There's been a bit of movement in this direction for a while now. Oracle has had soundex() for a while at the least. It's never worked very well, though...:|
Well, the alternative is that you could move yourself and your family to India, and work the same gruelling hours (or, poor, you, 50 hours a week!) for 1/10 as much as you make now. If there's any such thing as karma in this universe, you'll lose your job to an Indian soon.
You sir, are king of the trolls. This article has *nothing* at all to do with Microsoft, but you mangage to implicate them, anyway. Bravo. I have yet to see such bizarre, twisted, and just plain wrong logic as I have seen in your post.
But, just in case you're mentally challenged, the problem is with ADOBE in this case, because they make the.PDF format, NOT Microsoft.
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Maybe, just maybe, instead of wasting so much time building PVR's, you should take some time to think about your TV fetish and realize that you're wasting your time watching and recording absolute crap. I would contend that there is virtually nothing on TV worth watching, hence, my lack of a TV.
And, how are these poor people who want computers going to even know about eBay, exactly? The whole point is that they don't have computers or Net connections already...
Red Hat is barely breaking even. It has a market capitalization of $2 billion. Big fucking deal. That means that the stock is grossly overpriced. Their P/E is twice what it should be. Insiders are selling. If that's what you call a succes, then that's not sayin' much about Open Source's ability to make money.
The masses are slowly realising that proprietary, closed source solutions are not the way forward and that computers will mainly advance from the imput of the community.
Uuuh, I don't think that anybody has told the masses yet. You wanna tell 'em or should I?
Fine as long as they "play nicely" but what happens when they suddenly decide you can't have your stuff back without paying an enormous fee ?
That's why our company uses W2K as opposed to some tiny *nix distribution. Big companies generally don't do this. Small ones do. Personally, I'm looking forward to getting rid of all of our crappy Adobe Acrobat Readers..pdf is a real nightmare to deal with on a daily basis.
...And doesn't anybody see the fact that Apple is releasign new OS's every 6 months-year as a problem? Jesus, if MS did that, we'd have 1000+ posts about how MS is evil and just after money. I don't know of any other software company that releases full versions so often. Seems that Apple is gouging their customers pretty good, and their customers like it. Personally, I don't get it.
If the makers insist on Windows-only releases, why would you want to deal with them in the first place? It means they're in bed with MS.
Ahh,/. is full of financial wizards today! Of course they are! Why would a company develop software for 99% of a market, when instead they could be writing software for a whopping 1% of the market?? It's a consiracy!!
Well, that's funny. I'm sick of all of the bullshit spewing out of the Linux advocacy "community". "Linux just works". Bullshit. "Linux is cheaper". More bullshit. "Windows doesn't work". More bullshit. Either way, it doesn't really fucking matter. We're not talking about world hunger or anything important. Just competing computer operating systems. So I say, "Get a life".
It's very simple. It's a PR stunt. Very few people will actually use the CD. And most that do will pop it in, play around, then reboot into Windows. This is just a stupid PR stunt.
That's all I do. I've got most of CHINANET completely blackholed by my server (no IP activity allowed from several Class A subnets), and most of South Korea. Just by doing this, it cut my spam by about 90%. The rest are from zombies, but they're easy enough to catch in Thunderbird's spam catcher.
If I'm feeling particularly fiesty, I may use SpamVampire to hammer on them for a few days, driving their bandwidth costs through the roof.
But all in all, just block the subnets, and forget about it. If China wants to talk to my server in any way, China's gonna have to fix their spam problem.
At least they're trying to do something. Ebay has become such a massive fraud pit that even politicians are noticing. I like what they're trying to do, but this may not be the right thing to do. Perhaps a simple class-action lawsuit for fraud against Ebay would have been a better alternative. Either way, "normal" people are being scammed by the hundreds every day on eBay, and obviously, with the amount of fraud and the fact that it keeps happening indicates that "normal" people do need some kind of legal protection from using eBay.
when was the last time a closed-source software outfit (Microsoft I am looking at you) acctually tried to make the packege MORE efficiant?
Never. Bloat is something that you work to avoid when you're still designing and archtecting the software. Chopping off sections of code after the fact only helps minimally. I think the whole project is terribly flawed, and will always be as slow as molasses (which is why I won't use it).
By looking at this thing, I'm guessing that 75% of the people buying this will return it once they use it and realize that it isn't Windows. It looks very much like Windows, plus most people who shop at Wal-Mart wouldn't know the difference.
Yeah, just like OSX.... ooops.. I forgot. This is Slashdot where an OS that can go on 99% of PC's is more restictive than an OS that can be installed onto hardware made by exactly one company.
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There's been a bit of movement in this direction for a while now. Oracle has had soundex() for a while at the least. It's never worked very well, though... :|
Well, the alternative is that you could move yourself and your family to India, and work the same gruelling hours (or, poor, you, 50 hours a week!) for 1/10 as much as you make now. If there's any such thing as karma in this universe, you'll lose your job to an Indian soon.
You sir, are king of the trolls. This article has *nothing* at all to do with Microsoft, but you mangage to implicate them, anyway. Bravo. I have yet to see such bizarre, twisted, and just plain wrong logic as I have seen in your post.
.PDF format, NOT Microsoft.
But, just in case you're mentally challenged, the problem is with ADOBE in this case, because they make the
Maybe, just maybe, instead of wasting so much time building PVR's, you should take some time to think about your TV fetish and realize that you're wasting your time watching and recording absolute crap. I would contend that there is virtually nothing on TV worth watching, hence, my lack of a TV.
And, how are these poor people who want computers going to even know about eBay, exactly? The whole point is that they don't have computers or Net connections already...
Dvorak does this all the time to increase page impressions. Don't even bother reading the article.
The same could be said of Slashdot, which chose to post this wonderful article.
You're right. Look at the "succeses". I think that'll answer your question. (The answer is that open-source ventures do not succeed)
Red Hat is barely breaking even. It has a market capitalization of $2 billion. Big fucking deal. That means that the stock is grossly overpriced. Their P/E is twice what it should be. Insiders are selling. If that's what you call a succes, then that's not sayin' much about Open Source's ability to make money.
The masses are slowly realising that proprietary, closed source solutions are not the way forward and that computers will mainly advance from the imput of the community.
Uuuh, I don't think that anybody has told the masses yet. You wanna tell 'em or should I?
Fine as long as they "play nicely" but what happens when they suddenly decide you can't have your stuff back without paying an enormous fee ?
.pdf is a real nightmare to deal with on a daily basis.
That's why our company uses W2K as opposed to some tiny *nix distribution. Big companies generally don't do this. Small ones do. Personally, I'm looking forward to getting rid of all of our crappy Adobe Acrobat Readers.
Allow me to introduce to you DVDShrink. We're going on almost 2 years of not a single advertisement being shown on our TV.
...And doesn't anybody see the fact that Apple is releasign new OS's every 6 months-year as a problem? Jesus, if MS did that, we'd have 1000+ posts about how MS is evil and just after money. I don't know of any other software company that releases full versions so often. Seems that Apple is gouging their customers pretty good, and their customers like it. Personally, I don't get it.
If the makers insist on Windows-only releases, why would you want to deal with them in the first place? It means they're in bed with MS.
/. is full of financial wizards today! Of course they are! Why would a company develop software for 99% of a market, when instead they could be writing software for a whopping 1% of the market?? It's a consiracy!!
Ahh,
Troll.
Oh really? You got any proof that the largest software company in the known universe is in trouble, Mr. Buffett?
Well, that's funny. I'm sick of all of the bullshit spewing out of the Linux advocacy "community". "Linux just works". Bullshit. "Linux is cheaper". More bullshit. "Windows doesn't work". More bullshit. Either way, it doesn't really fucking matter. We're not talking about world hunger or anything important. Just competing computer operating systems. So I say, "Get a life".
It's very simple. It's a PR stunt. Very few people will actually use the CD. And most that do will pop it in, play around, then reboot into Windows. This is just a stupid PR stunt.
That's all I do. I've got most of CHINANET completely blackholed by my server (no IP activity allowed from several Class A subnets), and most of South Korea. Just by doing this, it cut my spam by about 90%. The rest are from zombies, but they're easy enough to catch in Thunderbird's spam catcher.
If I'm feeling particularly fiesty, I may use SpamVampire to hammer on them for a few days, driving their bandwidth costs through the roof.
But all in all, just block the subnets, and forget about it. If China wants to talk to my server in any way, China's gonna have to fix their spam problem.
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I call troll!! (Not even a very good one at that... no examples, nothing... just some made up garbage... how disappointing)
At least they're trying to do something. Ebay has become such a massive fraud pit that even politicians are noticing. I like what they're trying to do, but this may not be the right thing to do. Perhaps a simple class-action lawsuit for fraud against Ebay would have been a better alternative. Either way, "normal" people are being scammed by the hundreds every day on eBay, and obviously, with the amount of fraud and the fact that it keeps happening indicates that "normal" people do need some kind of legal protection from using eBay.
Exactly why do you think it is flawed?
Because in order to get any kind of usable performance, you need a high-end pentium, especially when comparing in W2K.
when was the last time a closed-source software outfit (Microsoft I am looking at you) acctually tried to make the packege MORE efficiant?
Never. Bloat is something that you work to avoid when you're still designing and archtecting the software. Chopping off sections of code after the fact only helps minimally. I think the whole project is terribly flawed, and will always be as slow as molasses (which is why I won't use it).
By looking at this thing, I'm guessing that 75% of the people buying this will return it once they use it and realize that it isn't Windows. It looks very much like Windows, plus most people who shop at Wal-Mart wouldn't know the difference.
Yeah, just like OSX.... ooops.. I forgot. This is Slashdot where an OS that can go on 99% of PC's is more restictive than an OS that can be installed onto hardware made by exactly one company.
Last time upgraded memory for one of my machines, memory was $1/Meg.