And take this anyway you want. What if GNOME were to "go under"?(not that that's even really possible since the code is free) Since most distros with the notable exception of Redhat have standardized on KDE, having Redhat switch to KDE would then for the first time have Linux as a whole presenting a unified desktop to the world. For the first time, with the exception of some difference in the naming of menus, you would be able to sit down in front of any of the big desktop distros and see the same desktop. I'm not saying I want that to happen, other then the desire to see ANY unified desktop, but still one does wonder where GNOME would be without Redhat. Of course this doesn't mean fluxbox users can't switch to that, but the thing I've heard year after year from the big commercial desktop vendors is that beyond being too small a market, the linux desktop from the outside seems too fragmented. There's not doubt in my mind that having all the big desktop vendors finally on one desktop would be a step in the right direction towards more widespread linux adoption. Remember I'm not talking about restricting choice to run another WM, so save your "choice is good" speechs for someone else. Most people who use linux want to see it used on a more widespread basis. Having a unified look is one the first steps.
You know how many times I heard these "Redhat is getting too big" comments since the 90's? Linux is free, GPL, and can't be "owned" by any vendor including Microsoft or Redhat. I'll tell you what I think on this...*?#!$@*!! up about it,and stop bringing it up!
Yep I'm positive I still have the orginal Wolfenstein(with manual!), Karateka, Zork, Dr. J vs Larry Bird, and of course the greatest game ever Wizardy I. All for the IBM PCjr. Last time I checked years ago I needed a new floppy drive.
Two questions:
1) Think I'll be able to find another floppy drive for the PCjr?
2) Think if I buy an 5 1/4 drive I'll be able to run any of these games on a DOS emulator? I still have DOS 2.0 in boxes, but I'm counting on that PCjr not working forever. I also have an old 486 I could throw an old version of DOS on.
Yup nothing's changed with Mozilla since 1998..
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AOL Wins Anti-Spam Case
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http://news.com.com/2100-1023-218360.html
"Not much, just more crap was added to them to make AOL money."
Yep nothing but crap added to Mozilla since then. *rollseyes*
Nothing but the ongoing funding of Mozilla development. Oh right I forgot those Netscape employees who work on Mozilla do it for free. Netscape on their own would be bankrupt and gone today if AOL hadn't bought them. Thus Mozilla would NOT be where it is today without AOL. Yep sucks to hear, deal with it. I also noticed that ICQ and Winamp continue to be fully funded as well.
AOL may be a big bag of crap when it comes to their client software, but they served as Internet training wheels for a huge part of the Internet surfers today. They have their place.
Since when is booze a health concern?
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Google vs. Evil
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Abusing anything is bad for you, but drinking for example a glass of wine a day is actually good for you. The vast majority of us(over 25) drink responsibly and WON'T have health problems from alcohol. So I don't know where your getting this stance from, but its wrong from a health point of view. Also its certainly wrong from a philosophical point of view to call an inanimate object like alcohol evil.
Then you'll see how fun it is to be injected with cancer and grow tumors the size of a baseball. I wonder if the fact that the scientists aren't laughing at you will be some comfort to you then?
I'm not completely against animal testing, but your in the wrong here trying to brush off the topic of ethics when discussing animal testing. There are ethics involved and they are not "bullshit".
I used to have verizon dsl in North NJ. They couldn't be easier to get dsl from. I called and a week later my self install kit arrived. On the turn on date I hooked it up and off I went. It was moron proof. While it was only 640/128 it only went down once in the year in a half I had it. When I switched to cable they gave me 2 months free just to try to keep me and even offered to lower the price $10 a month to match my $39 a month cable price. In the end I switched to cable though. Nothing beats 10mb/1mb. Because of my particular cable moden I'm limited to 600KB but my upload is around 90KB. Not bad for $39 a month.:-)
More OT its nice to see an ISP who lets you share your bandwidth. It's too bad they all still limit uploading which is really holding back the internet. Only when upload speed matchs download speeds will we really even be ready to move on from the "web consumer model" that exists today. Unfortunately Big Media and Big Business only wants us to surf the WWW. I don't see this changing anytime soon. In fact things are more locked down and filtered then they ever were before.
"In fact, MS catches a lot of flack for maintaining backwards compatibility"
No, actually MS catches flack for breaking compabtibility.
"Could it be, perhaps, that they only use Linux where they feel it is strong (webserver, etc) and that is the reason it isn't as popular as zealots think it should be?"
No, while Linux has its problems that's not the reason its not so popular. Let me explain something to you about Windows and why its popular. You see MS since the 90's has used its monopoly power to force OEM's ship ONLY windows with their PC's. Only in the past few years have OEM's dared to even offer another OS. MS also has power over the ISV's who produce the software for their platform. They have rewarded those that tow the MS line and threatened ones that don't.
So combine OEM's being forced to ship nothing but windows year after year and also ISV's who year after year are afraid of MS and you get what we have now. MS through its tactics has not only gained 95% of the market, but also has made developing for Linux or any other OS unattractive. Developing for the Linux desktop when it only makes up 1% of the market doesn't make much sense now does it?
So you see while Linux may be rough around the edges and not as polished as windows, MS through many years of heavy handed tactics has created an environment where there isn't a huge payoff for developing for Linux. Think of it this way. Look at the Segway. It like cars, bikes, and buses is a transportation vehicle. But its too late to the party. Its trying to gain entry to a mature industry and there just isn't room for it to become "hugely popular". The infrastructure just isn't there. Sure it may gain some small share, but there literally isn't room for it to really grow. Linux is in the same situation. It may be a better product, but the incentives for supporting it over the entrenched product just aren't there. In fact the same goes for BeOS or ANY other OS which wants to play in the desktop market. Yet another example, try to start your own phone company from scratch. Just like Linux does, go it your own way. I bet you'd be stuck at 0.0%. Notice how the only way into the telecommunications market was to develop a new market, aka cellur etc. The same will be true for linux. It will never become really popular in the desktop market, but may become popular in handhelds, embedded etc.
BTW if anyone wants to point to Apple feel free. Apple only survived because they truly were competitive when the infrastructure was being built. Sure they didn't prosper like MS, but their early foothold in the education market kept them alive. Also while there is some wiggle room for Apple to gain ground on MS, they will never gain the majority of the desktop maket. The same rules which keep linux from gaining any market share will keep Apple a niche player as well.
Try Lycoris or Redhat 8 first
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Don't use those semi-free distros. They are bad for linux and opensource in general. Mostly free does not equal free and that is exactly what Xandros and Lindows are. It's an alarming trend and I hope all of those distros which are eager to add proprietary bits to the central cores of their distros go out of business. Either one of the distros I mentioned in the subject should do what you ask as both have very good consistent user interfaces and are easy to configure.
"Secondly, even 24x drives burn a cd in 2.5 minutes."
Maybe if those cd's are 300MB, otherwise a real 650-700MB cd will take a minimum of 3:45 to burn a full cd at 24X. The only ones that can burn a full disc in 2:30 minutes ARE the 52X drives. Unless of course you were ignoring leadin and leadout or finalizing, which of course makes no sense sine they are part of the burn process.
There is no skin mess, you just don't know how to read instrucions.
Read the notes next to the themes at Mozdev next time, they clearly state if a theme works with 1.2 and the 1.3a series. I've had zero problem getting themes to work.
"Linux is 2-5 times slower (usually closer to 3) on the same machine"
Bullshit. Slower running what? All of those crossplatform apps you tested.
"I've tried KDE and Gnome, several versions, and multiple distros. Slow. Very slow"
No more than XP on that same machine. You want all the eye candy there is a price to pay. Of course you can run XFCE and other lean apps, but why bother with real facts?
"Linux was more stable than Windows 98. It's less so compared to XP in my experience."
Again Bullshit. What is less stable? Oh right why give facts when you can just make things up.
" Time to start talking up the actual benefits of Linux if you want any converts. Better stability is not one of them any more. Speed never was."
Pure trolling. K thx Bye.
The only thing your right about is Star Office on linux is slow. On windows once you enable its quick launch feature, which MS does as well, its plently quick at opening anything.
Again WTF is wrong with the mods these days? This was pure trolling.
Where does this say this is earth shattering news? Any win for linux especially higher profile ones are worth mentioning. You also seem to forget that Slashdot is read by the majority of the tech community. I'm sure most people reading Slashdot don't even run linux. But the more articles there are about companies using linux, means its more likely that the readers of this site who don't run Linux will consider running it.
You seem to be forgetting that all combined the advertising power of all the linux companies is pathetic. Contrast that to the hundreds of millions that Microsoft can spend on not only traditional print, radio, and tv ads, but also on paid salesman who go company to company making sure your using windows.
Somehow I don't think a little PR on Slashdot, who btw is a big believer in linux in case you forgot, hurts anyone. In fact its good for the community and the more "migration stories" the better.
Same with Redhat. Apt4rpm rules. Of course it works on Suse and Mandrake as well, so overall all of the major distros are moron proof to upgrade. One apt-get upgrade fixes them all.:-)
"a replacement for the standard Linux/UNIX syslog daemon they've been working on for some time....it's currently under the UC's "free for non-commercial use" license, but they are looking at moving to a completely open license (BSD-style licensing was mentioned)."
Sorry to sound like a weenie, but if its not GPL'd I'm not interested. This is one of those "core parts" I'm usually talking about that needs to be gpl if its going to get included in every distro. I know there are important parts of every linux distro that aren't GPL, but the more software we add that isn't GPL the worse off we are. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for proprietary add-on software(desktop/server apps, games etc) for linux, but the core software, ie base OS, system utilities, desktop WM, internet browser/connection software and basic office capabilities need to be GPL.
re: Skip to the last page for the most interesting
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AMD's 64-bit Plot
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No this is the interesting stuff
"eWEEK: What does it mean to you personally, though, when a Gateway or an IBM not just stop, but announce that they'll no longer be offering AMD as an option?
Ruiz: I think it's terrible, obviously. It's terrible. I think if you were to talk with Ted Waitt at Gateway, and ask him, "Why'd you do that?" and if he would really tell you why, it's a question of he's being bribed to do it. Now, he's got to look out for his own hide and the company that's probably in great difficulty has got to listen to the huge amounts of money that can help him do that.
But you know what I find amazing, think about the power, is that despite all that, which obviously we really get emotional about the fact that somebody like Gateway gets bribed into doing that, is that despite that, according to Dataquest last week, we're still holding a 19 percent share of the market. That to me tells me we're in the throes of breaking this open"
Hey Intel, see you in court! Of course now that Intel is along with Microsoft backing a group to outlaw opensource in the government, I think its time for the opensource community to boycott Intel. Why should our money go to a company which is now attempting to hurt Linux and opensource? I know because these recent actions, I will NEVER buy Intel ever again!
If your a kid yes, but for the older crowd PS2 and Xbox are better choices. GC may now have a game like RE and even Electronic Arts is on board, but really GC panders to the younger crowd. I also happen to think PS2 has the best lineup of all systems.
"both systems are lacking in any real innovation."
You'll have to substantiate more. Last time I checked the biggest game GC fans are creaming themselves about this year Metroid IS a fps in which you run-n-gun. So while I get that you think people shouldn't overlook GC, saying PS2 and Xbox only has fps and run-n-gun is like saying GC only has Super Fun Happy Hour type games. You can't complain about stereo typing and than turn around and streotype yourself.
"Most of my regular customers have learned how to do ctrl-alt-esc just to kill zombie Mozilla windows."
Haven't had those problems since the M release days.
"So, yes, it's a great bit of software, but it would be more useful if it worked with more than half of the Internet"
Oh so it doesn't work on HALF of the Internet? Umm Ok. Funny for me it work on the vast majority of the Internet. In fact only sites that have any problems are sites that refuse to code to standards. Of course if the webmasters there don't respond to my email to fix there site then screw em, I'll take my business elsewhere thank you. These are the same banks that will no doubt embrace Palladium with glee.
I've switched to Phoenix full time on both windows and linux and while only a moron says things are perfect, I say things are pretty dam good and I'm very happy with my browsing experience.
In fact since you "claim" to be a linux user what exactly do you use on linux since Mozilla is such crap?
But then again half of your posts are defending Microsoft against us irrational Linux users. I could see now and then pointing out some linux zealots, but really looking at your posts the majority of recent ones ALL defend Microsoft. So how do you explain that? Most linux and opensource users are slightly less militant then the/. ones, but even they don't constantly go out of their way to defend MS which you seem to do. Is there something you want to confess?
IE was free and then bundled with the OS long before Mozilla even was a thought. Realistically Ms only began to have competition from Mozilla several months ago when 1.0 came out. That means there were several years between the time Netscape died and when Mozilla became usuable. If MS was going to charge they would have done it by now. I also think based on the fact that since Mozilla only makes up like 1% of all web browsers AOL isreally not holding anything over MS's head. Lastly even though I said IE has always been free and bundled, we've really always been paying for IE in one way or another in the cost of windows.
This posted using the greatest pure browser available. Phoenix 1125 build.:-)
"The discussions so far have looked at core subject areas such as lifestyle, teens and celebrities. That means chunks, if not all, of Time Inc.'s Entertainment Weekly, People and Teen People magazines could be taken off the Web"
How will we ever survive without those three pillars of journalistic integrity?! My God, I mean how will I know how to dress cool? How will I find out who was "Man of the Year" or even worse I'll miss out on "Worst dressed".
Well considering how long the batteries in the Palm IIIx last you must have been forgetting it in the corner for several months, since a normal PalmIIIx like the one I own can indeed go months without losing data. At that point I guess a PDA wasn't for you anyway, hardly proof that PDA's are useless for the rest of us, but really only proof that you personally don't want or need one.
Anyway I love my Palm IIIx and think every PDA that has come since is just plain trying to do too much.
Oh yea, the sound of thousands of geeks realizing that got ripped off. Although a true geek would have done his research and found out the supplier before buying. My impression of my Alienware owners is that they are mostly Posers with lots of money to spend(read:waste) and are the same type of people who ask "what the best speaker I can buy at Bestbuy?"
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And take this anyway you want. What if GNOME were to "go under"?(not that that's even really possible since the code is free) Since most distros with the notable exception of Redhat have standardized on KDE, having Redhat switch to KDE would then for the first time have Linux as a whole presenting a unified desktop to the world. For the first time, with the exception of some difference in the naming of menus, you would be able to sit down in front of any of the big desktop distros and see the same desktop. I'm not saying I want that to happen, other then the desire to see ANY unified desktop, but still one does wonder where GNOME would be without Redhat. Of course this doesn't mean fluxbox users can't switch to that, but the thing I've heard year after year from the big commercial desktop vendors is that beyond being too small a market, the linux desktop from the outside seems too fragmented. There's not doubt in my mind that having all the big desktop vendors finally on one desktop would be a step in the right direction towards more widespread linux adoption. Remember I'm not talking about restricting choice to run another WM, so save your "choice is good" speechs for someone else. Most people who use linux want to see it used on a more widespread basis. Having a unified look is one the first steps.
Ba-dump-pish
You know how many times I heard these "Redhat is getting too big" comments since the 90's? Linux is free, GPL, and can't be "owned" by any vendor including Microsoft or Redhat. I'll tell you what I think on this...*?#!$@*!! up about it,and stop bringing it up!
Yep I'm positive I still have the orginal Wolfenstein(with manual!), Karateka, Zork, Dr. J vs Larry Bird, and of course the greatest game ever Wizardy I. All for the IBM PCjr. Last time I checked years ago I needed a new floppy drive.
Two questions:
1) Think I'll be able to find another floppy drive for the PCjr?
2) Think if I buy an 5 1/4 drive I'll be able to run any of these games on a DOS emulator? I still have DOS 2.0 in boxes, but I'm counting on that PCjr not working forever. I also have an old 486 I could throw an old version of DOS on.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-218360.html
"Not much, just more crap was added to them to make AOL money."
Yep nothing but crap added to Mozilla since then.
*rollseyes*
Nothing but the ongoing funding of Mozilla development. Oh right I forgot those Netscape employees who work on Mozilla do it for free. Netscape on their own would be bankrupt and gone today if AOL hadn't bought them. Thus Mozilla would NOT be where it is today without AOL. Yep sucks to hear, deal with it. I also noticed that ICQ and Winamp continue to be fully funded as well.
AOL may be a big bag of crap when it comes to their client software, but they served as Internet training wheels for a huge part of the Internet surfers today. They have their place.
Abusing anything is bad for you, but drinking for example a glass of wine a day is actually good for you. The vast majority of us(over 25) drink responsibly and WON'T have health problems from alcohol. So I don't know where your getting this stance from, but its wrong from a health point of view. Also its certainly wrong from a philosophical point of view to call an inanimate object like alcohol evil.
Then you'll see how fun it is to be injected with cancer and grow tumors the size of a baseball. I wonder if the fact that the scientists aren't laughing at you will be some comfort to you then?
I'm not completely against animal testing, but your in the wrong here trying to brush off the topic of ethics when discussing animal testing. There are ethics involved and they are not "bullshit".
I used to have verizon dsl in North NJ. They couldn't be easier to get dsl from. I called and a week later my self install kit arrived. On the turn on date I hooked it up and off I went. It was moron proof. While it was only 640/128 it only went down once in the year in a half I had it. :-)
When I switched to cable they gave me 2 months free just to try to keep me and even offered to lower the price $10 a month to match my $39 a month cable price. In the end I switched to cable though. Nothing beats 10mb/1mb. Because of my particular cable moden I'm limited to 600KB but my upload is around 90KB. Not bad for $39 a month.
More OT its nice to see an ISP who lets you share your bandwidth. It's too bad they all still limit uploading which is really holding back the internet. Only when upload speed matchs download speeds will we really even be ready to move on from the "web consumer model" that exists today. Unfortunately Big Media and Big Business only wants us to surf the WWW. I don't see this changing anytime soon. In fact things are more locked down and filtered then they ever were before.
"In fact, MS catches a lot of flack for maintaining backwards compatibility"
No, actually MS catches flack for breaking compabtibility.
"Could it be, perhaps, that they only use Linux where they feel it is strong (webserver, etc) and that is the reason it isn't as popular as zealots think it should be?"
No, while Linux has its problems that's not the reason its not so popular. Let me explain something to you about Windows and why its popular. You see MS since the 90's has used its monopoly power to force OEM's ship ONLY windows with their PC's. Only in the past few years have OEM's dared to even offer another OS. MS also has power over the ISV's who produce the software for their platform. They have rewarded those that tow the MS line and threatened ones that don't.
So combine OEM's being forced to ship nothing but windows year after year and also ISV's who year after year are afraid of MS and you get what we have now. MS through its tactics has not only gained 95% of the market, but also has made developing for Linux or any other OS unattractive. Developing for the Linux desktop when it only makes up 1% of the market doesn't make much sense now does it?
So you see while Linux may be rough around the edges and not as polished as windows, MS through many years of heavy handed tactics has created an environment where there isn't a huge payoff for developing for Linux. Think of it this way. Look at the Segway. It like cars, bikes, and buses is a transportation vehicle. But its too late to the party. Its trying to gain entry to a mature industry and there just isn't room for it to become "hugely popular". The infrastructure just isn't there. Sure it may gain some small share, but there literally isn't room for it to really grow. Linux is in the same situation. It may be a better product, but the incentives for supporting it over the entrenched product just aren't there. In fact the same goes for BeOS or ANY other OS which wants to play in the desktop market. Yet another example, try to start your own phone company from scratch. Just like Linux does, go it your own way. I bet you'd be stuck at 0.0%. Notice how the only way into the telecommunications market was to develop a new market, aka cellur etc. The same will be true for linux. It will never become really popular in the desktop market, but may become popular in handhelds, embedded etc.
BTW if anyone wants to point to Apple feel free. Apple only survived because they truly were competitive when the infrastructure was being built. Sure they didn't prosper like MS, but their early foothold in the education market kept them alive. Also while there is some wiggle room for Apple to gain ground on MS, they will never gain the majority of the desktop maket. The same rules which keep linux from gaining any market share will keep Apple a niche player as well.
Don't use those semi-free distros. They are bad for linux and opensource in general. Mostly free does not equal free and that is exactly what Xandros and Lindows are. It's an alarming trend and I hope all of those distros which are eager to add proprietary bits to the central cores of their distros go out of business. Either one of the distros I mentioned in the subject should do what you ask as both have very good consistent user interfaces and are easy to configure.
"Secondly, even 24x drives burn a cd in 2.5 minutes."
Maybe if those cd's are 300MB, otherwise a real 650-700MB cd will take a minimum of 3:45 to burn a full cd at 24X. The only ones that can burn a full disc in 2:30 minutes ARE the 52X drives. Unless of course you were ignoring leadin and leadout or finalizing, which of course makes no sense sine they are part of the burn process.
There is no skin mess, you just don't know how to read instrucions.
Read the notes next to the themes at Mozdev next time, they clearly state if a theme works with 1.2 and the 1.3a series. I've had zero problem getting themes to work.
"Linux is 2-5 times slower (usually closer to 3) on the same machine"
Bullshit. Slower running what? All of those crossplatform apps you tested.
"I've tried KDE and Gnome, several versions, and multiple distros. Slow. Very slow"
No more than XP on that same machine. You want all the eye candy there is a price to pay. Of course you can run XFCE and other lean apps, but why bother with real facts?
"Linux was more stable than Windows 98. It's less so compared to XP in my experience."
Again Bullshit. What is less stable? Oh right why give facts when you can just make things up.
" Time to start talking up the actual benefits of Linux if you want any converts. Better stability is not one of them any more. Speed never was."
Pure trolling. K thx Bye.
The only thing your right about is Star Office on linux is slow. On windows once you enable its quick launch feature, which MS does as well, its plently quick at opening anything.
Again WTF is wrong with the mods these days? This was pure trolling.
Where does this say this is earth shattering news?
Any win for linux especially higher profile ones are worth mentioning. You also seem to forget that Slashdot is read by the majority of the tech community. I'm sure most people reading Slashdot don't even run linux. But the more articles there are about companies using linux, means its more likely that the readers of this site who don't run Linux will consider running it.
You seem to be forgetting that all combined the advertising power of all the linux companies is pathetic. Contrast that to the hundreds of millions that Microsoft can spend on not only traditional print, radio, and tv ads, but also on paid salesman who go company to company making sure your using windows.
Somehow I don't think a little PR on Slashdot, who btw is a big believer in linux in case you forgot, hurts anyone. In fact its good for the community and the more "migration stories" the better.
Same with Redhat. Apt4rpm rules. :-)
Of course it works on Suse and Mandrake as well, so overall all of the major distros are moron proof to upgrade. One apt-get upgrade fixes them all.
"a replacement for the standard Linux/UNIX syslog daemon they've been working on for some time....it's currently under the UC's "free for non-commercial use" license, but they are looking at moving to a completely open license (BSD-style licensing was mentioned)."
Sorry to sound like a weenie, but if its not GPL'd I'm not interested. This is one of those "core parts" I'm usually talking about that needs to be gpl if its going to get included in every distro. I know there are important parts of every linux distro that aren't GPL, but the more software we add that isn't GPL the worse off we are. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for proprietary add-on software(desktop/server apps, games etc) for linux, but the core software, ie base OS, system utilities, desktop WM, internet browser/connection software and basic office capabilities need to be GPL.
No this is the interesting stuff
"eWEEK: What does it mean to you personally, though, when a Gateway or an IBM not just stop, but announce that they'll no longer be offering AMD as an option?
Ruiz: I think it's terrible, obviously. It's terrible. I think if you were to talk with Ted Waitt at Gateway, and ask him, "Why'd you do that?" and if he would really tell you why, it's a question of he's being bribed to do it. Now, he's got to look out for his own hide and the company that's probably in great difficulty has got to listen to the huge amounts of money that can help him do that.
But you know what I find amazing, think about the power, is that despite all that, which obviously we really get emotional about the fact that somebody like Gateway gets bribed into doing that, is that despite that, according to Dataquest last week, we're still holding a 19 percent share of the market. That to me tells me we're in the throes of breaking this open"
Hey Intel, see you in court! Of course now that Intel is along with Microsoft backing a group to outlaw opensource in the government, I think its time for the opensource community to boycott Intel. Why should our money go to a company which is now attempting to hurt Linux and opensource? I know because these recent actions, I will NEVER buy Intel ever again!
If your a kid yes, but for the older crowd PS2 and Xbox are better choices. GC may now have a game like RE and even Electronic Arts is on board, but really GC panders to the younger crowd. I also happen to think PS2 has the best lineup of all systems.
"both systems are lacking in any real innovation."
You'll have to substantiate more. Last time I checked the biggest game GC fans are creaming themselves about this year Metroid IS a fps in which you run-n-gun. So while I get that you think people shouldn't overlook GC, saying PS2 and Xbox only has fps and run-n-gun is like saying GC only has Super Fun Happy Hour type games. You can't complain about stereo typing and than turn around and streotype yourself.
"Most of my regular customers have learned how to do ctrl-alt-esc just to kill zombie Mozilla windows."
/. ones, but even they don't constantly go out of their way to defend MS which you seem to do. Is there something you want to confess?
Haven't had those problems since the M release days.
"So, yes, it's a great bit of software, but it would be more useful if it worked with more than half of the Internet"
Oh so it doesn't work on HALF of the Internet? Umm Ok. Funny for me it work on the vast majority of the Internet. In fact only sites that have any problems are sites that refuse to code to standards. Of course if the webmasters there don't respond to my email to fix there site then screw em, I'll take my business elsewhere thank you. These are the same banks that will no doubt embrace Palladium with glee.
I've switched to Phoenix full time on both windows and linux and while only a moron says things are perfect, I say things are pretty dam good and I'm very happy with my browsing experience.
In fact since you "claim" to be a linux user what exactly do you use on linux since Mozilla is such crap?
But then again half of your posts are defending Microsoft against us irrational Linux users. I could see now and then pointing out some linux zealots, but really looking at your posts the majority of recent ones ALL defend Microsoft. So how do you explain that? Most linux and opensource users are slightly less militant then the
IE was free and then bundled with the OS long before Mozilla even was a thought. Realistically Ms only began to have competition from Mozilla several months ago when 1.0 came out. That means there were several years between the time Netscape died and when Mozilla became usuable. If MS was going to charge they would have done it by now.
:-)
I also think based on the fact that since Mozilla only makes up like 1% of all web browsers AOL isreally not holding anything over MS's head. Lastly even though I said IE has always been free and bundled, we've really always been paying for IE in one way or another in the cost of windows.
This posted using the greatest pure browser available. Phoenix 1125 build.
"The discussions so far have looked at core subject areas such as lifestyle, teens and celebrities. That means chunks, if not all, of Time Inc.'s Entertainment Weekly, People and Teen People magazines could be taken off the Web"
How will we ever survive without those three pillars of journalistic integrity?! My God, I mean how will I know how to dress cool? How will I find out who was "Man of the Year" or even worse I'll miss out on "Worst dressed".
Please everyone, try not to panic!!
Now the poor sap named Dick Hertz who lives at 123 Main St will stop getting thousands of Radio Shack catalogs each week in the mail.
Well considering how long the batteries in the Palm IIIx last you must have been forgetting it in the corner for several months, since a normal PalmIIIx like the one I own can indeed go months without losing data. At that point I guess a PDA wasn't for you anyway, hardly proof that PDA's are useless for the rest of us, but really only proof that you personally don't want or need one.
Anyway I love my Palm IIIx and think every PDA that has come since is just plain trying to do too much.
I don't really know why this was modded +5.
Oh yea, the sound of thousands of geeks realizing that got ripped off. Although a true geek would have done his research and found out the supplier before buying.
My impression of my Alienware owners is that they are mostly Posers with lots of money to spend(read:waste) and are the same type of people who ask "what the best speaker I can buy at Bestbuy?"
The real headline: Career Criminal(literally) makes millions by pissing off people for a living.
Gee thanks, I'm sure everyone really enjoyed reading this on a Friday. Puts everyone in a good mood for the weekend.