That's the downside of being a programmer - you sometimes have to wade through shedloads of godawful code to find out what you want to know because there's little to no documentation. I'm sure a source-summariser tool exists, have a look on freshmeat.
That's why the home rental market is actually making a huge loss for the MPAA, and why, due to the fact that I have been able to rent music from my local library for many years, all the record companies are making huge losses. The business model is changing, adapting is the key, not taking away rights in the name of 'stopping piracy'.
Please. If IBM hadn't handed MS a monopoly in the PC market and MS hadn't spent a lot of time squashing the alternatives they would have disappeared a long time ago. The appalling quality of their software is made up for by their brilliant marketing and their pushing alternatives out of the market.
BTW how do you know that your blue screens were caused by bad drivers? Does Win2K have core dumps and a good syslog? NT4 certainly doesn't.
I hate Microsoft because so many better alternatives have been crushed due to their abuse of their monopoly.
But then we don't really get random killing sprees, as it's quite hard to kill lots of people with a knife as opposed to a semi-auto. Yes, the UK is a shithole, but you should look at your own country before you pass judgement.
I think you mean Hitler, and he died 55 years ago. I'm glad Brits can't own guns, as every two-bit kid will have one, just like they carry shitty little knives at the moment. However I can take a knife off someone because they have to come at me to use it, however someone standing a foot away from me can shoot me. Glad I don't live in a country where the only way people can defend themselves is with lethal weapons.
How I wish the UK government would give me the option to use mass-transit, as there's not much fun in sitting in traffic jams. However the free market doesn't allow for customer convenience, only massive profits.
Would there be any way to send emails to all Juno users, bringing this clause to their attention? This is an extremely scummy piece of legalese and should be shot down before others think they can get away with it.
No he was using a brain-damaged OS. My desktop, which does nothing more than run a TN3270 session, Lotus Notes and IE crashes at least once a week, usually more. The Microsoft answer to this is twofold:
a) It's not our fault, it's those nasty third-party vendors
b) You should spend a fortune redesigning your network and then a further fortune buying new licenses for Windows2000
Of course, as NT has no logs or core dumps worth a damn, there's no way to know what went wrong.
That's if you can install it. I've finally managed to get it installed after numerous freezes. It's also crashed 3 times in the very short time I've had it installed. I've never had any trouble with any distro on this same machine, and the only time I've had Linux crash was when I screwed up my X configuration. I'm sorry, but until Microsoft can provide me with an OS that doesn't crash randomly then I'll only use them when I have to. Have you tried Mandrake Linux 7.2? Blows W2K out of the water for stability and usability.
So, because I disagree with you I'm incoherent. Can GlaxoWellcome sell fluoxetine (Prozac) even though Eli Lilly have the patent on it. No they can't, although they do make a competing anti-depressant based on a totally different formula. All Intel hold a patent on is their particular etching of a common chemical process. They cannot stop people making wafers from silicon dioxide and etching transistors on them, but Eli Lilly can stop any other company from making fluoxetine pills, even if a lot of the information required to make them is in the public domain.
As for hypocrisy, well I do what I can in giving money to charity, but I'm not really in a position to give up my job and care for the sick in Africa. I haven't been a student for many, many years.
Microsoft may be saying that.NET will do everything from e-commerce to delivering you hot buttered toast in the morning, but on past performance it will be late, buggy and missing some of the promised functionality. It will then be hyped to death as the future of computing. Only this time Microsoft doesn't have the luxury of a competition-free environment like it did with NT5.
The statistical trends are clear, places where government does most things are poor and the common people have measurably worse lives than in places where government is limited and corporations do most things in society.
Absolute garbage. People in Western Europe have a much better quality of life (Britain excepted as the 51st state anyway) due to the government providing things that corporations wouldn't provide, such as quality universal health care, good quality and cheap public transport and housing for all. No-one has to live in a trailer in Europe for example.
That's not quite right. The analogy to the pharmaceutical industry would be that Intel owned the rights to etching tiny transistors on silicon and anyone wanting to create a competing product would need to discover a completely new way of creating semiconductors. Anyone can make a silicon chip, but no two medicines can be the same, even if they treat the same illness.
There is another side to this of course. No product Intel produces could save lives with minimum cost to the producer. The HIV drugs could save many people who would otherwise die pretty horribly. There's no risk to the company and they save thousands and gain great PR.
Sure it is. That's why we pay the estate of Alan Turing a percentage when we use a computer, or Alexander Graham Bell's descendants own the IP on the telephone. Innovation comes from the most unlikely places, like a mouldy petri dish leading to penicillin. Drugs companies benefit from a huge amount of public domain research, they don't hold a monopoly on good ideas, only products. To say that research would grind to a halt obviously doesn't understand the human drive to know things.
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Exactly, but .NOT is being pitched primarily at businesses. I doubt they'll try and force the home market onto it, as people won't buy it.
That's the downside of being a programmer - you sometimes have to wade through shedloads of godawful code to find out what you want to know because there's little to no documentation. I'm sure a source-summariser tool exists, have a look on freshmeat.
What you've got to remember is that when the last IT monopoly (IBM) was seen off we got Microsoft. Be careful what you wish for......
However it's still a bit suss that the story about SuSE laying off some employees came from Microsoft, hardly the most honest source of information.
And I suppose that IBM, Compaq & Oracle don't know anything about making money.
That's why the home rental market is actually making a huge loss for the MPAA, and why, due to the fact that I have been able to rent music from my local library for many years, all the record companies are making huge losses. The business model is changing, adapting is the key, not taking away rights in the name of 'stopping piracy'.
That must be pretty lonely though.
You need to have the backingstore option switched on in X. It tells you how in the FAQ.
Please. If IBM hadn't handed MS a monopoly in the PC market and MS hadn't spent a lot of time squashing the alternatives they would have disappeared a long time ago. The appalling quality of their software is made up for by their brilliant marketing and their pushing alternatives out of the market.
BTW how do you know that your blue screens were caused by bad drivers? Does Win2K have core dumps and a good syslog? NT4 certainly doesn't.
I hate Microsoft because so many better alternatives have been crushed due to their abuse of their monopoly.
Like the village idiot you yanks have just elected. "It's obviously a budget, it's got a lot of numbers in it".
But then we don't really get random killing sprees, as it's quite hard to kill lots of people with a knife as opposed to a semi-auto. Yes, the UK is a shithole, but you should look at your own country before you pass judgement.
I think you mean Hitler, and he died 55 years ago. I'm glad Brits can't own guns, as every two-bit kid will have one, just like they carry shitty little knives at the moment. However I can take a knife off someone because they have to come at me to use it, however someone standing a foot away from me can shoot me. Glad I don't live in a country where the only way people can defend themselves is with lethal weapons.
That would be assuming that all Brits are lovable cockney chimney sweeps. Just like Americans all talk like Texans y'all. Dumb Americans.
How I wish the UK government would give me the option to use mass-transit, as there's not much fun in sitting in traffic jams. However the free market doesn't allow for customer convenience, only massive profits.
Surely Mel Gibson?
Shoo troll.
What happens if you don't have enough money to go to college, even if you're very intelligent?
Would there be any way to send emails to all Juno users, bringing this clause to their attention? This is an extremely scummy piece of legalese and should be shot down before others think they can get away with it.
No he was using a brain-damaged OS. My desktop, which does nothing more than run a TN3270 session, Lotus Notes and IE crashes at least once a week, usually more. The Microsoft answer to this is twofold:
a) It's not our fault, it's those nasty third-party vendors
b) You should spend a fortune redesigning your network and then a further fortune buying new licenses for Windows2000
Of course, as NT has no logs or core dumps worth a damn, there's no way to know what went wrong.
That's if you can install it. I've finally managed to get it installed after numerous freezes. It's also crashed 3 times in the very short time I've had it installed. I've never had any trouble with any distro on this same machine, and the only time I've had Linux crash was when I screwed up my X configuration. I'm sorry, but until Microsoft can provide me with an OS that doesn't crash randomly then I'll only use them when I have to. Have you tried Mandrake Linux 7.2? Blows W2K out of the water for stability and usability.
So, because I disagree with you I'm incoherent. Can GlaxoWellcome sell fluoxetine (Prozac) even though Eli Lilly have the patent on it. No they can't, although they do make a competing anti-depressant based on a totally different formula. All Intel hold a patent on is their particular etching of a common chemical process. They cannot stop people making wafers from silicon dioxide and etching transistors on them, but Eli Lilly can stop any other company from making fluoxetine pills, even if a lot of the information required to make them is in the public domain.
As for hypocrisy, well I do what I can in giving money to charity, but I'm not really in a position to give up my job and care for the sick in Africa. I haven't been a student for many, many years.
Microsoft may be saying that .NET will do everything from e-commerce to delivering you hot buttered toast in the morning, but on past performance it will be late, buggy and missing some of the promised functionality. It will then be hyped to death as the future of computing. Only this time Microsoft doesn't have the luxury of a competition-free environment like it did with NT5.
The statistical trends are clear, places where government does most things are poor and the common people have measurably worse lives than in places where government is limited and corporations do most things in society.
Absolute garbage. People in Western Europe have a much better quality of life (Britain excepted as the 51st state anyway) due to the government providing things that corporations wouldn't provide, such as quality universal health care, good quality and cheap public transport and housing for all. No-one has to live in a trailer in Europe for example.
That's not quite right. The analogy to the pharmaceutical industry would be that Intel owned the rights to etching tiny transistors on silicon and anyone wanting to create a competing product would need to discover a completely new way of creating semiconductors. Anyone can make a silicon chip, but no two medicines can be the same, even if they treat the same illness.
There is another side to this of course. No product Intel produces could save lives with minimum cost to the producer. The HIV drugs could save many people who would otherwise die pretty horribly. There's no risk to the company and they save thousands and gain great PR.
Sure it is. That's why we pay the estate of Alan Turing a percentage when we use a computer, or Alexander Graham Bell's descendants own the IP on the telephone. Innovation comes from the most unlikely places, like a mouldy petri dish leading to penicillin. Drugs companies benefit from a huge amount of public domain research, they don't hold a monopoly on good ideas, only products. To say that research would grind to a halt obviously doesn't understand the human drive to know things.