So, all they'll have to do is just up their price a little. People are so dependant on their OS, they'll have to pay it. They're the monopoly, it should be easy to slough the costs of their fines off onto the people.
But, is this a good thing? Do you really want your company to employ "load and run" administrators? Or would you rather have someone who actually knows a bit about the computers they are supporting?
And, if you're talking about people who are just Load and Run types configuring servers running Microsoft Code and servers running Linux code, and just putting them on the net, let's see how fast each one gets hacked.
You don't need to be a C++ guru to be a good admin on any platform, but you should be able to write simple scripts in perl/vbscript/something to automate tasks. I'd hate to have to administer either system without having ANY programming tools at my disposal.
So, instead of buying a house, you're doing what, living in a tent? Living with your parents? Or are you throwing money away every month on Rent. At least with my house I get to keep a bit of the money I put into it. If you're hanging around saving money to buy some large purchase, all the while throwing money away on rent, you're wasting far more than I will on my 20 yr mortgage, and when the 20 years is up, you'll still own nothing.
Reckless spending on credit cards is an insanely bad idea. Credit cards are only good for buying things you already have the money for. They keep me from having to carry cash, or mail checks around, I can buy online instantly. If you pay off the credit card bill the day it arrives (and pay it all of, not just the minimum) credit cards are wonderful. Nearly every single year I have at least one instance of buying something and never having it show up on my card.
Personally, I think they're finally being honest. You really believe the government ever really read/cared about what was being sent to them via email? Now they're just letting you know up front that they don't want to hear about it.
But, didn't Jim Allchin recently say that they (Microsoft) can't release their source code for many products because it is so bug ridden that releasing it would constitute a national security risk?
If I'm not mistaken, it wasn't just a Microsoft representative, but the very high ranking executive Jim Allchin. He then went on to say that some Microsoft code is so flawed that merely disclosing the source code would constitute a national security threat.
If they dropped the price of 2000 down to $50 bucks then yeah, my game machine would be running a legally licensed OS. If you can price the OS at about the same price as a good game, then you're getting into the right ballpark.
I wouldn't consider any Microsoft OS any kind of Unix clone. They copied some of the command structure, but it behaves completely different than any Unix I've ever used.
Just as it's not very accurate to call XP an OS X clone. They made the icons look similar, but the entire look/feel of the OS from the user perspective is nowhere near as nice as OS X. Also, the underlying OS, as you mention, is vastly different. No, definitely not a clone.
As for Services for Unix. I've got the latest version, and I have to say the free tools from Cygwin work far better. It gives you some of the GNU command set, but hardly gives you the BSD/GNU power.
But, I guess, in the same sense that Mini-Me was a clone of Dr. Evil, microsoft has been making clones for years.
I've got my daughter using a few little linux games, but the real problem is, she wants the ones in the box. She wants the games with Blue's Clues, and Dragon Tales, and Arthur. There's no way you'll ever see open source games using these characters. Unfortunately, if it doesn't have one of these characters on it, most kids won't want it.
You can do that even with Microsoft's jackbooted.lit format, thanks to clit.exe. Pops those books out as html. Rendering to pdf is no problem when you've got html.
Well, if considerable numbers of people aren't copying the files, then why is there a need for copy protection in the first place? The fact that it exists is proof that it doesn't work.
And this is EXACTLY how you should set up a kid's account. Don't want your kid getting email from strangers? Block it. It's the parent's job, not the government's.
In most cases, those emails are even worse than you might think. The HTML usually links to images on the spam server itself, so by merely previewing the mail in Outlook, you've told the spammer that you're the kind of person who reads spam mail. You've verified your email address, and you're now going to be added to lots more spam lists. Isn't there a way on Outlook to tell it to not load images if they are on a remote server? I use Evolution and Squirrelmail from my Linux box, and both programs have this feature. I'd be suprised if Outlook didn't.
It's no different from TV. TV is also a huge strip club, and a huge school. Yet, no one would even consider getting all the porn channels on their satelite dish, and letting their kids stay up all night watching TV unmonitored. That's exactly what you're doing, though, when you give your kids full access to the internet with no moderation.
The problem is, by giving your child an uncensored internet feed, you're throwing away your right to complain. The internet is a dirty place, it's basically anarchy. Any parent who gives their minor child an account on hotmail or yahoo, and expects that box to remain porn free is simply clueless. You want to keep your kid's emailbox clean? There are plenty of ways to do it. There are lots of great spam tools out there. There are email readers that don't link to external sites to grab down pictures. You can have all your child's mail filter through you, and let you approve the ones you want them to see. You can take their email account away from them. Most parents didn't have email accounts when they were minors, and they all seem to have grown up just fine. What I don't want to see if the government telling me what is and isn't appropriate on the internet. That's not the government's job, that's your job. What is inappropriate for your kid might not be for mine, and vice-versa. It really couldn't be more simple. Don't want your kid seeing porn spam? Trap it. If you can't trap it, don't let them receive email.
The best rule of thumb is, if you don't know how old they are, don't sell. That's why gas stations that sell Playboy don't keep the held open to particularly enticing pictures, directly over the cash register. If they did, they'd get in trouble. The spammers that send porn spam know that they can't actually sell to minors, but they also know that not everyone they show the pictures to wants to see, or should be forced to see, them.
There are many free C compilers. GNU makes C compilers for pretty much any OS. If you're talking microcontrollers, SDCC does a nice job with the 8051. There's a port in progress for the PIC series as well.
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> Sony does not people modding thier robot dog.
Uh, toss me a verb. "does not mind people modding their robot dog?" "does not want people modding their robot dog?" "does not kill people modding their robot dog?"
Not to mention that when you do a search for 'Linux', the top ten links will be "How to convert from Linux to Microsoft" "Why Microsoft is better than Linux" etc etc etc.
I keep hearing this argument. Have you ever called Microsoft Support? I've never gotten one question answered. Yet, I can jump into #linux on dalnet or any of the comp.os.linux newsgroups and have answers in minutes, for free. Where is this Microsoft Tech support that makes the product so much more viable?
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> White Ameria still wants minority people dead.
And by minority you mean, what, trolls?
So, all they'll have to do is just up their price a little. People are so dependant on their OS, they'll have to pay it. They're the monopoly, it should be easy to slough the costs of their fines off onto the people.
But, is this a good thing? Do you really want your company to employ "load and run" administrators? Or would you rather have someone who actually knows a bit about the computers they are supporting?
And, if you're talking about people who are just Load and Run types configuring servers running Microsoft Code and servers running Linux code, and just putting them on the net, let's see how fast each one gets hacked.
You don't need to be a C++ guru to be a good admin on any platform, but you should be able to write simple scripts in perl/vbscript/something to automate tasks. I'd hate to have to administer either system without having ANY programming tools at my disposal.
So, instead of buying a house, you're doing what, living in a tent? Living with your parents? Or are you throwing money away every month on Rent. At least with my house I get to keep a bit of the money I put into it. If you're hanging around saving money to buy some large purchase, all the while throwing money away on rent, you're wasting far more than I will on my 20 yr mortgage, and when the 20 years is up, you'll still own nothing.
Reckless spending on credit cards is an insanely bad idea. Credit cards are only good for buying things you already have the money for. They keep me from having to carry cash, or mail checks around, I can buy online instantly. If you pay off the credit card bill the day it arrives (and pay it all of, not just the minimum) credit cards are wonderful. Nearly every single year I have at least one instance of buying something and never having it show up on my card.
Personally, I think they're finally being honest. You really believe the government ever really read/cared about what was being sent to them via email? Now they're just letting you know up front that they don't want to hear about it.
But, didn't Jim Allchin recently say that they (Microsoft) can't release their source code for many products because it is so bug ridden that releasing it would constitute a national security risk?
If I'm not mistaken, it wasn't just a Microsoft representative, but the very high ranking executive Jim Allchin. He then went on to say that some Microsoft code is so flawed that merely disclosing the source code would constitute a national security threat.
If they dropped the price of 2000 down to $50 bucks then yeah, my game machine would be running a legally licensed OS. If you can price the OS at about the same price as a good game, then you're getting into the right ballpark.
I wouldn't consider any Microsoft OS any kind of Unix clone. They copied some of the command structure, but it behaves completely different than any Unix I've ever used.
Just as it's not very accurate to call XP an OS X clone. They made the icons look similar, but the entire look/feel of the OS from the user perspective is nowhere near as nice as OS X. Also, the underlying OS, as you mention, is vastly different. No, definitely not a clone.
As for Services for Unix. I've got the latest version, and I have to say the free tools from Cygwin work far better. It gives you some of the GNU command set, but hardly gives you the BSD/GNU power.
But, I guess, in the same sense that Mini-Me was a clone of Dr. Evil, microsoft has been making clones for years.
I've got my daughter using a few little linux games, but the real problem is, she wants the ones in the box. She wants the games with Blue's Clues, and Dragon Tales, and Arthur. There's no way you'll ever see open source games using these characters. Unfortunately, if it doesn't have one of these characters on it, most kids won't want it.
You can do that even with Microsoft's jackbooted .lit format, thanks to clit.exe. Pops those books out as html. Rendering to pdf is no problem when you've got html.
Well, if considerable numbers of people aren't copying the files, then why is there a need for copy protection in the first place? The fact that it exists is proof that it doesn't work.
And this is EXACTLY how you should set up a kid's account. Don't want your kid getting email from strangers? Block it. It's the parent's job, not the government's.
In most cases, those emails are even worse than you might think. The HTML usually links to images on the spam server itself, so by merely previewing the mail in Outlook, you've told the spammer that you're the kind of person who reads spam mail. You've verified your email address, and you're now going to be added to lots more spam lists. Isn't there a way on Outlook to tell it to not load images if they are on a remote server? I use Evolution and Squirrelmail from my Linux box, and both programs have this feature. I'd be suprised if Outlook didn't.
It's no different from TV. TV is also a huge strip club, and a huge school. Yet, no one would even consider getting all the porn channels on their satelite dish, and letting their kids stay up all night watching TV unmonitored. That's exactly what you're doing, though, when you give your kids full access to the internet with no moderation.
The problem is, by giving your child an uncensored internet feed, you're throwing away your right to complain. The internet is a dirty place, it's basically anarchy. Any parent who gives their minor child an account on hotmail or yahoo, and expects that box to remain porn free is simply clueless. You want to keep your kid's emailbox clean? There are plenty of ways to do it. There are lots of great spam tools out there. There are email readers that don't link to external sites to grab down pictures. You can have all your child's mail filter through you, and let you approve the ones you want them to see. You can take their email account away from them. Most parents didn't have email accounts when they were minors, and they all seem to have grown up just fine. What I don't want to see if the government telling me what is and isn't appropriate on the internet. That's not the government's job, that's your job. What is inappropriate for your kid might not be for mine, and vice-versa. It really couldn't be more simple. Don't want your kid seeing porn spam? Trap it. If you can't trap it, don't let them receive email.
The best rule of thumb is, if you don't know how old they are, don't sell. That's why gas stations that sell Playboy don't keep the held open to particularly enticing pictures, directly over the cash register. If they did, they'd get in trouble. The spammers that send porn spam know that they can't actually sell to minors, but they also know that not everyone they show the pictures to wants to see, or should be forced to see, them.
Yeah, just like we jumped on that metric system thing.
Actually, with 6% unemployment, that's 94% employment, so, yeah, most would be at work, no?
There are many free C compilers. GNU makes C compilers for pretty much any OS. If you're talking microcontrollers, SDCC does a nice job with the 8051. There's a port in progress for the PIC series as well.
> Sony does not people modding thier robot dog.
Uh, toss me a verb. "does not mind people modding their robot dog?" "does not want people modding their robot dog?" "does not kill people modding their robot dog?"
Can it be?
Not to mention that when you do a search for 'Linux', the top ten links will be "How to convert from Linux to Microsoft" "Why Microsoft is better than Linux" etc etc etc.
I keep hearing this argument. Have you ever called Microsoft Support? I've never gotten one question answered. Yet, I can jump into #linux on dalnet or any of the comp.os.linux newsgroups and have answers in minutes, for free. Where is this Microsoft Tech support that makes the product so much more viable?
> After all, you can earn megabucks by just being a taxi driver, and you can play as the police fighting evil on the streets :-
Yeah, but don't you have to carjack a taxi driver or steal a cop car first? (heh)