MS will not restrict in the license agreement installing any other icons or programs on the desktop, distrbuting or promoting non-MS browsers/e-mail readers/media players &c. They also cannot restrict the automatic launching of any 'middleware' (browsers, e-mail readers, media players.)
Curious... I am running the Mozilla based browser Phoenix. I really like it except every time I have to start IE for something it prompts me if I would like to change my default browser to IE. I uncheck the box that says "ask everytime" (or something like that) and it doesn't stop it from asking everytime. As long as stupid stuff like that happens other software vendors are going to be squeezed out. Out of principle I click no everytime and keep Phoenix as default but I shouldn't have to do that.
Out of all the tax dollars spent on this case and will continue to be spent on this case I didn't naivelly ever expect the gov to really nail them like they should. Judge Jacksons ruling got it, I knew that the odds of another judge getting it was about 1 in 10. M$ knew this as well so simply had to appeal and water the sentence down more and more. Not even a nuisance for them since all they had to do was pay lawyers to do that. Anyway back to my point, of all the tax dollars spent on this case I was hoping at least, at minimul they would get M$ to stop doing the silly sh*t like that Phoenix scenario. Something that would actually mean little but symbolically show M$ they didn't have completely free reign. Fact is worse case scenario happened. Which of course is basically nothing, so now they KNOW they pretty much get away with anything they want.
The decision eliminates the establishment of a technical committee to assess Microsoft's compliance with the agreement. In its place, a corporate compliance committee -- consisting of Microsoft board members -- will make sure Microsoft lives up to the deal, the judge said. (taken from Yahoo news)
I would really like to hear an example from anyone as to exactly what in installing Debian was hard for them. I think it is easier than any other system, honestly.
Sure someone new will not know what the drive partitioning means and could impact. For that they should have a 'default: I have NO idea what this is' option on that. But all my hardware was detected except the network card and from experience I do know how to do that. Maybe they should put an app in there to try and auto detect them better. So other than selecting the network card to use by hand the rest is hitting enter ??
One of the things that helped Bush is the wave of anti-intellectualism in the US. The schools going to hell with Reagan generated much of this, so has many other things however.
It is hard to see where this will lead. Many people don't want to see a rational intellectual discussion about the 'best' way to make things better anymore. Here in the US it is "liberal" or "conservative" not what is intellectually the best decision to make. The biggest example of the dire straits this has put us in is the supreme court decision in the presidential election that went down party lines. The last ground 'thinkers' had was in the courts and the R's are trying to really smash that down right now and that is why the D's are holding back so many judges.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out the US press has been controlled much more since 911. With a possible war coming up the propaganda machines are at full warp. I would say the control is put on about 80% of what we see on a place like CNN.
Easy enough to go to web sites of other countries to get differing view though.
"If all your neighbors hate you and you keep pushing them around, eventually they will all get together to push you around... and we have a lot of neighbors"
First - Larry thanks for doing an interview for Slashdot.
Second - Thanks for Perl. I get to program with it everyday at my job and it has made a great carrear for me and an enjoyable past time outside of work.
Third - If you really believe
B) God is good to people who really look for him
and you have not read the Quran then you have not really looked hard enough for Him.
If you have read it and are still lead astray by Christianity, then I respect you and will not judge you for it. For judging is for God not man.
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Expect carefully scheduled wars, PR events and more of the kinds of tricks (stripping black democrats off the voter's rolls) that were pulled in Florida
With Bush's approval ratings dipping as much as this. I would expect war, or some other stunt very soon.
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Let me say this clearly: Bush sucks. He's a dangerous, arrogant man who's brother stole the election for him, and who's flushing our democracy down the toilet as fast as we will let him.
In my opinion, Slashdot readers on average are of higher intelligence than lets say a sampling of CNN readers. I am surprised more Slashdot readers don't see just how dangerous Bush is.
For example take the policies of the current administration and expand them out say 25 years. If we continue on this type of path eventually every nation on Earth will hate us and want to destroy us by then. Is that a good thing? Of course not because every expansionist regime throughout history eventually has a large number of nations gang up together to destroy it.
Good thing is we will be having elections before to long and we can get someone in there with better policies.
Isn't it more likely that you will die from a stroke earlier if you drink coffee hence not live as long as a non coffee drinker and hence not have as high a chance of getting Alzheimers?
Where I work Perl helps us with System Integration, fast scripting, production reports, database connectivity where speed of writing the application and flexibility in changing that application quickly are important, web sites for change control systems, bug reporting systems, etc. and much much more.
If speed of creating the application and flexibility of changing that application need to be blazingling fast Perl is the choice. If Perl is not going to provide the application speed you need then use C or C++. That is why Perl is written in C:-).
If the Perl code you are reading isn't readible it probably had to be written too fast for the programmer to accout for that or else the programmer simply didn't care. Perl is the most flexible language ever and it can be the most readible if some care is taken. Especially in a smaller size applications.
Why does someone always ask this when talking about MySQL?
Any programmer worth 2 cents can simply code all the functionality they need a lot easier and with more flexibility than in a stored procedure.
Coding it you can be more carefull with database locking, rollback conditions, system load, anything!, etc.
Re:The series finale was pretty good.
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The ending seem to fit the feel of the show. The protagionists now know the truth, but a little bit more of the picture remains out there. I can definately see a movie revolving around the alien invasion comming from this finale.
Probably a few movies. You could have three with the final movie being the alien invasion. No doubt they could have good movies on what happens in the next 10 years before that happens. They could spin the current state of the world with how it is affecting the conspiracy as well. I think that would be interesting.
Debian runs on all the architectures you list so being a company that already has claimed Debian is there fav Linux Dist I would see them leveraging that. They wouldn't drop the others but expect to see them begin to offer it on those.
Been running various flavors of Debian (stable, testing, unstable), most of the 2.4 kernel series, using KDE, and never have had any problems on my IBM laptop with it.
Just wanted to give props to IBM where it was due.
Microsoft can keep doing everything they are doing now and I won't even care but there are a few things that I think (albeit impossible) would make the IT world a better place.
- Must publish on the Internet in a timely manner after release the format of Excel, Word, etc. document's for third party vendors to also open and save to that format.
- Must publish on the Internet in a timely manner after release the api to their filesystem.
You get Microsoft to do those two things and the playing field is level for everyone.
"One hot tip: if you spot a bug which is being ignored, send a completely botched fix to the mailing list. This causes thousands of kernel developers to rally to the cause. Nobody knows why this happens. (I really have deliberately done this several times. It works)."
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Of all the countries that has a hard on over Internet censorship and spying, why Australia?
I don't see a lot of crime their, where is the justification?
MS will not restrict in the license agreement installing any other icons or programs on the desktop, distrbuting or promoting non-MS browsers/e-mail readers/media players &c. They also cannot restrict the automatic launching of any 'middleware' (browsers, e-mail readers, media players.)
Curious... I am running the Mozilla based browser Phoenix. I really like it except every time I have to start IE for something it prompts me if I would like to change my default browser to IE. I uncheck the box that says "ask everytime" (or something like that) and it doesn't stop it from asking everytime. As long as stupid stuff like that happens other software vendors are going to be squeezed out. Out of principle I click no everytime and keep Phoenix as default but I shouldn't have to do that.
Out of all the tax dollars spent on this case and will continue to be spent on this case I didn't naivelly ever expect the gov to really nail them like they should. Judge Jacksons ruling got it, I knew that the odds of another judge getting it was about 1 in 10. M$ knew this as well so simply had to appeal and water the sentence down more and more. Not even a nuisance for them since all they had to do was pay lawyers to do that. Anyway back to my point, of all the tax dollars spent on this case I was hoping at least, at minimul they would get M$ to stop doing the silly sh*t like that Phoenix scenario. Something that would actually mean little but symbolically show M$ they didn't have completely free reign. Fact is worse case scenario happened. Which of course is basically nothing, so now they KNOW they pretty much get away with anything they want.
The decision eliminates the establishment of a technical committee to assess Microsoft's compliance with the agreement. In its place, a corporate compliance committee -- consisting of Microsoft board members -- will make sure Microsoft lives up to the deal, the judge said. (taken from Yahoo news)
I would really like to hear an example from anyone as to exactly what in installing Debian was hard for them. I think it is easier than any other system, honestly.
Sure someone new will not know what the drive partitioning means and could impact. For that they should have a 'default: I have NO idea what this is' option on that. But all my hardware was detected except the network card and from experience I do know how to do that. Maybe they should put an app in there to try and auto detect them better. So other than selecting the network card to use by hand the rest is hitting enter ??
Am I the only one who finds it rediculous all of this isn't in KDE already.
Why do we need to use MS True Type fonts isn't there a way for the community to make their own?
I know nothing about fonts just curious.
One of the things that helped Bush is the wave of anti-intellectualism in the US. The schools going to hell with Reagan generated much of this, so has many other things however.
It is hard to see where this will lead. Many people don't want to see a rational intellectual discussion about the 'best' way to make things better anymore. Here in the US it is "liberal" or "conservative" not what is intellectually the best decision to make. The biggest example of the dire straits this has put us in is the supreme court decision in the presidential election that went down party lines. The last ground 'thinkers' had was in the courts and the R's are trying to really smash that down right now and that is why the D's are holding back so many judges.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out the US press has been controlled much more since 911. With a possible war coming up the propaganda machines are at full warp. I would say the control is put on about 80% of what we see on a place like CNN.
Easy enough to go to web sites of other countries to get differing view though.
Quite simply -
"If all your neighbors hate you and you keep pushing them around, eventually they will all get together to push you around... and we have a lot of neighbors"
Over 30,000 people die every day from starvation around the world.
Try to keep things in perspective.
First - Larry thanks for doing an interview for Slashdot.
Second - Thanks for Perl. I get to program with it everyday at my job and it has made a great carrear for me and an enjoyable past time outside of work.
Third - If you really believe
B) God is good to people who really look for him
and you have not read the Quran then you have not really looked hard enough for Him.
If you have read it and are still lead astray by Christianity, then I respect you and will not judge you for it. For judging is for God not man.
Expect carefully scheduled wars, PR events and more of the kinds of tricks (stripping black democrats off the voter's rolls) that were pulled in Florida
With Bush's approval ratings dipping as much as this. I would expect war, or some other stunt very soon.
Let me say this clearly: Bush sucks. He's a dangerous, arrogant man who's brother stole the election for him, and who's flushing our democracy down the toilet as fast as we will let him.
In my opinion, Slashdot readers on average are of higher intelligence than lets say a sampling of CNN readers. I am surprised more Slashdot readers don't see just how dangerous Bush is.
For example take the policies of the current administration and expand them out say 25 years. If we continue on this type of path eventually every nation on Earth will hate us and want to destroy us by then. Is that a good thing? Of course not because every expansionist regime throughout history eventually has a large number of nations gang up together to destroy it.
Good thing is we will be having elections before to long and we can get someone in there with better policies.
I have been looking at South Africa myself.
Lots of coastline, interesting wilderness, and coelacanth's.
They can all use their creative ability to do something that actually improves society.
Should be good.
these I feel lay the best foundation. Time and time again I come back to them -
C Programming Language (2nd Edition)
by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
Mastering Algorithms With C
by Kyle Loudon
Programming Perl (3rd Edition)
by Larry Wall, et al
Beginning Linux Programming (Linux Programming Series)
by Neil Matthew, Richard Stones
C++ Primer (3rd Edition)
by Stanley B. Lippman, Josee Lajoie
The C++ Programming Language (Special 3rd Edition)
by Bjarne Stroustrup
and any good C++ algorithms book.
People
Richard Stallman -
Eric S. Raymond -
Larry Wall
Linux Programming
Linux Programming Resources -Kernel Traffic
Unix
Unix Review -Sys Admin -
Art of Unix Programming
Programming Methodologies
Extreme ProgrammingC Programming
Programming in C -Standard C -
C Library Reference -
GNU C Library
C++ Programming
David Beech's Introduction to C++ -C++ for C Programmers
Perl Programming
Perl Doc -Perl Monks -
Perl.com -
VMS Perl -
Use Perl
Network Programming
Beej's Guide to Network ProgrammingOpen Source
Open Projects -Sourceforge -
Slashcode -
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Isn't it more likely that you will die from a stroke earlier if you drink coffee hence not live as long as a non coffee drinker and hence not have as high a chance of getting Alzheimers?
I have been a Perl guru since version 2.0
Really!
Where have you contributed? What modules have you authored on CPAN?
Didn't think so.
Or is a Perl guru someone who waits with baited breath on slashdot for a Perl story to bash.
Seems to be a lot of Perl bashers. Surprising.
:-).
Where I work Perl helps us with System Integration, fast scripting, production reports, database connectivity where speed of writing the application and flexibility in changing that application quickly are important, web sites for change control systems, bug reporting systems, etc. and much much more.
If speed of creating the application and flexibility of changing that application need to be blazingling fast Perl is the choice. If Perl is not going to provide the application speed you need then use C or C++. That is why Perl is written in C
If the Perl code you are reading isn't readible it probably had to be written too fast for the programmer to accout for that or else the programmer simply didn't care. Perl is the most flexible language ever and it can be the most readible if some care is taken. Especially in a smaller size applications.
Why does someone always ask this when talking about MySQL?
Any programmer worth 2 cents can simply code all the functionality they need a lot easier and with more flexibility than in a stored procedure.
Coding it you can be more carefull with database locking, rollback conditions, system load, anything!, etc.
The ending seem to fit the feel of the show. The protagionists now know the truth, but a little bit more of the picture remains out there. I can definately see a movie revolving around the alien invasion comming from this finale.
Probably a few movies. You could have three with the final movie being the alien invasion. No doubt they could have good movies on what happens in the next 10 years before that happens. They could spin the current state of the world with how it is affecting the conspiracy as well. I think that would be interesting.
Debian runs on all the architectures you list so being a company that already has claimed Debian is there fav Linux Dist I would see them leveraging that. They wouldn't drop the others but expect to see them begin to offer it on those.
Especially IBM laptops.
Been running various flavors of Debian (stable, testing, unstable), most of the 2.4 kernel series, using KDE, and never have had any problems on my IBM laptop with it.
Just wanted to give props to IBM where it was due.
Microsoft can keep doing everything they are doing now and I won't even care but there are a few things that I think (albeit impossible) would make the IT world a better place.
- Must publish on the Internet in a timely manner after release the format of Excel, Word, etc. document's for third party vendors to also open and save to that format.
- Must publish on the Internet in a timely manner after release the api to their filesystem.
You get Microsoft to do those two things and the playing field is level for everyone.
My 2 pents.
I found this quite interesting -
"One hot tip: if you spot a bug which is being ignored, send a completely botched fix to the mailing list. This causes thousands of kernel developers to rally to the cause. Nobody knows why this happens. (I really have deliberately done this several times. It works)."