I'd imagine the internal letters between linux developers on crippling microsoft are 100x worse.
Developers think code. And MS has already proven that they can dominate the market with unfair business practices even with bad code. That is kinda what the case is about.
I was able to get streaming video from bbc, but could not hit cnn's website, implying to me that the bottleneck was @ cnn, not with the infrastructure.
"It's like all the punks who think they were betrayed by Green Day when they ditched the punk rock"
Sorry, but green day were never punk rock, so they could not have ditched it. And this is why I never claim that they sold - out... they were mainstream grunge kids from the get go. Much like your overly vaunted Harry, they were never alternative to the mainstream that they implied. my 2c.
And every cent of that in over the table legal contributions... not _Under_ the table as suggested by the poster. Thus emphasizing a problem with the legality of lobbyists... as a German colleague once said to me... yeah, every country has some bribery, but at least in our country it is illegal.
1) I was being serious about thinking that modding stories would be a good thing, I have in fact suggested it before.
2) The comment was a joke, as whatever unholy hold he has on the other editors of slashdot have kept him here this long, he will undoubtedly be kept until the end of slashdot.
3) Even if it were not meant as a joke, it is completely valid as the fact that Katz is allowed to 'publish' here is brings this online forum to the level of tabloid IMO (He uses inflammatory and dramatic statements to make his points rather than facts, he states opinion as 'fact', and when he does use 'facts', he does not back up his 'facts' with sources). I freely admit that I resent the association between Slashdot and Katz, as he is in no way a responsible journalist.
Ok, so I am a little paranoid, but by offering it in such a way that it is easily copied (and thus easily propagated), that would help to reinforce it as the standard for office software. This would help drive out competitors on a system that has historically been unfriendly to microsoft. Then, when all good threats to it are gone, they put in a version w/ strict control.
I am trying to get my mind around just what 'recycling' computers would entail... I mean other than the occasional reuse that I find for random parts from various and assorted closets and shelves around the house.
I guess that I will just take it as a given that there is an actual need and a viable plan for this computer 'recycling'. I would want to know if the government will actually spend it on what they claim it is needed for. If it is for the 'starwars project (I mean missile defense system)' or some other half concocted pipe dream, I would be rather upset.
A lot of this was started under the guise of catching commie traitors. I think that we should have another amendment to the constitution. The freedom to 'read' without being tagged. Of course this will never happen with the anti-terrorism fervor that has gripped the nation. Are those that feed the terror for their own political ends any better than those who commit the acts?
True, but MS still gets their cut of the profit from your initial purchase of the lapatop, and if you try to resell the software, you are persecuted as a pirate. Thus, while a person can (and I do) still run other os's, one is generally still required to purchase MS's product.
I believe that North Carolina State University has a number of linux computer labs(Red Hat). Although I get the feeling that you were not referring to educational institutions.
I keep hearing again and again about how strong crypto is used by terrorists. When? Where? I have seen not one shred of proof, only vague assertions that crypto is used for evil. The only communication that I have heard of (correct me if I am wrong - please) is via cell phones and pr0n bbs's (unencrypted).
I would really like to know how expressing dislike of the current administrations belief that this is a country of the corps, by the corps, for the corps is a 'troll'. It is a well established fact, even if you do not like it.
And it is Elf not Troll anyway.
~CrackElf
"You may not use the Software in connection with any site"
IANAL, but it seems to me that you would still be in violation, even if you completed it with another editor. That would not alter the fact that the site would still be anti-ms.
Slashdot Mirror
I'd imagine the internal letters between linux developers on crippling microsoft are 100x worse.
Developers think code. And MS has already proven that they can dominate the market with unfair business practices even with bad code. That is kinda what the case is about.
Actually smokers usually pretty much know the deal. It is other people who blame the tobacco companies (like parents and 'concerned' citizens).
I was able to get streaming video from bbc, but could not hit cnn's website, implying to me that the bottleneck was @ cnn, not with the infrastructure.
I want to see a junkyard wars where they try to build a manned rocket. No, really, I do!
"It's like all the punks who think they were betrayed by Green Day when they ditched the punk rock"
... they were mainstream grunge kids from the get go. Much like your overly vaunted Harry, they were never alternative to the mainstream that they implied. my 2c.
Sorry, but green day were never punk rock, so they could not have ditched it. And this is why I never claim that they sold - out
And every cent of that in over the table legal contributions ... not _Under_ the table as suggested by the poster. Thus emphasizing a problem with the legality of lobbyists ... as a German colleague once said to me ... yeah, every country has some bribery, but at least in our country it is illegal.
_Under_ the table?
1) I was being serious about thinking that modding stories would be a good thing, I have in fact suggested it before.
2) The comment was a joke, as whatever unholy hold he has on the other editors of slashdot have kept him here this long, he will undoubtedly be kept until the end of slashdot.
3) Even if it were not meant as a joke, it is completely valid as the fact that Katz is allowed to 'publish' here is brings this online forum to the level of tabloid IMO (He uses inflammatory and dramatic statements to make his points rather than facts, he states opinion as 'fact', and when he does use 'facts', he does not back up his 'facts' with sources). I freely admit that I resent the association between Slashdot and Katz, as he is in no way a responsible journalist.
I think that paying users should have the ability to mod stories. That way we could mod out katz entirely.
Ok, so I am a little paranoid, but by offering it in such a way that it is easily copied (and thus easily propagated), that would help to reinforce it as the standard for office software. This would help drive out competitors on a system that has historically been unfriendly to microsoft. Then, when all good threats to it are gone, they put in a version w/ strict control.
I am trying to get my mind around just what 'recycling' computers would entail ... I mean other than the occasional reuse that I find for random parts from various and assorted closets and shelves around the house.
I guess that I will just take it as a given that there is an actual need and a viable plan for this computer 'recycling'. I would want to know if the government will actually spend it on what they claim it is needed for. If it is for the 'starwars project (I mean missile defense system)' or some other half concocted pipe dream, I would be rather upset.
A lot of this was started under the guise of catching commie traitors. I think that we should have another amendment to the constitution. The freedom to 'read' without being tagged. Of course this will never happen with the anti-terrorism fervor that has gripped the nation. Are those that feed the terror for their own political ends any better than those who commit the acts?
Now that is sensible.
Come on, MS does not build for performance, it is built around the bells and whistles and ease of use.
And that is what sells the product (IMO).
True, but MS still gets their cut of the profit from your initial purchase of the lapatop, and if you try to resell the software, you are persecuted as a pirate. Thus, while a person can (and I do) still run other os's, one is generally still required to purchase MS's product.
Mmmhhhmmm ... show me a laptop that you can buy sans Operating System.
~CrackElf
I believe that North Carolina State University has a number of linux computer labs(Red Hat). Although I get the feeling that you were not referring to educational institutions.
I assume that you are talking about desktop os's ...
Some of us use the GUI as more than just a place to put 47 xterm windows, you know.
:)
Weirdo
I keep hearing again and again about how strong crypto is used by terrorists. When? Where? I have seen not one shred of proof, only vague assertions that crypto is used for evil. The only communication that I have heard of (correct me if I am wrong - please) is via cell phones and pr0n bbs's (unencrypted).
I would really like to know how expressing dislike of the current administrations belief that this is a country of the corps, by the corps, for the corps is a 'troll'. It is a well established fact, even if you do not like it.
And it is Elf not Troll anyway.
~CrackElf
Reflected by the general government it seems -
Monopolies good.
"You may not use the Software in connection with any site"
IANAL, but it seems to me that you would still be in violation, even if you completed it with another editor. That would not alter the fact that the site would still be anti-ms.
That is because most of the people in the security world do not take survays. :) It is always a flaw of survays that are voluntary.
~~CrackElf
Do not forget bush sr ... cia wasn't he?
~CrackElf