According to this, All Five of M$'s Divisions Lost Money Last Quarter. FUDZilla says 17% will get the exe. M$ has screwed the pooch. They've been playing Slog games instead of making things people want. This failure would not have happened to a nicer company. Good riddance.
I'm posting this from Konqueror on Linux as god intended and all that; but http://windows.kde.org/ [kde.org] is the place to look if you want Konqueror goodness on Windows.
Technical limitations, M$'s long history of technical sabotage and the eminent collapse of M$ and Windows market share makes Windows ports a huge waste of effort. Privacy and security on Windows is impossible because the system is rooted by design and you a little more than a renter of a system you can never own. KDE could provide improved performance but M$ sabotage will eliminate that, the same way iTunes, AV and other popular software are routinely broken under Vista. Finally, Vista has failed and Windows market share is already starting to slip. What's the point of porting to eight year old XP, a failed Vista or an expensive and soon to fail Windows 7? It's time to tell your friends that software goodness is best found in the free software world.
The same DOJ sees no problem with M$ extending it's desktop monopoly into search and online services by purchasing Yahoo outright? Sorry, Roland, but Google's non exclusive deal is far less threatening than M$'s intentional destruction of Yahoo.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can hear the apologist now. That's because the Wintel press has been filled with their insanity all year. Absolute idiocy like, "Yahoo can't survive without M$," "Yahoo is mismanaged," and so on and so forth without reality check. If Yahoo can't survive without M$ and M$ can't survive without Yahoo, but somehow the combination can, the combination is almost certainly in violation of anti-trust laws. Really though, online advertising is doing just fine and Yahoo's audience is the envy of M$ and broadcasters alike. Selling a third rate OS and office suite in a box, on the other hand, is an obsolete business model.
Google could control Mozilla but it has zero control over Firefox search because Firefox is free software. Looking at my nice copy of Iceweasel v3, I see an arrow to chose from search providers. Yahoo, amazon (which is really M$ if I remember), Creative Commons, Answers.com and Ebay are among the choices. The last choice is "manage search engines" where I can add or subtract at any time. So every user has complete and easy control of Iceweasel search. Anyone could compile the code themselves to do the same thing or better.
The investigation is a farce and yet another indicator of M$'s influence over one of the most corrupt administrations ever. In eight years, we have the destruction of anti-trust enforcement, the destruction of Yahoo through anti trust abuse and now a slog on Mozilla. It must be that M$ is really scared of Mozilla's 26% share of the US browser market and even greater share of others.
Yeah, I was just reading about a much uglier incident. The criminals at Novell are not wo well organized, but those who own them are and are not afraid to show the same contempt for your body as they show your work. The police in India look less militarized than those in either the US or Italy.
If it could be done, Slashdot would have already have done it. Comments have been scrubbed/worthless for years and now they are censoring story submissions too. Same thing happened to digg, kuroshin and just about every other message board. The M$ turds flood and stink out every large and influential meeting place. It will be good when M$ goes under.
The above string of -1 rated posts demonstrates that you are well organized and able to scrub Slashdot of any content you please. If what you say is true, that twitter has all of these sockpuppets, then you have lots of modpoints and time on your hands to track and censor him. If that's not true, you have censored the comments of about eight users. Either way, we see an organized but insane smear attack.
What's this story about? Stacked panels and other dirty tricks? How nice of you to reveal yourself.
Devaluing my currency through hundreds of billions of dollars of bailouts serves what public good? The money would have been beter spent covering every usurious house loan than bailing out the frauds who have already had several "best years ever" from their fruadulent business. Millions of Americans are losing their homes, proping them up would have been cheaper and more just and better for the economy. Do you think any of the businesses now sliding into the "liquidity" crisis will be able to get out without millions of happy customers buying shit from China? The bottom is falling out of all markets because everyone knows that no one is going to have anything to spend and those that have cash will soon find it purchases a whole lot less than it used to.
You hear what you want to. What you say is outrageous but your lies do not actually make me angry. My voice is sing song and mostly happy. Imagine a happy game show host as you read my every word.
The only link I can find for 'selling inferior tools to Lotus' is to a Roughly Drafted article that, as usual, fails to cite sources. Can you provide any? I'd be interested to read them.
Email from the guy who did it has been presented in court twice. He's the one who called developers "pawns and one night stands".
You say that Microsoft actively smear advocates of freedom - can you show me one example?
Peter Quinn, RMS, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond and so on and so forth. Anyone who stands up to M$ is smeared, directly and by proxy. Your assault on twitter is the same kind of thing and shows just how petty you bastards are.
What you call co-option others call co-operation. Can you explain why you feel that Microsoft helping Novell to create an OSS version of.NET is 'poison'?
Mono is a good example of both poison and fight feeding. It is patented and M$ will tell you that only SLED can use it. Advocacy of such crap by people like you wedge driving. You want people to waste their time developing, thinking and fighting about M$ junk. It's not going to work.
Can you give me an example of Microsoft creating fights between OSS developers? All the ones I have seen publicised on Slashdot have been the inevitable result of the politicisation of OSS and FOSS by people such as yourself.
I would describe such fights as driven by M$ misinformation. Not many people fall for it and after a decade of bullshit, more people than ever understand software freedom.
We all know you hate Vista, but what in your view is wrong with IIS and Visual Studio?
Both are only useful for Windows users and both are inferior to free software offerings.
Slashdot can't do a supported fact based discussion because they would be sued by M$ for violating business method patents evident in the "Get the Facts" advertising campaign. I know, I know, there were no real facts presented in M$'s sponsored research, but the idea of objective conversation is still their IP. Judging from the Fine Quarterly Report, M$ people often confuse statements of angst with factual opinion. Any facts section would quickly be ruined by M$FT people writing things like, "You are all a bunch of pirates, we did this first, your work sucks, pay up, blah blah blah." What you have noticed is mostly this already.
I seem to recall an upstart called Intel that gained some market acceptance for their cheap 4 bit processors. IBM's Cell processor is already in wide use and free software already working well. The only odd thing about this laptop is that they put an Intel CPU in charge to support Windoze. The cost/performance ratio of Cell is simply too great to ignore, so it will become more common and you will see more rather than less of it. Intel is like a deer in the headlights.
I'm sure you don't mind me calling it "GAH/Linsux", or something silly like that. Right?... I'd normally avoid that kind of infantile approach to trying to call attention to myself, but I'll humour you.
There is nothing you avoidin your hatred of free software, including gaming the moderation system to silence others. You know very well that twitter has used his 2 posts per 24 hours.
Uptime is limited by memory leaks. That neither IE nor Safari had reached an upper bound for memory after 14 hours is a bad sign. The test should have lasted longer to capture system performance as we would like it to be. Frenix's 28 day test is good proof that something is cleaning up after everything on Debian. Wouldn't it be nice if every OS gave nice results like that?
You have to wonder what would happen to both Safari and IE had that test lasted more than 14 hours, but here's real use that's gone on for days with much better results under GNU/Linux.
Oh man, someone modded the above "Troll". This is much more intersting than the two AC posts about Twitter and GNU/Linux but look what the trolls did to it.
This is clear evidence that the troll group willyhill belongs to has gamed Slashdot's moderation system badly. Offtopic, flamebait, overrated and stupid would be better marks for that. It's little more than hate aimed at a single person. The GP post was nailed for pointing to an intersting GNU/Linux compairison post with Firefox, Konqueror and another browser's memory use and general performance. The Vista reference was not offtopic or "distateful" because these programs ran better under GNU/Linux than they do under Vista.
Why is Microsoft like it is, greedy, criminal and focused on PR instead of product? Because it worked for them once and they are incapable of anything else.
Do you have a better reason for the attack on Peter Quinn? How about Peter Gutmann? Why does M$ hate, smear and seek the distruction of Google, Wikipedia, GNU/Linux and OLPC?
Microsoft is here and they have many accounts which they abuse. It's not easy for them but the comments section is filled with endorsments of their crap and flames for everyting people at Slashdot might like. Don't you think it's odd to find people saying good things about Vista when less than 10% of the general public wanted it and it is simply irrelevant to most Slashdot readers?
Like PJ said, people are not as dumb as Microsoft needs them to be.
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If you don't believe and work for this, you will never have it.
This whole thing was created by Microsoft. It does not exist on any other platform. They have created this issue because they can't stand another browser or any other perceived loss of control on their little platform.
The people from M$ don't like what Twitter has to say and they have censored him. He refuses to let that happen. It was not good enough for them to answer him in an open way and have done things to disrupt your ability to both hear him or foe him. They deserve ridicule and contempt. You may foe any account that displeases you but you will never know if it's him or someone else. His views are popular here and in the real world because M$'s business practices and poor quality software have soured everyone who uses Windows. This is not something PR firms can make dissapear.
No, I'm not Twitter, like you PR Idiots think everyone is. I'm simply sick of your bullshit and nerve. People are not going to do as you say, get used to it.
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According to this, All Five of M$'s Divisions Lost Money Last Quarter. FUDZilla says 17% will get the exe. M$ has screwed the pooch. They've been playing Slog games instead of making things people want. This failure would not have happened to a nicer company. Good riddance.
I'm posting this from Konqueror on Linux as god intended and all that; but http://windows.kde.org/ [kde.org] is the place to look if you want Konqueror goodness on Windows.
Technical limitations, M$'s long history of technical sabotage and the eminent collapse of M$ and Windows market share makes Windows ports a huge waste of effort. Privacy and security on Windows is impossible because the system is rooted by design and you a little more than a renter of a system you can never own. KDE could provide improved performance but M$ sabotage will eliminate that, the same way iTunes, AV and other popular software are routinely broken under Vista. Finally, Vista has failed and Windows market share is already starting to slip. What's the point of porting to eight year old XP, a failed Vista or an expensive and soon to fail Windows 7? It's time to tell your friends that software goodness is best found in the free software world.
The same DOJ sees no problem with M$ extending it's desktop monopoly into search and online services by purchasing Yahoo outright? Sorry, Roland, but Google's non exclusive deal is far less threatening than M$'s intentional destruction of Yahoo.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can hear the apologist now. That's because the Wintel press has been filled with their insanity all year. Absolute idiocy like, "Yahoo can't survive without M$," "Yahoo is mismanaged," and so on and so forth without reality check. If Yahoo can't survive without M$ and M$ can't survive without Yahoo, but somehow the combination can, the combination is almost certainly in violation of anti-trust laws. Really though, online advertising is doing just fine and Yahoo's audience is the envy of M$ and broadcasters alike. Selling a third rate OS and office suite in a box, on the other hand, is an obsolete business model.
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Google could control Mozilla but it has zero control over Firefox search because Firefox is free software. Looking at my nice copy of Iceweasel v3, I see an arrow to chose from search providers. Yahoo, amazon (which is really M$ if I remember), Creative Commons, Answers.com and Ebay are among the choices. The last choice is "manage search engines" where I can add or subtract at any time. So every user has complete and easy control of Iceweasel search. Anyone could compile the code themselves to do the same thing or better.
The investigation is a farce and yet another indicator of M$'s influence over one of the most corrupt administrations ever. In eight years, we have the destruction of anti-trust enforcement, the destruction of Yahoo through anti trust abuse and now a slog on Mozilla. It must be that M$ is really scared of Mozilla's 26% share of the US browser market and even greater share of others.
Yeah, I was just reading about a much uglier incident. The criminals at Novell are not wo well organized, but those who own them are and are not afraid to show the same contempt for your body as they show your work. The police in India look less militarized than those in either the US or Italy.
If it could be done, Slashdot would have already have done it. Comments have been scrubbed/worthless for years and now they are censoring story submissions too. Same thing happened to digg, kuroshin and just about every other message board. The M$ turds flood and stink out every large and influential meeting place. It will be good when M$ goes under.
The above string of -1 rated posts demonstrates that you are well organized and able to scrub Slashdot of any content you please. If what you say is true, that twitter has all of these sockpuppets, then you have lots of modpoints and time on your hands to track and censor him. If that's not true, you have censored the comments of about eight users. Either way, we see an organized but insane smear attack.
What's this story about? Stacked panels and other dirty tricks? How nice of you to reveal yourself.
Devaluing my currency through hundreds of billions of dollars of bailouts serves what public good? The money would have been beter spent covering every usurious house loan than bailing out the frauds who have already had several "best years ever" from their fruadulent business. Millions of Americans are losing their homes, proping them up would have been cheaper and more just and better for the economy. Do you think any of the businesses now sliding into the "liquidity" crisis will be able to get out without millions of happy customers buying shit from China? The bottom is falling out of all markets because everyone knows that no one is going to have anything to spend and those that have cash will soon find it purchases a whole lot less than it used to.
You hear what you want to. What you say is outrageous but your lies do not actually make me angry. My voice is sing song and mostly happy. Imagine a happy game show host as you read my every word.
I see you have no real answers. That means you were more interested in wasting time than "dialog" or "an attempt to build a bridge".
You have also called me a sock puppet and are one of the people involved in modbombing me because of your insane belief that everyone is twitter.
I can answer all of your bullshit.
The only link I can find for 'selling inferior tools to Lotus' is to a Roughly Drafted article that, as usual, fails to cite sources. Can you provide any? I'd be interested to read them.
Email from the guy who did it has been presented in court twice. He's the one who called developers "pawns and one night stands".
You say that Microsoft actively smear advocates of freedom - can you show me one example?
Peter Quinn, RMS, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond and so on and so forth. Anyone who stands up to M$ is smeared, directly and by proxy. Your assault on twitter is the same kind of thing and shows just how petty you bastards are.
What you call co-option others call co-operation. Can you explain why you feel that Microsoft helping Novell to create an OSS version of .NET is 'poison'?
Mono is a good example of both poison and fight feeding. It is patented and M$ will tell you that only SLED can use it. Advocacy of such crap by people like you wedge driving. You want people to waste their time developing, thinking and fighting about M$ junk. It's not going to work.
Can you give me an example of Microsoft creating fights between OSS developers? All the ones I have seen publicised on Slashdot have been the inevitable result of the politicisation of OSS and FOSS by people such as yourself.
I would describe such fights as driven by M$ misinformation. Not many people fall for it and after a decade of bullshit, more people than ever understand software freedom.
We all know you hate Vista, but what in your view is wrong with IIS and Visual Studio?
Both are only useful for Windows users and both are inferior to free software offerings.
Slashdot can't do a supported fact based discussion because they would be sued by M$ for violating business method patents evident in the "Get the Facts" advertising campaign. I know, I know, there were no real facts presented in M$'s sponsored research, but the idea of objective conversation is still their IP. Judging from the Fine Quarterly Report, M$ people often confuse statements of angst with factual opinion. Any facts section would quickly be ruined by M$FT people writing things like, "You are all a bunch of pirates, we did this first, your work sucks, pay up, blah blah blah." What you have noticed is mostly this already.
The US is run by Comcast and it's owners.
I seem to recall an upstart called Intel that gained some market acceptance for their cheap 4 bit processors. IBM's Cell processor is already in wide use and free software already working well. The only odd thing about this laptop is that they put an Intel CPU in charge to support Windoze. The cost/performance ratio of Cell is simply too great to ignore, so it will become more common and you will see more rather than less of it. Intel is like a deer in the headlights.
Toshiba catches your O face! Better put some tape over the built in camera or install free software. Better do both.
I'm sure you don't mind me calling it "GAH/Linsux", or something silly like that. Right? ... I'd normally avoid that kind of infantile approach to trying to call attention to myself, but I'll humour you.
There is nothing you avoidin your hatred of free software, including gaming the moderation system to silence others. You know very well that twitter has used his 2 posts per 24 hours.
Uptime is limited by memory leaks. That neither IE nor Safari had reached an upper bound for memory after 14 hours is a bad sign. The test should have lasted longer to capture system performance as we would like it to be. Frenix's 28 day test is good proof that something is cleaning up after everything on Debian. Wouldn't it be nice if every OS gave nice results like that?
I am not twitter.
Performance of Firefox 2 (64bit) available to anyone who uses Debian. No memory leaks here, Bandman, but it was myseriously downmodded.
You have to wonder what would happen to both Safari and IE had that test lasted more than 14 hours, but here's real use that's gone on for days with much better results under GNU/Linux.
Oh man, someone modded the above "Troll". This is much more intersting than the two AC posts about Twitter and GNU/Linux but look what the trolls did to it.
This is clear evidence that the troll group willyhill belongs to has gamed Slashdot's moderation system badly. Offtopic, flamebait, overrated and stupid would be better marks for that. It's little more than hate aimed at a single person. The GP post was nailed for pointing to an intersting GNU/Linux compairison post with Firefox, Konqueror and another browser's memory use and general performance. The Vista reference was not offtopic or "distateful" because these programs ran better under GNU/Linux than they do under Vista.
A curious blend of techincal and marketing skills soon to be forgotten. Surely you don't think of Wintel publications as anything more substantial than the Sears catalog?
Why is Microsoft like it is, greedy, criminal and focused on PR instead of product? Because it worked for them once and they are incapable of anything else.
Do you have a better reason for the attack on Peter Quinn? How about Peter Gutmann? Why does M$ hate, smear and seek the distruction of Google, Wikipedia, GNU/Linux and OLPC?
Microsoft is here and they have many accounts which they abuse. It's not easy for them but the comments section is filled with endorsments of their crap and flames for everyting people at Slashdot might like. Don't you think it's odd to find people saying good things about Vista when less than 10% of the general public wanted it and it is simply irrelevant to most Slashdot readers?
Like PJ said, people are not as dumb as Microsoft needs them to be.
If you don't believe and work for this, you will never have it.
This whole thing was created by Microsoft. It does not exist on any other platform. They have created this issue because they can't stand another browser or any other perceived loss of control on their little platform.
The people from M$ don't like what Twitter has to say and they have censored him. He refuses to let that happen. It was not good enough for them to answer him in an open way and have done things to disrupt your ability to both hear him or foe him. They deserve ridicule and contempt. You may foe any account that displeases you but you will never know if it's him or someone else. His views are popular here and in the real world because M$'s business practices and poor quality software have soured everyone who uses Windows. This is not something PR firms can make dissapear.
No, I'm not Twitter, like you PR Idiots think everyone is. I'm simply sick of your bullshit and nerve. People are not going to do as you say, get used to it.