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I dual boot debian and w2k. W2K is fast, secure, reliable, runs all my hw and sw, and has none of that authentication cr@p. Why people would bother with XP, much less Vista, is beyond me. Do people like bloat, or a fisher-price interface, or the authentication nightmare, or having to learn a new UI, or just giving msft more money?
I dunno, maybe it's just gamers?
How many times has this been re-posted?
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By my count, this is the seventh time that this has been re-posted. Good lord man, you have made your point. Besides, this article isn't even about Linux. But, I guess you can't resist any opportunity to re-make, and re-make, and re-make, the same quake on linux point. Geez, we get it already.
I have a 5 year old 1.6ghz/512mb system which dual boots debian and w2k. Everything is fast, stable, reliable, and everything just works.
To use Vista I'd have to buy a new PC, and for what?
I have seen countless posts saying: "this is kinda nice, and that's kinda nice." And I'm supposed to throw away a good working system, and spend all kinds of crazy money for that? I am supposed risk stuff not working, support msft's evil monopoly, and put up with the authentication scams, and DRM scams for that?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that it isn't credible. But, this is just a bloggers site, and the PDF could have been created by anybody. Could this possibly be a hoax?
There is no way that lawyer jobs are going to be offshore outsourced. And there is no way that there will ever be too many lawyers, because lawyers create the very problems that lawyers solve. If you are smart enough to be a physicist, you are certainly smart enough to be a lawyer.
Lawyers control everything: lawyers are judges, lawyers are politicians, lawyers are lobbyists, and of course, lawyers are lawyers. No way the social/political climate will ever turn against lawyers - not in the USA.
Lawyers are also among the highest paid professionals, second only to physicians - and that could change.
Get smart. Leave that technical baloney to foreigners. If you are not smart enough to be a lawyer, be a professional litigant. Msft is always looking for professional litigants.
I predict, that in the near future, everybody in the USA will earn their living by suing one another.
"Xandros are about to go BK (and this deal guarantees it), desperation creates mistakes. EV1 was headed by a business incompetent. Novell had just had Hovsepian parachute in with a desperate need to impose his authority despite a shaky understanding of the business.
Seeing a pattern yet... only screwed up companies went for the deals. Knowing that its real hard to take SCOX or MSFTs few success's totally seriously."
Come to think of it, scox was heading towards certain bankruptcy before msft got involved. And let's face it folks, Linspire was never much of a distro.
The real Linux heavyweights: Redhat, Debian, Ubuntu, etc. Have flatly stated that they have no interest in msft's patent deals.
Mark Shuttle gives excellent commentary on the scam . . er, I mean deal, in this interview.
The case in question was in a high-school geology class. The teacher was ignoring actual geology and teaching that the USA is a terrorist nation etc. The school, of course, rallied to protect the teacher, and punish the student.
1) If this were college, instead of grade-school, the situation would be very different. College students are older, more worldly, more able to think for themselves, and College is not mandatory.
2) My point is: why not allow teachers to be taped? Don't we taxpayers have the right to know what the teachers are actually teaching? I do not, for one second, buy the cr@p about taping being "distracting." Rather, I feel very certain that teachers, like police, do not want to be held accounting by the people who pay their salaries and put enormous trust in their professionalism.
What is wrong with taping the police, when the police are in public? How could this possibly hurt anybody?
There was a case where a student secretly taped a teacher teaching extremist left-wing propaganda. The school said teachers could not be taped because it might be distracting to the other students. WTF?
Msft's legal threats are just FUD. If msft sued, there would be counter suits, and msft would almost certainly lose. Take a look at msft's history over the last ten years, msft settles lawsuits all the time.
Msft does not want a lawsuit because that would bring out the dirty landry. Maybe msft could pay scox to sue them, but I doubt that would get far.
We are talking about a company that outright lied the USA-DOJ, and the EU, A company which has been caught red-handed in numerous scams, and outright theft. A company with a very well documented history of numerous mis-information campaigns.
Msft is funding the scox-scam, stold stacker technology, hires bloggers to post msft propaganda, hires shill journalists like Enderle, files dozens - if not hundreds - of bogus patents, and creates fake think-tanks. Msft is currently running a enormous fud campain against ODF - and ruined the career of Peter Quinn along the way. Msft has been caught secretly sponsoring fake TCO studies, and fake benchmarking studies.
Msft wants the public to believe that *only* novell and xandros can be used without fear. Where does that leave redhat, which has about 75% of the enterprise market? Or Debian, or Ubuntu, or Mandrake, or Slackware?
The very fact that these deals are made makes Linux look dirtry - which is of course the idea. These companies take msft fud money to help msft imply that linux is a legal mine-field.
If ms-office competes on quality, if it's not just a matter of vendor-lock, then why is msft in such a panic about ODF? BTW: with a free plugin, ms-office works just fine with ODF.
For example: after eight years of insisting that USA markets stayed open, while Japanesse markets were closed, Ronald Regan went to Japan to pick up a $2,000,000.00 "speaker's fee." Get it? As long as it's a "speaker's fee" or a "service fee" it's not a bribe.
The US electronics, automotive, steel, and other industries were decemated during those years. But the incident hardly raised an eye-brow.
> First of all, I don't see OpenOffice as an alternative to Microsoft Office
ODF has nothing to do with OpenOffice. ODF works just fine in ms-office with a free plug-in.
it less and less.
> So, now seeing a nearly relgious style movement to try and force governments to use a different file format seemed a bit confusing to me.
Nothing to be confused about. An open format means that taxpayers don't have to pay for msft vendor-lock. And it insures that documents will always be readable.
> So, so far as I can tell, there's really little difference between ODF and Office formats
ODF is truely open, msft is not. That is the difference.
> So as a conclusion, is there in fact a need for forcing ODF over Office when in reality, cross-integration should be the key.
ODF does not force ms-office out, as I have explained. However, there is a very strong need for a truely open document standard.
Tell me this, can people ever be made to believe something that clearly is not true? How about Pagan religions? How about Voodoo? Ancient Greek gods? Ancient Roman gods? Ancient Norwegian gods? Hindu gods? Those have all been considered actual religions.
Is there a difference between teaching and preaching? Teaching creationism is just: "a giant magic man in the sky created everything by force of will." That's all there is to it. But I get the idea that some creationist are more interested in preaching.
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I dual boot debian and w2k. W2K is fast, secure, reliable, runs all my hw and sw, and has none of that authentication cr@p. Why people would bother with XP, much less Vista, is beyond me. Do people like bloat, or a fisher-price interface, or the authentication nightmare, or having to learn a new UI, or just giving msft more money?
I dunno, maybe it's just gamers?
By my count, this is the seventh time that this has been re-posted. Good lord man, you have made your point. Besides, this article isn't even about Linux. But, I guess you can't resist any opportunity to re-make, and re-make, and re-make, the same quake on linux point. Geez, we get it already.
Does msft pay for message board shills?
I have a 5 year old 1.6ghz/512mb system which dual boots debian and w2k. Everything is fast, stable, reliable, and everything just works.
To use Vista I'd have to buy a new PC, and for what?
I have seen countless posts saying: "this is kinda nice, and that's kinda nice." And I'm supposed to throw away a good working system, and spend all kinds of crazy money for that? I am supposed risk stuff not working, support msft's evil monopoly, and put up with the authentication scams, and DRM scams for that?
No thank you. I'm fine with what I have.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that it isn't credible. But, this is just a bloggers site, and the PDF could have been created by anybody. Could this possibly be a hoax?
Because really, that is what it is. Does it make you feel better to use accurate wording now?
I don't care if other companies do the same thing: corruption is corruption - no matter who does it, not matter what you call it.
"I've said it before and I'll say it again, democracy simply doesn't work".
-- Kent Brockman
There is no way that lawyer jobs are going to be offshore outsourced. And there is no way that there will ever be too many lawyers, because lawyers create the very problems that lawyers solve. If you are smart enough to be a physicist, you are certainly smart enough to be a lawyer.
Lawyers control everything: lawyers are judges, lawyers are politicians, lawyers are lobbyists, and of course, lawyers are lawyers. No way the social/political climate will ever turn against lawyers - not in the USA.
Lawyers are also among the highest paid professionals, second only to physicians - and that could change.
Get smart. Leave that technical baloney to foreigners. If you are not smart enough to be a lawyer, be a professional litigant. Msft is always looking for professional litigants.
I predict, that in the near future, everybody in the USA will earn their living by suing one another.
Quoting a poster on another board:
"Xandros are about to go BK (and this deal guarantees it), desperation
creates mistakes. EV1 was headed by a business incompetent. Novell had just had
Hovsepian parachute in with a desperate need to impose his authority despite a
shaky understanding of the business.
Seeing a pattern yet... only screwed up companies went for the deals. Knowing
that its real hard to take SCOX or MSFTs few success's totally seriously."
Come to think of it, scox was heading towards certain bankruptcy before msft got
involved. And let's face it folks, Linspire was never much of a distro.
The real Linux heavyweights: Redhat, Debian, Ubuntu, etc. Have flatly stated that they have no interest in msft's patent deals.
Mark Shuttle gives excellent commentary on the scam . . er, I mean deal, in this interview.
I believe Ubuntu's founder made it clear that Ubuntu would not sell out to msft in this interview.
The case in question was in a high-school geology class. The teacher was ignoring actual geology and teaching that the USA is a terrorist nation etc. The school, of course, rallied to protect the teacher, and punish the student.
1) If this were college, instead of grade-school, the situation would be very different. College students are older, more worldly, more able to think for themselves, and College is not mandatory.
2) My point is: why not allow teachers to be taped? Don't we taxpayers have the right to know what the teachers are actually teaching? I do not, for one second, buy the cr@p about taping being "distracting." Rather, I feel very certain that teachers, like police, do not want to be held accounting by the people who pay their salaries and put enormous trust in their professionalism.
What is wrong with taping the police, when the police are in public? How could this possibly hurt anybody?
There was a case where a student secretly taped a teacher teaching extremist left-wing propaganda. The school said teachers could not be taped because it might be distracting to the other students. WTF?
Msft's legal threats are just FUD. If msft sued, there would be counter suits, and msft would almost certainly lose. Take a look at msft's history over the last ten years, msft settles lawsuits all the time.
Msft does not want a lawsuit because that would bring out the dirty landry. Maybe msft could pay scox to sue them, but I doubt that would get far.
Or something like that?
When msft won't specify anything?
We are talking about a company that outright lied the USA-DOJ, and the EU, A company which has been caught red-handed in numerous scams, and outright theft. A company with a very well documented history of numerous mis-information campaigns.
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Msft is funding the scox-scam, stold stacker technology, hires bloggers to post msft propaganda, hires shill journalists like Enderle, files dozens - if not hundreds - of bogus patents, and creates fake think-tanks. Msft is currently running a enormous fud campain against ODF - and ruined the career of Peter Quinn along the way. Msft has been caught secretly sponsoring fake TCO studies, and fake benchmarking studies.
Not to mention tax scams and racketeering.
Msft astroturfing:
http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/24514/
Fake TCO:
http://os.newsforge.com/print.pl?sid=05/06/23/202
Microsoft Tax Scam
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm1297.08.h
Bestbuy rackteering
http://consumerist.com/consumer/lawsuits/best-buy
Just the opposite.
Msft wants the public to believe that *only* novell and xandros can be used without fear. Where does that leave redhat, which has about 75% of the enterprise market? Or Debian, or Ubuntu, or Mandrake, or Slackware?
The very fact that these deals are made makes Linux look dirtry - which is of course the idea. These companies take msft fud money to help msft imply that linux is a legal mine-field.
If ms-office competes on quality, if it's not just a matter of vendor-lock, then why is msft in such a panic about ODF? BTW: with a free plugin, ms-office works just fine with ODF.
Also, I think Toyota, not Ford, makes the Yaris.
Is that like "relatively excellent" ?
Judging from your post, it does not seem impractical at all. In fact, long term, it seems like the most practical thing I can imagine.
.docx, which can only be read by a small fraction of the available office suits out there?
What is "practical" about saving everything in
For example: after eight years of insisting that USA markets stayed open, while Japanesse markets were closed, Ronald Regan went to Japan to pick up a $2,000,000.00 "speaker's fee." Get it? As long as it's a "speaker's fee" or a "service fee" it's not a bribe.
The US electronics, automotive, steel, and other industries were decemated during those years. But the incident hardly raised an eye-brow.
This an open *standard* like HTML, TCP/IP, or ASCII. It is not "open source" there is a difference.
> First of all, I don't see OpenOffice as an alternative to Microsoft Office
ODF has nothing to do with OpenOffice. ODF works just fine in ms-office with a free plug-in.
it less and less.
> So, now seeing a nearly relgious style movement to try and force governments to use a different file format seemed a bit confusing to me.
Nothing to be confused about. An open format means that taxpayers don't have to pay for msft vendor-lock. And it insures that documents will always be readable.
> So, so far as I can tell, there's really little difference between ODF and Office formats
ODF is truely open, msft is not. That is the difference.
> So as a conclusion, is there in fact a need for forcing ODF over Office when in reality, cross-integration should be the key.
ODF does not force ms-office out, as I have explained. However, there is a very strong need for a truely open document standard.
All you need is a free plug-in. I'll bet the plug-in works with older version of ms-office as well, which is more than be said of .docx.
Are you saying that a non-gpl product can not legally be used with MySQL? Because I don't think that is correct.
Also, how common is it to embed an entire database system within a product? BTW: you could not do that with most non-gpl products either.
Not a bad question.
Tell me this, can people ever be made to believe something that clearly is not true? How about Pagan religions? How about Voodoo? Ancient Greek gods? Ancient Roman gods? Ancient Norwegian gods? Hindu gods? Those have all been considered actual religions.
Is there a difference between teaching and preaching? Teaching creationism is just: "a giant magic man in the sky created everything by force of will." That's all there is to it. But I get the idea that some creationist are more interested in preaching.