The matter of fact is that MS has been declared a monopoly both in the US and the EU and that MS has been punished for that (in the US case, wristslapped gently).
Get over it, that is where MS stands, all the but MS this or MS that porr MS amount to MS fan boy masturbation.
In capitalistic societies monopolies are treated differently since the market has no longer power or its power is sorely diminished to deal with a rampant monopolist.
That is rubish. Most likely they are screenshoots of the window manager.
If one is talking about the advantages and disadvantages of an OS one should talk about what the OS does better and what the OS has still to achieve.
I am sick and tired of the fanboys of eye candy "reviewing" an OS based on how "nice" the window manager looks (who cares if the window manager itself is a PITA to configure).
Now tell us keemosabee, how do you educate millions of people cost effectively in the real world (you could stop invading countries half world away and using the money on education, but note I said real world ).
I have standards and moral judgments to make in regards who I do make business with.
Although Sony and Nintendo are by no means saints, MS has no goodwill left with me. None. Zilch.
Convinience will not impair my judgment. It is a pity so many people don't even question themselves about these matters and as long as something is convinient they close their eyes to the consequences of their actions.
Firefox is better than Mozilla because it does one thing and does it well. Mozilla tries to be apprentice of many professions, master in none. This makes Firefox faster and more secure (the biggest your pile of code, the easier it is to introduce bugs).
Obviously you have no idea about User Interface Design. When you are dealing with a set of users (web surfers) that are not familiar with a given field of expertise (IT, Computers) the last thing you want to do is to burden them with too many choices and seetings. A reminder of this is the mythical clock on VCRs (always blinking in 00:00). You want to offer only the important settings and keep as much as possible under the hood with sensible defaults. Firefox improves on Mozilla on this regard but I think it could do even better.
It is a well documented fact in User Interface Design that the more complex and rich an interface is the more confussed a newbie will be.
... there is no wonder that US companies prefer foreigners to sorry ignorant sods like yourself.
As anybody half acquited with this issue knows (and for bunnies sakes, if you did not read it on this thread then you have more educational problems than I thought) foreign workers brought to the US under the visa scheme under discussion have to earn at least the average salary for the profession.
This is so exactly with the purpose of making US workers with similar experience and skills competitive where they are the least competitive: cost.
But still the bloddy slashbot with wet dreams of cheap labour and slave workers keep blabbing about this cheap worker nonsense.
Many other countries ease many of the restrictions you face once you have probed you are not a liability. In many situations the only thing you can't do a a non citizen is vote, which is fair enough since one does not want to become a citizen,
Countries with a sense of moral values will even give you many entitlements for which one as immigrant hs not paid a penny (healthcare, education).
Discrimination based on citizenship is racism with another name, at least some constitutions have the good sense to extend their guarantees to anybody being in a given country.
Citizenship should be chosen freely by an individual as an acto of commitment, not convenience and there should be no cohercion of any kind, otherwise the act of assuming a new nationality becomes meaningless.
That is why you can be out-compited in price (i.e. salary).
Most US of A people eat too much, drive too much, use cars that use too much petrol, don't care about energy efficency and buy stuff like there is no tomorrow (did you check your trade deficit?).
Many Indians in relatively well off positions don't mind to ride crowded public transport, certainly eat more sensibly and certainly do not have the same attitude to extreme weather (USians have this habit of having the aircon or heating 24x7 to freezing or boling temperatures in badly isolated houses).
The above is the tip of the iceberg, I mantain that workers in rich countries could change their habits, keep a very decent standard of life and become more competitive price-wise in a ferocious international job market (if you think Indians are bad news wait for Vietnamese, Cambodians and Filipinos, who are all highly entreprenurial and talented people willing to work for even less. When one has walked the slums of Ho Chi Minh City or Manila one understands why western workers are becoming an overpriced luxury).
Some people have a documented history of arriving to a certain land or territory before anybody else.
Native people in the different countries have documental evidence they were first there.
If you really want to know how far and where from your ancestry goes nowadays your DNA has all the clues, it is just a matter of willing to pay the price of the study tacing your ancestry back.
System Administrators have to deal every day with people that thought they were "smart" that do not see the forest because they hav a damn bonsai in front of them.
There are system administrators for a reason, one of them is that they have global view of the systems, security, audit issues, etc. while many other IT people, brillant as they may be, have a more limited view normally circumscribed to one machine or a reduced set of them.
The cavalier attitude of MS in regards to security (and on assuming that MS tools are always the best for the job) is completely didiculous (if true, which I pretty mudh doub it) and should not be taken as an example of how to set up IT infrastructure correctly.
I wish some histories of how they are getting infected by nasty virii should be out there to probe my point.
1.- Thanks for remind the iPod fanboys that they don't own the music in the ipod they use. Apple wants and if allowed will get full control of the, for bunnies sake, other companie's DRM files.
2.- Nobody was asking Apple to support squat. Nobody broke Apple's stonrgohlod on their precious (iTunes DRMed stuff). So what exactly is the problem?
3.- Typical Apple. They struck gold with ipod and are going to drive it south with their paranoid tnendency to control any and every single aspect of anything they have designed. They could had become the biggest PC manufacturer, but their innate attachment not to let it go meant that another more flexible, open architecture, became king. Better they enjoy the ride, with such blindfolded, infurating decissions, they will lose cutomers as fast as they did to the IBM PC camp in the 80s.
1.- It is nice to see Apple catching up with the competition regarding battery life, pity of the suckers that went for the initial versions of the gadget.
2.- If it was not for the/. type of guy (compulsive gadget consumer) the companies producing these devices would have one chance in hell to make a buck. Many of us are demanding Ogg Vorbis for different reasons (ethical ones amongst them, but many people around here are "pragmatists") and are putting our not so small stacks of cash where our mouths are (cough-IRiver-cough). Sony, Apple or any other big player ignores the technoelite at their peril.
4.- I care, and many other people care, because in other places we actually have FM radio worth listening. Voice recorder: lame solution. Why should I buy yet another gadget if the one I have with me all the time can do that function cough* IRiver*cough.
5.- UI is a relative, subjective term. There is no kick ass UI, I know as many people that love the ipodean way of doing things as the ones that hate it.
Marketing dear sir. Apple won the marketing battle. They lack enough features to left any sane person wondering what the fuss is all about.
You just are presenting yourself as part of a mythical smaller hive (those that "think for themselves").
Thinking for yourself has become in many quarters synonimous to "be a contrarian", one is suppossed to find a small alitist niche regarding everything in order "not to be part of the lemmings".
And what about if the lemmings are correct?
I can hell of think for myself, thank you very much, and I fully agree with the poster you derided regarding the lame ass use of flash, and my knees did not jerk in case you were wondering.
You should be modded down for whinning pre-emptively about moderation.
Any way, the point of standarizing things like patents in a place with a single market is to have a level playing field for all the economic actors in the single market.
There would be no point to have a single market if each country would pull out of nowhere uncompetitive advantages. That is the ethos of even greather integration in so many areas in the EU.
You may like it, or you may not, but there is a reson for the closer integration, if a country wants to reap the benefits of the European market then they have to adhere to a set of commonly agreed rules. Right now European are deciding what those rules are going to be regarding sofware patentability.
I really hope that they see the light and get rid of software patents altogether. Otherwise Europe will learn the hard way what software patents are a bad idea and will have to scrap them any way once the damage is done.
There is no natural right for a person or legal entity to control an idea (which is what software in particular, but in reality the production of anything in general is).
You are starting form the point were you assume that somebody that "invents" something has the right to control it.
This has been deemed so any Western Capitalist countries, but it was not always so, and it is not like that in other countries with other political or economic systems.
My point is that patents are not something untouchable, if they prove to be more a hindrance than a useful tool we could do away with them. There would be nothing morally worng with that especially if there is a consensus that society would benefit as a whole.
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Form over substance.
Typical of our times.
.... and deposit a hand written note that says "MS is a fucking monopoly" to aid your understanding of this matter?
The matter of fact is that MS has been declared a monopoly both in the US and the EU and that MS has been punished for that (in the US case, wristslapped gently).
Get over it, that is where MS stands, all the but MS this or MS that porr MS amount to MS fan boy masturbation.
In early 19th century nobody cared (at least in Souther US states) that black people were slaves.
Or that children and women were working in mines for 14 or 16 hours in a row.
People wanted their cotton or their coal, they did not care how this was obtained.
Nobody caring does not give carte blanche to anybody to breake the law at their pleasure.
In capitalistic societies monopolies are treated differently since the market has no longer power or its power is sorely diminished to deal with a rampant monopolist.
That is rubish. Most likely they are screenshoots of the window manager.
If one is talking about the advantages and disadvantages of an OS one should talk about what the OS does better and what the OS has still to achieve.
I am sick and tired of the fanboys of eye candy "reviewing" an OS based on how "nice" the window manager looks (who cares if the window manager itself is a PITA to configure).
Now tell us keemosabee, how do you educate millions of people cost effectively in the real world (you could stop invading countries half world away and using the money on education, but note I said real world ).
If you have a map, are in the wilderness and don't know tthe area you can die. As simple as that.
You need a guide that has been there, done that, and got the T-shirt.
Those guides are called teachers.
I have standards and moral judgments to make in regards who I do make business with.
Although Sony and Nintendo are by no means saints, MS has no goodwill left with me. None. Zilch.
Convinience will not impair my judgment. It is a pity so many people don't even question themselves about these matters and as long as something is convinient they close their eyes to the consequences of their actions.
Since Octavio Paz is one of the pillars of modern literature, in par with any wirter you can think about of the XXth century.
Unfortunately poetry is hellishly difficult to translate, but better that than nothing.
Do yourself a favour and buy yourself a PS2 or Gamecube, I am pretty sure you can get them second hand on Ebay for good prices.
Stop making excuses for your Windows partition. You don't need it, remove it.
Firefox is better than Mozilla because it does one thing and does it well. Mozilla tries to be apprentice of many professions, master in none. This makes Firefox faster and more secure (the biggest your pile of code, the easier it is to introduce bugs).
Obviously you have no idea about User Interface Design. When you are dealing with a set of users (web surfers) that are not familiar with a given field of expertise (IT, Computers) the last thing you want to do is to burden them with too many choices and seetings. A reminder of this is the mythical clock on VCRs (always blinking in 00:00). You want to offer only the important settings and keep as much as possible under the hood with sensible defaults. Firefox improves on Mozilla on this regard but I think it could do even better.
It is a well documented fact in User Interface Design that the more complex and rich an interface is the more confussed a newbie will be.
... there is no wonder that US companies prefer foreigners to sorry ignorant sods like yourself.
As anybody half acquited with this issue knows (and for bunnies sakes, if you did not read it on this thread then you have more educational problems than I thought) foreign workers brought to the US under the visa scheme under discussion have to earn at least the average salary for the profession.
This is so exactly with the purpose of making US workers with similar experience and skills competitive where they are the least competitive: cost.
But still the bloddy slashbot with wet dreams of cheap labour and slave workers keep blabbing about this cheap worker nonsense.
Many other countries ease many of the restrictions you face once you have probed you are not a liability. In many situations the only thing you can't do a a non citizen is vote, which is fair enough since one does not want to become a citizen,
Countries with a sense of moral values will even give you many entitlements for which one as immigrant hs not paid a penny (healthcare, education).
Discrimination based on citizenship is racism with another name, at least some constitutions have the good sense to extend their guarantees to anybody being in a given country.
Citizenship should be chosen freely by an individual as an acto of commitment, not convenience and there should be no cohercion of any kind, otherwise the act of assuming a new nationality becomes meaningless.
.... welcom to the club.
That is exactly what happens to millions of Mexicans: not liked but needed in the US, distrusted back home in Mexico.
That is why you can be out-compited in price (i.e. salary).
Most US of A people eat too much, drive too much, use cars that use too much petrol, don't care about energy efficency and buy stuff like there is no tomorrow (did you check your trade deficit?).
Many Indians in relatively well off positions don't mind to ride crowded public transport, certainly eat more sensibly and certainly do not have the same attitude to extreme weather (USians have this habit of having the aircon or heating 24x7 to freezing or boling temperatures in badly isolated houses).
The above is the tip of the iceberg, I mantain that workers in rich countries could change their habits, keep a very decent standard of life and become more competitive price-wise in a ferocious international job market (if you think Indians are bad news wait for Vietnamese, Cambodians and Filipinos, who are all highly entreprenurial and talented people willing to work for even less. When one has walked the slums of Ho Chi Minh City or Manila one understands why western workers are becoming an overpriced luxury).
Because we are not stupid.
Some people have a documented history of arriving to a certain land or territory before anybody else.
Native people in the different countries have documental evidence they were first there.
If you really want to know how far and where from your ancestry goes nowadays your DNA has all the clues, it is just a matter of willing to pay the price of the study tacing your ancestry back.
Most players can't so what is your flaming, friking, trollish, point???
System Administrators have to deal every day with people that thought they were "smart" that do not see the forest because they hav a damn bonsai in front of them.
There are system administrators for a reason, one of them is that they have global view of the systems, security, audit issues, etc. while many other IT people, brillant as they may be, have a more limited view normally circumscribed to one machine or a reduced set of them.
The cavalier attitude of MS in regards to security (and on assuming that MS tools are always the best for the job) is completely didiculous (if true, which I pretty mudh doub it) and should not be taken as an example of how to set up IT infrastructure correctly.
I wish some histories of how they are getting infected by nasty virii should be out there to probe my point.
Since when it is illegal to reverse Engineer things?
Oh yeah, you are USian. Read above.
1.- Thanks for remind the iPod fanboys that they don't own the music in the ipod they use. Apple wants and if allowed will get full control of the, for bunnies sake, other companie's DRM files.
2.- Nobody was asking Apple to support squat. Nobody broke Apple's stonrgohlod on their precious (iTunes DRMed stuff). So what exactly is the problem?
3.- Typical Apple. They struck gold with ipod and are going to drive it south with their paranoid tnendency to control any and every single aspect of anything they have designed. They could had become the biggest PC manufacturer, but their innate attachment not to let it go meant that another more flexible, open architecture, became king. Better they enjoy the ride, with such blindfolded, infurating decissions, they will lose cutomers as fast as they did to the IBM PC camp in the 80s.
1.- It is nice to see Apple catching up with the competition regarding battery life, pity of the suckers that went for the initial versions of the gadget.
/. type of guy (compulsive gadget consumer) the companies producing these devices would have one chance in hell to make a buck. Many of us are demanding Ogg Vorbis for different reasons (ethical ones amongst them, but many people around here are "pragmatists") and are putting our not so small stacks of cash where our mouths are (cough-IRiver-cough). Sony, Apple or any other big player ignores the technoelite at their peril.
2.- If it was not for the
4.- I care, and many other people care, because in other places we actually have FM radio worth listening. Voice recorder: lame solution. Why should I buy yet another gadget if the one I have with me all the time can do that function cough* IRiver*cough.
5.- UI is a relative, subjective term. There is no kick ass UI, I know as many people that love the ipodean way of doing things as the ones that hate it.
Marketing dear sir. Apple won the marketing battle. They lack enough features to left any sane person wondering what the fuss is all about.
You just are presenting yourself as part of a mythical smaller hive (those that "think for themselves").
Thinking for yourself has become in many quarters synonimous to "be a contrarian", one is suppossed to find a small alitist niche regarding everything in order "not to be part of the lemmings".
And what about if the lemmings are correct?
I can hell of think for myself, thank you very much, and I fully agree with the poster you derided regarding the lame ass use of flash, and my knees did not jerk in case you were wondering.
You should be modded down for whinning pre-emptively about moderation.
Any way, the point of standarizing things like patents in a place with a single market is to have a level playing field for all the economic actors in the single market.
There would be no point to have a single market if each country would pull out of nowhere uncompetitive advantages. That is the ethos of even greather integration in so many areas in the EU.
You may like it, or you may not, but there is a reson for the closer integration, if a country wants to reap the benefits of the European market then they have to adhere to a set of commonly agreed rules. Right now European are deciding what those rules are going to be regarding sofware patentability.
I really hope that they see the light and get rid of software patents altogether. Otherwise Europe will learn the hard way what software patents are a bad idea and will have to scrap them any way once the damage is done.
There is no natural right for a person or legal entity to control an idea (which is what software in particular, but in reality the production of anything in general is).
You are starting form the point were you assume that somebody that "invents" something has the right to control it.
This has been deemed so any Western Capitalist countries, but it was not always so, and it is not like that in other countries with other political or economic systems.
My point is that patents are not something untouchable, if they prove to be more a hindrance than a useful tool we could do away with them. There would be nothing morally worng with that especially if there is a consensus that society would benefit as a whole.