If I purchase a license to use Office, and they are telling me that I must use Windows over any other OS to be able to use Office...
Get your box of Office. What operating system is listed in the "System Requirements" section?
Okay, then. You can't complain if they don't support running their software on an environment it was not intended to run on! That's almost like complaining that Ford doesn't go out of their way to make sure their engines work if I strap them onto my lawnmower, even though I also happen to own a Ford vehicle. Office is written for Windows. Not Wine.
Microsoft is under no obligation to support updates to applications that are not running under the operating system listed on that magical little section on the side of the box that says "System Requirements."
To be fair, he's talking about what would happen if Microsoft offered an official Linux process to run on Windows, to kill Linux momentum. There's certainly a difference.
This week-old story from OSNews is pointless. Microsoft would never do that, because it would acknowledge that an opponent was on the level of Windows.
Look how Microsoft very rarely mentions Linux, and barely mentions OS X at all (if ever). Microsoft's voice is heard by so many pointy-haired bosses that to talk about someone or release a product based around them is to give free advertising. Granted, they make an Office for Mac, but you'd never know it if you weren't a Mac user.
Of course this guy hates blogs. They're forms of publishing that are outside the limitations of print and finally allow a marketplace of ideas for everyone to participate in and contribute to. Call it the "new media" if you want to. Someday our books will probably just be portable book-sized web browsers that access the book URI somewhere via wireless Internet3, with hotspots as common as streetlights. Here's hoping Slashdot has a new design by then. Hey, a guy can dream.
You're right. Loki should have just stayed online, letting people not pay for content they would have otherwise have to legally pay for. That would be the moral thing to do.
It also sticks it to Microsoft and their appearance at CES 2005 where they were chatting up being at the center of digital media while their television and X-Box games crashed. So, Apple just buys TiVo.:)
Maybe buying TiVo could be the kickstart of a future downloadable movie and TV service akin to iTunes.
Now, consider that Windows XP is an entire desktop environment, while Fluxbox is more of a mere window manager. That's a point against X if XP is just as fast as a simple window manager.
"Colour screens are not necessary." - Nintendo for some fiften years before they finally replaced the Gameboy with the best-selling Gameboy Advance with color screen.
Another cool thing is that the iPod Photo displays album artwork if you have it while you play music. Basically, the advantage it has is that it's a color screen, as opposed to the mono screens on all the other models, that lets you cart around your photos along with your music. A lot of people's iPhoto collections are as large as their iTunes music collection. I'd love to have an iPod Photo.
You're kidding, right? There are at least five iPod FM radio add-ons advertised in the pages of one issue of MacWorld alone. As Jobs loves to call it, there's an entire "iPod economy" of add-ons out there.
"We?" It wasn't an official government decree like France's e-mail term was (they actually ordered all bodies of government to use the new term for all internal communications). Some redneck restaurants here and there played along with "Freedom Fries,", but it was hardly a nation-wide thing. I never once heard anyone call anything a "Freedom Fry," and I live near the South.
Don't get me wrong, it wouldn't surprise me in the least. But this entire article is based solely on a "Yahoo! News" article saying a woman filed a lawsuit. Hardly up to the level of content needed for a Slashdot discussion. What exactly are we supposed to post about? "So, a lady is claiming this. It wouldn't surprise me if it was true. Um...yeah." It's just a lawsuit claiming this. There are endless lawsuits each year claiming all kinds of things.
You know, my last article submission was edited by Zonk to go to an IGN article instead of a British newspaper. What's the connection between Zonk and the gaming companies?
It was exactly my first thought. This is coming from the same country that thought "email" wasn't French enough and actually created their own term for it that was more "distinctly French" (actual quote).
I don't care what your politics are or how you feel about Europe. A lot of France is full of stuck-up idiots. And Americans are criticized for thinking they're the center of the planet? Hell, we'll use words from any language as long as they stick. Oi.
Let's get it out of the way here. Everyone who's going to post about C# and.NET being controlled by a big, proprietary corporation that has been known to crush competition, post here. Meanwhile, ignore Java and Sun.
It's more than that. Those names just sound better and friendlier, and are easy to remember.
I don't know why, but just about every OSS project title is some tongue-in-cheek in-joke amongst the developers who are the only ones who think it's funny. Like KDE programs all being titled with puns starting with "K."
Besides, Powerpoint, Access, and Visio have reasonable similarity with what they actually do. As for your completely random and pointless reference to Bob, I'm still amazed Slashdotters obsess over this small desktop shell released for a short time way back in 1994.
I'm so tired of people pointing out the dead 83-year old.
In 2000, EVERYONE on Slashdot was saying the RIAA should sue individual downloaders, not Napster.
Fast foward by four years, and that's exactly what they do. And Slashdotters, again, bitch.
If all you can go on is a list of IPs and computers of file-sharers, chances are you will come across one that is a computer that happens to be owned by an 83-year old who passed away. The suit was dropped. What's the problem?
Oh, right, some people who are used to the convenience of downloading defend illegal piracy and use that as propoganda. "THEY SUED A DEAD 83 YEAR OLD HAHA." Uh, sure.
Clearly, I won the debate. You acknowledge he's lying to make money. Your weird constant references to "grownups" notwithstanding (unable to refute any points, you're left to attempt to paint the argument as juvenile when it's not), you have nothing of substance to offer.
You don't care that Michael Moore lied about where he grew up, because you're a Michael Moore fan who wants to believe everything he says because it supports your worldview. If a prominent conservative had lied about where he grew up--see Al Franken's criticism of O'Reilly--you'd be all over it.
Michael Moore lying about his hometown is one lie in a series that continues in Fahrenheit 9/11. You probably think it's okay that he typed up a letter to the editor from a random newspaper and pasted it on screen as a frontpage headline article, or that he took two speeches a year apart and edited them together to make Charleton Heston say things he didn't say. It's the bogus "fake but accurate" mantra that is destroying the credibility of the liberal mindset. Have fun with it.
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Maybe it was originally a BMP, and has been converted to JPG for the purposes of displaying on that "page of history."
If I purchase a license to use Office, and they are telling me that I must use Windows over any other OS to be able to use Office...
Get your box of Office. What operating system is listed in the "System Requirements" section?
Okay, then. You can't complain if they don't support running their software on an environment it was not intended to run on! That's almost like complaining that Ford doesn't go out of their way to make sure their engines work if I strap them onto my lawnmower, even though I also happen to own a Ford vehicle. Office is written for Windows. Not Wine.
Microsoft is under no obligation to support updates to applications that are not running under the operating system listed on that magical little section on the side of the box that says "System Requirements."
Your single, anecdotal case represents all people. Thanks for setting it straight.
To be fair, he's talking about what would happen if Microsoft offered an official Linux process to run on Windows, to kill Linux momentum. There's certainly a difference.
This week-old story from OSNews is pointless. Microsoft would never do that, because it would acknowledge that an opponent was on the level of Windows.
Look how Microsoft very rarely mentions Linux, and barely mentions OS X at all (if ever). Microsoft's voice is heard by so many pointy-haired bosses that to talk about someone or release a product based around them is to give free advertising. Granted, they make an Office for Mac, but you'd never know it if you weren't a Mac user.
Hasn't he effectively described Slashdot?
Of course this guy hates blogs. They're forms of publishing that are outside the limitations of print and finally allow a marketplace of ideas for everyone to participate in and contribute to. Call it the "new media" if you want to. Someday our books will probably just be portable book-sized web browsers that access the book URI somewhere via wireless Internet3, with hotspots as common as streetlights. Here's hoping Slashdot has a new design by then. Hey, a guy can dream.
You're right. Loki should have just stayed online, letting people not pay for content they would have otherwise have to legally pay for. That would be the moral thing to do.
It also sticks it to Microsoft and their appearance at CES 2005 where they were chatting up being at the center of digital media while their television and X-Box games crashed. So, Apple just buys TiVo. :)
Maybe buying TiVo could be the kickstart of a future downloadable movie and TV service akin to iTunes.
Effects the Mac will be doing in six months? Wha? A lot of the effects have been in OS X for going on four years.
Now, consider that Windows XP is an entire desktop environment, while Fluxbox is more of a mere window manager. That's a point against X if XP is just as fast as a simple window manager.
/me glances over at his iMic
"Colour screens are not necessary." - Nintendo for some fiften years before they finally replaced the Gameboy with the best-selling Gameboy Advance with color screen.
Another cool thing is that the iPod Photo displays album artwork if you have it while you play music. Basically, the advantage it has is that it's a color screen, as opposed to the mono screens on all the other models, that lets you cart around your photos along with your music. A lot of people's iPhoto collections are as large as their iTunes music collection. I'd love to have an iPod Photo.
You're kidding, right? There are at least five iPod FM radio add-ons advertised in the pages of one issue of MacWorld alone. As Jobs loves to call it, there's an entire "iPod economy" of add-ons out there.
"We?" It wasn't an official government decree like France's e-mail term was (they actually ordered all bodies of government to use the new term for all internal communications). Some redneck restaurants here and there played along with "Freedom Fries,", but it was hardly a nation-wide thing. I never once heard anyone call anything a "Freedom Fry," and I live near the South.
Either way, you didn't refute the point...
Wow, a lawsuit said so? It must be true!
Don't get me wrong, it wouldn't surprise me in the least. But this entire article is based solely on a "Yahoo! News" article saying a woman filed a lawsuit. Hardly up to the level of content needed for a Slashdot discussion. What exactly are we supposed to post about? "So, a lady is claiming this. It wouldn't surprise me if it was true. Um...yeah." It's just a lawsuit claiming this. There are endless lawsuits each year claiming all kinds of things.
Come on, Zonk. After editing my Star Wars Episode III submission to link to IGN instead of ThisIsLondon, and then posting an insightful and timely review of a three-month old game called Halo 2 in order to pimp the XFS in the article, you're beginning to turn into the next Michael...
You know, my last article submission was edited by Zonk to go to an IGN article instead of a British newspaper. What's the connection between Zonk and the gaming companies?
It was exactly my first thought. This is coming from the same country that thought "email" wasn't French enough and actually created their own term for it that was more "distinctly French" (actual quote).
I don't care what your politics are or how you feel about Europe. A lot of France is full of stuck-up idiots. And Americans are criticized for thinking they're the center of the planet? Hell, we'll use words from any language as long as they stick. Oi.
Powerpoint, as in making powerful points. Most presentations are made up of bullet points.
Visio, as in vision, as in visualizing schematics.
This isn't difficult.
Let's get it out of the way here. Everyone who's going to post about C# and .NET being controlled by a big, proprietary corporation that has been known to crush competition, post here. Meanwhile, ignore Java and Sun.
It's more than that. Those names just sound better and friendlier, and are easy to remember.
I don't know why, but just about every OSS project title is some tongue-in-cheek in-joke amongst the developers who are the only ones who think it's funny. Like KDE programs all being titled with puns starting with "K."
Besides, Powerpoint, Access, and Visio have reasonable similarity with what they actually do. As for your completely random and pointless reference to Bob, I'm still amazed Slashdotters obsess over this small desktop shell released for a short time way back in 1994.
I'm so tired of people pointing out the dead 83-year old.
In 2000, EVERYONE on Slashdot was saying the RIAA should sue individual downloaders, not Napster.
Fast foward by four years, and that's exactly what they do. And Slashdotters, again, bitch.
If all you can go on is a list of IPs and computers of file-sharers, chances are you will come across one that is a computer that happens to be owned by an 83-year old who passed away. The suit was dropped. What's the problem?
Oh, right, some people who are used to the convenience of downloading defend illegal piracy and use that as propoganda. "THEY SUED A DEAD 83 YEAR OLD HAHA." Uh, sure.
Brings new meaning to the term "meatport," doesn't it?
Clearly, I won the debate. You acknowledge he's lying to make money. Your weird constant references to "grownups" notwithstanding (unable to refute any points, you're left to attempt to paint the argument as juvenile when it's not), you have nothing of substance to offer.
You don't care that Michael Moore lied about where he grew up, because you're a Michael Moore fan who wants to believe everything he says because it supports your worldview. If a prominent conservative had lied about where he grew up--see Al Franken's criticism of O'Reilly--you'd be all over it.
Michael Moore lying about his hometown is one lie in a series that continues in Fahrenheit 9/11. You probably think it's okay that he typed up a letter to the editor from a random newspaper and pasted it on screen as a frontpage headline article, or that he took two speeches a year apart and edited them together to make Charleton Heston say things he didn't say. It's the bogus "fake but accurate" mantra that is destroying the credibility of the liberal mindset. Have fun with it.
Next.