Yeah, they're a force to be reckoned with. Wouldn't want to get the Germans or the French mad at us. Oooooh no, I think the Germans are getting mad. Ooooh dear. The French may get angry and boycott Jerry Lewis telethons.
Seriously though, you think the problems the third world has with the US is commercialization? It's politics, and unilateralism. We pick a side, and we stay on it even when they're almost as bad as the other side. But at least we pick the strong side.
Nobody gives a shit about Pepsi or Microsoft except crusading nerds. The 60's had the free-love hippies, and the 90's-00's have the free software hippies. I don't know which of you stinks worse.
You lost all credibility when you compared PostgreSQL to Oracl or MSSQL. You really should avoid drawing attention to yourself by spouting off in areas you are obviously clueless in.
You're arguing inane, completely irrelevent arguments on many fronts.
1.) The ambassador didn't single out and say "buy Microsoft". He said Buy American. The article _infers_ Microsoft because they're the biggest company. I'll bet you filthy nerds a shower that the letter doesn't specifically mention Microsoft. 2.) Nobody's dictating anything. They're lobbying, trying to persuade, etc... That's what ambassador's do. You don't think foreign ambassadors lobby for their businesses in the US?
Do you even know what (sic) means, money? You probably saw it in some article and thought it looked "edumicated", eh?
He's not 'treading' on anyone. How is representing US corporations being abusive or bullying? Gee: Option a) Use open source free software only. Cost US companies lots of business. Make a bunch of filthy, unkempt nerds gather in a circle and sing happy songs. Option b) Open the playing field, choose the best software (open or not). Make the U.S. money.
And you're smoking crack if you think the U.S. government is somehow afraid of interfering in European economic and political affairs. Would not dare, my ass.
The article doesn't explicitly say anything about the ambassador singling out Microsoft - the article says "proprietary companies like Microsoft" or something like that. That means the article interprets it as such (and maybe Peru does).
You don't know what the letter says, and asking for the country to utilize US software (almost all the commercial software is closed-source) is well within what an ambassador may ask.
Grow up, nerds, and quit being such single minded funamentalist goons.
Wow, nice "facts" there, Hans. They failed miserably in the PVR market? By what kook-inspired "facts" do you extrapolate this? They haven't failed and have only just begun with UltimateTV. It's doing fine.
The X-Box isn't a failure, rocket surgeon. It's only just been released (by console standards). People griped and complained about the Playstation 2 for a long time, too. You seem to be a fan of "subjective reality".
And, umm, you actually think CE-based PDA's won't overtake Palm before too much longer? You _really_ don't have a good grasp on reality. Sayin they haven't absolutely overtaken the market is true, claiming they aren't a runaway success is simply false.
Correction, you're a nerd who's let his technical ideals outweigh his political ideals. Pretty pathetic.
The basic policy of a Libertarian should be that if there's damage (or a high likelyhood of it) then the government should interfere. I don't know what planet you're on, but there's no damage and no compelling reason (other than the bribes their _competitors_ used to get the whole thing started in the first place) to go after Microsoft.
Only dirty linux-loving anti-MS nerds, and MS-Competitors care about this. Don't try to masquerade it as a real issue of capitalism. The computing market has been unbelievably strong for 2 decades, whether you like it or not.
What a load of crap. They're damned if they do, damned if they don't. Why should they support Java - Sun has a JVM, a plugin, etc... Sun whined when they tried to extend Java, now they whine that they didn't include a JVM. Microsoft could _only_ distribute an old version according to their contractual/legal obligations, genius.
Mhz for Mhz? That is an utterly pointless comparison. Why on Earth would anyone say such a silly thing?
"Hey, my Geo-Metro can take your Ferrari anytime*."
(* Per-gallon of gas only, in a distance to be determined by the maximum distance obtainable by one tank of gas in either car)
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Clearly you're a group of sysadmins, then. Real programmers really, really don't use Perl unless it's a throw-away script, or it's a simple system automation script.
Well, let's see. Since I get this division by zero in my huge-ass equation, I'll just assume this has some physical effect that I'll make up. After all, our math is perfect and the real world _must_ follow it. Nevermind that division by 0 is _undefined_, not infinity. I'll call them 'relativistic' effects, and I'll claim that light travel is impossible because my equation gives a division by zero somewhere or other, or approaches 'infinity'.
What a load of crap. Relativity can bite me. Then they use these 'proofs', like applying huge forces of accelleration to particles (and amazingly, this applicatoin of force makes them behave differently! Must be relativity, not the force of accelleration in earth's gravity! No, I'll slyly say they're the same thing!).
Bah, humbug. If you accellerate even at 1mph/h you'll eventually hit and surpass light speed. Period.
a.) Investors make choices. If they make wrong ones, tough shit. Microsoft isn't misleading anyone.
b.) Making shitloads of money and then holding onto it for tough times makes sense for people, why not corporations? Oh - because it's Microsoft and they're evil. Fact is most of them _can't_ because they don't make enough money. MS did.
There has to be regulation to some degree. What if I decide to start broadcasting in the same frequency spectrum as air traffic controllers?
Just because/if there's 'unlimited' spectrum doesn't mean things won't/can't accidentally stomp on eachother.
The idea of the FCC being unncessary is, to me, idiotic. Maybe they can change the way the allocate - sure. But claiming they'll be obsolete makes no sense.
What a load of shit. Most of these child geniuses grow up to be useless pansies, never contributing anything but still somehow sure of their special place because of their childhood. True geniuses don't need special handling, and saving 5-10 years from their education wouldn't help them.
Plus, the plural of genius is geniuses, you pompous knob. Look it up.
I went to college for 4 years (didn't get me know dugree, thoough). I didn't learn that much in the classes that helps me in my day to day job as an administrator/programmer, but I learned a lot in the college _experience_. You get a lot of exposure to technology, and you need to learn the real meat of the work on your own. Plus you can get a sysadmin job in school, or even babysit a lab and nerd out there.
You have to be interested in it and spend your own time 'nerding out', but the college atmosphere is good for this. And the classes really do help. I wish to hell I remembered half that shit, especially the trig/calculus.
I'm serious - why would anyone buy this instead of cheaper x86-based racks servers? I don't understand. There are proven server OS's for x86, i.e. Linux, FreeBSD, WindowsAS, BSDI, whatever you need.
Apple has no track record in this domain, and I don't understand what they think they're going to achieve. They simply cannot compete in this sector of the industry.
What on earth makes you think you're going to get a 1U system with redundant power supply?
My second point would be - what on earth is this for? Why would you buy this, because you're an Apple cheerleader? You'd obviously buy a standard x86 rackmount system and install Linux/FreeBSD/BSDI/Whatever on it. This is some kind of joke?
You don't have any 'right' to do anything with the information, and there's no such thing as fair use 'right'.
There is the concept of fair use, or maybe fair use 'doctrine' where the courts won't throw you in jail, but you can't crybaby about your 'rights' if they encrypt the data or otherwise prevent you from copying it.
Conversely, they shouldn't crybaby if you _do_ copy it or figure out how to copy it. It should be a technical meritocracy bounded by fair use _doctrine_. If you break encryption and make backups, they can't punish you. If you break it and sell it, they can. Should be simple.
If he's saying that a high-end IDE drive is faster than a high-end SCSI drive in any but the most obscure benchmark item, he's insane. It's simply not true. A Seagate X15 (or some of the newer high-end SCSI drives) laugh at IDE speeds.
Per-cost, maybe. But it's silly to claim IDE is faster than SCSI with no qualifications (e.g. cheap SCSI).
You'd have to learn to read before you sued and got laughed out of court.
Nowhere does Microsoft say that the _buyer_ is legally required to get the software. The _seller_ is legally required to provide it. Your lack of reading comprehension skills has no bearing on legal fact.
Right - and where is the infrastructure for this ring of trust for PGP? That's what Verisign (and to some degree Passport) provide. Where is it for PGP other than roll-your-own or dubious public keyring servers?
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Yeah, they're a force to be reckoned with. Wouldn't want to get the Germans or the French mad at us. Oooooh no, I think the Germans are getting mad. Ooooh dear. The French may get angry and boycott Jerry Lewis telethons.
Seriously though, you think the problems the third world has with the US is commercialization? It's politics, and unilateralism. We pick a side, and we stay on it even when they're almost as bad as the other side. But at least we pick the strong side.
Nobody gives a shit about Pepsi or Microsoft except crusading nerds. The 60's had the free-love hippies, and the 90's-00's have the free
software hippies. I don't know which of you stinks worse.
You lost all credibility when you compared PostgreSQL to Oracl or MSSQL. You really should avoid drawing attention to yourself by spouting off in areas you are obviously clueless in.
You're arguing inane, completely irrelevent arguments on many fronts.
1.) The ambassador didn't single out and say "buy Microsoft". He said Buy American. The article _infers_ Microsoft because they're the biggest company. I'll bet you filthy nerds a shower that the letter doesn't specifically mention Microsoft.
2.) Nobody's dictating anything. They're lobbying, trying to persuade, etc... That's what ambassador's do. You don't think foreign ambassadors lobby for their businesses in the US?
Grow up, people, find a real cause.
Do you even know what (sic) means, money? You probably saw it in some article and thought it looked "edumicated", eh?
He's not 'treading' on anyone. How is representing US corporations being abusive or bullying? Gee:
Option a) Use open source free software only. Cost US companies lots of business. Make a bunch of filthy, unkempt nerds gather in a circle and sing happy songs.
Option b) Open the playing field, choose the best software (open or not). Make the U.S. money.
And you're smoking crack if you think the U.S. government is somehow afraid of interfering in European economic and political affairs. Would not dare, my ass.
The article doesn't explicitly say anything about the ambassador singling out Microsoft - the article says "proprietary companies like Microsoft" or something like that. That means the article interprets it as such (and maybe Peru does).
You don't know what the letter says, and asking for the country to utilize US software (almost all the commercial software is closed-source) is well within what an ambassador may ask.
Grow up, nerds, and quit being such single minded funamentalist goons.
Wow, nice "facts" there, Hans. They failed miserably in the PVR market? By what kook-inspired "facts" do you extrapolate this? They haven't failed and have only just begun with UltimateTV. It's doing fine.
The X-Box isn't a failure, rocket surgeon. It's only just been released (by console standards). People griped and complained about the Playstation 2 for a long time, too. You seem to be a fan of "subjective reality".
And, umm, you actually think CE-based PDA's won't overtake Palm before too much longer? You _really_ don't have a good grasp on reality. Sayin they haven't absolutely overtaken the market is true, claiming they aren't a runaway success is simply false.
Lighten up on the Haldol, please, Hans,
Correction, you're a nerd who's let his technical ideals outweigh his political ideals. Pretty pathetic.
The basic policy of a Libertarian should be that if there's damage (or a high likelyhood of it) then the government should interfere. I don't know what planet you're on, but there's no damage and no compelling reason (other than the bribes their _competitors_ used to get the whole thing started in the first place) to go after Microsoft.
Only dirty linux-loving anti-MS nerds, and MS-Competitors care about this. Don't try to masquerade it as a real issue of capitalism. The computing market has been unbelievably strong for 2 decades, whether you like it or not.
Ahaha. Yeah, Microsoft's OS dominance is really killing people in the street. God help the suffering masses of people!
What a drama queen.
What a load of crap. They're damned if they do, damned if they don't. Why should they support Java - Sun has a JVM, a plugin, etc... Sun whined when they tried to extend Java, now they whine that they didn't include a JVM. Microsoft could _only_ distribute an old version according to their contractual/legal obligations, genius.
If your OS/2 apps don't run, don't upgrade to XP, rocket surgeon.
Mhz for Mhz? That is an utterly pointless comparison. Why on Earth would anyone say such a silly thing?
"Hey, my Geo-Metro can take your Ferrari anytime*."
(* Per-gallon of gas only, in a distance to be determined by the maximum distance obtainable by one tank of gas in either car)
Clearly you're a group of sysadmins, then. Real programmers really, really don't use Perl unless it's a throw-away script, or it's a simple system automation script.
He's not trolling, he's dead on. It will, eventually (if not in this test) be proved wrong to a large degree.
Amen.
Well, let's see. Since I get this division by zero in my huge-ass equation, I'll just assume this has some physical effect that I'll make up. After all, our math is perfect and the real world _must_ follow it. Nevermind that division by 0 is _undefined_, not infinity. I'll call them 'relativistic' effects, and I'll claim that light travel is impossible because my equation gives a division by zero somewhere or other, or approaches 'infinity'.
What a load of crap. Relativity can bite me. Then they use these 'proofs', like applying huge forces of accelleration to particles (and amazingly, this applicatoin of force makes them behave differently! Must be relativity, not the force of accelleration in earth's gravity! No, I'll slyly say they're the same thing!).
Bah, humbug. If you accellerate even at 1mph/h you'll eventually hit and surpass light speed. Period.
What a load.
a.) Investors make choices. If they make wrong ones, tough shit. Microsoft isn't misleading anyone.
b.) Making shitloads of money and then holding onto it for tough times makes sense for people, why not corporations? Oh - because it's Microsoft and they're evil. Fact is most of them _can't_ because they don't make enough money. MS did.
c.) Your opinions don't matter.
There has to be regulation to some degree. What if I decide to start broadcasting in the same frequency spectrum as air traffic controllers?
Just because/if there's 'unlimited' spectrum doesn't mean things won't/can't accidentally stomp on eachother.
The idea of the FCC being unncessary is, to me, idiotic. Maybe they can change the way the allocate - sure. But claiming they'll be obsolete makes no sense.
What a load of shit. Most of these child geniuses grow up to be useless pansies, never contributing anything but still somehow sure of their special place because of their childhood. True geniuses don't need special handling, and saving 5-10 years from their education wouldn't help them.
Plus, the plural of genius is geniuses, you pompous knob. Look it up.
I went to college for 4 years (didn't get me know dugree, thoough). I didn't learn that much in the classes that helps me in my day to day job as an administrator/programmer, but I learned a lot in the college _experience_. You get a lot of exposure to technology, and you need to learn the real meat of the work on your own. Plus you can get a sysadmin job in school, or even babysit a lab and nerd out there.
You have to be interested in it and spend your own time 'nerding out', but the college atmosphere is good for this. And the classes really do help. I wish to hell I remembered half that shit, especially the trig/calculus.
I'm serious - why would anyone buy this instead of cheaper x86-based racks servers? I don't understand. There are proven server OS's for x86, i.e. Linux, FreeBSD, WindowsAS, BSDI, whatever you need.
Apple has no track record in this domain, and I don't understand what they think they're going to achieve. They simply cannot compete in this sector of the industry.
What on earth makes you think you're going to get a 1U system with redundant power supply?
My second point would be - what on earth is this for? Why would you buy this, because you're an Apple cheerleader? You'd obviously buy a standard x86 rackmount system and install Linux/FreeBSD/BSDI/Whatever on it. This is some kind of joke?
There is the concept of fair use, or maybe fair use 'doctrine' where the courts won't throw you in jail, but you can't crybaby about your 'rights' if they encrypt the data or otherwise prevent you from copying it.
Conversely, they shouldn't crybaby if you _do_ copy it or figure out how to copy it. It should be a technical meritocracy bounded by fair use _doctrine_. If you break encryption and make backups, they can't punish you. If you break it and sell it, they can. Should be simple.
Per-cost, maybe. But it's silly to claim IDE is faster than SCSI with no qualifications (e.g. cheap SCSI).
How lame.
Nowhere does Microsoft say that the _buyer_ is legally required to get the software. The _seller_ is legally required to provide it. Your lack of reading comprehension skills has no bearing on legal fact.
Right - and where is the infrastructure for this ring of trust for PGP? That's what Verisign (and to some degree Passport) provide. Where is it for PGP other than roll-your-own or dubious public keyring servers?