Why did they chose the name Linux, huh? After all, it's a play on "Unix". It's not spelled "Unux", so why "Linux"?!
Now, before you post indignant responses about exactly why the name Linux was chosen, realize that you are just proving my point. There are perfectly good reasons for the name Linux, just as there are perfectly good reasons for there being ten games named 'Final Fantasy'. Yeesh.
Does this policy apply to l33t shell providers who provide virtual hosts like "my.eggdrop.flashed.its.nuts.cuz.it.is.supal33t.ne t"?
I mean, obviously people like that NEED the IPs, whereas major web providers can think of other ways to serve up some net.
I think that this law is probably geared more towards Colorado based ISPs. I know that if I were running an ISP in Colorado I would send an email to all my subscribers saying:
Hey! Guys! The state is enacting a law to stop spam! If you get any spam messages, forward them to spam@coloradoisp.com and we'll put them on the spamlist. If the spamlist gets over 100 [or 1000, or whatever] then we'll submit the list names and sue.
Thanks,
Ty Coon
Head Honcho, ColoradoISP
And as the "letter" says, when the ISP's spam list that they've received from their customers, they submit their list to the state and file the suit.
The problem is with spam that uses shell accounts and forged headers, in order to mask the true identity of the sender. Those will definitely be harder to track down...
Oh good tao! They have to map the other buttons to the option and command keys! It might take a whole 5 minutes, if that! THANK you for showing WHY those companies always release Mac version so long after the PC versions.
Ugh! Warcraft 1, and 2. Starcraft. Diablo. Now D2. When will Blizzard finally wake up and push for a simultaneous Mac/Windows release date? It used to be that they'd use the Mac version as a little extra profit boost after the fact, but now with the advent of the iMac and the crushingly fast G4, why can't Blizzard acknowledge the Mac as a legitimate gaming platform? Don't give me the FUD about Windows' user base, the Mac user base right now on June 29, 2000 is such that Blizzard could stand to make a nice profit given the obvious popularity of the windows stress test. if they had really wanted to win the hearts of all the gamers out there, they would have gotten in bed with Loki way back to get this thing out for Windows, Mac, and Linux all at once. I hereby pledge undying loyalty to any game company that can accomplish that.
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MacOS X, while based on FreeBSD, is still very very different. And let us remember that MacOS X runs on PowerPC hardware. People who are buying Macs have a perfectly good netscape (which runs much much faster than it does on X11) to run.
Since chances are those people who have the money to go for Macs instead of cheap PCs wouldn't be swayed by a mere browser, MS is just tossing in their support in hopes of getting more IE users so they can control the internet. that's secondary to getting everyone to run Windows though. If MacOS ran on Intel (and it won't as long as MS is a unified company, since they would threaten to pull Office) you can bet that MS would pull the IE port faster than you can say monopoly.
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Netscpae is still the browser of choice in the Macintosh community. But if MS stopped porting IE, Outlook (shudder), Office, and other productivity apps to the mac, then they would really have been blatantly monopolizing and the government lawsuit would have come a lot earlier. (macs are the only 'real' competition to Windows. Nobody makes money from BSD/Linux and Judge Jackson called them "fringe" OSes anyways)
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Yeah, except there's absolutely zero skill invovlved in Diablo II.
Now, before you post indignant responses about exactly why the name Linux was chosen, realize that you are just proving my point. There are perfectly good reasons for the name Linux, just as there are perfectly good reasons for there being ten games named 'Final Fantasy'. Yeesh.
Does this policy apply to l33t shell providers who provide virtual hosts like "my.eggdrop.flashed.its.nuts.cuz.it.is.supal33t.ne t"?
I mean, obviously people like that NEED the IPs, whereas major web providers can think of other ways to serve up some net.
Hey! Guys! The state is enacting a law to stop spam! If you get any spam messages, forward them to spam@coloradoisp.com and we'll put them on the spamlist. If the spamlist gets over 100 [or 1000, or whatever] then we'll submit the list names and sue.
Thanks,
Ty Coon
Head Honcho, ColoradoISP
And as the "letter" says, when the ISP's spam list that they've received from their customers, they submit their list to the state and file the suit.
The problem is with spam that uses shell accounts and forged headers, in order to mask the true identity of the sender. Those will definitely be harder to track down...
Oh good tao! They have to map the other buttons to the option and command keys! It might take a whole 5 minutes, if that! THANK you for showing WHY those companies always release Mac version so long after the PC versions.
Yes! Thank you!
Hey, is Blizzard HQ anywhere near Redmond? If so we can head over there after we're done with MS. Are you going to be joining us?
Ugh! Warcraft 1, and 2. Starcraft. Diablo. Now D2. When will Blizzard finally wake up and push for a simultaneous Mac/Windows release date? It used to be that they'd use the Mac version as a little extra profit boost after the fact, but now with the advent of the iMac and the crushingly fast G4, why can't Blizzard acknowledge the Mac as a legitimate gaming platform? Don't give me the FUD about Windows' user base, the Mac user base right now on June 29, 2000 is such that Blizzard could stand to make a nice profit given the obvious popularity of the windows stress test. if they had really wanted to win the hearts of all the gamers out there, they would have gotten in bed with Loki way back to get this thing out for Windows, Mac, and Linux all at once. I hereby pledge undying loyalty to any game company that can accomplish that.
Since chances are those people who have the money to go for Macs instead of cheap PCs wouldn't be swayed by a mere browser, MS is just tossing in their support in hopes of getting more IE users so they can control the internet. that's secondary to getting everyone to run Windows though. If MacOS ran on Intel (and it won't as long as MS is a unified company, since they would threaten to pull Office) you can bet that MS would pull the IE port faster than you can say monopoly.
Netscpae is still the browser of choice in the Macintosh community. But if MS stopped porting IE, Outlook (shudder), Office, and other productivity apps to the mac, then they would really have been blatantly monopolizing and the government lawsuit would have come a lot earlier. (macs are the only 'real' competition to Windows. Nobody makes money from BSD/Linux and Judge Jackson called them "fringe" OSes anyways)
zdump Pacific/Galapagos, 5 hours ahead of New Zealand. As I write this (9:37 PM EST on Dec 30) it is 8:37 PM on Dec 31 there.