I think Youtube has proved that we don't need to pay for Hollywood's overbudget films to be entertained.
I'm not going to argue right or wrong on the subject of d'ling something that usually costs way to much. I'm just saying that I can go to Youtube and be entertained by stupid little movies made by independant people for NOTHING.
1. The registry. Allowing programs to hide things in a big encyclopedia of keys and values is just plain stupid. What happened to.txt and.bin files? Uh, nothing. They're still just fine, MS! Putting all your eggs in one basket, the registry, is never secure. I don't have any idea what made MS rise to this height of stupidity, but it alone is enough for me to hate them.
2. I hate when my computer doesn't obey me. Windoze hides things from the user and it tells the user what it can and cannot do. A computer should be a slave, not a master.
3. IE. Even with the new version, I still hate this program. Why do I need to be warned that I'm on a secure website? Shouldn't that be a good thing? They've just begun to catch up with the OSS world in the UI dept., and when they finally did get tabbed browsing, I'm sure they didn't give credit to any OSS web browser for ripping it off them. I don't know who was the first, but I know it wasn't MS.
So, the registry, lack of control, and IE. There you go. Even if MS fixed everything thats wrong with their software, LOL, they would still have a registry and they would still cheat and steal.
You just solved my problem. Two days ago, I ordered Suse 10.2beta and Slackware 11.0. I couldn't figure out which I would try first. I had heard that Suse was originally just a German translation of Slackware, so I was going to use the more originial of the two. But, then, I read a review of Suse that called it "the most complete Linux solution available", so then I was going to try Suse.
I understand that Novell has its butt to cover, but, a deal with M$? Really!!! Absurd!!! They may as well have shot themselves in both feet and jumped into the nearest shark-infested water as far as I'm concerned.
Slackware is going on my PC, and Suse is going in the trash. Or perhaps I should keep it around for later comparison with newly M$ tainted versions.
It would be interesting to see how Suse slowly rots away under the watchfull eye of Billy G. and his minions.
So, something that should work the way it did work worked that way?
Seems kinda like puting "Guy pees standing up!" in big bold letters on the front page of the New York Times. Yeah it may have actually happened, but is it really news, and does it really matter?
Time's up. No, no, no, no, no, NO! This does not matter to anyone, except of course that guy that was refunded.
if(rant=='end'); {endcmmt}; else; {endcmmt};
For those who are trying to figure out what language that was, don't hurt yourself. It's just remnants of C creaping in from my programming days, or day is probably more like it.
I'd like to know where I can get an AMD Duron for free, cause I just paid paid 70.00 USD for a mobo and CPU bundle with one in it. If your statement was a joke, I apologize for my lack of the common sixth sense, but if you know of a free one, PLEASE, point me in the right direction.
I'm sorry, but I'd have to disagree with the practice is everything idea.
I'm 18 years old now. When I was 17, I could take a piece of charcoal and paper and create something that was compared once to a black and white photograph. Now, before I was 17, I never used charcoal. I had only been using it for a month when I did the piece that was compared to a photo by a guy that worked as a graphic designer for Disney.
I know there will be people who don't believe that, but I really don't care. It's the truth, I know it happened, and because of it I think this "theory" is a load of bovine manure. No one, in their right mind, could say that I was good with charcoal because of practice, and surely not years of practice.
I am building a new PC this month, and this doesn't interest me at all. Having all these cores seems to me to only relate to a few people who run a lot of apps really hard. I'm mean really, how often do you need to play WoW, scan your PC for viruses, and compile an OS at the same time? It just doesn't make sense to me to put a ton of money into a bazillion core processor, when I've used my PII MMX for so long without thinking, "Hey, I sure wish I could run a bazillion apps at once." Nope, I think I'll stick go with an AMD Duron. Most bang for the buck as I see it.
Woops! We don't know who either of the contestants are.
Well, here's a delicious groundhog in a sack for each of your troubles. And remember, sometimes you need to change your oil more often than every 3,000 pot-holes.
I use Open Source everything on my computers, and I migrated from Windows98. I have to say, even when my Linux apps do have a problem, the need for the fix is almost always not the OS's or the program's fault, and it's easy to fix. Usually it's just a file download, and it was my fault that file wasn't there in the first place, because the OS told me that I needed the files when I installed the program. And if there is a problem in code and I don't want to wait for the dev team to fix it, I can try to fix it myself. Not an option with closed source, at least not legally.
So, for me at least, Open Source is simpler and works better than closed source programs.
I can't imagine that process and situation being complex for anyone.
That would be funny, if it weren't so blatently wrong. Vista run on cheap hardware? I don't think so.
I got an old PII 350mhz machine for absolutely nothing. Just because it was old, and by M$ standards not usable.
It's now running flawlessly with Puppy Linux. The desktop looks just as good as an XP, if you call XP good looking, and did I mention that it was free? Not just the PC but the OS as well. Doesn't get much cheaper than that. Oh, and it runs my M$ software too, thanks to Wine. Let's see Vista do that legally and run my favorite Linux apps.
As a 3D modeler, this doesn't sit right with me. Now, I'm nowhere near as good as professional CG artists, but even I know that a CG character can show just as much emotion and, in effect, act just as well as a human actor. So, have they not seen the newest Hulk movie, or are they just ignoring it? Granted, it wasn't a very good movie in most people's opinion, but it sure wasn't the CG artists' fault. I don't remember the totally CG Hulk saying much in the movie. So, you can't say that the voice of the actor did anything for the character. And since the character was completely done in a computer, the actor's acting skills didn't bring anything to the performance either. I'd say that's one for the CG artists.
MMO's are a bad trend, and one that needs to be channeled in a different direction. Massive online playable games are good, and are very engaging, but they need to become more than long, drawn-out time wasters and overflowing coffers of money... they need to become fun and exciting and to the point even if this comes at the expense of some profit.
Well, you may be somewhat happy to know that there is a new MMORPG in the making. The goal of the project is not to make money but to make a good game. The best part is that, unlike most games of its kind, it is being put together by gamers who code, model, and texture for the pure enjoyment of doing it.
If anyone would like to check it out, you can find it at the address below. There's also a forum.
Sorry about my slowness on the uptake. Sometimes my sixth sense doesn't work. And there you have my lame attempt at a joke. Your idea sounds better than what I had concluded, which was, uhh, not much of anything except that my computer took way too long to boot to be worth booting in the first place. So, I gave up and had an "HD reformatting to EXT2" party. Just as well. I like Linux better than any Windows version I've ever tried.
When will they learn. You CANNOT stop people from illegally getting something that they want. For two reasons.
1. There aren't very many reasons to buy something one can get for free. 2. There are a lot of unrecognised people who are really really smart and who have a ton of free time who make it possible for the rest of us to ignore those few reasons for buying something we can get for free.
As long as there are copy protection features there will be crackers. As someone very wise once said, "You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all. After all, we're all the same."
While I admit, mine was a special circumstance, it actually did take at least 5 minutes to boot. I don't know why, but it did. I'd stare so long at the Win98 boot logo, that I believe I could have fallen asleep. Maybe it was a hardware bug. The PC was designed to run Win95, so it's pretty old, but you can't make people believe that even though there's a sticker on the case. It came from a school. They will do anything to save a buck, and then they will complain about how their "new" computer is so slow. Of course, the user has no idea what an Operating System is, so you can't even explain WHY their computer is so slow. Oh, and SE is 'Second Edition', not 'Special Edition'. Believe me, there was nothing special about it.
Indeed. I have it running on the hd of a PII 350mhz machine with a joke of a video card and only 64mb ram, and it will fly. Takes no longer than a minute to boot. Win98SE, on the same PC, took 5-10 minutes just to get to the login screen. My only complaint, I repeat, my ONLY complaint with Puppy is that it refuses to detect my PCI card with USB 2.0 ports on it. So, I can't use my thumb drive, but I can live with that if it gets M$ out of my house.
Indeed. But, could cars not be put together in such a way that they fall apart in a crash rather than crumple up? Then, they could just be put back together again. For instance, a car made of Legos would be very hard to destroy, because the strength of the snap-together bonds is weaker than the strength of the blocks themselves. Don't call me an idiot yet. No, I'm not proposing a car made of Legos. But, surely the principle of a Lego car could work as well with carbon fiber or steel.
Indeed. I've seen one slide on its rear spoiler about 20 feet, and the spoiler and the car and the driver were all fine. Scratches, yes, but the shape of the car was not distorted much at all. In contrast, many cars that are considered safe take one hit and are finished. I think automakers should perhaps try worrying about the car as well as the driver in a crash. Because it seems that only the latter is thought of when crash testing. But, I guess that makes sense. More cars totalled = more cars purchased.
Some time ago, a company tried something like this with DVDs. They sold special players and special disks that could only be used in those players. You could only watch the movie X number of times before it wouldn't work anymore. My point? Has anyone heard of this in the past year from someone who liked it? My guess is no. Why would anyone rent a song, when downloading it for keeps, legaly or illegaly, is soooo cheap? It just wouldn't make any sense. I don't know who approved the funding for this new idea, but I'd like to talk to them. They just might fund my new company, "The Happy Donkey Natural Fertilizer Co.", where our slogan could be, "You step in it you buy it." (We're still working on that slogan.)
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Who was the idiot in that little story again?
I think Youtube has proved that we don't need to pay for Hollywood's overbudget films to be entertained.
I'm not going to argue right or wrong on the subject of d'ling something that usually costs way to much. I'm just saying that I can go to Youtube and be entertained by stupid little movies made by independant people for NOTHING.
And, better yet, there's no commercials.
You don't like MS, don't buy their stuff. Bottom line.
But, please stop calling "I hate MS! Grrrh, I'm so angry!", news. Can we do that, huh?
Ok I narrowed it down to 3 things.
1. The registry. Allowing programs to hide things in a big encyclopedia of keys and values is just plain stupid. What happened to .txt and .bin files? Uh, nothing. They're still just fine, MS! Putting all your eggs in one basket, the registry, is never secure. I don't have any idea what made MS rise to this height of stupidity, but it alone is enough for me to hate them.
2. I hate when my computer doesn't obey me. Windoze hides things from the user and it tells the user what it can and cannot do. A computer should be a slave, not a master.
3. IE. Even with the new version, I still hate this program. Why do I need to be warned that I'm on a secure website? Shouldn't that be a good thing? They've just begun to catch up with the OSS world in the UI dept., and when they finally did get tabbed browsing, I'm sure they didn't give credit to any OSS web browser for ripping it off them. I don't know who was the first, but I know it wasn't MS.
So, the registry, lack of control, and IE. There you go. Even if MS fixed everything thats wrong with their software, LOL, they would still have a registry and they would still cheat and steal.
So, they must be hated.
You just solved my problem. Two days ago, I ordered Suse 10.2beta and Slackware 11.0. I couldn't figure out which I would try first. I had heard that Suse was originally just a German translation of Slackware, so I was going to use the more originial of the two. But, then, I read a review of Suse that called it "the most complete Linux solution available", so then I was going to try Suse.
I understand that Novell has its butt to cover, but, a deal with M$? Really!!! Absurd!!! They may as well have shot themselves in both feet and jumped into the nearest shark-infested water as far as I'm concerned.
Slackware is going on my PC, and Suse is going in the trash. Or perhaps I should keep it around for later comparison with newly M$ tainted versions.
It would be interesting to see how Suse slowly rots away under the watchfull eye of Billy G. and his minions.
well well. corrected by an anonymous superior coder.
You go, anonymous coward! Hehe. Almost sound like an oxymoron, dudn it?
I guess you learn something old every day. I did mention the word "remnants" didn't I? Oh well. If you know it, show it.
Kudos to Anonymous Coward!
Let's just hope this guy is never in charge of NASA. I can hear it now.
"Our astronauts can hold their breath for so long, I just don't think we need onboard O2 tanks."
So, something that should work the way it did work worked that way?
Seems kinda like puting "Guy pees standing up!" in big bold letters on the front page of the New York Times. Yeah it may have actually happened, but is it really news, and does it really matter?
Time's up. No, no, no, no, no, NO! This does not matter to anyone, except of course that guy that was refunded.
if(rant=='end'); {endcmmt}; else; {endcmmt};
For those who are trying to figure out what language that was, don't hurt yourself. It's just remnants of C creaping in from my programming days, or day is probably more like it.
I'd like to know where I can get an AMD Duron for free, cause I just paid paid 70.00 USD for a mobo and CPU bundle with one in it.
If your statement was a joke, I apologize for my lack of the common sixth sense, but if you know of a free one, PLEASE, point me in the right direction.
I'm sorry, but I'd have to disagree with the practice is everything idea.
I'm 18 years old now. When I was 17, I could take a piece of charcoal and paper and create something that was compared once to a black and white photograph. Now, before I was 17, I never used charcoal. I had only been using it for a month when I did the piece that was compared to a photo by a guy that worked as a graphic designer for Disney.
I know there will be people who don't believe that, but I really don't care. It's the truth, I know it happened, and because of it I think this "theory" is a load of bovine manure. No one, in their right mind, could say that I was good with charcoal because of practice, and surely not years of practice.
I am building a new PC this month, and this doesn't interest me at all.
Having all these cores seems to me to only relate to a few people who run a lot of apps really hard. I'm mean really, how often do you need to play WoW, scan your PC for viruses, and compile an OS at the same time? It just doesn't make sense to me to put a ton of money into a bazillion core processor, when I've used my PII MMX for so long without thinking, "Hey, I sure wish I could run a bazillion apps at once."
Nope, I think I'll stick go with an AMD Duron. Most bang for the buck as I see it.
Ding, ding, ding!
And the winner is.....
Woops! We don't know who either of the contestants are.
Well, here's a delicious groundhog in a sack for each of your troubles. And remember, sometimes you need to change your oil more often than every 3,000 pot-holes.
I use Open Source everything on my computers, and I migrated from Windows98. I have to say, even when my Linux apps do have a problem, the need for the fix is almost always not the OS's or the program's fault, and it's easy to fix. Usually it's just a file download, and it was my fault that file wasn't there in the first place, because the OS told me that I needed the files when I installed the program. And if there is a problem in code and I don't want to wait for the dev team to fix it, I can try to fix it myself. Not an option with closed source, at least not legally.
So, for me at least, Open Source is simpler and works better than closed source programs.
I can't imagine that process and situation being complex for anyone.
That would be funny, if it weren't so blatently wrong. Vista run on cheap hardware? I don't think so.
I got an old PII 350mhz machine for absolutely nothing. Just because it was old, and by M$ standards not usable.
It's now running flawlessly with Puppy Linux. The desktop looks just as good as an XP, if you call XP good looking, and did I mention that it was free? Not just the PC but the OS as well. Doesn't get much cheaper than that. Oh, and it runs my M$ software too, thanks to Wine. Let's see Vista do that legally and run my favorite Linux apps.
As a 3D modeler, this doesn't sit right with me. Now, I'm nowhere near as good as professional CG artists, but even I know that a CG character can show just as much emotion and, in effect, act just as well as a human actor.
So, have they not seen the newest Hulk movie, or are they just ignoring it? Granted, it wasn't a very good movie in most people's opinion, but it sure wasn't the CG artists' fault.
I don't remember the totally CG Hulk saying much in the movie. So, you can't say that the voice of the actor did anything for the character. And since the character was completely done in a computer, the actor's acting skills didn't bring anything to the performance either.
I'd say that's one for the CG artists.
How do I know this.
I'm his uncle. We went wolverine hunting once.
Well, you may be somewhat happy to know that there is a new MMORPG in the making. The goal of the project is not to make money but to make a good game. The best part is that, unlike most games of its kind, it is being put together by gamers who code, model, and texture for the pure enjoyment of doing it.
If anyone would like to check it out, you can find it at the address below. There's also a forum.
http://www.etherea-dg.com/Sorry about my slowness on the uptake. Sometimes my sixth sense doesn't work. And there you have my lame attempt at a joke.
Your idea sounds better than what I had concluded, which was, uhh, not much of anything except that my computer took way too long to boot to be worth booting in the first place.
So, I gave up and had an "HD reformatting to EXT2" party. Just as well. I like Linux better than any Windows version I've ever tried.
Kinda like when M$ just made a good OS, right?
Ahh, for the days of DOS.
When will they learn.
You CANNOT stop people from illegally getting something that they want. For two reasons.
1. There aren't very many reasons to buy something one can get for free.
2. There are a lot of unrecognised people who are really really smart and who have a ton of free time who make it possible for the rest of us to ignore those few reasons for buying something we can get for free.
As long as there are copy protection features there will be crackers. As someone very wise once said, "You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all. After all, we're all the same."
While I admit, mine was a special circumstance, it actually did take at least 5 minutes to boot. I don't know why, but it did. I'd stare so long at the Win98 boot logo, that I believe I could have fallen asleep.
Maybe it was a hardware bug. The PC was designed to run Win95, so it's pretty old, but you can't make people believe that even though there's a sticker on the case. It came from a school. They will do anything to save a buck, and then they will complain about how their "new" computer is so slow. Of course, the user has no idea what an Operating System is, so you can't even explain WHY their computer is so slow.
Oh, and SE is 'Second Edition', not 'Special Edition'. Believe me, there was nothing special about it.
Indeed.
I have it running on the hd of a PII 350mhz machine with a joke of a video card and only 64mb ram, and it will fly. Takes no longer than a minute to boot. Win98SE, on the same PC, took 5-10 minutes just to get to the login screen.
My only complaint, I repeat, my ONLY complaint with Puppy is that it refuses to detect my PCI card with USB 2.0 ports on it. So, I can't use my thumb drive, but I can live with that if it gets M$ out of my house.
Indeed. But, could cars not be put together in such a way that they fall apart in a crash rather than crumple up? Then, they could just be put back together again.
For instance, a car made of Legos would be very hard to destroy, because the strength of the snap-together bonds is weaker than the strength of the blocks themselves. Don't call me an idiot yet. No, I'm not proposing a car made of Legos. But, surely the principle of a Lego car could work as well with carbon fiber or steel.
Indeed. I've seen one slide on its rear spoiler about 20 feet, and the spoiler and the car and the driver were all fine.
Scratches, yes, but the shape of the car was not distorted much at all.
In contrast, many cars that are considered safe take one hit and are finished.
I think automakers should perhaps try worrying about the car as well as the driver in a crash. Because it seems that only the latter is thought of when crash testing. But, I guess that makes sense. More cars totalled = more cars purchased.
Some time ago, a company tried something like this with DVDs. They sold special players and special disks that could only be used in those players. You could only watch the movie X number of times before it wouldn't work anymore.
My point? Has anyone heard of this in the past year from someone who liked it? My guess is no.
Why would anyone rent a song, when downloading it for keeps, legaly or illegaly, is soooo cheap? It just wouldn't make any sense. I don't know who approved the funding for this new idea, but I'd like to talk to them. They just might fund my new company, "The Happy Donkey Natural Fertilizer Co.", where our slogan could be, "You step in it you buy it." (We're still working on that slogan.)