next thing I know Homeland Security will be rounding up all the EFF members for "potential attempts at IP terrorism"
well, then i'm screwed. perhaps it's time to start an "underground railroad" to help get us all out of the US and into a safe haven of some sort... maybe sweden.
It is more likely they will fork their own copy of one of the BSD's, probably FreeBSD, and then port all their own proprietary stuff on top of that.
i used to work with a bunch of former MS when i worked in seattle during the dotcom boom. our chief architect was an architect for MS. while it's completely possible that he was totally full of shit... he did say that the kernel team at MS was a bunch of freeBSD freaks, that the windows 2000 TCP/IP stack was largely borrowed from freeBSD, and that a good deal of MS's kernel development is done on freeBSD machines. i know that it's a conspiracy theory, but it is interesting to see that anytime there is speculation about large scale changes to windows, freeBSD always gets mentioned immediately.
In other words, once again, Apple will show them the way.
someone mentioned in another post that backwards compatibility was an issue. my retort was to mention vrrtualization/emulation. it would be ironic if MS adopted osX style emulation that let older binaries and libraries run essentailly unmodified on the new OS. ironic indeed.
Their biggest strength has always been backward compatability. Granted, it's never 100%, but it's generally better than anyone else's. Maintaining that level of backward compatability while completely migrating to an OS with a wholly different architecture?
thanks to virtualization backward compatibility could finally be 100%, especially if they come up with a way to virtualize individual apps... think NTVDM on steroids.
As someone who doesn't have an email address anymore, I really don't care about spam in the slightest, or the battle they go over to spam people.
i used to use email too. now i just send people internets. once they get an internet from me, they can respond with their own internets. sometimes it's slow and it takes two days for people to get their internets from me.
faking attacks is good training in case of a real attack. when i was in the army we were the victims of mock ambushes and raids all the time in the field... often at night or when we stopped to piss. it taught us to always be on alert. my second week of basic training i learned to stop pissing mid-stream. by the 6th week my default reaction to being awakened was to choke whatever woke me up. even now that i have been out of the army for 10 years i occasionally wake up from nightmares and look around for my M16. i am sure these kids have received the same benefits, and in their formative years no less.
You and your wife's inability to deal with problems in your marriage destroyed it.
i don't like that logic, it makes it sound like it's my fault... i much prefer arguments that leave me blameless and say that there is nothing wrong with me.
Only Jack Thompson believes that unbalanced people "train" for killing on these games.
anyone with an ounce of military training, or who has ever hunted, or even played paintball can tell you that videogame violence is nothing like real violence. video games are terrible training for real murder. real violence involves a lot of waiting, walking, running, and carrying heavy ammunition, and a lot of imperfect shots. a game can't show you how to load a gun, take the safety off, or to correct a malfunction. a car doesn't automatically blow up once you shoot it 5 times. real world violence is a lot more work than a videogame, and it isn't nearly as much fun.
I've heard that so many times about services which have actually revolutionised industries, many of those services are no longer in business but that didn't stop them being positive influences on the industry... Maybe this service won't be a massive hit, but to instantly dismiss an innovative idea is extremely stupid!
i agree. sometimes the first few iterations of an idea need to crash and burn before the market leaders can lead the way... like the monkeys they shoot into space to test the waters for space travel.
See, no problem. They don't even need to change the script.
brilliant! not providing effective support for linux costs the same as not providing support for windows. when you look at it that way, then inadequate training for corporate employees costs the same as well. i guess it should be noted that an unplugged computer won't boot regardless of the installed operting system.
i like the fact that ubuntu is brown... i think that is just in keeping with the latest advances in game design.
a lot of people who have tried Linux, tried it on their laptops. Unfortunately, when they couldn't get wireless working or their touch-pad acts funny, they give up and go back to Windows....With Dell shipping with Ubuntu, all hardware will work out of the box, thus further proving that Linux is a viable option.
well said. like 80% of the the "OMFG i need help" posts to every linux forum is from a n00b with one of the following:
arbitrary USB device (scanners mostly)
winmodem built into laptop (not so much nowadays)
wifi card built into laptop
3d video card
those are all stories that end in tragedy. not because they are impossible, but because no one wants to spend 6 hours getting something working.
i could survive with no modem, but wifi is a deal killer. i have two machines that i figured would always be windows: my gaming rig and my laptop. if i could get a working laptop with linux pre-installed and working (and a financing program! did you hear that?) that would be one less windows machine in the house.
then there'd be a flamewar about how Dell is still in bed with Microsoft.
Really, I expected it to be openSUSE for just that reason.
i expected ubuntu... it's easily the most popular desktop class distro out there, and canonical partners with vendors on it. dell is all about doing what's easiest. dell is famous for substituting low prices and speed for imagination, so i think ubuntu was a slam dunk. the question for me is how their "offshore apology service" will hande tech support calls for linux related issues.
i keeping with my assertion that ubuntu has ruined linux for elitist pricks like me, seeing ubuntu available on a dell is like the third horseman of the apocolypse (the first was linspire PCs for sale at walmart, the second was freeBSD for sale at staples). it's just a matter of time before the world collapses.
What I'd like to see in one of these studies is the establishment of the direction of the link, and whether the increase in violent thought patterns translated into action.
here is my purely anecdotal non-scientific take on that very subject.
there are a number of people in this world that don't think. i have two daughters, one is a thinker and one is not. my oldest is thoughtful and respectful and the other is constantly being lectured and punished for doing something without thinking. i don't want to go into a huge nature vs. nurture argument, but based on the past 11 years of having kids of my own, along with nieces and nephews, i have to say that there must be some sort of "thought gene" that enables people to see their place in the world around them.
in the case of video game inspired violence, if the person is missing the necessary "thought gene" that makes them aware of the consequences of their actions, aren't video games just the trigger for the tendencies that are already in place? wouldn't alchohol or drugs do the same thing?
my hypothetical question is can you identify the "thought gene" or whatever it is and see how games (or any addictive or potentially destructive behavior) affects those that have it versus those that don't?
that the election (and by proxy the election website) was not tampered with and that there was no need for a recount. what more proof do you people need?
project lilypad is a time warner thing in cincinnati... is lilypadusa like a prototype or something? i have heard about FON mostly in europe... they don't seem to have much density in the USA.
speaking of free access points for members, before lilypad in cincinnati, the local phone company cincinnati bell offers access to hotspots free for it's customers. the cinbell solution seems to be mostly gas stations and family restaurants.
in my family (three adults and two children) i am down to 4 computers personally (windows media box, linux VMWare box, WinTendo, linux file server) plus, my wife has one, my daughters share one and my little brother has one, and my wife and i share a laptop. that means in a family of 5 there are 8 computers. all of us play PC and console games, but the PC games are ruling the roost now (lord of the rings online, city of heroes, the sims2) so we are holding off on next generation consoles for the forseeable future. once the funds permit i will assemble a machine for my oldest daughter to play the sims on since the competition for computer time is getting out of hand. we are in a similar situation with the laptop since both my wife and i will be in school this fall.
they're called PC's... personal computers. most of the time they are used by only one person. it's fairly logical that a household with 5 humans in it would have at least 5 computers.
because windows and IE are great at concealing the fact that i only know how to code in javascript, and i don't do that very well either. netscape pukes over anything i write... even comments. also, security sounds pretentious and boring. webmasters are hip and exciting... why else would they call themselves webmasters?
the SCO business model is simply the application of public relations and litigation to a large scale version of the business model employed by that crackhead cousin of yours that shows up at family functions from time to time looking for cash: getting paid to go away.
the sheer number of crackhead cousins in the united states is evidence that this is a viable business model.
FTFS:
One of their specific goals is prosecution immunity for communications companies who comply with the program, a sheild for groups that violate privacy laws in turning over information to the NSA.
this sounds like an effort to sidestep the Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit against AT&T for particitpating in an illegal domestic spying program.
Took about 45 minutes for the server room to climb from 19 degrees operating temperature, to 55 degrees.
failed AC. worst. catastraphe. ever.
i inherited the IT operations for a small tissue bank and the server room (8 servers total, definitely less than 20 CPU's) was cooled by a single AC wall unit like you would see in the window of a house. the AC was on a UPS, but the thermostat went out on the AC over the christmas holiday. the AC continued to run full blast until it froze solid and the vent stopped blowing. the result was a server room over 100 degrees fahrenheit when i walked in, and an AC unit that was a block of ice with no ventillation. i got a few panicked pages from the servers before they shat themselves and turned off. thankfully there was no long term damage (that i was present for).
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well, then i'm screwed. perhaps it's time to start an "underground railroad" to help get us all out of the US and into a safe haven of some sort... maybe sweden.
i used to work with a bunch of former MS when i worked in seattle during the dotcom boom. our chief architect was an architect for MS. while it's completely possible that he was totally full of shit... he did say that the kernel team at MS was a bunch of freeBSD freaks, that the windows 2000 TCP/IP stack was largely borrowed from freeBSD, and that a good deal of MS's kernel development is done on freeBSD machines. i know that it's a conspiracy theory, but it is interesting to see that anytime there is speculation about large scale changes to windows, freeBSD always gets mentioned immediately.
someone mentioned in another post that backwards compatibility was an issue. my retort was to mention vrrtualization/emulation. it would be ironic if MS adopted osX style emulation that let older binaries and libraries run essentailly unmodified on the new OS. ironic indeed.
thanks to virtualization backward compatibility could finally be 100%, especially if they come up with a way to virtualize individual apps... think NTVDM on steroids.
i used to use email too. now i just send people internets. once they get an internet from me, they can respond with their own internets. sometimes it's slow and it takes two days for people to get their internets from me.
perhaps my subtle sarcasm should be accented with a borat style "NAHT!" at the end of every sentence i write. NAHT!
faking attacks is good training in case of a real attack. when i was in the army we were the victims of mock ambushes and raids all the time in the field... often at night or when we stopped to piss. it taught us to always be on alert. my second week of basic training i learned to stop pissing mid-stream. by the 6th week my default reaction to being awakened was to choke whatever woke me up. even now that i have been out of the army for 10 years i occasionally wake up from nightmares and look around for my M16. i am sure these kids have received the same benefits, and in their formative years no less.
i agree completely. unless i missed a third or fourth page where he explains how all that crazy crap ties in it was largely incoherent.
i don't like that logic, it makes it sound like it's my fault... i much prefer arguments that leave me blameless and say that there is nothing wrong with me.
anyone with an ounce of military training, or who has ever hunted, or even played paintball can tell you that videogame violence is nothing like real violence. video games are terrible training for real murder. real violence involves a lot of waiting, walking, running, and carrying heavy ammunition, and a lot of imperfect shots. a game can't show you how to load a gun, take the safety off, or to correct a malfunction. a car doesn't automatically blow up once you shoot it 5 times. real world violence is a lot more work than a videogame, and it isn't nearly as much fun.
i agree. sometimes the first few iterations of an idea need to crash and burn before the market leaders can lead the way... like the monkeys they shoot into space to test the waters for space travel.
brilliant! not providing effective support for linux costs the same as not providing support for windows. when you look at it that way, then inadequate training for corporate employees costs the same as well. i guess it should be noted that an unplugged computer won't boot regardless of the installed operting system.
i like the fact that ubuntu is brown... i think that is just in keeping with the latest advances in game design.
back doors in proprietary software? that's unpossible!
well said. like 80% of the the "OMFG i need help" posts to every linux forum is from a n00b with one of the following:
- arbitrary USB device (scanners mostly)
- winmodem built into laptop (not so much nowadays)
- wifi card built into laptop
- 3d video card
those are all stories that end in tragedy. not because they are impossible, but because no one wants to spend 6 hours getting something working.i could survive with no modem, but wifi is a deal killer. i have two machines that i figured would always be windows: my gaming rig and my laptop. if i could get a working laptop with linux pre-installed and working (and a financing program! did you hear that?) that would be one less windows machine in the house.
i expected ubuntu... it's easily the most popular desktop class distro out there, and canonical partners with vendors on it. dell is all about doing what's easiest. dell is famous for substituting low prices and speed for imagination, so i think ubuntu was a slam dunk. the question for me is how their "offshore apology service" will hande tech support calls for linux related issues.
i keeping with my assertion that ubuntu has ruined linux for elitist pricks like me, seeing ubuntu available on a dell is like the third horseman of the apocolypse (the first was linspire PCs for sale at walmart, the second was freeBSD for sale at staples). it's just a matter of time before the world collapses.
here is my purely anecdotal non-scientific take on that very subject.
there are a number of people in this world that don't think. i have two daughters, one is a thinker and one is not. my oldest is thoughtful and respectful and the other is constantly being lectured and punished for doing something without thinking. i don't want to go into a huge nature vs. nurture argument, but based on the past 11 years of having kids of my own, along with nieces and nephews, i have to say that there must be some sort of "thought gene" that enables people to see their place in the world around them.
in the case of video game inspired violence, if the person is missing the necessary "thought gene" that makes them aware of the consequences of their actions, aren't video games just the trigger for the tendencies that are already in place? wouldn't alchohol or drugs do the same thing?
my hypothetical question is can you identify the "thought gene" or whatever it is and see how games (or any addictive or potentially destructive behavior) affects those that have it versus those that don't?
that the election (and by proxy the election website) was not tampered with and that there was no need for a recount. what more proof do you people need?
project lilypad is a time warner thing in cincinnati... is lilypadusa like a prototype or something? i have heard about FON mostly in europe... they don't seem to have much density in the USA.
speaking of free access points for members, before lilypad in cincinnati, the local phone company cincinnati bell offers access to hotspots free for it's customers. the cinbell solution seems to be mostly gas stations and family restaurants.
the U.S. is a major exporter of crap.
there, i fixed it for you :-)
i call dibs on the victorian house on tank treads.
in my family (three adults and two children) i am down to 4 computers personally (windows media box, linux VMWare box, WinTendo, linux file server) plus, my wife has one, my daughters share one and my little brother has one, and my wife and i share a laptop. that means in a family of 5 there are 8 computers. all of us play PC and console games, but the PC games are ruling the roost now (lord of the rings online, city of heroes, the sims2) so we are holding off on next generation consoles for the forseeable future. once the funds permit i will assemble a machine for my oldest daughter to play the sims on since the competition for computer time is getting out of hand. we are in a similar situation with the laptop since both my wife and i will be in school this fall.
they're called PC's... personal computers. most of the time they are used by only one person. it's fairly logical that a household with 5 humans in it would have at least 5 computers.
because windows and IE are great at concealing the fact that i only know how to code in javascript, and i don't do that very well either. netscape pukes over anything i write... even comments. also, security sounds pretentious and boring. webmasters are hip and exciting... why else would they call themselves webmasters?
the SCO business model is simply the application of public relations and litigation to a large scale version of the business model employed by that crackhead cousin of yours that shows up at family functions from time to time looking for cash: getting paid to go away.
the sheer number of crackhead cousins in the united states is evidence that this is a viable business model.
nice try, but everyone knows there was no fellatio involved in any of the firings of the federal prosecutors.
this sounds like an effort to sidestep the Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit against AT&T for particitpating in an illegal domestic spying program.
failed AC. worst. catastraphe. ever.
i inherited the IT operations for a small tissue bank and the server room (8 servers total, definitely less than 20 CPU's) was cooled by a single AC wall unit like you would see in the window of a house. the AC was on a UPS, but the thermostat went out on the AC over the christmas holiday. the AC continued to run full blast until it froze solid and the vent stopped blowing. the result was a server room over 100 degrees fahrenheit when i walked in, and an AC unit that was a block of ice with no ventillation. i got a few panicked pages from the servers before they shat themselves and turned off. thankfully there was no long term damage (that i was present for).