This is becoming ridiculous! Every format under the sun is going to become a greedy patent fest. I understand how an encoder must pay, however if you make decoders pay the royalty, that will really hurt the open-source movement.
These cash-grabs are hurting the end user, and the general software community. When will they learn.
The reason their industry standards is because Microsoft wrote them specifically for their OS. If you use Wine/WineX, you can run Microsoft Software in Linux, along with a wide range of other software packages. And maybe if you wrote programs in Java, and used OpenOffice you wouldn't need any MS software.
Linux although it's not dominant, is here to stay. It may not have a forced 10,000,000+ copies a year sold from Desktop Vendors (Compaq, HP, Dell, IBM, NEC, etc...) but millions still install it. In 95% of all name-brand machines cases, you cannot subtract the price of the OS/Software from the cost of the machine, therefore you are being forced into a product you don't want (monopoly).
If all PC's came without OS's and people were offered $500 for Windows or $0-50 for Mandrake/SuSe, the general masses would chose linux, in one form or another. Most people surf the net, do office related stuff, use instant messangers, and download music, all of which is easily done in linux.
Linux isn't just a "hackerz" trinket OS, but a new and lethal force on the pc market. The popularity and stability are making people try it at their own will, not their forced will.
Although OpenGL at times progresses slowly, it's great to see SGI and the ARB actually getting back in the loop and going after D3D. By trying to compete with D3D, it will truly help the future of OpenGL, plus help alternative OS's have 3d software (i.e. Linux, BSD's, and MacOS X).
It's funny how 2 months ago Microsoft told the Judge in the Antitrust case that Windows could not be broken into smaller pieces. Now, amazingly enough, it can be. Isn't this lying under oweth?
What about the W3C? I thought they owned patents surrounding these issues. Couldn't common sense be used in this sort of situation? I think that company is just trying to get a cashgrab because their quarterly earnings were a horrid $130,000. Pretty pathetic.
I think it's great to see machines running Mandrake. They will be great for yonger children learning to use PC's, and a cheap alternative for writing school assignments, listening to music (mp3's/cd-audio), and web browsing.
It's obvious that Microsoft hates/fears OpenGL. Since the beginning release of 1.1 for Win95, Microsoft has done nothing about releasing the stub/dll source-code, updating the source-code, or even trying to progress the development of OpenGL.
Time and time again they have attempted to copy and improve upon OpenGL, first with Fahrenheit/XSG, then with DirectX. Yet, through all the technology and resources Microsoft puts in, the masses still like OpenGL.
The principals of OpenGL are the same as the day it started with IrixGL. Keeping it simple, functional, and cross-platform. Although Microsoft has gone great strides with DirectX API, they have nowhere near the simplicity of OpenGL. And with the Alternative OS's supporting OpenGL (Mac OSX, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Ps2Linux, etc...) there are more emerging platforms which they cannot touch.
Game/Multimedia Developers are starting to realize that Linux and other platforms are decent for games, and are developing software for them. No, Linux isn't going to take over the world tommorrow because it has OpenGL, but think of this: If a developer gives both the Linux Binary and the Windows Binary, wouldn't you be curious to compare speeds between the two? People would problably spend the extra $0-5 difference for a dual-os game starting the eventual craze. It only takes a few people/companies to start a revolution.
Microsoft is trying to attack every angle of the industry to focussing our attention on their superior product, yet nothing screams superior when their is a true choice and competition in the market.
The article relates to UnitedLinux and the Linux operating systems. I was clearly stating that Red Hat / Mandrake own the LINUX Server / LINUX Desktop Markets, not the entire computer industry. Most people use Mandrake because of it's simplicity on the desktop. Many server who chose linux run red hat (sometimes slackware).
When I was comparing OS9 to OSX it is the same as comparing linux distrobutions. Red Hat and Mandrake do have different things to offer, just like OS9 and OSX.
Although I am Mandrake/SuSe/RedHat user, I still find each distro great in their own individual way. I think United Linux offers an interesting solution to the bigwigs (Red Hat, and Mandrake on a lessser scale) but it will be tough for them especially when RH/Drake have both the server / desktop markets in their palms.
But we all know that things can change in a 90 degree turn on a day, i.e. Sega Saturn vs. PS, Genesis vs. SNES, OS9 vs. OSX, etc...
It's good to BeOS is still kicking around. That OS had great potential for desktop use. Linux is great, but overall I thought BeOS had a better "feel" to it. It was Macish yet PCish. Good for newbies. I hope they can get things working to give even more alternatives in the world of OS's.
First, Linus originally create and now helps maintain the linux kernel, not the other parts of the linux operating system.
Second, the only reason microsoft is doing a "code audit" is because their code was so poorly written to be with corporate clients were moving to BSD, Solaris, HP-UX, and Linux. Every week there is a major vulnerability with some Major Microsoft code.
Would you be happy spending $50,000 on a software product to find out it has holes. Atleast with linux, there are alternatives and you are not waivered down with licensing up the wazoo.
Congrats! Uh oh, Microsoft released a new service pack, time to upgrade your education. Uh-oh, theres a new security patch, you've gotta take those tests. Uh oh another service pack has come out. Damn, in one week you're training is outdated. Better study about what radio buttons 5.0 and combobox 6.0 are for the next $150 test.
Although some things never change. BLUE SCREEN 0E.
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What is the relevance of this posting? Once you've got Linux installed why would you want XP, so M$ can steal, rape, and plunder your computer information worse then a fictional pirate?
And why would I wanna pay $300 or $500 for Windows which is inferior. Ya right, Nice try! Were you part of that Washington "Think Tank" which produced the "linux is bad because it's free" hate document?
Keep Open-Source alive because it is truly built on creativity and innovation. Not curruption, capitalism, and monopolization.
It was only a matter of time when the programmers of the ill faded art of p2p network coding died. Atleast with this article you can get some insight into how things were with AG.
You would have a simpler time uniting the US republican and democratic parties then uniting all the IM formats. There are too many programs and too many formats to be a success. ICQ alone has enough troubles with compatibility with old verions. Let alone MSN, Yahoo IM, AOL IM, etc...
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I wonder how they purchased PayPal? Via PayPal? Is that even possible? or did PayPal put the company up on EBay and auction it off with little floofy homebrew pictures?
Take your PC to your garage or a gas station and use an air compressor on it to clean it. It's simple and quick. I do it to my machines and their clean so it take a very long time to get it dirty.
For heat, simple, buy a steal ball-bearing fan which is about $20-30. Then place many smaller fans inside. If your crazy like me you can hook up 32" fans to the side of computer tower but it looks aweful.
Capitalism is good, flaming monopolistic-dictatorships are bad. Billy G and the rest of Redmond are trying to control our lives. If not now, it becomes reality one day at a time.
It's funny because the suing will only happen in the US. Here is Canada the artists supposedly get money from CDR's and other recordable media meaning they still get rich from doing very little.
RIAA really can't pull that off because what do they do with Minors, sue the parents? What about other people who have their machines hacked? You could play stupid. It's worked with so many companes in the past (@home). Uh, I'm running a server thats doing something illegal, how do I fix it.
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This is becoming ridiculous! Every format under the sun is going to become a greedy patent fest. I understand how an encoder must pay, however if you make decoders pay the royalty, that will really hurt the open-source movement.
These cash-grabs are hurting the end user, and the general software community. When will they learn.
The reason their industry standards is because Microsoft wrote them specifically for their OS. If you use Wine/WineX, you can run Microsoft Software in Linux, along with a wide range of other software packages. And maybe if you wrote programs in Java, and used OpenOffice you wouldn't need any MS software.
Linux although it's not dominant, is here to stay. It may not have a forced 10,000,000+ copies a year sold from Desktop Vendors (Compaq, HP, Dell, IBM, NEC, etc...) but millions still install it. In 95% of all name-brand machines cases, you cannot subtract the price of the OS/Software from the cost of the machine, therefore you are being forced into a product you don't want (monopoly).
If all PC's came without OS's and people were offered $500 for Windows or $0-50 for Mandrake/SuSe, the general masses would chose linux, in one form or another. Most people surf the net, do office related stuff, use instant messangers, and download music, all of which is easily done in linux.
Linux isn't just a "hackerz" trinket OS, but a new and lethal force on the pc market. The popularity and stability are making people try it at their own will, not their forced will.
Although OpenGL at times progresses slowly, it's great to see SGI and the ARB actually getting back in the loop and going after D3D. By trying to compete with D3D, it will truly help the future of OpenGL, plus help alternative OS's have 3d software (i.e. Linux, BSD's, and MacOS X).
It's funny how 2 months ago Microsoft told the Judge in the Antitrust case that Windows could not be broken into smaller pieces. Now, amazingly enough, it can be. Isn't this lying under oweth?
Look Out, the RIAA and MPAA are gonna have a field-day once they catch wind of this technology...in 2015.
What about the W3C? I thought they owned patents surrounding these issues. Couldn't common sense be used in this sort of situation? I think that company is just trying to get a cashgrab because their quarterly earnings were a horrid $130,000. Pretty pathetic.
I think it's great to see machines running Mandrake. They will be great for yonger children learning to use PC's, and a cheap alternative for writing school assignments, listening to music (mp3's/cd-audio), and web browsing.
It's obvious that Microsoft hates/fears OpenGL. Since the beginning release of 1.1 for Win95, Microsoft has done nothing about releasing the stub/dll source-code, updating the source-code, or even trying to progress the development of OpenGL.
Time and time again they have attempted to copy and improve upon OpenGL, first with Fahrenheit/XSG, then with DirectX. Yet, through all the technology and resources Microsoft puts in, the masses still like OpenGL.
The principals of OpenGL are the same as the day it started with IrixGL. Keeping it simple, functional, and cross-platform. Although Microsoft has gone great strides with DirectX API, they have nowhere near the simplicity of OpenGL. And with the Alternative OS's supporting OpenGL (Mac OSX, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Ps2Linux, etc...) there are more emerging platforms which they cannot touch.
Game/Multimedia Developers are starting to realize that Linux and other platforms are decent for games, and are developing software for them. No, Linux isn't going to take over the world tommorrow because it has OpenGL, but think of this: If a developer gives both the Linux Binary and the Windows Binary, wouldn't you be curious to compare speeds between the two? People would problably spend the extra $0-5 difference for a dual-os game starting the eventual craze. It only takes a few people/companies to start a revolution.
Microsoft is trying to attack every angle of the industry to focussing our attention on their superior product, yet nothing screams superior when their is a true choice and competition in the market.
Seems like it's the end of an awesome era. Though the internet warez scene was nothing compared to the old BBS scene.
Those systems are rather difficult to design at times. I think it's odd that 7 systems didn't work to their full-potential.
The article relates to UnitedLinux and the Linux operating systems. I was clearly stating that Red Hat / Mandrake own the LINUX Server / LINUX Desktop Markets, not the entire computer industry. Most people use Mandrake because of it's simplicity on the desktop. Many server who chose linux run red hat (sometimes slackware).
When I was comparing OS9 to OSX it is the same as comparing linux distrobutions. Red Hat and Mandrake do have different things to offer, just like OS9 and OSX.
I hope explained it alittle better.
Although I am Mandrake/SuSe/RedHat user, I still find each distro great in their own individual way. I think United Linux offers an interesting solution to the bigwigs (Red Hat, and Mandrake on a lessser scale) but it will be tough for them especially when RH/Drake have both the server / desktop markets in their palms.
But we all know that things can change in a 90 degree turn on a day, i.e. Sega Saturn vs. PS, Genesis vs. SNES, OS9 vs. OSX, etc...
Only time will tell.
It's good to BeOS is still kicking around. That OS had great potential for desktop use. Linux is great, but overall I thought BeOS had a better "feel" to it. It was Macish yet PCish. Good for newbies. I hope they can get things working to give even more alternatives in the world of OS's.
First, Linus originally create and now helps maintain the linux kernel, not the other parts of the linux operating system.
Second, the only reason microsoft is doing a "code audit" is because their code was so poorly written to be with corporate clients were moving to BSD, Solaris, HP-UX, and Linux. Every week there is a major vulnerability with some Major Microsoft code.
Would you be happy spending $50,000 on a software product to find out it has holes. Atleast with linux, there are alternatives and you are not waivered down with licensing up the wazoo.
Congrats! Uh oh, Microsoft released a new service pack, time to upgrade your education. Uh-oh, theres a new security patch, you've gotta take those tests. Uh oh another service pack has come out. Damn, in one week you're training is outdated. Better study about what radio buttons 5.0 and combobox 6.0 are for the next $150 test.
Although some things never change.
BLUE SCREEN 0E.
What is the relevance of this posting? Once you've got Linux installed why would you want XP, so M$ can steal, rape, and plunder your computer information worse then a fictional pirate?
And why would I wanna pay $300 or $500 for Windows which is inferior. Ya right, Nice try! Were you part of that Washington "Think Tank" which produced the "linux is bad because it's free" hate document?
Keep Open-Source alive because it is truly built on creativity and innovation. Not curruption, capitalism, and monopolization.
It was only a matter of time when the programmers of the ill faded art of p2p network coding died. Atleast with this article you can get some insight into how things were with AG.
You would have a simpler time uniting the US republican and democratic parties then uniting all the IM formats. There are too many programs and too many formats to be a success. ICQ alone has enough troubles with compatibility with old verions. Let alone MSN, Yahoo IM, AOL IM, etc...
I wonder how they purchased PayPal? Via PayPal? Is that even possible? or did PayPal put the company up on EBay and auction it off with little floofy homebrew pictures?
My god, now their giving you less choice of their own operating systems. God bless Microsoft.
Take your PC to your garage or a gas station and use an air compressor on it to clean it. It's simple and quick. I do it to my machines and their clean so it take a very long time to get it dirty.
For heat, simple, buy a steal ball-bearing fan which is about $20-30. Then place many smaller fans inside. If your crazy like me you can hook up 32" fans to the side of computer tower but it looks aweful.
Capitalism is good, flaming monopolistic-dictatorships are bad. Billy G and the rest of Redmond are trying to control our lives. If not now, it becomes reality one day at a time.
Ha, thats nothing special. Now if the hubble could take pictures of Jennifer Aniston topless without getting sued, then I'd be in awe.
It's funny because the suing will only happen in the US. Here is Canada the artists supposedly get money from CDR's and other recordable media meaning they still get rich from doing very little.
RIAA really can't pull that off because what do they do with Minors, sue the parents? What about other people who have their machines hacked? You could play stupid. It's worked with so many companes in the past (@home). Uh, I'm running a server thats doing something illegal, how do I fix it.