Microsoft will be a pale shadow of what it used to be. Nokia, Ericsson, Sony, and Samsung will be the primary movers and shakers in the computing realm. Most people will have given up the heavy and unreliable PC in favor of phones that have a plethora of computing/communication tasks built-in.
Consider the following, what do you already use your PC for? Surfing the web? Email, chatting, games, mp3s? A phone can do that now, but not so good. But in 10 years, it wll be better at it than PCs. Plus, it can be used as a phone.
I am not a lawyer, but -- not that someone *has* indeed paid their extortion money, SCO is now officially guilty of fraud, no?
I mean, can't every single developer of Linux who has contributed code now sue SCO for a portion of that "extortion money" / and/or sue them for illegally charging for something that is supposed to be free?
In other words, now that there has been an exchange of money, isn't the "john" as guilty now as the "prostitute"?
Sale of stolen goods and all that nonsense? I mean, lets say for a minute that it is Microsoft that just paid to license linux.
By the legal system as I understand it, the recipient of the stolen goods is also liable. If you buy an illegal DVD on the street in Chinatown, can't you also be busted by the cops just as much as the seller?
So, this could be a double edged sword, even for those that want to appease their PHB's by forking over the money for the license, no?
A new HBO series about a guy who beats up other people and takes their money in an organized crime kind of way, but hey, it's a legitmate business, right?
"Youse guys pays your protection money, or louie here sues you... or breaks yours fingers dere..."
Following soon: Darl McBride stars in "6 feet under"
If this doesn't convince all linux users that we need to band together to class action suit SCO to death in a hurry, nothing will.
I ursge every one of you to either contribute to the Red Hat legal fund or to start banding together and hiring your own lawyers and start spending that $699 for a better cause -- to wipe SCO off the face of the planet by any and all possible means.
Does anybody else see this coming? Just as MS is secretly behind SCO, it's going to become clear that IBM is behind Red Hat. So, if I might make the Babylon 5 analogy...
The Shadows are Microsoft and IBM are the Vorlons, while the Centauri are SCO and the Alliance is Red Hat...
Each "First One" is trying to win their side of the war using the smaller races as the pawns in their larger game.
Don't fall for it Red Hat, you're just doing what they want you to do! You got to choose to stand on your own and kick MS and IBM directly.
Although, wouldn't it be great if the CEO of Red Hat shows up with a space ship and a 50megaton Nuke to blow a hole in Z'hadum (Redmond WA.)...
Just like with the terrorists, we should start a website for betting on who the RIAA will sue first. Then, if you bet on yourself, and place a good bet, you'll win enough money to finance your defense.
It's a futures market for RIAA lawsuits, aka "America's New Economy".
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How come I can't get an iPod? Ah, screw it. I'm having enough trouble just figuring out how to use the stereo. Do you think I can ask Apple to send me a victrola if I pull up to the dealership in a 1961 Beetle?
I like the Jetta, but, I have to admit that the older the Beetle, the cooler it is. Those new Beetles are cute, but the old ones just run forever.
And I've noticed many smirks or at least raised eyebrows when someone trundles in a 3-year old, heavy-as-hell-with-passive-matrix-screen laptop into a meeting. And many if not most of the laptop-advocates here are familiar with the satisfaction of hauling in the newest, coolest laptop, hearing the oohs-and-ahhs and having the neatest toy in the board room for the next month or so.
Actually I ENJOY bringing in the oldest laptop, and showing off the fact that there's no HD (everything lives on a 2MB "card" in the Toshiba T-1000 SE), and how it's a DOS-only, 8088 powered laptop and yet, I can type notes in it just as fast as the newest laptops, and, because there's NO HD, I can drop it without worrying that my data is going to be destroyed. Oh, and I bought it for $10 at a garage sale.... And the battery still holds a decent charge, and there's lots of room inside to hack in some extra stuff.
In fact, many people look at my laptop simply because they've never seen one so old that WORKS.
But then again, if you visit my website, you'll understand why I like old laptops (and old computers).
Somebody tried to do a Star Blazers movie but that got tanked before it ever got to production. I guess not enough people remember it. But then again, they probably would have screwed it up. Just got to http://www.anime.com to get your junkie fix on Star Blazers and BotP.
Dude, you friggin rule. That was the funniest post I have ever read on Slashdot, bar none. You have distilled the very essence of the entire site to as few words as possible. Poetry, sheer poetry.
Now I have to clean up all the coke that just came shooting out of my nose...
I just see it now, the RIAA lawyer in his $1000 Armani suit and the defendant, a 12 year old kid in a t-shirt and jeans. What? You're going to sue him for his paper route money?
The judge is going to look at the RIAA and say "High School Bully", and the case will be dumped out of court, with the RIAA having to pay all legal fees, and compensate the court for the waste of time.
The parents will be asked to ground the kid, but let's face it, he's probably spending all his time in his room anyhow.
I know a kid who got in trouble pirating software, and the FBI showed up at his door and everything. But he was 13 years old at the time, and in the end, all that happened was that his computer was taken away and he had zero internet access for 6 months. After that, he was back to his usual tricks.
The RIAA isn't going to make any progress with this tactic, all they are going to do is piss off a lot of people who might have been their customers, or potential artists.
Just wait until the PCI group renames PCI Express to PCI just to keep things confusing to the consumer. After all, if consumers are demanding PCI Express in their computers, then just rename everything to PCI express... or however that USB fiasco works out....
I'm just wonering now if that external HD USB2 case I bought is really 1.1 or not... Grrrrr.
Not that I won't be subjected to another 3 months (more, really, considering RotK is coming in Dec) of my girlfriend saying, "Isn't he dreamy?...I love Legolas!...He's so handsome, won't you learn Elvish, honey?"
Tolkien geeks have girlfriends? How is that possible?
Want to see what your cell phone is doing? Here's something every one of you can do with your cell phone to witness the interference it creates:::
Place it upright, next to your computer monitor speakers. This will probably work best if you use the speaker with the amplifier built in (the speaker with the volume control on it).
Now wait to get a call -- or better, if you've got one of those fancy phone that updates the clock every hour or so. Before the screen lights up and it rings or before it updates the time, you'll hear an odd sound coming out of speakers. That's an example of the interference a cell phone can create.
New show on FOX. Laugh at the wild antics of the Daddy character, the housewife and the 2.5 children. All drawn in a generic color scheme so they can be anybody. They live in a town with the most common town name in America.
Redmond, Washington -- In a move related to the announcement of Linux for clustering, or large supercomputing projects, Microsoft has announced a new version of Windows XP, which supports up to 200 CPUs. The Highly-SMP version of XP is however, limied by the fact that all 200 CPUs must be on the same motherboard.
"200 CPUs should be enough for anybody." Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates was quoted as saying.
Steven Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, contributed the following: "Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers!"
"Microsoft is commoitted to providing highly-scalable, enterprise-wide, trustworthy computing." claimed I. Amaliar, head of Microsoft's marketing division.
MS has annoucned a release date for this new version of XP for August, 2004.
Evengelion is too complex to fit into a two-hour (or even 6 hour) movie. If you try and chop it down, it loses all it's substance and becomes meaningless drivel.
It will become a movie simply about CGI robots beating each other up.
"The Big O" Would be a much better choice. Fairly simplistic plotline, with familiar characters (It's Batman with Giant Robo), but intriguing nevertheless.
And yes, those CGI robots from Big O would be much more fun to see bashing each other.
Besides, I'd love to see who would be cast as R. Dorothy Wainright....
The "Web" died the moment companies started suing private individuals because those people got to the proper domain names first. Those corporations had zero foresight and should have had to do without. But nooooo, they sick'ed lawyers on everyone and everything until they got what they wanted, and then realising that they had this kind of power, started to "lobby" Congress into changing law to suit their needs.
Consider the DMCA, which seems to serve no other purpose than to harass "the little guy", when a big corporation would like to roll over on him.
Mind you, corporations would do it anyhow, but now they've made it legal, and are using your taxes to harass him -- they no longer need to spend their own money.
Consider that half the people I know are now afraid to put up websites for fear that if they link to somone or say the wrong thing online, they will get sued.
Thanks to spam, email has become near-useless, nobody uses usenet, and the web is controlled by the big boys.
The internet died a while ago.
You see that every time an AOL ad comes on TV. Only the media conglomerates have control. We're just hanging on to the fringes, like sailors clinging to the wooden remains of a destroyed ship. But the ship has indeed sunk, and we're just treading water until we too, sink below the waves of internet-trash.
As an owner of several Apple II machines, I'll tell you that the Apple II is light years faster than my windows machine.
For example, boot time of OS: Windows == about a minute Apple II == about 2 seconds after power on
Boot time of "integrated software suite" MS Office == an eternity AppleWorks == about 16 seconds
Now, it should be noted that the Apple II is way faster because the apps to load are usually in the area of 16k, while the current generation of software is in the hundreds of megabytes.
And it should also be noted that my IIE has a SCSI card and is hooked to a 30Meg (wow!) HD, which holds nearly everything I'd ever want to run on a IIe and still leave me plenty of data-file room.
But, even by 8-bit clunker standards, the IIE was pretty damn fast. Woz built one heck of a machine, and I worship his genius every time I power the damn thing on.
The software industry isn't dead. Hell, the software industry hasn't even gotten out of infancy yet. Consider that there are already tens of millions of computers in the world, and out of that number there are thousands of types of computers that AREN'T PC type computers running windows. There are millions of embedded, specialty machines that will need software.
Consider that every cellular phone is a computer, every car on the road has a computer in it, and hell, even your microwave has a computer.
And as computers become more ubiqitious and get built into every device, and it requires that these devices become more and more "intelligent", they are going to require more sophisticated software to run them.
You think your microwave that'll accept voice commands is going to happen by magic? We're still 10 or 20 years away from having a computer like "HAL" (in 2001), i.e. a computer smart enough to write it's own software, so, I'd say that there's still plenty of time for you to make some money.
And even then, when computers are doing the programming, there will always be those who are better at it than the machines. Of course, the machines might conspire to bump off those folks, but that's fodder for my next novel...
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Microsoft will be a pale shadow of what it used to be. Nokia, Ericsson, Sony, and Samsung will be the primary movers and shakers in the computing realm. Most people will have given up the heavy and unreliable PC in favor of phones that have a plethora of computing/communication tasks built-in.
Consider the following, what do you already use your PC for? Surfing the web? Email, chatting, games, mp3s? A phone can do that now, but not so good. But in 10 years, it wll be better at it than PCs. Plus, it can be used as a phone.
Phones are going to eventually replace the PC.
I am not a lawyer, but -- not that someone *has* indeed paid their extortion money, SCO is now officially guilty of fraud, no?
I mean, can't every single developer of Linux who has contributed code now sue SCO for a portion of that "extortion money" / and/or sue them for illegally charging for something that is supposed to be free?
In other words, now that there has been an exchange of money, isn't the "john" as guilty now as the "prostitute"?
Sale of stolen goods and all that nonsense? I mean, lets say for a minute that it is Microsoft that just paid to license linux.
By the legal system as I understand it, the recipient of the stolen goods is also liable. If you buy an illegal DVD on the street in Chinatown, can't you also be busted by the cops just as much as the seller?
So, this could be a double edged sword, even for those that want to appease their PHB's by forking over the money for the license, no?
A new HBO series about a guy who beats up other people and takes their money in an organized crime kind of way, but hey, it's a legitmate business, right?
"Youse guys pays your protection money, or louie here sues you... or breaks yours fingers dere..."
Following soon: Darl McBride stars in "6 feet under"
Duh! Of Course!
If this doesn't convince all linux users that we need to band together to class action suit SCO to death in a hurry, nothing will.
I ursge every one of you to either contribute to the Red Hat legal fund or to start banding together and hiring your own lawyers and start spending that $699 for a better cause -- to wipe SCO off the face of the planet by any and all possible means.
Yes, I'm pissed.
OMG. You've brought a tear to my eye. That was funny and nostalgic at the same time. I salute you, true memeber of the Star Force!
Does anybody else see this coming? Just as MS is secretly behind SCO, it's going to become clear that IBM is behind Red Hat. So, if I might make the Babylon 5 analogy...
The Shadows are Microsoft and IBM are the Vorlons, while the Centauri are SCO and the Alliance is Red Hat...
Each "First One" is trying to win their side of the war using the smaller races as the pawns in their larger game.
Don't fall for it Red Hat, you're just doing what they want you to do! You got to choose to stand on your own and kick MS and IBM directly.
Although, wouldn't it be great if the CEO of Red Hat shows up with a space ship and a 50megaton Nuke to blow a hole in Z'hadum (Redmond WA.)...
Just like with the terrorists, we should start a website for betting on who the RIAA will sue first. Then, if you bet on yourself, and place a good bet, you'll win enough money to finance your defense.
It's a futures market for RIAA lawsuits, aka "America's New Economy".
How come I can't get an iPod? Ah, screw it. I'm having enough trouble just figuring out how to use the stereo. Do you think I can ask Apple to send me a victrola if I pull up to the dealership in a 1961 Beetle?
I like the Jetta, but, I have to admit that the older the Beetle, the cooler it is. Those new Beetles are cute, but the old ones just run forever.
And I've noticed many smirks or at least raised eyebrows when someone trundles in a 3-year old, heavy-as-hell-with-passive-matrix-screen laptop into a meeting. And many if not most of the laptop-advocates here are familiar with the satisfaction of hauling in the newest, coolest laptop, hearing the oohs-and-ahhs and having the neatest toy in the board room for the next month or so.
Actually I ENJOY bringing in the oldest laptop, and showing off the fact that there's no HD (everything lives on a 2MB "card" in the Toshiba T-1000 SE), and how it's a DOS-only, 8088 powered laptop and yet, I can type notes in it just as fast as the newest laptops, and, because there's NO HD, I can drop it without worrying that my data is going to be destroyed. Oh, and I bought it for $10 at a garage sale.... And the battery still holds a decent charge, and there's lots of room inside to hack in some extra stuff.
In fact, many people look at my laptop simply because they've never seen one so old that WORKS.
But then again, if you visit my website, you'll understand why I like old laptops (and old computers).
Somebody tried to do a Star Blazers movie but that got tanked before it ever got to production. I guess not enough people remember it. But then again, they probably would have screwed it up. Just got to http://www.anime.com to get your junkie fix on Star Blazers and BotP.
Dude, you friggin rule. That was the funniest post I have ever read on Slashdot, bar none. You have distilled the very essence of the entire site to as few words as possible. Poetry, sheer poetry.
Now I have to clean up all the coke that just came shooting out of my nose...
That's my favorite part of the movie! I've even got that bit sampled as a beep sound...
I just see it now, the RIAA lawyer in his $1000 Armani suit and the defendant, a 12 year old kid in a t-shirt and jeans. What? You're going to sue him for his paper route money?
The judge is going to look at the RIAA and say "High School Bully", and the case will be dumped out of court, with the RIAA having to pay all legal fees, and compensate the court for the waste of time.
The parents will be asked to ground the kid, but let's face it, he's probably spending all his time in his room anyhow.
I know a kid who got in trouble pirating software, and the FBI showed up at his door and everything. But he was 13 years old at the time, and in the end, all that happened was that his computer was taken away and he had zero internet access for 6 months. After that, he was back to his usual tricks.
The RIAA isn't going to make any progress with this tactic, all they are going to do is piss off a lot of people who might have been their customers, or potential artists.
Or are you just happy to see me?
--- Ah, what would we have done without Mae West?
Just wait until the PCI group renames PCI Express to PCI just to keep things confusing to the consumer. After all, if consumers are demanding PCI Express in their computers, then just rename everything to PCI express... or however that USB fiasco works out....
I'm just wonering now if that external HD USB2 case I bought is really 1.1 or not... Grrrrr.
Not that I won't be subjected to another 3 months (more, really, considering RotK is coming in Dec) of my girlfriend saying, "Isn't he dreamy?...I love Legolas!...He's so handsome, won't you learn Elvish, honey?"
Tolkien geeks have girlfriends? How is that possible?
Want to see what your cell phone is doing? Here's something every one of you can do with your cell phone to witness the interference it creates:::
Place it upright, next to your computer monitor speakers. This will probably work best if you use the speaker with the amplifier built in (the speaker with the volume control on it).
Now wait to get a call -- or better, if you've got one of those fancy phone that updates the clock every hour or so. Before the screen lights up and it rings or before it updates the time, you'll hear an odd sound coming out of speakers. That's an example of the interference a cell phone can create.
Try it right now, and you'll see I'm not kidding.
New show on FOX. Laugh at the wild antics of the Daddy character, the housewife and the 2.5 children. All drawn in a generic color scheme so they can be anybody. They live in a town with the most common town name in America.
"D'Oh"
Redmond, Washington -- In a move related to the announcement of Linux for clustering, or large supercomputing projects, Microsoft has announced a new version of Windows XP, which supports up to 200 CPUs. The Highly-SMP version of XP is however, limied by the fact that all 200 CPUs must be on the same motherboard.
"200 CPUs should be enough for anybody." Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates was quoted as saying.
Steven Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, contributed the following: "Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers!"
"Microsoft is commoitted to providing highly-scalable, enterprise-wide, trustworthy computing." claimed I. Amaliar, head of Microsoft's marketing division.
MS has annoucned a release date for this new version of XP for August, 2004.
Evengelion is too complex to fit into a two-hour (or even 6 hour) movie. If you try and chop it down, it loses all it's substance and becomes meaningless drivel.
It will become a movie simply about CGI robots beating each other up.
"The Big O" Would be a much better choice. Fairly simplistic plotline, with familiar characters (It's Batman with Giant Robo), but intriguing nevertheless.
And yes, those CGI robots from Big O would be much more fun to see bashing each other.
Besides, I'd love to see who would be cast as R. Dorothy Wainright....
The "Web" died the moment companies started suing private individuals because those people got to the proper domain names first. Those corporations had zero foresight and should have had to do without. But nooooo, they sick'ed lawyers on everyone and everything until they got what they wanted, and then realising that they had this kind of power, started to "lobby" Congress into changing law to suit their needs.
Consider the DMCA, which seems to serve no other purpose than to harass "the little guy", when a big corporation would like to roll over on him.
Mind you, corporations would do it anyhow, but now they've made it legal, and are using your taxes to harass him -- they no longer need to spend their own money.
Consider that half the people I know are now afraid to put up websites for fear that if they link to somone or say the wrong thing online, they will get sued.
Thanks to spam, email has become near-useless, nobody uses usenet, and the web is controlled by the big boys.
The internet died a while ago.
You see that every time an AOL ad comes on TV.
Only the media conglomerates have control. We're just hanging on to the fringes, like sailors clinging to the wooden remains of a destroyed ship. But the ship has indeed sunk, and we're just treading water until we too, sink below the waves of internet-trash.
As an owner of several Apple II machines, I'll tell you that the Apple II is light years faster than my windows machine.
For example, boot time of OS:
Windows == about a minute
Apple II == about 2 seconds after power on
Boot time of "integrated software suite"
MS Office == an eternity
AppleWorks == about 16 seconds
Now, it should be noted that the Apple II is way faster because the apps to load are usually in the area of 16k, while the current generation of software is in the hundreds of megabytes.
And it should also be noted that my IIE has a SCSI card and is hooked to a 30Meg (wow!) HD, which holds nearly everything I'd ever want to run on a IIe and still leave me plenty of data-file room.
But, even by 8-bit clunker standards, the IIE was pretty damn fast. Woz built one heck of a machine, and I worship his genius every time I power the damn thing on.
So, yeah, basically I'm a loser!
Should be changed to Shyster.
Then it would be more accurate....
The software industry isn't dead. Hell, the software industry hasn't even gotten out of infancy yet. Consider that there are already tens of millions of computers in the world, and out of that number there are thousands of types of computers that AREN'T PC type computers running windows. There are millions of embedded, specialty machines that will need software.
Consider that every cellular phone is a computer, every car on the road has a computer in it, and hell, even your microwave has a computer.
And as computers become more ubiqitious and get built into every device, and it requires that these devices become more and more "intelligent", they are going to require more sophisticated software to run them.
You think your microwave that'll accept voice commands is going to happen by magic? We're still 10 or 20 years away from having a computer like "HAL" (in 2001), i.e. a computer smart enough to write it's own software, so, I'd say that there's still plenty of time for you to make some money.
And even then, when computers are doing the programming, there will always be those who are better at it than the machines. Of course, the machines might conspire to bump off those folks, but that's fodder for my next novel...
TTYL!