I don't think you understand graft as well as you think you do. If you did, you would understand that free software can be used in much the same way as non free software. Service contracts and fancy hardware sales can take the place of expensive software in kickback schemes and other forms of corruption. People will spend X dollars on education, expensive software funnels much of that money to where it can't be pocketed as easy. This kind of corruption and the immorality of non free software are not directly linked and are problems that have to be solved independently. With or without graft, you money is better spent purchasing software freedom than it is buying crap like Windows.
A guy from F-secure in Finland has been calling for the formation of an "internetpol" for exactly these reasons.
If more people were using software written by another guy from Finland 16 years ago, there would be no W32 crime wave and we would not need super cracker cops authorized to violate your privacy.
How do you know what people's intentions are when they do this? Apple makes interesting hardware. I was very interested in Mac Mini when I visited the place last year. I know that they have used free software and hoped they would be able to help me do the same with their supposedly superior hardware. Now that they only have Intel hardware, I'm less interested.
Apple and GNU/Linux are natural allies and Apple should get more into free software before M$ crushes them like they did the OLPC. Here's how the world really works right now. When M$ turns those guns on Apple again, they won't last long. They are currently placated by Apple's non free stance and more threatening competition from Google and GNU/Linux, just ask the "Linux Task Force".
There is a serious cultural issue here that prevents Vietnam from taking advantage of Linux.
Like a lack of freedom and prosperity? GNU/Linux without the four software freedoms is only technically better than Windows. RMS has warned people about the social damage done by non free software. People who are powerless to make changes are soon demoralized and lose their sense of curiosity and adventure. People who live under autocracies lose many other of man's better nature in order to survive. Free software, free society, you can't really have one without the other.
Vista, zune, xbox, M$TV. They've even bunged up Hotmail and Office. They have been caught lying about making money before and recently hushed an employee. They depend on massive tax evasion as well as government purchasing that's drying up.
Westlake is a troll who likes to play mod games and tell people not to believe what they see in front of them. Obviously, what you have seen with your own eyes is true and that makes this computer world article suspect at best. Chances are, other people will see what you did, and they are already saying so.
Compared to that, XP driver support being pulled before launch is a nit pick, but it goes a long way to show that you either don't know what you are talking about or you are lying.
I am now certain to exterminate WGA from any and all computers I come into contact with.
Sooner or later, you won't be able to do that and right now you can't trust underhanded coppies. That is the ultimate crime of non free software - not being able to share software and change the way your computer works. You can't be sure people will always be able to remove malicious features from Windows and you can never be sure that new malicious features have not been added in their place. A better solution is to move on to free software where the whole world can verify code integrity and you are removed from legal threats from what you describe as "asshats".
For all their cheating, XBox 360 is still at the bottom of the market and losing billions of dollars. Nintendo, by providing a better user interface and input has trounced them all with a simple PowerPC box. I crave better inputs for PS3 but would not touch XBox with a 10 foot pole.
I was there, mostly as a lurker. Contrary to M$ smear attacks against me, I mostly talk about things I know about or ask questions when I don't know. Because there was no moderation system at Technocrat, there was no need for me to use multiple accounts.
Gasoline might look cheap, but it's not. Global warming now threatens the majority of Earth's species with drastic implications for food production. Fisheries are being destroyed and most North American crop production will be reduced. Losses of ice cover are already so large that a total stop to fossil fuel burning may not be enough to stop this unfolding disaster. The US and world can not rely on market forces to avert this large scale tragedy of the commons because everyone's short term economic interest is in doing the same stupid things.
Cellulose based fermentation might provide fuels for the few applications that really need it. The rest of our energy needs should come solar, nuclear, wind, geothermal and so on.
XP, it's kind of like a first post. Bill Gate's little piss on every computer. Please don't give it to people for Christmas, especially on these computers. With an intel chipset, free software games are better than XP games. If you want to give someone non free software, give them Unreal Tournament or stuff from ID Software. There are plenty of free games in the Ubuntu repository. Play with them yourself to see which ones work best and would please the people you are giving them to.
The plight of DRAM makers and it's cause were mentioned here on July 4, 2007. Not much has changed, so it's no surprise DRAM makers are going bankrupt.
All that "grain of truth" turned into lie is more your style of arguing with people than mine. I like to talk about the subjectat hand with careful documentation, rather than people. But when I do talk about people, I look through their posting history for obvious shilling and harassment. You like to harass me a lot, and I've seen you talking to yourself before.
This is a M$ false choice and I'm not sure what you are trying to say:
It will keep the costs for the hardware down by hosting the applications elsewhere. Or, to put it another way, they will host education apps online for free (now) so that the required hardware specs are lower, allowing more of the total to be spent on (Microsoft) software
Only M$ needs to push second rate hardware to be competitive. With free software you can afford both hardware and software, and free software always runs better on the same hardware anyway. I think that's the point Bruce was making about his netbook being able to do everything he wants. Does anyone sell cheaper hardware than that? Why would anyone chose it just so they can afford Windows, software that does less? It's funny that M$ would turn to a traditional developing world technology (LTSP) to pretend their software is price competitive with a first world GNU/Linux option. The GNU/Linux clouds are a lot more solid and cheaper than M$ are.
Curiously, they do expect people to do as they say. I've seen a lot of these demands. Whey I did not comply, they modbombed me to oblivion.
Ultimately they want Slashdot and free software to just go away, so they can get back to their little Windows monopoly and great big piles of coke. The goal of the Slog is for M$ to remain the "center of the computing world." This has obviously failed.
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It only took you two minutes to get that post in and mod it up. Bottnet indeed.
Windows reigns supreme in most managed LAN work environments. Feel better? No. OK, do some deep breathing and follow along:
Yes, you are powerful.
Or just get GNU/Linux. Why be slaughtered with the other sheep? Vista never was fast and Windows 7 won't be either. There's a better chance of M$ going out of business than there is of Windows ever being fixed.
I had not noticed a problem.
I thought they were lost in a private air crash.
I don't think you understand graft as well as you think you do. If you did, you would understand that free software can be used in much the same way as non free software. Service contracts and fancy hardware sales can take the place of expensive software in kickback schemes and other forms of corruption. People will spend X dollars on education, expensive software funnels much of that money to where it can't be pocketed as easy. This kind of corruption and the immorality of non free software are not directly linked and are problems that have to be solved independently. With or without graft, you money is better spent purchasing software freedom than it is buying crap like Windows.
A guy from F-secure in Finland has been calling for the formation of an "internetpol" for exactly these reasons.
If more people were using software written by another guy from Finland 16 years ago, there would be no W32 crime wave and we would not need super cracker cops authorized to violate your privacy.
How do you know what people's intentions are when they do this? Apple makes interesting hardware. I was very interested in Mac Mini when I visited the place last year. I know that they have used free software and hoped they would be able to help me do the same with their supposedly superior hardware. Now that they only have Intel hardware, I'm less interested.
Apple and GNU/Linux are natural allies and Apple should get more into free software before M$ crushes them like they did the OLPC. Here's how the world really works right now. When M$ turns those guns on Apple again, they won't last long. They are currently placated by Apple's non free stance and more threatening competition from Google and GNU/Linux, just ask the "Linux Task Force".
There is a serious cultural issue here that prevents Vietnam from taking advantage of Linux.
Like a lack of freedom and prosperity? GNU/Linux without the four software freedoms is only technically better than Windows. RMS has warned people about the social damage done by non free software. People who are powerless to make changes are soon demoralized and lose their sense of curiosity and adventure. People who live under autocracies lose many other of man's better nature in order to survive. Free software, free society, you can't really have one without the other.
Vista, zune, xbox, M$TV. They've even bunged up Hotmail and Office. They have been caught lying about making money before and recently hushed an employee. They depend on massive tax evasion as well as government purchasing that's drying up.
Goldman Sachs just jumped on the M$ layoffs bandwagon. Funny how these guys come to M$FT rescue when needed.
Westlake is a troll who likes to play mod games and tell people not to believe what they see in front of them. Obviously, what you have seen with your own eyes is true and that makes this computer world article suspect at best. Chances are, other people will see what you did, and they are already saying so.
Here's a list of proven media problems. Those are not conjecture, they are what people report Vista does. Here's a much larger list of Vista Failure, once again reported by users, vendors and other non interested parties.
Compared to that, XP driver support being pulled before launch is a nit pick, but it goes a long way to show that you either don't know what you are talking about or you are lying.
Speak for yourself AC.
I am now certain to exterminate WGA from any and all computers I come into contact with.
Sooner or later, you won't be able to do that and right now you can't trust underhanded coppies. That is the ultimate crime of non free software - not being able to share software and change the way your computer works. You can't be sure people will always be able to remove malicious features from Windows and you can never be sure that new malicious features have not been added in their place. A better solution is to move on to free software where the whole world can verify code integrity and you are removed from legal threats from what you describe as "asshats".
For all their cheating, XBox 360 is still at the bottom of the market and losing billions of dollars. Nintendo, by providing a better user interface and input has trounced them all with a simple PowerPC box. I crave better inputs for PS3 but would not touch XBox with a 10 foot pole.
Someone with a 30 mb Zune and you can bet their next player is not going to be from M$.
Fraud of all kinds mix easy. Watch as M$'s stock and reporting frauds implode and the true value of imaginary property becomes apparent.
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Yourself.
I was there, mostly as a lurker. Contrary to M$ smear attacks against me, I mostly talk about things I know about or ask questions when I don't know. Because there was no moderation system at Technocrat, there was no need for me to use multiple accounts.
Gasoline might look cheap, but it's not. Global warming now threatens the majority of Earth's species with drastic implications for food production. Fisheries are being destroyed and most North American crop production will be reduced. Losses of ice cover are already so large that a total stop to fossil fuel burning may not be enough to stop this unfolding disaster. The US and world can not rely on market forces to avert this large scale tragedy of the commons because everyone's short term economic interest is in doing the same stupid things.
Cellulose based fermentation might provide fuels for the few applications that really need it. The rest of our energy needs should come solar, nuclear, wind, geothermal and so on.
XP, it's kind of like a first post. Bill Gate's little piss on every computer. Please don't give it to people for Christmas, especially on these computers. With an intel chipset, free software games are better than XP games. If you want to give someone non free software, give them Unreal Tournament or stuff from ID Software. There are plenty of free games in the Ubuntu repository. Play with them yourself to see which ones work best and would please the people you are giving them to.
The plight of DRAM makers and it's cause were mentioned here on July 4, 2007. Not much has changed, so it's no surprise DRAM makers are going bankrupt.
All that "grain of truth" turned into lie is more your style of arguing with people than mine. I like to talk about the subject at hand with careful documentation, rather than people. But when I do talk about people, I look through their posting history for obvious shilling and harassment. You like to harass me a lot, and I've seen you talking to yourself before.
This is a M$ false choice and I'm not sure what you are trying to say:
It will keep the costs for the hardware down by hosting the applications elsewhere. Or, to put it another way, they will host education apps online for free (now) so that the required hardware specs are lower, allowing more of the total to be spent on (Microsoft) software
Only M$ needs to push second rate hardware to be competitive. With free software you can afford both hardware and software, and free software always runs better on the same hardware anyway. I think that's the point Bruce was making about his netbook being able to do everything he wants. Does anyone sell cheaper hardware than that? Why would anyone chose it just so they can afford Windows, software that does less? It's funny that M$ would turn to a traditional developing world technology (LTSP) to pretend their software is price competitive with a first world GNU/Linux option. The GNU/Linux clouds are a lot more solid and cheaper than M$ are.
Your point about the shakeyness of M$ educational deals is better made. See here, where M$ recently jerked around old folks homes in Australia soon after getting the hardware and work in place. M$ needs your money, real bad.
Curiously, they do expect people to do as they say. I've seen a lot of these demands. Whey I did not comply, they modbombed me to oblivion.
Ultimately they want Slashdot and free software to just go away, so they can get back to their little Windows monopoly and great big piles of coke. The goal of the Slog is for M$ to remain the "center of the computing world." This has obviously failed.