Do you actually *KNOW* anyone who owns a force feedback joystick or any other of this silly gamer harware? I don't. That tells you right there just how popular a lot of the PC-gamer nonsense really is.
And if you're not a multimedia freak, why should you give a damn? Your mistake MS Stooge is in thinking that people who use Linux and those who use Windows care about the same things. We don't......
Could it really be that there really isn't the interest in multimedia that you think there is? I really could care less about Multimedia for either Windows or Linux. I want to watch a movie or the news for instance I either rent a video or turn on the TV set. I've never bothered with watching an mpeg or avi via the WWW. After all once you've seen one XXX mpeg or avi you've pretty much seen them all....
I suspect you and your friends who work for the MS PR department would like very much for people *NOT* to know about these kinds of articles that appear in mags like this one was published in so they can go uncontested. Unfortunely for you, Slashdot exposes this kind of garbage to the light of day so it can be subjected to the ridicule that it deserves. Don't for one second think you are fooling anyone with your snarky comments concerning Senegan's motives for alerting people to this article. The tricks you and others at Microsoft pulled with OS/2 and other computers like the Amiga and Atari ST isn't going to work with OSS and Linux....
And the macro viruses still wouldn't work on the linux side of things because they are dependant on WORD which isn't avaible for Linux, so a macro viruses based on MS WORD wouldn't have the slighest idea of how to acess the Linux filesystem. Also since WINE would actually be handling the actual disk I/O and not a MS program under it, it shouldn't be to difficult to have WINE look for and direct this sort of activity to/dev/null instead of to a hd if it does in fact proves to be a problem.
Actually people want to play games on machines like the PlayStation rather than Windows. Otherwise why are there so much interest in emualating these machines on the PC. BTW I haven't bought a game for the PC since I bought my Playstation a couple of years ago. The system requirements for PC games these days are becoming just too absurd, and the games on the PlayStation are far more interesting, especially if you are an Anime/Manga fan.
I bet Sen. Hatch and quite a few other people like Nader would very interested in this subject. Does anyone know if anyone has started writting letters and sending email to them informing them just what is going on?
Stop kidding yourself. Most people who are interested in pushing KDE most likely weren't using RedHat to begin with. As for a GUI install, didn't RedHat try that once and got rid of it? You are going to see the same thing happen with this dist also once the GUI start crashing on different video cards.
Hmmm....shouldn't mircosoft be saving their money for their legal fees instand of paying people like you to post this kind of nonsense? They certainly are going to need it......
And you just know the Jerry Pournelle's of the world are going to start triping all over themselves claiming that Microsoft is actually good for consumers and the DOJ should just leave them alone......
I agree with you. My first computer was an Atari 800, so I've been using them for quite a while now, but I don't consider myself a *HACKER*,because quite frankly I'm not that interested in the subject. This is where Katz gets himself into trouble. The guy just doesn't understand the subject he's trying to write about.
Sure. Anything from Ziff-Davis will be in favor of Microsoft/Windows,because those folks don't understand how to configure software or hardware for any other platform/OS
Hmmm. With all the different platforms Linux is now running on, you'ld be surprised not to see these kinds of patches. Does Windows 98 or NT run on a Amiga or a Mac for instance? Linux does...
Yep. Gartner has been mostly wrong about Linux and everyone pretty much knows it. Why do you think Linux has really taken off desipte Gartner's advice concering it? Because nobody's really listening to them and the rest of these so-called computer experts. The whole Year 2000 thing is just another example of this. The world isn't *going* to come to a screeching halt because of it and these people have made themselves look rather silly over the whole issue over the last few years.
What makes you think that? The folks running RedHat most likely will end up with more money in their pockets by staying private than they ever will by issuing public stock. Besides NetScape and quite a few others has proven what a bad idea taking a private company public can be. I don't see RedHat walking down that road anytime soon....
Maybe because this kind of a WWW site is a joke. Come on, would you really place anything critical or really important on such a site, say like your tax return information? Of course not and that's the point.....
Maybe, but does Debian use RPM? Face it RPM is going to become the standard Linux package format, which I think is a good thing. What really needs to happen is a merger between the RedHat and Debian package formats which retains compatibity with both.
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Do you actually *KNOW* anyone who owns a force feedback joystick or any other of this silly gamer harware? I don't. That tells you right there just how popular a lot of the PC-gamer nonsense really is.
And if you're not a multimedia freak, why should you give a damn? Your mistake MS Stooge is in thinking that people who use Linux and those who use Windows care about the same things. We don't......
Could it really be that there really isn't the interest in multimedia that you think there is? I really could care less about Multimedia for either Windows or Linux. I want to watch a movie or the news for instance I either rent a video or turn on the TV set. I've never bothered with watching an mpeg or avi via the WWW. After all once you've seen one XXX mpeg or avi you've pretty much seen them all....
I suspect you and your friends who work for the MS PR department would like very much for people *NOT* to know about these kinds of articles that appear in mags like this one was published in so they can go uncontested. Unfortunely for you, Slashdot exposes this kind of garbage to the light of day so it can be subjected to the ridicule that it deserves. Don't for one second think you are fooling anyone with your snarky comments concerning Senegan's motives for alerting people to this article. The tricks you and others at Microsoft pulled with OS/2 and other computers like the Amiga and Atari ST isn't going to work with OSS and Linux....
And the macro viruses still wouldn't work on the linux side of things because they are dependant on WORD which isn't avaible for Linux, so a macro viruses based on MS WORD wouldn't have the slighest idea of how to acess the Linux filesystem. Also since WINE would actually be handling the actual disk I/O and not a MS program under it, it shouldn't be to difficult to have WINE look for and direct this sort of activity to /dev/null instead of to a hd if it does in fact proves to be a problem.
Actually people want to play games on machines like the PlayStation rather than Windows. Otherwise why are there so much interest in emualating these machines on the PC. BTW I haven't bought a game for the PC since I bought my Playstation a couple of years ago. The system requirements for PC games these days are becoming just too absurd, and the games on the PlayStation are far more interesting, especially if you are an Anime/Manga fan.
I bet Sen. Hatch and quite a few other people like Nader would very interested in this subject. Does anyone know if anyone has started writting letters and sending email to them informing them just what is going on?
The fake MS video isn't a rumor dude.....
Nope. It's only a bad desktop machine if you think all desktop machines should have a MS Windows look and feel to them...
Stop kidding yourself. Most people who are interested in pushing KDE most likely weren't using RedHat to begin with. As for a GUI install, didn't RedHat try that once and got rid of it? You are going to see the same thing happen with this dist also once the GUI start crashing on different video cards.
Unlike you,we get things done. What a moron you are....
And we have our own agenda to top things off too. A certain fellow with the initals JP and his supporters must be turning purple right about now...
Hmmm....shouldn't mircosoft be saving their money for their legal fees instand of paying people like you to post this kind of nonsense? They certainly are going to need it......
Even the Nixon crowd wasn't *THAT* stupid....
And you just know the Jerry Pournelle's of the world are going to start triping all over themselves claiming that Microsoft is actually good for consumers and the DOJ should just leave them alone......
I agree with you. My first computer was an Atari 800, so I've been using them for quite a while now, but I don't consider myself a *HACKER*,because quite frankly I'm not that interested in the subject. This is where Katz gets himself into trouble. The guy just doesn't understand the subject he's trying to write about.
He's a fan of Star Trek:The Next Generation. Haven't you noticed that his writing style is a lot like Troi speaking?
Sure. Anything from Ziff-Davis will be in favor of Microsoft/Windows,because those folks don't understand how to configure software or hardware for any other platform/OS
Hmmm. With all the different platforms Linux is now running on, you'ld be surprised not to see these kinds of patches. Does Windows 98 or NT run on a Amiga or a Mac for instance? Linux does...
That explains why Windows apps have a pretty UI and crash rates around 70% Now why is it that the two seem to go hand-in-hand?
Think this person doesn't really know anything about UNIX/Linux?
Yep. Gartner has been mostly wrong about Linux and everyone pretty much knows it. Why do you think Linux has really taken off desipte Gartner's advice concering it? Because nobody's really listening to them and the rest of these so-called computer experts. The whole Year 2000 thing is just another example of this. The world isn't *going* to come to a screeching halt because of it and these people have made themselves look rather silly over the whole issue over the last few years.
What makes you think that? The folks running RedHat most likely will end up with more money in their pockets by staying private than they ever will by issuing public stock. Besides NetScape and quite a few others has proven what a bad idea taking a private company public can be. I don't see RedHat walking down that road anytime soon....
Maybe because this kind of a WWW site is a joke. Come on, would you really place anything critical or really important on such a site, say like your tax return information? Of course not and that's the point.....
Maybe, but does Debian use RPM? Face it RPM is going to become the standard Linux package format, which I think is a good thing. What really needs to happen is a merger between the RedHat and Debian package formats which retains compatibity with both.