Yep, while all this was going on, Apple was just sitting on their hands. Commodore, too. And the TRS-80. Atari, too. Microsoft was the only one who saw a future in the home computer market.
Gates told the Associated Press: "It's a value for consumers. Why are there headlights in cars? Why don't they make you go and buy those things separately?
Because people don't buy cars the way they buy computers. When you go to an auto dealership, they sell you the car more or less exactly as it came from the factory. If headlights were sold seperately, the auto dealer would have to have a manufacturing plant on the premises.
But when you buy a computer, and call up Dell, they DO buy all the seperate parts and put it all together. Including the software. It would be trivial for them to install, say, Bob's Media Player instead of WMA.
Additionally, there's nothing stopping an auto dealer from pulling out the headlights the cars come with and putting in new ones. Dell is legally and technologically barred from doing that with XP's bundled software.
Okay, now go ahead and post the "if cars were OSes" joke.
Who cares about that? There's more important news: IBM is running commericals for Linux!
Download an mpeg at this address and read a great article about it here. It really is a terrific and funny commercial.
Sure, it sucks that i have to post this as a comment, but Slashdot won't accept the submission. So mod me up -- i'm not being a karma whore; i'm at 50 already. I just want to get the word out.
Stop getting your hair cut for a while. Then, when it is long enough, get it shaved down the middle and apply mousse to fashion the remaining hair into two pointy shapes.
Whether bin Laden was behind the WTC attacks, he has claimed responsibility for other terrorist attacks in the past. The Taliban government breeds and shelters him and others like him.
Honestly, it would be/is a lot simpler to have the internet and all its related services (web, mail, chat, identification etc.) integrated seamlessly into the OS so that any application can easily access those services.
Do it with CORBA so that you can choose your browser, mailer, chat client, etc and it will still be integrated seamlessly into the OS so that any application can easily access those services. There's no reason you need a vertical monopoly in order to provide that capability.
It's high time we stopped teaching Chemistry and Biology! People are spreading information that essentially maps out exactly how the human body works, which allows for all sorts of chemical and biological weapons! And explosives, too!
In other news, Master Lock wants to release a new model made out of twine and butter. They ask the community to avoid discussing the security of the lock, since they anticipate it getting deployed widely, and once the ButterLock is being used to secure mission-critical systems, it will be extremely important to keep its flaws a secret.
You can eliminate 100% of them, but it'll cost 500 times as much as eliminating 99% of them. If your programmers spend all their time going over their code, that's time they're not spending coding. In the end, the profits missed due to bugs is far less than the profits that would be missed due to shipping late or tripling your work force. So it makes good business sense to just catch the big bugs and fix the little ones as they're found.
Plus, if there were no bugs in your installed base, nobody would ever pay to upgrade.:) See also Win95 -> Win98
What next... Saying that its unfair to have microsoft.com be the default home page for a newly installed copy of ie just because some idiot might want to change it but doesn't want to take the time to figure out how...???
Remember when AOL bought Netscape? The (purported) reason was the incredible popularity of home.netscape.com. So, yes, being the default homepage for a huge body of users is a tremendous asset.
So we take these guys to court, find them guilty and put them in jail. Then three other guys rent a crop duster and spread antrhax over the Superbowl. Or one guy derails a train in the tunnel to Penn Station. Or someone straps a bomb to himself and sets it off at rush hour in Grand Central Station.
We can't take these guys out one by one after they kill people. We have to go after the root of the problem.
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Actually, i think you should call it "GNU/copy prevention".
Actually, i've written a script that will let you copy it.
/bin/sh
#!
if [ x$1 = x ]; then
echo usage: $0 \<destination\> >&2
exit 1
fi
dd -if=/dev/zero -of=$1
Yep, while all this was going on, Apple was just sitting on their hands. Commodore, too. And the TRS-80. Atari, too. Microsoft was the only one who saw a future in the home computer market.
> NORTH
Senate Antechamber
Your lightsaber is glowing with a faint blue glow.
> EAST
Inner Quarters
The emperor is here.
Your lightsaber has begun to glow very brightly.
As they say, the first 95% of a software project takes 95% of the time.
And the remaining 5% of the project takes another 95% of the time.
French toast!
Awesome! I always thought Thursday was a stupid name. I think i'll call it Mikesday.
Gates told the Associated Press: "It's a value for consumers. Why are there headlights in cars? Why don't they make you go and buy those things separately?
Because people don't buy cars the way they buy computers. When you go to an auto dealership, they sell you the car more or less exactly as it came from the factory. If headlights were sold seperately, the auto dealer would have to have a manufacturing plant on the premises.
But when you buy a computer, and call up Dell, they DO buy all the seperate parts and put it all together. Including the software. It would be trivial for them to install, say, Bob's Media Player instead of WMA.
Additionally, there's nothing stopping an auto dealer from pulling out the headlights the cars come with and putting in new ones. Dell is legally and technologically barred from doing that with XP's bundled software.
Okay, now go ahead and post the "if cars were OSes" joke.
Who cares about that? There's more important news: IBM is running commericals for Linux!
Download an mpeg at this address and read a great article about it here. It really is a terrific and funny commercial.
Sure, it sucks that i have to post this as a comment, but Slashdot won't accept the submission. So mod me up -- i'm not being a karma whore; i'm at 50 already. I just want to get the word out.
Stop getting your hair cut for a while. Then, when it is long enough, get it shaved down the middle and apply mousse to fashion the remaining hair into two pointy shapes.
Whether bin Laden was behind the WTC attacks, he has claimed responsibility for other terrorist attacks in the past. The Taliban government breeds and shelters him and others like him.
Who would have ever thought that Mitnick got off easy?
Honestly, it would be/is a lot simpler to have the internet and all its related services (web, mail, chat, identification etc.) integrated seamlessly into the OS so that any application can easily access those services.
Do it with CORBA so that you can choose your browser, mailer, chat client, etc and it will still be integrated seamlessly into the OS so that any application can easily access those services. There's no reason you need a vertical monopoly in order to provide that capability.
It's high time we stopped teaching Chemistry and Biology! People are spreading information that essentially maps out exactly how the human body works, which allows for all sorts of chemical and biological weapons! And explosives, too!
In other news, Master Lock wants to release a new model made out of twine and butter. They ask the community to avoid discussing the security of the lock, since they anticipate it getting deployed widely, and once the ButterLock is being used to secure mission-critical systems, it will be extremely important to keep its flaws a secret.
I reported this back in June.
You're optimizing for maximum program quality. Companies optimize for maximum profit.
That's why i like the Open Source / Free Software movement better than the shrinkwrap world.
Bugs in software are like bugs in strawberry jam.
:) See also Win95 -> Win98
You can eliminate 100% of them, but it'll cost 500 times as much as eliminating 99% of them. If your programmers spend all their time going over their code, that's time they're not spending coding. In the end, the profits missed due to bugs is far less than the profits that would be missed due to shipping late or tripling your work force. So it makes good business sense to just catch the big bugs and fix the little ones as they're found.
Plus, if there were no bugs in your installed base, nobody would ever pay to upgrade.
What's the name of the new flight simulator for Linux?
X-Plane.
Explain what?
Just X-Plane.
I want you to tell me what the name of the new flight simulator for Linux is.
X-Plane!
Look, i don't know how i can be any clearer here.
Do you have a source for that? I'd love to be able to quote that.
Have you ever seen a stock exchange?
What next... Saying that its unfair to have microsoft.com be the default home page for a newly installed copy of ie just because some idiot might want to change it but doesn't want to take the time to figure out how...???
Remember when AOL bought Netscape? The (purported) reason was the incredible popularity of home.netscape.com. So, yes, being the default homepage for a huge body of users is a tremendous asset.
So we take these guys to court, find them guilty and put them in jail. Then three other guys rent a crop duster and spread antrhax over the Superbowl. Or one guy derails a train in the tunnel to Penn Station. Or someone straps a bomb to himself and sets it off at rush hour in Grand Central Station.
We can't take these guys out one by one after they kill people. We have to go after the root of the problem.
I'm not using the word "innocent" to distinguish one group of New Yorkers from another.
I'm just emphasizing that the WTC was not, for example, a missile silo. The people who died never did anything to bin Laden.
10) As campus security is escorting you away for assaulting someone, muse upon the differences between justice and retaliation.
Right. Let's complete the metaphor:
Student -> Innocent New Yorkers
Assaulter -> bin Laden
Campus Security -> US Military
So just like campus security must take action to protect an innocent student from a violent lunatic, we must declare war on terrorism.