yes, i totally agree, email is just one protocol - most US legislators know as much as the average person about the specifics of these technologies, which is a fuzzy understanding at best. Most likely, any law they would create would either be so vague and non-specific that it would be easily circumvented by using ICQ or other progreams of the sort, or it would be so broad that irc and icq messages would be taxable, making it clearly unenforceable and and ripe for overruling by courts.
We need better cases, and this one is attractive, but i would like some new functionality also. Perhaps producing a lot of these would be worthwhile if someone would design them to have some nice usability features, such as how the new apple g3 cases open without removing any screws. As far as I can tell, case design for most computers hasn't changed since my TI 8086 in 1984. Some easy to use clasps on the side would be nice!
Sort of a vague article , no? I suppose this is an interesting idea, but it would be unusual for microsoft to actually try to something innovative and succeed. Most likely, some one else will come up with the successful business model and then they can steal it.
It seems pretty apparent to me that people in other countries, who have no particular disadvantage compared to americans in writing software and certainly not in doing math, would be able to come up with their own encryption algorithms. The US always is always attempting to take away the liberties of their own citizens under the pretext of 'protecting from terrorists', which they claim is one reason for the encryption restrictions. Since they give that reason for many other laws and restrictions where it is clear that they have other motives, i wonder exactly what they are thinking. Perhaps they will wise up about encryption restriction now, and release it, or at least tell us their real reason for restriction?
In Minnesota, there is a 'use' tax for things ordered mail order, internet, etc - the same as MN sales tax, they just say if you buy something that way and use it in minnesota you pay them 6.5% same as if you bought it here. There is a $770 a yr. exemption for individuals though.
So, if i call my supply co. on the phone, i only pay %6.5, but if i go to their website, 6.5% PLUS %5? screw that.
well, as undesirable as their propietary behavior is, we dont want red hat to be seen as the 'standard' linux as the market emerges, and Suse demonstarting to the public that there are other companies who distrubute lots of linux is good. also, Suse releasing their figures like this could actually help redhat by showing that the whole market for linux is growing quickly.
yeah, i have been called upon frequently to fix stupid windows problems caused either by incompetent users or just windows itself, but i'm not sure if these people would be much better off with linux - if they cant understand the MS virus,, then who knows if they could use linux any better.
no , thats not what the article means - but they were apparently forced to use it because NT was too sucky. They may know it Apache is superior, but indeed, it is strange Ballmer would actually declare that, MS being so marketing minded.
surely, having a prominent web server in win2k will push their percentage up as legions of Win kids with cable modems put their bandwidth to use, however ill a use it may be.
at my UNM, just the SRC computer pod with 16 clients seems somewhat confused if you do something rash on one of them, like dare to open netscape or something. NT sucks.
I have to agree... with each release, MS has claimed their os is more stable, faster, etc. and boast of all the bug fixes , as if we should applaud them 'fixing 3000 bugs' in Win95 to make Win98. Seems like maybe they should have done that in say, 1995?
And compared to Win98, 2000 is a complete remake since it is based on NT..and NT is a complete remake of Windows (they had to completely rewrite the source for the blue screen of death?) Anyway, i concur that it will be as bad or worse than 98.
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well, you know, if we all spontaneously died, who would be around to regret it?
if only! consider yourself fortunate- and what is a modern case, anyway?.
yes, i totally agree, email is just one protocol - most US legislators know as much as the average person about the specifics of these technologies, which is a fuzzy understanding at best. Most likely, any law they would create would either be so vague and non-specific that it would be easily circumvented by using ICQ or other progreams of the sort, or it would be so broad that irc and icq messages would be taxable, making it clearly unenforceable and and ripe for overruling by courts.
yes, ZD's magazines are all super-pro-MS bullshit that swim in deep ignorance. And they have so many of them! It's horrible.
er, i had an A500, but i dont think its the kind you meant...
We need better cases, and this one is attractive, but i would like some new functionality also. Perhaps producing a lot of these would be worthwhile if someone would design them to have some nice usability features, such as how the new apple g3 cases open without removing any screws.
As far as I can tell, case design for most computers hasn't changed since my TI 8086 in 1984. Some easy to use clasps on the side would be nice!
I like the idea of it glowing, also.
Sort of a vague article , no? I suppose this is an interesting idea, but it would be unusual for microsoft to actually try to something innovative and succeed. Most likely, some one else will come up with the successful business model and then they can steal it.
It seems pretty apparent to me that people in other countries, who have no particular disadvantage compared to americans in writing software and certainly not in doing math, would be able to come up with their own encryption algorithms. The US always is always attempting to take away the liberties of their own citizens under the pretext of 'protecting from terrorists', which they claim is one reason for the encryption restrictions. Since they give that reason for many other laws and restrictions where it is clear that they have other motives, i wonder exactly what they are thinking. Perhaps they will wise up about encryption restriction now, and release it, or at least tell us their real reason for restriction?
if you really want to know.
i was just being specific.
the letter says you can ask them to not send their spammy stuff - do they ignore the unsubscribe request?
anyway, just reading NSI say they have 5,000,000 customers pisses me off, since they deserve about 3% of that.
they should stick to harrasing their own citizens.
In Minnesota, there is a 'use' tax for things ordered mail order, internet, etc - the same as MN sales tax, they just say if you buy something that way and use it in minnesota you pay them 6.5% same as if you bought it here. There is a $770 a yr. exemption for individuals though.
So, if i call my supply co. on the phone, i only pay %6.5, but if i go to their website, 6.5% PLUS %5? screw that.
err,,. i'm not sure about the jon katz style servant, hmm... i do believe i missed that feature.
i cant get through to that link... has it been slashdotted?
well, as undesirable as their propietary behavior is, we dont want red hat to be seen as the 'standard' linux as the market emerges, and Suse demonstarting to the public that there are other companies who distrubute lots of linux is good. also, Suse releasing their figures like this could actually help redhat by showing that the whole market for linux is growing quickly.
heh, yeah I heard that lyle lovett song - pretty weird, huh?
6 months for IE? 3 mo. for IE 5? hm... no i dont think they were quite so fast.
yeah, i have been called upon frequently to fix stupid windows problems caused either by incompetent users or just windows itself, but i'm not sure if these people would be much better off with linux - if they cant understand the MS virus,, then who knows if they could use linux any better.
um this is off topic...but did he really say 'factor large PRIME numbers???'
no , thats not what the article means - but they were apparently forced to use it because NT was too sucky. They may know it Apache is superior, but indeed, it is strange Ballmer would actually declare that, MS being so marketing minded.
surely, having a prominent web server in win2k will push their percentage up as legions of Win kids with cable modems put their bandwidth to use, however ill a use it may be.
HAHAHA!!!! yeah.
at my UNM, just the SRC computer pod with 16 clients seems somewhat confused if you do something rash on one of them, like dare to open netscape or something. NT sucks.
well yes, but thats overclocked - anyone know if alphas can be OCed? 1500 mhz sounds much better.
--uhm.. how does one upstarting company create a product that is garunteed to give them a Monopoly in
a market without doing anything ?
hmm... seems like 'getting deal with IBM' would be the answer to that.
I have to agree... with each release, MS has claimed their os is more stable, faster, etc. and boast of all the bug fixes , as if we should applaud them 'fixing 3000 bugs' in Win95 to make Win98. Seems like maybe they should have done that in say, 1995?
And compared to Win98, 2000 is a complete remake since it is based on NT..and NT is a complete remake of Windows (they had to completely rewrite the source for the blue screen of death?) Anyway, i concur that it will be as bad or worse than 98.