3 Reasons why I want to knock stuff over when I hear the word Microsoft:
1. Licensing of Microsoft products, you take it up the tail pipe every time you buy a Microsoft product. They never give you a brand new product, it is always improvements on the previous versions. It is hard to feel sorry for Microsoft, when they bitch about people using their products without paying for it. Well for one it is easier to installed a cracked copy of Windows then it is to figure out their licensing scheme. Forget about licensing server products without a PHD in Bullshit.
2. Windows is not that great! There is nothing like getting the blue screen of death when you least expect it and usually when you haven't saved in the last 5 minutes. The code is pieced together from other OS's down through the years. What really needs to be done is scrap everything that they have done in the last 15 years and start over. Long live DOS!
3. Updates. Updating Microsoft products is not unlike going to the dentist. You go for the check up and end up with a swollen mouth and drooling over yourself. Have you ever tried to update a driver from Microsoft. I made the mistake once, it was painful. I basically had to reinstall Windows it hosed it so bad. Most updates are to fix problems with previous updates.
The update that pisses me off more then anything is in Windows XP SP2 they limited the amount of out-going connections from your machine to 5. Now if you have ever tried to Bittorrent something 5 out-going connections are not sufficient. This limitation was put in place to stop worms from replicating as fast. However, there is no easy way to change the connections from 5 to higher number.
Bonus Gripe. The assumption that everyone needs to be an administrator. If you work in a corporate environment this is bane of your existence. Everyone wants to install all the software and download the last virus filled email from their friends to the corporate machines, so what do you to stop them. Well you put them in as a regular user. That is all great and fine except Microsoft is setup that you can run existing programs that require read and write access to files in the root directory or in Program Files. To put in lamens terms: Your shit ceases to work!
I don't know how many hours of hacking at the registry and permissions I have done to get some software product to work with Windows.
Thursday, May 12, 2005
Thursday, April 07, 2005
How to fix the game
Why is it that NHL is looking for ways to improve the game, and yet they do not have a contract yet? Isn't that an ass backwards way of doing things? Since I have already offered up my opinions of the lockout and how to end it, I will instead offer up my suggestions on how to make the game better.
1. You can talk about decreasing the size of goalie pads, which is great except it is not the solution. I bet the goalie equipment as grown in relation to a players stick as gotten lighter and more flexible. With these particular sticks the puck is shot harder and faster then in previous era's of the sport. Make stick weigh a certain weight or make players use the old wooden sticks.
2. There has been an increase of stick violations in previous seasons of the NHL. This could also be attributed to the fact the sticks are lighter then used to be. It is alot harder to get a stick up in the air when it weighs 32 oz instead of 8 or less oz that they weigh now.
I think what the NHL wants to do with the neutral zone and shoot outs at the end of the games is great, it will go a long way to make the game more exciting. I think they also need to shorten the amount of games they play. Make it 72 games or 70 games, so that they aren't playing 3 or 4 games a week. If there is one part of the game that I wouldn't want touched it would be the playoffs, that is greatest second season of any sport bar none. Its like 4 or more weeks of superbowl.
1. You can talk about decreasing the size of goalie pads, which is great except it is not the solution. I bet the goalie equipment as grown in relation to a players stick as gotten lighter and more flexible. With these particular sticks the puck is shot harder and faster then in previous era's of the sport. Make stick weigh a certain weight or make players use the old wooden sticks.
2. There has been an increase of stick violations in previous seasons of the NHL. This could also be attributed to the fact the sticks are lighter then used to be. It is alot harder to get a stick up in the air when it weighs 32 oz instead of 8 or less oz that they weigh now.
I think what the NHL wants to do with the neutral zone and shoot outs at the end of the games is great, it will go a long way to make the game more exciting. I think they also need to shorten the amount of games they play. Make it 72 games or 70 games, so that they aren't playing 3 or 4 games a week. If there is one part of the game that I wouldn't want touched it would be the playoffs, that is greatest second season of any sport bar none. Its like 4 or more weeks of superbowl.
Friday, March 18, 2005
Just say No to Drugs!
Why does the US government decide now to take a look into the use of steroids in baseball? It seems to me that there are a lot of other things that the government should be worried about then the use of steroids to a hit few more balls over the wall in baseball.
Lets face it, people have known for years that there was/are steroids in baseball. Not just baseball but other sports also. Granted with the new rules put out by baseball to limit the use of illicit drug use of steroids, there will be drastic reduction in the amount of players currently using them. It seems that in the age of sports where there aren't millionaires but multimillionaires, you would think that they would have the common sense to stay away from the stuff.
If the government does decide to go after the players that have used or are still using, what will that mean for other sports such as football, wrestling and the Olympics? The NFL has a greater problem with drugs like marijuana, cocaine, crack. So why didn't the government hold an inquiry when Ricky Williams tested positive for marijuana? I'm thinking its because the NFL pay their lobbyists a lot more.
Now what I really don't understand is why it is so bad to use a human growth hormone in baseball? I mean the food industry pumps up to 75% of our foods with hormones. If its not to chicken to make them produce more eggs and to produce more meat. Its for the cows milk, or to make their meat more lean. If the government allows farmers and producers of our food to continue to add chemicals, hormones and god only knows what else to the foods we eat it will be a miracle that we will rot when we die.
If its not the food that we eat; its the drugs that the doctors put us on when we are sick. Now I don't see a doctor unless I am on my death bed. Americans in general will go for just about anything, and they will pay the copay and get their prescriptions. I came from a country that has free health care, we didn't go to the doctor until Buckley's Cough Syrup couldn't help us. If you think NyQuil is bad: the slogan for Buckley's is "It tastes awful and it works!" when it should be "See ya next year" I took it in '98 and woke up in '99. It should come with a warning "May Cause Coma's"
Its an endless cycle of eating shitty food, getting sick, go to the doctor, get shitty drugs and then eat shitty food again. The government won't do anything about it because it will benefit from the money made by the health insurance companies, drug companies and food producers. So while they play with the baseball players who have used something that makes them more competitive in a league of millionaires, and only harms themselves. Compared to the billionaires that have been harming Americans for years and years, I think the baseball players are small beans.
Lets face it, people have known for years that there was/are steroids in baseball. Not just baseball but other sports also. Granted with the new rules put out by baseball to limit the use of illicit drug use of steroids, there will be drastic reduction in the amount of players currently using them. It seems that in the age of sports where there aren't millionaires but multimillionaires, you would think that they would have the common sense to stay away from the stuff.
If the government does decide to go after the players that have used or are still using, what will that mean for other sports such as football, wrestling and the Olympics? The NFL has a greater problem with drugs like marijuana, cocaine, crack. So why didn't the government hold an inquiry when Ricky Williams tested positive for marijuana? I'm thinking its because the NFL pay their lobbyists a lot more.
Now what I really don't understand is why it is so bad to use a human growth hormone in baseball? I mean the food industry pumps up to 75% of our foods with hormones. If its not to chicken to make them produce more eggs and to produce more meat. Its for the cows milk, or to make their meat more lean. If the government allows farmers and producers of our food to continue to add chemicals, hormones and god only knows what else to the foods we eat it will be a miracle that we will rot when we die.
If its not the food that we eat; its the drugs that the doctors put us on when we are sick. Now I don't see a doctor unless I am on my death bed. Americans in general will go for just about anything, and they will pay the copay and get their prescriptions. I came from a country that has free health care, we didn't go to the doctor until Buckley's Cough Syrup couldn't help us. If you think NyQuil is bad: the slogan for Buckley's is "It tastes awful and it works!" when it should be "See ya next year" I took it in '98 and woke up in '99. It should come with a warning "May Cause Coma's"
Its an endless cycle of eating shitty food, getting sick, go to the doctor, get shitty drugs and then eat shitty food again. The government won't do anything about it because it will benefit from the money made by the health insurance companies, drug companies and food producers. So while they play with the baseball players who have used something that makes them more competitive in a league of millionaires, and only harms themselves. Compared to the billionaires that have been harming Americans for years and years, I think the baseball players are small beans.
Saturday, February 05, 2005
P2PUnite
There has been many whispers on the internet that there is some musicians out there that are encouraging users of P2P to continue to use the services out there. Of course there has not been any musician of great popularity.
I think that P2P will always continue to thrive and there will always be people out there that will continue to decrypt the encryption on DVD's and online Music Downloads. Not because they are bad people that want to screw it to the Movie industry. The primary reason is that they want to show that it can be done and that there is really no need for these restriction on digital media.
I say that there is no need because, if the music and movie industry really wanted to curb the use of P2P and DVD copying they should lower the prices of CD's and DVD's. You can buy 100 CD-R for half the price of one music CD that only has three maybe if you are lucky 4 songs that you really want to listen to. You can go on the internet, download 18 or more songs and burn them to a CD that you would listen more often then one that you would buy at the store. I know that this has been said before, but I have solution:
People want to download songs, so let them. Change the price from 99 cents to 25 cents a song and allow them to use them on as many PC's and/or MP3 players as they want. Let them burn them to CD's. Now you can lower the price of the CD's at the store to 9 dollars or less. To make sure that they are quality CD is to limit over exposure of the artists. I mean really how many times do you have to hear the new Lindsey Lohan single before you want to blow your head off for singing along. I would also make sure that the songs that are put on the CD are quality songs. If you don't think that it will do good on the radio then don't bother putting on the CD. Sometimes the songs are so bad I think the artist should be paying the public for polluting the air with crappy music.
Now on to the movie industry. If there isn't a bigger hoe then movie industry then some please point them out to me twistedf47e(@)gmail.com. One good example of the movie industry being the hoe I'm talking about is the movie The Blair Witch Project. It was a unique, it was even scary at some points. Although now I think about it; they weren't running away from the Blair Witch, it was more like they were running scared after they found out there was a sequel. Anyway the movie industry beat that dead horse for everything it was worth. For a year that is all you heard was Blair Witch this, Blair Witch that. Then they came out with what was the worst sequel known to mankind up to this point. So not only are you roped into seeing the first one then you had to see the second one to see if it was as good. If I had a knife that day in the theater I would have stabbed my self in the eyes to save me agony of seeing that movie.
So how do we solve this ongoing problem shitty movies and pirating DVD's. Well its quite simple actually, go back to the old days when movies took years to release. This will give them plenty of time to get a good script and cast to make it right. Second if you go to the theater to see a movie, then you should get a certificate or something to that effect that says that you seen this particular movie at the theater. Then when the DVD comes out you go to your Walmart or wherever you buy your movies and hand them your certificate. This will give 5 dollars off the price of the DVD. Now don't go raising the price of the DVD's to make up the difference and of course don't raise the prices at the theaters either. God knows you have pay with your left arm and your first born just to get into a theater nowadays.
This will be two fold, first people will go to theaters more because they know that if they pay for it now they can get a better deal on the DVD later. People will always want the DVD's even if they have seen the movie once already. Second the cheaper you make it the less people will want to pirate because they really want the case and the special features that come with the DVD's but they don't want to pay out the nose for one. Make it cheaper, make easier and the people will respond.
OH! Man I just thought of a bigger hoe then movie industry..... Microsoft. Since I guess I could be conveyed as the pimp, then the appropriate thing to say is:
"I will slap that hoe around another day".
Thank you come again
I think that P2P will always continue to thrive and there will always be people out there that will continue to decrypt the encryption on DVD's and online Music Downloads. Not because they are bad people that want to screw it to the Movie industry. The primary reason is that they want to show that it can be done and that there is really no need for these restriction on digital media.
I say that there is no need because, if the music and movie industry really wanted to curb the use of P2P and DVD copying they should lower the prices of CD's and DVD's. You can buy 100 CD-R for half the price of one music CD that only has three maybe if you are lucky 4 songs that you really want to listen to. You can go on the internet, download 18 or more songs and burn them to a CD that you would listen more often then one that you would buy at the store. I know that this has been said before, but I have solution:
People want to download songs, so let them. Change the price from 99 cents to 25 cents a song and allow them to use them on as many PC's and/or MP3 players as they want. Let them burn them to CD's. Now you can lower the price of the CD's at the store to 9 dollars or less. To make sure that they are quality CD is to limit over exposure of the artists. I mean really how many times do you have to hear the new Lindsey Lohan single before you want to blow your head off for singing along. I would also make sure that the songs that are put on the CD are quality songs. If you don't think that it will do good on the radio then don't bother putting on the CD. Sometimes the songs are so bad I think the artist should be paying the public for polluting the air with crappy music.
Now on to the movie industry. If there isn't a bigger hoe then movie industry then some please point them out to me twistedf47e(@)gmail.com. One good example of the movie industry being the hoe I'm talking about is the movie The Blair Witch Project. It was a unique, it was even scary at some points. Although now I think about it; they weren't running away from the Blair Witch, it was more like they were running scared after they found out there was a sequel. Anyway the movie industry beat that dead horse for everything it was worth. For a year that is all you heard was Blair Witch this, Blair Witch that. Then they came out with what was the worst sequel known to mankind up to this point. So not only are you roped into seeing the first one then you had to see the second one to see if it was as good. If I had a knife that day in the theater I would have stabbed my self in the eyes to save me agony of seeing that movie.
So how do we solve this ongoing problem shitty movies and pirating DVD's. Well its quite simple actually, go back to the old days when movies took years to release. This will give them plenty of time to get a good script and cast to make it right. Second if you go to the theater to see a movie, then you should get a certificate or something to that effect that says that you seen this particular movie at the theater. Then when the DVD comes out you go to your Walmart or wherever you buy your movies and hand them your certificate. This will give 5 dollars off the price of the DVD. Now don't go raising the price of the DVD's to make up the difference and of course don't raise the prices at the theaters either. God knows you have pay with your left arm and your first born just to get into a theater nowadays.
This will be two fold, first people will go to theaters more because they know that if they pay for it now they can get a better deal on the DVD later. People will always want the DVD's even if they have seen the movie once already. Second the cheaper you make it the less people will want to pirate because they really want the case and the special features that come with the DVD's but they don't want to pay out the nose for one. Make it cheaper, make easier and the people will respond.
OH! Man I just thought of a bigger hoe then movie industry..... Microsoft. Since I guess I could be conveyed as the pimp, then the appropriate thing to say is:
"I will slap that hoe around another day".
Thank you come again
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