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Slashback: Newton, Wal-Mart, Eats
Honestly, where would they have unloaded that anyway? yorgasor writes "Yahoo reports that the stolen copies of Newton's Principia have been successfully recovered. The thieves are also suspected of other thefts from several Moscow and St Petersburg libraries."
They have everything. An anonymous reader writes "Looks like Lycoris joins Lindows and Mandrake in being preloaded for walmart.com: 'The new $199 Desktop/LX Certified MicroTel PCs include the Desktop/ LX operating system. Desktop/LX also includes the following incredible software features without any additional downloading:'"
Who needs a war? Krieger writes "I found this link to the definitive browser wars at HardOCP, where you get to play checkers to prove your browsers superiority. Taking the browser wars to a new high/low?"
Here's the hook, can you pass that sinker please ... JoeWalsh writes "According to this article, earlier this month RMS visited India and tried to convince them to use Free (as in freedom) Software. Then along comes Bill Gates this month, handing out free (as in beer) software, and suddenly India isn't interested in RMS's message. A choice quote: "We are a poor country. We cannot develop operating systems and platforms on our own." Did RMS tell them they couldn't use GNU/Linux, or is this more Microsoft propaganda at work?"
Instead Microsoft tried to cram everything but the kicthen sink into their bloated piece of shit, and then had it sink its cancerous roots into the entire OS while trying to circumvent the W3C by implementing their own psuedo HTML (and let's not even talk about the nightmare that is Active X).
Netscape lost because they got fat and lazy while Bill sank millions and millions of dollars into the bottomless pit and waited for them to bleed to death first. Just like the USA did to the Soviet Union in the Cold War.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
Dude, I still have wet dreams where some cranky geek beat me to a girl because i could not let go of Netscape 4.76 as he moved on to IE 5 + and regaled her into matrimony ... I am not complaining about he girl ... but am sure glad mozzila came along, i actively provide copies of Mozzila and Phoniex to anyone who remotely comments on the brower , which is the only one i use ( Hee Hee am typing this from an IE ??) ... ... Indian government is not the Karnataka Government... (like Floarida does not represent the whole of US of A ... maybe it does)With all freebies i know some villages that have been connected through Linux networks and provide lot of services to the traders and farmers in the region ... but then 10 people using Linux in a land of 1.2 billion does not really count ... but I keep my hopes high and the cash in the bank ...
So dude, as a guy who earned his bread from M$ technology for 3 years, the though of writing one line of COM/COM+ code makes my arteries dry up and my mouth begins to gabber endlessly
So as far as I see M$ would be around trying very hard
part of the parcel !
How much processing power does the average wal-mart shopping idiot actually NEED??? I mean, how much processor is required to write letters play solitare and log onto AOHell??? If they are buying a PC at a discount retailer, they probably arent a tech head or OC'er.
We outsource, like, what? 70% of our programming to 'em?
Granted, it's not *good* programming...
Ed R.Zahurak
You know, oblivion keeps looking better every day.
It's probably more about what you've done.
I've never seen any microsoft OS faster than
any unixlike os on identical hardware. You have
to have farked up your redhat install pretty badly.
Why bother with linux at all. You seem to be a
dyed in the wool microsoft fanatic. Linux doesn't
appear to be easy enough for you, if you are
having problems with redhat. Continue to stay
mediocre and stick with what you know. You'll be
happier in the long run, trust me.
The most important thing any republican needs to know.