Although I agree that Nvidia dropped the ball on this one, I don't think there is any reason to stop buying their products. It's going to be a while (if ever) until some decent games are ported over to Linux (half-life) Right now the majority of 3D games are under the windows environment. I do believe that is changing and given enough time Nvidia will change too. They need to realize that the majority of their consumer base are computer geeks. Denying computer geeks the right to do something they enjoy is a big mistake. The MPAA could take a lesson from this.
I was discussing the whole reverse engineering subject with my roommate and we thought it would be funny if Xerox decided to sue Apple and Microsoft. The GUI interface as we know it would not exist if it was not for them. Let us not forget Ethernet as well. I mean if the government is going to say all reverse engineering is illegal, lets hope they don't make the ruling recursive or there are going to be a whole lot of lawsuits.
Does anyone else know what this word means? It seems that too many parents today are too busy to watch their kids. If you can't trust your kids to not go surfing where they don't belong, then you shouldn't be on the Internet at all. (more bandwidth for the rest of us) If you are so busy that you feel the need to have a CyberSitter watch over your children you shouldn't be having children in the first place.
People need to realize that by not taking responsibility for your actions (or inactions) you are giving up your right to make decisions and causing others to make them for you. If you don't make your own decisions on what is good for your children to see and what's not... don't complain when someone else does for you and you don't get any say.
As far as reverse engineering goes do you think Apple would have sued Microsoft? Almost every major computer company got where it is today by reverse engineering something someone else already did. If the government wants to stop the technology boom I see no better way of doing it.
Active Directory is Microsoft's first real attempt into the directory space, and, frankly, their inexperience is evident in important real-world functions.
Things like this give me a good laugh. A M$ certified partner saying M$ is inexperienced.
I wonder if this guy is getting kickbacks from mycio.com? I highly doubt that anyone can be that blatently stupid to say windows systems are more secure than Linux systems. Corperations would seem to disagree. The whole article sounds like a sales pitch slamming linux and praising windows hmmmm...
I have to agree with you there. This in no way was a resonable search. I can't believe any corporation with or with out a search warrent has the right to go through my personal belongings based on something that may or may not exist. I also don't believe there are only certain types of speach protected under the 1st ammendment. What is "Business speach" or "political Speach"? Speach is Speach!!
This judge has given Northwest the power the federal government legally doesn't even have, and that is really frightning.
I'd be willing to bet the judge who gave the order just moved into a brand new house and mysteriously accumliated a large ammount of frequent flyer miles.
I couldn't agree with you more. We need to get more people talking like this. 10 years ago I would have never thought we'd be running x86 systems with DOS. And yet win95/98 is just that... a really nice front end for DOS... they even still use himem.sys. I thought by the year 2000 everyone would be running on Alpha or something. Even PIII's are based on the original 8086 instruction set in IBM PC/XT's
Intel is also part of techinal dark ages. I don't think they've screwed over as much people as Microsoft has, but still. I'm still wondering about the fast devlopment of the asus athlon mainboards. They went from not devloping a mainboard to shipping it in less than 24 hours. I've also heard stories about intel products not ariving on time to distributors who sell AMD products. Very strange... Brandon
Obviously, M$ has a moral obligation here to provide a fix for there errors, but I don't think we need to rip them apart for it. Errors are inevitable.
Errors are inevitable, but it's the number of errors in microsoft products that cause great concern. How long has microsoft been putting out operating systems? You'd think after all this time, they'd get it right. Hell, it's still running under DOS. Like it or not windows is just a nice GUI front end for DOS.
Every time Microsoft puts out a new version of windows we're promised it will be more stable, more secure, and faster than the previous version. based on this I can't believe that to be true. Remember when WIN98 blue screened while Bill was demonstrating it?
I'm not saying Linux doesn't have it's security holes too. But lets take a look at how fast they're fixed:
Linux: New version released, hole found in 2 or 3 days, hole fixed within 24 hours. Windows: New version releases, hole found in 2 or 3 days, after 2 or 3 months of screwing around patch released, hole in patch found, 2 or 3 months later... OR Hole found before release, hole fixed 2 to 3 weeks after first notification.
and Microsoft is charging $200-$300 for this crap. yet linux remains free.
How many programers are involved in writing windows?
How many programers are involved in writing Linux?
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If words were wisdom I'd be talking even more
If words were wisdom I'd be talking even more
People need to realize that by not taking responsibility for your actions (or inactions) you are giving up your right to make decisions and causing others to make them for you. If you don't make your own decisions on what is good for your children to see and what's not... don't complain when someone else does for you and you don't get any say.
As far as reverse engineering goes do you think Apple would have sued Microsoft? Almost every major computer company got where it is today by reverse engineering something someone else already did. If the government wants to stop the technology boom I see no better way of doing it.
If words were wisdom I'd be talking even more.
from Novell's offical press release
Active Directory is Microsoft's first real attempt into the directory space, and, frankly, their inexperience is evident in important real-world functions.
Things like this give me a good laugh. A M$ certified partner saying M$ is inexperienced.
When has M$ ever trashed NT??
Let's see here
NTServer -- $1000 aprox
NTworkstation -- $150
Win95/98 -- $80
WindowsCE -- $100???
Linux -- Priceless i.e. free
It's nice to see someone out there acutally understands
I wonder if this guy is getting kickbacks from mycio.com? I highly doubt that anyone can be that blatently stupid to say windows systems are more secure than Linux systems. Corperations would seem to disagree. The whole article sounds like a sales pitch slamming linux and praising windows hmmmm...
was a resonable search. I can't believe
any corporation with or with out a
search warrent has the right to go through my
personal belongings based on something
that may or may not exist. I also don't believe there
are only certain types of speach
protected under the 1st ammendment. What is
"Business speach" or "political Speach"? Speach is Speach!!
This judge has given Northwest the power the
federal government legally doesn't even have, and that
is really frightning.
I'd be willing to bet the judge who gave the order
just moved into a brand new house and mysteriously
accumliated a large ammount of frequent flyer miles.
Intel is also part of techinal dark ages. I don't think they've screwed over as much people as Microsoft has, but still. I'm still wondering about the fast devlopment of the asus athlon mainboards. They went from not devloping a mainboard to shipping it in less than 24 hours. I've also heard stories about intel products not ariving on time to distributors who sell AMD products. Very strange... Brandon
Errors are inevitable, but it's the number of errors in microsoft products that cause great concern. How long has microsoft been putting out operating systems? You'd think after all this time, they'd get it right. Hell, it's still running under DOS. Like it or not windows is just a nice GUI front end for DOS.
Every time Microsoft puts out a new version of windows we're promised it will be more stable, more secure, and faster than the previous version. based on this I can't believe that to be true. Remember when WIN98 blue screened while Bill was demonstrating it?
I'm not saying Linux doesn't have it's security holes too. But lets take a look at how fast they're fixed:
Linux:
New version released, hole found in 2 or 3 days, hole fixed within 24 hours.
Windows:
New version releases, hole found in 2 or 3 days, after 2 or 3 months of screwing around patch released, hole in patch found, 2 or 3 months later...
OR
Hole found before release, hole fixed 2 to 3 weeks after first notification.
and Microsoft is charging $200-$300 for this crap. yet linux remains free.
How many programers are involved in writing windows?
How many programers are involved in writing Linux?
something to think about