Posts by Goat Jam

Yay

Now we can sleep easy knowing that a right wing corporation owned by a meglomaniac of dubious morals will not be "representing Australia" in the Asia/Pacific region and instead we will be represented by a happy clappy bunch of left wing tree hugging lesbian hippy Gaia worhippers!

The worst thing is

that you can't play the game without the patch because Steam insists on installing it and won't start the game 'til you do.

Grrr

<fingers in ears>

nah nah nah I can't hear you!

I note that nobody from Canonical disputed the distrowatch numbers while Ubuntu was riding high on top.

Is It Just Me

Or is this constant push by the US to "dehumanize" warfare slightly unsettling?

The start of this process began in world war 2 where bomber crews could fly at high altitudes and drop massive amounts of death and destruction on the invisible human beings below.

Now we have killing by remote control where operators sit in airconditioned offices to kill more invisible people by the dozen only to be home by five to cook dinner for the family.

Now we are giving soulless machines the ability to hunt down and kill people without a human having to suffer even the slightest discomfort at the fact that they are depriving some child a mother/father/sister/brother.

RoTM jokes aside, I find this trend to be quite disturbing.

"Internet Legend"

So, not real then?

Durban

A place where climate activists fly to in enormous jets so they can get together and discuss the ways they can best force everybody else to reduce their "carbon footprint".

How Come

you ladies don't mind it when men are all categorized as philandering layabouts who meet every Thursday at their secret boys clubs to plan the next phase in their ongoing oppression of women eh?

What about LCD panels?

Instead of surrounding the panel with CFL tubes or banks of LEDs you could simply put one of these behind the LCD and shine it through. Considering a large part of the dreaded "bevel" area is necessary to accommodate the lighting requirements of the device, it seems to me that the use of this could go some way towards achieving the legendary "bevel free" screens we all lust after.

Windows 8

I have a feeling that Windows 8 may be Microsoft's biggest disaster since the "Longhorn" fiasco.

It will suffer from trying to please everybody and pleasing nobody.

The "All tablets are crap unless they can run all my Windows programs" brigade will not be pleased because their vaunted Windows programs will not run on ARM.

The "I want a full desktop experience on my tablet and not some dumbed down Fisher Price crap" folks will also be unhappy because I will bet you dollars to doughnuts that "Windows 8 Super Tablet Pro Ultimate Edition" will end up being more like WinPho7 than the "Full Blown Windows With a Start Menu" that they are demanding.

The people who say "meh, I don't care about that stuff I just want to be able to get fart apps like my friends have" will buy Ipads and Android (depending on what their friends have their fart apps on).

So, who is going to buy Windows 8 on ARM exactly?

I Hate Copyright

Because it is constantly being extended.

The original Statute of Anne was a compromise that was struck between creators and consumers that gave creators a 14 year (with an option for another 14 years) monopoly on their creations in exchange for those creations becoming public domain at the end of that period.

Since then, artistic works have become the properties of corporations who have successfully pushed extensions to copyright far in excess of the original agreement with nothing given back to consumers in return.

They continue to put pressure on creating further extensions to this very day.

I'm damned if I'm going to contribute to some greedy corporations bottom line just so that I can listen to music made 40 years ago, often by a dude that has died long ago.

Recently, one of the newspapers where I live ran an article on the highest earning "dead" people, with Whacko Jacko, Jimi Hendrix, Einstein and John Lennon all at the top of the list.

Why? Why should the children and grand children of these people continue to live the easy life based on works by their parents?

Their parents made a bundle while alive and if they failed to invest wisely instead of snorting their wealth up their nose then that is Not My Problem.

Why should I hand over my hard earned to these corporate rent collectors?

No, feck that, the copyright cartels have taken too much and no longer deserve my support.

Put in a fair system that allows a reasonable monopoly period with a transfer of rights to the public at the end and I will get on board.

Until that happens, they can all get stuffed.

Looks Like We Dodged a Bullet There

Thank God nobody competent patented this, otherwise I'd be getting a bit worried right now.

Attention! Captain Obvious is making an announcement!

“This means that your PC will only restart when security updates are installed and require a restart”

And this differs to current behaviour in what way?

Perhaps all the restarts we have at the moment are not necessary and are just there to provide a level of annoyance that is commensurate with the typical expectations of the befuddled users of microsoft products?

Justin Bieber in sexual situations and depictions of an abused dog

Hopefully not in the same picture.

ewww

For some reason I now have Hawkwind playing in my head

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFPLgGWMndc