This certainly is a terrible summary. I especially liked the "not the 'let's pry into everyone's business' Republicans, but the 'make the rich pay their fair share' Democrats". Could be recast as "not the 'lets make sure terrorists aren't exploiting bank secrecy' Republicans, but the 'soak the rich' Democrats".
Either way a U.S. partisan rant is really a non-sequitur.
No. And they didn't call it Apple Movie either. I bought one. I bought it so that I can listen to Itunes music on my basement home theater system while working out, and so that I have a choice to watch TV episodes on the Ipod during my 60 min train ride, or the computer or the TV at home. I don't need "Scrubs" to be in High Def, but I do like having those options. Also, you don't need to jump through hoops to get a sample of what "higher" def can look like on Apple TV. The "Top TV show" clips are in 720p I think. I've shown it to some "real people" and they are very interested because they are so familiar with Itunes. Imagine! Something they already know how to use! When I apologize for the video quality the answer are on the order of "what do you mean? its fine". Its a mass-market device, not an enthusiasts.
Sounds pretty good, but I will bet your old employer is doing whatever they can to find another source for your service, since total reliance on a monopoly supplier is too risky. Glad to hear you have other accounts, you'll need them.
SCO's response to Novell was "we never said anything about copyrights or patents, our suit is about breach of contract." Yet now they threaten Linus with patent infringement... Each statement SCO issues is increasingly incoherent. The wheels are coming off pretty quickly. Expect the SCO board to make a change in management - soon.
But of course they haven't, they were acquired by SonicBlue, which went bankrupt. Presumably the new owners D&M would like to avoid the same fate, hence removal of the consumer friendly features.
It is incredibly funny how a plea for "turn-key" solutions for end-users receives a blizzard of responses containing pages of inscrutable techno-babble explaining how easy it is to do the task the writer used as an example of complexity. Hopeless.
If you're cheap, why did you "upgrade" to XP? Get an old machine with Windows 98 on it from EBAY and run the games on there. Or buy new game versions that run on XP. If you try to do this on Linux, the lesson your kids will learn is: "You get what you pay for".
Only slightly worse than a lot of open source documentation.
You are confusing \. with a non-profit...
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operating with federal funds. Thus comparison to national PUBLIC radio and the PUBLIC broadcasting service are sense-free.
If you are willing to pay the fee or suffer the ads to get the content, do so. If not, not. Otherwise a PRIVATE entity needs no other response to this nonsense than "buzz off". Stronger wording optional
As a high priest of a religion (we'll call it ixlam) with an obvious deep aversion to capitalism, why don't you just ask for donations and limit the size of slashdot to what the donations will support?
I'm sitting at my desk worrying about a layoff that is going to hit thousands of my colleagues and quite possibly me. At this time, your spoiled brat whining about taking some simple steps to bring in revenue is tough to take.
Your ambition makes you want to grow Slashdot. There's nothing wrong with that, entrepeneur's who create something valuable should feel that way. But you also want to be a priest, above such tainted worldly evils as advertising and subscriptions. Frankly this epic inner conflict is boring. Give it up, one way or the other.
I guess these are the same people who bought all those satellite phones... or maybe esperanto speakers? The dreck that gets marked "insightful" amazes me.
For some reason, people get caught up in the idea that Linux has to win NEXT YEAR in order to not "lose" the desktop. This is not only incorrect, it is ignorant of history. It took Microsoft more than a decade to dominate in the office software category.
As a "Fortune 100 Strategist" I'm sure you're aware that Microsoft had a strong stream of operating system revenues to nurture them throught the desktop wars, and leveraged that advantage when they introduced Windows. As we all know, they savagely worked their proprietary OS/UI edge to obtain desktop dominance.
Desktop Linux is being marketed by a small group of companies that are rapidly going broke. That may be why getting at least a leeetle revenue by NEXT YEAR seems important.
I think some of the points in the article are well taken. I have not used Linux for anything but development. But its true that if I couldn't put a user in front of something that reads/writes MS.doc,.xls and.ppt files and looks reasonably familiar, I wouldn't want to attempt it. No amount of the religious exhoration seen here would make it worht my while.
Which is a long-winded preface to my real question: I understand that MS doccuments in the new version of office are XML based. Does this use of an open standard make reversing/emulating MS apps easier? Or is it open in name only and still difficult to be sure of handling most features? I assume VBA remains a tall order regardless.
When I read this story in Wired last month (NOT the current issue anymore) I immediately went to Slashdot expecting to see the story here. I searched and could find no reference to it. I shrugged it off. Should I have submitted the story then? Or is there a slashdot rule, either written or un-written, that "thou shall not reference articles that are not online"?
I apologize in advance if this question reveals unspeakable ignorance, questionable parentage, etc.
Crap...I'm trying to find a problem with the logic, but I can't actually understand the argument - anyone? What other ways are there for vendors to protect their customers than put out fixes?
I read this as a threat by Microsoft to only delivery information about problems to XP users whom they think have compliant licenses. Everybody else can pay up to upgrade and get in full compliance or live without fixes. All in the name of "protecting the customers".
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This certainly is a terrible summary. I especially liked the "not the 'let's pry into everyone's business' Republicans, but the 'make the rich pay their fair share' Democrats". Could be recast as "not the 'lets make sure terrorists aren't exploiting bank secrecy' Republicans, but the 'soak the rich' Democrats".
Either way a U.S. partisan rant is really a non-sequitur.
No. And they didn't call it Apple Movie either. I bought one. I bought it so that I can listen to Itunes music on my basement home theater system while working out, and so that I have a choice to watch TV episodes on the Ipod during my 60 min train ride, or the computer or the TV at home. I don't need "Scrubs" to be in High Def, but I do like having those options. Also, you don't need to jump through hoops to get a sample of what "higher" def can look like on Apple TV. The "Top TV show" clips are in 720p I think. I've shown it to some "real people" and they are very interested because they are so familiar with Itunes. Imagine! Something they already know how to use! When I apologize for the video quality the answer are on the order of "what do you mean? its fine". Its a mass-market device, not an enthusiasts.
Sounds pretty good, but I will bet your old employer is doing whatever they can to find another source for your service, since total reliance on a monopoly supplier is too risky. Glad to hear you have other accounts, you'll need them.
SCO's response to Novell was "we never said anything about copyrights or patents, our suit is about breach of contract." Yet now they threaten Linus with patent infringement... Each statement SCO issues is increasingly incoherent. The wheels are coming off pretty quickly. Expect the SCO board to make a change in management - soon.
But of course they haven't, they were acquired by SonicBlue, which went bankrupt. Presumably the new owners D&M would like to avoid the same fate, hence removal of the consumer friendly features.
I thought the solitaire game in the Caldera OS Installer looked familiar...
MS=Dr.Evil
SCO=Mini-Me
"Linus will eat his words in a few years."
I guess those would be the words where he says it will take Itanium a few years to catch up with x86?
Java??
It is incredibly funny how a plea for "turn-key" solutions for end-users receives a blizzard of responses containing pages of inscrutable techno-babble explaining how easy it is to do the task the writer used as an example of complexity. Hopeless.
I know a page that is legible under IE looks like crap on Caldera.
If you're cheap, why did you "upgrade" to XP? Get an old machine with Windows 98 on it from EBAY and run the games on there. Or buy new game versions that run on XP. If you try to do this on Linux, the lesson your kids will learn is: "You get what you pay for".
will be an elvis impersonator by 2010.
Whoah! The House of the Rising Sun!
So no wonder he thinks Soros, widely viewed as a joke in his philosopher mode, is facsicinating.
you just have to have enough mass to generate a strong gravitational field *sigh*
Or cuneiform tablets would be fine. More nonsense from Osama Bin Stallman - leader of radical Nixslam.
Only slightly worse than a lot of open source documentation.
operating with federal funds. Thus comparison to national PUBLIC radio and the PUBLIC broadcasting service are sense-free.
If you are willing to pay the fee or suffer the ads to get the content, do so. If not, not. Otherwise a PRIVATE entity needs no other response to this nonsense than "buzz off". Stronger wording optional
As a high priest of a religion (we'll call it ixlam) with an obvious deep aversion to capitalism, why don't you just ask for donations and limit the size of slashdot to what the donations will support?
I'm sitting at my desk worrying about a layoff that is going to hit thousands of my colleagues and quite possibly me. At this time, your spoiled brat whining about taking some simple steps to bring in revenue is tough to take.
Your ambition makes you want to grow Slashdot. There's nothing wrong with that, entrepeneur's who create something valuable should feel that way. But you also want to be a priest, above such tainted worldly evils as advertising and subscriptions. Frankly this epic inner conflict is boring. Give it up, one way or the other.
There'd be a thousand posts explaining why it made sense and predicting imminent domination of NFL systems by you-know-what!
I guess these are the same people who bought all those satellite phones... or maybe esperanto speakers? The dreck that gets marked "insightful" amazes me.
For some reason, people get caught up in the idea that Linux has to win NEXT YEAR in order to not "lose" the desktop. This is not only incorrect, it is ignorant of history. It took Microsoft more than a decade to dominate in the office software category.
As a "Fortune 100 Strategist" I'm sure you're aware that Microsoft had a strong stream of operating system revenues to nurture them throught the desktop wars, and leveraged that advantage when they introduced Windows. As we all know, they savagely worked their proprietary OS/UI edge to obtain desktop dominance.
Desktop Linux is being marketed by a small group of companies that are rapidly going broke. That may be why getting at least a leeetle revenue by NEXT YEAR seems important.
I think some of the points in the article are well taken. I have not used Linux for anything but development. But its true that if I couldn't put a user in front of something that reads/writes MS .doc, .xls and .ppt files and looks reasonably familiar, I wouldn't want to attempt it. No amount of the religious exhoration seen here would make it worht my while.
Which is a long-winded preface to my real question: I understand that MS doccuments in the new version of office are XML based. Does this use of an open standard make reversing/emulating MS apps easier? Or is it open in name only and still difficult to be sure of handling most features? I assume VBA remains a tall order regardless.
When I read this story in Wired last month (NOT the current issue anymore) I immediately went to Slashdot expecting to see the story here. I searched and could find no reference to it. I shrugged it off. Should I have submitted the story then? Or is there a slashdot rule, either written or un-written, that "thou shall not reference articles that are not online"?
I apologize in advance if this question reveals unspeakable ignorance, questionable parentage, etc.
Crap...I'm trying to find a problem with the logic, but I can't actually understand the argument - anyone? What other ways are there for vendors to protect their customers than put out fixes?
I read this as a threat by Microsoft to only delivery information about problems to XP users whom they think have compliant licenses. Everybody else can pay up to upgrade and get in full compliance or live without fixes. All in the name of "protecting the customers".