Marketing should only go so far. What Microsoft did (using their leverage in the OS business to shut out other software competitors) was just wrong. At least in my definition of wrong. Perhaps not yours.
So when you cross that line and go from marketing to intentionally breaking compatibility to shut out competitors, thats what I'm talking about when I say "evil".
Firefox is "good" because it makes many attempts to be compatible with many technologies and just tries to serve the people that use it.
Eh eh. You have to be careful though when getting into this though. If you play dirty and don't have the money or connections (like Microsoft) to pull yourself out of trouble, you can really spoil things for yourself. Its not quite as simple as just starting a FUD throwing campaign or breaking compatibility with Microsoft.
If you haven't learned it yet, people are rather unforgiving if they have already judged something to be not worthy. It wouldn't matter if it is better or not, they will just not use it on principle. Just look at what happened to EV1. They might have a good product, but when they associated themselves with SCO, people here shunned them for life I think.
somehow I always think that this premise might actually be somewhat true for our society:
"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb."
Forgot where that is from (Spaceballs?), but sometimes I feel that evil does win out in the end. Companies that use evil tactics to get ahead may not win out in the long run, but really screw things up in the short timeframe.
Of course you could look at it this way, Firefox could be an example of Good winning in the long run because Microsoft was being evil 5-8 years ago. Wow, its been that long already?
Wow, this must have been one of the most controvertial comments in the history of slashdot. First it got modded down, then up then down then up then down again. At one point it was up to +5 funny, but not for long. It also hit -1. My initial karma score made it 3.
"Remeber your ancient TNT graphics card that had 16MB of memory?
Man you were lucky. I had to deal with a 1MB video card in my job workstation.
Honestly, its not all that impressive to see these high numbers for video card ram. Different needs pushes the limit nowadays. It used to be pushed to deal with higher color palettes at higher resolutions. Now its all about texture mapping.
All I can see from here is the port scanning that continuously comes from their networks. And the lack of response when I try to report it to their ISPs.
Haha, this is some funny shit. This must be some kind of webbot that is doing this. I would hate to think that someone is just searching for "You must be new here."
Hmmmm, this is interesting. You might think that the parent comment is flamebait or a troll, but I think this person has a point. As an open source community, I think we can learn a lot from how firefox has succeeded so well and so quickly, analyze it and apply it to a lot of other projects. Much like how the FSF originally redid all the unix applications before rewriting the kernel, maybe the goal could be to redo all windows applications and then subplant the underlying OS.
has since exploded into a phenomenal demonstration of the power of open source.
I see what you're trying to say, but I don't know whether you can call this newfound popularity due to open source. When I think of firefox, It doesn't even occur to me at first that its open source. I mean, I know that it is, but thats not the first thing I think of. When I think of something like Gnome, I think of it as open source. Mozilla and friends just have a different feeling. Does anyone else think that too?
Ahh I see. Actually, as soon as I reread your post and realized you said Frame Buffer (FB, duh!) I realized that I was not thinking along the same lines.
Isn't this already possible. I'll admit that I haven't gotten it working on my two monitors at work. But its a matrox card with two video outs However, I've seen setups of games like FlightGear Flight Simulator that are using 3 or even 4 monitors and the hardware acceleration is going on all of them. So how are they doing that?
Yeah, that's called computrons. I have them too. People are around computers for long enough generate them. I once saw a guy pull an Amiga out of a Guru Mediation error. It was impressive.
Who knows, maybe this will be some sort of evidence of us existing in a simulated world. Perhaps one where the people running it wish to know how people perceive what everyone thinks up to a major disaster. The simulation might need to increase its recording rate of people's minds leading up the the event. Or whatever. Just a thought.
Well, this rumor article seemed so much like a tabloid story. And the fact that Steve Jobs just said "Not interested", it just reminded me somewhat of how Prince Charles handles all the tabloids, etc.
Besides that, Steve Jobs is someone who is watched a lot in the industry, the same way that Prince Charles is.
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Marketing should only go so far. What Microsoft did (using their leverage in the OS business to shut out other software competitors) was just wrong. At least in my definition of wrong. Perhaps not yours.
So when you cross that line and go from marketing to intentionally breaking compatibility to shut out competitors, thats what I'm talking about when I say "evil".
Firefox is "good" because it makes many attempts to be compatible with many technologies and just tries to serve the people that use it.
Eh eh. You have to be careful though when getting into this though. If you play dirty and don't have the money or connections (like Microsoft) to pull yourself out of trouble, you can really spoil things for yourself. Its not quite as simple as just starting a FUD throwing campaign or breaking compatibility with Microsoft.
If you haven't learned it yet, people are rather unforgiving if they have already judged something to be not worthy. It wouldn't matter if it is better or not, they will just not use it on principle. Just look at what happened to EV1. They might have a good product, but when they associated themselves with SCO, people here shunned them for life I think.
somehow I always think that this premise might actually be somewhat true for our society:
"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb."
Forgot where that is from (Spaceballs?), but sometimes I feel that evil does win out in the end. Companies that use evil tactics to get ahead may not win out in the long run, but really screw things up in the short timeframe.
Of course you could look at it this way, Firefox could be an example of Good winning in the long run because Microsoft was being evil 5-8 years ago. Wow, its been that long already?
Wow, this must have been one of the most controvertial comments in the history of slashdot. First it got modded down, then up then down then up then down again. At one point it was up to +5 funny, but not for long. It also hit -1. My initial karma score made it 3.
"Remeber your ancient TNT graphics card that had 16MB of memory?
Man you were lucky. I had to deal with a 1MB video card in my job workstation.
Honestly, its not all that impressive to see these high numbers for video card ram. Different needs pushes the limit nowadays. It used to be pushed to deal with higher color palettes at higher resolutions. Now its all about texture mapping.
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Awww, somehow I was hoping that they would be cooking directly on top of the processors. What a disappointment.
All I can see from here is the port scanning that continuously comes from their networks. And the lack of response when I try to report it to their ISPs.
Haha, this is some funny shit. This must be some kind of webbot that is doing this. I would hate to think that someone is just searching for "You must be new here."
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If video games really are causing teens to do bad things, then they should be making more useful video games.
Here are some ideas:
- Congress Tournament 2005
- Global Warming 3: Icecap commeth
- Stomp the President!
- Bible Belt Royal Rumble
- CorruptionQuest
Hmmmm, this is interesting. You might think that the parent comment is flamebait or a troll, but I think this person has a point. As an open source community, I think we can learn a lot from how firefox has succeeded so well and so quickly, analyze it and apply it to a lot of other projects. Much like how the FSF originally redid all the unix applications before rewriting the kernel, maybe the goal could be to redo all windows applications and then subplant the underlying OS.
has since exploded into a phenomenal demonstration of the power of open source.
I see what you're trying to say, but I don't know whether you can call this newfound popularity due to open source. When I think of firefox, It doesn't even occur to me at first that its open source. I mean, I know that it is, but thats not the first thing I think of. When I think of something like Gnome, I think of it as open source. Mozilla and friends just have a different feeling. Does anyone else think that too?
Ahh I see. Actually, as soon as I reread your post and realized you said Frame Buffer (FB, duh!) I realized that I was not thinking along the same lines.
Isn't this already possible. I'll admit that I haven't gotten it working on my two monitors at work. But its a matrox card with two video outs However, I've seen setups of games like FlightGear Flight Simulator that are using 3 or even 4 monitors and the hardware acceleration is going on all of them. So how are they doing that?
And the cure for Heart Disease is exercise, which means that we're all doomed.
Shouldn't mono be a story for the day after Valentine's day?
For example, no net café is allowed to open within 200 metres of a middle or elementary school.
That's kinda like in Indiana how there is a law that says you can't sell alcohol within 150 feet of a church.
I worked at a grocery store once that couldn't sell it because of that silly law.
Yeah, that's called computrons. I have them too.
People are around computers for long enough generate them. I once saw a guy pull an Amiga out of a Guru Mediation error. It was impressive.
Dictionary reference for a computron
Who knows, maybe this will be some sort of evidence of us existing in a simulated world. Perhaps one where the people running it wish to know how people perceive what everyone thinks up to a major disaster. The simulation might need to increase its recording rate of people's minds leading up the the event. Or whatever. Just a thought.
Yeah, think of all the 3d artists who started out by making reflective spheres on checkerboard planes.
This is quite silly though.
Well said, I'm sigquoting that one. Anonymous always has some great things to say. ;-)
Well, this rumor article seemed so much like a tabloid story. And the fact that Steve Jobs just said "Not interested", it just reminded me somewhat of how Prince Charles handles all the tabloids, etc.
Besides that, Steve Jobs is someone who is watched a lot in the industry, the same way that Prince Charles is.
Steve Jobs, the Prince Charles of the tabloid computer industry.