so if I actually bought this cd and wanted to not only play it but like copy it, I suspect my philips cd recorder would do just fine. it would suck in analog, but it would still suck.
man if only the monkeys and archies had such technological magic at their disposal.
VHS killed BETA for one main reason. Sony REFUSED to freely license BETA to cloners but did freely license VHS (they created both). so, you could buy an expensive BETA VCR or cheaper VHS from Sony or a REAL cheap knockoff VHS from company X. BETA playes were only available from Sony themselves. VHS won simply because everyone wanted cheap over quality, and sony made that decision easy by making quality prohibitively expensive.
IBM killed Microchannel the same way, an outdated dim-bulb licensing scheme.
MS is so used to being a total monopoly that they can't even imagine playing (let alone winning) a game that has an even playing field, or where everyone uses the same rules.
Why don't they just get nostalgic and throw false error messages anytime anyone uses any blasphemous icon, offering to create a pious ms icon in it's place?
the cash from msn subscriptions should more than pay for the court settlement years after the fact.
I remember Joe Barr screaming fire alot back on Fidonet when OS/2 and Windows was the current thing to fight about. Joe's still at it, eh? In Joe's defense, he was fighting against the cheats, liars and lackeys of MS. It's easy to get worked up when you are doing "mortal combat toe-to-toe with the rooskies".
the SmartSuite port for OS/2 was ugly. Lotus dragged their butts on this port so long they helped make sure it had no impact in helping OS/2.
and (like many IBM OS/2 plans) as soon as the product became stable, they stopped working on it.
MS didn't kill OS/2, IBM killed OS/2
If IBM wants to make ammends for the OS/2 debacle, they would port the Workplace Shell to Linux/BSD/Unix. The Workplace Shell was and still is the finest GUI design on the planet. [shields up]A stable port of WPS for Linux would at least show the KDE/Gnome teams what a GREAT desktop should be.[shields down]
On linux users paying for SmartSuite, I fully agree, it's just not gonna happen, however for a business, they could use the savings on those free copies of Linux to convert their office apps:-)
So now we'll see a new menu option (well just those stuck with windows actually will) to "Optimize the desktop", this will put the "correct" icons back after the OEM's screw up the trancendental default windows experience.
review was marginal at best, I'd consider it just plain sloppy .
he seemed upset that it slowed down with 6 apps? I have a Handspring (which I love) and you cannot run more than ONE app at a time. So he's bitching about a feature that is totally unique in it's class because it's slower? how was ONE app at a time, or two or three? what apps did he test beside grafitti? and was it grafitti or his lousy penmanship that caused the problems?
looks like this is still not ready for prime time, but then neither is this reviewer!
This article needs more pages. hell, there were some pages that contained multiple paragraphs. I am positive I missed out on some important banner ads on this site by the efficient consolidation of actual information.
Since I couldn't stick around, did they say if any of these work with Linux, or *BSD ?
I get CBC on regular cable (probably blacked out soon) from the Seattle area.
I was up watching the 10 meter diving on CBC, at the same time on NBC they had two broadcasters attempt to jump from 10 meters. the next night during "prime time", NBC is finally showing the diving I watched to the end the previous night. It was about 18 hours old and the coverage sucked, the analysts were morons compared to the professionals who cover for CBC.
NBC should be embarassed...what is amazing is that cities are willling to mortgage themselves just get an opportunity to be the center of such nonsense.
No diaries allowed from the athletes? what utter bullshit. maybe if the olympics doesn't care for the athletes and the homes they hail from they can have the next olympics without them? This wouldn't be much bother to NBC, since we all know watching bryant gumbel chicken out at 33 feet is much more interesting that seeing someone win a medal that doesn't wrap a US flag around them at the finish line.
I love seeing the Australian athletes step up at home, they are getting a shitload of medals! go go go!
but as a user of OS/2 during the OS wars of the old days when MS openly sabotaged "OS/2 for Windows" (lets not forget the special DR-DOS will break your computer messages), I have to openly ponder the following...
Is Real locking up your Windows2000 machine because it is poor software, or is Windows locking up because Real is not the Windows Media Player?
So I suspect the POSIX and Motif compiance are not required of NT?
If not, good thing. All things being equal, they'd probably just require Linux to provide that enhanced BSOD feature thats so tightly integrated into NT/2000, that it cannot be removed.
As a consultant, I am at 2-5 sites per year. I have seen firsthand multiple production systems, and production systems connected to the internet still utilizing the default null sa password. This is widespread.
Typically, the current admins are aghast at it, and it's "that way since I got here". Changes are then not made as it affects too many proccesses. (code: too much work to do it right)
There's lots of excuses for it, none hold water, yet it remains. cracker paradise.
I am flat out amazed that NASA would consider crashing the craft to keep it from contaminating potential life on Europa. This is a highly resonsible decision that will be surely railed as wasteful and stupid by many.
Now if only we could get the rest of the worlds governments to take this approach. Perhaps take such similar measures as to not (further) contaminate life on EARTH.
So I take the bait, check out the story, and it turns out these guys likely planned and executed a simple robbery. One of the tools used in the theft was (L0pht)Crack.
Had I not checked out the story, I would have been left thinking these guys got busted for possessing (L0pht)Crack.
So when did Rupert Murdoch buy the guys who bought the guys who bought the guys who bought slashdot?
>What next? Debuggers? What next, aliens having Linus babies?
Does this mean that we will see full two-page ads showing the media player with a Windows titlebar, a mac titlebar one with a doctored motif-ish title bar, like those "IE for Unix" ads?
Seems that the installation of Windows has historically defaulted to wipe out any other system.
I would think instructions would be needed to *avoid* blowing away linux or any other non-ms system.
Is MS now intent on bearing children raised to play well with the other kids? This would be real news, and quite possibly furthur proof that "the end is near":-)
My hope is that they actually complete a non-Draw for Windows project.
They failed to follow through on multiple promises to the OS2 community, then took the world by storm with the Java office suite, now they promise the best linux distro in town.
Since we really don't need yet another linux distro, my hope is that they just maintain a useable WordPerfect on Linux, perhaps even upgrade it to read Word documents, regardless of how often that format changes.
To be slammed by the Gartner Group is a good sign. Perhaps MS may actually be getting a bit worried about Linux?
At a large financial firm I worked some 8 years ago, the Gartner group faxes were read like biblical dictates from above by those who were making the strategic decisions, i.e. looking for reasons to wait for "Chicago".
this aricle is just chock full of insightful revelations like the next paragraph....
"Linux will continue to appeal to its devotees and, as it improves over time, to broader audiences,"
sure, IBM labs will do some cool stuff, as they did and still do with OS/2.
bottom line is they will not piss off MS when the chips begin to fall (a big chip being the DOJ loss/MS win).
maybe I've just seen IBM burn turn the knife one too many times, but don't expect anything truly useful to be free from IBM.
300 linux people? when they put 2500 and begin advertising preloaded boxes and laptops as an *alternative* to Windows would be worth getting excited about.
this may appear to be flamebait, it's not intended that way, I just get a bit worked up when I see anyone thinking IBM has anything on their radar than the furthuring of large systems and servers running NT.
IBM is big, sometimes it's big toe gets gushy about something non-mainstream, just remember, the big toe of IBM may look big to use mortals, but it's still just a big toe. when the brain realizes the big toe is being independent, on will come the sock.
ibm and ms are still best buddies, if ibm goes too far, they will pull back when asked. look what they did to their own superior product (os2) when MS told them Win license discounts would vanish. they admitted this in court, trying to make it appear they had no choice but to capitulate. if DOJ loses to MS, do you think they will stand their ground?
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by buying my kid an iMac. no more manually resetting windows(TM) screen resolution for game x then back, rebooting a locked system.....ad nauseum.
man if only the monkeys and archies had such technological magic at their disposal.
my memory of this was that....
VHS killed BETA for one main reason. Sony REFUSED to freely license BETA to cloners but did freely license VHS (they created both). so, you could buy an expensive BETA VCR or cheaper VHS from Sony or a REAL cheap knockoff VHS from company X. BETA playes were only available from Sony themselves. VHS won simply because everyone wanted cheap over quality, and sony made that decision easy by making quality prohibitively expensive.
IBM killed Microchannel the same way, an outdated dim-bulb licensing scheme.
MS is so used to being a total monopoly that they can't even imagine playing (let alone winning) a game that has an even playing field, or where everyone uses the same rules.
Why don't they just get nostalgic and throw false error messages anytime anyone uses any blasphemous icon, offering to create a pious ms icon in it's place?
the cash from msn subscriptions should more than pay for the court settlement years after the fact.
I remember Joe Barr screaming fire alot back on Fidonet when OS/2 and Windows was the current thing to fight about. Joe's still at it, eh? In Joe's defense, he was fighting against the cheats, liars and lackeys of MS. It's easy to get worked up when you are doing "mortal combat toe-to-toe with the rooskies".
and (like many IBM OS/2 plans) as soon as the product became stable, they stopped working on it.
MS didn't kill OS/2, IBM killed OS/2
If IBM wants to make ammends for the OS/2 debacle, they would port the Workplace Shell to Linux/BSD/Unix. The Workplace Shell was and still is the finest GUI design on the planet. [shields up]A stable port of WPS for Linux would at least show the KDE/Gnome teams what a GREAT desktop should be.[shields down]
On linux users paying for SmartSuite, I fully agree, it's just not gonna happen, however for a business, they could use the savings on those free copies of Linux to convert their office apps :-)
So now we'll see a new menu option (well just those stuck with windows actually will) to "Optimize the desktop", this will put the "correct" icons back after the OEM's screw up the trancendental default windows experience.
review was marginal at best, I'd consider it just plain sloppy .
he seemed upset that it slowed down with 6 apps? I have a Handspring (which I love) and you cannot run more than ONE app at a time. So he's bitching about a feature that is totally unique in it's class because it's slower? how was ONE app at a time, or two or three? what apps did he test beside grafitti? and was it grafitti or his lousy penmanship that caused the problems?
looks like this is still not ready for prime time, but then neither is this reviewer!
This article needs more pages. hell, there were some pages that contained multiple paragraphs. I am positive I missed out on some important banner ads on this site by the efficient consolidation of actual information.
Since I couldn't stick around, did they say if any of these work with Linux, or *BSD ?
I was up watching the 10 meter diving on CBC, at the same time on NBC they had two broadcasters attempt to jump from 10 meters. the next night during "prime time", NBC is finally showing the diving I watched to the end the previous night. It was about 18 hours old and the coverage sucked, the analysts were morons compared to the professionals who cover for CBC.
NBC should be embarassed...what is amazing is that cities are willling to mortgage themselves just get an opportunity to be the center of such nonsense.
No diaries allowed from the athletes? what utter bullshit. maybe if the olympics doesn't care for the athletes and the homes they hail from they can have the next olympics without them? This wouldn't be much bother to NBC, since we all know watching bryant gumbel chicken out at 33 feet is much more interesting that seeing someone win a medal that doesn't wrap a US flag around them at the finish line.
I love seeing the Australian athletes step up at home, they are getting a shitload of medals! go go go!
I think they left out some "i"'s
but as a user of OS/2 during the OS wars of the old days when MS openly sabotaged "OS/2 for Windows" (lets not forget the special DR-DOS will break your computer messages), I have to openly ponder the following...
Is Real locking up your Windows2000 machine because it is poor software, or is Windows locking up because Real is not the Windows Media Player?
Did the total number of phones in existance come into play before determining whether to break up the phone company years ago?
So I suspect the POSIX and Motif compiance are not required of NT?
If not, good thing. All things being equal, they'd probably just require Linux to provide that enhanced BSOD feature thats so tightly integrated into NT/2000, that it cannot be removed.
so if I have an ms chipped toaster and I use unapproved linux-brand bread, will they remotely disable my toaster?
As a consultant, I am at 2-5 sites per year. I have seen firsthand multiple production systems, and production systems connected to the internet still utilizing the default null sa password. This is widespread.
Typically, the current admins are aghast at it, and it's "that way since I got here". Changes are then not made as it affects too many proccesses. (code: too much work to do it right)
There's lots of excuses for it, none hold water, yet it remains. cracker paradise.
If AOL customers are being charged by the minute, then I think they have a case.
Perhaps it's time AOL provided discounts for banner popups. I.e. you don't disable them, you get a time credit for each instance.
I am flat out amazed that NASA would consider crashing the craft to keep it from contaminating potential life on Europa. This is a highly resonsible decision that will be surely railed as wasteful and stupid by many.
Now if only we could get the rest of the worlds governments to take this approach. Perhaps take such similar measures as to not (further) contaminate life on EARTH.
So I take the bait, check out the story, and it turns out these guys likely planned and executed a simple robbery. One of the tools used in the theft was (L0pht)Crack.
Had I not checked out the story, I would have been left thinking these guys got busted for possessing (L0pht)Crack.
So when did Rupert Murdoch buy the guys who bought the guys who bought the guys who bought slashdot?
>What next? Debuggers?
What next, aliens having Linus babies?
Having read this article, I am having difficulty finding the actual text that "blasts" linux.
So did VA/Slashdot get bought out by Rupert Murdock and you never mentioned it?
Does this mean that we will see full two-page ads showing the media player with a Windows titlebar, a mac titlebar one with a doctored motif-ish title bar, like those "IE for Unix" ads?
Seems that the installation of Windows has historically defaulted to wipe out any other system.
:-)
I would think instructions would be needed to *avoid* blowing away linux or any other non-ms system.
Is MS now intent on bearing children raised to play well with the other kids? This would be real news, and quite possibly furthur proof that "the end is near"
My hope is that they actually complete a non-Draw for Windows project.
They failed to follow through on multiple promises to the OS2 community, then took the
world by storm with the Java office suite,
now they promise the best linux distro in town.
Since we really don't need yet another linux distro, my hope is that they just maintain a useable WordPerfect on Linux, perhaps even upgrade it to read Word documents, regardless of how often that format changes.
To be slammed by the Gartner Group is a good sign. Perhaps MS may actually be getting a bit worried about Linux?
At a large financial firm I worked some 8 years ago, the Gartner group faxes were read like biblical dictates from above by those who were making the strategic decisions, i.e. looking for reasons to wait for "Chicago".
this aricle is just chock full of insightful revelations like the next paragraph....
"Linux will continue to appeal to its devotees and, as it improves over time, to broader audiences,"
where do I pay for more?
no way.
sure, IBM labs will do some cool stuff, as they did and still do with OS/2.
bottom line is they will not piss off MS when the chips begin to fall (a big chip being the DOJ loss/MS win).
maybe I've just seen IBM burn turn the knife one too many times, but don't expect anything truly useful to be free from IBM.
300 linux people? when they put 2500 and begin advertising preloaded boxes and laptops as an *alternative* to Windows would be worth getting excited about.
this may appear to be flamebait, it's not intended that way, I just get a bit worked up when I see anyone thinking IBM has anything on their radar than the furthuring of large systems and servers running NT.
IBM is big, sometimes it's big toe gets gushy about something non-mainstream, just remember, the big toe of IBM may look big to use mortals, but it's still just a big toe. when the brain realizes the big toe is being independent, on will come the sock.
ibm and ms are still best buddies, if ibm goes too far, they will pull back when asked. look what they did to their own superior product (os2) when MS told them Win license discounts would vanish. they admitted this in court, trying to make it appear they had no choice but to capitulate. if DOJ loses to MS, do you think they will stand their ground?