It would be nice if that was really possible, but I can't refuse to participate in buying clothes and food, and given that the corporations involved in those markets are some of the worst, I don't really see a solution.
Also, the reason the rest of the US friendly world has the luxury of not spending money on their militaries is that the US does it for them.
That is such a hilarious fallacy, I've just got to answer it. The US most certainly does not possess the only army, the only navy, the only airforce and the only nuclear weapons in the western world. Perhaps you should try reading a bit more foreign news, not just the bits that allow you to insult the French. As for the Cold War, there was plenty of European equipment stationed in West Germany too. The Soviets would have had a major fight on their hands even had the Americans not been there.
On Mandrake it's in the Mandrake Control Centre.
Perhaps the previous poster would care to stop
pretending that Linux hasn't changed in the last
2 years.
If you could point me to a shop in the UK that sells Linux software (apart from distros a couple of releases out of date), and if that software was something other than an FPS, perhaps I would buy some games. However the rest of the world seems to have been largely ignored when releasing Linux games.
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Slashdot has really gone downhill lately. Far too many posters complain about the Linux bias of Slashdot, when, they could just go to another site and leave us obsessive zealots to it.
So what you're saying is that Unix is more mature than NT, rather than ageing technology, as is usually stated by pro-MS people. I suppose I'd better use that, instead of waiting 20 years for MS to learn how to produce reasonably secure software.
I get a bit tired of hearing people moan about the anti-Microsoft bias of this site. Why don't you go somewhere else more to your liking then? After all, most of the media websites have a decidedly pro-MS bias (see the "aren't they wonderful for providing a version of Windows that doesn't crash so much" reviews of XP for example).
Of course, Microsoft has to get this in in every country in the world. Be interesting to see if the EU, for example, would be happy with an American monopoly controlling all access to digital information.
Heh, heh. Microsoft don't have zealots, that's a good one. When I dared to suggest on here that Windows 2000 might be anything less than perfect, I got called everything from a moron to a paedophile.
I'd like to point out, however, that Linux zealots don't have a monopoly (no pun intended) on blaming the user for software problems, Microsoft's highly paid suits haven't been above doing the same thing
Whether IE is the best or not, it didn't win on its merits, it won because MS used the highly illegal monopolistic practice of dumping (i.e. producing a product at a loss to disadvantage a competitor) to push Netscape out of the market. Who knows how good Netscape would have been, had Microsoft not done this.
What experience do you have in a business environment? Have you ever had to deal with awful hacks that would have been far easier to deal with had the programmer put the intent of said hack in a comment block? I'm impressed that you wrote ircservices, but has anyone else had to maintain that code, and if so how did they get on?
The average Joe is not as ignorant as you think. What technical knowledge does the average Joe need to have in order to realise that running a cable from the speaker output to the microphone input will allow him/her to record sound using Windows Media Player or somesuch.
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It would be nice if that was really possible, but I can't refuse to participate in buying clothes and food, and given that the corporations involved in those markets are some of the worst, I don't really see a solution.
Also, the reason the rest of the US friendly world has the luxury of not spending money on their militaries is that the US does it for them.
That is such a hilarious fallacy, I've just got to answer it. The US most certainly does not possess the only army, the only navy, the only airforce and the only nuclear weapons in the western world. Perhaps you should try reading a bit more foreign news, not just the bits that allow you to insult the French. As for the Cold War, there was plenty of European equipment stationed in West Germany too. The Soviets would have had a major fight on their hands even had the Americans not been there.
The government and corporations may be made up of you and I, but they certainly aren't controlled by you and I.
On Mandrake it's in the Mandrake Control Centre.
Perhaps the previous poster would care to stop
pretending that Linux hasn't changed in the last
2 years.
You should get out more. And so should I.
So your big bosses read slashdot and comp.os.linux.advocacy? Hi guys :-).
If you could point me to a shop in the UK that sells Linux software (apart from distros a couple of releases out of date), and if that software was something other than an FPS, perhaps I would buy some games. However the rest of the world seems to have been largely ignored when releasing Linux games.
Slashdot has really gone downhill lately. Far too many posters complain about the Linux bias of Slashdot, when, they could just go to another site and leave us obsessive zealots to it.
Lots of people paid for Netscape Navigator, that was the foundation of their business.Perhaps you've been asleep for the past 3 years.
So what you're saying is that Unix is more mature than NT, rather than ageing technology, as is usually stated by pro-MS people. I suppose I'd better use that, instead of waiting 20 years for MS to learn how to produce reasonably secure software.
I get a bit tired of hearing people moan about the anti-Microsoft bias of this site. Why don't you go somewhere else more to your liking then? After all, most of the media websites have a decidedly pro-MS bias (see the "aren't they wonderful for providing a version of Windows that doesn't crash so much" reviews of XP for example).
Of course, Microsoft has to get this in in every country in the world. Be interesting to see if the EU, for example, would be happy with an American monopoly controlling all access to digital information.
Heh, heh. Microsoft don't have zealots, that's a good one. When I dared to suggest on here that Windows 2000 might be anything less than perfect, I got called everything from a moron to a paedophile.
I'd like to point out, however, that Linux zealots don't have a monopoly (no pun intended) on blaming the user for software problems, Microsoft's highly paid suits haven't been above doing the same thing
Oh please. As if Microsoft removing their major source of revenue would have no effect on their business.
Cool, although given how long it's taken to get any kind of Quicktime on Linux, I won't be holding my breath for iPod compatibility.
But is currently useless to anyone who doesn't own a Mac.
I live in Europe. Where can I get all this wonderful stuff for free?
Whether IE is the best or not, it didn't win on its merits, it won because MS used the highly illegal monopolistic practice of dumping (i.e. producing a product at a loss to disadvantage a competitor) to push Netscape out of the market. Who knows how good Netscape would have been, had Microsoft not done this.
no one can force you to use them
Apart from your boss of course. No-one tells me what software I can have on this PC, but my work one is somewhat different.
Sounds like a superb way of convincing people not to use IE.
Yeah right. That's why sales of Windows for Dummies are so poor.
If only OS X didn't require me to buy another computer, then I too would use it.
What experience do you have in a business environment? Have you ever had to deal with awful hacks that would have been far easier to deal with had the programmer put the intent of said hack in a comment block? I'm impressed that you wrote ircservices, but has anyone else had to maintain that code, and if so how did they get on?
That doesn't mean that all comments are bad, just that the person that wrote this particular program had no idea of the point of commenting.
The average Joe is not as ignorant as you think. What technical knowledge does the average Joe need to have in order to realise that running a cable from the speaker output to the microphone input will allow him/her to record sound using Windows Media Player or somesuch.