unfortuately, financially supporting SUN in any way is kind of trying to put myself out of a job, as i work for a competitor...:)
Wow, You must work for Microsoft. Or is there another company making a productivity suite that is now competing with StarOffice. Oh! Oh! I know, you're working for a company that relabels Open Office. No, that can't be it either...
Opensource developers, unless working on a project for money, only do what they need to do to get a project doing what THEY want it to do.
Hello!?!?!??
What did you expect? Does Microsoft produce anything for free either? No, if they do something, it's for money.
I tried to get my car fixed once, but they wouldn't do it except for money. People don't do things for free. Hello, what's wrong with people who expect to freeload???
When did they change this over cause my old windows 98 machine always got the time wrong.
I'm pretty sure that this is new for XP. And OS X. But NTP clients have been available for every OS almost forever:)
That does have a good point though. Can you disable this "feature?" I'm thinking if you are running your own NTP server with a special time or something like that. You can run another client, but when the Microsoft client updates, it's going to throw off the time.
What in the world is the deal? Doesn't everyone have plan's with 100's of minutes on these days? Especially if you are using the phone as a replacement for a land-line, for the price of a land-line you should be able to get lot's of minutes.
When you do get a call, just say you are not interested, don't call back, and hang up. It's less then a minute, so you only get charged for one minute and life goes on.
It's not really that much of an issue. It would be trivial to go into the BitchX source code, edit the PROGNAME definition, or whatever the equivilent, and make yourself a nice new IRC client named whatever you want.
Yes it is. Unless they've made major changes to the code recently. I tried to patching the code base about a year ago and make a censored version, but the program name is hardcoded in a million places. And once you do find and replace everything, you still have the problem of creating a new patch everytime a new version is released.
(Customary IANAL declaration) Since Sony is based in Japan, wouldn't it be more difficult for Microsoft to find a reason and venue sue them if/when it is revealed they are the money source?
Nah, I'd guess that since most people in the US want to punish companies who are successful and reward companies who break the law, that if they couldn't sue Sony USA, they'd at least be able to lobby the government to prevent Sony for importing to the US.
Of course, that would cause huge ramifications in the industrustries that Sony plays in, but that's not as important as protecting "our" Microsoft, is it?
So *you'd* rather that cell phone and other wireless devices remained large monolithic bricks that had no more capabilities then dialing a phone number?
No thankee! I'll take application and network capable devices anyday to make my life easier.
If you don't want your car with a Blaupunkt preinstalled, don't buy a Mercedes or install your stereo yourself. The same if you want your PC preinstalled with netscape.
No, I think you have the analogy a little wrong. It's surprising that although people back Microsoft for not letting OEM's seel what they want, these same people will also claim that it's actually Apple in fault for only selling OS X on *their* hardware, or not porting OS X to other hardware.
In this case it's more like Mercedes is Apple. Mercedes can choose what they want to install in their cars, just like Apple can choose what OS they want to install on their hardware.
The OEM's are like the car dealers. Let's just grow them a bit and say that 90% of the dealership's were bought by 3 major company's. Let's call these DellCar, GatewayCar, and CompaqCar, just for kicks. Now let's also say that these companies offer you cars by any auto maker you want. So far, things look good, and you get a good price on cars because the dealers are able to move large amounts of cars effiecently.
While this has been happening though, Foyota has been building cars that have surpassed competitors models by all rating systems. People buy Foyota cars in droves. Soon Foyota has 70% of new car sales. Not to be content with their present success they go to the 3 dealerships and make them sign contracts that state that Foyota won't ship them cars if they sell competitors models on their lots. The dealerships are dumbfounded. They don't want to lose the 30% of sales, but they know that losing 70% of sales will basically put them out of business fast. So they sign.
With the competitors basically out of the way, Foyota now sells 90% of the new cars. They are happy. They find themselves under investigation for anti-trust violations. They cry that the other car manufacturer's are just trying to hurt them because Foyota is successful and they aren't.
Sure, you can still by other cars through local dealerships, and it probably helped make them stronger. But unless you have one near you, or pay to get it shipped to you, you're out of luck.
Now I know that dealerships often only focus on one automobile manufacturer, or even on a specific line, but I'd like to claim that OEM's are indeed in a position like those 3 major car dealerships. And as such, they should be able to decide what to put on their "lot", their hardware in this case.
I'm really not bitter about this. Really! What upsets me is that continue to believe that "we" just want to hurt Microsoft because they were successful. Not at all. If they are successful, more power to them. Maybe in our analogy, Foyota would have continued shipping cars as they were sold, and gotten 90% of sales anyways. Cool, more power to them. Maybe Microsoft would have too. More then wonderful! But Microsoft didn't. They ran scared and tried to fix the market. That's illegal, and it doesn't matter if they would have gotten there anyways. They should be punished.
Nice theory, but you fail to account for why BeOs wasn't used by Apple.
Pure rubbish. Why should Apple have to buy Be, or license it, or whatever? They evaluated it, felt it wasn't what they wanted, and moved along. Some OEM's felt that it wasn't what they wanted either. Nothing wrong on that end.
The problem is that there *was* OEM's that felt their customers wanted it. They were going to preload it and sell it to them, but Microsoft stepped in. Microsoft was only able to step in and coerce OEM's to drop their license with Be, only because they had a monopoly that they could leverage with.
If the OEM's were selling hot dogs, and Microsoft wouldn't let them put mustard on with the MS brand ketchup, OEM's would quickly replace their ketchup account. But they can't replace Windows. Microsoft has a monopoly and it's theirs and no one ought to complain.
Let me reiterate. Anyone who says that it's wrong for Microsoft to have a monopoly is dead wrong. A monopoly is not wrong, and if you have a product that everyone wants or needs, more power to you! However, it is wrong to use your monopoly to harm others, either directly or indirectly.
If Microsoft would have let the OEM's preload BeOS if they wanted to, maybe it would be successful, maybe it wouldn't have. But that would have been up to the market to decide. It's wrong from Microsoft to decide what OEM's should or shouldn't be selling.
It's like throwing a ballgame. If a team has a 90% chance of winning, that doesn't mean the team is breaking the law. But if the team choses to throw the ballgame to make sure they win, that is wrong. But should we say that that was OK for the team, just because they would have probably won anyways? Of course not. Then are we going to punish them because they weren't evenly matched with the other team? No, we are not doing that either.
Microsoft threw the game. Now they are trying to convince us that we should overlook it because they were favored to win anyways. Fine, if they were favored to win, let them play fair. If they couldn't play fair, let's punish them just like we would punish the little guy who throws the game.
Anyway, sorry if you guys thought I was trolling, but I just didn't see the 'antitrust' suits as being really a big deal, Microsoft didn't ever stop me from using a 3rd party utility or 'confuse' me about their options to install software. I can put Opera, or Mozilla, or Netscape, or AOL, or Realplayer on my system as easy as anything else. It's not stopping me from doing what I need to do.
Indirectly, they did. By not allowing OEM's to preload BeOS on their computers (That's an anti-trust violation!) they have not only prevented me from getting a quality OS from a quality OEM, but now I can't get BeOS at all! The same thing with Netscape. I can't get Netscape preloaded from an OEM because Microsoft is able to punish OEM's who want to sell me what I want. (Another anti-trust violation) For goodness sakes, they are supposed to be system integrator's. If I want Netscape 7 and Realplayer 8 on 40 PC's I purchase, I shouldn't have to pay someone else to install them. I should be able to get them preloaded from Dell. I can't though, and the reason is that Microsoft went around to OEM's and told them to not preload Netscape, or else. And we all know what, "Or else" means.
Consider your feeling for Clear Channel. They have an increasing more powerful ability to control record companies. Suppose they told a record company to not sign up a certain group, or they'd not play any of the record companies music? Now all of a suddenly that band finds itself forced to sign with a small record company. Sure, you could probably buy the CD mail-order or something, but the music isn't heard on mainstream radio, sold at Best Buy and other retail outlets, and for the most part unknown. But it hasn't stopped you from listening to the copy you were able to purchase.
See, it's the same thing with Microsoft. Sure, you can still use Opera. But because Microsoft is willing to break anti-trust law, you can't get Opera on your new Dell PC.
Compatability- let's face it, even all of our beloved OSes like *nix and OS2 dont' support everything that we want. Microsoft is generally up to date a good bit of stuff. If I want a Paralell scanner that I have to work, its easy. Linux, I look online, sorry that's not supported, it needs to be SCSI or USB.
This is one of the strangest pieces of logic I've ever seen. And I really wish that people would get some common sense and I'd never hear it again. Okay, maybe companies write drivers for Windows because it's the most popular. But that doesn't mean that drivers couldn't be written for other OS's. It just means that the companies don't want to write the drivers for other OS's. If Windows didn't exist today, companies would be writing drivers for at least one other OS. And that's a fact.
If they loose the bet you can be sure the product boss is dead at MS.
Actually, I think he "left" a while. IIRC, the story was on/.
-Brent
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I guess it was Mindspring at the time anyways, it was April of 2000. I was going on vacation and needed a ISP while I was at the other end of the country. I have a local ISP here, so I thought I'd get a free introductory month of service from a national ISP and then cancel my account when I got back.
It worked well, I got the account with a free month, set it up, found the access number I'd use while on vacation and then took off. When I got back, I called Mindspring and cancelled the account. When they asked why I wanted to cancel, I said that their service is wonderful, and I didn't have a problem with it, but I had a local ISP that I prefered to use. 5 minutes on the phone, and a wonderful experience all around with Mindspring.
I refered everyone after that who was looking for an national ISP to use Mindspring.
Not only does it have the largest software library (seeing how it runs Windows programs such as Pocket Word and Pocket Explorer),
Pocket Word and Explorer are proof that it has the largest software library? What, do they only get ported when the platform has the largest software library? Are users held hostage until developers create apps? (You won't get Pocket Word and Explorer until there are more apps then any other platform!!)
Moving along...
I'd be willing to use a Windows CE device if it did what I needed to do with it. Any device is useless if it doesn't let you use it. So this is the list that I need people to confirm they've successfully gotten a CE device to do.
Sync with Evolution.
Install all apps from a Linux box. If I have to buy a $190 copy is Windows just to use the $380 device, it isn't going to fly.
What exactly are you trying to accomplish via 802.11? Web Browsing? Email? Controlling MP3's? Email is about the only thing that using a sled attached to a Palmpilot is going to be useful for.
Well, I really don't want it for much, so I'm not expecting to be disappointed any way the shoe drops. If all I used it for was instant messaging, and email, I would be more then satisfied.
That really is no different then getting a PocketPC (your lack of mentioning one in your article suggests you want to stay away from Microsoft), as they fullfill the same function.
Yes, you hit the nail right on the head. I had a CE device once, and it was the most frusterating thing I have ever experinced. Applications to forever to load, and once they appeared, ran as slow as, uh, slow. Anyways, not a very good experience, and I sold it after a year to a guy who sold it again after 2 months.
OTOH, I played with a Zaurus demo at Best Buy, and couldn't be more impressed. The applications popped right up, flew like lightning, and even the graphical demos seemed to have great frame rate. I'd probably go ahead and get the Zaurus, and then use it to its full capacity, but I'm kind of leaning on going the inexpensive route, and using it more of an accessory, like I did my last PDA.
Several of my co-workers made sure they opted out of things they didn't want. But I'm sure only a small portion of the Yahoo userbase were made aware of the changes in this context.
I wasn't aware of this change until I saw this story. However, my response seemed to be atypical of/.er's. I went immediatly to Yahoo! and checked my marketing preferences, and made sure I was getting all that was due me.
I sure don't understand why anyone would not want to get marketing information sent staight to them. Sure beats trying to have to go find it on your own.
I would suggest biting the bullet and buying a Windows 2000/XP machine. It may cost money, but your time should be worth more than fiddling to get a decade old OS to work with new equipment.
Wow! Where did he say that he was running an OS that was a decade old? What OS is this? And how did he get it to support USB? I want to run an OS a decade old that supports USB. Not even Microsoft's OS that only 6 years old supports USB. And it even support dual Pentium II's. Well, I must admit, he didn't actually say that he had 2 processors, only that the motherboard supported dual, but you could probably imply that he was. Anyways, I want to know why this OS has been hidden for so long...
Not to mention, he specifically said that he ran Redhat 7.2, which, the last time I checked, could barely even be a year old.
I don't see what this has to do with Outlook. If I was to run Evolution on Windows I'd have exactly the same problem. People don't need to run Windows with Administrative privileges but they just do. It's the same with Unix/Linux.
Please help me. I'm trying to find the administrator account for Windows (ME). Where is it? Thanks.
On the flip side, the other half of the technology used by employers will make sure that telecommuters actually do work. While some of this is certainly justified, I wonder how far it will be pushed. The author makes practically no mention of this. [...] What about the increasing surveillance of employees? We need to hear about the bad parts too.
Certainly you'd expect that companies would want accountability of their employees, don't you? I certainly couldn't understand what the problem would be with a company calling an employee to verify the quality of service provided. I'd even think they would consider taping calls of real customers, but the technology they are using probably doesn't allow that yet.
One time at work, for a very short period of time while I was intoxicated and suffering from temporary insanity, I used Microsoft Outlook Express to check my hotmail without having to browse their ads. Explain why this is allowed?
Probably bcase Outlook Express is Microsoft's email client. S Of course, you don't see Microsoft allowing netscape or antoher email client to use hotmail.
Is killing
these two (admittedly poor excuses for human beings) going to bring James Byrd back? No. Is it going to stop racist attacks on minorities? No.
So, you don't think that the murders should die for their crime? You think they should be allowed to live to perhaps kill another black man in the future?
That is not to say you do not punish those who commit heinous crimes. Life without parole is an option.
Why should they live if they'll be "chained" up for the rest of their lives anyways? It's not as if they have a chance to be a productive unit of society. So why not execute those who'll never do anything again. Unless, of course, you feel that they could do forced labor, like the criminals in China do.
One where "life" is precious when you are an unborn fetus but not if you are on
death row???
Why should someone's life be 'precious', when they don't consider other's lives precious. Someone who kills another human should have to die for they're crimes. Why should they live, if they have taken the life of another innocent human?
What do you think about hate crime laws? Don't you support the idea that criminals convicted of a hate crime should be executed?
companies may decide not to use linux on their lower end machines after seeing it not scale well on the
maineframes
I don't see very many companies not using Windows 2000 after seeing it "not scale well" on the mainframes. So what makes you think they wouldn't use Linux?
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unfortuately, financially supporting SUN in any way is kind of trying to put myself out of a job, as i work for a competitor... :)
Wow, You must work for Microsoft. Or is there another company making a productivity suite that is now competing with StarOffice. Oh! Oh! I know, you're working for a company that relabels Open Office. No, that can't be it either...
-Brent
Opensource developers, unless working on a project for money, only do what they need to do to get a project doing what THEY want it to do.
Hello!?!?!??
What did you expect? Does Microsoft produce anything for free either? No, if they do something, it's for money.
I tried to get my car fixed once, but they wouldn't do it except for money. People don't do things for free. Hello, what's wrong with people who expect to freeload???
Pay up, or shut up.
Thank you
-Brent
When did they change this over cause my old windows 98 machine always got the time wrong.
I'm pretty sure that this is new for XP. And OS X. But NTP clients have been available for every OS almost forever :)
That does have a good point though. Can you disable this "feature?" I'm thinking if you are running your own NTP server with a special time or something like that. You can run another client, but when the Microsoft client updates, it's going to throw off the time.
-Brent
What in the world is the deal? Doesn't everyone have plan's with 100's of minutes on these days? Especially if you are using the phone as a replacement for a land-line, for the price of a land-line you should be able to get lot's of minutes.
When you do get a call, just say you are not interested, don't call back, and hang up. It's less then a minute, so you only get charged for one minute and life goes on.
What's the big deal?
-Brent
Wow! And are all these counties really in rural Minnesota?
-Brent
It's not really that much of an issue. It would be trivial to go into the BitchX source code, edit the PROGNAME definition, or whatever the equivilent, and make yourself a nice new IRC client named whatever you want.
Yes it is. Unless they've made major changes to the code recently. I tried to patching the code base about a year ago and make a censored version, but the program name is hardcoded in a million places. And once you do find and replace everything, you still have the problem of creating a new patch everytime a new version is released.
-Brent
(Customary IANAL declaration) Since Sony is based in Japan, wouldn't it be more difficult for Microsoft to find a reason and venue sue them if/when it is revealed they are the money source?
Nah, I'd guess that since most people in the US want to punish companies who are successful and reward companies who break the law, that if they couldn't sue Sony USA, they'd at least be able to lobby the government to prevent Sony for importing to the US.
Of course, that would cause huge ramifications in the industrustries that Sony plays in, but that's not as important as protecting "our" Microsoft, is it?
-Brent
Unfortunately, one remote hole is all you need. Such is the Unix nature.
Isn't one remote hole all Windows needs too? Or isn't that the Windows nature?
-Brent
Java + Wireless = I'de rather not think about it.
So *you'd* rather that cell phone and other wireless devices remained large monolithic bricks that had no more capabilities then dialing a phone number?
No thankee! I'll take application and network capable devices anyday to make my life easier.
-Brent
If you don't want your car with a Blaupunkt preinstalled, don't buy a Mercedes or install your stereo yourself. The same if you want your PC preinstalled with netscape.
No, I think you have the analogy a little wrong. It's surprising that although people back Microsoft for not letting OEM's seel what they want, these same people will also claim that it's actually Apple in fault for only selling OS X on *their* hardware, or not porting OS X to other hardware.
In this case it's more like Mercedes is Apple. Mercedes can choose what they want to install in their cars, just like Apple can choose what OS they want to install on their hardware.
The OEM's are like the car dealers. Let's just grow them a bit and say that 90% of the dealership's were bought by 3 major company's. Let's call these DellCar, GatewayCar, and CompaqCar, just for kicks. Now let's also say that these companies offer you cars by any auto maker you want. So far, things look good, and you get a good price on cars because the dealers are able to move large amounts of cars effiecently.
While this has been happening though, Foyota has been building cars that have surpassed competitors models by all rating systems. People buy Foyota cars in droves. Soon Foyota has 70% of new car sales. Not to be content with their present success they go to the 3 dealerships and make them sign contracts that state that Foyota won't ship them cars if they sell competitors models on their lots. The dealerships are dumbfounded. They don't want to lose the 30% of sales, but they know that losing 70% of sales will basically put them out of business fast. So they sign.
With the competitors basically out of the way, Foyota now sells 90% of the new cars. They are happy. They find themselves under investigation for anti-trust violations. They cry that the other car manufacturer's are just trying to hurt them because Foyota is successful and they aren't.
Sure, you can still by other cars through local dealerships, and it probably helped make them stronger. But unless you have one near you, or pay to get it shipped to you, you're out of luck.
Now I know that dealerships often only focus on one automobile manufacturer, or even on a specific line, but I'd like to claim that OEM's are indeed in a position like those 3 major car dealerships. And as such, they should be able to decide what to put on their "lot", their hardware in this case.
I'm really not bitter about this. Really! What upsets me is that continue to believe that "we" just want to hurt Microsoft because they were successful. Not at all. If they are successful, more power to them. Maybe in our analogy, Foyota would have continued shipping cars as they were sold, and gotten 90% of sales anyways. Cool, more power to them. Maybe Microsoft would have too. More then wonderful! But Microsoft didn't. They ran scared and tried to fix the market. That's illegal, and it doesn't matter if they would have gotten there anyways. They should be punished.
-Brent
Nice theory, but you fail to account for why BeOs wasn't used by Apple.
Pure rubbish. Why should Apple have to buy Be, or license it, or whatever? They evaluated it, felt it wasn't what they wanted, and moved along. Some OEM's felt that it wasn't what they wanted either. Nothing wrong on that end.
The problem is that there *was* OEM's that felt their customers wanted it. They were going to preload it and sell it to them, but Microsoft stepped in. Microsoft was only able to step in and coerce OEM's to drop their license with Be, only because they had a monopoly that they could leverage with.
If the OEM's were selling hot dogs, and Microsoft wouldn't let them put mustard on with the MS brand ketchup, OEM's would quickly replace their ketchup account. But they can't replace Windows. Microsoft has a monopoly and it's theirs and no one ought to complain.
Let me reiterate. Anyone who says that it's wrong for Microsoft to have a monopoly is dead wrong. A monopoly is not wrong, and if you have a product that everyone wants or needs, more power to you! However, it is wrong to use your monopoly to harm others, either directly or indirectly.
If Microsoft would have let the OEM's preload BeOS if they wanted to, maybe it would be successful, maybe it wouldn't have. But that would have been up to the market to decide. It's wrong from Microsoft to decide what OEM's should or shouldn't be selling.
It's like throwing a ballgame. If a team has a 90% chance of winning, that doesn't mean the team is breaking the law. But if the team choses to throw the ballgame to make sure they win, that is wrong. But should we say that that was OK for the team, just because they would have probably won anyways? Of course not. Then are we going to punish them because they weren't evenly matched with the other team? No, we are not doing that either.
Microsoft threw the game. Now they are trying to convince us that we should overlook it because they were favored to win anyways. Fine, if they were favored to win, let them play fair. If they couldn't play fair, let's punish them just like we would punish the little guy who throws the game.
Thank you,
Brent
Anyway, sorry if you guys thought I was trolling, but I just didn't see the 'antitrust' suits as being really a big deal, Microsoft didn't ever stop me from using a 3rd party utility or 'confuse' me about their options to install software. I can put Opera, or Mozilla, or Netscape, or AOL, or Realplayer on my system as easy as anything else. It's not stopping me from doing what I need to do.
Indirectly, they did. By not allowing OEM's to preload BeOS on their computers (That's an anti-trust violation!) they have not only prevented me from getting a quality OS from a quality OEM, but now I can't get BeOS at all! The same thing with Netscape. I can't get Netscape preloaded from an OEM because Microsoft is able to punish OEM's who want to sell me what I want. (Another anti-trust violation) For goodness sakes, they are supposed to be system integrator's. If I want Netscape 7 and Realplayer 8 on 40 PC's I purchase, I shouldn't have to pay someone else to install them. I should be able to get them preloaded from Dell. I can't though, and the reason is that Microsoft went around to OEM's and told them to not preload Netscape, or else. And we all know what, "Or else" means.
Consider your feeling for Clear Channel. They have an increasing more powerful ability to control record companies. Suppose they told a record company to not sign up a certain group, or they'd not play any of the record companies music? Now all of a suddenly that band finds itself forced to sign with a small record company. Sure, you could probably buy the CD mail-order or something, but the music isn't heard on mainstream radio, sold at Best Buy and other retail outlets, and for the most part unknown. But it hasn't stopped you from listening to the copy you were able to purchase.
See, it's the same thing with Microsoft. Sure, you can still use Opera. But because Microsoft is willing to break anti-trust law, you can't get Opera on your new Dell PC.
Compatability- let's face it, even all of our beloved OSes like *nix and OS2 dont' support everything that we want. Microsoft is generally up to date a good bit of stuff. If I want a Paralell scanner that I have to work, its easy. Linux, I look online, sorry that's not supported, it needs to be SCSI or USB.
This is one of the strangest pieces of logic I've ever seen. And I really wish that people would get some common sense and I'd never hear it again. Okay, maybe companies write drivers for Windows because it's the most popular. But that doesn't mean that drivers couldn't be written for other OS's. It just means that the companies don't want to write the drivers for other OS's. If Windows didn't exist today, companies would be writing drivers for at least one other OS. And that's a fact.
-BrentIf they loose the bet you can be sure the product boss is dead at MS.
Actually, I think he "left" a while. IIRC, the story was on /.
-Brent
I guess it was Mindspring at the time anyways, it was April of 2000. I was going on vacation and needed a ISP while I was at the other end of the country. I have a local ISP here, so I thought I'd get a free introductory month of service from a national ISP and then cancel my account when I got back.
It worked well, I got the account with a free month, set it up, found the access number I'd use while on vacation and then took off. When I got back, I called Mindspring and cancelled the account. When they asked why I wanted to cancel, I said that their service is wonderful, and I didn't have a problem with it, but I had a local ISP that I prefered to use. 5 minutes on the phone, and a wonderful experience all around with Mindspring.
I refered everyone after that who was looking for an national ISP to use Mindspring.
-Brent
Pocket Word and Explorer are proof that it has the largest software library? What, do they only get ported when the platform has the largest software library? Are users held hostage until developers create apps? (You won't get Pocket Word and Explorer until there are more apps then any other platform!!)
Moving along...
I'd be willing to use a Windows CE device if it did what I needed to do with it. Any device is useless if it doesn't let you use it. So this is the list that I need people to confirm they've successfully gotten a CE device to do.
-Brent
Money. Seems to me that color is twice as expensive as monochrome. And it doesn't make that address book, or email any more readable.
-Brent
Well, I really don't want it for much, so I'm not expecting to be disappointed any way the shoe drops. If all I used it for was instant messaging, and email, I would be more then satisfied.
That really is no different then getting a PocketPC (your lack of mentioning one in your article suggests you want to stay away from Microsoft), as they fullfill the same function.Yes, you hit the nail right on the head. I had a CE device once, and it was the most frusterating thing I have ever experinced. Applications to forever to load, and once they appeared, ran as slow as, uh, slow. Anyways, not a very good experience, and I sold it after a year to a guy who sold it again after 2 months.
OTOH, I played with a Zaurus demo at Best Buy, and couldn't be more impressed. The applications popped right up, flew like lightning, and even the graphical demos seemed to have great frame rate. I'd probably go ahead and get the Zaurus, and then use it to its full capacity, but I'm kind of leaning on going the inexpensive route, and using it more of an accessory, like I did my last PDA.
-Brent
I wasn't aware of this change until I saw this story. However, my response seemed to be atypical of /.er's. I went immediatly to Yahoo! and checked my marketing preferences, and made sure I was getting all that was due me.
I sure don't understand why anyone would not want to get marketing information sent staight to them. Sure beats trying to have to go find it on your own.
-BrentWow! Where did he say that he was running an OS that was a decade old? What OS is this? And how did he get it to support USB? I want to run an OS a decade old that supports USB. Not even Microsoft's OS that only 6 years old supports USB. And it even support dual Pentium II's. Well, I must admit, he didn't actually say that he had 2 processors, only that the motherboard supported dual, but you could probably imply that he was. Anyways, I want to know why this OS has been hidden for so long...
Not to mention, he specifically said that he ran Redhat 7.2, which, the last time I checked, could barely even be a year old.
-BrentPlease help me. I'm trying to find the administrator account for Windows (ME). Where is it? Thanks.
-BrentCertainly you'd expect that companies would want accountability of their employees, don't you? I certainly couldn't understand what the problem would be with a company calling an employee to verify the quality of service provided. I'd even think they would consider taping calls of real customers, but the technology they are using probably doesn't allow that yet.
-Brent
So, you don't think that the murders should die for their crime? You think they should be allowed to live to perhaps kill another black man in the future?
That is not to say you do not punish those who commit heinous crimes. Life without parole is an option.Why should they live if they'll be "chained" up for the rest of their lives anyways? It's not as if they have a chance to be a productive unit of society. So why not execute those who'll never do anything again. Unless, of course, you feel that they could do forced labor, like the criminals in China do.
-BrentWhy should someone's life be 'precious', when they don't consider other's lives precious. Someone who kills another human should have to die for they're crimes. Why should they live, if they have taken the life of another innocent human?
What do you think about hate crime laws? Don't you support the idea that criminals convicted of a hate crime should be executed?
-BrentI don't see very many companies not using Windows 2000 after seeing it "not scale well" on the mainframes. So what makes you think they wouldn't use Linux?
-Brent