that certain people are unable to learn from their mistakes. I think this explains most people with bad credit, unable to hold down any decent job, or that get addicted to illicit drugs and/or alcohol, and never seem to learn from past mistakes to avoid making them in the future. I have known of some people who bad bad credit and recovered it later, who had a bad work history and were able to turn it around to get a good paying job, or who were able to give up addictions to drugs or alcohol and improve their lives.
Sadly most people effected by this inability to learn from their mistakes end up poor, or homeless, or in jail, or have a very bad life. They often blame others for their misfortunes, and I always thought that they kept making bad decisions because they didn't learn from previous bad decisions in order to avoid making bad decisions and start making good decisions. So they blame the government, they blame the wealthy, they blame authority figures, they blame people who make a good living, and anyone else they can.
So now it shows that it might not even be their fault, that they have a genetic disorder that prevents them from learning from their mistakes, and thus they are disabled with a mental illness, and need some medical help to get over this disorder. We need to do more research into it and learn what can be done to help these people out who are afflicted with this genetic disorder. Not just to help them out, but also to help out society and other people who are effected by people who are unable to learn from their mistakes and thus harm others as a result.
So you are saying that the code in OSX is older than the code in Windows?
Windows Vista is Microsoft attempt to rewrite parts of the OS, but I think it still has code that goes back to Windows NT and MS-DOS.
Mac OSX is based on *BSD Unix code, the Mach kernel, NextOS, and the classic Mac OS (or at least Carbon is based on it). I think Mac OSX was necessary because Classic Mac OS was heading to a dead-end and taking a Unix route was the best thing that Apple can do.
Still, Linux is older than OSX, but it doesn't seem to have the problems that Leopard has. Could it be that it also has to do with the way the OS is managed, or the way the OS development is managed? Like is Linus able to make better management decisions with Linux and the Linux kernel than Bill Gates or Steve Jobs does for their OS projects?
Such as downloading Linux distros and free and open source software.
Some musicians, such as Michael David Crawford release their music in free OGG format with an open source license that allows it to be spread by BitTorrent.
Not only that but Joost and Miro are video players that use P2P and BitTorrent to share videos that are also released into the public domain, open source, and free licenses.
Like I said there are 100% legal reasons for using BitTorrent and P2P filesharing networks. This will hurt the free and open source market more than it cuts down on piracy. It is like giving commercial licenses a free pass and filtering or blocking the free and open source licenses. Some people write articles and howtos via Legal Torrents to promote their web sites in a free or open source license, as well as help out the community.
Everyone knows that IBM uses Star Trek strategy and not Star Wars strategy. That is how OS/2 bombed despite having a "Star Trek" theme and name of OS/2 3.0 Warp.
Just make an OS/3 based on Linux and call it OS/3 1.0 Yoda. Modify WINE to run the OS/2 API into Linux as well. Make sure that all IBM Windows software works on WINE, and has Linux ports as well.
Instead OS/3 1.0 Yoda on every new IBM PC sold, and also port it to the Mainframe, iSeries, pSeries, etc systems as well.
Design Yoda to be so simple that Young Jedis can use it as well as the older adults with no computer knowledge at all.
Take the Firewall/AntiVirus protection and call it "The Force".
License OS/3 1.0 Yoda to other OEMs like Compaq, Dell, Gateway, ASUS, Acer, etc.
The PC has evolved over the years, the old definition of what a PC was is dead, there is a new definition of a PC in modern times that is very much alive.
#1 The Intel Mac is one of the new PC definitions as it uses PC technology now.
#2 The new Amiga standard will be based on PC technology as well.
#3 The new PC need not even run Windows, it can run Linux, *BSD Unix, or any other OS that runs on it.
#4 The PC is the new Hackintosh with the OSX X86 Project to run OSX on PC systems.
#5 The Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Wii all use PC technology and are basically PCs by themselves if you add a keyboard and mouse to them.
#6 The iPhone and most modern cell phones are now like a PC anyway.
#7 PDAs and hand held computers are basically PCs now anyway.
#8 PCs can run emulators to run software for all different sorts of computer platforms and game consoles.
#9 PCs are used to develop software for many computer platforms.
#10 PCs can be used as dumb terminals or remote control access for any computer system.
Of course because Amiga One box owners just formatted and installed Yellowdog Linux instead of AmigaOS 4.0, right?
So take a Linux or BSD Unix distro, port the Amiga GUI over to it, port Amiga libraries over to it to support AmigaOS API calls, and call it AmigaOS 5.0, right?
#1 Develop X86 versions of it to run on PC systems. Use UAE to run the older 68K Amiga software on it.
#2 Develop PPC versions of it for the Amiga PPC, PowerMac, and CHRP hardware sets so people with older systems can run it as well.
#3 Get better development tools for it. Developers want to be able to write with more than C++, Python, Free Pascal, AREXX and legacy AmigaDOS tools. Get Novell to port the Mono Development system to AmigaOS 5, get Delphi ported, get RealBASIC and TrueBASIC ported, get Ruby, Perl, Smalltalk, XBASIC, GCC, and Java ported as well.
#4 Get software developers to write AmigaOS 5 ports of their popular software. Get OpenOffice.Org, StarOffice, Quicken, Turbo Tax, Photoshop, Lotus Smartsuite, etc ported.
#5 Get Blizzard, and other game makers to write AmigaOS 5 versions of their popular games.
#6 Get the F/OSS projects ported to AmigaOS 5, like Firefox, Thunderbird, Eurdora, GNUCash, Apache, CVS, The Gimp, etc ported.
#7 Port WINE to the AmigaOS 5 X86 version, and have it built in. Also work on the OSFree project to give the ability to run OS/2 programs. Also work with the Haiku OS project to run BeOS applications on AmigaOS 5. This way you can run software written for Windows, OS/2, and BeOS on one OS, a feat never before done.
#8 Port NDIS Wrapper to use Windows drivers for AmigaOS 5, in case we cannot find any native Windows drivers. Also allow Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OSX drivers to work as well.
#9 Work in parallel with the Amiga Research OS that AmigaOS 3.5 was based on, so that they can give AROS AmigaOS 5.0 features.
#10 Get Virtual Machines ported to AmigaOS 5.0 like VMWare, Bochs, QEMU, Parallels, etc. Also get emulators ported like MAME, MESS, VICE, UAE, Stella, ZNES, SNES, Virtual Gameboy Advance, Basilisk II, VMac, ported to the Amiga OS 5 system.
Windows XP will last five years after Microsoft cuts off support for it.
Windows Vista will die within five years.
By then, I hope that ReactOS is finished or at least in beta status to compete with the bloated, buggy, and security flawed Microsoft Windows Whatever Microsoft releases next after Vista.
Linux is used in cell phones that only have Windows based software to access features on them.
Many PC makers use Linux for their web servers, but refuse to support Linux on their desktop PCs.
Tivo uses Linux, but the software to allow your PC to communicate with your Tivo box is Windows only.
Many video game Internet servers run Linux, but the games that connect to those servers are written for Windows only. Sometimes the Mac users get lucky and there is an OSX port, but not always.
PLC and PIC controllers run Linux, but the software to access and program them is Windows only.
Many PDAs like the Palm series run Linux now, but the software is only written for Windows or Mac OSX, and the Linux port was reversed engineered and not supported by Palm and written by open source hackers.
George W. Bush was playing Civilization II when he got the idea to invade Iraq for the Oil and resources and gain a lot of gold. So Jack Thompson wants George W. Bush to testify under oath that he did play Civilization II on his PC before or after he held office. Jack Thompson will claim that this is the way the Civilization II game is played, to invade other nations for the gold.
He might as well subpoena Bill Gates, and accuse him of playing the Monopoly video game for DOS or the Apple//, before deciding to bundle MS-Office, Internet Explorer, and Media Player with Windows installed on each new PC sold by PC Vendors. The object in the Monopoly video game, claims Jack Thompson, is to own property and bundle them together to lock out competitors and raise the prices in order to become the richest person in the game.
You can't fight DRM because the RIAA and MPAA are too strong and the DMCA law enforces DRM on us.
I am tired of using Linux and not being able to listen to audio or watch video clips because the web site uses DRM methods that the Linux media players do not support. It would be easier to write a DRM compliant media player for Linux than to change the law that enforces DRM on everyone.
Why not Mozilla? OpenOffice.Org is almost mostly Java based. I'd like to see a 100% native code alternative to MS-Office available for Linux and other platforms that can use ODF, OOXML, MS-Office, WordPerfect, RTF, etc file formats. I think that Thunderbird already has a good editing system and we can take the core of Thunderbird and turn it into ThunderWord or something and then allow ThunderWord extensions to be written for it Mozilla style. Then ThunderCalc for Spreadsheet, ThunderPoint for Presentation, ThunderBase for Database, bundle them with ThunderBird and call it ThunderOffice or something.
I looked at GNUStep, I agree it needs help badly. Not only that but the cash to hire on expert programmers to improve it more.
The bad thing is that I've been out of work since 2002, and I am not a millionaire, or else I would come up with the investment money to improve these things with Linux.
is improve the kernel so that it can use Windows drivers as well as Linux drivers to solve the hardware incompatibility that Linux suffers from.
If I were to improve an application it would be WINE, adding in better DirectX support and more support for Windows games so we could convert the Gameheads from Windows to Linux with WINE, and it would affect the sales of Windows.
Linux lacks a DRM media player, right now Windows has the advantage with Internet movie rentals and other media files that can play on Windows, but not Linux. You would need a freeware media player that can handle the DRM of iTunes/Quicktime, Windows Media Player, Real Player. Of course it cannot be under the GPL, and it cannot be bundled with Linux, but it can be an optional download for Linux users who want to use it.
If I had millions to spend, I'd have Windows Game Developers develop popular games for Linux to prove that there can be a commercial games market. Get Blizzard, Electronic Arts, 2K, Activision, etc seed money to rewrite or port their popular games to Linux.
If I had millions more to spend, I'd have application companies develop software like Wordperfect Office, Lotus Smartsuite, Photoshop, Quark Express, Paintshop, and other popular applications to Linux. I'd also give Mozilla seed money to write open source versions of Word processors, Spreadsheets, Presentation Software, and other Office software for Linux and multiple platforms that can use the MS-Office file formats, as well as open source file formats. The Mozilla code has an HTML editor that can be the basis for a good Word processor. It can also be used to tweak it into a spreadsheet and presentation software.
If I had millions more to spend, I'd give money to the OSFree project to get OS/2 applications to run under Linux, the Haiku OS project to get BeOS applications to run under Linux, the Amiga Research OS project to get AmigaDOS/AmigaOS applications to run under Linux, and I would fund money into a project to make an application to translate OSX API calls to Linux ones, so Linux can run OSX applications. Then Linux would be able to run almost any software from almost any OS platform, and people won't be able to complain of a lack of applications for Linux.
Strange I got friends who live in Illinois who get Canadian Pharmacy Prescriptions mailed to them without any DHS interference.
It also isn't DHS policy to tell someone that their calls are being monitored. I mean what is the point of a warrantless wiretap if the person you are tapping knows they are being tapped?
Something about your story seems fishy, plus the fact that you posted as anonymous coward tells me that I have a hard time believing what you posted.
they claim he has to install the Spyware app that monitors him on his computer.
Just use two computers. One is a low end Windows box, install the spyware trojan on that one. Use it to browse Wikipedia, Slashdot, and other approved sites. The other is a Linux box, he can do whatever he wants to on that one.
Either that or dual boot the hard drive. Install Windows on a spare partition, and put the Spyware trojan on it, and just boot into Ubuntu when it asks for an OS choice. That way he has the spyware trojan on his system, but can still use Ubuntu. He hasn't broken the agreement, and they never said he couldn't have two operating systems installed on his hard drive, just that he had to have Windows installed with the spyware trojan on it.
NBA games must be late because they have to add in a ref that bets on the game and makes bad calls. The NFL games must be late because they have to add in Michael Vick dog fighting side-games between the Football games.
By the way, Macs spelled backwards is Scam. That is the truth of Macs and video games.
Mac OSX only runs on Macs, Ubuntu runs on almost every X86 PC out there. I even think there is a PPC port of Ubuntu to run on the old PowerMacs. They are both written for two different markets.
This is sort of like those old Mac OS verses BeOS arguments from the 1990's, when PowerMacs could still run BeOS. Then Apple refused to release info about new Mac hardware to Be Inc. and they couldn't port BeOS to newer Macs and ended up porting it to Intel based PCs instead. Apple could do the same to Ubuntu and Linux, refuse to release the hardware specs to Linux distros and shut out Linux ports to newer Macs. I doubt they would do it, because the Linux crowd would boycott Apple if they did.
I hope they make Thunderbird have features like Outlook has, but without the security flaws.
The Calendar extension needs more work, and so does the Address book. I need to be able to get the Address book to export to Outlook CSVs so that I can import them into my Yahoo address book, or my Timex Datalink Watch or iPaq because the Thunderbird CSV files don't work with those applications.
Having data syncing with the calendar and address book with mobile devices, PDAs, watches, etc would be a good thing as well.
which is why some theories get the official liberal stamp of approval on them. Those that don't get the stamp are rejected by liberals. This is why modern science has many failings and why it has become political. It is also why moderates and conservatives often reject theories that have the liberal stamp of approval on them, because they are not true natural science theories but more political science theories. Many so called global warming scientists, for example, hold PHDs in political science and not natural science.
I would hope the rest of the world cares enough that liberals have polluted our sciences with junk science and crackpot theories. Modern science has become yet another religion that liberals believe in, global warming is now a religion and Al Gore is the Pope of global warming. Just like the Church of England had a scam to have people pay money to have sins forgiven to go to Heaven, global warming has the same scam, pay for your sins to be forgiven by buying carbon credits. Only who knows where the money used to buy carbon credits really goes, because it isn't regulated or accounted for anyway.
If the liberals have their way, this will become a Nanny State or a Prison Nation in that we are told what to eat, how to behave, and how to act.
The Surgeon General has released statements that use fear to control people's eating habits, buying habits, behavior and actions. He uses fear to control people in the same way that a terrorist uses fear. He takes money from companies that want him to make statements that use fear to control people to buy their products. In this case the Surgeon General took money from the pro-global warming lobbyists so that he can release statements that force people to buy carbon credits and use products that the pro-global warming companies and organizations sell. In this way global warming is a scam. Global warming is a new religion spawned from liberals in order to control people with it and eventually control the world. Releasing CO2 into the atmosphere is a sin, but can be forgiven by buying carbon credits.
Soon, people won't be able to have the freedom to decide for themselves anymore, and will have organizations run by liberals telling them what to do. Everyone should have the freedom to choose how to live their lives and what they should do. Let us end this tyranny that the Surgeon General, PETA, etc have on the lives of many people that force them how to decide using scare tactics. Let us give back the freedom to decide for themselves to the people again once more!
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that certain people are unable to learn from their mistakes. I think this explains most people with bad credit, unable to hold down any decent job, or that get addicted to illicit drugs and/or alcohol, and never seem to learn from past mistakes to avoid making them in the future. I have known of some people who bad bad credit and recovered it later, who had a bad work history and were able to turn it around to get a good paying job, or who were able to give up addictions to drugs or alcohol and improve their lives.
Sadly most people effected by this inability to learn from their mistakes end up poor, or homeless, or in jail, or have a very bad life. They often blame others for their misfortunes, and I always thought that they kept making bad decisions because they didn't learn from previous bad decisions in order to avoid making bad decisions and start making good decisions. So they blame the government, they blame the wealthy, they blame authority figures, they blame people who make a good living, and anyone else they can.
So now it shows that it might not even be their fault, that they have a genetic disorder that prevents them from learning from their mistakes, and thus they are disabled with a mental illness, and need some medical help to get over this disorder. We need to do more research into it and learn what can be done to help these people out who are afflicted with this genetic disorder. Not just to help them out, but also to help out society and other people who are effected by people who are unable to learn from their mistakes and thus harm others as a result.
and Classic Mac OS.
So you are saying that the code in OSX is older than the code in Windows?
Windows Vista is Microsoft attempt to rewrite parts of the OS, but I think it still has code that goes back to Windows NT and MS-DOS.
Mac OSX is based on *BSD Unix code, the Mach kernel, NextOS, and the classic Mac OS (or at least Carbon is based on it). I think Mac OSX was necessary because Classic Mac OS was heading to a dead-end and taking a Unix route was the best thing that Apple can do.
Still, Linux is older than OSX, but it doesn't seem to have the problems that Leopard has. Could it be that it also has to do with the way the OS is managed, or the way the OS development is managed? Like is Linus able to make better management decisions with Linux and the Linux kernel than Bill Gates or Steve Jobs does for their OS projects?
or like Microsoft every month or so.
First Leopard had Vista-like bugs, then Time Machine got broken due to bugs, and now Quicktime had bugs that disable video editing software.
Where will it end?
Such as downloading Linux distros and free and open source software.
Some musicians, such as Michael David Crawford release their music in free OGG format with an open source license that allows it to be spread by BitTorrent.
Not only that but Joost and Miro are video players that use P2P and BitTorrent to share videos that are also released into the public domain, open source, and free licenses.
Like I said there are 100% legal reasons for using BitTorrent and P2P filesharing networks. This will hurt the free and open source market more than it cuts down on piracy. It is like giving commercial licenses a free pass and filtering or blocking the free and open source licenses. Some people write articles and howtos via Legal Torrents to promote their web sites in a free or open source license, as well as help out the community.
Everyone knows that IBM uses Star Trek strategy and not Star Wars strategy. That is how OS/2 bombed despite having a "Star Trek" theme and name of OS/2 3.0 Warp.
Just make an OS/3 based on Linux and call it OS/3 1.0 Yoda. Modify WINE to run the OS/2 API into Linux as well. Make sure that all IBM Windows software works on WINE, and has Linux ports as well.
Instead OS/3 1.0 Yoda on every new IBM PC sold, and also port it to the Mainframe, iSeries, pSeries, etc systems as well.
Design Yoda to be so simple that Young Jedis can use it as well as the older adults with no computer knowledge at all.
Take the Firewall/AntiVirus protection and call it "The Force".
License OS/3 1.0 Yoda to other OEMs like Compaq, Dell, Gateway, ASUS, Acer, etc.
The PC has evolved over the years, the old definition of what a PC was is dead, there is a new definition of a PC in modern times that is very much alive.
#1 The Intel Mac is one of the new PC definitions as it uses PC technology now.
#2 The new Amiga standard will be based on PC technology as well.
#3 The new PC need not even run Windows, it can run Linux, *BSD Unix, or any other OS that runs on it.
#4 The PC is the new Hackintosh with the OSX X86 Project to run OSX on PC systems.
#5 The Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Wii all use PC technology and are basically PCs by themselves if you add a keyboard and mouse to them.
#6 The iPhone and most modern cell phones are now like a PC anyway.
#7 PDAs and hand held computers are basically PCs now anyway.
#8 PCs can run emulators to run software for all different sorts of computer platforms and game consoles.
#9 PCs are used to develop software for many computer platforms.
#10 PCs can be used as dumb terminals or remote control access for any computer system.
Even if Hans Reiser is innocent, ReiserFS got murdered as a result of the Police suspecting Hans Reiser murdered his wife.
:) j/k
How do we know this isn't some plot by Microsoft to murder open source one developer at a time?
for security reasons? How would you use Adobe software on a desktop with no Network access?
Some people like to do work on a computer that is not tied to other computers, and then burn CDs or DVDs and move the works to other computers later.
With Online Applications it also opens the door to Malware infections.
Of course because Amiga One box owners just formatted and installed Yellowdog Linux instead of AmigaOS 4.0, right?
So take a Linux or BSD Unix distro, port the Amiga GUI over to it, port Amiga libraries over to it to support AmigaOS API calls, and call it AmigaOS 5.0, right?
#1 Develop X86 versions of it to run on PC systems. Use UAE to run the older 68K Amiga software on it.
#2 Develop PPC versions of it for the Amiga PPC, PowerMac, and CHRP hardware sets so people with older systems can run it as well.
#3 Get better development tools for it. Developers want to be able to write with more than C++, Python, Free Pascal, AREXX and legacy AmigaDOS tools. Get Novell to port the Mono Development system to AmigaOS 5, get Delphi ported, get RealBASIC and TrueBASIC ported, get Ruby, Perl, Smalltalk, XBASIC, GCC, and Java ported as well.
#4 Get software developers to write AmigaOS 5 ports of their popular software. Get OpenOffice.Org, StarOffice, Quicken, Turbo Tax, Photoshop, Lotus Smartsuite, etc ported.
#5 Get Blizzard, and other game makers to write AmigaOS 5 versions of their popular games.
#6 Get the F/OSS projects ported to AmigaOS 5, like Firefox, Thunderbird, Eurdora, GNUCash, Apache, CVS, The Gimp, etc ported.
#7 Port WINE to the AmigaOS 5 X86 version, and have it built in. Also work on the OSFree project to give the ability to run OS/2 programs. Also work with the Haiku OS project to run BeOS applications on AmigaOS 5. This way you can run software written for Windows, OS/2, and BeOS on one OS, a feat never before done.
#8 Port NDIS Wrapper to use Windows drivers for AmigaOS 5, in case we cannot find any native Windows drivers. Also allow Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OSX drivers to work as well.
#9 Work in parallel with the Amiga Research OS that AmigaOS 3.5 was based on, so that they can give AROS AmigaOS 5.0 features.
#10 Get Virtual Machines ported to AmigaOS 5.0 like VMWare, Bochs, QEMU, Parallels, etc. Also get emulators ported like MAME, MESS, VICE, UAE, Stella, ZNES, SNES, Virtual Gameboy Advance, Basilisk II, VMac, ported to the Amiga OS 5 system.
Windows XP will last five years after Microsoft cuts off support for it.
Windows Vista will die within five years.
By then, I hope that ReactOS is finished or at least in beta status to compete with the bloated, buggy, and security flawed Microsoft Windows Whatever Microsoft releases next after Vista.
Linux is used in cell phones that only have Windows based software to access features on them.
Many PC makers use Linux for their web servers, but refuse to support Linux on their desktop PCs.
Tivo uses Linux, but the software to allow your PC to communicate with your Tivo box is Windows only.
Many video game Internet servers run Linux, but the games that connect to those servers are written for Windows only. Sometimes the Mac users get lucky and there is an OSX port, but not always.
PLC and PIC controllers run Linux, but the software to access and program them is Windows only.
Many PDAs like the Palm series run Linux now, but the software is only written for Windows or Mac OSX, and the Linux port was reversed engineered and not supported by Palm and written by open source hackers.
George W. Bush was playing Civilization II when he got the idea to invade Iraq for the Oil and resources and gain a lot of gold. So Jack Thompson wants George W. Bush to testify under oath that he did play Civilization II on his PC before or after he held office. Jack Thompson will claim that this is the way the Civilization II game is played, to invade other nations for the gold.
//, before deciding to bundle MS-Office, Internet Explorer, and Media Player with Windows installed on each new PC sold by PC Vendors. The object in the Monopoly video game, claims Jack Thompson, is to own property and bundle them together to lock out competitors and raise the prices in order to become the richest person in the game.
He might as well subpoena Bill Gates, and accuse him of playing the Monopoly video game for DOS or the Apple
You can't fight DRM because the RIAA and MPAA are too strong and the DMCA law enforces DRM on us.
I am tired of using Linux and not being able to listen to audio or watch video clips because the web site uses DRM methods that the Linux media players do not support. It would be easier to write a DRM compliant media player for Linux than to change the law that enforces DRM on everyone.
Why not Mozilla? OpenOffice.Org is almost mostly Java based. I'd like to see a 100% native code alternative to MS-Office available for Linux and other platforms that can use ODF, OOXML, MS-Office, WordPerfect, RTF, etc file formats. I think that Thunderbird already has a good editing system and we can take the core of Thunderbird and turn it into ThunderWord or something and then allow ThunderWord extensions to be written for it Mozilla style. Then ThunderCalc for Spreadsheet, ThunderPoint for Presentation, ThunderBase for Database, bundle them with ThunderBird and call it ThunderOffice or something.
I looked at GNUStep, I agree it needs help badly. Not only that but the cash to hire on expert programmers to improve it more.
The bad thing is that I've been out of work since 2002, and I am not a millionaire, or else I would come up with the investment money to improve these things with Linux.
is improve the kernel so that it can use Windows drivers as well as Linux drivers to solve the hardware incompatibility that Linux suffers from.
If I were to improve an application it would be WINE, adding in better DirectX support and more support for Windows games so we could convert the Gameheads from Windows to Linux with WINE, and it would affect the sales of Windows.
Linux lacks a DRM media player, right now Windows has the advantage with Internet movie rentals and other media files that can play on Windows, but not Linux. You would need a freeware media player that can handle the DRM of iTunes/Quicktime, Windows Media Player, Real Player. Of course it cannot be under the GPL, and it cannot be bundled with Linux, but it can be an optional download for Linux users who want to use it.
If I had millions to spend, I'd have Windows Game Developers develop popular games for Linux to prove that there can be a commercial games market. Get Blizzard, Electronic Arts, 2K, Activision, etc seed money to rewrite or port their popular games to Linux.
If I had millions more to spend, I'd have application companies develop software like Wordperfect Office, Lotus Smartsuite, Photoshop, Quark Express, Paintshop, and other popular applications to Linux. I'd also give Mozilla seed money to write open source versions of Word processors, Spreadsheets, Presentation Software, and other Office software for Linux and multiple platforms that can use the MS-Office file formats, as well as open source file formats. The Mozilla code has an HTML editor that can be the basis for a good Word processor. It can also be used to tweak it into a spreadsheet and presentation software.
If I had millions more to spend, I'd give money to the OSFree project to get OS/2 applications to run under Linux, the Haiku OS project to get BeOS applications to run under Linux, the Amiga Research OS project to get AmigaDOS/AmigaOS applications to run under Linux, and I would fund money into a project to make an application to translate OSX API calls to Linux ones, so Linux can run OSX applications. Then Linux would be able to run almost any software from almost any OS platform, and people won't be able to complain of a lack of applications for Linux.
Strange I got friends who live in Illinois who get Canadian Pharmacy Prescriptions mailed to them without any DHS interference.
It also isn't DHS policy to tell someone that their calls are being monitored. I mean what is the point of a warrantless wiretap if the person you are tapping knows they are being tapped?
Something about your story seems fishy, plus the fact that you posted as anonymous coward tells me that I have a hard time believing what you posted.
they claim he has to install the Spyware app that monitors him on his computer.
Just use two computers. One is a low end Windows box, install the spyware trojan on that one. Use it to browse Wikipedia, Slashdot, and other approved sites. The other is a Linux box, he can do whatever he wants to on that one.
Either that or dual boot the hard drive. Install Windows on a spare partition, and put the Spyware trojan on it, and just boot into Ubuntu when it asks for an OS choice. That way he has the spyware trojan on his system, but can still use Ubuntu. He hasn't broken the agreement, and they never said he couldn't have two operating systems installed on his hard drive, just that he had to have Windows installed with the spyware trojan on it.
I guess I am too boring for them to listen in on my calls.
AT&T and Verizon cooperate, eh? What if the terrorists use a different long distance network instead?
NBA games must be late because they have to add in a ref that bets on the game and makes bad calls. The NFL games must be late because they have to add in Michael Vick dog fighting side-games between the Football games.
By the way, Macs spelled backwards is Scam. That is the truth of Macs and video games.
Mac OSX only runs on Macs, Ubuntu runs on almost every X86 PC out there. I even think there is a PPC port of Ubuntu to run on the old PowerMacs. They are both written for two different markets.
This is sort of like those old Mac OS verses BeOS arguments from the 1990's, when PowerMacs could still run BeOS. Then Apple refused to release info about new Mac hardware to Be Inc. and they couldn't port BeOS to newer Macs and ended up porting it to Intel based PCs instead. Apple could do the same to Ubuntu and Linux, refuse to release the hardware specs to Linux distros and shut out Linux ports to newer Macs. I doubt they would do it, because the Linux crowd would boycott Apple if they did.
if you count all of the Windows piracy in third world nations like China. Regards to the late Carl Sagan.
I hope they make Thunderbird have features like Outlook has, but without the security flaws.
The Calendar extension needs more work, and so does the Address book. I need to be able to get the Address book to export to Outlook CSVs so that I can import them into my Yahoo address book, or my Timex Datalink Watch or iPaq because the Thunderbird CSV files don't work with those applications.
Having data syncing with the calendar and address book with mobile devices, PDAs, watches, etc would be a good thing as well.
which is why some theories get the official liberal stamp of approval on them. Those that don't get the stamp are rejected by liberals. This is why modern science has many failings and why it has become political. It is also why moderates and conservatives often reject theories that have the liberal stamp of approval on them, because they are not true natural science theories but more political science theories. Many so called global warming scientists, for example, hold PHDs in political science and not natural science.
I would hope the rest of the world cares enough that liberals have polluted our sciences with junk science and crackpot theories. Modern science has become yet another religion that liberals believe in, global warming is now a religion and Al Gore is the Pope of global warming. Just like the Church of England had a scam to have people pay money to have sins forgiven to go to Heaven, global warming has the same scam, pay for your sins to be forgiven by buying carbon credits. Only who knows where the money used to buy carbon credits really goes, because it isn't regulated or accounted for anyway.
Don't bother. Showing them real evidence and proof will only confuse the liberals.
They only accept "junk" science that has been stamped with an official liberal seal.
If the liberals have their way, this will become a Nanny State or a Prison Nation in that we are told what to eat, how to behave, and how to act.
The Surgeon General has released statements that use fear to control people's eating habits, buying habits, behavior and actions. He uses fear to control people in the same way that a terrorist uses fear. He takes money from companies that want him to make statements that use fear to control people to buy their products. In this case the Surgeon General took money from the pro-global warming lobbyists so that he can release statements that force people to buy carbon credits and use products that the pro-global warming companies and organizations sell. In this way global warming is a scam. Global warming is a new religion spawned from liberals in order to control people with it and eventually control the world. Releasing CO2 into the atmosphere is a sin, but can be forgiven by buying carbon credits.
Soon, people won't be able to have the freedom to decide for themselves anymore, and will have organizations run by liberals telling them what to do. Everyone should have the freedom to choose how to live their lives and what they should do. Let us end this tyranny that the Surgeon General, PETA, etc have on the lives of many people that force them how to decide using scare tactics. Let us give back the freedom to decide for themselves to the people again once more!