Where is '-1 The poster forgot to think' when you need it.
First of all, with most distros, at least the ones I have installed, you get to choose whether or not you want xmms. In addition there are other multimedia packages that you can install.
Secondly, yes, you would have to wait until a particular linux distro was a monopoly. It is all about using your monopoly in one area (linux OS) tp try and push into another. But it would have to be something like RedHat getting a monopoly and then you could only get RedHat MMS. Even still that might not even be the same.
Quite frankly I don't think we will ever see these MS like monopolistic actions even if Linux were to grab a decent amount of market share. It is just not the OSS way.
American weapons inspectors working throughout the Iraqi country side are claiming that the GPL is seriously hindering their efforts to find Saddam's cache of WMD. When asked how exactly it is hindering the effort an inspector replied, "It's just un-American and that's bad mmmkay."
Futhermore, high ranking army officers are also said to be frustrated by the GPL. "It is quite simply conter-productive in our efforts to find Saddam and to bring law and order to Iraq", said an officer, speaking under anonymity.
And finally, graffiti was seen on Redmond, WA train claiming, "GPL = French". Underneath was written, "it's '==' you insensitive clod".
Yeah, you got modded funny but I have a similar true story (I am assuming yours is true). My father-in-law is the financial controller at a business and there accounting software is no longer supported on NT but not yet supported on 2003 so he's asked his network support contractor to come up with a linux solution.
1. Modification is not growth 2. Very flimsy but I'll give it to ya 4. The human race as a species are reproductive. Not everything is about you. 5. True, full marks.
So while AI may come close to some definition of life it doesn't quite make it. In this case close is not good enough.
I'd rather rely on a company responding quickly to problems than an open source community where I have no idea how long it will take.
Bill, is that you? So you'd rather rely on a company whose track record in bug fixing is poor at best or on a community of developers whose track record is on the whole good and for some projects bordering on fantasmigorical.
It's all well and good to say that you would rather rely on a company to respond quickly but this just hasn't been the case in the past with Microsoft. Now they may have turned over a new leaf but the unknown time with the open source community is usually 'will this be fixed in under 12 hours or will it take the full 24 hours'.
Feeding Americans crap about Australia must be our favourite pass time besides watching sport and getting pissed. While on business in Tennessee a shop assistant got talking to me and a mate. He had said that a couple of Aussies had been in a month ago and told him about how we always go 'walkabout'. You know, just 'go bush' for a month or two without notice. We said yeah, us Aussies do that all the time. Additionally he now believes that only our three major cities have paved roads, we all drive 4x4s and every household has either a kangaroo or a koala as a pet.
Gee, if you modded me +5 funny then at least do the same for all the follow ups. They were ALL 10 times better than mine! Now I've gotta go to the glove compartment and break open the 'in case of accident' underwear.
This is a huge improvement from their prototype that required you to place a 12 ounce, specially modified bluetooth tranciever up your ass.
Ha, that's nothing. When I was at uni we tried something like this but we didn't have any fancy bluetooth technology. Try embedding an RS232 port up your ass and then plugging in without bending any pins.
Could both posters and moderators pleae RTFA. Sun's payment was to cover licensing 'clean up' issues with it's version of UNIX. It had nothing to do with Linux.
It is however interesting that they have stock options.
I've got to agree with you there. I had more trouble coming to terms with the missing word and the incorrect use of 'is' than the actual jumbled words.
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Where is '-1 The poster forgot to think' when you need it.
First of all, with most distros, at least the ones I have installed, you get to choose whether or not you want xmms. In addition there are other multimedia packages that you can install.
Secondly, yes, you would have to wait until a particular linux distro was a monopoly. It is all about using your monopoly in one area (linux OS) tp try and push into another. But it would have to be something like RedHat getting a monopoly and then you could only get RedHat MMS. Even still that might not even be the same.
Quite frankly I don't think we will ever see these MS like monopolistic actions even if Linux were to grab a decent amount of market share. It is just not the OSS way.
And here is SCO's reply
Product? What is this thing product you speak of? Can we interest you in some shares though?
American weapons inspectors working throughout the Iraqi country side are claiming that the GPL is seriously hindering their efforts to find Saddam's cache of WMD. When asked how exactly it is hindering the effort an inspector replied, "It's just un-American and that's bad mmmkay."
Futhermore, high ranking army officers are also said to be frustrated by the GPL. "It is quite simply conter-productive in our efforts to find Saddam and to bring law and order to Iraq", said an officer, speaking under anonymity.
And finally, graffiti was seen on Redmond, WA train claiming, "GPL = French". Underneath was written, "it's '==' you insensitive clod".
Yeah, you got modded funny but I have a similar true story (I am assuming yours is true). My father-in-law is the financial controller at a business and there accounting software is no longer supported on NT but not yet supported on 2003 so he's asked his network support contractor to come up with a linux solution.
If I were Ken Clark (and maybe I was) I would have had my name changed by now.
1. Modification is not growth
2. Very flimsy but I'll give it to ya
4. The human race as a species are reproductive. Not everything is about you.
5. True, full marks.
So while AI may come close to some definition of life it doesn't quite make it. In this case close is not good enough.
I'd rather rely on a company responding quickly to problems than an open source community where I have no idea how long it will take.
Bill, is that you? So you'd rather rely on a company whose track record in bug fixing is poor at best or on a community of developers whose track record is on the whole good and for some projects bordering on fantasmigorical.
It's all well and good to say that you would rather rely on a company to respond quickly but this just hasn't been the case in the past with Microsoft. Now they may have turned over a new leaf but the unknown time with the open source community is usually 'will this be fixed in under 12 hours or will it take the full 24 hours'.
I used to live next to a guy called Upon McCracken - i kid you not!
Do we have to have the Soviet Russia jokes in the articles as well now?
As opposed to Outlook connecting using IMAP where delete doesn't REALLY delete anything?
Feeding Americans crap about Australia must be our favourite pass time besides watching sport and getting pissed. While on business in Tennessee a shop assistant got talking to me and a mate. He had said that a couple of Aussies had been in a month ago and told him about how we always go 'walkabout'. You know, just 'go bush' for a month or two without notice. We said yeah, us Aussies do that all the time. Additionally he now believes that only our three major cities have paved roads, we all drive 4x4s and every household has either a kangaroo or a koala as a pet.
Nope ... In Soviet Russia chocolate cooks YOU!
Whoa, where can I donwload it?
Gee, if you modded me +5 funny then at least do the same for all the follow ups. They were ALL 10 times better than mine! Now I've gotta go to the glove compartment and break open the 'in case of accident' underwear.
A 133Mhz 486? Either you are an uber-overclocker or an uber-bullcrapper.
But at "11 metres long" and with "16 user operated levers", not to mention two steps going from one side to the other, multiball is going to suck.
Never have 8 friends enjoyed weight training as much as when this game goes into multiball mode.
can it handle a 2.6Gb slashdotting? I don't think so.
I'm set. I'm the engineer, my wife is the lawyer!
This is a huge improvement from their prototype that required you to place a 12 ounce, specially modified bluetooth tranciever up your ass.
Ha, that's nothing. When I was at uni we tried something like this but we didn't have any fancy bluetooth technology. Try embedding an RS232 port up your ass and then plugging in without bending any pins.
Yeah, it's quasi-evil but it's about the best damn quasi-evil of the web.
It seems there has been an unusual amount of downtime to your web and email servers. Probable cause: we over monitored them. Sorry.
Could both posters and moderators pleae RTFA. Sun's payment was to cover licensing 'clean up' issues with it's version of UNIX. It had nothing to do with Linux.
It is however interesting that they have stock options.
take the first and last letters of each word and work out what the correct address should be.
Hmmm ... how lnog unitl we get the jbulemd wrods out of our setsym.
I've got to agree with you there. I had more trouble coming to terms with the missing word and the incorrect use of 'is' than the actual jumbled words.