Microsoft of course being totally innocent of any crime. I know Scott McNealy did this totally to boost his own company, but that doesn't mean that Microsoft didn't break the law. Or should police not use informants in case they might have their own reasons for turning criminals in?
I can't even get the damn thing to install. It comes up with 'Loading device drivers' and then tries to load loads of drivers for hardware I don't have and then just stops, but never on the same device. There's no way to skip anything, you have to do the three finger salute. So I doubt I'll ever get the chance to see a W2K BSOD on my machine. On my dad's machine however, it installed fine first go. Weird.
But I still say that if Gore does lose, then it is his own fault for not addressing the issues that caused people like yourself to vote Nader. No blame should be attached to the Green Party for his incompetence.
Cost him the election how? By participating in a democratic election? Are you saying there should only be 2 parties? Why not just one then, and then everyone will know who to vote for.
Nader, Browne and whoever else have just as much right to participate in the US election as Tweedledum and Tweedledumber, and if Gore hasn't convinced enough of the electorate to vote for him, then it is him and his campaign staff that cost him the election, through not appealing to the people that would otherwise have voted for him and not Nader.
Your father is an excellent capitalist, he competes aggressively, as do his competitors. Microsoft don't. They use their monopoly to control the market to their satisfaction, and only the anti-trust trial has blunted their arrogance slightly. Now that GWB has won and the anti-trust case will be dropped, watch out for more misbehaviour.
I presume your grandmother is forever partitioning her Windows drive with that masterpiece of user-friendliness, fdisk? Setting up user accounts? You only need two and you create them on install. Setting up networking? No harder on my Mandrake 7.1 than on Win9x. If your grandmother had to install Windows she would probably give up after the third meaningless crash.
As for your father, is he now overcharging his customers? Is he giving bicycles away free to push his competitors out of the market? There's a difference between strong competition and monopoly abuse. How did Netscape fall so fast? Because Microsoft used it's monopoly position to isolate Netscape from it's revenue streams, by bullying PC manufacturers and ISPs, and tying it's browser to the OS, removing a large part of Netscape's revenue stream.
I think you need to read Judge Jackson's Findings of Fact. Before then, I just didn't think much of their software. After I read what they'd done to keep better software away from their monopoly, I despised them.
The IRS is accountable to someone other than shareholders. But then I remember the dark days of the IBM monopoly. Tactics like this pushed them from being the biggest game in town to just another player. Stay tuned for Bill Gates' comeuppance.
What rights do software companies have to tell me how to use their product? Can Aiwa tell me what CDs I can play in my stereo, or Fiat tell me what petrol I can put in my car? It's a product I bought and this EULA is a piece of shit which has damaged an originally much more innovative industry, because now they can disclaim all liability for their incompetence and no-one has the guts to sue their asses off.
Now, corporations do have their abuses, but they also have a vested interest in having healthy, affluent consumers purchasing their products.
What like RJR, McDonalds or Pizza Hut. Please. Corporations have one aim and one aim only - to make money. If they were interested in the average Joe's affluence, why have so many manufacturing jobs been exported to third-world countries to be replaced by minimum wage service jobs. Corporations are very short-term and abusive and wouldn't care if the world descended into anarchy, so long as they were the ones supplying the guns.
As we introduce American goods and services around the world, we will also introduce American values.
Whether we want them or not. There are lots of different value systems, why should they be subsumed by the American corporate collective merely to allow McDonalds to sell more burgers or Nike to sell more trainers.
From what I can see, Nader is about taking choice away from the rich autocracy and returning it to ordinary people. If it's communistic to wish the lessening of power of the oil companies, the MPAA, Microsoft, Nike etc, then where do I sign?
First off, I'd just like to say that LM7.0 is by far the best piece of software I've ever owned, and as a result of my satisfaction I bought 7.1. I did a clean install and just set it off installing in automatic mode. It created one large root directory, not several partitions and didn't install any of the development stuff, even though I'd selected development as the type of system. Then I lost my temper and re-installed in expert mode. Although I couldn't just go down the pub and forget about it, the OS I have now is virtually perfect, the only black mark being that a lot of GTK-based apps will cause a hard X crash which requires switching the machine off, but this isn't Mandrake's fault, as I upgraded to the latest Helix Gnome and the problem is still there.
All I can say is that LM7.1 is excellent for me, but I think my dad might have been on the phone to me several times a day with his problems.
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The MPAA forward-looking? What's next, Microsoft sticking to standards?
Go here then, don't bother with the bloat.
This election is Election double zero, which sums it up nicely. (OK so I'm bored at work)
Microsoft of course being totally innocent of any crime. I know Scott McNealy did this totally to boost his own company, but that doesn't mean that Microsoft didn't break the law. Or should police not use informants in case they might have their own reasons for turning criminals in?
I left it overnight once to see if it was just a loop, and nothing changed. This is just a Compaq with pretty standard hardware, nothing special.
We might be quaint, but at least we can read a ballot paper ;)
I can't even get the damn thing to install. It comes up with 'Loading device drivers' and then tries to load loads of drivers for hardware I don't have and then just stops, but never on the same device. There's no way to skip anything, you have to do the three finger salute. So I doubt I'll ever get the chance to see a W2K BSOD on my machine. On my dad's machine however, it installed fine first go. Weird.
Is it abuse-windows-users day today?
On Slashdot, every day is abuse Windows users day
But I still say that if Gore does lose, then it is his own fault for not addressing the issues that caused people like yourself to vote Nader. No blame should be attached to the Green Party for his incompetence.
Cost him the election how? By participating in a democratic election? Are you saying there should only be 2 parties? Why not just one then, and then everyone will know who to vote for.
Nader, Browne and whoever else have just as much right to participate in the US election as Tweedledum and Tweedledumber, and if Gore hasn't convinced enough of the electorate to vote for him, then it is him and his campaign staff that cost him the election, through not appealing to the people that would otherwise have voted for him and not Nader.
Your father is an excellent capitalist, he competes aggressively, as do his competitors. Microsoft don't. They use their monopoly to control the market to their satisfaction, and only the anti-trust trial has blunted their arrogance slightly. Now that GWB has won and the anti-trust case will be dropped, watch out for more misbehaviour.
I presume your grandmother is forever partitioning her Windows drive with that masterpiece of user-friendliness, fdisk? Setting up user accounts? You only need two and you create them on install. Setting up networking? No harder on my Mandrake 7.1 than on Win9x. If your grandmother had to install Windows she would probably give up after the third meaningless crash.
As for your father, is he now overcharging his customers? Is he giving bicycles away free to push his competitors out of the market? There's a difference between strong competition and monopoly abuse. How did Netscape fall so fast? Because Microsoft used it's monopoly position to isolate Netscape from it's revenue streams, by bullying PC manufacturers and ISPs, and tying it's browser to the OS, removing a large part of Netscape's revenue stream.
I think you need to read Judge Jackson's Findings of Fact. Before then, I just didn't think much of their software. After I read what they'd done to keep better software away from their monopoly, I despised them.
Lotus Notes - nice? You poor deluded fool :)
Windows 2000 Datacenter Server (Huge mainframe replacement dedicated servers)
Mainframe replacement hahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Open up a console window, type telnet mysite.com.
What's so hard about that?
The IRS is accountable to someone other than shareholders. But then I remember the dark days of the IBM monopoly. Tactics like this pushed them from being the biggest game in town to just another player. Stay tuned for Bill Gates' comeuppance.
What rights do software companies have to tell me how to use their product? Can Aiwa tell me what CDs I can play in my stereo, or Fiat tell me what petrol I can put in my car? It's a product I bought and this EULA is a piece of shit which has damaged an originally much more innovative industry, because now they can disclaim all liability for their incompetence and no-one has the guts to sue their asses off.
It's to point out how trivial this kid's 'offence' was in relation to the other things that would get a kid suspended.
Now, corporations do have their abuses, but they also have a vested interest in having healthy, affluent consumers purchasing their products.
What like RJR, McDonalds or Pizza Hut. Please. Corporations have one aim and one aim only - to make money. If they were interested in the average Joe's affluence, why have so many manufacturing jobs been exported to third-world countries to be replaced by minimum wage service jobs. Corporations are very short-term and abusive and wouldn't care if the world descended into anarchy, so long as they were the ones supplying the guns.
As we introduce American goods and services around the world, we will also introduce American values.
Whether we want them or not. There are lots of different value systems, why should they be subsumed by the American corporate collective merely to allow McDonalds to sell more burgers or Nike to sell more trainers.
From what I can see, Nader is about taking choice away from the rich autocracy and returning it to ordinary people. If it's communistic to wish the lessening of power of the oil companies, the MPAA, Microsoft, Nike etc, then where do I sign?
First off, I'd just like to say that LM7.0 is by far the best piece of software I've ever owned, and as a result of my satisfaction I bought 7.1. I did a clean install and just set it off installing in automatic mode. It created one large root directory, not several partitions and didn't install any of the development stuff, even though I'd selected development as the type of system. Then I lost my temper and re-installed in expert mode. Although I couldn't just go down the pub and forget about it, the OS I have now is virtually perfect, the only black mark being that a lot of GTK-based apps will cause a hard X crash which requires switching the machine off, but this isn't Mandrake's fault, as I upgraded to the latest Helix Gnome and the problem is still there.
All I can say is that LM7.1 is excellent for me, but I think my dad might have been on the phone to me several times a day with his problems.
KOffice was released last week as part of KDE2.
This is still more of a good idea than a usable system, advanced users only need apply.
Thank you for updating my clue rating. Since the JFS is due very soon, I made the mistake of thinking that AFS was it.