They can download it via FTP, of course.
MS supply an ftp client since NT 3.51, and *no one* seems to be complaining about it.
It's *really* strange, because they complain about *anything* else.
Well, OpenGL is *much* simpler than DirectX to learn with.
I understand that it's usually *easier* to learn OpenGL, and only then move to DirectX, because by then you've grasped the concepts of 3D.
My major point against OpenGL is that it's slow on my machine.
I've a 1.2Ghz & Voodoo 5, and the moment I'm trying to do something nice in OpenGL, it's start to crawl.
(Before the flames begin, I believe it's the OS that is to be blamed here, I'm running XP beta, and it's entirely possible that this is the reason. I know that they've taken out DirectX support from another build. So it's not impossible that they did something to OpenGl as well.)
> NT = Well i guess the fact that they dropped it means a lot. No ownership system, bad memory management. Hell, a single NT server with 256 ram needs to be restarted each month or so, expect if you have their super last 'service patch pack'.
Dropped it?
Win2K & XP mean nothing to you, I guess.
> I think we need to fear them all. The reason why the corporation in the Erin Brockovich case was made accountable was because not even our terrible, emasculated, corporate, pro-government media can cover up stories about kids getting cancers and other incurable diseases at alarming rates within a community only a few thousand yards away from a factory
You seem to forget that while the company's headquarters was in England, their powersource was far from there.
If it was on the same place, it might have been a different story.
As it was, the company *had* to disband. The goverment had more power than the company did *on England*, and that is where the stock owner and all those people who made important decisions sat.
Because that would cause a *huge* backlash.
Because MS, as big as it is, can't provide software solutions to anything.
Because any platform is depended on 3rd party software for survival.
Because that would be *stupid*.
*Right*!
Because Unix doesn't have *any* security holes in it that needs to be patch, after all.
I mean, the BIND's exploit was just MS FUD, because Unix is *so* secure.
Unix is here for 30+ years, actually.
And I don't think you've a point here.
I think you'll find that very little of the original Unix can be found in even commercial Unixes. The only thing that can be said that is truly Unix is the design philosopy.
> If Microsoft was in clear violation of anti-trust law (and to me it seems that this was the case), then they are probably going to get spanked no matter what the political philosophy of the Justice Department is, because it is a matter of law, not a matter of politics.
You'll find that politics wins over law 99% of the time.
Sorry, can't do that.
A kernel *has* to know about the hardware.
And as Linux Kernel is GPLed, they can't release just the binaries.
It would be a lot of work, though, to build the spec of the chip from the kernel's sources.
DR-DOS, that was a beta version that poped an error message, wasn't it?
"Error 4463: Please call support." -- Number made up, I don't have *that* good a memory.
That wasn't present in the final, FWIW.
Blue mountian, no comment, I agree that it was wrong on MS side.
Breaking Felten's program is probably a side-consecques of the design of Windows.
Check Lotus & Sp6 for something similar.
Win2K & Kerebros, the protocol has a field for vendor spesific data, MS didn't extend it, the protocol's specification is flawed.
I understand that SP2 change it to the "normal" implementation.
Actually, I'm not arguing about whatever or not MS has shoddy bussiness tactics, I argue that they *can't* break Mozilla's compatability without breaking havoc on a lot of applications, including their own.
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The words that they do put in is stuff like company names.
At least those are the only ones that I've seen so far.
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Well, you've not heard the Win98 speaches, have you?
There was a whole lot about the web being part of the PC.
Hit submit instead of preview, sorry.
That was supposed to be:
Sure, I would like nothing more than open my account to MS and have them dig into it with a very big shovel.
Hi, wait a minute... they... already... do.
Sure, I would like nothing than open my bank account to MS and have them dig into it with a big shovel.
Hi, wait a minute...
Actually, I was being sarcastic, not trolling.
They can download it via FTP, of course.
MS supply an ftp client since NT 3.51, and *no one* seems to be complaining about it.
It's *really* strange, because they complain about *anything* else.
Well, OpenGL is *much* simpler than DirectX to learn with.
I understand that it's usually *easier* to learn OpenGL, and only then move to DirectX, because by then you've grasped the concepts of 3D.
My major point against OpenGL is that it's slow on my machine.
I've a 1.2Ghz & Voodoo 5, and the moment I'm trying to do something nice in OpenGL, it's start to crawl.
(Before the flames begin, I believe it's the OS that is to be blamed here, I'm running XP beta, and it's entirely possible that this is the reason. I know that they've taken out DirectX support from another build. So it's not impossible that they did something to OpenGl as well.)
> NT = Well i guess the fact that they dropped it means a lot. No ownership system, bad memory management. Hell, a single NT server with 256 ram needs to be restarted each month or so, expect if you have their super last 'service patch pack'.
Dropped it?
Win2K & XP mean nothing to you, I guess.
NT is going forward full force.
No, that would be stuff that shivers.
Sometime, OSS developer might get tired of playing catch-up, you know.
> I think we need to fear them all. The reason why the corporation in the Erin Brockovich case was made accountable was because not even our terrible, emasculated, corporate, pro-government media can cover up stories about kids getting cancers and other incurable diseases at alarming rates within a community only a few thousand yards away from a factory
Give it a few years.
Well, if you *have* heard about it, wouldn't it take all the fun out of it?
Where did you find this information?
Can I have a link?
You seem to forget that while the company's headquarters was in England, their powersource was far from there.
If it was on the same place, it might have been a different story.
As it was, the company *had* to disband. The goverment had more power than the company did *on England*, and that is where the stock owner and all those people who made important decisions sat.
Because that would cause a *huge* backlash.
Because MS, as big as it is, can't provide software solutions to anything.
Because any platform is depended on 3rd party software for survival.
Because that would be *stupid*.
Lots of reasons.
*Right*!
Because Unix doesn't have *any* security holes in it that needs to be patch, after all.
I mean, the BIND's exploit was just MS FUD, because Unix is *so* secure.
Unix is here for 30+ years, actually.
And I don't think you've a point here.
I think you'll find that very little of the original Unix can be found in even commercial Unixes. The only thing that can be said that is truly Unix is the design philosopy.
> If Microsoft was in clear violation of anti-trust law (and to me it seems that this was the case), then they are probably going to get spanked no matter what the political philosophy of the Justice Department is, because it is a matter of law, not a matter of politics.
You'll find that politics wins over law 99% of the time.
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Well, I'm pretty sure that people can come up with an encryption scheme which even the NSA would be unable to crack.
The important part is not to make cracking the encryption impossible, the important part is to make cracking the encryption cracking *long*.
Give the NSA computers enough to calculate that they would take longer than it's appropriate to crack it.
(It doesn't help you when you pick up enemy communication in mid-battle if it takes a year to break it.)
> Is it really not possible to make things uncopyable?
No, it's not possible, if you can read it, then you can copy it.
The interesting thing happen when you want to *use* those bits.
That is when the copy protection should kick in.
Won't work, I think.
It's not like NT, where you got HAL, Linux's Hardware Abstraction Layer is the kernel itself.
It'll be a *pain* to do, but if you got the kernel sources for some chip, you can understand how it works.
I don't really think that you can put *that* much basic functionality in modules.
Sorry, can't do that.
A kernel *has* to know about the hardware.
And as Linux Kernel is GPLed, they can't release just the binaries.
It would be a lot of work, though, to build the spec of the chip from the kernel's sources.
DR-DOS, that was a beta version that poped an error message, wasn't it?
"Error 4463: Please call support." -- Number made up, I don't have *that* good a memory.
That wasn't present in the final, FWIW.
Blue mountian, no comment, I agree that it was wrong on MS side.
Breaking Felten's program is probably a side-consecques of the design of Windows.
Check Lotus & Sp6 for something similar.
Win2K & Kerebros, the protocol has a field for vendor spesific data, MS didn't extend it, the protocol's specification is flawed.
I understand that SP2 change it to the "normal" implementation.
Actually, I'm not arguing about whatever or not MS has shoddy bussiness tactics, I argue that they *can't* break Mozilla's compatability without breaking havoc on a lot of applications, including their own.