Here in Quebec, Videotron have a monopoly and I have broadband access for as little as US $20/month.
I'm sure that if they had serious competition, the prices wouldn't be as cheap. Bell used to be a monopoly around here but competitors came and now our phone bill kinda doubled.
I had to install real to view some videos on my Windows machine and it was a nightmare. Plenty of forms to fill just to install the thing. All of a sudden, Real became the default Media Player for my MPEG files. I tried to change the default MPEG player to Windows Media Player but RealOne messes with the settings everytime and reestablishes itself as the default player. Finally, I uninstalled it.
I really don't think that this is good for developers, it'll decrease their value a lot, soon their wages will be pretty cheap. We've got more than enough OS's out there and a pretty huge collection of software to choose from.
If I lived in a country with 1 billion people, I'm not sure I'd care about human rights. I'd probably say : "hey they killed a few guys, hopefully we'll be able to eat more food"
yeah everyone knows that the U.S. is about money. But hey, that strategy worked fine and continues to work. You want someone to blame? Blame the whole planet
They're hypocrites, they don't want the government to get involved in the internet, copyright protection, taxing internet transactions, invading their privacy, etc. But as soon as MS or SPAM or any mega-corporation is concerned, Slashdotters are the first to encourage government intervention. Go figure.
a lot of company fail even though some of them have great products.
Of course they should make them available under an open source license, no question about it.
I would be surprised if MS let's anyone send a memo like that one.
Besides, if I was fat like he is I would have avoided the use of the word fat in my memo.
Look, they already tried and they failed. It may seem like nothing to you, but designing an OS to be compatible with thousands and thousands of different PC hardware is kinda hard.
True, Intel understood the game long before MS and donated money to avoid a lawsuit. Bill Gates refused to contribute and now he's got a lawsuit on his hands. But seems like he's repairing his mistake.
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Not good, not goot at all.
and I just wrote my first .NET class, now that should be newsworthy :)
well, she does give conferences :)
Why did you accept the job opportunity at Sun? Is it in your career plan to work for an evil company?
Here in Quebec, Videotron have a monopoly and I have broadband access for as little as US $20/month.
I'm sure that if they had serious competition, the prices wouldn't be as cheap. Bell used to be a monopoly around here but competitors came and now our phone bill kinda doubled.
I had to install real to view some videos on my Windows machine and it was a nightmare. Plenty of forms to fill just to install the thing. All of a sudden, Real became the default Media Player for my MPEG files. I tried to change the default MPEG player to Windows Media Player but RealOne messes with the settings everytime and reestablishes itself as the default player. Finally, I uninstalled it.
You never used Windows Media Player, did you?
The article says that only a few hundreds were defective. If it was 9,306 they would have said "a few thousands"
over 940,000 Xbox sold. From that, only a hundred were defective, that's not bad.
Remember, AOL - CNN - TW
So what? Still, "Red Flag Linux" is a legal distribution.
I really don't think that this is good for developers, it'll decrease their value a lot, soon their wages will be pretty cheap. We've got more than enough OS's out there and a pretty huge collection of software to choose from.
and to think that I play my Xbox games on a little 21" TV.
I'm jealous.
yeah I guess those joysticks make great weapons :)
Well if you can't watch them, just don't get children. We're 6 billion people on earth, we sure as hell don't need more.
If I lived in a country with 1 billion people, I'm not sure I'd care about human rights. I'd probably say : "hey they killed a few guys, hopefully we'll be able to eat more food"
yeah everyone knows that the U.S. is about money. But hey, that strategy worked fine and continues to work. You want someone to blame? Blame the whole planet
They're hypocrites, they don't want the government to get involved in the internet, copyright protection, taxing internet transactions, invading their privacy, etc. But as soon as MS or SPAM or any mega-corporation is concerned, Slashdotters are the first to encourage government intervention. Go figure.
a lot of company fail even though some of them have great products.
Of course they should make them available under an open source license, no question about it.
a playstation doesn't have porn yet even though some characters look like porn stars.
I would be surprised if MS let's anyone send a memo like that one.
Besides, if I was fat like he is I would have avoided the use of the word fat in my memo.
have anyone else noticed that everytime their's an important step in the lawsuit, a leaked document shows up?
couldn't care less, Apple's OS doesn't meet my needs.
well, Apple failed time and time again.
what development cost? their whole OS is based on someone else's code.
Look, they already tried and they failed. It may seem like nothing to you, but designing an OS to be compatible with thousands and thousands of different PC hardware is kinda hard.
True, Intel understood the game long before MS and donated money to avoid a lawsuit. Bill Gates refused to contribute and now he's got a lawsuit on his hands. But seems like he's repairing his mistake.
btw, not everyone on Slashdot lives in the US.
No, I don' belive they're ignoring it, I believe that most of the populace want to limit civil rights.
Sad, indeed but true.