04.29.05
Posted in randomosity at 12:00 am by coldclimate
Its well known I’m not Microsft fan. I’m more a mac kiddie now, but even they have problems. Stolen once again from Linspires Micheals Minute - this shit is important kids - or you’re going to get dicked on.
DRM (Digital Restrictions Management).
In spite of sharing the insides with a traditional PC, the Xbox has a dramatic and dangerous difference. A PC buyer can install any software or hardware that they wish. They own the machine and can change it to suit their needs - true ownership. There are no limitations. This open architecture is largely responsible for the two-decade personal computer revolution. With an Xbox, the user is merely renting the box. Microsoft decides what software (games) users can load and even how they can use it. When it connects to the net, Microsoft can and has instructed the machine to change its behavior to block certain users, functionality or software that it does not agree with. They are changing the rules after you purchase it to suit their needs and not your needs.
The Xbox served as the training wheels for Microsoft’s new Longhorn operating system, which is slipping to a 2007 launch. Like the Xbox, Longhorn will limit what software you can load. In the guise of “security”, Microsoft is trying to dramatically change the way PCs work. Instead of the owner deciding what software they want to install and run, Microsoft is seizing that power from them. Under the smokescreen of security, they are pronouncing that it is good for Microsoft to decide what software you can use.
It’s the ultimate marketing challenge to explain to the world that turning over more control to Microsoft is an improvement that computer users should desire and pay money for. Microsoft has floated a series of hyper-technical sounding initiatives like Palladium and Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB), each time explaining why it’s a good thing for Microsoft to decide what software users should use. Earlier this week, Bill Gates talked about how it was like a “black box flight recorder,” a not-so-subtle reference to 9/11 designed to tug on emotions. I leave it to others to comment on whether Microsoft has the security track record to decide what software is secure enough for me to be running. I’m more interested in the liberty and cost issues.
Some of you may be wondering why having choice over software is a “liberty” issue. We are quickly moving to a world where every communication, document, photo, song and movie is digitized and living on a PC or PC-like device. Software is the gateway to access parts of those elements. Without control over the software, there is no control of the underlying digital item. Your access can be taken away or modified at anytime. No control means you do not have ownership. This would be like buying a new home and then finding out that someone else has the keys to the front door and they control your access in and out of the home. You’d hardly feel like a home “owner” in such a situation.
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04.28.05
Posted in randomosity at 12:00 am by coldclimate
I girl I know, who speak the truth, so bluntly that it hurts, left a comment, that made much sense, for which I shall be thinking.
Yay for Holly, a clearer thinker I do not know.
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04.25.05
Posted in randomosity at 12:00 am by coldclimate
Amazon have a sale on Le Creuset kit! Half Price! Damn I dont really NEED anything - and I WANT things.
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Posted in randomosity at 12:00 am by coldclimate
Ive just had the horror of listening thru a thin wall to a fat man having a shit. Will the wonders never cease?
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04.24.05
Posted in randomosity at 12:00 am by coldclimate
If i had more patience i would be tempted by …Make your own coin ring!
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Posted in randomosity at 12:00 am by coldclimate
Firefly was wonderfl, lets hope the film is as good.
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04.23.05
Posted in randomosity at 12:00 am by coldclimate
Oli,
I have just emailed Graduate School that I am satisfied with your corrections and recommending that you should pass your MSc.
Congratulations.
Malcolm
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04.22.05
Posted in randomosity at 12:00 am by coldclimate
‘If you pick a good technology and the developers are insane, it’s all going to come to tears.’
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04.21.05
Posted in randomosity at 12:00 am by coldclimate
I have issues with outsourcing t offshore companies, too numerous to list, too dangerous to my job to blog, however I like the idea of seaCode though I think running something simalar in the North Sea would be crap, cold, rough, windy and wet.
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Posted in randomosity at 12:00 am by coldclimate
Come on people its a stain on a wall, not the Virgin mary appearing in an underpass. Besides, virgins in underpasses don’t remin so long i suspect.
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Posted in randomosity at 12:00 am by coldclimate
Sorry kids - I was feeling horrible when I woke up, so Ii logged in and wrote it all down. Then I fixed some code bugs in the commenting software so it doesn’t record all of the comments under the same post (note to database designers - get your field lengths correct!).
Now - the sun is shining, and I’m been nattering via email, and whilst I’m still in a bit of termoil, the world is a better place. Being in the office on a sunny day is still very shit though.
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Posted in randomosity at 12:00 am by coldclimate
I’ve just woken up, and had to write this all down before I forgot it. I woke up feeling physically sick in the pit of my stomach. I’d been dreaming that my ex was explaining all the shitty crappy things i would do, all the personality traits that I have which runined our relationshi. Her new partner didnt do anyu of the. All I wanted to do was wrap her up in my arms ans hold her, a little bundle of squiggle, like I used to, and she wouldnt let me.
And then I was awake, and alone, and I genuinely couldnt.
I thought, as the hair had healed so well I wasn’t missing her so much, but now I’m just not sure.
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04.20.05
Posted in randomosity at 12:00 am by coldclimate
i used to have a hair that grew out of my shouldar that reminded me of my ex.So i dug it out with nail sissors, and it bleed terribly.
But as it healed, I missed her less, and now I cant help wondering if the hair will grow back at all, and if it does, will the holes in my heart reopen.
Maybe I’ll miss the hair?
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04.18.05
Posted in randomosity at 12:00 am by coldclimate
Some evil fucker has cross Caramacs with Kitkat to create the uber chochy goodie. Just in time for summer slimming.
Damn their eyes!
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Posted in randomosity at 12:00 am by coldclimate
You spend 80% of your waking day at werk.
Office relationships are a bad bad idea.
You only meet new people via werk.
Thank the lord for the Internet
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04.17.05
Posted in randomosity at 12:00 am by coldclimate
I’ve just watched the “top 100 albumns” and not got completely pissed off. In fact I pretty much agreed. Interesting that OK Computer was number 1. Anyway - working notes - I need to buy…
sex machine - james brown
parrellel lines - blondie
neil young
john coultrane - a love supream
marvin gaye - whats goinng on
stevie wonder songs in the key of life
kraftwerk - trans ero express
curtis mayfield - superfly
police - syncronicity
joni mtchel - blue
fleetwood mac - rumours
the jam - all mod cons
air - moon safari
transformer - lou reed
the libertines - the libertines
pipxies - doolittle
velvet underground - + nico
the clash - london calling
frank sinatra-songs for swinging lovers
the specialss - special
black sabbath - paranoid
billie holliday -
joy division - closer
pet sounds - beach boys
bjork - debute
the stone roses - the stone roses
bob marley - exidus
radioehead - the bends
hendrix - are you experienced
led zepplin - 4
allanis morreset - jagged little pill
queen - a night at the opera
rem - atomtic for te peple
beatles - white and
beatles revolver
guns and roses - appetite for destruction
dark side of the moon - pink floyd
radioead ok-computer
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Posted in randomosity at 12:00 am by coldclimate
i love Lauren Laverne. Shes a Geordie. She very pretty. She’s got great musical taste, and she’s made a few good tunes as well. She’s fun and funky and punky and a pop pixie.
Now were can I buy me one of those?
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04.15.05
Posted in randomosity at 12:00 am by coldclimate
You know it - everybody finds comedy place names funny.
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Posted in randomosity at 12:00 am by coldclimate
Just a little DNA will brighten the heart of any geek.
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04.13.05
Posted in randomosity at 12:00 am by coldclimate
Admit it - you heard that Britney confirms she is pregnant and all you can think is “wow - bigger boobs”.
Well done - you’re a man.
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