when I read the button on their homepage: "You may already have a version of AOL installed on your computer! If you'd like to check us to check for you please click here..."
This is really sad. AOL has penetrated the whole planet with CDs for so many years that they can simply assume that there might already be some version of their adware-dialup-crap on any given machine. They admit with this button that they are well aware that most users are totally clueless of what software they are running on their computers. "Save me, AOL!"
Depends on the human. Usually I think "open Openoffice.org", then I click (within the same second) and then I wait 18-20 seconds until I can start typing. Sorry, but the HD is by far the bottleneck.
Great. While most astronauts were strickly carrying out orders now rovers get permission to make their own decisions. Sure, this could get interesting, but the point of such a mission is to make sure nothing goes wrong. With AI, and with stupid AI evenmore so, things can get easily messed up.
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You are welcome to join my SimCity: "Lispycity". They just built a statue because I am such a great major. I am currently planning on building an airport, and my unemployment is down to 5%.
As long as you can take the annual watershortage during summertime you will be fine.
(evilgrin) ...and in a few years you will all feel my rage when I destroy this place with a set of earthquakes and giant alien-monsters. MuahAHAHAH!!! (/evilgrin)
I find this offer as inacceptable as the rest of the Slshdot crowd, but wouldn't it be possible that Microsoft knows it's market? I bet they made extensive research in Asia and it turned out that most people will be satisfied with an operating system as crippled as this. I am not really sure if I wouldn't try it if I was really short on money but wanted to run my favourite games or office app.
Maybe Linux might be 10 times more powerful but some people just like to use Word and IE? Maybe not everyone needs network because there is no broadband or LAN-Party around?
I know it sounds totally insane to us but maybe not so much to your mother or a thai. And don't forget that dealing with free operatingsystems still takes some time for a newbie, WinXP is commonly known...
Robert Altman made some pretty good movies, but this wasn't it. The "women" are the most annoying of their kind and the whole story feels absolutely pointless. The ending, where Richard Gere gets carried away by a hurricane and dropped in a mexican city where the doctor continues to help the local women is ridiculous to say the least. The acting is ok, but why watch such a terribly long and boring movie when there is absolutely no identifiable storyline?
I wish the movie would have been "Mr. T. and the women". That could have been a lot more fun.;-)
I am a lazy person. That doesnt make me unproductive. I try to get my stuff done really fast so I can watch StarTrek or do some funstuff with my Linuxbox/girlfriend.
I keep my flat clean and organized since I hate searching thru all the cupboards for the carkeys.
I write shellscripts that make my work easier and if only I was smarter I would invent something really useful that makes all our lifes easier (like the car or the microwave). Most inventions are there to have more time for laziness. Never underestimate the power of laziness.
I also read on heise.de that it will be limited to a screen resolution of 800x600.
Given the fact that most modern websites are designed for 1024x768 and all the recent games require at least 1024x768 I wonder how useful an OS is that is limited so severe. Your nextdoor Linux distribution is 10 times more powerful than "XP Starter Edition". I would continue to pirate if I would be presented with that kind of joke.
Most new phones, at least over here in germany, are branded by the provider. Of course it is technically possible to flash the software but most users keep whatever their phone carries.
This means that some keys are preprogrammed to dialup the default GPRS-connection whenever they get pressed (mostly by accident when the phone is in the pocket and you forgot to lock the keyboard). Maybe the service gets really more popular but I would love to see a statistic that shows how many connections are dialed by mistake.
Yeah, at least an overall Doom Icon would be appropriate. Or an id-icon, if it is for webspace forget about he Compaq icon, they were bought by HP a year ago. While you're at it please update the Ximian Icon with a Novell logo, the Palm III icon with a Tungsten and pleeeease the GNOME icon with a GNOME2 icon. Thank you...
As Nassim Taleb points out in his great book "Fooled by radnomness" most of shortterm market movement is nothing but noise. Dont make the mistake and take it serioulsy.
I believe that deep in my heart I am a calm and balanced person but it is amazing how angry this whole thing makes me. It really scares me how satisfiying it is to see them get what they deserve. SCO really did a great job in getting all the worst feelings from the techcommunity.
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when I read the button on their homepage:
"You may already have a version of AOL installed on your computer! If you'd like to check us to check for you please click here..."
This is really sad. AOL has penetrated the whole planet with CDs for so many years that they can simply assume that there might already be some version of their adware-dialup-crap on any given machine. They admit with this button that they are well aware that most users are totally clueless of what software they are running on their computers. "Save me, AOL!"
Ok, I figured that OpenOffice was a bad example. Let's replace this with "a file larger than 100MB".
In soviet russia your dreams read slashdot.
;-)
Maybe you should get out more?
Depends on the human. Usually I think "open Openoffice.org", then I click (within the same second) and then I wait 18-20 seconds until I can start typing. Sorry, but the HD is by far the bottleneck.
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Great. While most astronauts were strickly carrying out orders now rovers get permission to make their own decisions. Sure, this could get interesting, but the point of such a mission is to make sure nothing goes wrong. With AI, and with stupid AI evenmore so, things can get easily messed up.
You are welcome to join my SimCity: "Lispycity". They just built a statue because I am such a great major. I am currently planning on building an airport, and my unemployment is down to 5%.
...and in a few years you will all feel my rage when I destroy this place with a set of earthquakes and giant alien-monsters. MuahAHAHAH!!!
;-)
As long as you can take the annual watershortage during summertime you will be fine.
(evilgrin)
(/evilgrin)
Oh, I didn't just say that, did I?
Well,it didn't work the first time when we invented VCRs to watch TV for us.
I find this offer as inacceptable as the rest of the Slshdot crowd, but wouldn't it be possible that Microsoft knows it's market? I bet they made extensive research in Asia and it turned out that most people will be satisfied with an operating system as crippled as this. I am not really sure if I wouldn't try it if I was really short on money but wanted to run my favourite games or office app.
Maybe Linux might be 10 times more powerful but some people just like to use Word and IE? Maybe not everyone needs network because there is no broadband or LAN-Party around?
I know it sounds totally insane to us but maybe not so much to your mother or a thai. And don't forget that dealing with free operatingsystems still takes some time for a newbie, WinXP is commonly known...
Personally I really hated "Dr. T and the women!"
;-)
Robert Altman made some pretty good movies, but this wasn't it. The "women" are the most annoying of their kind and the whole story feels absolutely pointless. The ending, where Richard Gere gets carried away by a hurricane and dropped in a mexican city where the doctor continues to help the local women is ridiculous to say the least. The acting is ok, but why watch such a terribly long and boring movie when there is absolutely no identifiable storyline?
I wish the movie would have been "Mr. T. and the women". That could have been a lot more fun.
I made her say dirty stuff.and I am 27. Will I ever grow up? ;-)
you demonstrated the greatest flaw of online apps: ;-/
They depend on a running server. These just died.
in that case they should drop the shiny XP icon and replace it with the trusted win95 MyComputer icon. ;-)
I am a lazy person. That doesnt make me unproductive. I try to get my stuff done really fast so I can watch StarTrek or do some funstuff with my Linuxbox/girlfriend.
I keep my flat clean and organized since I hate searching thru all the cupboards for the carkeys.
I write shellscripts that make my work easier and if only I was smarter I would invent something really useful that makes all our lifes easier (like the car or the microwave). Most inventions are there to have more time for laziness. Never underestimate the power of laziness.
Yes, I know. But I was talking about this study.
I also read on heise.de that it will be limited to a screen resolution of 800x600.
Given the fact that most modern websites are designed for 1024x768 and all the recent games require at least 1024x768 I wonder how useful an OS is that is limited so severe. Your nextdoor Linux distribution is 10 times more powerful than "XP Starter Edition". I would continue to pirate if I would be presented with that kind of joke.
Nono, it's the sound your mommies hand makes slapping in your face when reading the monthly bill. All those ringtones...
That would make 2005 the year Linux will succeed. I will watch carefully.
Most new phones, at least over here in germany, are branded by the provider. Of course it is technically possible to flash the software but most users keep whatever their phone carries.
This means that some keys are preprogrammed to dialup the default GPRS-connection whenever they get pressed (mostly by accident when the phone is in the pocket and you forgot to lock the keyboard). Maybe the service gets really more popular but I would love to see a statistic that shows how many connections are dialed by mistake.
Looks clean but reminds me just a BIT of totem.
Elicit
Entice
Evidence
Entrance
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Great. Not that it would have been enough to have KDE with this annoying capital K on every program.
The rest looks promising and refreshingly different, though.
Yeah, at least an overall Doom Icon would be appropriate. Or an id-icon, if it is for webspace forget about he Compaq icon, they were bought by HP a year ago. While you're at it please update the Ximian Icon with a Novell logo, the Palm III icon with a Tungsten and pleeeease the GNOME icon with a GNOME2 icon. Thank you...
As Nassim Taleb points out in his great book "Fooled by radnomness" most of shortterm market movement is nothing but noise. Dont make the mistake and take it serioulsy.
Here is what I got just a reload ago.
I believe that deep in my heart I am a calm and balanced person but it is amazing how angry this whole thing makes me. It really scares me how satisfiying it is to see them get what they deserve. SCO really did a great job in getting all the worst feelings from the techcommunity.