I'm not sure which builds exactly, but I know I tried three times, and failed three times to put Vista (Beta2 and RC1) on VPC and failed three times.
Worked for each buold first time on VMWare.
I mean come on M$! Its hard not to flamebait, when they're just failing so badly. What do they think all the developers of the world are going to do with their pre-public releases?
Its been slow ever since it got a load of press on the BBC. I hope the get a few more servers soon, as it really is starting to be quite fun chatting to it/him. Almost spooky at time, but still lots of silly left field remarks that don't make any sense.
Re the pictures. I like the message on the side of the electronics. "Harmless Scientific experiment...".
You can just see the kind of flap someone in Cambridge could get in if the found a small box with a battery and a bunch of wires hanging out, on the roof of their car in the morning. Tee hee
Soon it will be all you can have, is why. If they keep imposing new changes as critical updates, that lock you into the vista way of doing things, then they've done it again. This kind of move, combind with making IE7 a "security update", and making security updates manditory in order to run latest version of x, Y and z, and so on... This is more pernicious than locking you in. They're more like drug pusher tactics. 2000, was majuana, XP - Cocaine. Here comes smack, and theres no going back...
Or it could be really cool. You know, all shiney and stuff.
... I agree. This is hillarious for me, as I litterally just finished a rant to my wife about how stupid MySpace were for not doing exactly this (don't have to belive me - don't want a medal - but honestly, just minutes ago.).
Personally I can't stand MySpace, but this might even drag me to it.
What ARE you on about. Were you there? Have you seen large crowds before? It had little to do with Muslims as you keep suggesting. Yes there were some Muslims there, and Christians, and Jews and Hindus, and atheists. Infact I personally know someone from each of those denominations that was there. I've seen a crowd of 250,000 at Glastonbury. It was huge. The crowd in London was harder to juge as it was spread over many large roads, but it was many times the size of the Glasto crowd. And the majority were not Muslim. Wheather that has ANYTHING to do with this... And yes a Million is a huge number to turn out in protest! NOTHING has every brought such a crowd to british streets apart from the end of the second world war! Seriously, your way off there.
Well said. That is exactly what they should have done. There was NO threat from the crowd. There where (as with most large gathering) a couple of idiots doing silly things to inanimate objects. There was nothing to suggest that if AN officer, walked up and arrested those FEW, that the crowd somehow errupt into chaos. No. I was sitting (like most folk) having a ciggy. There were kids having their faces painted! With flowers! Really, there was no call for kevlar clad knights on riot trained monster horses (who had their own helmets!) to charge at anyone. The whole purpose was to scare everyone there into not going to another one. Apart from the trouble makers, who'll give them some good footage for the propoganda war. I also saw police covering their id badges. This is simply illegal. But are you going to make a citizen's arrest on 30 armed men? No. But some will to try and film their faces. And some of those will get arrested. The police state is here. Similar tactic were used by police during the minors strike, again to obvious political ends....
Like I said. I'm not a loony. Which means I'm a bit of both (or neither depending on how you look at it). I think that, that (trade issue) may have come under the Anti-Globalization banner. But really it doesn't matter to me. As I'm not anti-globalization either. The labels are for lazy thinkers. Of which there are many. Still, you'd think the US would be anti-capitalist by your reconning. As its the worst proponent of trade barriers against thoughs who are struggling most to compete. If you see what I mean.
Well - I did, but I still managed to miss them (jacuba just does the wiggly underlining, which isn't so easy to spot). Still - I've dedicated my working life to solving these problems - and you're just moaning on. Read this: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=192586&cid=158 13193 So am I lazy - no. Stupid - no. You? Seriously, how do you think you come across in all this? Offensive pedant at best. Enough already, I think you get the point, though your pride is stopping you from accepting it.
Dear Mr Coward. As you have gleefully referred to me as lazy, I'll tell you what I've been bothered to do about my problems. I've devised, developed and published the first AI psychometric test for dyslexia. An expert system if you will, for detecting what is often called the invisible disablity (though it seems you have the disadvantage here). It took me 3 years to make. All of which I funded. It is still in use, production and support, 4 years later. I've also created, many other pioneering methods of minimising the effect of my neurodivercity. Granted, that if I had been using my Phonstructor, I would have changed shaw for shore, for sure. But I don't have it on this machine. However, I am developing a web base version using Ajax and favelets that would mean I'll have this ability anywhere I am on-line. So, I am doing more than most I dare say, to over come this terrible affliction you have. If you can't be bothered to google phonstructor, here: http://read-e.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_conte nt&task=view&id=36&Itemid=59
But seriously, you have the right to offend me, just not the ability in this case. If you don't know which lexicon is the correct denotation for a particular homophone, spell checkers can't figure it for you - you just have to 'know'. And I don't. At least I'm big enough to accept this. Read my sig for further...
To all the spell checker trolls. I don't always have the time or opportunity to use one, but actually I did. "Off Shaw" is NOT a misspelling according to a spell checker. Its a homophone, which means that to correct it (and anyother such mistake) I'd have to look up every word I typed in a dictionary. If you were bothered to take your prescribed anti-moron pills, then you would realise this.
btw for people who would like to use a spellchecker on sites like this, but don't always have access to a browser with spell-checking available, try Jacuba.com
and to the healthy band of trolls that have gathered, go find your pills.
Having been on the receiving end of the police at demonstrations myself, I doubt very much that they charged "for no reason at all". They're not stupid, and not likely to endanger themselves and their horses because it's fun. You might not have been aware of it, but I bet someone was throwing rocks or worse.
Sure enough this is usually the case. And may have been the case. But I personally gave them no reason to charge at me personally, which was my issue with them. And sometimes they do just to it to "control the crowd", which of course is double speak for Enrage the crowd into making "the first move".
Well, I've also seen crowds of demonstrators unlawfully destroying property... If it was your job to uphold the law, and protect the people and property that have nothing whatsoever to do with the issue at hand, what would you do? Let the idiots run riot until they get tired?
Yes. Why? I'm the public too! Shouldn't they be pretecting me?
Forgive me for being cynicsl, but if you can't even spell off-shore then I doubt you understand the concepts, or have the solution.
cyni-what?? Read my sig!
It's called Anarcho-Syndicalism. Great idea. Not so sure if it will work in practice - do you have any idea how bad local politics can be?
No it isn't, but it's close, and yes I do, and again - isn't it worth trying? Building Slashdot must have been tricky. But I'm glad they managed.
Change your personal behaviour [do you buy fair trade everytime you have the choice? yes do you use public transport at every opportunity, even if it's inconvenient? I've telecomuted for 7 years, and risked employment to do so. Do you write to your MP? no he's a moron Do you give a proportion of your income to charity? no I donate my time. more than 3 years of it so far Did you vote at the last election? yes I walked 3 miles to do so. I hope that answers your questions.
This is entirely the issue. If the government punishes and hides dissident remarks, then the people will find a platform for their voice.
Here in the UK (sorry I started my last post like this, but its where I am), the vast majority opposed the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. When Iraq kicked off, a MILLION people marched. For a small island, that's a lot of people marching. And yet Tony the Marvellous still blundered off, on the coat tails of Bush. What are we supposed to do? How are the people supposed to protect themselves against the actions of their owngovernment, without breaking the law. The government MAKES the law. And is doing so at an alarming rate. It is inevitable that this form of action, and worse, will happen. If the Government fails to listen to the voice of the people. And they're already ignoring us.
"The road leading up to true communism was centralised. The centralised powers tend to not want to dismantle themselves after the revolution they fight for, so communism never takes over and the people get fucked over by a new dictatorship. It's too bad, really; communism could have been a good idea if it could have addressed the problems of human greed."
A good point well raised. So a solution to this must be designed into the system, before it goes live. Not easy, but doable. Corruption is always a problem. But if you spread the power wide enough quickly enough, it should be far less of an issue than in pre web attempts at centralised communism, and the current fascist (for want of a better word) governance emerging in the US and a slightly lesser degree UK.
And again, my proposal is decentralised. So not communism at all, as ithascome tobeknown.From the outset, if we get the DNA right, we'll grow a better governance.
Seriously, if you don't like what you've got, change it.
Climbing the gates is not to be lauded in my opinion. But yes, you've seen those horses! They're no Blackpool donkeys, that's for sure! And I certainly believe in your (and my) right to march, and not be charged at by those guys. I wasn't aware enough back then to march the Criminally Unjustifiable Bill of 94, but was there in spirit. It is still a stain on our laws. And al because we like to party...
I agree completely. This is a better wording of my thoughts. So who are these 'others'? Got any links? I've found a few myself, but am still trying to go through them. I've even been involved in the design of some related systems, which where funded by government (Canadian), again, ironically enough.
The money thing is an issue. However, this issue is tending towards our goal, not away. The first popular resources that could be easily shared using the Internet were songs and other digital info and property. 'free' sharing of music, far out ways the more traditionally capitalist driven model of distribution.
If we make it just as easy to swap, methods of education, home and neighbourhood security, health care (maybe not surgery, but care for the elderly, and other more doable stuff), energy (LOTS can be done here)...
My best guess is to do as much as you can without the need for tokens, to start building the structure of the system. Then introduce tax free tokens, so that one day, we might be able to convince a surgeon with his own practise to perform a life saving op, in return for etokens amassed by some guy with a wind generator, supplying electricity to his neighbours. If MMOGs can do it, then surely something a little more pressing (like our real life freedom) could inspire something equally robust.
This is not the police's fault. Its the Government's. And the judicial system's. Otherwise why are these cops not in the doc? And I'm not suggesting sweaping changes. I'm suggesting we slowly build our own system.
I'm in the UK, and I've seen this and worse happen for years. At an anti capitalist demo (I'm not a loony, but I do think some of the issues raised at those demos need to be raised - like subsidising the third world out of the world markets etc... but lets not go off topic)I've been charged at by police on horses FOR NO REASON AT ALL!.
And yes I've seen cameras blocked, and their owners arrested. I've seen the unlawful detainment of hundreds of demonstrators (I would have been one of them, if I hadn't been light on my feet, and had a friend to help me over a piked fence. Ironically the fence of the Royal Courts of Justice I believe).
So its not news, that there's a problem. But whats the solution?
I propose that a form of open source decentralised government evolve that slowly but surely makes the centralized government more and more obsolete. Leaching the power from centralised government will force them to be more democratic, and less hyopocrytical. I hope.
Of course "what about the money"?!?!
Well - taxes can be legaly sidestepped. Previously it was only the rich who could afford off shaw accounts etc... With this shiny new interweb of ours, we can build open source solutions to tax, for the masses!
So - imagine a karma system generating elected, regional education 'node leaders', for home and comunity eductator to amasses comparible resources as those in state schools. Now health, security, transport, energy,....
Yes this might sound wacky, but there's nothing stopping us trying. And I'm sick of the winging in here. YES your government is crap! Do something!
"The presentation of those ideas - structure, grammar, spelling - is the only way to judge the person as a rhetor. I am defining a rhetor as an eloquent communicator."
In which case you've been arguing a tautology all this time. Mechanicaly and determanistically regurgitating logical and linguistic vocabulary. Which goes little way to solving anything. But I refute this, as a rhetor of nonsense, is of no merit as a rhetor, in my mind.
"A poorly written opinion must overcome two obstacles in order to be heard: First, the impression that the author is careless or foolish," This is precisely the prejudiced ignorance I would like to see lessened, not encouraged. Saying, such ignorance is inevitable, is careless in itself. Ironically the accusation being levelled at me, when such erroneous opinions are formed of me. I think you accept this is not so. So please don't perpetuate this misconception.
"Anyone wishing to be heard would be wise not to create such obstacles."
Please read about dyslexia. If you were mindful of it, you would be as embarrassed to say this to me, as you would "you would be wise to walk up those stairs" to a wheelchair user.
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I'm not sure which builds exactly, but I know I tried three times, and failed three times to put Vista (Beta2 and RC1) on VPC and failed three times. Worked for each buold first time on VMWare. I mean come on M$! Its hard not to flamebait, when they're just failing so badly. What do they think all the developers of the world are going to do with their pre-public releases?
Its been slow ever since it got a load of press on the BBC. I hope the get a few more servers soon, as it really is starting to be quite fun chatting to it/him. Almost spooky at time, but still lots of silly left field remarks that don't make any sense.
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Bit like
Re the pictures. I like the message on the side of the electronics. "Harmless Scientific experiment...".
You can just see the kind of flap someone in Cambridge could get in if the found a small box with a battery and a bunch of wires hanging out, on the roof of their car in the morning. Tee hee
Soon it will be all you can have, is why. If they keep imposing new changes as critical updates, that lock you into the vista way of doing things, then they've done it again. This kind of move, combind with making IE7 a "security update", and making security updates manditory in order to run latest version of x, Y and z, and so on... This is more pernicious than locking you in. They're more like drug pusher tactics. 2000, was majuana, XP - Cocaine. Here comes smack, and theres no going back... Or it could be really cool. You know, all shiney and stuff.
Of course, none of them want to deal with the disabled-accessability part
Hows THIS for a turn up for the books then. An Ajax Screen Reader.
... I agree. This is hillarious for me, as I litterally just finished a rant to my wife about how stupid MySpace were for not doing exactly this (don't have to belive me - don't want a medal - but honestly, just minutes ago.).
Personally I can't stand MySpace, but this might even drag me to it.
What ARE you on about. Were you there? Have you seen large crowds before? It had little to do with Muslims as you keep suggesting. Yes there were some Muslims there, and Christians, and Jews and Hindus, and atheists. Infact I personally know someone from each of those denominations that was there. I've seen a crowd of 250,000 at Glastonbury. It was huge. The crowd in London was harder to juge as it was spread over many large roads, but it was many times the size of the Glasto crowd. And the majority were not Muslim. Wheather that has ANYTHING to do with this... And yes a Million is a huge number to turn out in protest! NOTHING has every brought such a crowd to british streets apart from the end of the second world war! Seriously, your way off there.
Bingo!
Well said. That is exactly what they should have done. There was NO threat from the crowd. There where (as with most large gathering) a couple of idiots doing silly things to inanimate objects. There was nothing to suggest that if AN officer, walked up and arrested those FEW, that the crowd somehow errupt into chaos. No. I was sitting (like most folk) having a ciggy. There were kids having their faces painted! With flowers! Really, there was no call for kevlar clad knights on riot trained monster horses (who had their own helmets!) to charge at anyone. The whole purpose was to scare everyone there into not going to another one. Apart from the trouble makers, who'll give them some good footage for the propoganda war. I also saw police covering their id badges. This is simply illegal. But are you going to make a citizen's arrest on 30 armed men? No. But some will to try and film their faces. And some of those will get arrested. The police state is here. Similar tactic were used by police during the minors strike, again to obvious political ends....
Like I said. I'm not a loony. Which means I'm a bit of both (or neither depending on how you look at it). I think that, that (trade issue) may have come under the Anti-Globalization banner. But really it doesn't matter to me. As I'm not anti-globalization either. The labels are for lazy thinkers. Of which there are many. Still, you'd think the US would be anti-capitalist by your reconning. As its the worst proponent of trade barriers against thoughs who are struggling most to compete. If you see what I mean.
Interesting. How long before the Tax man comes for me now then? :)
Anyway, off shore accounts may be a bad example. But there are ways and means. And if they're not, we'll make them.
Well - I did, but I still managed to miss them (jacuba just does the wiggly underlining, which isn't so easy to spot). Still - I've dedicated my working life to solving these problems - and you're just moaning on. Read this: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=192586&cid=158 13193 So am I lazy - no. Stupid - no. You? Seriously, how do you think you come across in all this? Offensive pedant at best. Enough already, I think you get the point, though your pride is stopping you from accepting it.
Dear Mr Coward. As you have gleefully referred to me as lazy, I'll tell you what I've been bothered to do about my problems. I've devised, developed and published the first AI psychometric test for dyslexia. An expert system if you will, for detecting what is often called the invisible disablity (though it seems you have the disadvantage here). It took me 3 years to make. All of which I funded. It is still in use, production and support, 4 years later. I've also created, many other pioneering methods of minimising the effect of my neurodivercity. Granted, that if I had been using my Phonstructor, I would have changed shaw for shore, for sure. But I don't have it on this machine. However, I am developing a web base version using Ajax and favelets that would mean I'll have this ability anywhere I am on-line. So, I am doing more than most I dare say, to over come this terrible affliction you have. If you can't be bothered to google phonstructor, here: http://read-e.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_conte nt&task=view&id=36&Itemid=59
read this stupid: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=192586&cid=158 13006
But seriously, you have the right to offend me, just not the ability in this case. If you don't know which lexicon is the correct denotation for a particular homophone, spell checkers can't figure it for you - you just have to 'know'. And I don't. At least I'm big enough to accept this. Read my sig for further...
To all the spell checker trolls. I don't always have the time or opportunity to use one, but actually I did. "Off Shaw" is NOT a misspelling according to a spell checker. Its a homophone, which means that to correct it (and anyother such mistake) I'd have to look up every word I typed in a dictionary. If you were bothered to take your prescribed anti-moron pills, then you would realise this.
btw for people who would like to use a spellchecker on sites like this, but don't always have access to a browser with spell-checking available, try Jacuba.com
and to the healthy band of trolls that have gathered, go find your pills.
OOoooo a gritty one:
Having been on the receiving end of the police at demonstrations myself, I doubt very much that they charged "for no reason at all". They're not stupid, and not likely to endanger themselves and their horses because it's fun. You might not have been aware of it, but I bet someone was throwing rocks or worse.
Sure enough this is usually the case. And may have been the case. But I personally gave them no reason to charge at me personally, which was my issue with them. And sometimes they do just to it to "control the crowd", which of course is double speak for Enrage the crowd into making "the first move".
Well, I've also seen crowds of demonstrators unlawfully destroying property... If it was your job to uphold the law, and protect the people and property that have nothing whatsoever to do with the issue at hand, what would you do? Let the idiots run riot until they get tired?
Yes. Why? I'm the public too! Shouldn't they be pretecting me?
Forgive me for being cynicsl, but if you can't even spell off-shore then I doubt you understand the concepts, or have the solution.
cyni-what?? Read my sig!
It's called Anarcho-Syndicalism. Great idea. Not so sure if it will work in practice - do you have any idea how bad local politics can be?
No it isn't, but it's close, and yes I do, and again - isn't it worth trying? Building Slashdot must have been tricky. But I'm glad they managed.
Change your personal behaviour [do you buy fair trade everytime you have the choice?
yes
do you use public transport at every opportunity, even if it's inconvenient?
I've telecomuted for 7 years, and risked employment to do so.
Do you write to your MP?
no he's a moron
Do you give a proportion of your income to charity?
no I donate my time. more than 3 years of it so far
Did you vote at the last election?
yes I walked 3 miles to do so. I hope that answers your questions.
Mod up^
This is entirely the issue. If the government punishes and hides dissident remarks, then the people will find a platform for their voice.
Here in the UK (sorry I started my last post like this, but its where I am), the vast majority opposed the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. When Iraq kicked off, a MILLION people marched. For a small island, that's a lot of people marching. And yet Tony the Marvellous still blundered off, on the coat tails of Bush. What are we supposed to do? How are the people supposed to protect themselves against the actions of their owngovernment, without breaking the law. The government MAKES the law. And is doing so at an alarming rate. It is inevitable that this form of action, and worse, will happen. If the Government fails to listen to the voice of the people. And they're already ignoring us.
"The road leading up to true communism was centralised. The centralised powers tend to not want to dismantle themselves after the revolution they fight for, so communism never takes over and the people get fucked over by a new dictatorship. It's too bad, really; communism could have been a good idea if it could have addressed the problems of human greed."
A good point well raised. So a solution to this must be designed into the system, before it goes live. Not easy, but doable. Corruption is always a problem. But if you spread the power wide enough quickly enough, it should be far less of an issue than in pre web attempts at centralised communism, and the current fascist (for want of a better word) governance emerging in the US and a slightly lesser degree UK.
And again, my proposal is decentralised. So not communism at all, as ithascome tobeknown.From the outset, if we get the DNA right, we'll grow a better governance.
Seriously, if you don't like what you've got, change it.
LOL - ok, a joke I don't mind (and yes I do know). The humourless literacy Nazis I could do without though!
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Again for those who actually think spelling is the most important part of communication, please read the whole of : http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=191914&thresh
Communism is centralised, and we didn't have the Internet.
Well said. And well done!
Climbing the gates is not to be lauded in my opinion. But yes, you've seen those horses! They're no Blackpool donkeys, that's for sure! And I certainly believe in your (and my) right to march, and not be charged at by those guys. I wasn't aware enough back then to march the Criminally Unjustifiable Bill of 94, but was there in spirit. It is still a stain on our laws. And al because we like to party...
I agree completely. This is a better wording of my thoughts. So who are these 'others'? Got any links? I've found a few myself, but am still trying to go through them. I've even been involved in the design of some related systems, which where funded by government (Canadian), again, ironically enough.
The money thing is an issue. However, this issue is tending towards our goal, not away. The first popular resources that could be easily shared using the Internet were songs and other digital info and property. 'free' sharing of music, far out ways the more traditionally capitalist driven model of distribution.
If we make it just as easy to swap, methods of education, home and neighbourhood security, health care (maybe not surgery, but care for the elderly, and other more doable stuff), energy (LOTS can be done here)...
My best guess is to do as much as you can without the need for tokens, to start building the structure of the system. Then introduce tax free tokens, so that one day, we might be able to convince a surgeon with his own practise to perform a life saving op, in return for etokens amassed by some guy with a wind generator, supplying electricity to his neighbours. If MMOGs can do it, then surely something a little more pressing (like our real life freedom) could inspire something equally robust.
Oh for crying out loud! I'M DYSLEXIC!!! http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=191914&cid=157 64157
Now if you have anything constructive to add....
This is not the police's fault. Its the Government's. And the judicial system's. Otherwise why are these cops not in the doc? And I'm not suggesting sweaping changes. I'm suggesting we slowly build our own system.
I'm in the UK, and I've seen this and worse happen for years. At an anti capitalist demo (I'm not a loony, but I do think some of the issues raised at those demos need to be raised - like subsidising the third world out of the world markets etc... but lets not go off topic)I've been charged at by police on horses FOR NO REASON AT ALL!.
And yes I've seen cameras blocked, and their owners arrested. I've seen the unlawful detainment of hundreds of demonstrators (I would have been one of them, if I hadn't been light on my feet, and had a friend to help me over a piked fence. Ironically the fence of the Royal Courts of Justice I believe).
So its not news, that there's a problem. But whats the solution?
I propose that a form of open source decentralised government evolve that slowly but surely makes the centralized government more and more obsolete. Leaching the power from centralised government will force them to be more democratic, and less hyopocrytical. I hope.
Of course "what about the money"?!?!
Well - taxes can be legaly sidestepped. Previously it was only the rich who could afford off shaw accounts etc... With this shiny new interweb of ours, we can build open source solutions to tax, for the masses!
So - imagine a karma system generating elected, regional education 'node leaders', for home and comunity eductator to amasses comparible resources as those in state schools. Now health, security, transport, energy,....
Yes this might sound wacky, but there's nothing stopping us trying. And I'm sick of the winging in here. YES your government is crap! Do something!
And thank you :)
Three points:
;)
"The presentation of those ideas - structure, grammar, spelling - is the only way to judge the person as a rhetor. I am defining a rhetor as an eloquent communicator."
In which case you've been arguing a tautology all this time. Mechanicaly and determanistically regurgitating logical and linguistic vocabulary. Which goes little way to solving anything. But I refute this, as a rhetor of nonsense, is of no merit as a rhetor, in my mind.
"A poorly written opinion must overcome two obstacles in order to be heard: First, the impression that the author is careless or foolish," This is precisely the prejudiced ignorance I would like to see lessened, not encouraged. Saying, such ignorance is inevitable, is careless in itself. Ironically the accusation being levelled at me, when such erroneous opinions are formed of me. I think you accept this is not so. So please don't perpetuate this misconception.
"Anyone wishing to be heard would be wise not to create such obstacles."
Please read about dyslexia. If you were mindful of it, you would be as embarrassed to say this to me, as you would "you would be wise to walk up those stairs" to a wheelchair user.
And anyway, snakes are cool