I can understand Google and Amazon having a problem with this bill because it will effect their advertising revenue. But the qustion you have to ask is why is Microsoft complaining? Is MS using spyware to monitor how you use your computer and what software you have installed? Call me paranoid, but I do think it is something we should be asking.
I'll take the draft. I spent years and thousands of dollars for a degree only to end up working at a fast food joint and fixing people's pcs on the side. Though, it doesn't help when I live in the middle of nowhere with no money to move where the tech jobs are.
I have several NES and SNES games that I own the cartiage yet play them through a PC emulator because the game systems stopped working after a lightning storm. Why am I now a criminal just because I don't feel like wasting time and money for a new system off of ebay that may or may not work?
I heard that MS is releasing a new SP for Office that would fix all the problems. They're calling it OpenOffice. The new Windows SP, code named Linux, is suppose to be released soon as well.
Maybe this is how MS is arriving at the billions it claims it looses from pirates. They forget to write off the free copies that they tried to give to the military.
If the French have the same policy in court that they do in international affairs, they'll back down and surrender when Apple stands up to them. After all, the first words a French child is taught is "I surrender."
I'm thinking that 'Ole Darl may have made the final plunge into the Tin Foil Hat club.
They wouldn't let him join. They said that he's proof of what happens when the alien mind control rays get you. That, and also the fact that they're running linux without a SCO liscense.
I'm hoping that Novell will make transition tools so that you can easily move user data from NetWare over to Linux. Although I do like the NetWare servers at work (our 3.5 server has gone 3 years without reboot) the user and server licenses are too expensive.
Why wouldn't Windows be safe if MS is paying SCO for the law suites? The only reason I can see the SCO would sue MS is if Bubba Gates tells Darl to sue him so that MS can say "if we gave SCO money, then why are they sueing us?".
If what this document says is true, MS has set themselves up for a win-win situation. If SCO somehow wins, the trust that Linux has built up over the years flies out the window. If SCO doesn't win several things would of happened that could benefit MS.
1) SCO would of spread FUD about Linux. 2) SCO could be destroyed by this resulting the elimination of a competeitor in the server market. 3) Those who paid SCO for liscenses may decide to switch to Windows so that another SCO-like company will be unable to force them into buying useless liscenses. 4) SCO may of put some chincks into IBM's armor causing some to question if IBM's server software is legal.
In the end, MS paying SCO to sue IBM may result in more sells on Windows Servers just from the fact that MS is appearing to stay out fight. I half way expect to see a MS add saying "While the legality of Linux is being fought in court, we at MS are working to make a safer, more secure, and legal OS for you."
It'll only be better using Gentoo if you have nothing but time to wait for everything to compile. I have a Athlon XP 2700 w/ a gig of RAM, and in the time it took Gentoo to compile and install on that machine I had installed and configured RedHat on two 386s, three 486s, a Pent 133 and 200, a pent pro 180, a P2-333, K6-2 500, and a Athlon 700. Thats 11 machines installed, configured, and running in the time it took 1 machine to compile.
Gentoo is nice that you can configure everything just for your system, but install speed wise it sucks. There are just some things that binaries are better at, and installation is one of them
You can't pull the OSS from SCO's OS. If you do then they won't have any tools built in. You know that they can't make any of their own because they traded all their programmers for lawyers.
I was never one to believe what enviromentalist say ever since I heard my friends research report in class a few years ago.
I can't remember all the numbers, but from the numbers he got from eviromental web sites the rate we've been chopping down trees since the earily 80's there shouldn't be a tree left on Earth today.
*Looks out window* I still see trees, so we can't be messing up things as much as they say we are.
MS probably would bundle Office into the OS just so they could charge $800+ for the OS. The only thing that seems to be stopping them is the fact that they know they couldn't win when everyone and their dog sues MS for doing it.
True, this won't hurt MS at all if they are allowed to have two versions of XP to exist. Just telling MS that they have to have a version of XP without WMP isn't enough.
MS should of been ordered to only sell versions of XP without WMP in the EU and allow users to choose by downloading their media player.
All that courts seem to be doing to MS these days is drawing a line in the sand and saying "Ok MS, here's the line. Please don't cross it." MS then steps over the line and all the court does is step back, draw another line, and tell MS "Ok, that was a practice line. Pretty please, don't cross this one."
If the courts keep letting MS cross the line, the next thing we know we'll be paying $800 for the new Windows desktop OS just because MS had to bundle Office into the OS.
The problem isn't free versus free. The problem is MS having access to source code and APIs that the competitors don't. Therefore, MS is able to intergrate their free products into the OS better.
Nobody attacks notepad or solitaire for two key reasons. 1.) Both programs can easily be uninstalled if you do not want them. Can you do the same with IE or WMP? 2.) Neither notepad or solitaire use anything such as hidden APIs or windows source code to run. Can the same be said about IE or WMP?
Why not just wire the batteries in parallel, get a car charger to charge them, and a power inverter to convert it all to AC for the PC? Might not look pretty, but at least you will know that the charger and inverter can handle the load unlike the rigged ups idea.
That would mean that the studios would have to be willing to continually do this for all DVDs that they released. Do you Actually think that if your 3 year old destoryed the Barney DVD the 15th time this month that they would still be willing to replace it?
Anything that does not allow you to make backup copys of videos and software that you have purchased is wrong. And any law that makes normal people making backups into criminals needs to be abolished.
A few years ago, my house caught fire and burned down taking everything with it. Fortunately, I had off site backups of my software or I would be spending several thousand dollars replacing all of it. Then it was legal to do such a thing but today I'm a criminal for making backups.
How would your mail-in replacement work for me in that situation? Am I supposed to send them in the melted plastic and say "send me a replacement"? Or how about I'll send them some ash and say "see, this is my receipt. My house burned down, send me replacements."
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I don't mean to make fun of you, but that comment makes you sound like an ape from The Planet of the Apes.
I can understand Google and Amazon having a problem with this bill because it will effect their advertising revenue. But the qustion you have to ask is why is Microsoft complaining? Is MS using spyware to monitor how you use your computer and what software you have installed? Call me paranoid, but I do think it is something we should be asking.
I'll take the draft. I spent years and thousands of dollars for a degree only to end up working at a fast food joint and fixing people's pcs on the side. Though, it doesn't help when I live in the middle of nowhere with no money to move where the tech jobs are.
I have several NES and SNES games that I own the cartiage yet play them through a PC emulator because the game systems stopped working after a lightning storm. Why am I now a criminal just because I don't feel like wasting time and money for a new system off of ebay that may or may not work?
I heard that MS is releasing a new SP for Office that would fix all the problems. They're calling it OpenOffice. The new Windows SP, code named Linux, is suppose to be released soon as well.
Maybe this is how MS is arriving at the billions it claims it looses from pirates. They forget to write off the free copies that they tried to give to the military.
If the French have the same policy in court that they do in international affairs, they'll back down and surrender when Apple stands up to them. After all, the first words a French child is taught is "I surrender."
I'm thinking that 'Ole Darl may have made the final plunge into the Tin Foil Hat club.
They wouldn't let him join. They said that he's proof of what happens when the alien mind control rays get you. That, and also the fact that they're running linux without a SCO liscense.
I'm hoping that Novell will make transition tools so that you can easily move user data from NetWare over to Linux. Although I do like the NetWare servers at work (our 3.5 server has gone 3 years without reboot) the user and server licenses are too expensive.
I highly doubt that Linux authors would think twice about breaking buggy apps to force the issue.
It's really not an issue in Linux. Open source allows you to fix an app if a security patch breaks it. Can't say the same about MS.
If thats the case, then MS must be a woman. They sure seem to like taking my money and giving me nothing in return.
Why wouldn't Windows be safe if MS is paying SCO for the law suites? The only reason I can see the SCO would sue MS is if Bubba Gates tells Darl to sue him so that MS can say "if we gave SCO money, then why are they sueing us?".
If what this document says is true, MS has set themselves up for a win-win situation. If SCO somehow wins, the trust that Linux has built up over the years flies out the window. If SCO doesn't win several things would of happened that could benefit MS.
1) SCO would of spread FUD about Linux.
2) SCO could be destroyed by this resulting the elimination of a competeitor in the server market.
3) Those who paid SCO for liscenses may decide to switch to Windows so that another SCO-like company will be unable to force them into buying useless liscenses.
4) SCO may of put some chincks into IBM's armor causing some to question if IBM's server software is legal.
In the end, MS paying SCO to sue IBM may result in more sells on Windows Servers just from the fact that MS is appearing to stay out fight. I half way expect to see a MS add saying "While the legality of Linux is being fought in court, we at MS are working to make a safer, more secure, and legal OS for you."
It'll only be better using Gentoo if you have nothing but time to wait for everything to compile. I have a Athlon XP 2700 w/ a gig of RAM, and in the time it took Gentoo to compile and install on that machine I had installed and configured RedHat on two 386s, three 486s, a Pent 133 and 200, a pent pro 180, a P2-333, K6-2 500, and a Athlon 700. Thats 11 machines installed, configured, and running in the time it took 1 machine to compile.
Gentoo is nice that you can configure everything just for your system, but install speed wise it sucks. There are just some things that binaries are better at, and installation is one of them
You can't pull the OSS from SCO's OS. If you do then they won't have any tools built in. You know that they can't make any of their own because they traded all their programmers for lawyers.
We could always make a distro of Linux and call it Windows XP Gone.
I was never one to believe what enviromentalist say ever since I heard my friends research report in class a few years ago.
I can't remember all the numbers, but from the numbers he got from eviromental web sites the rate we've been chopping down trees since the earily 80's there shouldn't be a tree left on Earth today.
*Looks out window* I still see trees, so we can't be messing up things as much as they say we are.
MS probably would bundle Office into the OS just so they could charge $800+ for the OS. The only thing that seems to be stopping them is the fact that they know they couldn't win when everyone and their dog sues MS for doing it.
True, this won't hurt MS at all if they are allowed to have two versions of XP to exist. Just telling MS that they have to have a version of XP without WMP isn't enough.
MS should of been ordered to only sell versions of XP without WMP in the EU and allow users to choose by downloading their media player.
All that courts seem to be doing to MS these days is drawing a line in the sand and saying "Ok MS, here's the line. Please don't cross it." MS then steps over the line and all the court does is step back, draw another line, and tell MS "Ok, that was a practice line. Pretty please, don't cross this one."
If the courts keep letting MS cross the line, the next thing we know we'll be paying $800 for the new Windows desktop OS just because MS had to bundle Office into the OS.
The problem isn't free versus free. The problem is MS having access to source code and APIs that the competitors don't. Therefore, MS is able to intergrate their free products into the OS better.
Nobody attacks notepad or solitaire for two key reasons. 1.) Both programs can easily be uninstalled if you do not want them. Can you do the same with IE or WMP? 2.) Neither notepad or solitaire use anything such as hidden APIs or windows source code to run. Can the same be said about IE or WMP?
Its not that bad. Having a 110 volts run through you kinda tickles, its the 220 that stings.
Why not just wire the batteries in parallel, get a car charger to charge them, and a power inverter to convert it all to AC for the PC? Might not look pretty, but at least you will know that the charger and inverter can handle the load unlike the rigged ups idea.
Isn't that in SG-1 already?
Does this new series mean that they are at some point going to shutdown the SGC?
That would mean that the studios would have to be willing to continually do this for all DVDs that they released. Do you Actually think that if your 3 year old destoryed the Barney DVD the 15th time this month that they would still be willing to replace it?
Anything that does not allow you to make backup copys of videos and software that you have purchased is wrong. And any law that makes normal people making backups into criminals needs to be abolished.
A few years ago, my house caught fire and burned down taking everything with it. Fortunately, I had off site backups of my software or I would be spending several thousand dollars replacing all of it. Then it was legal to do such a thing but today I'm a criminal for making backups.
How would your mail-in replacement work for me in that situation? Am I supposed to send them in the melted plastic and say "send me a replacement"? Or how about I'll send them some ash and say "see, this is my receipt. My house burned down, send me replacements."