Torrents were flooded after the first 3 days of XP's release as I recall. I'm pretty sure that there are torrents of vista ultimate out there but never really cared to check. I'm counting the days for the next release for fedora to be released. Everything pretty much goes to Linux after that point. I have game consoles but only really care to play eve-online on Linux in the spare time. So everything is already set for the complete switchover. I could careless once the support is ended for XP. The only problem that's left for linux is setting up my bluetooth headset. Limited support for it but everything else works including my wifi card so I'm a happy penguin.
They've done it and it sucked. If you ever did the whole AOL, Prodigy thing years ago you know how much it sucks. Basically if you want to update your latest linux distro, you'll end up paying more for network usage than your average internet user. It would also hurt other companies like Sun, Google, Youtube and even Microsoft in the long run either due to video, SP/patch releases or just general software releases. In the end, you end up paying more and still have the same limitations on speed that people complain so much about right now.
I'm back and man, what a crazy experience. I saw the light of day and birds chirping. It was like I was on a Bawls binge or something. I'm sooooooo sorry Internet, do you forgive me? I'll never leave you again... promise. Now where's my ritalin and methamphetamine!!!
Yeah, it's fun getting to rewrite/recode pretty much anything within the OS. It's even more fun when it works the way you want an OS to run. It seems more and more I'm spending most of the time playing eve online on Linux so I'm pretty happy about that.:)
It's like beating a dead horse that smells like potpourri every time you hit it. Sure, you know it's wrong but it feels so right at the same time.
And yes, I will have to get another copy of the white album. For some weird reason I keep on losing the second album every single time I get a new copy.
You find them everywhere in all forms of societies. It goes beyond race, sex, age, affiliation and religion. There is always a form of oppression that can be found anywhere.
Go to Europe and visit the lower class sections. Of course when people go there they spend most of the time in the safe areas. Sometimes tourists go to the Red Light districts and have a heyday there. I'm not agreeing with the previous post that the EU is a dictator. They have had so much bad history altogether to learn from that mistake.
They still have problems with the Eastern Bloc (or what they like to call it now: Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)), not to mention what's going on in Serbia at the moment and if you don't think that's not going to affect the EU over time you are crazy.
I have mixed feelings about it because instead of suing Microsoft they might start suing other companies from the US because of technical advantages they might have. It's good that Microsoft is having to deal with their own sense of ego but how far can it go? With all love/. has been giving the EU recently, I have to worry about the liberal sentiment because as wonderful as the EU would like to portray itself, they are by far, not perfect. Europe is a wonderful place to visit, especially if you are multilingual. But one thing Europe is not is greener on the other side of the fence. Regardless of all the perks and quality of life they offer, things can change to suit their needs in time.
Yes the parent is small minded, I agree with my parent post on that point. There is a point to aggression though, just misguided. The first question is who will be able to gain access to the satellite? Can anyone subscribe or is it open for everyone? If it's open then won't the Chinese be able to access it for their own needs? If that's so then couldn't the Japanese monitor and gather information from a country that it has been in conflict for a long time? While there is a small bit of animosity for the US left because of World War II, they understand the limitations within the market. Especially the bureaucracy the US has setup for foreign interests within our own land. While it seems like it's an attempt for PR to show their efforts towards progression, who are they trying to show off to? The US? China? Europe? What does it mean for them in the long run? I'm raising a lot of questions here because things are changing quickly now and these questions need to be raised.
Yes, MS is primarily a software company. Then why are they so threatened by Google's marketing machine then? Probably because Google shelters a lot of patents and companies that hold patents that competes against MS.
Alright, it's been a while. I might need to dust off my cobwebs.
What is there to say about this? It really doesn't make too much sense because Microsoft is a company whose main focus has been on their operating system. I can understand MS wanting to adapt to an already mature market considering what they might lose if they don't. What does any of this mean really? Yahoo has done well with their deals they have made with various ISPs to help carry their brand name presence. Yahoo does have good presence overseas as well. There are die hard Yahoo fans out there that scoff at google. There are a lot of thing that Yahoo has done which has beat out google many times in innovation. Geocities was on of the first online hard drives / personal web space companies next to Tripod and AOL. They were one of the first to provide POP3 email accounts commercially to the general public for free. They had their own customized homepages, calenders, online note taking utilities and a whole slew of other innovations which took years for google to adopt. While most of the innovations are minor and pretty much found everywhere now, Yahoo has shown to be extremely active in terms of keeping up with current trends and developments. Yahoo has held its own and shows it by staying alive in the market. Microsoft could learn a lot from this company and to keep step with Google, they need someone like this on their side.
In terms of resources however, it still isn't a good enough reason to go through something like this. I don't care how big MS is, 44 billion is a lot of money even for them. The problem isn't in terms of how much they spend up front, it's how much they will spend in order to accommodate the merger. It will be several billion dollars more after Yahoo is acquired that will make the full transition complete. With the problems the market is having with Vista, Microsoft needs some sort of cash cow on their side in order to back them up with this merger. It's a very risky move on Microsoft's part to do something so big especially when the majority of Vista machines on the market are due to deals made with computer manufacturing companies like Dell, and Gateway. If individual sales of their product was stronger than there would be little risk involved but from where they stand now, it does blur the edges.
What is it in Brazil they use? I think it's sugar cane or something like that for ethanol. Should be some research to genetically alter sugar cane crops to grow in the states while producing a little more ethanol than what it can already produce. We'll see more nuclear energy in the next 50 years especially when certain companies wants to release their own personal nuclear reactors as posted on/. a couple of days ago. I agree, no shortage at all really.
Replication would have to come before teleportation. Building an object from scratch is better than tearing it apart with no idea of how to build it again. Processing power would have to handle extreme amounts of data which would act as a blueprint for a structures molecular design. With current commercial innovations, processing shouldn't be a problem.
IMHO, the nanobots will only work for a certain type of mentalities. Most of them will go insane, harm themselves or other people because they won't be able to handle it. To manually control aspects of the body using the mind through nanobots means you have to change how the brain processes time and a persons relationship to their body as an object. Today's psychology is very limited. There is a lot of conflict concerning the validity and political motives behind the fields true effectiveness. Nanobubbles, I think that's what they are called, would be a better solution. It's simple, practical and much more realistic. They can contain medicine and can be deployed with extreme precision. It's been on one of those 2050 shows some time back. Nanomachines can be tricky and it will take years, maybe decades for anyone to create a realistic model that will be safe for general human use.
Doubt that will happen. We'll automate labor markets before there's an influx of foreigners who might want to influence the country their own way. We'll put pressure on neighboring countries to meet certain international standards especially when a big heaping pile of real responsibility hits their laps. They won't have anywhere to turn except for our expertise and experience in those areas. We'll hold out on the deal until we will know that they will comply to our demands all the while helping their advisories. We've done this a lot.
Marriage will be almost non-existent
Relationships will change but they will go back and forth over the period of several decades with each change. Different motivating factors will prompt these changes. Homosexuality will be redefined while heterosexuality will be reinforced.
Government will be "responsible" for all the care-and-feeding of the large majority of the population, and will meet these responsibilities through ever-increasing taxation of the ever-shrinking productive members of society
Bioengineering of food will improve over the course of the next hundred years. You never know that they might create Replication technology like they have in Star Trek. They've been working on this for a while using a soup of atoms. It doesn't work but with the developments of processing technology, that will probably change within the next 50 to 100 years. Housing will force people to relocate into skyscrapers in a given area. Apartments will be bigger and more private. Home ownership will be for the wealthy.
For the productive members of society, they will focus efforts elsewhere on just maintaining a society. Space travel will become a more pertinent issue, not because of resources or any other form of competition, mainly because of the flexibility technology has provided for the human race. Of course there will be wars. Some that might wipe out the entire race but regardless of how bad it is, the technology will always remain. If it's wiped out one way or another, there will always be interest in order to bring it back. The steps taken to preserve that information have been extreme.
The military will be a small shadow of its former self
I hate to disappoint you but the military is stronger than it has ever been in the history of humanity. New technologies have been made which makes soldiers and artillery practically invisible. Weapons have been improved. Really the list of all the improvements in arsenal and training is really long. It would be very easy for the military to police the states in a matter of hours if needs be. If properly equipped the military would only need a handful of dedicated soldiers to take on a medium sized army. Why we don't do this with Iraq is because Iraq is a good place to work on training.
None of these points is really arguable.
The point of my reply is that everything is arguable. You can make baseless claims as good as the next guy. There is a lot about the present most people don't know or refuse to realize. People with agendas think they have an answer to help themselves but the reality is that most people have already thought of it before. What's the old saying, "There isn't anything in the world that hasn't been thought up already." It's sounds like you have a very pessimistic and limited view of the world you live in. Religious movements come and go and have done that for the past several thousand years. There are think tanks that spend time and money on all of this.
The dream of America will change. The 1950's idea will not exist. It never has, it never will. People are too human to create something like that to exist. People will always create mistakes, they will always let you down and they will surprise you from time to time. They will make breakthroughs, they wi
Personal preference more than anything. Ubuntu works for some but not for everyone. For me Ubuntu is too flaky and the community, while refreshing, can be about as stiff as any other out there. I'm not going to point fingers but some of the Ubuntu main contributors can be a little unpractical when solving problems. From my opinion, the community support I've encountered with fedora was almost non-existent or I was unaware of it completely. Their presence is a little more apparent now but like all communities they can be stiff.
I've kinda got stuck with Fedora and Red Hat. There were more RPMs that met my personal needs; driver support, development apps, etc. There has been more support for fedora/red hat apps without having to compile from source for as long as I can remember. deb systems can be hit and miss. I don't want to use some strangers compiled package. I would like to get packages from a reliable source. I don't want to compile packages every time there is an update. I don't want to watch RSS feeds to see when the updates are available. If I wanted to compile I would build from scratch. I'm not running my own distro here and to be honest it takes too much effort to do something like that. That's my argument for fedora.
For the CodecBuddy (Codeina Project Page), I'm disappointed. It's incomplete and its really called Codeina. The app doesn't do anything but inform the user of legal issues. It then redirects the user to a website to purchase from there. Codeina promises to install the codecs for you but in the end the user will have to do it manually. The app itself is hard to find but it's there. I haven't seen it popup on firstboot. I had to search for it in order to finally see what the whole hubbub was all about.
The whole respin is a good idea but falls apart when you attempt to use revisor. It's another incomplete project (ie.: current bug reports). I use kickstart with livecd-creator because they're stable and reliable. My biggest pet peeve with revisor is that you can only create livecd media. Installation respins fail regardless of architecture. Spinning a 64bit livecd from i386 desktop has been unavailable even though revisor provides options to do that type of task. Hopefully they fixed all of this with their last update from a few days back. I just don't have the time to check. It's a good idea but right now the command prompt app is the better choice.
With Ubuntu, the spins provided are based on either window managers or targets specific markets by generalizing what packages they might need. Respinning trims the fat from the bloat. Even then, Ubuntu has dependency hell written all over it (Ubuntu Desktop Package). I can't uninstall evolution without having to uninstall the majority of applications I need to have on my system. With Fedora and their respins I don't have to have it on my computer at all if I don't want it.
About the theme, it's alright but I still go to gnome-look.org/kde-look.org to get my themes. About PulseAudio: It runs. I still use jack, alsa, oss when it comes to running certain apps. It's seems like it might help with audio. I can't really tell, haven't had a problem with audio.
People complain a lot about RPM based systems. Apt is faster, that's a given. The Fedora team has improved yum quite a bit over the past couple of distros. Yum for FC6 was a pain and with SELinux, the whole update process was a bit of a chore. SELinux-corepolicies update pretty much fixes that problem. With Fedora it's always best to update from a terminal on firstboot. Just press ctrl+alt+f1, log into root, run "yum update" from there and it makes the process run much more smoothly. Afterwards, pup works great for updating the system. Yum is a lot faster than it used to be. On their site t
In my area digital cable runs about 15 USD plus basic cable which is required that runs at 41 USD. Total runs around 57 USD / month, change included. I pay 40 USD / month for broadband and hardly ever watch TV. TV is nice but with NBC streaming videos on the net and a host of other network streams out there, I hesitate to really invest in any kind of cable or satellite especially when I don't use it. The cost for the Hi-Def TV is worth it especially with connecting to my computers and there are ways making older analog TV's compatible with digital. Go to Radio Shack, they have a converter box/accessories for around 50 USD. My question is what's going to happen to analog band? Can it be used by the average Joe or will the government commandeer it for their own internal use?
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Torrents were flooded after the first 3 days of XP's release as I recall. I'm pretty sure that there are torrents of vista ultimate out there but never really cared to check. I'm counting the days for the next release for fedora to be released. Everything pretty much goes to Linux after that point. I have game consoles but only really care to play eve-online on Linux in the spare time. So everything is already set for the complete switchover. I could careless once the support is ended for XP. The only problem that's left for linux is setting up my bluetooth headset. Limited support for it but everything else works including my wifi card so I'm a happy penguin.
I'm back and man, what a crazy experience. I saw the light of day and birds chirping. It was like I was on a Bawls binge or something. I'm sooooooo sorry Internet, do you forgive me? I'll never leave you again... promise. Now where's my ritalin and methamphetamine!!!
I can quit anytime I want. All I have to do is hold down on this butt..
Yeah, it's fun getting to rewrite/recode pretty much anything within the OS. It's even more fun when it works the way you want an OS to run. It seems more and more I'm spending most of the time playing eve online on Linux so I'm pretty happy about that. :)
It's like beating a dead horse that smells like potpourri every time you hit it. Sure, you know it's wrong but it feels so right at the same time.
And yes, I will have to get another copy of the white album. For some weird reason I keep on losing the second album every single time I get a new copy.
You find them everywhere in all forms of societies. It goes beyond race, sex, age, affiliation and religion. There is always a form of oppression that can be found anywhere.
Go to Europe and visit the lower class sections. Of course when people go there they spend most of the time in the safe areas. Sometimes tourists go to the Red Light districts and have a heyday there. I'm not agreeing with the previous post that the EU is a dictator. They have had so much bad history altogether to learn from that mistake.
They still have problems with the Eastern Bloc (or what they like to call it now: Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)), not to mention what's going on in Serbia at the moment and if you don't think that's not going to affect the EU over time you are crazy.
I have mixed feelings about it because instead of suing Microsoft they might start suing other companies from the US because of technical advantages they might have. It's good that Microsoft is having to deal with their own sense of ego but how far can it go? With all love /. has been giving the EU recently, I have to worry about the liberal sentiment because as wonderful as the EU would like to portray itself, they are by far, not perfect. Europe is a wonderful place to visit, especially if you are multilingual. But one thing Europe is not is greener on the other side of the fence. Regardless of all the perks and quality of life they offer, things can change to suit their needs in time.
Actually, there's one better way. Use a CDRW: Burn, Rip, Erase disk, repeat.
Yes the parent is small minded, I agree with my parent post on that point. There is a point to aggression though, just misguided. The first question is who will be able to gain access to the satellite? Can anyone subscribe or is it open for everyone? If it's open then won't the Chinese be able to access it for their own needs? If that's so then couldn't the Japanese monitor and gather information from a country that it has been in conflict for a long time? While there is a small bit of animosity for the US left because of World War II, they understand the limitations within the market. Especially the bureaucracy the US has setup for foreign interests within our own land. While it seems like it's an attempt for PR to show their efforts towards progression, who are they trying to show off to? The US? China? Europe? What does it mean for them in the long run? I'm raising a lot of questions here because things are changing quickly now and these questions need to be raised.
Yes, MS is primarily a software company. Then why are they so threatened by Google's marketing machine then? Probably because Google shelters a lot of patents and companies that hold patents that competes against MS.
Alright, it's been a while. I might need to dust off my cobwebs.
What is there to say about this? It really doesn't make too much sense because Microsoft is a company whose main focus has been on their operating system. I can understand MS wanting to adapt to an already mature market considering what they might lose if they don't. What does any of this mean really? Yahoo has done well with their deals they have made with various ISPs to help carry their brand name presence. Yahoo does have good presence overseas as well. There are die hard Yahoo fans out there that scoff at google. There are a lot of thing that Yahoo has done which has beat out google many times in innovation. Geocities was on of the first online hard drives / personal web space companies next to Tripod and AOL. They were one of the first to provide POP3 email accounts commercially to the general public for free. They had their own customized homepages, calenders, online note taking utilities and a whole slew of other innovations which took years for google to adopt. While most of the innovations are minor and pretty much found everywhere now, Yahoo has shown to be extremely active in terms of keeping up with current trends and developments. Yahoo has held its own and shows it by staying alive in the market. Microsoft could learn a lot from this company and to keep step with Google, they need someone like this on their side.
In terms of resources however, it still isn't a good enough reason to go through something like this. I don't care how big MS is, 44 billion is a lot of money even for them. The problem isn't in terms of how much they spend up front, it's how much they will spend in order to accommodate the merger. It will be several billion dollars more after Yahoo is acquired that will make the full transition complete. With the problems the market is having with Vista, Microsoft needs some sort of cash cow on their side in order to back them up with this merger. It's a very risky move on Microsoft's part to do something so big especially when the majority of Vista machines on the market are due to deals made with computer manufacturing companies like Dell, and Gateway. If individual sales of their product was stronger than there would be little risk involved but from where they stand now, it does blur the edges.
What is it in Brazil they use? I think it's sugar cane or something like that for ethanol. Should be some research to genetically alter sugar cane crops to grow in the states while producing a little more ethanol than what it can already produce. We'll see more nuclear energy in the next 50 years especially when certain companies wants to release their own personal nuclear reactors as posted on /. a couple of days ago. I agree, no shortage at all really.
You're right, cleavage will never go out of style...
Replication would have to come before teleportation. Building an object from scratch is better than tearing it apart with no idea of how to build it again. Processing power would have to handle extreme amounts of data which would act as a blueprint for a structures molecular design. With current commercial innovations, processing shouldn't be a problem.
IMHO, the nanobots will only work for a certain type of mentalities. Most of them will go insane, harm themselves or other people because they won't be able to handle it. To manually control aspects of the body using the mind through nanobots means you have to change how the brain processes time and a persons relationship to their body as an object. Today's psychology is very limited. There is a lot of conflict concerning the validity and political motives behind the fields true effectiveness. Nanobubbles, I think that's what they are called, would be a better solution. It's simple, practical and much more realistic. They can contain medicine and can be deployed with extreme precision. It's been on one of those 2050 shows some time back. Nanomachines can be tricky and it will take years, maybe decades for anyone to create a realistic model that will be safe for general human use.
Doubt that will happen. We'll automate labor markets before there's an influx of foreigners who might want to influence the country their own way. We'll put pressure on neighboring countries to meet certain international standards especially when a big heaping pile of real responsibility hits their laps. They won't have anywhere to turn except for our expertise and experience in those areas. We'll hold out on the deal until we will know that they will comply to our demands all the while helping their advisories. We've done this a lot.
Relationships will change but they will go back and forth over the period of several decades with each change. Different motivating factors will prompt these changes. Homosexuality will be redefined while heterosexuality will be reinforced.
Bioengineering of food will improve over the course of the next hundred years. You never know that they might create Replication technology like they have in Star Trek. They've been working on this for a while using a soup of atoms. It doesn't work but with the developments of processing technology, that will probably change within the next 50 to 100 years. Housing will force people to relocate into skyscrapers in a given area. Apartments will be bigger and more private. Home ownership will be for the wealthy.
For the productive members of society, they will focus efforts elsewhere on just maintaining a society. Space travel will become a more pertinent issue, not because of resources or any other form of competition, mainly because of the flexibility technology has provided for the human race. Of course there will be wars. Some that might wipe out the entire race but regardless of how bad it is, the technology will always remain. If it's wiped out one way or another, there will always be interest in order to bring it back. The steps taken to preserve that information have been extreme.
I hate to disappoint you but the military is stronger than it has ever been in the history of humanity. New technologies have been made which makes soldiers and artillery practically invisible. Weapons have been improved. Really the list of all the improvements in arsenal and training is really long. It would be very easy for the military to police the states in a matter of hours if needs be. If properly equipped the military would only need a handful of dedicated soldiers to take on a medium sized army. Why we don't do this with Iraq is because Iraq is a good place to work on training.
The point of my reply is that everything is arguable. You can make baseless claims as good as the next guy. There is a lot about the present most people don't know or refuse to realize. People with agendas think they have an answer to help themselves but the reality is that most people have already thought of it before. What's the old saying, "There isn't anything in the world that hasn't been thought up already." It's sounds like you have a very pessimistic and limited view of the world you live in. Religious movements come and go and have done that for the past several thousand years. There are think tanks that spend time and money on all of this.
The dream of America will change. The 1950's idea will not exist. It never has, it never will. People are too human to create something like that to exist. People will always create mistakes, they will always let you down and they will surprise you from time to time. They will make breakthroughs, they wi
If they had the 3 seashells, even your bleak future wouldn't be all that bad. Oh yeah, and Taco Bell wins the war.
Godzilla sounded fun to me :(
You forgot to add, "They will rebuild on top of Old New York and call the new city New New York."
You bring up a good point. Nanobot Enlargement Spam...
not to mention the statistics are right about 110% of the time...
Personal preference more than anything. Ubuntu works for some but not for everyone. For me Ubuntu is too flaky and the community, while refreshing, can be about as stiff as any other out there. I'm not going to point fingers but some of the Ubuntu main contributors can be a little unpractical when solving problems. From my opinion, the community support I've encountered with fedora was almost non-existent or I was unaware of it completely. Their presence is a little more apparent now but like all communities they can be stiff.
I've kinda got stuck with Fedora and Red Hat. There were more RPMs that met my personal needs; driver support, development apps, etc. There has been more support for fedora/red hat apps without having to compile from source for as long as I can remember. deb systems can be hit and miss. I don't want to use some strangers compiled package. I would like to get packages from a reliable source. I don't want to compile packages every time there is an update. I don't want to watch RSS feeds to see when the updates are available. If I wanted to compile I would build from scratch. I'm not running my own distro here and to be honest it takes too much effort to do something like that. That's my argument for fedora.
For the CodecBuddy (Codeina Project Page), I'm disappointed. It's incomplete and its really called Codeina. The app doesn't do anything but inform the user of legal issues. It then redirects the user to a website to purchase from there. Codeina promises to install the codecs for you but in the end the user will have to do it manually. The app itself is hard to find but it's there. I haven't seen it popup on firstboot. I had to search for it in order to finally see what the whole hubbub was all about.
The whole respin is a good idea but falls apart when you attempt to use revisor. It's another incomplete project (ie.: current bug reports). I use kickstart with livecd-creator because they're stable and reliable. My biggest pet peeve with revisor is that you can only create livecd media. Installation respins fail regardless of architecture. Spinning a 64bit livecd from i386 desktop has been unavailable even though revisor provides options to do that type of task. Hopefully they fixed all of this with their last update from a few days back. I just don't have the time to check. It's a good idea but right now the command prompt app is the better choice.
With Ubuntu, the spins provided are based on either window managers or targets specific markets by generalizing what packages they might need. Respinning trims the fat from the bloat. Even then, Ubuntu has dependency hell written all over it (Ubuntu Desktop Package). I can't uninstall evolution without having to uninstall the majority of applications I need to have on my system. With Fedora and their respins I don't have to have it on my computer at all if I don't want it.
About the theme, it's alright but I still go to gnome-look.org/kde-look.org to get my themes. About PulseAudio: It runs. I still use jack, alsa, oss when it comes to running certain apps. It's seems like it might help with audio. I can't really tell, haven't had a problem with audio.
People complain a lot about RPM based systems. Apt is faster, that's a given. The Fedora team has improved yum quite a bit over the past couple of distros. Yum for FC6 was a pain and with SELinux, the whole update process was a bit of a chore. SELinux-corepolicies update pretty much fixes that problem. With Fedora it's always best to update from a terminal on firstboot. Just press ctrl+alt+f1, log into root, run "yum update" from there and it makes the process run much more smoothly. Afterwards, pup works great for updating the system. Yum is a lot faster than it used to be. On their site t
In my area digital cable runs about 15 USD plus basic cable which is required that runs at 41 USD. Total runs around 57 USD / month, change included. I pay 40 USD / month for broadband and hardly ever watch TV. TV is nice but with NBC streaming videos on the net and a host of other network streams out there, I hesitate to really invest in any kind of cable or satellite especially when I don't use it. The cost for the Hi-Def TV is worth it especially with connecting to my computers and there are ways making older analog TV's compatible with digital. Go to Radio Shack, they have a converter box/accessories for around 50 USD. My question is what's going to happen to analog band? Can it be used by the average Joe or will the government commandeer it for their own internal use?
Yeah, it's sad that our devices get more mileage than we do.
Mod parent up for the season please.