the strongest argument behind Oo was exacly this - open standard for documents. Now MS did it also, no point in using Oo anymore. And I am talking here about big biz or goverments. Price? Right... if this would be the case, everybody would be using Oo from long time ago.
It's nothing noble behind what MS did, it's simply another apropach of gaining more (or not loosing existing) market.
Lets assume, the Sender-ID got accepted and every1 is using it. Just wonder how long would it take to discover a 'security hole' in MS implementation so you can fake your sender-id...
It's always the same, MS sounds awesome in theory and in press releases, but when it comes to real life they suck, and not because they are MS, but because they do things like MS. Which in the end is the same, I guess.
Slashdot Mirror
He had many, but I liked especially these:
All gods were immortal
...and even addictive
O' RLY?
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=3479
;)
There ya go, what does this patch really means
There ya go mate:
Time-warped Longest Common Subsequence Algorithm For Music Retrieval
kool!
Moderation system = completely and utterly broken
You must be new here
enuff said...
Ohio Cracker Confesses to Attacks For Hire
I just wonder, how long till they gonna outsource such jobs to India.
Futurama anyone?
"It's amazing to think that giants like this still swim in some of the world's rivers"
Well not this one anymore...
Wake me up when he starts bugging Julia Roberts, and people start dying...
http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/search?q=god
2 pages of comments and not a single one modded as funny? On topic about Microsoft?
I am scared...
What no "sex" on the list? Wait a sec..
So if I smoke grass and use email I have like 15% IQ lost? Damn it's time to do something against it... I'm gonna stop using email from now on!
1. Strip
2. Sit
3. Suck
Should only work on females ofkoz...
someone plz make them stop those jokes... I fear to open slashdot page.... transmission out...
is it only me or noone else sees this?
ms office docs as open standard = dead openoffice
the strongest argument behind Oo was exacly this - open standard for documents. Now MS did it also, no point in using Oo anymore. And I am talking here about big biz or goverments.
Price? Right... if this would be the case, everybody would be using Oo from long time ago.
It's nothing noble behind what MS did, it's simply another apropach of gaining more (or not loosing existing) market.
this was damn smart move
Until you Slashdotters accept that Linux is ready for the desktop and stop trolling, Windows will never be ready for the cluster!
./ post comments here, yet you are not ./er ?
so who the hell are you then? an insider? a spy?
you read
so what one has to do or to be for to be called "slashdoter"?
No way I would use it while diving... how else could I hear shark approaching me from behind?!
learn to count moron, then post
Heh, why do people type so much?
You don't know about tab completion do you? Or it doesn't come with your distro?
oh gee.. I laught my butt off.. if any1 hasn't seen it yet.. its a must see!
Lets assume, the Sender-ID got accepted and every1 is using it. Just wonder how long would it take to discover a 'security hole' in MS implementation so you can fake your sender-id...
It's always the same, MS sounds awesome in theory and in press releases, but when it comes to real life they suck, and not because they are MS, but because they do things like MS. Which in the end is the same, I guess.
... I was directly in front of them, and as soon as they saw my face, they stopped and disappeared...
Geee.... she must be quite ugly chick...