doesn't slow you down much either.
There was a recent StraightDope column about perverted statistical anomalies used to bolster a media spin political position, Does violence against women rise 40% during the Super Bowl?
that habitual users of Msft products show a definite increase in agressive marketing behavior, with a marked tendancy toward intrusive advertising, spam, telemarketing and development of a pathological ability to overhype the capabilities of their software while obscuring and concealing bugs, blaming others and evading responsibility for it's defects.
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How about, everyone who feels cheated read the pub, if you see your post, put in a claim for a share of the books' profits that you don't want to go to someone's favorite charity - there should be some ways of verifying ID and that you actually did write it.
However there's definitely the stench of hipocritical narcisstic solipsism - anything *you* create *I* want to be able to use anyway I want, but anything *I* create I want to control and regulate. Pfft. I'm not a professional writer, and anything I post anywhere is gratis and would be pleased to see it get mass attention, just as long as it's credited to my handle or 'a slashdot discussion contributor', and nobody outright claims to have written it verbatim. I'd even allow for subconscious plaigurism - i.e., someone reads my post, forgets about it, and later on repeats a part as if they'd thought of it. That's just saying they pretty deeply agree.
The misguided millions who understand little about computers, gaming, networking, and other intellectual persuits, and who consider it a breeding ground for pathological criminals are the one's in need of enlightenment - hopefully they can turn off the sleeze-TV long enough to even read.
As a kid I used to stay in the library to dodge bullies, jocks and other wild animals - they didn't fit in there.