1. Simple. We are better than you and will crush you if you try to come in our way.
2. We thought Kerberos sounded cool, that's what we've always called the fat guy in tech support. We didn't really care if we were using it properly or not. Remember that we use the term "innovation". LOL, as if that had anything to do with our products.
3. We have absolutely no idea what a trade secret is. We have this one programmer who actually knows what he's doing (he's the one who wrote notepad and internet connection sharing) and he said trade secret before, so we used it.
4. Microsoft is slowly killing those that use this top secret information outside of the program that protects this top secret information.
5. We hadn't thought of that. That's a pretty good question.
6. People that use Linux are bad. Do you know how much time we had to waste on actually advancing our software because of stupid Linus Torvalds. Ooh, I'm going to write a revolutionary OS shell and distribute it freely to the world. So, pretty much, we don't really know. We just know that you guys like Linux and Linux is bad.
7. HAHA. Incompatibility. What do you think the point of our software is?! Haven't you read some of our marketing. It's a bunch of crap. We trick stupid people into buying the software by creating really neat names for our new stuff then pretending that it's revolutionary. Hence "innovation". All we do is turn "Make new connection" into "Dial-up Wizard" and BAM, we have more money.
8. Because, frankly, Bill's at a hard time in his life. Have you ever seen the hate sites about him? He lost like 17 billion dollars for crying out loud. Can't you just be nice to him and not criticize his precious software. Innovation is Bill's life, it's not the money, it's making users happy. Sorry, I'm going to cry.
I remember when there was the whole censorship going on about yahoo - if you moderate messages, you have responsibility for all messages posted on the server. The thing I'm wondering is if Slashdot complies, how much more will they have to clean up, and if they're forced to remove certain messages, will that mean that the same thing still applies? I think Microsoft should just relax and let people say/post what they feel. It would be much better for PR
I am appalled at the level of flamebait moderation there is going on in this post. Flamebait is saying "Slashdot sucks, you are all a bunch of losers" it is not saying that an arrogant comment was made, or that people on slashdot made a lot of incorrect assumptions. Please, all of you moderators right now, quick marking flamebait because someone said something that "wasn't nice". Wow, it wasn't nice to slashdot in general, live with it, it's not intended to spark a fight, just to express a relevant opinion.
That was an honest opinion, it is what I felt when I read the initial story, that one of the best games out will not be released on other platforms but Windows. Why would a company that is making such successful strides in 3d gaming would not want to carry these strides to other platforms, show that the company is willing to stretch 3d gaming between other platforms.
From talking with the author about open sourcing it, particularly for the use of color and 16 color greyscale, which he doesn't have time to do, he would like to open source it, but earn some money for the really hard work he's put into it. This winter we may well see it open sourced.
I think the way Palm rates battery life is very good. There is a big difference between the two handhelds. The main aim of Palm organizers are just to provide quick data entry, etc. If you did two identical tasks with each handheld, the CE device would take longer, say twice as long for a quick data entry. CE includes an mp3 player, WMP, etc, etc. ie, you'll want to leave the device on longer, meaning that it should be rated in time used, because you'll leave it on more (a good thing?), whereas it wouldn't make sense for Palm to say 8 hours because you'd never realize it. I charge mine every week and a half. What MS needs to add is how long it takes to CHARGE the battery.
In the usual vagueness of Microsoft when comparing, they said some strange things. Let's compare these with the review on C/Net and our general knowledge.
Microsoft: POP3 email!!! (note: limited to third party add-ons Palm: download from a whole bunch of POP3 email products
Microsoft: IE included (Access any web site, not just snippets of pre-selected and limited content.) Palm: WAP, Clipping, AvantGo, etc.
Microsoft: Integrated AvantGo Palm: optional AvantGo, comes on a CD Why wouldn't you make such a big program optional?
Color and Screen Resolution Got me there, I just worry about battery life
On-board memory Got me there as well, just wondering if programs are in ROM or RAM
Processor Speed Funny how the processor that has 10 times less MHz runs the real time OS
Industry Standard Expansion Slot We need one of these on the palm
Synchronization Microsoft: "Once you select this setting, just set the handheld in its cradle" Palm: just get a program
USB Connection Yeah
Integration of IrDA modem protocols Uhhm, wasn't that in 3.3?
Natural Handwriting Recognition "Unlike Palm OS's easy Grafitti writing program, Pocket PC's character recognizer is inconsistent. "
Voice Recording Yeah
On-board Financial Software who cares if it's on-board
Mapping Software Palm: "Yes, however clarity of maps confined to low resolutions screens." WHAT?
Music Palm sucks
Reader Application Low resolution text only??
Animated Games Palm does have them
Categories Microsoft don't got
Speed Stability Ease of Use Battery Life
Pretty much Microsoft has the edge in included programs. Wow. You can get these free on the internet on the Palm, quickly. How hard is it to get a 2k program? This is the problem. There are a lot of stupid people in this "easy hand-held" market. Point is, Palm is assumed to be overly technical, Microsoft is going to advertise this with deceipt, and vagueness that makes even the best of us assume that this is better. If you want media in a hand-held, hell, this is the one you want. If you want a good reliable system, get the palm.
I am prejudiced because I feel that both black and white and everyone else should be able to do mathematics and english, and that the SAT has the same questions for both blacks and whites. Now if the white paper said "What is 1+1?" a) pi b) 4 c)942923 d) 2, and the black paper asked to explain the history of integration in detail, including dates, then your post would be fair. Hmm, what would be some qualifications? Basic knowledge in computers for a CS course, 4 years of Spanish for a foreign language course, ??? I go to an international school in the Bahamas, and over 50% of the students are black, and yet most are getting accepted left right and center with scholarships, same as the white kids in our school. If there's a checkbox on the SAT that says that I can sign up for the Swiss-German-American-Bahamian special financial assistance program, then I'd tick it, but there isn't. Odd how there is one for "African-Americans'. If you think that you are so "underprivaledged" that you can't learn basic mathematic or verbal skills, then I feel sorry for you. All things considered, you're not setting a very intelligent role model for minorities.
Okay, this seems dumb. The RIAA is saying that I can copy my CDs or other stuff only if I use means that don't involve a computer. So I can make copies with a standalone music copier, onto cassette and the rest, but I cannot rip the wav and then write in onto another CD. Do they not realize that the only difference is in whether the transfer is done by software or hardware. In my opinion, it's easier for people to use analog means that by using software, and should be easier to create multiple copies. It seems like there is a lot of prejudice towards computers when it comes to music. Or just stupidity. There is no difference if I copy a CD on the computer, or on the device to copy CDs, they're still copies. I think they're all mad at us for the mp3 thing, and figure that computers are evil devices bent on squashing the good of the artists. Either way, it's dumb.
AMD's strategies are very nice from the consumer's point of view. The problem is when they release their earnings, and we can see the result of their chips being cheaper. I have an Athlon, and I love it, and I would never get one of those Pentium IIIs, maybe a II, but those stupid commercials about how it makes the internet better (???) really turned me off. Plus, Athlon just has a plain cool logo. I wish the best for AMD, and even if they end up dying, I thank them for making Intel finally stop their crap.
Okay, slightly ignorant in the comments, making points by completely misreading what I was saying. I know it's hard to the companies to port to Linux, and it doesn't really matter for the reasoning behind my comments. And if you have used Office 2000, you'll realize how much it is aimed at the stupid. They hide parts of the menus so that the dumber users won't get lost with all the selections.
It's not just simply streaming media wars that we're fighting here people. Why do you think people run programs like Wine and VMWare? Microsoft has the dominant share of Office suites, browser market, close to it in streaming media. And they're tremendously impacting users that would ordinarily go to Linux by not offering _any_ of their products for Linux. Not saying that that's tremendously important as for usefulness, but there are a lot of stupid people that like the "easy to use" (low functionality) products that Microsoft produces, and until Linux users can convince them otherwise, like create a viable alternative for MS Windows (StarOffice is almost there), make a new streaming codec and distribute it to all OSes, or make a better browser than Netscape (which is going to die anyway, and Mozilla can't handle JavaScript for it's life). I don't like the philosophy that the Windows programs have to be ported to Linux, I think it would be great if there was a truly great advancement started on the Linux platform, and it would help to further Linux a lot. Got off track a little, but I liked all of those comments, so I'll leave them/
This is all well and good, but don't the Pentium IIIs have a "thumbprint" that allows for them to see what we're doing? I think that that is much more dangerous than what Double Click is being charged with, but that's just me.
Gosh, thanks for that reply on slashdot, and that comment about "Next time think before you speak", now that was downright irony. For you to treat a woman's gift of caring and sheltering a children, you're more sexist than the vilest men. I'm sure that just as many white churches are burnt as black churches, for many different reasons, just not publicised. Screw discrimination, that's a load of crap. Wage discrepancy is an honestly stupid excuse. I know a man who has made a fortune after coming to my town when he was 16 and unable to speak English. There's a reason not to pay someone very much. I won't question your intellect, because you appear to have it, but I question your judgement and your apparent lapping up of media. I bet you thought we were all going to die on Y2K. God you're full of it. Inborn abilities is a compliment, Jesse Jackson is the most racist man I know, who else tells companies that black people should be treated "specially". We're all frigging the same, we have different abilities. If men were supposed to be the ones that were all caring and crap, then they would have the babies, and don't ever treat child-rearing like some type of crap curse put on women, because it's a frigging gift and all these women think that it's not. Let me tell you something, you prejudiced loser. Where I live, there are only 15% white and 80+% black. I'm the frigging minority. But there is absolutely no racism in my country, women don't HAVE to work, they are happy for the gift of patience, and care. I live in the Bahamas, where everyone gets paid exactly what they're worth, and if you're going to tell me that it's because it's "different", then you should start to think about how much the stereotype formed by politically correct Americans affect your judgement. I pray that you're a woman, because "Oh, no... not the liberated woman being pounded upon retoric" would be what fits. Read a book, don't listen to the crap that's on TV, all reporters are full of crap, moreso than you are. Best regards, Neil
If I was a woman, I'd be bound to say that it's the increase in woman's rights. But the fact is that these whole commotions about minority rights and sexism is just way out of hand. The minorities get special scholarships and the woman can do pretty much whatever they feel like and neglect their inborn abilities. As a white male, I feel more normal than those that are "abnormal", those are the ones that are special.
Where are all the other people that like to take their stuff apart and make it look the way that THEY want it to. Like I just started running windowblinds, which seems to end up running either WinAqua or BeOS skins (I really want to use BeOS, but I can't network). There's even a program for palm pilots that allow you to change the look of the OS, it's called Silver.... something or the other, a quick search on palmgear and you'll find it. I truly wish that palm would create an easy way for users to "skin" their pilots. The color cases are just out, but lacking personality. Custom palm cases, there's an idea, that would be quite fun actually, give you some "extra" personality. If Apple gets their palm device out, you Palm could have an Apple skin:) And this one would have a much better OS inside.
What type of cheese is this moon made up of. Is there a man on this moon? Will it ever have an eclipse? Will it have a blue moon? Will there be strange cults that only sleep every 770 years. What will happen to the nocturnal animals? What are the answers to these questions?
Slashdot Mirror
I mean moderation in the sense of completely getting rid of a message
1. Simple. We are better than you and will crush you if you try to come in our way.
2. We thought Kerberos sounded cool, that's what we've always called the fat guy in tech support. We didn't really care if we were using it properly or not. Remember that we use the term "innovation". LOL, as if that had anything to do with our products.
3. We have absolutely no idea what a trade secret is. We have this one programmer who actually knows what he's doing (he's the one who wrote notepad and internet connection sharing) and he said trade secret before, so we used it.
4. Microsoft is slowly killing those that use this top secret information outside of the program that protects this top secret information.
5. We hadn't thought of that. That's a pretty good question.
6. People that use Linux are bad. Do you know how much time we had to waste on actually advancing our software because of stupid Linus Torvalds. Ooh, I'm going to write a revolutionary OS shell and distribute it freely to the world. So, pretty much, we don't really know. We just know that you guys like Linux and Linux is bad.
7. HAHA. Incompatibility. What do you think the point of our software is?! Haven't you read some of our marketing. It's a bunch of crap. We trick stupid people into buying the software by creating really neat names for our new stuff then pretending that it's revolutionary. Hence "innovation". All we do is turn "Make new connection" into "Dial-up Wizard" and BAM, we have more money.
8. Because, frankly, Bill's at a hard time in his life. Have you ever seen the hate sites about him? He lost like 17 billion dollars for crying out loud. Can't you just be nice to him and not criticize his precious software. Innovation is Bill's life, it's not the money, it's making users happy. Sorry, I'm going to cry.
I remember when there was the whole censorship going on about yahoo - if you moderate messages, you have responsibility for all messages posted on the server. The thing I'm wondering is if Slashdot complies, how much more will they have to clean up, and if they're forced to remove certain messages, will that mean that the same thing still applies? I think Microsoft should just relax and let people say/post what they feel. It would be much better for PR
LOL. I don't have a sister, there's no third and main in my country, I don't know who you gave the $5 to, I do have a brother though...
I am appalled at the level of flamebait moderation there is going on in this post. Flamebait is saying "Slashdot sucks, you are all a bunch of losers" it is not saying that an arrogant comment was made, or that people on slashdot made a lot of incorrect assumptions. Please, all of you moderators right now, quick marking flamebait because someone said something that "wasn't nice". Wow, it wasn't nice to slashdot in general, live with it, it's not intended to spark a fight, just to express a relevant opinion.
That was an honest opinion, it is what I felt when I read the initial story, that one of the best games out will not be released on other platforms but Windows. Why would a company that is making such successful strides in 3d gaming would not want to carry these strides to other platforms, show that the company is willing to stretch 3d gaming between other platforms.
Hopefully everyone will think that it's some cool runner up to MP3 and it will become improperly marketed and everyone will want to use it.
From talking with the author about open sourcing it, particularly for the use of color and 16 color greyscale, which he doesn't have time to do, he would like to open source it, but earn some money for the really hard work he's put into it. This winter we may well see it open sourced.
My point is simply that Palm's battery life should be said the way it is, because that's the way it's used.
I think the way Palm rates battery life is very good. There is a big difference between the two handhelds. The main aim of Palm organizers are just to provide quick data entry, etc. If you did two identical tasks with each handheld, the CE device would take longer, say twice as long for a quick data entry. CE includes an mp3 player, WMP, etc, etc. ie, you'll want to leave the device on longer, meaning that it should be rated in time used, because you'll leave it on more (a good thing?), whereas it wouldn't make sense for Palm to say 8 hours because you'd never realize it. I charge mine every week and a half. What MS needs to add is how long it takes to CHARGE the battery.
In the usual vagueness of Microsoft when comparing, they said some strange things. Let's compare these with the review on C/Net and our general knowledge.
Microsoft: POP3 email!!! (note: limited to third party add-ons
Palm: download from a whole bunch of POP3 email products
Microsoft: IE included (Access any web site, not just snippets of pre-selected and limited content.)
Palm: WAP, Clipping, AvantGo, etc.
Microsoft: Integrated AvantGo
Palm: optional AvantGo, comes on a CD
Why wouldn't you make such a big program optional?
Color and Screen Resolution
Got me there, I just worry about battery life
On-board memory
Got me there as well, just wondering if programs are in ROM or RAM
Processor Speed
Funny how the processor that has 10 times less MHz runs the real time OS
Industry Standard Expansion Slot
We need one of these on the palm
Synchronization
Microsoft: "Once you select this setting, just set the handheld in its cradle"
Palm: just get a program
USB Connection
Yeah
Integration of IrDA modem protocols
Uhhm, wasn't that in 3.3?
Natural Handwriting Recognition
"Unlike Palm OS's easy Grafitti writing program, Pocket PC's character recognizer is inconsistent. "
Voice Recording
Yeah
On-board Financial Software
who cares if it's on-board
Mapping Software
Palm: "Yes, however clarity of maps confined to low resolutions screens." WHAT?
Music
Palm sucks
Reader Application
Low resolution text only??
Animated Games
Palm does have them
Categories Microsoft don't got
Speed
Stability
Ease of Use
Battery Life
Pretty much Microsoft has the edge in included programs. Wow. You can get these free on the internet on the Palm, quickly. How hard is it to get a 2k program? This is the problem. There are a lot of stupid people in this "easy hand-held" market. Point is, Palm is assumed to be overly technical, Microsoft is going to advertise this with deceipt, and vagueness that makes even the best of us assume that this is better. If you want media in a hand-held, hell, this is the one you want. If you want a good reliable system, get the palm.
I am prejudiced because I feel that both black and white and everyone else should be able to do mathematics and english, and that the SAT has the same questions for both blacks and whites. Now if the white paper said "What is 1+1?" a) pi b) 4 c)942923 d) 2, and the black paper asked to explain the history of integration in detail, including dates, then your post would be fair. Hmm, what would be some qualifications? Basic knowledge in computers for a CS course, 4 years of Spanish for a foreign language course, ??? I go to an international school in the Bahamas, and over 50% of the students are black, and yet most are getting accepted left right and center with scholarships, same as the white kids in our school. If there's a checkbox on the SAT that says that I can sign up for the Swiss-German-American-Bahamian special financial assistance program, then I'd tick it, but there isn't. Odd how there is one for "African-Americans'. If you think that you are so "underprivaledged" that you can't learn basic mathematic or verbal skills, then I feel sorry for you. All things considered, you're not setting a very intelligent role model for minorities.
Okay, this seems dumb. The RIAA is saying that I can copy my CDs or other stuff only if I use means that don't involve a computer. So I can make copies with a standalone music copier, onto cassette and the rest, but I cannot rip the wav and then write in onto another CD. Do they not realize that the only difference is in whether the transfer is done by software or hardware. In my opinion, it's easier for people to use analog means that by using software, and should be easier to create multiple copies. It seems like there is a lot of prejudice towards computers when it comes to music. Or just stupidity. There is no difference if I copy a CD on the computer, or on the device to copy CDs, they're still copies. I think they're all mad at us for the mp3 thing, and figure that computers are evil devices bent on squashing the good of the artists. Either way, it's dumb.
I'm generalizing
AMD's strategies are very nice from the consumer's point of view. The problem is when they release their earnings, and we can see the result of their chips being cheaper. I have an Athlon, and I love it, and I would never get one of those Pentium IIIs, maybe a II, but those stupid commercials about how it makes the internet better (???) really turned me off. Plus, Athlon just has a plain cool logo. I wish the best for AMD, and even if they end up dying, I thank them for making Intel finally stop their crap.
get it at skinz.org, named Half
Okay, slightly ignorant in the comments, making points by completely misreading what I was saying. I know it's hard to the companies to port to Linux, and it doesn't really matter for the reasoning behind my comments. And if you have used Office 2000, you'll realize how much it is aimed at the stupid. They hide parts of the menus so that the dumber users won't get lost with all the selections.
It's not just simply streaming media wars that we're fighting here people. Why do you think people run programs like Wine and VMWare? Microsoft has the dominant share of Office suites, browser market, close to it in streaming media. And they're tremendously impacting users that would ordinarily go to Linux by not offering _any_ of their products for Linux. Not saying that that's tremendously important as for usefulness, but there are a lot of stupid people that like the "easy to use" (low functionality) products that Microsoft produces, and until Linux users can convince them otherwise, like create a viable alternative for MS Windows (StarOffice is almost there), make a new streaming codec and distribute it to all OSes, or make a better browser than Netscape (which is going to die anyway, and Mozilla can't handle JavaScript for it's life). I don't like the philosophy that the Windows programs have to be ported to Linux, I think it would be great if there was a truly great advancement started on the Linux platform, and it would help to further Linux a lot. Got off track a little, but I liked all of those comments, so I'll leave them/
Peace in,
Neil
This is all well and good, but don't the Pentium IIIs have a "thumbprint" that allows for them to see what we're doing? I think that that is much more dangerous than what Double Click is being charged with, but that's just me.
Gosh, thanks for that reply on slashdot, and that comment about "Next time think before you speak", now that was downright irony. For you to treat a woman's gift of caring and sheltering a children, you're more sexist than the vilest men. I'm sure that just as many white churches are burnt as black churches, for many different reasons, just not publicised. Screw discrimination, that's a load of crap. Wage discrepancy is an honestly stupid excuse. I know a man who has made a fortune after coming to my town when he was 16 and unable to speak English. There's a reason not to pay someone very much. I won't question your intellect, because you appear to have it, but I question your judgement and your apparent lapping up of media. I bet you thought we were all going to die on Y2K. God you're full of it. Inborn abilities is a compliment, Jesse Jackson is the most racist man I know, who else tells companies that black people should be treated "specially". We're all frigging the same, we have different abilities. If men were supposed to be the ones that were all caring and crap, then they would have the babies, and don't ever treat child-rearing like some type of crap curse put on women, because it's a frigging gift and all these women think that it's not. Let me tell you something, you prejudiced loser. Where I live, there are only 15% white and 80+% black. I'm the frigging minority. But there is absolutely no racism in my country, women don't HAVE to work, they are happy for the gift of patience, and care. I live in the Bahamas, where everyone gets paid exactly what they're worth, and if you're going to tell me that it's because it's "different", then you should start to think about how much the stereotype formed by politically correct Americans affect your judgement. I pray that you're a woman, because "Oh, no... not the liberated woman being pounded upon retoric" would be what fits. Read a book, don't listen to the crap that's on TV, all reporters are full of crap, moreso than you are. Best regards, Neil
If I was a woman, I'd be bound to say that it's the increase in woman's rights. But the fact is that these whole commotions about minority rights and sexism is just way out of hand. The minorities get special scholarships and the woman can do pretty much whatever they feel like and neglect their inborn abilities. As a white male, I feel more normal than those that are "abnormal", those are the ones that are special.
No body
"We survived their brute force. It's minds over money."
-etoy
-Linux Torvalds (someday)
Where are all the other people that like to take their stuff apart and make it look the way that THEY want it to. Like I just started running windowblinds, which seems to end up running either WinAqua or BeOS skins (I really want to use BeOS, but I can't network). There's even a program for palm pilots that allow you to change the look of the OS, it's called Silver.... something or the other, a quick search on palmgear and you'll find it. I truly wish that palm would create an easy way for users to "skin" their pilots. The color cases are just out, but lacking personality. Custom palm cases, there's an idea, that would be quite fun actually, give you some "extra" personality. If Apple gets their palm device out, you Palm could have an Apple skin :) And this one would have a much better OS inside.
What type of cheese is this moon made up of. Is there a man on this moon? Will it ever have an eclipse? Will it have a blue moon? Will there be strange cults that only sleep every 770 years. What will happen to the nocturnal animals? What are the answers to these questions?