Load weapon. Do you want to permit or deny this application? Yes, YES!
I'm sorry, I can't permit you to load your weapon if you don't answer properly...
*SMASH*
works fine now. When did I mention Windows? There's no reason to run a mainstream consumer operating system on an assault rifle and adjoined headpiece.
They're running Linux on a wireless networked system that soldier's lives depend on?
Way to cut costs there, guys. They should be running a lean proprietary system that doesn't have its source code WIDELY AVAILABLE TO EVERY SINGLE ENEMY OF OURS UNDER THE SUN.
Also, no wonder it runs like ass on a 400-mhz system- I can't believe they couldn't create a leaner ground-up system.
I hope all the countries we fight are ass-backwards, and haven't discovered that computer systems with common os's can be broken into.
I mean, the enemy only needs to get their hands on one of these to reverse-engineer it and turn it against us. They need to get these retarded things off our soldiers backs before someone gets hurt. Back to the drawing board, I say. Make a more high quality system for ground commanders and scrap the 'every soldier is a lunix computar' plot.
Oh, by the way, you might want to check your calendar.
It is now 2007,and the US lost the Cold War.
Love yr nostalgia work though.... We lost the Cold War? When we gave in and became a communist nation? I thought Russia was the impoverished crap-hole overseas sinking under the weight of its collapsed empire. Last I checked, we were still the richest nation in the world and still dominate the software and media industry internationally.
I understand the concept of people being fat is basically non-existent in Russia, since the fat ones are generally devoured by wild dogs... or stabbed by the many free-range criminals.
Well, fatboy or whatever, it seems your dumbass attitude is a neat summary of why the US is profoundly uncompetitive in a range of industries, from software to warcraft.
Strut and peptalk and invoke the rule of law and the international community.
Don't worry fatboy. Noone even speaks English around here, much less cares what you think... Blizzard is in California, buddy. Even the gold-farmers need to buy accounts.
But, I guess this is why they steal US-made 'Microsoft Windows', not 'Failed Impoverished Communist Empire-OS'.
Our programmers will be fairly safe as long as out-sourced code remains terrible and poorly-written. People just aren't getting any smarter over there, I suppose.
Hope you don't get mauled by a pack of wild dogs on the street.:)
I'd probably use BSD in a workstation environment. And no, I don't agree that Windows is a great workstation system. Where I am, we've got tons of XP and 2000 workstations, and there have been a lot of virus problems in the past. If you lock them down enough to prevent that, there are problems getting real work done on the damn things. Not to mention our security issues. For those of us working in consumer technologies and media, we simply don't have the option to pick and choose. However, it's difficult to find a more efficient or productive office environment than that offered by the microsoft platform for everything from groupware to casual programming/scripting- the research really does go pretty far for most employees. Apple certainly doesn't offer the benefit of focused or dirt-cheap workstations, either- and especially not the software support. Either way, it's not realistic to think that most office employees or consumers will drop the mouse.
If security were a major issue for us (we've only had one major virus outbreak- and it was custom made for us- that could have happened to any OS.) I think I'd run windows virtualized on something like Green Hills Software's IntegrityOS system to get the best of both worlds.
You'd better wake-up because no big country can survive selling (ok, renting) intelctual property. No one.
If you didn't notice yet, China has copyright laws because THEIR gorvernment choosed to have. And they choosed to have IP because they think it would benefit THEMSELVES. If it somehow stop benefiting themselves (like it becoming huge imports, but very small exports), chinese governemnt can simply not enforce IP anymore, or enforce it in a more benefical way (like only recognizing their people's IP).
Now, you'd better sell some real goods if you want to keep being a partner at international trade. Or produce valuable IP, like useful patents, so you can buy some time.
Thus, we can question their membership in the WTO. We have certain rules we follow when we play in the international game. I think we've played with China not following our rules for too long. Don't forget that they're dependent on us, also- they can't simply ignore us when we've got an issue with their market behavior- it's a big deal.
That's probably more accurate, but it's really idiocy in a lot of cases. Unix is easier to administer, on the whole, than Windows. Windows has too many damn obscure errors, and buggy commercial "services" that are supposed to patch holes in its capabilities. Windows is a great desktop or workstation system, though. I agree with you on the 'unix' front, but I don't necessarily believe that all the benefits of unix are inherited by linux. The open source community has too much of a conflicting focus to compete with the organization and direction of a large corporation.
IBM and Red Hat don't take themselves seriously? IBM is basically the definition of "serious." Big Blue doesn't have a joke in its massive, bloated corporate body. I meant provide customer support to a desktop implementation. I am sorry for the confusion.
Not internal use or distribution of server products as 'support'.
a) they're robbing microsoft, who is, in turn, robbing US of money. I'll call this fair.
b) they can't even be said to be robbing our country. We owe China trillions of dollars. This is like saying that the bank is robbing you when they charge overdraft. When you owe someone trillions of dollars, anything they want of yours is pretty much theirs. They already paid for it.
c) Vista is not worth the money it took to burn it to disk. A two hundred dollar place of chicken squirt is still worthless, no matter what the price tag says. a) Let's revise that: "I'm a linux or Apple fanboy so I don't like Microsoft. I think it's fair to rob from that company, its employees and stockholders, and the large area of Washington it supports."
b) You really don't understand how international investments work... none of us received any direct money from China. You and I owe nothing to China, neither does Google, Microsoft, or the RIAA or MPAA. We can revise this statement to "I don't understand banking."
c) "I'm angry because I use linux." Have you ever seen open source code? It's free, but there's no way you could sell that.
That is the problem: We really don't care if MS has financial difficulties because of the way it has treated its PAYING CUSTOMERS over the years. I feel screwed everytime I have had to buy a system installed with Windows (because I had no choice) or reinstall Windows and call and prove I had the RIGHT to do so.
Face it, MS treats the majority of its customers like shitty thieves. Even the most brainwashed employee with stock options knows this. It isn't even about quality, its about disrespect shown to customers. They steal more than Microsoft products, in case you were living under a rock or didn't read the original comment here.
No, they don't. This is a cultural thing. IP is a european theory. If it can swim with the free market for any reason, it won't work. The ahven't censored the internet with any real success, and still has dissenting voices. They seem pretty content with forming large international enterprises that sell to us. They're going to have to adapt to our 'illusions of ownership' or stop playing the game with us.
When we don't get to play in the production of our own products, we're really the one's who are losing. At least Windows is an American-made product.
Did you know that the GPL encourages people to code for free. It's like stealing from xsoft, it's like taking food from red blooded god fearing american babies. What is the world coming to!? Have you ever worked for a company that actually uses a customized linux? They generally outsource all development. It's just a stepping stool- no company will give work to their competitors.
There's also the problem of currency inequality though. If you sell it for what the chinese can afford, you lose out big because you can't recoup the cost of developing it. If you sell it for what it's worth in the US, the chinese can't afford it and pirate it. When the average wealth of a chinese citizen starts to approach that of someone in the US, then we can start talking about stopping pirating.
Or do you think it's just a coincidence that the rates of piracy are higher in countries with lower wealth? It would be nice if their businesses at least purchased things, seeing as they're selling to our market. I assume they're quite profitable enough to afford the software they use. That would at least be realistic for the government to enforce. We have every right to question their membership in the WTO as long they're behaving like this. Enforcement is necessary- and not specifically on an individual level.
And China is quickly approaching a more middle class market. I think their economy is stronger than we give it credit for. Selling at a price the Chinese can afford does not fully recoup the cost of development, but then again, it doesn't need to. It only needs to recover the cost of translation and distribution- it only needs to recover some cost.
We don't target the Chinese market for a reason. Even if we translate something and sell it reasonably, they will simply steal it. Somehow, their draconian government has managed to censor the entire internet and eliminate dissenting voices yet is completely incapable of addressing massive piracy- even by large enterprises? We have no reason to accept this. Their membership in the WTO is right to be questioned.
Their centralized communist government has every means to address this to keep the country playing fair internationally. We all know there's money there.
Yeah it really seems like poor Bill Gates will have to close down M$ after this... You don't suppose they do this to any other software companies, do you... ?
Isn't this the same slashdot that celebrates mass piracy? We all know that the chinese don't buy software, music, or movies and for some bizarre reason everyone on slashdot celebrates it. They are taking money from us-- they are blatantly robbing our largest industries. This isn't bringing us any closer to the magical open source commune you people envision for the future, it's only bringing us closer to poverty.
What do you think the US's role is in the world market? How many of you work in steel, ammonia, or aerospace?
I don't suppose any of you work in software, which depends on sales- possibly web industries that depend on paying customers who aren't buying bootleg products- maybe even the financial industry, which is adversely affected by the lack of revenue our media firms and software companies see out of China.
Stop being fanboys and start thinking like we're competing in a world market and our jobs are not secure.
I suppose you'd all like to see the market shift to an open source model, where all the code is written in east europe and china where its cheaper, and those of us who once wrote software here are then waiting tables for the executives and managers who were smart enough to outsource all their R&D and engineering as soon as possible.
Selling software, entertainment products, and media in China is really the best outcome for our middle class- it doesn't only benefit a few fatcat moguls, like most of you have fooled yourself into thinking.
Microsoft is a large company that needs to support every one of its products- that's part of its platform.
This is not a surprise or a problem because:
A) Desktop linux is a fringe marketshare
B) There's not a ton of money in people who refuse to spend money on things
Also, linux is a wacky mess. No company that wants to take itself seriously will support it- because it's completely disorganized and lacks any semblance of standards across distributions. Apple and Windows are solid platforms that are much cheaper to support. This is why people generally only release RPM packages for certain linux distros and versions, such as redhat and suse.
Speaking of which, I wouldn't be surprised if this supports SUSE/RH once they get past pre-alpha.
This is about Aero; now that there are some moderately priced DX10 cards out there Aero isn't just for rich gamers. Aero runs fine on my GeForce 6200. So, I guess it's also for people with $30 graphics cards. It's not the resource hog people seem to think it is- I found it used minimally more CPU and memory than Vista basic when you have a sufficient, $30 graphics card.
This tiny political movement is not going to fly. The country would get dropped from the WTO in a heartbeat. They're talking about literally legalizing robbery.
First, the market and free things:
If any of you are American and support this, you're idiots. All we really export is IP nowadays... it's a huge asset to our economy. A political party is trying to pass a movement that's effectively robbing tons of hard-working Americans and their businesses. You think games, music, and movies are free to make?
If you're not going to buy them, then when do you pay us back for the cost of making these things? Have you not taken ECON101? Sometimes things that are convenient for us as individuals are bad for our nations and economy. It would be cool if food was free, but then who would grow it?
Don't give me a cathedral and the bazaar argument, either. If these arguments made any sense, there would be a communist or highly-socialist super-economy destroying us from overseas-- and don't cite China; they're not operating as a communist country internationally.
The open source model works, don't get me wrong. Like software, anything can essentially be copied. If we all chipped in and performed tasks to support each other at no cost, we wouldn't have to pay for anything! But we use a market economy to micro-manage compensation for work completed and general influence over production and macro-manage the demand and delivery for products. One of America's new primary roles is the production and subsequent defense of intellectual property. Welcome to 'where did my computer come from?' or 'how come I have food?'
If you're purchasing Microsoft profits, you're supporting Redmond, WA and its surrounding area. It's a lovely area that is largely fed by Microsoft- a huge boon to Seattle, not unlike Boeing. I'm sure Apple has a similar position in Cupertino. When you're just using Linux, you're simply sending our jobs to China! (They can make Linux, too!)-- that's where large firms like Motorola get their userspace operating systems. China!
Next, why this is bad for us and Norway:
As members of the world economy, you can't just produce products and gain international favors and contracts while utterly robbing your competitors-- (yes, we compete with Norway in the music market.) Not okay, not profitable, not beneficial.
We should be focusing our efforts on keeping snakes off of planes. Phones can often be useful- for asking snake experts about various types of venom- and sending them cell phone pictures.
I whole-heartedly disagree with you, sir. There is absolutely no reason to use a lowest-common-denominator gui for a basic and functional program like gaim. Projects like Adium have taken things like libgaim and made them usable and beautiful and integrated. Coding a multi-platform GUI should never be a limiting factor in projects- it's much more intelligent, practical, and over-all better to just create a separate GUI for each popular system. I'm all for libgaim, but I think gaim as the every-OS IM client is just poor design practice.
What would be more intelligent is just making libgaim more OS agnostic and easy to use with GUI's coded in Objective-C or C#, etc... the open source community needs to get away from multi-platform omni-messes and embrace the style guides provided for various OS's.
It looks like the security has been compromised on my Vista box. Like most consumers, my biggest fear is Indian Security Experts breaking into my house and booting my beta version of Vista with a special hacked CD......this is a strong case for linux or apple where......oh yeah, you can do the same thing.
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Load weapon. Do you want to permit or deny this application? Yes, YES!
I'm sorry, I can't permit you to load your weapon if you don't answer properly
*SMASH*
works fine now. When did I mention Windows? There's no reason to run a mainstream consumer operating system on an assault rifle and adjoined headpiece.
They're running Linux on a wireless networked system that soldier's lives depend on?
Way to cut costs there, guys. They should be running a lean proprietary system that doesn't have its source code WIDELY AVAILABLE TO EVERY SINGLE ENEMY OF OURS UNDER THE SUN.
Also, no wonder it runs like ass on a 400-mhz system- I can't believe they couldn't create a leaner ground-up system.
I hope all the countries we fight are ass-backwards, and haven't discovered that computer systems with common os's can be broken into.
I mean, the enemy only needs to get their hands on one of these to reverse-engineer it and turn it against us. They need to get these retarded things off our soldiers backs before someone gets hurt. Back to the drawing board, I say. Make a more high quality system for ground commanders and scrap the 'every soldier is a lunix computar' plot.
Oh, by the way, you might want to check your calendar.
It is now 2007
Love yr nostalgia work though.... We lost the Cold War? When we gave in and became a communist nation? I thought Russia was the impoverished crap-hole overseas sinking under the weight of its collapsed empire. Last I checked, we were still the richest nation in the world and still dominate the software and media industry internationally.
I understand the concept of people being fat is basically non-existent in Russia, since the fat ones are generally devoured by wild dogs... or stabbed by the many free-range criminals.
I only run for exercise.
Strut and peptalk and invoke the rule of law and the international community.
Don't worry fatboy. Noone even speaks English around here, much less cares what you think... Blizzard is in California, buddy. Even the gold-farmers need to buy accounts.
But, I guess this is why they steal US-made 'Microsoft Windows', not 'Failed Impoverished Communist Empire-OS'.
Our programmers will be fairly safe as long as out-sourced code remains terrible and poorly-written. People just aren't getting any smarter over there, I suppose.
Hope you don't get mauled by a pack of wild dogs on the street.
If security were a major issue for us (we've only had one major virus outbreak- and it was custom made for us- that could have happened to any OS.) I think I'd run windows virtualized on something like Green Hills Software's IntegrityOS system to get the best of both worlds.
You'd better wake-up because no big country can survive selling (ok, renting) intelctual property. No one.
If you didn't notice yet, China has copyright laws because THEIR gorvernment choosed to have. And they choosed to have IP because they think it would benefit THEMSELVES. If it somehow stop benefiting themselves (like it becoming huge imports, but very small exports), chinese governemnt can simply not enforce IP anymore, or enforce it in a more benefical way (like only recognizing their people's IP).
Now, you'd better sell some real goods if you want to keep being a partner at international trade. Or produce valuable IP, like useful patents, so you can buy some time.
Thus, we can question their membership in the WTO. We have certain rules we follow when we play in the international game. I think we've played with China not following our rules for too long. Don't forget that they're dependent on us, also- they can't simply ignore us when we've got an issue with their market behavior- it's a big deal.a) they're robbing microsoft, who is, in turn, robbing US of money. I'll call this fair.
b) they can't even be said to be robbing our country. We owe China trillions of dollars. This is like saying that the bank is robbing you when they charge overdraft. When you owe someone trillions of dollars, anything they want of yours is pretty much theirs. They already paid for it.
c) Vista is not worth the money it took to burn it to disk. A two hundred dollar place of chicken squirt is still worthless, no matter what the price tag says. a) Let's revise that: "I'm a linux or Apple fanboy so I don't like Microsoft. I think it's fair to rob from that company, its employees and stockholders, and the large area of Washington it supports."
b) You really don't understand how international investments work... none of us received any direct money from China. You and I owe nothing to China, neither does Google, Microsoft, or the RIAA or MPAA. We can revise this statement to "I don't understand banking."
c) "I'm angry because I use linux." Have you ever seen open source code? It's free, but there's no way you could sell that.
Face it, MS treats the majority of its customers like shitty thieves. Even the most brainwashed employee with stock options knows this. It isn't even about quality, its about disrespect shown to customers. They steal more than Microsoft products, in case you were living under a rock or didn't read the original comment here.
No, they don't. This is a cultural thing. IP is a european theory. If it can swim with the free market for any reason, it won't work. The ahven't censored the internet with any real success, and still has dissenting voices.
They seem pretty content with forming large international enterprises that sell to us. They're going to have to adapt to our 'illusions of ownership' or stop playing the game with us.
When we don't get to play in the production of our own products, we're really the one's who are losing. At least Windows is an American-made product.
Or do you think it's just a coincidence that the rates of piracy are higher in countries with lower wealth? It would be nice if their businesses at least purchased things, seeing as they're selling to our market. I assume they're quite profitable enough to afford the software they use. That would at least be realistic for the government to enforce. We have every right to question their membership in the WTO as long they're behaving like this. Enforcement is necessary- and not specifically on an individual level.
And China is quickly approaching a more middle class market. I think their economy is stronger than we give it credit for. Selling at a price the Chinese can afford does not fully recoup the cost of development, but then again, it doesn't need to. It only needs to recover the cost of translation and distribution- it only needs to recover some cost.
We don't target the Chinese market for a reason. Even if we translate something and sell it reasonably, they will simply steal it. Somehow, their draconian government has managed to censor the entire internet and eliminate dissenting voices yet is completely incapable of addressing massive piracy- even by large enterprises? We have no reason to accept this. Their membership in the WTO is right to be questioned.
Their centralized communist government has every means to address this to keep the country playing fair internationally. We all know there's money there.
This is not a good thing, people.
Isn't this the same slashdot that celebrates mass piracy? We all know that the chinese don't buy software, music, or movies and for some bizarre reason everyone on slashdot celebrates it. They are taking money from us-- they are blatantly robbing our largest industries. This isn't bringing us any closer to the magical open source commune you people envision for the future, it's only bringing us closer to poverty.
What do you think the US's role is in the world market? How many of you work in steel, ammonia, or aerospace?
I don't suppose any of you work in software, which depends on sales- possibly web industries that depend on paying customers who aren't buying bootleg products- maybe even the financial industry, which is adversely affected by the lack of revenue our media firms and software companies see out of China.
Stop being fanboys and start thinking like we're competing in a world market and our jobs are not secure.
I suppose you'd all like to see the market shift to an open source model, where all the code is written in east europe and china where its cheaper, and those of us who once wrote software here are then waiting tables for the executives and managers who were smart enough to outsource all their R&D and engineering as soon as possible.
Selling software, entertainment products, and media in China is really the best outcome for our middle class- it doesn't only benefit a few fatcat moguls, like most of you have fooled yourself into thinking.
You should see what Intel is working on for the DX10 generation- much more geared to what you're talking about. You're not the only one. :)
Microsoft is a large company that needs to support every one of its products- that's part of its platform.
This is not a surprise or a problem because:
A) Desktop linux is a fringe marketshare
B) There's not a ton of money in people who refuse to spend money on things
Also, linux is a wacky mess. No company that wants to take itself seriously will support it- because it's completely disorganized and lacks any semblance of standards across distributions. Apple and Windows are solid platforms that are much cheaper to support. This is why people generally only release RPM packages for certain linux distros and versions, such as redhat and suse.
Speaking of which, I wouldn't be surprised if this supports SUSE/RH once they get past pre-alpha.
It's about time! I can't wait to play... .... ....... ...wait... nevermind. There are no DX10 games.
This tiny political movement is not going to fly. The country would get dropped from the WTO in a heartbeat. They're talking about literally legalizing robbery.
First, the market and free things:
If any of you are American and support this, you're idiots. All we really export is IP nowadays... it's a huge asset to our economy. A political party is trying to pass a movement that's effectively robbing tons of hard-working Americans and their businesses. You think games, music, and movies are free to make?
If you're not going to buy them, then when do you pay us back for the cost of making these things? Have you not taken ECON101? Sometimes things that are convenient for us as individuals are bad for our nations and economy. It would be cool if food was free, but then who would grow it?
Don't give me a cathedral and the bazaar argument, either. If these arguments made any sense, there would be a communist or highly-socialist super-economy destroying us from overseas-- and don't cite China; they're not operating as a communist country internationally.
The open source model works, don't get me wrong. Like software, anything can essentially be copied. If we all chipped in and performed tasks to support each other at no cost, we wouldn't have to pay for anything! But we use a market economy to micro-manage compensation for work completed and general influence over production and macro-manage the demand and delivery for products. One of America's new primary roles is the production and subsequent defense of intellectual property. Welcome to 'where did my computer come from?' or 'how come I have food?'
If you're purchasing Microsoft profits, you're supporting Redmond, WA and its surrounding area. It's a lovely area that is largely fed by Microsoft- a huge boon to Seattle, not unlike Boeing. I'm sure Apple has a similar position in Cupertino. When you're just using Linux, you're simply sending our jobs to China! (They can make Linux, too!)-- that's where large firms like Motorola get their userspace operating systems. China!
Next, why this is bad for us and Norway:
As members of the world economy, you can't just produce products and gain international favors and contracts while utterly robbing your competitors-- (yes, we compete with Norway in the music market.) Not okay, not profitable, not beneficial.
NOT happening.
I guess this explains google's amazing capability and seemingly flawless record- no company could be that clever!
They were pirates all along! I knew their original idea of 'searching the web' seemed oddly similar to their rival yahoo...
I'll be watching you, google!
We should be focusing our efforts on keeping snakes off of planes. Phones can often be useful- for asking snake experts about various types of venom- and sending them cell phone pictures.
This is pretty basic stuff, people.
I whole-heartedly disagree with you, sir. There is absolutely no reason to use a lowest-common-denominator gui for a basic and functional program like gaim. Projects like Adium have taken things like libgaim and made them usable and beautiful and integrated. Coding a multi-platform GUI should never be a limiting factor in projects- it's much more intelligent, practical, and over-all better to just create a separate GUI for each popular system. I'm all for libgaim, but I think gaim as the every-OS IM client is just poor design practice.
What would be more intelligent is just making libgaim more OS agnostic and easy to use with GUI's coded in Objective-C or C#, etc... the open source community needs to get away from multi-platform omni-messes and embrace the style guides provided for various OS's.
It looks like the security has been compromised on my Vista box. Like most consumers, my biggest fear is Indian Security Experts breaking into my house and booting my beta version of Vista with a special hacked CD... ...this is a strong case for linux or apple where... ...oh yeah, you can do the same thing.
Although this seems feasible for the retarded realm of consumer technologies, the fated day of fools grows nigh.
Wait... I just remembered Crazy Frog topping the charts in Europe.
Yes... this could very well be real.