Having so many examples of heroism and unselfishness in the history of humanity you think that our most important embassador would not raise to the occasion.
I believe any normal person would made us proud, for a rare ocassion, to be humans.
... is that what you think about MS behaviour is irrelevant. MS was convicted for abusing its monopoly and that is the end of it.
If your building was the only one in town and you smashed down the rest of them with threats until the only building standing was yours, somebody would have to make sure you are punished as appropriate. A punishment in which you have to change the doors, the chairs or whateve would be just an slap on the wrist since actually you get to keep the building.
You surely would get mad, but the purpose of the legal system is not to please companies that have broken the law.
You are looking to find problems for which there is no solution, not the way one would go about deploying a solution.
If you need WiFi and want to protect your investment against the whims of a convicted monopolist you go and choose a WiFi card that is supported by your alternative solution. Unless your business will die if you can't stream video on a WiFi connection I don't see why this is a problem, you can use some of the PCI or USB supported solutions for your desktops.
I have a card reader that is not supported on Windows XP (dual CompactFlash/MMC). There is always hardware that does not work or is not supported in a given OS. That is not an excuse to stop solving a problem, you go and get a different card reader, or leave a few Windows machines around if only Windows will work.
What is your priority? To be in control of your software infrastructure? To solve a particular problem? Both? You decide, but at the end of the day not to be considering alternatives to get one out of the grip of a convicted monopolist seems irresponsible to me.
Translation: if it does not play my favourtie games, it is not ready for the desktop (thank goodness I can play plenty of the games I like).
fast boot times
Now you got me there. All Windows offerings are ready in what 30 sec? 1 min? Now that is fast...
out of the box for the latest tech toys
Care to mention some? The problems with other OSes is tha they don;t support the toys I already have, that are in perfect working order and that I don;t intend to throw away onle because a pansy OS can't be arsed to support it anymore.
This friend is 60 y.o. and is so dead tired that he phoned and asked me "doyou think I should install Linux?".
He wants choice, and choice is not going to be dictated by one person, it will be dictated by the needs of people.
You want something dead easy were little or no configuration is necessart? Well, 2 or 3 choices of Linux will be up to the task. What is worng woth choice> People can choose between different cars, TVs, DVDs or dogs.
What is the esoteric reason for which choice is bad for computing goods and services?
He said Great Britain has two legal systems, one covering England and Wales, the other covers Scotland which is entirely correct, no mention of Eire or NI is done.
So actually what is your point? Too many pints last night perhaps matey?
If this has been in GB.v2.0's agenda before or shortly after the election was handed to him, then he would have a claim to be a real visionary that means what he aays.
With the situation in Iraq (and Afghanistan) not under control, a huge deficit, tax cuts that have proven to be a joke, pumping money on Iraq for which nobody will see any return (read my lips: we are not safer) and having mounting evidence that this individual you have for President is a vulgar liar, then tell me, why should people trust him at face value?
If anything, Batman, this guy should be judged with increasing skepticism.
-MS should stop those un-American activities and remember the "viral" and malevolent nature of this license which will kill the software industry.
-I would not get involved with a convicted peddler of sub-standard software, no matter how many sweets he offers new prospective victims.
Oh, yes, allow me a third: hypocrates, good to see they are using GNU software and eating, slowly and one by one, all their food, I mean FUD. It is up to us, tehcnical literati, to make this point as often as possible to non technical people. If MS is embracing FLOSS, why should not my company, firends, grandma not do the same?
That would only affect SCO current customers (poor sods), anybody else does not have any commercial relationship with SCO.
Even the unfortunate few *still* in the group above most probably when they bought the sofware agreed to resolved contractual issues in a local court. Otherwise, well, who knows, read my signature.
Just keep an eye on the ball (I am waiting on delight that they demand payment from me or my company here in the UK) to know the latest.
Then sit back and enjoy this for what it is: the ultimate Reality Web show. Never somebody made such fools of themselves.
I just want a happy ending, anything less that all these individuals handcuffed on their way to a long holiday in a penitenciary in Utha would be an anticlimax.
.... is the most disingenous comment in the history of/.
You mean you posted something to/. and you were not prepared for the slahsdotting? In which planet do you live? And gimme some of that stuff you are smoking.
... for a University (goverment University it seems, for what I have read here) to enable such "service"?
If such thing would be procured on my native Mexico on a public University the university's director wold find himself without a job in a very short time...
Slashdot Mirror
.... that you attacked the wrong country last year.
Check the nationalisties of the terrorists and their known sponsors.
... attempt interstellar travel, we need to deal with zero gravity.
Heck, for pracitical puprposes the exteoriro planets of our Solar system ar far enough to make this an important issue if we ever want to go there.
Having so many examples of heroism and unselfishness in the history of humanity you think that our most important embassador would not raise to the occasion.
I believe any normal person would made us proud, for a rare ocassion, to be humans.
... is that what you think about MS behaviour is irrelevant. MS was convicted for abusing its monopoly and that is the end of it.
If your building was the only one in town and you smashed down the rest of them with threats until the only building standing was yours, somebody would have to make sure you are punished as appropriate. A punishment in which you have to change the doors, the chairs or whateve would be just an slap on the wrist since actually you get to keep the building.
You surely would get mad, but the purpose of the legal system is not to please companies that have broken the law.
Becasue they promised (in a legal term mind you, they were forcde to) they were not going to do it?
You are looking to find problems for which there is no solution, not the way one would go about deploying a solution.
If you need WiFi and want to protect your investment against the whims of a convicted monopolist you go and choose a WiFi card that is supported by your alternative solution. Unless your business will die if you can't stream video on a WiFi connection I don't see why this is a problem, you can use some of the PCI or USB supported solutions for your desktops.
I have a card reader that is not supported on Windows XP (dual CompactFlash/MMC). There is always hardware that does not work or is not supported in a given OS. That is not an excuse to stop solving a problem, you go and get a different card reader, or leave a few Windows machines around if only Windows will work.
What is your priority? To be in control of your software infrastructure? To solve a particular problem? Both? You decide, but at the end of the day not to be considering alternatives to get one out of the grip of a convicted monopolist seems irresponsible to me.
You can't tweak the system at all. Period.
In Linux, if *you* don't want to tweak the system you don't have to, but you can.
Sad see so many people afraid of freedom of choice.
Stop lying. There are plenty of examples of stuff that does not work with Windows out of the box.
Otherwise we would not have the inccountable help forums, Windows For Dummies books and premium support from your favorite convicted monopolist.
Windows is clearly far from perfect, pretending otherwise is clearly dishnoest and disingenious.
IM protocals(sic)
Really? That is a vital one.
serious gaming support
Translation: if it does not play my favourtie games, it is not ready for the desktop (thank goodness I can play plenty of the games I like).
fast boot times
Now you got me there. All Windows offerings are ready in what 30 sec? 1 min? Now that is fast...
out of the box for the latest tech toys
Care to mention some? The problems with other OSes is tha they don;t support the toys I already have, that are in perfect working order and that I don;t intend to throw away onle because a pansy OS can't be arsed to support it anymore.
Bullshit.
This friend is 60 y.o. and is so dead tired that he phoned and asked me "doyou think I should install Linux?".
He wants choice, and choice is not going to be dictated by one person, it will be dictated by the needs of people.
You want something dead easy were little or no configuration is necessart? Well, 2 or 3 choices of Linux will be up to the task. What is worng woth choice> People can choose between different cars, TVs, DVDs or dogs.
What is the esoteric reason for which choice is bad for computing goods and services?
Migrate all your data, hardware and applications from an old Windows machine to WindowsXP, the later shinny new from the manufacturer.
If you think that is painless you are a consumated masochist that has forgotten what pain is.
You say everything works and then you gon on a tirade about having drivers and what have you.
So which way it is? Is it painles or do you still have to look and find wirelesssdrv2333.exe file for your wirless card?
And don't start me with email.
And what about oolder, perfectly functional hardware? In Linux it just works, on XP, good luck finding those xxxxdrv.2.34332.exe files you need.
.... about concentrating efforts in a good desktop OS????
... I have a hard time thinking what else could be more important that what enables you to make a living and be a celebrity.
... then looks at IE (2 desktop machines here, one where I get things done, the other runs Outlook),
????
Consider you slamed.
If IBM. Novell and other can be on the good side, why not one of the big recording labels?
They just need the cojones, they would find many friends and would be pleasently surprised.
He said Great Britain has two legal systems, one covering England and Wales, the other covers Scotland which is entirely correct, no mention of Eire or NI is done.
So actually what is your point? Too many pints last night perhaps matey?
If this has been in GB.v2.0's agenda before or shortly after the election was handed to him, then he would have a claim to be a real visionary that means what he aays.
With the situation in Iraq (and Afghanistan) not under control, a huge deficit, tax cuts that have proven to be a joke, pumping money on Iraq for which nobody will see any return (read my lips: we are not safer) and having mounting evidence that this individual you have for President is a vulgar liar, then tell me, why should people trust him at face value?
If anything, Batman, this guy should be judged with increasing skepticism.
... I have only two comments to make:
-MS should stop those un-American activities and remember the "viral" and malevolent nature of this license which will kill the software industry.
-I would not get involved with a convicted peddler of sub-standard software, no matter how many sweets he offers new prospective victims.
Oh, yes, allow me a third: hypocrates, good to see they are using GNU software and eating, slowly and one by one, all their food, I mean FUD. It is up to us, tehcnical literati, to make this point as often as possible to non technical people. If MS is embracing FLOSS, why should not my company, firends, grandma not do the same?
... I would like to contribute the Spanish version (localized to Mexico) of this:
SCO: vayanse mucho a la chingada!
It is not a literal translation, but gets the job done, believe me.
Fools are unloading themselves of the useless stock, specially after realizing what SCO presented to the courts yesterday.
That would only affect SCO current customers (poor sods), anybody else does not have any commercial relationship with SCO.
Even the unfortunate few *still* in the group above most probably when they bought the sofware agreed to resolved contractual issues in a local court. Otherwise, well, who knows, read my signature.
Just keep an eye on the ball (I am waiting on delight that they demand payment from me or my company here in the UK) to know the latest.
Then sit back and enjoy this for what it is: the ultimate Reality Web show. Never somebody made such fools of themselves.
I just want a happy ending, anything less that all these individuals handcuffed on their way to a long holiday in a penitenciary in Utha would be an anticlimax.
... I am THE BRAIN! Ha,he,hi,ho,hu!
.... is the most disingenous comment in the history of /.
/. and you were not prepared for the slahsdotting? In which planet do you live? And gimme some of that stuff you are smoking.
You mean you posted something to
... for a University (goverment University it seems, for what I have read here) to enable such "service"?
If such thing would be procured on my native Mexico on a public University the university's director wold find himself without a job in a very short time...