"Windows" is a totally uncommon word... NOT:-)
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MS "kindly asked" Windows Commander (now "Total Commander") to be renamed
Windows Commander is now Total Commander!
Why this name change? In Summer 2002, we received a letter from attorneys representing the owner of the trademark "Windows". In this letter they expressed concerns that our usage of the name could lead to confusion with their own products. In particular, people could think that our program could be from their company. We were indirectly asked to change the name of our software.
Because "Windows" is registered as a trademark, we didn't want to risk a lawsuit, and decided to change the name. It's important to mention that we have been treated in a very fair way: There have never been any legal threats, and we could negotiate a transitional period until the end of the year. We ask you to consider this, and not to make any negative comments - especially in the forum. Because we are legally responsible for its contents, it could bring us into deep legal troubles. Please also do not contact us because of the new name. As a small company, we couldn't handle the big amount of messages. We will not give more information about the name change anyway.
After reading lots of clueless "murder", "rape" and "terrorist" ones it's refreshing to see someone hit the point.
There is no "clueless" moderation for "murder", "rape" or "terrorist", so please moderate "movie reviewers" and "pizza delivery" as insightful if you have any spare points left:-)
> If the purpose of the government is to create more state jobs > at a greater expense to taxpayers, then you're right on the money.
"Greater expense" still has to be shown - we aren't talking about Jane Doe's home PC here. Governments should think in longer time frames and also should give some weight to vendor independance, freedom of upgrade cycles, local IT jobs (including education, R&D and stuff) and - as a bonus - getting rid of blackmail:-)
> However I don't really think that's what government should be > trying to do. But then, we ARE talking about Europe...
Some of us may be in doubt that the US government would shut up and comply if a Chinese or EU software monopoly would try those "persuasion tactics" on them.
DON'T USE - time travel - it's just a dream - parallel universe because it tells me "uh uh - we messed up the plot and need to rewind" - those episodes simply suck:-)
Ranking:
#1) DS9 - no questions asked - my #1 - interesting characters and good character development - storyline is interesting an mostly consistent - nice "side stories" - the "tribbles" episode was a soo funny (though it violated rule B)
#2) Enterprise (first 3 seasons - hoping for more to ait here soon) - characters are good and promise more fun and development - storyline has promising ideas, but lacks a strong idea and continuty. constantly violating rule 2 ( time travel sucks:-)
#3) TNG - weak storyline - with exception of the "Borg" episodes - strong and weak characters
#4) Voyager - "we need to get home" is no storyline, sorry - some nice side stories - not enough strong and interesting characters
there are "Problems with application incompatibilities, poor performance, escalating support costs and an immature Linux ecosystem".
We simply have to switch back to our "troublefree (TM), totally compatible(TM) with any application (could not run those dialers, trojan.W32.keyloggers and VBS.XYZ.W32.AX under leenuks), hi performance (if you add enough hardware), no support needed (really, we have 5 MCSEs on our payroll to prove it), matureecosystem
Combe's Web applications needed a database, and the only option available to the company was one from Oracle Corp.
We were unable to type "list of linux databases" into the google prompt, because.... hmmmm.... we couldn't find "Internet Explorer" icon on that strange KDE screen
Case also was concerned that his company did not have appropriate in-house Linux expertise.
... and we didn't care to build "appropriate in-house Linux expertise" for that, because we didn't care until that ugly "two weeks' notice"
We have also lowered our TCO [total cost of ownership].
What's that smell ? Did i step into a pile of marketing bullshit ?
(Another company... same story)
"The decision to go with Linux was a cost-based one," [...] "We had not budgeted the e-commerce system setup in that year's business plan."
... neither did we make a project plan.
"We spent more during the first three months troubleshooting the Linux system than if we had purchased the Windows solution to begin with," [...] "The Linux system could not handle the layers of information needed for internal control of the resort."
Did i already mention the missing project plan?
System failures and escalating costs had the resort reconsidering its Linux decision [...] "There was a limit [..within the application which..] crashed the whole store."
[...]
Mountain High decided to rebuild the site on Windows [...] If we had not gone with the Windows solution, there is no way we could have processed all the passes.
Our bad application design (Did i already mention the missing project plan?) did lead to downtime in our e-commerce system, so we blamed it on Linux to avoid getting fired.
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"The Internet? We are not interested in it"
-- Bill Gates, 1993
"Like a lot of products that are free, you get a loyal following even though it's small. I've never had a customer mention Linux to me."
-- Bill Gates, 1998.
I would expect some not so nice consequences in international relations
- having to send all Guantanamo staff and the US military commanders to Afghanistan, GB, Iran or Iraq for kidnapping, torture, illegal imprisonment etc. to stand trial according to local laws
- extradition request from china, russia, saudi arabia... for "grasing some palms" to get that big power plant / communications / oil contract - let the CEO come and face a chinese court or Shari'ah (Islamic Law)
You can't expect the world to respect YOUR laws, but constantly ignore THEIRS - can you ?
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"Windows" is a totally uncommon word ... NOT :-)
--
MS "kindly asked" Windows Commander (now "Total Commander") to be renamed
Windows Commander is now Total Commander!
Why this name change? In Summer 2002, we received a letter from attorneys representing the owner of the trademark "Windows". In this letter they expressed concerns that our usage of the name could lead to confusion with their own products. In particular, people could think that our program could be from their company. We were indirectly asked to change the name of our software.
Because "Windows" is registered as a trademark, we didn't want to risk a lawsuit, and decided to change the name. It's important to mention that we have been treated in a very fair way: There have never been any legal threats, and we could negotiate a transitional period until the end of the year. We ask you to consider this, and not to make any negative comments - especially in the forum. Because we are legally responsible for its contents, it could bring us into deep legal troubles. Please also do not contact us because of the new name. As a small company, we couldn't handle the big amount of messages. We will not give more information about the name change anyway.
Windows rapidly approaching desktop usability
> * our FISHES are really tasty, yeah
:-)
> [...]
> *I'm NOT really a New Zealander
Nobody would have guessed that you're not a native speaker
After reading lots of clueless "murder", "rape" and "terrorist" ones it's refreshing to see someone hit the point.
:-)
There is no "clueless" moderation for "murder", "rape" or "terrorist", so please moderate "movie reviewers" and "pizza delivery" as insightful if you have any spare points left
Thank you.
NEVER do a backup without a working restore !
My English teacher once told me that two positives don't make a negative.
Two words for her: Yeah, right.
> If the purpose of the government is to create more state jobs
:-)
> at a greater expense to taxpayers, then you're right on the money.
"Greater expense" still has to be shown - we aren't talking about
Jane Doe's home PC here. Governments should think in longer time
frames and also should give some weight to vendor independance,
freedom of upgrade cycles, local IT jobs (including education, R&D
and stuff) and - as a bonus - getting rid of blackmail
> However I don't really think that's what government should be
> trying to do. But then, we ARE talking about Europe...
Some of us may be in doubt that the US government would shut up
and comply if a Chinese or EU software monopoly would try those
"persuasion tactics" on them.
Converting all Danish government IT away from MS towards OSS will surely bring far more than 800 jobs and KEEP those in the country.
Go read some Gibson "Cyberpunk" books to see what you get if you let corporations run the world.
Just my 5€Cents.
doubleplusgood
IMHO there are oly 2 ingredients needed for a good ST show
:-)
:-)
:-)
A) get interesting characters, develop those
+) Sisko, Archer, Picard, Seven, Phlox, Quark, T'Pol, Worf, Tom Paris, Jadzia Dax, T'Pol, Trip, Data,
-) Neelix, Beverly Crusher, Katherine Pulaski, Lwaxana Troi,
B) get a thrilling and CONSISTENT(!!!) storyline
DON'T USE
- time travel
- it's just a dream
- parallel universe
because it tells me "uh uh - we messed up the plot and need to rewind" - those episodes simply suck
Ranking:
#1) DS9 - no questions asked - my #1
- interesting characters and good character development
- storyline is interesting an mostly consistent
- nice "side stories"
- the "tribbles" episode was a soo funny (though it violated rule B)
#2) Enterprise (first 3 seasons - hoping for more to ait here soon)
- characters are good and promise more fun and development
- storyline has promising ideas, but lacks a strong idea and continuty. constantly violating rule 2 ( time travel sucks
#3) TNG
- weak storyline - with exception of the "Borg" episodes
- strong and weak characters
#4) Voyager
- "we need to get home" is no storyline, sorry
- some nice side stories
- not enough strong and interesting characters
#5) Star Trek
Just too old to remember
SuSE 6.2 (release date: August 1999)
Seems there is no source code provided, or did i miss the link ?
Low end laser and ink printers are so cheap currenrly - you can pay for two new ones with the first sheet of paper you fill with forged $ bills.
Smash the el-cheapo printer, dump the parts, get a new one, start over. Probably not very effective to stop counterfeiting currency.
We simply have to switch back to our "troublefree (TM), totally compatible(TM) with any application (could not run those dialers, trojan.W32.keyloggers and VBS.XYZ.W32.AX under leenuks), hi performance (if you add enough hardware), no support needed (really, we have 5 MCSEs on our payroll to prove it), mature ecosystem
We were unable to type "list of linux databases" into the google prompt, because
What's that smell ? Did i step into a pile of marketing bullshit ?
Did i already mention the missing project plan?
Our bad application design (Did i already mention the missing project plan?) did lead to downtime in our e-commerce system, so we blamed it on Linux to avoid getting fired.
---
"The Internet? We are not interested in it"
-- Bill Gates, 1993
"Like a lot of products that are free, you get a loyal following even though it's small. I've never had a customer mention Linux to me."
-- Bill Gates, 1998.
"Open Source Kills Jobs"
-- Bill Gates, 2004
You seem not to read much outside /. :-)
... "Linux-only" didn't you understand ?
Emulating the NVIDIA chipset on ATI hardware won't be that easy.
AFAIK the DirectX libs & drivers are statically linked into the
games, so "use DirectX" is no way out in this case.
Giving meaningless names to files isn't solved by technical solutions.
Let's send that W4R3Z H4X0R to US jail then ...
... for "grasing some palms" to get that big power plant / communications / oil contract - let the CEO come and face a chinese court or Shari'ah (Islamic Law)
I would expect some not so nice consequences in international relations
- having to send all Guantanamo staff and the US military commanders to Afghanistan, GB, Iran or Iraq for kidnapping, torture, illegal imprisonment etc. to stand trial according to local laws
- extradition request from china, russia, saudi arabia
You can't expect the world to respect YOUR laws, but constantly ignore THEIRS - can you ?
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