YOU IDIOTS! Can't you see this is a ploy to make us go "Poor Microsoft...see they are the same as us..."
Wouldn't surprise me if MS was paying Jack T. to sue themselves to try and gain 'street cred'
Disclaimer: If I sound as crazy as Jack don't blame me, blame it on the Halo 3 demo.
Municipal wifi should be free, otherwise there isn't much of a point in having the government doing it.
Well since the wifi will technically never be free (taxes?) are you saying that the government shouldn't provide the service? This is the same conundrum with healthcare. Someone always ends up paying more for a service from the government they don't personally use. If you are going to make wifi for the city, make it cheap, but don't make it free and dig into the pockets of taxpayers who won't use it, and furthermore don't have much say in how much they donate to the 'cause'.
The single worst idea of the US government was to start charging every one for the benefit of a few. This happens on so many levels from health care, where the middle class supports the nation, to big business buying political support in the form of laws (and even wars) all to the detriment of private citizens in general. One of the major injustices of this century if you ask me. But no one ever asks so.....
I just installed Debian Etch on my new Thinkpad. Debian is one of the most free distros around. mp3 mpg avi divix all worked out of the box. I had to install 1 package and DVD is now working.
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System76 already does this with their driver update tool. I'm guessing Dell will do something like that.
I'd rather spend my money on one of these keyboards, and then get a touch screen lcd
Then you could make a huge custom touch pad that also had software buttons for whatever you wanted. Disclaimer: this is prior art =P
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That's because todays society think there is something inherently evil with being a male....
I'm surprised everyone missed Microsoft's real reason for doing this. Vista 64-bit requires signed drivers. Yes you can disable driver signing on Vista but it something only about 5% of Windows users would feel comfortable doing. The next Windows will probably make disabling driver signing more difficult or maybe even impossible. Microsoft will have effectively locked down what you can run on your own hardware for Windows users.
Second, others have noted that the Supremes are probably looking for a case or cases to invalidate/all/ software patents. If they're correct, MS could find itself facing a very dangerous court climate, indeed.
But I think we are bound to see very soon that while they have a large number of patents,
they would rather not defend them in court. Sad new trend in patent trolling if you ask me.
Patents are probably what MS is going to live on for the next 5 years till they pull
their head out of their ass, or die a slow and painful death.
I'm just of the opinion that there is nothing wrong with a game console because you buy it to play games. You buy a computer to do whatever you want on it, which might include playing games. I'm not feeding their desktop monopoly by playing their console. I think MS should make console games and computer software (with open standards like odf). I won't touch their OS offering because it doesn't play fair by my standards. Once they figure out how to make good office software on every system (you think they could do this by using OOD, and just switch out the system interactions right? makes you wonder how good at software they really are...) I think they will finally be where they should have been when OS/2 rolled out. If they notice that their games are being bought and their OS isn't, that's called market force and they will either realize that they should focus more on games, or forever be hamstringed in their OS and game department due to misappropriated funds. Makes no difference to me as long as I don't use their OS and use standard formats.
It's not exactly black and white in my view but maybe I am just some crackpot.....
As far as I can tell the perceived benefit of software as service (or 'web os' as some people cal it) is that it will
cost less. Well how can you cost less than a distribution like Debian or Ubuntu? Granted another benefit is that
you can run software as service on less expensive hardware, but come on, are you trying to tell me that a $250 desktop is too expensive?
News Fash: Hardware is cheap.
It's the software that's the expensive part of business. I don't think FOSS should volunteer bandwidth and server
time like that. Doesn't FOSS already give enough, hosting free software in repositories making it that much more
convenient to use the software you want at any time?
Why yes I am considering buying the game.
Hypocritical? I don't think so. I'll pay for good games, movies and music.
I won't get sucked into vendor lock-in and feed a monopoly just for a freely
distributed video clip. I think if more people thought the same way open
standards would be further ahead and there would be more games on Linux
and BSD. But I can't make you think anything, so I why bother debating.
Oi! I was making more of a point about open file types than anything....
I don't really care if VLC can play WMV or not....I will not use WMV.
guess I won't watch the vid then if I can't get it in an agreeable format.
Don't forget the part where every one will think it's awesome despite the fact that it's been done before and done better.
This really is just a response to all the Linux USB sticks running around. But of course MS has to lock you in so of
course whatever computer you boot on will need Windows.....more lame ass lock in to make more money in more lame ass ways.
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YOU IDIOTS! Can't you see this is a ploy to make us go "Poor Microsoft...see they are the same as us..."
Wouldn't surprise me if MS was paying Jack T. to sue themselves to try and gain 'street cred'
Disclaimer: If I sound as crazy as Jack don't blame me, blame it on the Halo 3 demo.
Well since the wifi will technically never be free (taxes?) are you saying that the government shouldn't provide the service? This is the same conundrum with healthcare. Someone always ends up paying more for a service from the government they don't personally use. If you are going to make wifi for the city, make it cheap, but don't make it free and dig into the pockets of taxpayers who won't use it, and furthermore don't have much say in how much they donate to the 'cause'.
The single worst idea of the US government was to start charging every one for the benefit of a few. This happens on so many levels from health care, where the middle class supports the nation, to big business buying political support in the form of laws (and even wars) all to the detriment of private citizens in general. One of the major injustices of this century if you ask me. But no one ever asks so.....
>/dev/null you mean?
I just installed Debian Etch on my new Thinkpad. Debian is one of the most free distros around.
mp3 mpg avi divix all worked out of the box. I had to install 1 package and DVD is now working.
System76 already does this with their driver update tool. I'm guessing Dell will do something like that.
Linux: D00D I'm in your base killing your FUD!!!11!!! XD
Microsoft: OHHH SHIT!
Well it is a published paper. It's not like it's a big secret now, or even patentable. Thank god....
Microsoft said the same thing about another underdog... Weird how that one is playing out too...
My parents gave me guidance without boundaries....
Seemed to work out ok, but wouldn't we all like to think of ourselves as 'ok'?
I'd rather spend my money on one of these keyboards, and then get a touch screen lcd
Then you could make a huge custom touch pad that also had software buttons for whatever you wanted.
Disclaimer: this is prior art =P
That's because todays society think there is something inherently evil with being a male....
ahem.....Told you so
Yea but can lawyers grok LISP? Some people I graduated with still struggle....
But I think we are bound to see very soon that while they have a large number of patents,
they would rather not defend them in court. Sad new trend in patent trolling if you ask me.
Patents are probably what MS is going to live on for the next 5 years till they pull
their head out of their ass, or die a slow and painful death.
uhhhh.....the writing is on the wall.
Microsoft doesn't want to look clues.
Fuck that, I'm not MS's customer, so they are going to sue me saying I should be? BULLSHIT!
I'm just of the opinion that there is nothing wrong with a game console because you buy it to play games. You buy a computer to do whatever you want on it, which might include playing games. I'm not feeding their desktop monopoly by playing their console. I think MS should make console games and computer software (with open standards like odf). I won't touch their OS offering because it doesn't play fair by my standards. Once they figure out how to make good office software on every system (you think they could do this by using OOD, and just switch out the system interactions right? makes you wonder how good at software they really are...) I think they will finally be where they should have been when OS/2 rolled out. If they notice that their games are being bought and their OS isn't, that's called market force and they will either realize that they should focus more on games, or forever be hamstringed in their OS and game department due to misappropriated funds. Makes no difference to me as long as I don't use their OS and use standard formats. It's not exactly black and white in my view but maybe I am just some crackpot.....
As far as I can tell the perceived benefit of software as service (or 'web os' as some people cal it) is that it will
cost less. Well how can you cost less than a distribution like Debian or Ubuntu? Granted another benefit is that
you can run software as service on less expensive hardware, but come on, are you trying to tell me that a $250
desktop is too expensive?
News Fash: Hardware is cheap.
It's the software that's the expensive part of business. I don't think FOSS should volunteer bandwidth and server
time like that. Doesn't FOSS already give enough, hosting free software in repositories making it that much more
convenient to use the software you want at any time?
Why yes I am considering buying the game.
Hypocritical? I don't think so. I'll pay for good games, movies and music.
I won't get sucked into vendor lock-in and feed a monopoly just for a freely
distributed video clip. I think if more people thought the same way open
standards would be further ahead and there would be more games on Linux
and BSD. But I can't make you think anything, so I why bother debating.
Oi! I was making more of a point about open file types than anything....
I don't really care if VLC can play WMV or not....I will not use WMV.
guess I won't watch the vid then if I can't get it in an agreeable format.
any one have a ogg mpg or avi for us?
ahhhh....I've found out only the spacially gifted use look inversion.
Maybe that's why you can't cut it with the dual analog.........=P
Don't forget the part where every one will think it's awesome despite the fact that it's been done before and done better.
This really is just a response to all the Linux USB sticks running around. But of course MS has to lock you in so of
course whatever computer you boot on will need Windows.....more lame ass lock in to make more money in more lame ass ways.
but why not take Debian? seems like a more versatile approach to me....but I don't think it quite fits with the theme of the article.....