So, nothing to do with justice and the law, Microsoft will get off scott-free because the appeals judges will have a tantrum because they didn't get invited to the party. US law must be great fun to practice.
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Probably. There's plenty of them (and in other countries too), so you could have missed one.
The games also typically need updating very frequently and thus need to be installed onto a hard drive and cannot be run from a CD.
The speculation is about the new generation of consoles, not about the Playstation or the N64. The PSX2 has a hard drive and the Vapour-Box will have. As for the communication issues, how about VOIP. Real human voices, not antiseptic keyboard stuff and faster communication for those who can't touch-type.
You've found out why RedHat are known as the Microsoft of Linux, although Corel had a good go with their distro. I'd recommend giving up on it and installing Mandrake 7.1, given that the Mandrake staff seem to test their stuff properly before releasing it.
And the NT page reads like an MS press-release: 'NT was designed from the ground up to be secure blah blah robust blah blah scalable blah blah e-commerce blah blah enterprise blah blah buzzword blah'. And lest you think I'm just slagging MS off, all the other server vendors are just as bad.
Java doesn't 'depend' on the JVM, that's just what allows (in theory) pseudo-binaries compiled on one OS to run on another. Java can be compiled to native binaries just like any other language, and it is more secure in the sense that it's much harder to overwrite important memory, get pointers wrong etc.
Funny, but there are still Linux boxes out there running continuously using 2.0.x. And as for security holes, well NT has Linux beaten on that score and I won't even talk about Win9x vulnerabilities. What distro are you using that keeps bombing out on you like that? Sounds suspiciously like Corel 1.0 to me, maybe you should try SuSE or Mandrake, which are both well set up and have tons of stuff with them. You don't need a high-speed internet connection either, unless you mess about with a lot of relatively new software, as most of the stuff appears on coverdisks a month or 2 later or can be ordered from cheapbytes for a few dollars.
But both companies have released press releases full of the usual lawyer-speak about how only one company is allowed to have an idea about a subject and basically we'll see you in court.
Please. When your country goes down the crapper because of all this I hope you don't drag the rest of the world down with you. I see our beloved monopoly British Telecom is in the process of patenting hyperlinks, so the lunacy is spreading. I would also like to ask the clown who patented the windowing for Y2K method to have a word with me, since I first used that method in 1990 and he appears to be in violation of my intellectual (ha!) property. I think my sig says it all.
It's just more trivial crap about how programmers always want to be paid and how do you make money if you release the source, blah di blah, as if people didn't code because they like doing it, you know, a hobby. I expend a large amount of energy and strain my muscles chasing a soccer ball about with a bunch of friends, but nobody says to me 'What's the point if you're not getting paid'. I make plenty of money from commercial coding too, but I also like to mess about with my own stuff because I enjoy it.
Assuming, of course, that the project co-ordinators let them. Funny how people without a clue about open source keep spouting the same crap about how anyone can mess with the source. Anyone can mess with the source, as long as they can hack or lie their way onto the CVS tree and, oh yes, program in the required language. Ethics is always something that seems to suffer with the advent of large sums of money. Give me an example, with a URL, that shows how ethics suffer with the advent of open source.
But I bet a lot of banks would fail rigorous checks, which is why it won't happen until lots of money is stolen and consumers will start demanding protection. After all, the DoS against the big websites a few months back got a huge amount of publicity and threats of terrible vengeance, whereas the theft and subsequent use of thousands of credit card numbers by a German hacker the week before got virtually no press. The powers-that-be are terrified that people will find out the truth about the papier-mache style security of e-commerce and will stop buying into the hype, so they're stalling as long as they can, fearing that a loss of confidence will dent the American economic 'miracle'.
It doesn't have anything yet, all I see are vapour trails. If and when it actually comes out, then I'll judge it on it's merits, but don't hold your breath. Windows 98 took 3 years to come out and added virtually nothing to Win95 except integrated IE, NT5 took 4 years and doesn't have all the stuff originally promised, the integration between the NT and 9x codebases was promised for ME but that hasn't happened yet. Microsoft talk a great product and release an average one a year behind schedule and full of bugs. If the X-box turns out to be anything other than vapour designed to slow sales of the Playstation 2, I'll be one of the interested observers, other than that I'll go back to watching DVDs on my PC.
No, of course not. Children of that age shouldn't be allowed to use the net without supervision. Parental responsibility should not be handed over to a piece of censorware that has proven imperfections. Would you let children of that age wander the streets of any large city unsupervised? Do you drive your kids to school? If you don't think that your young children are safe using a public access terminal, then either sit with them or don't let them use it. Remember that it's a public access terminal, and not every member of the public is a four year-old girl. I pay my taxes too so why do you have more of a right to say what I can or can't look at on a machine paid for by my taxes merely because you have children and I don't.
Education is all of the answer. If this young girl (who is now 21 and can make her own choices) had been able to recognise this creep for what he was she would have stayed away from him. Just saying 'don't' without a good reason is a poor answer. I'm speaking here as the much older brother of a teenage girl, and my parents have always tried to answer her questions about life, no matter how uncomfortable and she is better for it. They learned this from bitter experience with me and my other sisters who were problem teenagers in different ways. When my kid sister asked me about drugs, I told her the truth about why people do them, what they do and why they're generally a bad thing. I learned about drugs a much harder way because I was told lies and half-truths and 'don't'. Treating children like small adults rather than like irresponsible idiots tends to yield better results in my experience.;-)
Don't know, but if they can't be trusted on their own then why don't you do your reading at home instead of expecting a perfect stranger to look after the interests of your children, especially since censorware is pretty poor at filtering anyway. And when you say 'romp around the library' surely that causes a nuisance to other people who want quiet when they're reading.
Please go away. I'm tired of these lazy parents coming on here and expecting other people to take responsibility for their children's behaviour. The only place that has any responsibility for what your children have access to is their school because they are in loco parentis and even they are not responsible for your children's upbringing merely their education. Neither TimeWarner, your local librarian or Bill Clinton have this and as such are not responsible for what you allow your children to see, you are. That is the job you took on when you had children, if you don't like it well then you should have thought of that before you had them.
But the masses aren't always right, witness the continuing popularity of purveyors of inferiority, Microsoft, Disney, McDonalds, Nike etc. etc. Democracy means rule by the people, as in all the people, not just the majority. It's quite sad that the former Nazi country Germany has the truest form of democracy, while the original democracy has degenerated into oligarchy and mass disinterest in the political process.
But what if you're too poor to afford a PC. Does that mean the poor are banned from the internet. The real argument is about whether a supplier of information should be censoring information, especially using the inaccurate censorware products that not only block access to legitimate sites and don't block all the so-called bad stuff.The parents are the ones responsible for their children's surfing habits not the librarian. People these days seem to be so hung up over whether little Jimmy sees a naked breast. Am I the only one who thinks this is unhealthy, as if sex was dirty and wrong instead of the natural method of human procreation?
Well that just shows how stupid the legal system is when a library can be sued for the use of their equipment. Simple answer is to kill all the lawyers.
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So, nothing to do with justice and the law, Microsoft will get off scott-free because the appeals judges will have a tantrum because they didn't get invited to the party. US law must be great fun to practice.
Probably. There's plenty of them (and in other countries too), so you could have missed one.
The games also typically need updating very frequently and thus need to be installed onto a hard drive and cannot be run from a CD.
The speculation is about the new generation of consoles, not about the Playstation or the N64. The PSX2 has a hard drive and the Vapour-Box will have. As for the communication issues, how about VOIP. Real human voices, not antiseptic keyboard stuff and faster communication for those who can't touch-type.
I'll believe that when I see it. Would this also apply to a cartel?
It's actually fun-da-men-tal, but there you go.
You've found out why RedHat are known as the Microsoft of Linux, although Corel had a good go with their distro. I'd recommend giving up on it and installing Mandrake 7.1, given that the Mandrake staff seem to test their stuff properly before releasing it.
And the NT page reads like an MS press-release: 'NT was designed from the ground up to be secure blah blah robust blah blah scalable blah blah e-commerce blah blah enterprise blah blah buzzword blah'. And lest you think I'm just slagging MS off, all the other server vendors are just as bad.
Java doesn't 'depend' on the JVM, that's just what allows (in theory) pseudo-binaries compiled on one OS to run on another. Java can be compiled to native binaries just like any other language, and it is more secure in the sense that it's much harder to overwrite important memory, get pointers wrong etc.
It's called politics.
Funny, but there are still Linux boxes out there running continuously using 2.0.x. And as for security holes, well NT has Linux beaten on that score and I won't even talk about Win9x vulnerabilities. What distro are you using that keeps bombing out on you like that? Sounds suspiciously like Corel 1.0 to me, maybe you should try SuSE or Mandrake, which are both well set up and have tons of stuff with them. You don't need a high-speed internet connection either, unless you mess about with a lot of relatively new software, as most of the stuff appears on coverdisks a month or 2 later or can be ordered from cheapbytes for a few dollars.
But both companies have released press releases full of the usual lawyer-speak about how only one company is allowed to have an idea about a subject and basically we'll see you in court.
I didn't see 'Windows beats Linux' anywhere in the story, or any mention of Napster.
Please. When your country goes down the crapper because of all this I hope you don't drag the rest of the world down with you. I see our beloved monopoly British Telecom is in the process of patenting hyperlinks, so the lunacy is spreading. I would also like to ask the clown who patented the windowing for Y2K method to have a word with me, since I first used that method in 1990 and he appears to be in violation of my intellectual (ha!) property. I think my sig says it all.
Hmmm, but Linux is better than Windows, so presumably you want to know whether these will be better than Flight Sim as well. Troll.
It's just more trivial crap about how programmers always want to be paid and how do you make money if you release the source, blah di blah, as if people didn't code because they like doing it, you know, a hobby. I expend a large amount of energy and strain my muscles chasing a soccer ball about with a bunch of friends, but nobody says to me 'What's the point if you're not getting paid'. I make plenty of money from commercial coding too, but I also like to mess about with my own stuff because I enjoy it.
Assuming, of course, that the project co-ordinators let them. Funny how people without a clue about open source keep spouting the same crap about how anyone can mess with the source. Anyone can mess with the source, as long as they can hack or lie their way onto the CVS tree and, oh yes, program in the required language. Ethics is always something that seems to suffer with the advent of large sums of money. Give me an example, with a URL, that shows how ethics suffer with the advent of open source.
But I bet a lot of banks would fail rigorous checks, which is why it won't happen until lots of money is stolen and consumers will start demanding protection. After all, the DoS against the big websites a few months back got a huge amount of publicity and threats of terrible vengeance, whereas the theft and subsequent use of thousands of credit card numbers by a German hacker the week before got virtually no press. The powers-that-be are terrified that people will find out the truth about the papier-mache style security of e-commerce and will stop buying into the hype, so they're stalling as long as they can, fearing that a loss of confidence will dent the American economic 'miracle'.
It doesn't have anything yet, all I see are vapour trails. If and when it actually comes out, then I'll judge it on it's merits, but don't hold your breath. Windows 98 took 3 years to come out and added virtually nothing to Win95 except integrated IE, NT5 took 4 years and doesn't have all the stuff originally promised, the integration between the NT and 9x codebases was promised for ME but that hasn't happened yet. Microsoft talk a great product and release an average one a year behind schedule and full of bugs. If the X-box turns out to be anything other than vapour designed to slow sales of the Playstation 2, I'll be one of the interested observers, other than that I'll go back to watching DVDs on my PC.
No, of course not. Children of that age shouldn't be allowed to use the net without supervision. Parental responsibility should not be handed over to a piece of censorware that has proven imperfections. Would you let children of that age wander the streets of any large city unsupervised? Do you drive your kids to school? If you don't think that your young children are safe using a public access terminal, then either sit with them or don't let them use it. Remember that it's a public access terminal, and not every member of the public is a four year-old girl. I pay my taxes too so why do you have more of a right to say what I can or can't look at on a machine paid for by my taxes merely because you have children and I don't.
Education is all of the answer. If this young girl (who is now 21 and can make her own choices) had been able to recognise this creep for what he was she would have stayed away from him. Just saying 'don't' without a good reason is a poor answer. I'm speaking here as the much older brother of a teenage girl, and my parents have always tried to answer her questions about life, no matter how uncomfortable and she is better for it. They learned this from bitter experience with me and my other sisters who were problem teenagers in different ways. When my kid sister asked me about drugs, I told her the truth about why people do them, what they do and why they're generally a bad thing. I learned about drugs a much harder way because I was told lies and half-truths and 'don't'. Treating children like small adults rather than like irresponsible idiots tends to yield better results in my experience. ;-)
Don't know, but if they can't be trusted on their own then why don't you do your reading at home instead of expecting a perfect stranger to look after the interests of your children, especially since censorware is pretty poor at filtering anyway. And when you say 'romp around the library' surely that causes a nuisance to other people who want quiet when they're reading.
Please go away. I'm tired of these lazy parents coming on here and expecting other people to take responsibility for their children's behaviour. The only place that has any responsibility for what your children have access to is their school because they are in loco parentis and even they are not responsible for your children's upbringing merely their education. Neither TimeWarner, your local librarian or Bill Clinton have this and as such are not responsible for what you allow your children to see, you are. That is the job you took on when you had children, if you don't like it well then you should have thought of that before you had them.
But the masses aren't always right, witness the continuing popularity of purveyors of inferiority, Microsoft, Disney, McDonalds, Nike etc. etc. Democracy means rule by the people, as in all the people, not just the majority. It's quite sad that the former Nazi country Germany has the truest form of democracy, while the original democracy has degenerated into oligarchy and mass disinterest in the political process.
But what if you're too poor to afford a PC. Does that mean the poor are banned from the internet. The real argument is about whether a supplier of information should be censoring information, especially using the inaccurate censorware products that not only block access to legitimate sites and don't block all the so-called bad stuff.The parents are the ones responsible for their children's surfing habits not the librarian. People these days seem to be so hung up over whether little Jimmy sees a naked breast. Am I the only one who thinks this is unhealthy, as if sex was dirty and wrong instead of the natural method of human procreation?
Well that just shows how stupid the legal system is when a library can be sued for the use of their equipment. Simple answer is to kill all the lawyers.