This was the introduction of the Win32 API to consumers. IBM's OS/2 2.0 (which had been out for a while) could run Windows 3.1 applications already (including Office 4.3), and IBM had been airing ads (the "nuns with beepers" ad) making fun of how much the release date for "Chicago" had slipped. Win32 threw out all that and moved programmers / applications onto a new platform that has still yet to be fully emulated.
Office 95 and MSN launched on the same day. Office 95's integration between apps, unified 'look and feel', and bundling several apps together at a low price is what allowed Microsoft to seize control of corporate America's desktops from WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, Harvard Graphics, dBase, etc. They had also already licensed Spyglass Mosaic, and IE1.0 was ready to fight Netscape, available in the "Plus!" pack.
This was the first release to consumers (object oriented UI in "Explorer") of the UI bits of "Cairo"
The original song they wanted to license was "It's the end of the world as we know it", by R.E.M., but they refused. "Start me up" was a second choice. ("...you make a grown man cry" indeed)
This is the same sensationalist troll who coined "Open Sores" back in June 1999 to mock FLOSS, and called Stallman a communist, and Torvalds Lenin.
Mr. Metcalfe, if we wanted to read intelligent rants on how Everything is Wrong, I think we can pick from several better sources than you, and might learn something from it instead of suffering through your screeds...
I was aware that it was the regional court - I apologize for not making it clear in the submission. I was trying to be terse, and I should've used their full title.
Jon (an American fan of Labatt Blue, Tim Hortons, and Poutine)
Professor Michael Geist of the University of Ottowa has several informative entries on his blog, including a PDF of the Order issued by the British Columbia Supreme Court against the Harry Potter #6 purchasers.
Memorable quote:
"...the judge that issued this order did indeed consider the consequences of the order and amazingly felt that it was appropriate to limit the freedom to read, freedom of speech, and the freedom of personal property."
(Coralized link to go easy on his server, direct link here ->. )
I've seen the various TRON project technologies / OS' mentioned a few times around here... Apparently there's even a commercial closed-source desktop OS based on it...
Since we've got a topic for Be (which seems to be sorely lacking in Haiku / Zeta updates) , I think that this OS might merit one...
Meanwhile, the Slashdot editors are giggling to themselves on IRC, with a betting pool on who buys tonight's bar tab based on the number of readers posting incensed corrections, versus the number of readers happily using "hyperthreaded" like they know what it means.
Check out the French Translaton page linked to from the FSF Unofficial Translations page, it looks like FSF Europe is currently pursuing, as of a few months ago, an official French translation with legal council in France.
Google, always quicker to the punch, already lists FSF and Debian pages on Freedom as hits 2, 4, and 9 of a search for Libre;-)
True, however the majority of software installations have the users clicking through boilerplate TERMS AND CONDITIONS and explicit denials of FITNESS FOR PURPOSE, whereas the GPL opens up with a friendly preamble.
I think that might, just might, cause a few people to actually read it, and become aware of the motivations of the Free software movement... if even one person does, isn't it worth the inconvenience of an extra click?
(I also note that the copyright on the GPL itself only allows verbatim copying, while I believe some software products have trimmed out the preamble. I can certainly understand the desire to trim out the "Ty Coon, President of Vice" silly example bit at the end, but it looks like that may not be allowed... My original thought still stands.)
...mod parent... improbable?
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A fair non-biased opinion on BSD vs GPL??
Is that even allowed here?
I guess after Apple switching to Intel I shouldn't be surprised at anything...
This is a revolution. Revolutions are by definition unconventional. It is this, not consideration of ego, pride or stubborness which gives me pause. Normal methods have not worked. Asher is a Madman, ! and that lunatic is in charge of the asylum. How can normal logic ever apply?
And for those who are going "huh, what?" the short version is this: So called 'Trusted Computing' is the only way that companies that want to prevent you from accessing data on your own computer can make it happen -- DVDs that you can't screen capture or skip the ads in, music files you can't save to your old music player, text data that you can't export to your screen reader, etc.
Although unlikely, this could conceivably also be used to prevent you from running whatever OS or software you want on a particular PC.
As such, Richard Stallman, in his essay (which you should read, above), has chosen to refer to it as "Treacherous computing", kind of the geeks own version of the "Santorum" campaign.
In an age when anyone can post their version of the facts on the Internet, Encyclopædia Britannica maintains its reputation as the most authoritative source of the information and ideas people need for work, school, and the sheer joy of discovery.
Hmmm... is someone feeling a wee bit threatened?:-)
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Mahatma Ghandi, courtesy of WikiQuote;-)
No, Jon Katz was sincerely wrong. He watched Buffy reruns and thought he understood modern teens, read Kevin Mitnick interviews in 2600 and thought he understood hacker culture, read Slashdot comments and thought they were a representative sample of American geeks. I think he was genuinely surprised at how detested some of his rambling became around here.
The problem with Katz was he projected his need for social revolution on to mundane situation. He was connecting dots that just weren't there. Anyone know what happened to him?
I Googled a bit, and discovered some interesting things... Before he was pilloried on Slashdot , he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News.
It seems he moved to the country and became a farmer, and wrote a book about owning dogs.
There's yet to be a followup to the Dreamcast VMU and the Sony
PocketStation for the PS/2 / Xbox / Gamecube generation of consoles. There were some rumors going around back in 2000 that Sony's next-gen PocketStation might run PalmOS -- those never panned out, even in Japan I'm not aware of an "enhanced feature" memory card.
But a removeable hard drive iPod clone might be a killer app for the console-accessory market, especially if the high price of a hard-drive music player is offset by bundling it with the console in some configurations... Combined with Xbox Live for a music-store interface...
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This is the same sensationalist troll who coined "Open Sores" back in June 1999 to mock FLOSS, and called Stallman a communist, and Torvalds Lenin.
Mr. Metcalfe, if we wanted to read intelligent rants on how Everything is Wrong, I think we can pick from several better sources than you, and might learn something from it instead of suffering through your screeds...
I would like to contribute this link to your history, that one day search engines might pick it up: Pompous Windbag
Sorry again. :)
I was aware that it was the regional court - I apologize for not making it clear in the submission. I was trying to be terse, and I should've used their full title.
Jon (an American fan of Labatt Blue, Tim Hortons, and Poutine)
I've seen the various TRON project technologies / OS' mentioned a few times around here ... Apparently there's even a commercial closed-source desktop OS based on it ...
Since we've got a topic for Be (which seems to be sorely lacking in Haiku / Zeta updates) , I think that this OS might merit one...
(Or perhaps an "alternative OS" category?)
When I saw the headline, I was expecting a bunch of crochety old geeks having a big LAN party with their black magnesium cube workstations....
Holy cow ... 415KB/sec and climbing ... you kinda just blew the .torrent out of the water!
Dun Malg,
Thank you.
Meanwhile, the Slashdot editors are giggling to themselves on IRC, with a betting pool on who buys tonight's bar tab based on the number of readers posting incensed corrections, versus the number of readers happily using "hyperthreaded" like they know what it means.
Check out the French Translaton page linked to from the FSF Unofficial Translations page, it looks like FSF Europe is currently pursuing, as of a few months ago, an official French translation with legal council in France.
;-)
Google, always quicker to the punch, already lists FSF and Debian pages on Freedom as hits 2, 4, and 9 of a search for Libre
True, however the majority of software installations have the users clicking through boilerplate TERMS AND CONDITIONS and explicit denials of FITNESS FOR PURPOSE, whereas the GPL opens up with a friendly preamble.
... if even one person does, isn't it worth the inconvenience of an extra click?
I think that might, just might, cause a few people to actually read it, and become aware of the motivations of the Free software movement
(I also note that the copyright on the GPL itself only allows verbatim copying, while I believe some software products have trimmed out the preamble. I can certainly understand the desire to trim out the "Ty Coon, President of Vice" silly example bit at the end, but it looks like that may not be allowed... My original thought still stands.)
A fair non-biased opinion on BSD vs GPL??
Is that even allowed here?
I guess after Apple switching to Intel I shouldn't be surprised at anything...
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A professional letter puts the letters of the letter writer at the bottom.
See here under "Reference initials" or here under "Additional Information"
A professional letter puts the letters of the letter writer at the bottom.
See here under "Reference initials" or here under "Additional Information"
Someone actually used Coral Cache in a direct image link from a slashdot story?!?
... dogs and cats living together ... mass hysteria...
World... ending... pigs flying
(-1: Silly)
Some googling on Mr. Bruce Castor in Philly brings up: