What application are you talking about? I never had Windows on any of my boxes, and I certainly don't feel the need to use it now, even though I have to run staroffice to read files that countless dumbasses recently started sending me in Word and Excel formats.
Multiply this company by the multitudes of companies in other industries, and you'll see we're a long way from breaking the shackles of Redmond.
But how relevant that company is? Who cares about all the sheeps, they will use whatever someone is going to sell them. I will rather leave worrying about those things to Sun, Red Hat and SGI.
Actually this stock mini-crash is good for the economy -- overvalued stocks in NASDAQ were destabilizing economy for quite a while. Yes, I have "lost" a lot money on this and no, I don't consider stocks that I have to be "bubbles", so it's not really "fair". However when market will eventually recover and start going up again at some more reasonable rate, it will be nice to see some "dot coms" and stupid investors missing.
IBM is still around and making MORE money than ever. To think that MS will go the way of the dodo is both stupid and shortsighted.
IBM is a dead company. What we see as "IBM" now has very little to do with market-dominating giant of the mainframe and early PC eras. It's now a bunch of money being applied randomly into different areas, not bound with any goal other than to stick them somewhere because it's supposed to be a company, huge number of groups of engineers that have no slightest idea what other groups are doing, and some upper management that is the closest thing to what IBM was -- it's just as much incompetent as when IBM was a monopoly. IBM can be described as conglomerate, fund, even as a small country, even a successful one, but it definitely is not a "real" company that has some clear business plan and consistency in actions.
Dying stars become red giants, dying companies become toothless giants like IBM, and I suspect that a lot of people will be very happy if pieces of dead Microsoft will turn out to be like dead IBM.
Everybody who cleans up their room still has basic knowledge how to do it. The same applies to cooking (even though a lot of people live on junk food and microwaveables, it's not considered normal). The same applies to gardening. The same applies to reading and writing. So at least some essential skills necessary for everyday life have preserved pretty well, and if the use of computer in some intelligent manner will become one of them, it should be expected that people will have it unless significant effort (such as ones, undertaken by Microsoft) will be spent on preventing that
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Not everyone, not even most of programmers, know how paging works, yet programmers must have an idea that paging exists to allow them to use virtual memory, and users should understand that the noises they hear from hard drive when they switch between StarOffice and Netscape are caused by some process that allows them to run those programs, and slight delay in window redraw is caused by the need to pull some stuff from the disk and is normal in this situation. Also the knowledge that the preferred form of email body is a "text" format that contains nothing but a sequence of characters, and that it has nothing to do with fonts, italics, underscores or pictures of daisies, is extremely valuable for any computer user even though Outlook hides that as much as it can. OTOH, the working of poll(2) is a kind of knowledge that won't be of much help to the user until he will try to write software.
To be honest, MySQL lacks some of the functionality that Sybase (that MS SQL server is based on) provides. Of course, the same Sybase and Oracle work just fine on non-MS systems, and PostgreSQL, while being slower than everything else I have mentioned, provides most of the same functionality, but this is a different story.
StarOffice does not keep my TOC and paragraph formatting correctly
Sure it does -- but since you wrote your file in Windows you used Truetype Monotype "Times New Roman" font that you don't have in Linux. StarOffice tries to show you it using whatever closest is available, and it happens to be X11 Adobe "Times" font that has slightly different character sizes and can't be scaled. Since Word format depends on particular font sizes, resulted text layout is off.
Solution: if you want to read Word files, install Windows fonts. I did, and I don't even have Windows -- I had to get fonts from Microsoft "typography" page and run their self-extracting archives under WINE.
...Is apparently the story of a Red Army officer during the Russian Civil war (I presume they mean the early days of the revolution). The article said that watching this film is a pre-launch tradition.
First, Civil War happened after the revolution -- after taking the power in the capitals communists still fought for few years with various forces that opposed them to actually establish their power over the country.
Second, "White Sun of the Desert" is nowhere close to being about a glory.
Sounds like the list of advantages (in some rare situations -- in most of cases they are disadvantages) of thin coax ethernet over twisted pair ethernet. Except, of course, hot-plugging that is exactly the same in all kinds of ethernet and 64 devices limitation that ethernet doesn't have.
...safely shut down and do nothing, right after enough of the stock is sold before the shit hit the fan. Who cares -- it's not like some feeble IRC network really was supposed to become profitable.
Yeah I could use WINE or whatnot, but why bother? If it aint broke, why fix it? The same applies to scanner drivers. Why should they spend time writing or paying for linux drivers when the windows drivers are either already there or easier to get?
They are "already there" because you paid for them -- bundling or not, but you did, your money were used by Microsoft to force companies to bundle their software, write windows-only drivers, etc. This is why you are guilty, and this is why we hate you.
Bell had infrastrcture -- splitting up AT&T didn't destroy any of its assets, just opened the market for its competitors. M$ has no physical infrastructure other than a building complex at Redmond -- it has "paper" money in its inflated stock, some "investment" in rather mediocre OS/libraries infrastructure and "mindshare" (and I use the word "mind" rather loosely). So while AT&T infrastructure was still good for many years and given all Baby Bells the opportunity to continue being profitable, "Microsoft OS company" after split will lose its "assets" immediately, and "Microsoft applications company" will be hurt less but still will lose any advantage over Sun, Corel and any possible newcomer in the market. What will happen with "Microsoft internet business company" I neither know nor care, but it definitely won't be of any threat to anyone else.
A good 256 stream through one sounds almost as good as the CD, whereas the Awe32 sounds like a dying Black and Decker jigsaw and a SB16 sounds like Norm just started every powertool in the New Yankee Workshop.
Hint: set "ogain" to zero before using awe64 (and probably awe32) card. Of course, comparing anything with SB16 is plain stupid -- in its "normal" form the card has really noisy amplifier and only FM MIDI that indeed produces extremely awful sounds.
However SB PCI 128 (that is not even originally from Creative -- it's Ensoniq AudioPCI) is a very unremarkable card except for the fact that it has two identical devices, one of which is used by all-software MIDI.
If people really want to watch the latest DVD's that are released in other countries, they can purchase that region's player with which to do so. There is nothing stopping them from doing that. There are no rules or regulations against that.
However if there was a possibility for other companies to make a player that defeats regional encoding their manipulation simply wouldn't work because they are trying to manipulate something they don't own -- the behavior of players. This possibility does not exist because they have a monopoly on CSS keys licenses => looks like an abuse of monopoly power to me...
The text of the joke itself looks like perfectly correct English to me (being a foreigner has its advantages -- it doesn't allow to mix "you're" and "your", "their" and "there", "it's" and "its" and do thousands of other stupid things that people do to their native language). Big freaking deal, Hemos wrote his "announcement" in some mockery of "hick" and "lamerspeak" styles, and didn't try to pass obvious joke for a real thing:-\
This aired, I think, earlier this month on my local PBS station (channel 54, in the silicon valley...PBS on channel 9 sucks...no anime on sunday nights like 54;) )
KTEH (channel 54) probably should be declared The Official TV Station Of Slashdot Anonymous Cowards -- it's quite an achievement being the first to show in US Ayanami Rei Naked and Petrified (not an official translation of the episode title but quite adequate description);-)
No, I have nothing against them, UY or Doctor Who -- the most annoying part is that their transmitter sucks, and in San Mateo it's barely visible with my antenna.
, most of whom have absolutely nothing to do with Iridium or its failure. Yet for some reason the real source of the problem -- people who did plain old poor business planning at Motorola -- wasn't even mentioned.
Did he just write that piece for its "artistic value", that sees the reality as an annoying, unnecessary nuisance? Did he just have nothing better to do, so he had to resort to meaningless witticisms?
If not, then they are back where they started - they'll have to establish that the software is illegal and that the court has jurisdiction to make their case.
But the case is settled -- how will Mattel be able to bring it in the court again? And against whom will it be, new copyright holder that happens to be Mattel itself?
They'd rather say "yeah, we can do anything, everything we do is cool" rather than say "we made a crappy OS [bullshit skipped]
"I" and "we" are completely different, and in this case unrelated things. The purpose of open source community is not to drink beer together, or throw hordes of identical people at large projects but to combine efforts of people with different kinds of experience, goals and background. No one knows everything, but it's very unlikely that among large number of people that deal with the same problem there won't be a person that has the knowledge, experience or idea that will eventually bring the solution. Open source makes it more likely that right people will see others' work at right time.
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What application are you talking about? I never had Windows on any of my boxes, and I certainly don't feel the need to use it now, even though I have to run staroffice to read files that countless dumbasses recently started sending me in Word and Excel formats.
but way back in the Eighties (the 1980s, last century)
Clue-by-four application required -- if someone didn't notice, we are still in the 20th century.
Multiply this company by the multitudes of companies in other industries, and you'll see we're a long way from breaking the shackles of Redmond.
But how relevant that company is? Who cares about all the sheeps, they will use whatever someone is going to sell them. I will rather leave worrying about those things to Sun, Red Hat and SGI.
Actually this stock mini-crash is good for the economy -- overvalued stocks in NASDAQ were destabilizing economy for quite a while. Yes, I have "lost" a lot money on this and no, I don't consider stocks that I have to be "bubbles", so it's not really "fair". However when market will eventually recover and start going up again at some more reasonable rate, it will be nice to see some "dot coms" and stupid investors missing.
IBM is still around and making MORE money than ever. To think that MS will go the way of the dodo is both stupid and shortsighted.
IBM is a dead company. What we see as "IBM" now has very little to do with market-dominating giant of the mainframe and early PC eras. It's now a bunch of money being applied randomly into different areas, not bound with any goal other than to stick them somewhere because it's supposed to be a company, huge number of groups of engineers that have no slightest idea what other groups are doing, and some upper management that is the closest thing to what IBM was -- it's just as much incompetent as when IBM was a monopoly. IBM can be described as conglomerate, fund, even as a small country, even a successful one, but it definitely is not a "real" company that has some clear business plan and consistency in actions.
Dying stars become red giants, dying companies become toothless giants like IBM, and I suspect that a lot of people will be very happy if pieces of dead Microsoft will turn out to be like dead IBM.
Why do I see so many exact quotations of yesterday's MS statements in this post?
Take an average investment company... 10 to 20,000 people all with NT on their desktop advising clients on where to invest? Thats not entertainment
It isn't?
To be honest, MySQL lacks some of the functionality that Sybase (that MS SQL server is based on) provides. Of course, the same Sybase and Oracle work just fine on non-MS systems, and PostgreSQL, while being slower than everything else I have mentioned, provides most of the same functionality, but this is a different story.
StarOffice does not keep my TOC and paragraph formatting correctly
Sure it does -- but since you wrote your file in Windows you used Truetype Monotype "Times New Roman" font that you don't have in Linux. StarOffice tries to show you it using whatever closest is available, and it happens to be X11 Adobe "Times" font that has slightly different character sizes and can't be scaled. Since Word format depends on particular font sizes, resulted text layout is off.
Solution: if you want to read Word files, install Windows fonts. I did, and I don't even have Windows -- I had to get fonts from Microsoft "typography" page and run their self-extracting archives under WINE.
First, Civil War happened after the revolution -- after taking the power in the capitals communists still fought for few years with various forces that opposed them to actually establish their power over the country.
Second, "White Sun of the Desert" is nowhere close to being about a glory.
Sounds like the list of advantages (in some rare situations -- in most of cases they are disadvantages) of thin coax ethernet over twisted pair ethernet. Except, of course, hot-plugging that is exactly the same in all kinds of ethernet and 64 devices limitation that ethernet doesn't have.
...safely shut down and do nothing, right after enough of the stock is sold before the shit hit the fan. Who cares -- it's not like some feeble IRC network really was supposed to become profitable.
Yeah I could use WINE or whatnot, but why bother? If it aint broke, why fix it? The same applies to scanner drivers. Why should they spend time writing or paying for linux drivers when the windows drivers are either already there or easier to get?
They are "already there" because you paid for them -- bundling or not, but you did, your money were used by Microsoft to force companies to bundle their software, write windows-only drivers, etc. This is why you are guilty, and this is why we hate you.
Bell had infrastrcture -- splitting up AT&T didn't destroy any of its assets, just opened the market for its competitors. M$ has no physical infrastructure other than a building complex at Redmond -- it has "paper" money in its inflated stock, some "investment" in rather mediocre OS/libraries infrastructure and "mindshare" (and I use the word "mind" rather loosely). So while AT&T infrastructure was still good for many years and given all Baby Bells the opportunity to continue being profitable, "Microsoft OS company" after split will lose its "assets" immediately, and "Microsoft applications company" will be hurt less but still will lose any advantage over Sun, Corel and any possible newcomer in the market. What will happen with "Microsoft internet business company" I neither know nor care, but it definitely won't be of any threat to anyone else.
A good 256 stream through one sounds almost as good as the CD, whereas the Awe32 sounds like a dying Black and Decker jigsaw and a SB16 sounds like Norm just started every powertool in the New Yankee Workshop.
Hint: set "ogain" to zero before using awe64 (and probably awe32) card. Of course, comparing anything with SB16 is plain stupid -- in its "normal" form the card has really noisy amplifier and only FM MIDI that indeed produces extremely awful sounds.
However SB PCI 128 (that is not even originally from Creative -- it's Ensoniq AudioPCI) is a very unremarkable card except for the fact that it has two identical devices, one of which is used by all-software MIDI.
If people really want to watch the latest DVD's that are released in other countries, they can purchase that region's player with which to do so. There is nothing stopping them from doing that. There are no rules or regulations against that.
However if there was a possibility for other companies to make a player that defeats regional encoding their manipulation simply wouldn't work because they are trying to manipulate something they don't own -- the behavior of players. This possibility does not exist because they have a monopoly on CSS keys licenses => looks like an abuse of monopoly power to me...
What's a gopher site?
An indication, how old this joke really is. It looks like The Original Gopher Server is dead, but it's still in use in some places -- like here.
The text of the joke itself looks like perfectly correct English to me (being a foreigner has its advantages -- it doesn't allow to mix "you're" and "your", "their" and "there", "it's" and "its" and do thousands of other stupid things that people do to their native language). Big freaking deal, Hemos wrote his "announcement" in some mockery of "hick" and "lamerspeak" styles, and didn't try to pass obvious joke for a real thing :-\
This aired, I think, earlier this month on my local PBS station (channel 54, in the silicon valley...PBS on channel 9 sucks...no anime on sunday nights like 54 ;) )
KTEH (channel 54) probably should be declared The Official TV Station Of Slashdot Anonymous Cowards -- it's quite an achievement being the first to show in US Ayanami Rei Naked and Petrified (not an official translation of the episode title but quite adequate description) ;-)
No, I have nothing against them, UY or Doctor Who -- the most annoying part is that their transmitter sucks, and in San Mateo it's barely visible with my antenna.
I mean really, there are at last count, what, 6.02 X 10^23 TV channels out there.
...mostly owned by AOL, Microsoft and other people with wild fantasy yet poor taste...
, most of whom have absolutely nothing to do with Iridium or its failure. Yet for some reason the real source of the problem -- people who did plain old poor business planning at Motorola -- wasn't even mentioned.
Did he just write that piece for its "artistic value", that sees the reality as an annoying, unnecessary nuisance? Did he just have nothing better to do, so he had to resort to meaningless witticisms?
If not, then they are back where they started - they'll have to establish that the software is illegal and that the court has jurisdiction to make their case.
But the case is settled -- how will Mattel be able to bring it in the court again? And against whom will it be, new copyright holder that happens to be Mattel itself?
Actually a majority of them. But does it mean that death is "better", and all others should kill themselves?
They'd rather say "yeah, we can do anything, everything we do is cool" rather than say "we made a crappy OS [bullshit skipped]
"I" and "we" are completely different, and in this case unrelated things. The purpose of open source community is not to drink beer together, or throw hordes of identical people at large projects but to combine efforts of people with different kinds of experience, goals and background. No one knows everything, but it's very unlikely that among large number of people that deal with the same problem there won't be a person that has the knowledge, experience or idea that will eventually bring the solution. Open source makes it more likely that right people will see others' work at right time.
Have I mentioned that you look like ZicoKnows?