Ummm... why would they need to connect to the internet to be presented with a choice? OEMs bundle 2nd and 3rd party software along with Windows. Just about every software OS / distribution vendor that I can think of has distributed 3rd party application software with their OS. What makes Microsoft any different, besides your perception of what they're willing to do to ensure the implementation of standards and interoperability with the rest of the computing world... oh, wait.
For example, Opera / Firefox / Galeon / Thunderbird / Chandler / whatever could be preinstalled, or available as installable packages. If, that is, Microsoft was really excited about standards and interoperability and choice. Choice, you'll note, is one of the things the platform prides itself on. They could be a leader for software choices on their platform, but they'd rather let 3rd parties discover markets for them that they can later try to gobble up. Set Program Access and Defaults isn't there because they thought it was a great idea. It's there because the antitrust verdict demanded it.
Like the grandparent poster said, imagine what the computing infrastructure would be like if Microsoft could change its behavior in this market. This time, use your imagination instead of your powers of logic and analysis.
I'd change an email client to respond with any message from certain folks I don't like to report all of their messages as spam to poison the social network. a couple of clients out there saying "yup, I've already got a message like that here, and my user marked it as spam".
think globally, act locally, right?
your boolean assumption is too simple.
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Safari is not open source. Webcore is. launchd is open source. bonjour is open source. darwin is open source and the license is OSI approved.
example 1 is a troll. it supports mp3. not free enough for you? it supports mp4 too. wait, that's a standard too. it's called aac. just wait for dvd jon to break the drm and never update quicktime again.
conformity is the mantra of support too. If things always look the same (and look good), it's easier to support. Check back in when you support 900 desktops and you think conformity in that regard is bad.
Unfortunately true. That's one of the larger failures of the darwin project. I don't remember why they can't open up the drivers; I don't recall if it's a broadcom driver copyright thing or what.
IANAL, but Spitzer has roughly similar powers to the Attorney general of the U.S. (can bring both civil and criminal cases to court), and I think most other state attorney generals don't have that power granted to them.
He has the authority to sue under N.Y. antitrust, civil, and criminal lawsuits. By bringing a civil suit, he can avoid the pitfall that Giulani's (the previous Attorney General) successes kind of missed -- In a criminal case, the companies could appeal, drag it out, and you allow an illegal activity to carry on longer.
Again, if I understand things, a civil suit allows a criminal suit to be brought later and offending companies are more likely to cave to a settlement instead of going for a potentially drastically more expensive and PR-costing 'innocence.'
But I'm not a lawyer and I might not understand things correctly.
Just hope that the lessons they learned in writing secure code for new features carries over into longhorn. If they didn't remember those lessons, it will just be more of the same -- worms, spyware, and the majestic history of viruses.
Part of me wants to say that an IP tax is a great idea. The other part of me wants to say that an IP tax, without IP reform, is just going to lead to higher costs that are passed on to "consumers."
I could support an IP tax, but only if it accompanied significantly citizen-positive IP reform as well.
Here's my guess: the problem with these words are that they're technical vocabulary.
How does the person that sits down in front of a computer know what a username is? They don't. It's a technical term that you and I know well, but the average user may not know. I don't know what the big nit is here; windows uses 'username' too. Maybe it should be two words... maybe he prefers 'account' instead. I dunno.
I'm guessing he would prefer the word 'restart' instead of 'reboot', since the average user will understand what 'restarting' something is, though they might not have technical knowledge of the boot process where the BIOS bootstraps the bootloader etc. It's a word that means the same thing but is more common to the average user.
You get cred for the vulnerability if you don't practice full disclosure, and wait until after the patch is released to disclose... that's been standard operating procedure at MS for a few years now, I think.
On Darwin, that would be netinfod and lookupd, though they encompass much more than just authentication. I know they're open sourced, but I don't know if they've been ported or not.
Sounds like somebody doesn't like the refreshing taste of Sprunk. That, or you've been buying clothes at the Zip (or maybe at the Gash) for too long.
the parody of ads (and especially in GTA3, the parody of radio culture as well) is what made the game #1 in its genre. I hope they stay away from real advertising -- would Sprite legal let you drive a car through its billboard? Sprunk's legal forces didn't care a whit.
P.S. -- it might not be good idea to advertise that you're in marketing on slashdot.
Some of us end up hampering bittorrent because we have very, very little bandwidth -- a single T1 for 900 computers, 800 employees, and who knows how many students.
Thank you for understanding, a k12 school sysadmin.
people tend to confuse "original" with "good", and seem intent on dragging the baggage of previous, shitty technologies into the digital age. Same story with vacuum tubes and audio equipment.
Others confuse "digital" with "good", and it looks like you've been hoisted on your own petard. Analog does not cut or blockify waveform signals. The "aural resolution" is basically infinite, and isn't that what it's about at the end of the day?
Riiiiiight... that's why I'm not eligible for vulnerability or bug-fix IOS / pix upgrades for fifty-odd bits of network eqpt. bought from Cisco unless we have current smartnets on everything.
That's not driven a decision driven by 100% focus on customer satisfaction. That's driven by extra sales, i.e. profit -- they used to let anyone download IOS updates for free, even if just on the sly. It's enough to make me wonder if their CEO is more of a salesperson than a tech guy...
I've read about projects that can use windows drivers. I think there's one for wireless adapters. This is probably a paid link anyway; sensationalist story to drive up the ad revenue. meh.
I'm glad to see someone on the left finally supporting totalitarian fascist dictatorial regimes!
Seriously... go read some Christopher Hitchens or something. There is a very real difference between corrupt business practices and the practices of totalitarian fascist regimes.
Yup, I looked at your Gateway link. $150 rebate, integrated video with shared memory (consume up to 1/4 of your main memory!), CD-ROM drive, roughly 18x (up to 26x) the volume of space taken up on the desk, monitor not included. If you don't see a $150 cost difference here, I'm glad you're not in this market. Enjoy your new Gateway!
$500 is pretty cheap for a comparable mini-itx system, which your comparison (if it's intended to be fair) should take note of. You always pay extra for miniaturization.
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Welcome to volume licensing with Microsoft. You pay for a license for anything capable of running Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, or UNIX.
Ummm... why would they need to connect to the internet to be presented with a choice? OEMs bundle 2nd and 3rd party software along with Windows. Just about every software OS / distribution vendor that I can think of has distributed 3rd party application software with their OS. What makes Microsoft any different, besides your perception of what they're willing to do to ensure the implementation of standards and interoperability with the rest of the computing world... oh, wait.
For example, Opera / Firefox / Galeon / Thunderbird / Chandler / whatever could be preinstalled, or available as installable packages. If, that is, Microsoft was really excited about standards and interoperability and choice. Choice, you'll note, is one of the things the platform prides itself on. They could be a leader for software choices on their platform, but they'd rather let 3rd parties discover markets for them that they can later try to gobble up. Set Program Access and Defaults isn't there because they thought it was a great idea. It's there because the antitrust verdict demanded it.
Like the grandparent poster said, imagine what the computing infrastructure would be like if Microsoft could change its behavior in this market. This time, use your imagination instead of your powers of logic and analysis.
To help prove your point, then there are those of us that download it once to distribute it out to 900 computers.
If I were a spammer:
I'd change an email client to respond with any message from certain folks I don't like to report all of their messages as spam to poison the social network. a couple of clients out there saying "yup, I've already got a message like that here, and my user marked it as spam".
think globally, act locally, right?
proprietary apple open
Safari is not open source. Webcore is.
launchd is open source.
bonjour is open source.
darwin is open source and the license is OSI approved.
example 1 is a troll. it supports mp3. not free enough for you? it supports mp4 too. wait, that's a standard too. it's called aac. just wait for dvd jon to break the drm and never update quicktime again.
conformity is the mantra of support too. If things always look the same (and look good), it's easier to support. Check back in when you support 900 desktops and you think conformity in that regard is bad.
IHBT
Unfortunately true. That's one of the larger failures of the darwin project. I don't remember why they can't open up the drivers; I don't recall if it's a broadcom driver copyright thing or what.
Wifi and bluetooth aren't built in. They're addons that cost money.
IANAL, but Spitzer has roughly similar powers to the Attorney general of the U.S. (can bring both civil and criminal cases to court), and I think most other state attorney generals don't have that power granted to them.
He has the authority to sue under N.Y. antitrust, civil, and criminal lawsuits. By bringing a civil suit, he can avoid the pitfall that Giulani's (the previous Attorney General) successes kind of missed -- In a criminal case, the companies could appeal, drag it out, and you allow an illegal activity to carry on longer.
Again, if I understand things, a civil suit allows a criminal suit to be brought later and offending companies are more likely to cave to a settlement instead of going for a potentially drastically more expensive and PR-costing 'innocence.'
But I'm not a lawyer and I might not understand things correctly.
Just hope that the lessons they learned in writing secure code for new features carries over into longhorn. If they didn't remember those lessons, it will just be more of the same -- worms, spyware, and the majestic history of viruses.
Part of me wants to say that an IP tax is a great idea. The other part of me wants to say that an IP tax, without IP reform, is just going to lead to higher costs that are passed on to "consumers."
I could support an IP tax, but only if it accompanied significantly citizen-positive IP reform as well.
Here's my guess: the problem with these words are that they're technical vocabulary.
How does the person that sits down in front of a computer know what a username is? They don't. It's a technical term that you and I know well, but the average user may not know. I don't know what the big nit is here; windows uses 'username' too. Maybe it should be two words... maybe he prefers 'account' instead. I dunno.
I'm guessing he would prefer the word 'restart' instead of 'reboot', since the average user will understand what 'restarting' something is, though they might not have technical knowledge of the boot process where the BIOS bootstraps the bootloader etc. It's a word that means the same thing but is more common to the average user.
You get cred for the vulnerability if you don't practice full disclosure, and wait until after the patch is released to disclose... that's been standard operating procedure at MS for a few years now, I think.
On Darwin, that would be netinfod and lookupd, though they encompass much more than just authentication. I know they're open sourced, but I don't know if they've been ported or not.
hth
Sounds like somebody doesn't like the refreshing taste of Sprunk. That, or you've been buying clothes at the Zip (or maybe at the Gash) for too long.
the parody of ads (and especially in GTA3, the parody of radio culture as well) is what made the game #1 in its genre. I hope they stay away from real advertising -- would Sprite legal let you drive a car through its billboard? Sprunk's legal forces didn't care a whit.
P.S. -- it might not be good idea to advertise that you're in marketing on slashdot.
Some of us end up hampering bittorrent because we have very, very little bandwidth -- a single T1 for 900 computers, 800 employees, and who knows how many students.
Thank you for understanding,
a k12 school sysadmin.
You assume that the cost of bandwidth scales linearly. Bear in mind that you are paying for a resold service, not the infrastructure cost.
people tend to confuse "original" with "good", and seem intent on dragging the baggage of previous, shitty technologies into the digital age. Same story with vacuum tubes and audio equipment.
Others confuse "digital" with "good", and it looks like you've been hoisted on your own petard. Analog does not cut or blockify waveform signals. The "aural resolution" is basically infinite, and isn't that what it's about at the end of the day?
Riiiiiight... that's why I'm not eligible for vulnerability or bug-fix IOS / pix upgrades for fifty-odd bits of network eqpt. bought from Cisco unless we have current smartnets on everything.
That's not driven a decision driven by 100% focus on customer satisfaction. That's driven by extra sales, i.e. profit -- they used to let anyone download IOS updates for free, even if just on the sly. It's enough to make me wonder if their CEO is more of a salesperson than a tech guy...
I've read about projects that can use windows drivers. I think there's one for wireless adapters. This is probably a paid link anyway; sensationalist story to drive up the ad revenue. meh.
I'm glad to see someone on the left finally supporting totalitarian fascist dictatorial regimes!
Seriously... go read some Christopher Hitchens or something. There is a very real difference between corrupt business practices and the practices of totalitarian fascist regimes.
"As long as they are done for the valid reasons and not due to political or personal reasons, they will thrive."
Heh, what about Theo's fork from NetBSD to create OpenBSD?
Yup, I looked at your Gateway link. $150 rebate, integrated video with shared memory (consume up to 1/4 of your main memory!), CD-ROM drive, roughly 18x (up to 26x) the volume of space taken up on the desk, monitor not included. If you don't see a $150 cost difference here, I'm glad you're not in this market. Enjoy your new Gateway!
$500 is pretty cheap for a comparable mini-itx system, which your comparison (if it's intended to be fair) should take note of. You always pay extra for miniaturization.
My hope is for something like wireless mesh networks on top of grain elevators for the rural farming areas... you can see them for miles.
they wanted me to ask if anyone can think of anything that rhymes with Rl'yeh.
a merry Cthulhu F'taghn to you all.
It can always be worse, he could have welcomed his new "anus overlord."