(Moderators: Don't moderate this down because you do not understand that the question strongly hints at least to one Cricket question, and this one probably goes beyond just Cricket and could well involve a lot more sports in general).
What do you think of the current allegations of match fixing and bribes that are sweeping the Sport:
For instance, here is a couple of BBC articles on match fixing:
Exhibit A and Exhibit B
A number of players have been implicated and some even banned. How bad is it in Australia?
Not so much Anti-MSFT, just more anti-monopoly. This situation could well have been totally different.
Imagine if it was IBM's OS/2 that became the number 1 desktop? Do you not think that you would be say this instead:
"Slashdot is becoming less and less of a place of information and more a platform for anti-IBM, anti-corporation propaganda."
Who knows in this case if MSFT would have taken a liking to Linux and made their own distro?
You are of course correct in that corps have to make the most money available. The part you did not cover is what happens when it becomes to big and powerful, therebye halting consumer choice, killing off innovation and driving up prices? That is a hallmark of a Monopoly....
So, yes most people here are angry at MSFT for those very reasons.
>Many of slashdot's readers fail to recognize that Microsoft and >AOL are both responsible for making the internet accessable >to the normal, non-techie consumer.
Have we forgotten OS/2 (you know, the one from IBM that got killed off)? AOL had clever marketing, just pour out millions of CD's....Indeed I remember the days before AOL, it was so easy to get connected via Compuserve. And if you were in the UK, Demon Internet was very easy too. Hate to say it, your remark was almost as bad as the one some people make about MSFT and paychecks...Sorry it could have easily been another company. And yes, we could easily be "hating" that other company.
None of these studies could stand up to any scientific scrutiny....
1. The pool of so called "professionals" is very small, only 724 (from memory...). This hardly represents anything.
2. What sort of questiosn did they ask to gauge the competence of the end user? If its partially sponsered by MSFT, then did MSFT get to do the screening?
4. I have noticed that people with Unix backgrounds go the *nix route, Windows background favour Windows a little more...
5. All the statistics are meaningless and unscientific as most of his points are opinionated. Just give the facts, not the babble.
6. If Redhat had comissioned it it could easily have been 8% of shipments were Windows based, amazing how easy it would have been for them to pay for the result they intended...
7. Only time will tell who is going to do the best.....
I was going to take your silly retort apart point by point, but its obvious you really did not understand my point...Maybe my spelling/grammitcal threw you off...
My real point was free trade, do I have spell that out?
>These people are enforcing legal patents they were >granted, not simply blocking a trade 'because they >can'.
Now I am feeding the troll, but to the "Pirates" they were doing what they were doing because they thought they had a legal reason to do so.
>By your logic, the person collecting tickets at the >entrance to a concert is a pirate who is preventing >you from seeing the concert?
Shame you said that as you have little idea what logic is....I cannot see how you can jump from my poor example on how things effect free trade to your example? When you pay for a ticket to a concert you then hand it over as proof of purchase, you do not hand over extra cash. Thats a big difference and logically very different.
My example was not the best as most people know little about history.....
Lets go back approximately 200 years to when the USA was a fledgling nation.
Back then the US wanted to trade with the nation in the 'Med. But there was one slight problem...
Pirates! "Legalised" pirates, "they barricaded" the Meditteranean with there vessels. These people had a name: Barbaryt Pirates!
What these Pirates would do is come alongside a ship, peacefully, and demand a tribute. If none was forthcoming they would simply capture the ship and crew and hold them ransome.
Unfortuantly the USA was poor at the time and could hardly afford a tribute, but trade was very important. So...To cut this short the US Navy was born as were the US Marines, they destroyed the Pirates in an act of Free Trade.
Forward to the present day:
To listen to music gennerally you have to pay a "toll", not to the artist but to some group that wants to "blockade" access to the music until you pay them a tribute. We do not call them Pirates, although really that is what they are as the similarities between them and the Barbary pirates is close...We call them the RIAA/MPAA.
Yep, they are the real pirates here, if only Jefferson were alive today...
They absolutly should be totally quarantined due to the fact that our own microbes will contaminate the samples and then make it hard to tell if indeed there was any life on it or not.
To all those people who say,"It supports Netscape, read the article!" You are missing the point:
I have been following this for sometime and knew awhile ago that they intended to the.NET initiative. Basically, they do not see the dangers of putting sensitive Government information in the hands of Microsoft (back door anyone?).
This is what is going to happen:
1.A virus is going to sweep across all MSFT.NET networks, bringing them to a grinding halt. The UK government has already been shut down on previous e-mail clogging system issues.
2.Someone from a foreign country will crack the site and steal some information and post it, or threaten to.
3. UK Taxpayer will pay the bills for these licenses when they need to keep up the subscription.
Sorry to say, but this is an outrageous waste of taxpayers money.
Another offending site that uses MSFT only crap is www.classicfm.co.uk which is a shame 'cause I liked to listen to their broadcasts, but its not worth the boot into Windows for.
Strange, but has not happened on my computer at all....Time to look for other answers away from the Kernel? What makes you think its a USB issue? And how do you know its not happening on startup?
Whichever distro you use you can try their respective mailing lists. Just in case...
Your comments really did not deserve a 5, maybe a 2 or a three...
You make absolutly no mention of what the user wants from the Desktop...If its for games then I'd have to agree, but for general pupose I can just install SuSE 7.1 with KDE2 and use the apps that came with that, and guess what? Its usable right away. No mention made of Konquerer either, where have you been living? KOffice, despite being beta is looking very good. Yes, with Konquerer you get the odd java problem, but that is due to MS extensions on top of Java. Yes indeed MS added extensions on top of Java that have made it unusable outside of IE5. Try using the Windows version of Opera to see what I mean.
FreeBSD is good, so is OpenBSD (although where is OpenBSD heading? In fact after the purchase of FreeBSd by Windriver I question what the direction for FreeBsD is too...).
Linix is growing, is here to stay and will eventually grow on the desktop.
Yup, WMA will sound better because, guess what? Yup, they screwed around with how your MP3's will sound in Windows...I am sure there are many more.
Who is best available to take up some of those migrating? I can only really say two players, this is in order:
Mac OS X
Linux
Only two, so we had better get working! As the Mac is really only Mac hardware related (as far as I know, OS X has not been ported yet) that leaves Linux as the easiest and quickest way to get running.
By the time October comes hopefully we will be in much better shape.
As a caveat, who really cares who gets the majority of the desktop, all that really matters is that a monopoly is broken, consumers deserve to have a choice. Imagine a world where all you could buy was one type of car. I'll stop as I can easily go on...
If you read the link, you will notice that they say they will keep it as-is.
To quote the article:
"MP3.com (www.mp3.com) will maintain its role as the premier distributor of music on the Internet. The company will continue to feature content from all record labels and from independent artists. There are currently over 150,000 artists from more than 180 countries that make their music available to music fans through MP3.com. Currently, more than 25% of Billboard Magazine's current Top 40 albums are being promoted on MP3.com."
But these are just words. And guess what, featuring content does not mean that they cannot encrypt the MP3's or do whatever other hideous thing to the music.
Can someone please tell me what the ideals of the American Revolution was all about, why we even bothered fighting in WW2? We maybe heading towards "A thousand years of darkness, perpetuated by evil, perverted science".
You mention all your other specs, apart from one of the most important one, the video card. How can I tell you are not running it on a Voodoo 1? Or a 4 meg PCI card?
I saw enough from their advertisement on the side of a bus to know that this movie was going to suck big time. First of all the main character does not know how to ride his horse too well, you never ride a horse like he did, one hand on the reigns up in the air, and he was scrunched forward, all this leads to being unbalanced.
Yes of course it was not meant to be serious, but come on even when I was a teen I detested movies like this as an insult.
A good story with good effects that does not want to seem stupid will appeal across far wider age groups, from the very young to the very old. Why did the Knights Tale limit itself to one group?
I have read similer things in some of Carl Sagan's books just from the review (the review was indeed quite hard to read). Especially the parts about science being more open and less snobbish.
It is a worrying trend that large groups of people will turn to superstition and "here be Dragons" over the actual facts. In this case I mean actual bona fide facts that are there, not just theory. A prime example would be the terrible Fox show on the Moon Landings recently that went in just to try and prove that they never occured. It was blatantly biased to the opinion that NASA had engineered the whole thing here on Earth, but they neglected to even mention Moon Rocks, nor the fact that thousands of HAM Radio operators could follow the progress through the atmosphere and onwards towards the moon.
Seems like he is trying to reach a wide audience via Sci-Fi, not sure that this is the best route. Would it not be better to become a screen writer and get some "entertainment" shows published?
>Many eyes make all security flaws shallow, and >there are many more eyes scrutinising Windows >than Linux.
How many more eyes scrutinise the Windows source code vs the Linux source code??
>The last time I used linux it expected me to >recompile my kernel so that I could have >working sound and access my windows >partition.
When *was* the last time. Last time I installed a distribution I could access my Windows partitions and my SBLive worked flawlessly (last time was SuSE 7.1, but worked just as well from about 6.4).
Each to their own, but most of the new innovation is not coming from Redmond. Its still worth trying your dual boot with the newer distro's and using newer web design utils, although not the same as Dreamweaver yet, but getting there.
My DSL network is down, is it worth getting it fixed?
Telocity will survive for sure as they are a subsidry of Hughes, the DirectTV people. they do have a plan in place to change the user base to last-mile providers (whoever they maybe).
Interestingly my line is already down, but this is a seperate issue.
Slashdot Mirror
I just want to thank the author for taking the time doing this, it looks as though it was very tedious.
MY only nit picks are these:
Quoting statistics/data going back to '95 is way out of date by todays standards, even '99 is now very old.
Only minor nit picks, thanks for the article.
StarTux
You have to blame my parents for me remembering this:
.Net will be his Waterloo. I do not believe Microsoft would just disappear, but they would change.
Line from Abba's song "Waterloo"
"At Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender".
I wonder...
"On the 'Net, Bill Gates did surrender".
Lets hope so....I personnally believe that
Sorry for inflicting Abba on the Slashdot audience...
Sir StarTux
What do you think of the current allegations of match fixing and bribes that are sweeping the Sport:
For instance, here is a couple of BBC articles on match fixing: Exhibit A and Exhibit B
A number of players have been implicated and some even banned. How bad is it in Australia?
Is it as bad as this:
Lions Roar
Maybe its time to give GnuCash out to some soon to be poor Cricketer's?
StarTux
I got so sick of the lock out exhibited by some sites ClassicFM that I made a site that is becoming popular Penguin (and GNU!) Friendly
Indeed for Konqueror you cannot even submit a bug report unless the page where the error occured is W3C standard.
StarTux
Not so much Anti-MSFT, just more anti-monopoly. This situation could well have been totally different.
Imagine if it was IBM's OS/2 that became the number 1 desktop? Do you not think that you would be say this instead:
"Slashdot is becoming less and less of a place of information and more a platform for anti-IBM, anti-corporation propaganda."
Who knows in this case if MSFT would have taken a liking to Linux and made their own distro?
You are of course correct in that corps have to make the most money available. The part you did not cover is what happens when it becomes to big and powerful, therebye halting consumer choice, killing off innovation and driving up prices? That is a hallmark of a Monopoly....
So, yes most people here are angry at MSFT for those very reasons.
>Many of slashdot's readers fail to recognize that Microsoft and >AOL are both responsible for making the internet accessable >to the normal, non-techie consumer.
Have we forgotten OS/2 (you know, the one from IBM that got killed off)? AOL had clever marketing, just pour out millions of CD's....Indeed I remember the days before AOL, it was so easy to get connected via Compuserve. And if you were in the UK, Demon Internet was very easy too. Hate to say it, your remark was almost as bad as the one some people make about MSFT and paychecks...Sorry it could have easily been another company. And yes, we could easily be "hating" that other company.
StarTux
None of these studies could stand up to any scientific scrutiny....
1. The pool of so called "professionals" is very small, only 724 (from memory...). This hardly represents anything.
2. What sort of questiosn did they ask to gauge the competence of the end user? If its partially sponsered by MSFT, then did MSFT get to do the screening?
4. I have noticed that people with Unix backgrounds go the *nix route, Windows background favour Windows a little more...
5. All the statistics are meaningless and unscientific as most of his points are opinionated. Just give the facts, not the babble.
6. If Redhat had comissioned it it could easily have been 8% of shipments were Windows based, amazing how easy it would have been for them to pay for the result they intended...
7. Only time will tell who is going to do the best.....
Hope that made sense.
Wrong,
I was going to take your silly retort apart point by point, but its obvious you really did not understand my point...Maybe my spelling/grammitcal threw you off...
My real point was free trade, do I have spell that out?
>These people are enforcing legal patents they were >granted, not simply blocking a trade 'because they >can'.
Now I am feeding the troll, but to the "Pirates" they were doing what they were doing because they thought they had a legal reason to do so.
>By your logic, the person collecting tickets at the >entrance to a concert is a pirate who is preventing >you from seeing the concert?
Shame you said that as you have little idea what logic is....I cannot see how you can jump from my poor example on how things effect free trade to your example? When you pay for a ticket to a concert you then hand it over as proof of purchase, you do not hand over extra cash. Thats a big difference and logically very different.
My example was not the best as most people know little about history.....
Nice and comfortable?
Lets go back approximately 200 years to when the USA was a fledgling nation.
Back then the US wanted to trade with the nation in the 'Med. But there was one slight problem...
Pirates! "Legalised" pirates, "they barricaded" the Meditteranean with there vessels. These people had a name: Barbaryt Pirates!
What these Pirates would do is come alongside a ship, peacefully, and demand a tribute. If none was forthcoming they would simply capture the ship and crew and hold them ransome.
Unfortuantly the USA was poor at the time and could hardly afford a tribute, but trade was very important. So...To cut this short the US Navy was born as were the US Marines, they destroyed the Pirates in an act of Free Trade.
Forward to the present day:
To listen to music gennerally you have to pay a "toll", not to the artist but to some group that wants to "blockade" access to the music until you pay them a tribute. We do not call them Pirates, although really that is what they are as the similarities between them and the Barbary pirates is close...We call them the RIAA/MPAA.
Yep, they are the real pirates here, if only Jefferson were alive today...
StarTux
Its depressing...But what happened to the real standards body? www.w3c.org?
Thats why my site was made: www.penguinfriendly.org
This is a battle for Freedom. I was the choice to be mine, not some large corporations.
StarTux
Scientist1: We need our samples quarantined.
Scientist2: Yes, or our experiments will be contaminated.
Scientist1: Let me tell the politician, we need extra money for this.
Politician: Eh? Who cares, you can work around it.
This quarantine will be too expensive...
Scientist1: Shoot, that did not work...
Scientist2: I have an idea....
Politician: Whats that!? Big green and blue space aliens will take the World??? Quarantine them NOW! Before they evolve like in the Movie! Yikes...
They absolutly should be totally quarantined due to the fact that our own microbes will contaminate the samples and then make it hard to tell if indeed there was any life on it or not.
StarTux
To all those people who say,"It supports Netscape, read the article!" You are missing the point:
.NET initiative. Basically, they do not see the dangers of putting sensitive Government information in the hands of Microsoft (back door anyone?).
.NET networks, bringing them to a grinding halt. The UK government has already been shut down on previous e-mail clogging system issues.
I have been following this for sometime and knew awhile ago that they intended to the
This is what is going to happen:
1.A virus is going to sweep across all MSFT
2.Someone from a foreign country will crack the site and steal some information and post it, or threaten to.
3. UK Taxpayer will pay the bills for these licenses when they need to keep up the subscription.
Sorry to say, but this is an outrageous waste of taxpayers money.
Another offending site that uses MSFT only crap is www.classicfm.co.uk which is a shame 'cause I liked to listen to their broadcasts, but its not worth the boot into Windows for.
Strange, but has not happened on my computer at all....Time to look for other answers away from the Kernel? What makes you think its a USB issue? And how do you know its not happening on startup?
Whichever distro you use you can try their respective mailing lists. Just in case...
But came and said the words "Open Source"
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Also, this maybe of interest too:
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Have fun.
Man, you have some weird sense of humor! At least one would hope...
Grand Wizard StarTux
Terry was the first to make Death comical, way before Bill and Ted came onto the scene.
:-).
Just wanted to point that out
Your comments really did not deserve a 5, maybe a 2 or a three...
i c.asp
You make absolutly no mention of what the user wants from the Desktop...If its for games then I'd have to agree, but for general pupose I can just install SuSE 7.1 with KDE2 and use the apps that came with that, and guess what? Its usable right away. No mention made of Konquerer either, where have you been living? KOffice, despite being beta is looking very good. Yes, with Konquerer you get the odd java problem, but that is due to MS extensions on top of Java. Yes indeed MS added extensions on top of Java that have made it unusable outside of IE5. Try using the Windows version of Opera to see what I mean.
FreeBSD is good, so is OpenBSD (although where is OpenBSD heading? In fact after the purchase of FreeBSd by Windriver I question what the direction for FreeBsD is too...).
Linix is growing, is here to stay and will eventually grow on the desktop.
Case point 1:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/guide/mus
Yup, WMA will sound better because, guess what? Yup, they screwed around with how your MP3's will sound in Windows...I am sure there are many more.
Who is best available to take up some of those migrating? I can only really say two players, this is in order:
Mac OS X
Linux
Only two, so we had better get working! As the Mac is really only Mac hardware related (as far as I know, OS X has not been ported yet) that leaves Linux as the easiest and quickest way to get running.
By the time October comes hopefully we will be in much better shape.
As a caveat, who really cares who gets the majority of the desktop, all that really matters is that a monopoly is broken, consumers deserve to have a choice. Imagine a world where all you could buy was one type of car. I'll stop as I can easily go on...
StarTux
Been there, done that over on linuxtoday and linuxplanet.
- 05 -22-006-20-OP-DT
/ 33 92/1/
You will get this on slashdot tomorrow, so I am might as well post it now. Brian Proffit's rebuttal is here:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001
Original article is here:
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions
Sorry, could not be bothered with html.
I believe Kevin did this about the desktop to rile people up and get them motivated. Whcih seems to be working...
StarTux
If you read the link, you will notice that they say they will keep it as-is.
To quote the article:
"MP3.com (www.mp3.com) will maintain its role as the premier distributor of music on the Internet. The company will continue to feature content from all record labels and from independent artists. There are currently over 150,000 artists from more than 180 countries that make their music available to music fans through MP3.com. Currently, more than 25% of Billboard Magazine's current Top 40 albums are being promoted on MP3.com."
But these are just words. And guess what, featuring content does not mean that they cannot encrypt the MP3's or do whatever other hideous thing to the music.
Can someone please tell me what the ideals of the American Revolution was all about, why we even bothered fighting in WW2? We maybe heading towards "A thousand years of darkness, perpetuated by evil, perverted science".
StarTux
You mention all your other specs, apart from one of the most important one, the video card. How can I tell you are not running it on a Voodoo 1? Or a 4 meg PCI card?
I saw enough from their advertisement on the side of a bus to know that this movie was going to suck big time. First of all the main character does not know how to ride his horse too well, you never ride a horse like he did, one hand on the reigns up in the air, and he was scrunched forward, all this leads to being unbalanced.
Yes of course it was not meant to be serious, but come on even when I was a teen I detested movies like this as an insult.
A good story with good effects that does not want to seem stupid will appeal across far wider age groups, from the very young to the very old. Why did the Knights Tale limit itself to one group?
I have read similer things in some of Carl Sagan's books just from the review (the review was indeed quite hard to read). Especially the parts about science being more open and less snobbish.
It is a worrying trend that large groups of people will turn to superstition and "here be Dragons" over the actual facts. In this case I mean actual bona fide facts that are there, not just theory. A prime example would be the terrible Fox show on the Moon Landings recently that went in just to try and prove that they never occured. It was blatantly biased to the opinion that NASA had engineered the whole thing here on Earth, but they neglected to even mention Moon Rocks, nor the fact that thousands of HAM Radio operators could follow the progress through the atmosphere and onwards towards the moon.
Seems like he is trying to reach a wide audience via Sci-Fi, not sure that this is the best route. Would it not be better to become a screen writer and get some "entertainment" shows published?
>Many eyes make all security flaws shallow, and >there are many more eyes scrutinising Windows >than Linux.
How many more eyes scrutinise the Windows source code vs the Linux source code??
>The last time I used linux it expected me to >recompile my kernel so that I could have >working sound and access my windows >partition.
When *was* the last time. Last time I installed a distribution I could access my Windows partitions and my SBLive worked flawlessly (last time was SuSE 7.1, but worked just as well from about 6.4).
Each to their own, but most of the new innovation is not coming from Redmond. Its still worth trying your dual boot with the newer distro's and using newer web design utils, although not the same as Dreamweaver yet, but getting there.
StarTux
How about if you run ReiserFS? Also, would you not need to mount the directories?
StarTux
My DSL network is down, is it worth getting it fixed?
Telocity will survive for sure as they are a subsidry of Hughes, the DirectTV people. they do have a plan in place to change the user base to last-mile providers (whoever they maybe).
Interestingly my line is already down, but this is a seperate issue.
StarTux