I'm in! I have worldwide connections in the Open Source community! If you need my bank account numbers, ATM card, credit card numbers, passwords, or anything else just let me know!
Not all zealots are crackers. I mean, I may be, but there are some afro-american, asian, indian... just about any race you can name has zealots. So stop with the racism!
errrr, shoot myself in my own foot here:)
"if there was a standard among all the developers in Linux as there is in MS products then there would be nearly as many problems and patches!"
LOL, of course the./ readers ARE educated enough to know that I intended to say WOULDN'T right?;)
This again is misinformation. Across the Linux distros last year there were 3x as many security related patches than MS. Ya ya, you can say all you want about it being multiple distros, but then again if there was a standard among all the developers in Linux as there is in MS products then there would be nearly as many problems and patches! Point being, Linux comunity does no better at fixing bugs than MS and certainly programs no better than MS. MY last experience with Linux as a desktop ended with me re-installing XP due to the bugs in linux, most of them user interface and application crashes. Linux is great as a server but, unless things have changed dramatically in a year I will stick with my STABLE XP Pro.
Once again the Slashdot community is spreading propaganda and misinformation.
Longhorn IS NOT being designed to FORCE a user to patch automatically. It will be the DEFAULT option, which can be turned off. Much like the speed governor on a vehicle, this is for YOUR safety and can be removed (albeit I dont recommend removing the governor if you have one installed as it will void your warranty). It will also help to prevent NON-literate PC users from infecting the world.
It;s what I did too. And it works out far better for me because I get to make my own hours and got to negotiate the contract terms. i have been servicing them for 6 months now and they treat me like gold and both parties agree the relationship is far better!
Nah, i know Mark. It was defenitely him who put his number on the bathroom wall.
I think this is a great idea. I mean, who cares if they turn themselves in or not, just as long as they have to pay for those mobile minutes and deal with the frustration of the constant calls. I hate those damn posters too.
I would bet this offer borders on illegal... depending on who the source of finacial backing is, this could be considered anti-competitive. My money is on the fact that this IS someone involved in the industry who would love nothing more than to start paying off schools to make the switch.
This reminds me of the auto-body paint industry. Often dealers will pay off the shop owners/foremen with cash to get them to buy supplies from them and not competing paint/supplies dealers. Highly illegal, except who's telling?
I agree with somethingwicked./. users always have a negative opinion of something if it doesn't fall within their realm of favortism...
Overall, the way I see it, is that if its MS its bad. Otherwise it's good. If it's an original idea then people with slam it and say it won't work... even though MS has proven you wrong time and time again. But if they use an idea which has worked across other OS for ages, and use it to improve the OS, they are STEALING IDEAS, oooohhhh (not that the Linux community hasn't stolen their share of ideas..., heh, they are trying to make Linux more like Windows as we speak, to attract more desktop users!)
Sometimes there is no making people happy. Hell, at this point it won't matter what Billy does, you guys will hate him anyway.
Which makes Bill my hero. Bill doesn't care what you think about him, just as long as you keep using his products, which you will. Bill wins. I wanna be like Mr. Gates. Seriously.
Except ya'll forgot one thing: MS sales increase almost every single year..... can't be dropping too much:) The last 2 years are NOT a guideline to judge by, otherwise I will tell you that EVERY MAJOR BUSINESS in the world is failing and will be gone soon... let's be smart about this: MS market cap is far higher than any other company who supplies the same products as MS... I do not ever see that dropping rapidly, because if it does, you can be sure the technology industry itself is in danger of collapsing. Dollar for dollar, my money is still on Microsoft.
This may appear to be flamebait but it is not intended to be so. I feel this is a fair and honest assesment of this article.
While the author seems to be knowledgable and very up-to-date on his topics, he is extremely biased.
The author's viewpoints on Microsoft are taken straight from the typical Open Source and UNIX community and is obviously not an unbiased assesment of Microsoft. This lends to the incredibility of the author from the start.
The author's review of open source work is also biased, not explaining that MANY businesses refuse to adopt UNIX/Linux and open source due to the obvious problems associated with doing so (let's not debate this, as there ARE many advantages to open source, but we could start with the lack of AFFORDABLE & QUALIFIED programmers to develop and customize open source apps for small and medium businesses).
Additionally the rest of the article points out things that many of us know, and some of his assesments are completely inaccurate... PC's dead? Well folks I don't know about you but I plan on buying PCs for many years to come. If anyone believes for one minute that the PC industry will die all together leaving it to whitebox manufacturers then you are smoking silly putty. The entire PC industry in analogous to the automobile industry and people need to compare the two to understand how the PC industry will turn out.
Overall, I am very unimpressed with this review as I believe it is propaganda for this man to sell his solutions.
Since when did a 219 page book become a novel? That's about 3 hours reading....
In any case, children like this are dangerous and should not be allowed to propagate. I believe we should install euthenasia machines in every mall and that children like this should be sent there regularly.
This is consistent with the sound a monitor will make when tapped by the RIAA or the DEA (looking for bong dealers).
You should immediately unplug the monitor, put it in the shower, and let the water run for approximately 15 minutes. Be sure to apply a good screen massage.
They really want to find companies in California who are spamming because it is all to easy to prosecute them.
I think our governments need to take this a step further and fund a program to come up with a legitimate solution to STOP spam, not just slow it down.
Seriously now, even if I did watch the show, I really don't wanna be reading about Buffy the Vampire Slayer in my "geek gossip" site. Seriously, how many people cried when they said X-Files was done? I bet I could even find a/. story on it, lol. OH MY GOD, what a freakin surprise: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/17/125420 0&mode=thread
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Heh, he said $420
Your Chinese Fortune Cookie for today: You have no real business experience.
Solient Green! Huzzah!
I'm in! I have worldwide connections in the Open Source community! If you need my bank account numbers, ATM card, credit card numbers, passwords, or anything else just let me know!
Agreed! INVADE VIETNAM!
and when thats all done they will dig into Gauntanamo and release all the Taliban held hostage there... w00t
They pirate their PCs too.......
ROFL, MS & Open SOurce, isn't that an oxymoron?
I can see it now : Commie Linux 1.8, a free OS for the non-free world.
Not all zealots are crackers. I mean, I may be, but there are some afro-american, asian, indian... just about any race you can name has zealots. So stop with the racism!
errrr, shoot myself in my own foot here :)
"if there was a standard among all the developers in Linux as there is in MS products then there would be nearly as many problems and patches!"
LOL, of course the ./ readers ARE educated enough to know that I intended to say WOULDN'T right? ;)
This again is misinformation. Across the Linux distros last year there were 3x as many security related patches than MS. Ya ya, you can say all you want about it being multiple distros, but then again if there was a standard among all the developers in Linux as there is in MS products then there would be nearly as many problems and patches! Point being, Linux comunity does no better at fixing bugs than MS and certainly programs no better than MS. MY last experience with Linux as a desktop ended with me re-installing XP due to the bugs in linux, most of them user interface and application crashes. Linux is great as a server but, unless things have changed dramatically in a year I will stick with my STABLE XP Pro.
Once again the Slashdot community is spreading propaganda and misinformation. Longhorn IS NOT being designed to FORCE a user to patch automatically. It will be the DEFAULT option, which can be turned off. Much like the speed governor on a vehicle, this is for YOUR safety and can be removed (albeit I dont recommend removing the governor if you have one installed as it will void your warranty). It will also help to prevent NON-literate PC users from infecting the world.
It;s what I did too. And it works out far better for me because I get to make my own hours and got to negotiate the contract terms. i have been servicing them for 6 months now and they treat me like gold and both parties agree the relationship is far better!
Linux comes one step closer to being just like Windows!
Nah, i know Mark. It was defenitely him who put his number on the bathroom wall.
I think this is a great idea. I mean, who cares if they turn themselves in or not, just as long as they have to pay for those mobile minutes and deal with the frustration of the constant calls. I hate those damn posters too.
I would bet this offer borders on illegal... depending on who the source of finacial backing is, this could be considered anti-competitive. My money is on the fact that this IS someone involved in the industry who would love nothing more than to start paying off schools to make the switch. This reminds me of the auto-body paint industry. Often dealers will pay off the shop owners/foremen with cash to get them to buy supplies from them and not competing paint/supplies dealers. Highly illegal, except who's telling?
I agree with somethingwicked. /. users always have a negative opinion of something if it doesn't fall within their realm of favortism...
Overall, the way I see it, is that if its MS its bad. Otherwise it's good. If it's an original idea then people with slam it and say it won't work... even though MS has proven you wrong time and time again. But if they use an idea which has worked across other OS for ages, and use it to improve the OS, they are STEALING IDEAS, oooohhhh (not that the Linux community hasn't stolen their share of ideas..., heh, they are trying to make Linux more like Windows as we speak, to attract more desktop users!)
Sometimes there is no making people happy. Hell, at this point it won't matter what Billy does, you guys will hate him anyway.
Which makes Bill my hero. Bill doesn't care what you think about him, just as long as you keep using his products, which you will. Bill wins. I wanna be like Mr. Gates. Seriously.
Except ya'll forgot one thing: MS sales increase almost every single year..... can't be dropping too much :) The last 2 years are NOT a guideline to judge by, otherwise I will tell you that EVERY MAJOR BUSINESS in the world is failing and will be gone soon... let's be smart about this: MS market cap is far higher than any other company who supplies the same products as MS... I do not ever see that dropping rapidly, because if it does, you can be sure the technology industry itself is in danger of collapsing. Dollar for dollar, my money is still on Microsoft.
This may appear to be flamebait but it is not intended to be so. I feel this is a fair and honest assesment of this article. While the author seems to be knowledgable and very up-to-date on his topics, he is extremely biased. The author's viewpoints on Microsoft are taken straight from the typical Open Source and UNIX community and is obviously not an unbiased assesment of Microsoft. This lends to the incredibility of the author from the start. The author's review of open source work is also biased, not explaining that MANY businesses refuse to adopt UNIX/Linux and open source due to the obvious problems associated with doing so (let's not debate this, as there ARE many advantages to open source, but we could start with the lack of AFFORDABLE & QUALIFIED programmers to develop and customize open source apps for small and medium businesses). Additionally the rest of the article points out things that many of us know, and some of his assesments are completely inaccurate... PC's dead? Well folks I don't know about you but I plan on buying PCs for many years to come. If anyone believes for one minute that the PC industry will die all together leaving it to whitebox manufacturers then you are smoking silly putty. The entire PC industry in analogous to the automobile industry and people need to compare the two to understand how the PC industry will turn out. Overall, I am very unimpressed with this review as I believe it is propaganda for this man to sell his solutions.
I can see at least one person has failed to see the wisdom in my comments this morning... drink some coffee dude.
Since when did a 219 page book become a novel? That's about 3 hours reading.... In any case, children like this are dangerous and should not be allowed to propagate. I believe we should install euthenasia machines in every mall and that children like this should be sent there regularly.
This is consistent with the sound a monitor will make when tapped by the RIAA or the DEA (looking for bong dealers). You should immediately unplug the monitor, put it in the shower, and let the water run for approximately 15 minutes. Be sure to apply a good screen massage.
They really want to find companies in California who are spamming because it is all to easy to prosecute them. I think our governments need to take this a step further and fund a program to come up with a legitimate solution to STOP spam, not just slow it down.
Seriously now, even if I did watch the show, I really don't wanna be reading about Buffy the Vampire Slayer in my "geek gossip" site. Seriously, how many people cried when they said X-Files was done? I bet I could even find a /. story on it, lol. OH MY GOD, what a freakin surprise: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/17/125420 0&mode=thread