You are an ignorant piece of shit, and there's no pain you don't deserve to experience. Those quotes are caused by Slashdot not understanding encodings which have existed for about 30 years, and which are heavily used by Apple.
Man.. What a horrible web site. If only they used existing standards. Guess their evil. Not using standards.
1. Microsoft would open source its Java competitor under better terms than Java...
Only to kill the Mono project consequently
By open sourcing the original, just like we wanted in the first place.
2. Would fully adopt (as much as anyone other than Mozilla is) open web standards from the browser to all corporate products...
Guess you didn't try Edge yet..
Or Chrome, or Firefox, or any other web browser that adds new stuff on their own whim.
3. Add a Linux compatibility layer...
Which is widely frowned upon. And while i use it regularly, i also think it's one of the E's in EEE.
Total agreement here.
4. Port Office to a platform like Android...
Only after all MS phone projects ended as a disaster. Mostly because they couldn't even keep it compatible with itself.
+1
5. Be the 5th largest contributor to the Linux kernel...
Mostly for hypervisor stuff and other stuff related to compatibility with (closed) MS software. Meanwhile, NTFS support still suffers.
Ok, so their not as open as we'd like them to be. But, on the other hand, you gave them crap in point 1 for.. *drumroll* Open sourcing.NET core.
6. Enthusiastically sell cloud services based on Linux...
Because the customers must choose Microsoft above all. They can always switch to Windows at a later stage.
*boggle* If that was true, then they would start with Windows, wouldn't they? The logic makes *0* sense.
7. Microsoft would offer more innovative desktops than Apple...
Guess you didn't upgrade to windows 10 yet... Which basically feels like a downgrade. But is forced upon users because of compatibility and ending support for older windows versions. I guess it sort-of works, but nothing new or fancy that pleases the customers, if any, only confuses the hell out of the elderly user base.
Yea, kind of like that KDE update that broke the world. Oh yea.. And Gnome.. Oh, and X11/Wayland/[insert favorite environemtn here].
8. Microsoft would compete for OEM licenses on price and merits, not contractual extortion...
I can't believe you seriously said that. OEM's have no choice but to get strangled by MS.
Which is why the world runs on Microsoft SourceSafe.. Man, it'd be AWESOME if there was an alternative to source safe that people could.. Oh, and Microsoft Phone (your point from earlier). If only a choice could win over microsoft strangulation...
Heeeeeeeeey. Waaait a minute here.
We'd have called you a crackhead. Not a dreamer, but a crackhead because only a crackhead would think up a future like that as being plausible. Yet... that's where we're at in 2018
Basically you're a crackhead (your words) if you believe any of the claims you made. Especially if you think those claims are sincere and not only serve to increase their profit margins.
I rather keep distrusting MS until proven beyond doubt that they can be trusted, than the other way around and be cheated upon again for the zillionth time since 1992.
And those damned germans.. All nazi's. Can't be trusted..
Not for nothing, but I've had apt-get or rpm upgrade for packages bust my system just as bad as Microsofts 'Forced Updates'. Love it when suddenly my system won't present your GUI because some update busted it.
They can't kill it. The site itself is open source. Literally anyone can clone it at literally any time. They can turn off the thing branded "github" if they wanted. But that's like saying you can kill Linux by acquiring and shutting down Redhat: Linux would keep going. And so would git/web-based git hosting services.
The site isn't 'open source', the source is 'open source', hence the name. People didn't use github for the source, they used it for having a repository they didn't have to pay for. I think that's what bugs me the most about the people who are whining about the acquisition. They're mostly just milking the free bandwidth.
Actually, I'd say that your github was also untrustworthy, aren't they? I mean, you've been on github, and they just sold your hosting out from underneath you, so...
That is COMPLETELY dependent on your card issuer. I've had several instances were my card needed to be reissued, including because of the Home Depot fiasco. A reputable company will credit your account as the investigation is taking place.
That does NOT make my statement false. Your definition of 'The best maps' doesn't affect the patent.
"and that each of the plurality of computing devices is configured to interact with an instance of the multi-player game, the method comprising: identifying, by the host computer, an in-game item that is of potential interest to a first player, but not yet possessed by the first player for gameplay in a multi-player game, wherein the in-game item is determined to be of potential interest to the first player based on at least one of a preference of the first player in a profile associated with the first player in the multi-player game and a utility of the in-game item to a particular level of the multi-player game;"
Now, I suppose a nuke could apply, so everyone would be encouraged to buy said nuke in a microtransaction. However, that would be a horrible game to play where people end up bunched up in stadiums, with nukes flying around.
It's customized matchmaking based on preferences. So, you buy a sniper rifle, and you want to play on maps where sniper rifles are popular, for example.
Obviously not enough that a company was willing to step in and invest in the infrastructure. Ironically enough mostly because they can't get to your house because local contracts are granted two things like cable companies because they're considered essential infrastructure. Funny what happens when you regulate things as utilities. Your granted localized monopolies.
And with that, it also means that we need to regulate how you wipe your bum in the toilet. I mean, we haven't regulated it so far, but nuclear weapons are regulated, so obviously.........
Umm, they weren't turned into law, they where turned into rules. Rules which have been enforced like, once? Much better to spend the governments time and money establishing rules so people in public restrooms are legally obligated to flush. Yes, I'm being a smart ass. Regulation isn't required until something bad is happening.
However, people in Canada are free to set up their own alternatives. US doesn't like Chinas policies, and as such, don't use their services. No different. Being an open environment means, anyone can wake up tomorrow and provide something new and better then the alternatives.
If I had mod points, this would get bumped up. People assume that there is no options, and as such, much be legislated all to hell. Fostering new ways to connect, and removing impediments to competition, is the true answer, so people can speak with their $$.
As someone who's been on 'The Internet' since 1992 via a dialup account at standard tool and die, I can say the conversation on both sides has merits, and it's not trolling. Personally, I happen to disagree, and think net neutrality is a power grab by the FCC to legislate something that the government should have no roll in.
The internet was created, NOT by the us government, but by the whole over time. Yes, the groundwork was founded, however, it was rightfully relinquished years ago. Why should the US government legislate something which has no legal definition.
There is no such thing as a 'physical backbone'. Such is the nature of the internet, and why Netflix can trunk direct to say, Comcast, and yet my internet (not comcast) is unaffected..
Yea, I mean, if years ago, imagine how the net would be destroyed if a company like Time Warner and America Online had merged to become a mega.... Oh, wait...
Slashdot Mirror
Did apt-get run even after you removed the cron job?
You mean after I disabled auto-update in windows? :-P
You are an ignorant piece of shit, and there's no pain you don't deserve to experience. Those quotes are caused by Slashdot not understanding encodings which have existed for about 30 years, and which are heavily used by Apple.
Man.. What a horrible web site. If only they used existing standards. Guess their evil. Not using standards.
1. Microsoft would open source its Java competitor under better terms than Java...
Only to kill the Mono project consequently
By open sourcing the original, just like we wanted in the first place.
2. Would fully adopt (as much as anyone other than Mozilla is) open web standards from the browser to all corporate products...
Guess you didn't try Edge yet..
Or Chrome, or Firefox, or any other web browser that adds new stuff on their own whim.
3. Add a Linux compatibility layer...
Which is widely frowned upon. And while i use it regularly, i also think it's one of the E's in EEE.
Total agreement here.
4. Port Office to a platform like Android...
Only after all MS phone projects ended as a disaster. Mostly because they couldn't even keep it compatible with itself.
+1
5. Be the 5th largest contributor to the Linux kernel...
Mostly for hypervisor stuff and other stuff related to compatibility with (closed) MS software. Meanwhile, NTFS support still suffers.
Ok, so their not as open as we'd like them to be. But, on the other hand, you gave them crap in point 1 for.. *drumroll* Open sourcing .NET core.
6. Enthusiastically sell cloud services based on Linux...
Because the customers must choose Microsoft above all. They can always switch to Windows at a later stage.
*boggle* If that was true, then they would start with Windows, wouldn't they? The logic makes *0* sense.
7. Microsoft would offer more innovative desktops than Apple...
Guess you didn't upgrade to windows 10 yet... Which basically feels like a downgrade. But is forced upon users because of compatibility and ending support for older windows versions. I guess it sort-of works, but nothing new or fancy that pleases the customers, if any, only confuses the hell out of the elderly user base.
Yea, kind of like that KDE update that broke the world. Oh yea.. And Gnome.. Oh, and X11/Wayland/[insert favorite environemtn here].
8. Microsoft would compete for OEM licenses on price and merits, not contractual extortion...
I can't believe you seriously said that. OEM's have no choice but to get strangled by MS.
Which is why the world runs on Microsoft SourceSafe.. Man, it'd be AWESOME if there was an alternative to source safe that people could.. Oh, and Microsoft Phone (your point from earlier). If only a choice could win over microsoft strangulation...
Heeeeeeeeey. Waaait a minute here.
We'd have called you a crackhead. Not a dreamer, but a crackhead because only a crackhead would think up a future like that as being plausible. Yet... that's where we're at in 2018
Basically you're a crackhead (your words) if you believe any of the claims you made. Especially if you think those claims are sincere and not only serve to increase their profit margins.
I rather keep distrusting MS until proven beyond doubt that they can be trusted, than the other way around and be cheated upon again for the zillionth time since 1992.
And those damned germans.. All nazi's. Can't be trusted..
*slow, insincere golf clap*
Not for nothing, but I've had apt-get or rpm upgrade for packages bust my system just as bad as Microsofts 'Forced Updates'. Love it when suddenly my system won't present your GUI because some update busted it.
They can't kill it. The site itself is open source. Literally anyone can clone it at literally any time. They can turn off the thing branded "github" if they wanted. But that's like saying you can kill Linux by acquiring and shutting down Redhat: Linux would keep going. And so would git/web-based git hosting services.
The site isn't 'open source', the source is 'open source', hence the name. People didn't use github for the source, they used it for having a repository they didn't have to pay for. I think that's what bugs me the most about the people who are whining about the acquisition. They're mostly just milking the free bandwidth.
Actually, I'd say that your github was also untrustworthy, aren't they? I mean, you've been on github, and they just sold your hosting out from underneath you, so...
That is COMPLETELY dependent on your card issuer. I've had several instances were my card needed to be reissued, including because of the Home Depot fiasco. A reputable company will credit your account as the investigation is taking place.
And then, run Android inside your Linux on Linux running Linux.
One mans novelty is anothers 'Well duh'. There is a patent on file for the shovel, you know.
That does NOT make my statement false. Your definition of 'The best maps' doesn't affect the patent.
"and that each of the plurality of computing devices is configured to interact with an instance of the multi-player game, the method comprising: identifying, by the host computer, an in-game item that is of potential interest to a first player, but not yet possessed by the first player for gameplay in a multi-player game, wherein the in-game item is determined to be of potential interest to the first player based on at least one of a preference of the first player in a profile associated with the first player in the multi-player game and a utility of the in-game item to a particular level of the multi-player game;"
Now, I suppose a nuke could apply, so everyone would be encouraged to buy said nuke in a microtransaction. However, that would be a horrible game to play where people end up bunched up in stadiums, with nukes flying around.
It's customized matchmaking based on preferences. So, you buy a sniper rifle, and you want to play on maps where sniper rifles are popular, for example.
Obviously not enough that a company was willing to step in and invest in the infrastructure. Ironically enough mostly because they can't get to your house because local contracts are granted two things like cable companies because they're considered essential infrastructure. Funny what happens when you regulate things as utilities. Your granted localized monopolies.
And with that, it also means that we need to regulate how you wipe your bum in the toilet. I mean, we haven't regulated it so far, but nuclear weapons are regulated, so obviously.........
So, call your representatives, and make it a law, now an arbitrary rule.
That would be anti competative behavior, and there are already laws in place to prevent that. Laws, not arbitrary rules made up by a committee.
Umm, they weren't turned into law, they where turned into rules. Rules which have been enforced like, once? Much better to spend the governments time and money establishing rules so people in public restrooms are legally obligated to flush. Yes, I'm being a smart ass. Regulation isn't required until something bad is happening.
However, people in Canada are free to set up their own alternatives. US doesn't like Chinas policies, and as such, don't use their services. No different. Being an open environment means, anyone can wake up tomorrow and provide something new and better then the alternatives.
If I had mod points, this would get bumped up. People assume that there is no options, and as such, much be legislated all to hell. Fostering new ways to connect, and removing impediments to competition, is the true answer, so people can speak with their $$.
As someone who's been on 'The Internet' since 1992 via a dialup account at standard tool and die, I can say the conversation on both sides has merits, and it's not trolling. Personally, I happen to disagree, and think net neutrality is a power grab by the FCC to legislate something that the government should have no roll in.
The internet was created, NOT by the us government, but by the whole over time. Yes, the groundwork was founded, however, it was rightfully relinquished years ago. Why should the US government legislate something which has no legal definition.
I'm not sure why you'd say it wasn't commercialized. It was open and blossomed commercially from like, 1993 on.
But it's all gated by demand. If, for example, an area desperately desires an alternative, and alternative can then present itself.
There is no such thing as a 'physical backbone'. Such is the nature of the internet, and why Netflix can trunk direct to say, Comcast, and yet my internet (not comcast) is unaffected..
Yea, I mean, if years ago, imagine how the net would be destroyed if a company like Time Warner and America Online had merged to become a mega.... Oh, wait...
Except, he's the one that's generally all talk. HERD, for example, is the Trump University of OS kernels.