It isn't monopolistic to be proprietary or non supportive of competitors product. It was monopolistic of Microsoft to be anticompetitive on licensing to OEMS, Product locking agreements and some shady deals. However including a browser that is conformance of W3C standards but not conformant of competitors products is NOT anticompetitive nor is is monopolistic.
YOU CAN RUN NETSCAPE AND USE THOSE PLUGINS. Netscape DOES run on windows!
Microsoft is ditching Java because Sun sued them over Java. Microsoft is also ditching the proprietary JVM and telling people to download the updated plugin.
BTW, the Microsoft jvm is based on the entirely outdated 1.1.3 jre. So it is only best to focus people on downloading from Sun's website.
Sun's claiming Microsoft said they would include Java for 7 years when in reality the settlement basically said Microsoft had 7 years to use the JVM and then remove it. So microsoft just removed it prior to the 7 years that Sun threw at them
Hell if Sun meant for java to succeed it would have been to a standardization body by now. But now, they wan't control just like Microsoft wants control so it is bully picking on bully.
Sure it is a hassle, but Windows or Microsoft per say has an API they're trying to get developers to follow. Netscape a few weeks ago if you don't remember basically said "We are out of the browser Business" so what is the use of supporting the api of a dead browser? Especially one that is based on Mozilla which isn't even a 1.0 product yet?
Sure netscape 6.1 amd mozilla browsers are getting there, but not quite there yet and maybe in IE 6.01 ot 6.1 you will see it back in or an optional download
Finally Microsoft is trimming some bloat, and all we have to do is complain or bring up things that aren't even relevant (like monopolistic practices, what in the hell does that have to do with supporting a dead products plugins?)
Again, just my opinion.
Been running it for a week now, great release.
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KDE 2.2 is a huge leap in usability for KDE. I personally can't wait for 2.2.1 as they may include a prelinker for compiling that optimizes the loadtimes on the applications. It shouldn't take the amount of time it currently takes to load, but it is usable.
New features I like:
Pulsating icon when program is loading
Interface cleanup - Finally looks good on hi-res LCD
Bug fixes - Browser is getting more usable day by day
Kdevelop - intriguing program. Hope it continues to mature at it's current pace. Very familiar coming from MS Vis Studio.
Koffice - Hope to see you at 1.1 soon! looking great
Schemes, Colors, Sounds and everything are much snappier
Control panel cleanups!
Setup wizards (makes it easy for windows converts
And lots of GUI toys & options - can change icon & font rendering, window popup speed and much more. eye candy for sure
Again, compile times suck. It takes a few hours to compile kde_base alone on a 1ghz P3 with a gig of memory.
Hopefully Gcc 3.01/3.1, QT 3.0 and KDE 3.0 will be the killer desktop. 2.2 is a VAST improvement, but only that.. an improvement on existing interfaces and bugfixes.
I do like KDE's object model of sorts, widgets and kparts. Very will thought out implementations, i just hope they learn to quit breaking binary compatibility with each major release:)
Its not a mapping website.. you click where you want to "lasoo" your searches to then when you click on the categories it is specific to the region you lasoo'd.
very simple process actually. I was ablt to quickly figure out when you click it zooms in, so click the "out" button to zoom out to click to another region and then click in or simply type in your street address.
The few pounds of "melibdomen" or whatever metal it is in the nose alone is worth more then the asking price.
I know manufacturing places that cook parts in furnaces (precision parts, burn off oils from human fingers) and cook cermics coted with that metal because of its strength and resistance to heat.
man, slashdot needs a spellchecker for when your in a hurry
The PS/2 doesn't make a graphics workstation just because you throw linux on there. Bandwidth smandwith it doesn't HAVE ENOUGH RAM, nor does it have enough power to do rendering of images.
for 500 bucks i can have a Athlon 1.3 ghz, 266 mhz bus, 512 megs ram, 40 gig drive and a Geforce 2 MX with 64 megs of ram that will *SMOKE* a PS in rendering, gaming, graphics and speed. Oh yeah, throw in a CDROM, Ethernet, Soundcard nad your still cheaper then a PS2 (with linux kit, hard drive, modem, ethernet, keyboard, mouse.. blah blah).
I will not see a movie with the Aliyah chick in it. After watching my friends kids watching Disney channel with Aliyah singing to all the 13 year olds i can't imagine i can see her playing a role of inteligence, strength, intuition and power.
woah there nelly. I'm not pronouncing anything. Did i say i was god? did i say religion is wrong? It was the catholics who raped pillaged and pummeled may towns for there beliefs in GOD and NOT THERE BELIEFS IN HUMAN LIFE.
I have YET to find a religion that takes life with as much esteem as they do in the fear of GOD so don't go preaching to me.
No one is wrong or right, but if religion meant LIFE then WHO IS WRONG OR RIGHT TO CHOOSE IT NO MATTER WHAT AGE.
If god put us on earth to do his deeds, then who is NOT TO SAY GOD PUT FETUSES AND EMBROYS ON THIS GOD FORSAKEN EARTH TO BE USED TO SAVE SOMEONES LIFE.
again. no one is wrong or right, everyone has opinions like everyone has an asshole. But you can't tell me god tells you to fight for your country but a simply embryo isn't put there by god for anything but to be a child. That embryo could be a gift for a child in NEED.
It is my opionion that war sucks, and well since war is something i CAN take forgranted i dont believe it it. I still respect my forefathers who fought and died for there beliefs, but i don't respect the people who put them there. Had life not put them in the that siutation and afforded them a healthy and fullfilled life i would have been much happier and appreciative of there living efforts then there dead efforts.
Life is what you make of it. If i was a woman and raised a family and that person became deathly ill from something stem cell research or any research on cells could fix then i would be more then happy to give "birth" to a "medicine" that will "save a freaking living child that """"GOD"""" put on this earth"
And by golly maybe GOD made it that way and people are to IGNORANT TO THINK THAT.
Yeah, slashdot is killing any article that proposes any signs of inteligence. I know i need to use a spelling checker, but i'm on my morning cup of coffee and at work. Just want to express my opinions.
I don't appose or really even believe in right wing anything, that is a political term to show your drastic beliefs in anything. I don't believe my life is in gods hands, but i believe god has a role in my life.
Put yourself in this situation. Say you should have a childe who at his/her teenage years develops cancer. Your dr says you can do whatever you need to do to produce stems cells and use those cells to save your living child, otherwise he will die. Would you choose to let god take your child and hope that your current attempt at having children works out, or would you feel like a mother producing the very "medicine" that will save your child and your family?
Give yourelf this scenerio. You give birth to a child who at the age of say, 11 gets cancer. Your only solution to this childs imenant death is this research or production of stems cells.
Would you do what you needed to do to produce stems cells and feel like your killing off an unborn child or would you feel like you are using your natural abilities to produce embryos that will save YOUR PRESENTLY LIVING CHILD???
I'm not talking about aborting a fetus or a developing infant, but even then that is common practice for mothers with toximia and or in car accidents and such where there is a threat of mothers death.
I don't believe it is of a political choice nor religious choice and it should be left up to the mother and parents and not the government or churches.
Its embryo cells, not even a fetus yet. Just a clump of cells at a development stage that scientist feel they can use to grow or replace damaged/lost cells in older humans. Makes sense since they can watch the development of these cells and develop methods to use them to replace lost/dead cells.
The moral decision or policital decision was to satisfy the people who don't understand life.
I personally find it hard to believe that die hard Religious groups (won't be specific, you know who you are) will support sending our young people to war for beliefs in the country, but won't support using embrionic (spelling?) cells for the research that will affect MANKIND no matter what race or nationality.
I was listening to NPR this morning and both groups, supporters and non supporters say they are happy with the results of Bush's terms. Supporters are happy simply for the fact he didn't nix the whole funding processes, non supporters are happy because they feel no new stems cells will be allowed to be "farmed".
My question is, why do the non supporters feel this is a win? The government didn't stop these companies from getting NEW STEM CELLS, they just stopped the funding on that spcific process.
The researchj WILL go on and i'm happy to say i support it 100%. With 2 grandparents that have alzheimers (and died..) and my wifes father dying a horribly painfull death from cancer i can only have praise for such research.
And lastly, my beliefs is that 4-5 cells do not constitue life, if that is the beginnings of life then sue me for masturbating away billions of cells that would HAVE or COULD have brought "life".
And for the religious right wingers who's life is in gods hands, i hope you don't ruin it for people who believe in god but believe in humans and science as well.
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Dude, China and most 3rd worlds barely have HUMAN RIGHTS yet allown the ability to enforce copyright protection.
I HIGHLY DOUBT you keep your "backups" on tape or on file to restore originals if you lost them, your probably watching the backups on your pc and sending them to your friends or sharing them on Morpheus.
If you do save your backups in a fireproof safe then more power to you. Until then YOU didn't loose anything.
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you paid for the right to use the media under approved and licensed software and or hardware.
You own the phsyical DVD, you DON'T OWN THE MOVIE TO DO WITH IT WHAT YOU WISH
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You didn't READ THE LABEL did you? On the box it said support by Windows 98, Me or 2000 right?
If you READ what i said then you wouldn't come off sounding like a troll. IF someone MADE a viable commercial effort for DVD sotfware under linux then it MAY work.
you still have to BUY powersoft DVD, DVD PLus or anyone of the many windows dvd playing programs out there.
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Regional encoding is to protect copyright owners. The US can't protect its copyrights outside of its territories, so they put an end to that and made US encoded DVD's that play on US players.
It doesn't and hasn't ever stopped me from playing a dvd on my laptop, my dvd player at home or my dvd player at my friends house or the dvd system at work or the dvd systems in hotels.. (i could go on and on..)
sure it sucks you can't run your dvd through your vcr because macrovision puts the god awfull blur effect on your screen, but DVD's are already a well preserved medium and there is no means of copying the movie without changing it from its orignal form which is considered REPRODUCING instead of backing up for backup sake:)
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Didn't say MP3's were illegal, just napster never took the stance to move to a legal distribution until it was already in court.
Mp3.com has tons of legal mp3's that napster could have traded, but yet again i don't think it would have been as successfull because people want what they hear on MTV.
Personally.. i find it hard to believe the gun manufactures can't be sued for wrongfull deaths from a WEAPON DESIGNED TO KILL.
BUT The cigarette industry is being sued up the ass because someoen CHOSE TO SMOKE and got cancer PROBABLY because they drank too much and worked in a manufacturing environment around chemicals all day as well.
Most people don't choose to die behind a gun, everyone who popped a cig in there mouth CHOSE to smoke and any DUMBASS who grew up with a brain can figure SMOKE is bad for you. You don't stand over a fire and breath in that smoke.
By golly though were taught guns and firearms are fun and protective and for hunting..
Nobody told me cigarettes were for fun, protectice and for hunting and they sure as hell won't kill anyone else.
enough of that rant.. npr was pissing me off this morning with the dude who's winning 3billion because he got cancer... put the ass out of his misery with a freaking legal gun
W e didn't loose anything, look at what we gained?
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Look at what we have learned and gained from technology?
Napster was designed to distribute ILLEGAL recordings, had they gone legit they could have merged with MP3.com and distributed peoples work much like the philosphy of distributing free software.
The whole slashdot concept of DVD's is pathetic. BUY A DVD PLAYER to watch your movies. 99% of the world bought dvd's because of the technology and advancements over VHS. YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR THOSE ACHIEVEMENTS and technological improvements. SO FREAKING WHAT if you want watch your DVD's for free. You didn't write the codec, produce the technology, market the products and standardize the industry on formats. That comes to a huge cost and well, DVD's are so awesome for home theater that i don't mind paying that cost.
P2P, again if it wasn't for distributing 99% illegal software, music and files then it may become viable. I have yet to see a P2P solution for distributing "freshmeat.net" or any OSS software which is 100% legally available from anywhere, simply for the fact that free software, free information is already available in very simplistic and standard internet protocols. (hello, HTTP, FTP...) IF i have to load up a P2P network browser then why not load up Netscape and download it off the web to begin with?
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YOU CAN RUN NETSCAPE AND USE THOSE PLUGINS. Netscape DOES run on windows!
BTW, the Microsoft jvm is based on the entirely outdated 1.1.3 jre. So it is only best to focus people on downloading from Sun's website.
Sun's claiming Microsoft said they would include Java for 7 years when in reality the settlement basically said Microsoft had 7 years to use the JVM and then remove it. So microsoft just removed it prior to the 7 years that Sun threw at them
Hell if Sun meant for java to succeed it would have been to a standardization body by now. But now, they wan't control just like Microsoft wants control so it is bully picking on bully.
Sure it is a hassle, but Windows or Microsoft per say has an API they're trying to get developers to follow. Netscape a few weeks ago if you don't remember basically said "We are out of the browser Business" so what is the use of supporting the api of a dead browser? Especially one that is based on Mozilla which isn't even a 1.0 product yet?
Sure netscape 6.1 amd mozilla browsers are getting there, but not quite there yet and maybe in IE 6.01 ot 6.1 you will see it back in or an optional download
Finally Microsoft is trimming some bloat, and all we have to do is complain or bring up things that aren't even relevant (like monopolistic practices, what in the hell does that have to do with supporting a dead products plugins?)
Again, just my opinion.
New features I like:
Pulsating icon when program is loading
Interface cleanup - Finally looks good on hi-res LCD
Bug fixes - Browser is getting more usable day by day
Kdevelop - intriguing program. Hope it continues to mature at it's current pace. Very familiar coming from MS Vis Studio.
Koffice - Hope to see you at 1.1 soon! looking great
Schemes, Colors, Sounds and everything are much snappier
Control panel cleanups!
Setup wizards (makes it easy for windows converts
And lots of GUI toys & options - can change icon & font rendering, window popup speed and much more. eye candy for sure
Again, compile times suck. It takes a few hours to compile kde_base alone on a 1ghz P3 with a gig of memory.
Hopefully Gcc 3.01 /3.1, QT 3.0 and KDE 3.0 will be the killer desktop. 2.2 is a VAST improvement, but only that.. an improvement on existing interfaces and bugfixes.
I do like KDE's object model of sorts, widgets and kparts. Very will thought out implementations, i just hope they learn to quit breaking binary compatibility with each major release :)
Keep up the good work KDE team!
hell, i remember when "webcrawler" was the shiznat. anyone remember when "smarties.com" was the first porn site? now you can get your candies there
very simple process actually. I was ablt to quickly figure out when you click it zooms in, so click the "out" button to zoom out to click to another region and then click in or simply type in your street address.
I know manufacturing places that cook parts in furnaces (precision parts, burn off oils from human fingers) and cook cermics coted with that metal because of its strength and resistance to heat.
man, slashdot needs a spellchecker for when your in a hurry
for 500 bucks i can have a Athlon 1.3 ghz, 266 mhz bus, 512 megs ram, 40 gig drive and a Geforce 2 MX with 64 megs of ram that will *SMOKE* a PS in rendering, gaming, graphics and speed. Oh yeah, throw in a CDROM, Ethernet, Soundcard nad your still cheaper then a PS2 (with linux kit, hard drive, modem, ethernet, keyboard, mouse.. blah blah).
i'd rather see madona do it it :)
Bring back the survivors and maybe i'll bother.
see my previous post before you make assumptions of my beliefs.
I have YET to find a religion that takes life with as much esteem as they do in the fear of GOD so don't go preaching to me.
No one is wrong or right, but if religion meant LIFE then WHO IS WRONG OR RIGHT TO CHOOSE IT NO MATTER WHAT AGE.
If god put us on earth to do his deeds, then who is NOT TO SAY GOD PUT FETUSES AND EMBROYS ON THIS GOD FORSAKEN EARTH TO BE USED TO SAVE SOMEONES LIFE.
again. no one is wrong or right, everyone has opinions like everyone has an asshole. But you can't tell me god tells you to fight for your country but a simply embryo isn't put there by god for anything but to be a child. That embryo could be a gift for a child in NEED.
It is my opionion that war sucks, and well since war is something i CAN take forgranted i dont believe it it. I still respect my forefathers who fought and died for there beliefs, but i don't respect the people who put them there. Had life not put them in the that siutation and afforded them a healthy and fullfilled life i would have been much happier and appreciative of there living efforts then there dead efforts.
Life is what you make of it. If i was a woman and raised a family and that person became deathly ill from something stem cell research or any research on cells could fix then i would be more then happy to give "birth" to a "medicine" that will "save a freaking living child that """"GOD"""" put on this earth"
And by golly maybe GOD made it that way and people are to IGNORANT TO THINK THAT.
That is my point, now piss off
I don't appose or really even believe in right wing anything, that is a political term to show your drastic beliefs in anything. I don't believe my life is in gods hands, but i believe god has a role in my life.
Put yourself in this situation. Say you should have a childe who at his/her teenage years develops cancer. Your dr says you can do whatever you need to do to produce stems cells and use those cells to save your living child, otherwise he will die. Would you choose to let god take your child and hope that your current attempt at having children works out, or would you feel like a mother producing the very "medicine" that will save your child and your family?
Give yourelf this scenerio. You give birth to a child who at the age of say, 11 gets cancer. Your only solution to this childs imenant death is this research or production of stems cells.
Would you do what you needed to do to produce stems cells and feel like your killing off an unborn child or would you feel like you are using your natural abilities to produce embryos that will save YOUR PRESENTLY LIVING CHILD???
I'm not talking about aborting a fetus or a developing infant, but even then that is common practice for mothers with toximia and or in car accidents and such where there is a threat of mothers death.
I don't believe it is of a political choice nor religious choice and it should be left up to the mother and parents and not the government or churches.
hehe, that one gave me a smile :)
The moral decision or policital decision was to satisfy the people who don't understand life.
I personally find it hard to believe that die hard Religious groups (won't be specific, you know who you are) will support sending our young people to war for beliefs in the country, but won't support using embrionic (spelling?) cells for the research that will affect MANKIND no matter what race or nationality.
Political beliefs or just ignorance?
My question is, why do the non supporters feel this is a win? The government didn't stop these companies from getting NEW STEM CELLS, they just stopped the funding on that spcific process.
The researchj WILL go on and i'm happy to say i support it 100%. With 2 grandparents that have alzheimers (and died..) and my wifes father dying a horribly painfull death from cancer i can only have praise for such research.
And lastly, my beliefs is that 4-5 cells do not constitue life, if that is the beginnings of life then sue me for masturbating away billions of cells that would HAVE or COULD have brought "life".
And for the religious right wingers who's life is in gods hands, i hope you don't ruin it for people who believe in god but believe in humans and science as well.
I HIGHLY DOUBT you keep your "backups" on tape or on file to restore originals if you lost them, your probably watching the backups on your pc and sending them to your friends or sharing them on Morpheus.
If you do save your backups in a fireproof safe then more power to you. Until then YOU didn't loose anything.
You own the phsyical DVD, you DON'T OWN THE MOVIE TO DO WITH IT WHAT YOU WISH
If you READ what i said then you wouldn't come off sounding like a troll. IF someone MADE a viable commercial effort for DVD sotfware under linux then it MAY work.
you still have to BUY powersoft DVD, DVD PLus or anyone of the many windows dvd playing programs out there.
It doesn't and hasn't ever stopped me from playing a dvd on my laptop, my dvd player at home or my dvd player at my friends house or the dvd system at work or the dvd systems in hotels.. (i could go on and on..)
sure it sucks you can't run your dvd through your vcr because macrovision puts the god awfull blur effect on your screen, but DVD's are already a well preserved medium and there is no means of copying the movie without changing it from its orignal form which is considered REPRODUCING instead of backing up for backup sake :)
Mp3.com has tons of legal mp3's that napster could have traded, but yet again i don't think it would have been as successfull because people want what they hear on MTV.
Personally.. i find it hard to believe the gun manufactures can't be sued for wrongfull deaths from a WEAPON DESIGNED TO KILL.
BUT The cigarette industry is being sued up the ass because someoen CHOSE TO SMOKE and got cancer PROBABLY because they drank too much and worked in a manufacturing environment around chemicals all day as well.
Most people don't choose to die behind a gun, everyone who popped a cig in there mouth CHOSE to smoke and any DUMBASS who grew up with a brain can figure SMOKE is bad for you. You don't stand over a fire and breath in that smoke.
By golly though were taught guns and firearms are fun and protective and for hunting..
Nobody told me cigarettes were for fun, protectice and for hunting and they sure as hell won't kill anyone else.
enough of that rant.. npr was pissing me off this morning with the dude who's winning 3billion because he got cancer... put the ass out of his misery with a freaking legal gun
Napster was designed to distribute ILLEGAL recordings, had they gone legit they could have merged with MP3.com and distributed peoples work much like the philosphy of distributing free software.
The whole slashdot concept of DVD's is pathetic. BUY A DVD PLAYER to watch your movies. 99% of the world bought dvd's because of the technology and advancements over VHS. YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR THOSE ACHIEVEMENTS and technological improvements. SO FREAKING WHAT if you want watch your DVD's for free. You didn't write the codec, produce the technology, market the products and standardize the industry on formats. That comes to a huge cost and well, DVD's are so awesome for home theater that i don't mind paying that cost.
P2P, again if it wasn't for distributing 99% illegal software, music and files then it may become viable. I have yet to see a P2P solution for distributing "freshmeat.net" or any OSS software which is 100% legally available from anywhere, simply for the fact that free software, free information is already available in very simplistic and standard internet protocols. (hello, HTTP, FTP...) IF i have to load up a P2P network browser then why not load up Netscape and download it off the web to begin with?
hehe.. i think thats a persona for everyones girlfriend/wife :)