Its on again and all the non believers thought it would be a shambles. Good on ya Greece, all running to clockwork.
I reckon they should have a drugfree and a drug allowed olympics. It would sure be interesting to compare results! Imaging the guys lining up for 100m sprints! And womans weighlifting. eek. I doubt these people would have much of a life after competing though. They'd either have heart failure or their liver/kidneys would collapse!
But its all about television and viewer appeal isn't it! I'm sure more merchandise would be sold, and more people would watch.......
Monday, August 16, 2004
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Civil war in America
I was recently asked about John Titor. I knew nothing of him until I googled him. Interesting theories. I don't really follow the notions of black holes and time travel. My belief is that black holes are a bit like a blender, at a very large scale with blades so fine they work at an atomic level. And if a time traveller did come back, he would know dates/times of many things. Heck he could tell us what a share price would be on any day!
Not knowing much about civil wars and how they start, I wonder how such a war would/could start in a democratic economy. I thought mass unemployment would be a key motivator for such to happen, which causes breakdown of the economy. There is no mention of that.
The talk of having a police state etc that breaks down the fabric of American society would surely take years to occur, and wouldn't there be checks and balances to stop such. With the patriot act, MPAA tactics, Guantanamo Bay and barbed wire free speech zones it does make me wonder if there is a breakdown already occuring. People cannot even invent anymore for fear of patent violation!
Its probably a fair bet that outright anarchy from within America would have to be next. But from which sector of society? The techies have been so busy creating things and using their minds, if they get bored, what woudl they get up to? Whilst the perceived and real threat is from offshore, what is being done at a social level to stop the internal breakdown?
Am I correct in the assumption that in American elections, there are but 2 opposing forces, Republicans and Democrates? Is there no allowance for forming an independant political party and running for office? Having but 2 allowed parties does not seem overall very democratic, in colution with each other its fairly well a fasict state.
Perhaps a good idea for the future to stop any possible turmoil would be to have open election processes where any person can form a party to challenge for seats which make up a government. It would certainly slow down progress for some things, but may help in others. It does seem the peoples voice has become smaller in America.
Not knowing much about civil wars and how they start, I wonder how such a war would/could start in a democratic economy. I thought mass unemployment would be a key motivator for such to happen, which causes breakdown of the economy. There is no mention of that.
The talk of having a police state etc that breaks down the fabric of American society would surely take years to occur, and wouldn't there be checks and balances to stop such. With the patriot act, MPAA tactics, Guantanamo Bay and barbed wire free speech zones it does make me wonder if there is a breakdown already occuring. People cannot even invent anymore for fear of patent violation!
Its probably a fair bet that outright anarchy from within America would have to be next. But from which sector of society? The techies have been so busy creating things and using their minds, if they get bored, what woudl they get up to? Whilst the perceived and real threat is from offshore, what is being done at a social level to stop the internal breakdown?
Am I correct in the assumption that in American elections, there are but 2 opposing forces, Republicans and Democrates? Is there no allowance for forming an independant political party and running for office? Having but 2 allowed parties does not seem overall very democratic, in colution with each other its fairly well a fasict state.
Perhaps a good idea for the future to stop any possible turmoil would be to have open election processes where any person can form a party to challenge for seats which make up a government. It would certainly slow down progress for some things, but may help in others. It does seem the peoples voice has become smaller in America.
Starforce Copy Protection
They're at it again.... A new copy protection to piss off the users even more. When are they going to give up. And now it seems all manner of device drivers are installed just to play the game. I say no thanks, so its a sale lost! They make it almost impossibly hard just to play a game now!
Whats the best way to fight back? Buy the game, open the packet, then return it to the store and say it won't install on your machine! There are so many nasties to WWII installed, I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't install anyway!
Whats the best way to fight back? Buy the game, open the packet, then return it to the store and say it won't install on your machine! There are so many nasties to WWII installed, I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't install anyway!
Friday, July 02, 2004
Browser wars
So much bad press about Internet Explorer.
I used to be a die hard Windows freak. All development on Windows machines, a good little MSDN subsriber forking out $5K a year...... Then things changed.....
Fast forward. No more Visual Basic, no more MSDN. Its all JAVA/J2EE and with MONO now out, hopefully C#
And what about the browser? I used to like coding specifically for IE as it was nice and easy. But then the w3c standards caught up and other browsers got significantly better while IE humbled along.
I don't use IE anymore. I'm now on Mozilla Firefox, its a dang great browser and with the full Google toolbar now available, who needs anything else! Its free. Its opensource. Its regularly developed.
What does Firefox it have over IE?
1) Tabbed browsing
2) w3c standards based
3) Open source. No hidden gotchas. We still don't know some of the hidden Windows API's!
4) No virus problems yet.
5) If a patch is required, I bet it will come out quicker than IE. IE is too bolted into the operating system to allow rapid patch fixing.
6) Themes (aka skins). Who wants to have the same looking app as everyone else
7) Extensions. A thriving community of them.
8) Javascript console that tells me where the errors are located!
9) Works on Linux/MAC/Windows.
IE IS LEGACY
If you want better safer browsing, download Mozilla Firefox now! If Thunderbirad had an integrated calendar it would kill Outlook.
I used to be a die hard Windows freak. All development on Windows machines, a good little MSDN subsriber forking out $5K a year...... Then things changed.....
Fast forward. No more Visual Basic, no more MSDN. Its all JAVA/J2EE and with MONO now out, hopefully C#
And what about the browser? I used to like coding specifically for IE as it was nice and easy. But then the w3c standards caught up and other browsers got significantly better while IE humbled along.
I don't use IE anymore. I'm now on Mozilla Firefox, its a dang great browser and with the full Google toolbar now available, who needs anything else! Its free. Its opensource. Its regularly developed.
What does Firefox it have over IE?
1) Tabbed browsing
2) w3c standards based
3) Open source. No hidden gotchas. We still don't know some of the hidden Windows API's!
4) No virus problems yet.
5) If a patch is required, I bet it will come out quicker than IE. IE is too bolted into the operating system to allow rapid patch fixing.
6) Themes (aka skins). Who wants to have the same looking app as everyone else
7) Extensions. A thriving community of them.
8) Javascript console that tells me where the errors are located!
9) Works on Linux/MAC/Windows.
IE IS LEGACY
If you want better safer browsing, download Mozilla Firefox now! If Thunderbirad had an integrated calendar it would kill Outlook.
Wednesday, June 30, 2004
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