is this the same Microsoft that stressed that Lotus should focus their 1-2-3 GUI efforts soley on OS/2 and forget about that interim toy called Windows?
so $64 for the ability to use windows media content? Seems like TurboLinux is now right in line with intel PC makers in that an enormous amount of the expense of the system just gets syphoned off to redmond.
and in this case, for somewhat dubious reasons, has anyone seem WMV content you could not previously live without?
I absolutely think they "get it". They know with certainty they can completely screw the consumer in as many possible ways they can think of and completely get away with it.
they have congress in their pockets, they have the "major media" carrying their water for them, why would they not demand we all bend over?
just look at the price fixing "deal". I got $13....by rough calculation, they stole a few hundred from me minimum and only hada to give >5% of it back.
So SCO gets to defame Redhat with FUD and old fashioned lies until the IBM case is completed. Redhat gets no immediate relief.
This is a small gain for Redhat on one side (as if anyone thought this would get dismissed), but a bigger loss for Redhat on the other (as if we thought RH would get screwed for possibly 2 more years with no recourse).
I used to hate the SPF/PDF interface, but after a decade of being forced to use (by employer) with the utter shit that is MS Windows, it's now just fond memories of something that WORKED. also, REXX did (and still does) rock.
and long after no one cares who billgates was, there will still be Big Blue Iron.
perhaps PG should generate eBooks from the texts and give them away. sorta screw up the PG2 business model.
I'd even be willing to help out with such an adventure, have no idea how to generate an ebook, but I suspect it entails giving a wad of cash to adobe for some authoring/converting software. One adobe license = many many many free PG ebooks.
or is giving away something formatted in this manner against the US constitution and generally illegal?
is in practice, simply coming up with new and distracting ways to utilize the word "innovate".
MS products? the only innovation going on there is new innovative ways to use MS products to send spam, propogate worms and viruses and lower the bottom line of every company using it through the costs associated with stopping all that damn "innovation".
I am writing this from Redhat 9. I use this box for one simple task. Web browsing. that's it. I did a simple user install, haven't tried anything my mom or other general users could not do.
In order to properly navigate the internet from this RedHat 9 box, I need only mozilla and just one extra program...terminal.
terminal is for killing hung mozilla sessions, I have to do this daily.
ready for desktop? depends on your definition of "ready". I know my mom would have no idea how to handle a stuck browser. I can imagine the phone call...ok, open a terminal session..click the red hat, then click system tools...then click terminal......now at the mom@fubarLinux Mom] prompt type ps -u mom, see the name mozilla-bin? no? ok click the scroll bar up....see it? yes! (whew) what is the number on the far left of that line...5465, ok now type kill 5465. ok, now click the netscape icon again. ok, talk to you again tomorrow.
if mozilla can stand tall though this paragraph I may actually be able to po
Linux on the Desktop means going head to head with the great beast. Novell has a miserable track record in this regard.
Let's hope Novell can do more with Ximian and SuSE than they did with Wordperfect and eventually Unixware.
Talk is cheap, Novell has always been able to afford it. Walking is a bit more involved, hopefully the folks from Ximian and SuSE (and aparenly now IBM) can help them do this, maybe even chew some gum at the same time.
yes, I am sarcastic and highly cynical of Novell and it's sordid history (my opinion). I am aware of how "bitchin" Netware was. I have been on teams that delivered Netware across an Enterprise, including the bastard of an upgrade that was 5, yes it "rocked",...yadda yadda yadda...
But please remember that these are the geniuses (or descendants of geniuses) that killed Wordperfect (ok, blame Corel) and created the wonderful experience the linux world is now enjoying as the SCO group. Oh wait, this isn't the same Novell....well the jury is still out on that rosey assumption.
I am banking this will be flagged as a "troll"...so be it. But let's just check in on this subject in two years...prove my cynicism is not well founded. Maybe had you spent hours with people quite literally convinced MS was about to run away scared you'd be cynical too.
a 2006 release of longhorn will provide the window needed to release Cairo. Cairo will be the shit... "Object Oriented" file system, and all the other stuff needed to finally reduce OS/2 to a wimpering pile of 1's and 0's.
hell, when SCO exposed themselves as shiftless vultures they and Novell didn't even seem to KNOW what sort of contracts they had signed. And we still don't know for sure who owns what. Novell also got real quiet after the 2nd or 3rd volley from SCO.
If Novell is so qualified/desirable to be a Unix vendor, how does one explain Unixware?
I love SuSE Linux, I don't want it to get *any* Novell directly on it. Note to SuSE....resist!!
I can still hear the faint echo's of Novell suits explaining how they were going to destroy Microsoft with Netware and the latest directory services product. These people were scarily clueless then...what has changed?.
Novell essentially brought us the current incarnation of SCO, haven't they done enough to "help" the Linux/OS community?
some time ago Gator silently installed itself while my teenager used a shared family pc. It behaved in my opinion like a virus would, silent and once in place, an undesirable nuisance.
It took me quite some time to figure out how to finally remove it. In fact, I think these bastards owe me about 3 hours of my life (which they cannot afford).
Of course the ultimate solution was removing MS Windows in our household. In fact, Gator and it's ilk were one (of many) reasons we ditched the platform altogether, despite our library of now unusable games and office apps. Not even dual-boot anymore in this household (hear that microsoft?)
Corporations that create software that would get an 18 year old busted and splashed across the news media as a notorious hacker should be treated in a similar manner...starting at the top in the case of this malignant operation.
Gosh it's been ages since we were entertained by the last one(s).
Certainly the big question has to be, can this blockbuster even compare to previous ones? what does Ebert have to say in his review? Should I plan on waiting in line for this one, or is it a renter?
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is this the same Microsoft that stressed that Lotus should focus their 1-2-3 GUI efforts soley on OS/2 and forget about that interim toy called Windows?
just wonderin'
on my iPod, the advance button when held down, turns off the iPod.
with all this prior art, I think it's a done deal MS will get this patent. if just to further how how completely screwed up the patent office is.
so $64 for the ability to use windows media content? Seems like TurboLinux is now right in line with intel PC makers in that an enormous amount of the expense of the system just gets syphoned off to redmond.
and in this case, for somewhat dubious reasons, has anyone seem WMV content you could not previously live without?
I can see maybe $5, but $64 is a shakedown.
TurboLinux....good luck with that
I absolutely think they "get it". They know with certainty they can completely screw the consumer in as many possible ways they can think of and completely get away with it.
they have congress in their pockets, they have the "major media" carrying their water for them, why would they not demand we all bend over?
just look at the price fixing "deal". I got $13....by rough calculation, they stole a few hundred from me minimum and only hada to give >5% of it back.
they get it just fine.
So SCO gets to defame Redhat with FUD and old fashioned lies until the IBM case is completed. Redhat gets no immediate relief.
This is a small gain for Redhat on one side (as if anyone thought this would get dismissed), but a bigger loss for Redhat on the other (as if we thought RH would get screwed for possibly 2 more years with no recourse).
I used to hate the SPF/PDF interface, but after a decade of being forced to use (by employer) with the utter shit that is MS Windows, it's now just fond memories of something that WORKED. also, REXX did (and still does) rock.
and long after no one cares who billgates was, there will still be Big Blue Iron.
oh yeah, BSD Lives!
so next they have a press conference with a big American Flag behind them and announce suits against Iran, North Korea and Syria.
George Bush parades Darl as a father^H^H^H^H^Hhomeland hero in a tickertape parade and the courts auto-rule that SCO wins all suits real and imagined.
SCO is also added to the pledge of allegiance, replacing the word "justice".
my question is "what market segment would that be?
This would be the "I get everything MS puts out to increase my coolness factor" market segment.
I just hope he puts the obligitory "ET" floating Moon shot, like he did when he did the "Kubrick" film "AI".
yeah, that was cool. gag
Cruise again? gee I hope he gets to do the arm-wave computer control thing, like was so cool in the Majority Report. now that's some real acting!
perhaps PG should generate eBooks from the texts and give them away. sorta screw up the PG2 business model.
I'd even be willing to help out with such an adventure, have no idea how to generate an ebook, but I suspect it entails giving a wad of cash to adobe for some authoring/converting software. One adobe license = many many many free PG ebooks.
or is giving away something formatted in this manner against the US constitution and generally illegal?
is in practice, simply coming up with new and distracting ways to utilize the word "innovate".
MS products? the only innovation going on there is new innovative ways to use MS products to send spam, propogate worms and viruses and lower the bottom line of every company using it through the costs associated with stopping all that damn "innovation".
Windows if free, would still be overpriced
hilarious, a obvious tounge in cheek comment reversing the story is described a delusional self-important jihadi response?
no wonder you posted as a coward. I'd have been embarrased to have posted such idiocies with my handle too.
CrApple Lusers Base? how original, even less original that my initial posting...that coward-boy, was not easy.
Mac users suprisingly announce they will drop support for Palm
President Gore can attest to the power of persuasion empoyed by Boies
I am writing this from Redhat 9. I use this box for one simple task. Web browsing. that's it. I did a simple user install, haven't tried anything my mom or other general users could not do.
...now at the mom@fubarLinux Mom] prompt type ps -u mom, see the name mozilla-bin? no? ok click the scroll bar up....see it? yes! (whew) what is the number on the far left of that line...5465, ok now type kill 5465. ok, now click the netscape icon again. ok, talk to you again tomorrow.
In order to properly navigate the internet from this RedHat 9 box, I need only mozilla and just one extra program...terminal.
terminal is for killing hung mozilla sessions, I have to do this daily.
ready for desktop? depends on your definition of "ready". I know my mom would have no idea how to handle a stuck browser. I can imagine the phone call...ok, open a terminal session..click the red hat, then click system tools...then click terminal...
if mozilla can stand tall though this paragraph I may actually be able to po
My question is how the hell would they know? Are they substituting "deleted" for the words "disabled sharing with other users"?"
My answer would be they found out from the trojan's they install via file sharing sites.
Mcdonalds could/would only do this if the music was essentially free to give away.
this outlines the "costs" of delivering music electronically. it elegently shows that $.99 for a tune is still gouging the "customer" (i.e. mark).
a billion times zero is still zero. maybe Coke will give away a TRILLION SONGS!!
Linux on the Desktop means going head to head with the great beast. Novell has a miserable track record in this regard.
Let's hope Novell can do more with Ximian and SuSE than they did with Wordperfect and eventually Unixware.
Talk is cheap, Novell has always been able to afford it. Walking is a bit more involved, hopefully the folks from Ximian and SuSE (and aparenly now IBM) can help them do this, maybe even chew some gum at the same time.
yes, I am sarcastic and highly cynical of Novell and it's sordid history (my opinion). I am aware of how "bitchin" Netware was. I have been on teams that delivered Netware across an Enterprise, including the bastard of an upgrade that was 5, yes it "rocked",...yadda yadda yadda...
But please remember that these are the geniuses (or descendants of geniuses) that killed Wordperfect (ok, blame Corel) and created the wonderful experience the linux world is now enjoying as the SCO group. Oh wait, this isn't the same Novell....well the jury is still out on that rosey assumption.
I am banking this will be flagged as a "troll"...so be it. But let's just check in on this subject in two years...prove my cynicism is not well founded. Maybe had you spent hours with people quite literally convinced MS was about to run away scared you'd be cynical too.
how is this a fucking troll? I was in more than one novell suit show where they laughed about how NDS would kill NT. they are idiots.
now you are too
a 2006 release of longhorn will provide the window needed to release Cairo. Cairo will be the shit... "Object Oriented" file system, and all the other stuff needed to finally reduce OS/2 to a wimpering pile of 1's and 0's.
I sure can blame it on Novell :-)
hell, when SCO exposed themselves as shiftless vultures they and Novell didn't even seem to KNOW what sort of contracts they had signed. And we still don't know for sure who owns what. Novell also got real quiet after the 2nd or 3rd volley from SCO.
If Novell is so qualified/desirable to be a Unix vendor, how does one explain Unixware?
I love SuSE Linux, I don't want it to get *any* Novell directly on it. Note to SuSE....resist!!
I can still hear the faint echo's of Novell suits explaining how they were going to destroy Microsoft with Netware and the latest directory services product. These people were scarily clueless then...what has changed?.
Novell essentially brought us the current incarnation of SCO, haven't they done enough to "help" the Linux/OS community?
some time ago Gator silently installed itself while my teenager used a shared family pc. It behaved in my opinion like a virus would, silent and once in place, an undesirable nuisance.
It took me quite some time to figure out how to finally remove it. In fact, I think these bastards owe me about 3 hours of my life (which they cannot afford).
Of course the ultimate solution was removing MS Windows in our household. In fact, Gator and it's ilk were one (of many) reasons we ditched the platform altogether, despite our library of now unusable games and office apps. Not even dual-boot anymore in this household (hear that microsoft?)
Corporations that create software that would get an 18 year old busted and splashed across the news media as a notorious hacker should be treated in a similar manner...starting at the top in the case of this malignant operation.
but that just my opinion.
This could be applied by a frustrated, untrusting citizenry.
we could force all elected and appointed government officials to wear "lie detectorware". the fabric turns beet red whenever they spout bullshit.
Gosh it's been ages since we were entertained by the last one(s).
Certainly the big question has to be, can this blockbuster even compare to previous ones? what does Ebert have to say in his review? Should I plan on waiting in line for this one, or is it a renter?