So what do you say we do, Katz? Block companies from producing their software? Block who they sell it to based on an "Internet moral code", as dictated by the U.S. Government?
Give me a break. Attack the policy of the restrictive nations; don't attack the software makers.
Orson Scott Card in Ender's Game describes (in 1977) a very realistic laptop computer/PDA with a touchscreen and wireless network. Ender enjoys instant messaging and email with his friends, and plays a 3D-animated RPG similar to EverQuest on the machine.
Hmmm . . . maybe because this site isn't just for developers?
Maybe this "doesn't effect your day to day job", but it is an interesting computer science article. Apparently you want a site that's "software news for developers, stuff that matters only to a very narrow audience".
If you'd get your head out of your ass, you'd realize that most of technology comes from building on the past; that's why it doesn't usually make the news. Technology has always been marked by gradual refinements, occasionally interrupted by large leaps.
Cultural globalization occurs because large corporations keep expanding their target market, eventually seeing the entire world as one homogenous audience. We all see the same TV shows and commercials, and eventually start developing the same ideas about the world.
Governmental globalization occurs because the more powerful governments know they can do better on the "world market" when foreign governments have similar political views to their own. So, countries like the US and Britain manipulate the politics of the world to their financial ends.
Past globalization attempts have been based in religion (crusades, jihad, inquisition, etc.) These have been for the most part ineffective.
Good or bad, the current globalization that is changing the world now is all about money.
Not to mention that AIDS drugs right now don't save lives, since they don't cure it. Instead, they keep the patients alive longer, during which they can infect others if they so choose. *shrug*
So is your alternative to just kill 'em on sight until we have a cure?
This doesn't even make sense. The truly analogous question: should the US courts be able to force a French web site into removing DeCSS? Of course not!
Should the French be able to force a US web site into removing something because it's illegal in France? Of course not!
The hum of a fan, whatever it is cooling, is often at a level that you might strain to hear clearly. It is these levels that can cause hearing strain. This is similar to eye strain when you need glasses and can give you monster headaches.
This is jibberish. Comparing this to eyestrain is like claiming that the tiny nightlight at the far end of my well-lit office is causing me to go blind.
After all, most Linux users are pretty tech-savvy, they are unlikely to wreck their machines (the way windoze lusers do every time they tweak their registry).
More generalized Linux cock-swinging, as has become the trademark of Slashdot . . . this is the attitude that dooms Linux on the desktop.
Duh. Nobody ever said it was. It's the command-line/batch interpreter for Win32.
And it's not designed to emulate DOS . . . it's designed to emulate COMMAND.COM in 32 bits. The DOS emulator is called NTVDM.EXE (that's NT Virtual DOS Machine), and also runs as a 32-bit application.
Furthermore, Win32 still has COMMAND.COM. It is a 16-bit application (and therefore runs under NTVDM.EXE). And I'm sure it's basically legacy code recompiled with new version information.
So, in closing, you're a dumbass, your OS sucks, and, uh, my granny can code better than you.
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Oh wait, it's better to have/bin for programs, and/usr/bin for programs, and/sbin for, uh, programs . . . some of which depend on files in various subfolders of/lib (or was it/usr/lib?) . . . much cleaner.
If your system differs from their approved setup in any way at all, then they won't even talk to you to find out if the problem has anything to do with the changes you made.
Then you just demonstrate the problem from a "supported" user's machine. You can't blame them for not wanting to learn some foreign OS just to troubleshoot one problem (yours or theirs).
. . . MicrosoftWorld is reporting that Windows is {cheaper|faster|better} than UNIX.
Jeez, Slashdot, at least try to find stories that aren't so clearly biased . . . or is it too difficult to find an unbiased source that supports your biased views?
Home user installs loads of software on Lindows, including MS Office, games, etc.
Half of this software will be buggy or slow.
Home user now hates Linux in general, and tells all his friends what a rip-off it is.
The Windows software market is not what Linux should be after. It's not possible to "do" Windows better than Windows. Linux needs to work on making people like it for being Linux.
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Give me a break. Attack the policy of the restrictive nations; don't attack the software makers.
Orson Scott Card in Ender's Game describes (in 1977) a very realistic laptop computer/PDA with a touchscreen and wireless network. Ender enjoys instant messaging and email with his friends, and plays a 3D-animated RPG similar to EverQuest on the machine.
Grammar school...
Maybe this "doesn't effect your day to day job", but it is an interesting computer science article. Apparently you want a site that's "software news for developers, stuff that matters only to a very narrow audience".
If you'd get your head out of your ass, you'd realize that most of technology comes from building on the past; that's why it doesn't usually make the news. Technology has always been marked by gradual refinements, occasionally interrupted by large leaps.
So you're expected to memorize everything you research (if you don't have something like this, that is)?
What?!
The 8008 was twice as powerful as the 4004.
If only naming conventions could make that much sense today . . .
- Cultural globalization occurs because large corporations keep expanding their target market, eventually seeing the entire world as one homogenous audience. We all see the same TV shows and commercials, and eventually start developing the same ideas about the world.
- Governmental globalization occurs because the more powerful governments know they can do better on the "world market" when foreign governments have similar political views to their own. So, countries like the US and Britain manipulate the politics of the world to their financial ends.
Past globalization attempts have been based in religion (crusades, jihad, inquisition, etc.) These have been for the most part ineffective.Good or bad, the current globalization that is changing the world now is all about money.
I believe that would actually be "obalizationglay".
This is just not true. The author of the post is lying to try to be cool.
So is your alternative to just kill 'em on sight until we have a cure?
FU,B.
Should the French be able to force a US web site into removing something because it's illegal in France? Of course not!
This is jibberish. Comparing this to eyestrain is like claiming that the tiny nightlight at the far end of my well-lit office is causing me to go blind.
Why would I want my jacket itself to be a computer, when I could currently have just as much computing power embedded in one of the jacket's buttons?
More generalized Linux cock-swinging, as has become the trademark of Slashdot . . . this is the attitude that dooms Linux on the desktop.
No. Never once. And I could come up with loads of examples that break those nice neat "rules" above, but I'll leave this as an exercise to the reader.
Duh. Nobody ever said it was. It's the command-line/batch interpreter for Win32.
And it's not designed to emulate DOS . . . it's designed to emulate COMMAND.COM in 32 bits. The DOS emulator is called NTVDM.EXE (that's NT Virtual DOS Machine), and also runs as a 32-bit application.
Furthermore, Win32 still has COMMAND.COM. It is a 16-bit application (and therefore runs under NTVDM.EXE). And I'm sure it's basically legacy code recompiled with new version information.
So, in closing, you're a dumbass, your OS sucks, and, uh, my granny can code better than you.
Oh wait, it's better to have /bin for programs, and /usr/bin for programs, and /sbin for, uh, programs . . . some of which depend on files in various subfolders of /lib (or was it /usr/lib?) . . . much cleaner.
Then you just demonstrate the problem from a "supported" user's machine. You can't blame them for not wanting to learn some foreign OS just to troubleshoot one problem (yours or theirs).
Slashdot readers:
- "RFP? What's that?"
- "Deadline? What's that?"
- "Accountability? What's that?"
Business software consumer:Sorry, but Miami's got some. I believe there are some other private ones on the Gulf of Mexico in northern Florida.
Except for those who work in the server room. Sunlight messes up the air-conditioning.
Jeez, Slashdot, at least try to find stories that aren't so clearly biased . . . or is it too difficult to find an unbiased source that supports your biased views?
- Home users buys Lindows.
- Home user installs loads of software on Lindows, including MS Office, games, etc.
- Half of this software will be buggy or slow.
- Home user now hates Linux in general, and tells all his friends what a rip-off it is.
The Windows software market is not what Linux should be after. It's not possible to "do" Windows better than Windows. Linux needs to work on making people like it for being Linux.