Yeah, you forgot to mention the chaos that has ensued since the domain name registrar monopoly was abolished. Check the archives of Wired....domain hijaakings, concurrency problems between registrar databases, etc.
Breaking a monopoly would increase competition? Maybe, but probably not in this case. The reason people don't go out and replace MS Office and windows with Star Office and Linux is simply because it fricking sucks. The reason why people like IE better than Netscrape is because IE has a lot more capabilities.
What probably will happen is that many businesses, including the ones that many Slashdot readers work for, will face a crisis. It may no longer be easy to get support or technical information for MS software. The office suites that integrate well with their Exchange servers will eventually cease to integrate well, and we'll be back to filing cabinets and paper trails.
Will this benefit the Linux community? Probably not as much as all the diode-heads on here think. Linux and open source is still run by a bunch of techies. There is too much for your average MBA/CEO/CFO to grok now that they are used to doing it the MS way. They still won't be able to find companies that will install Linux served LANs, and they won't be able to find competent sys admins. Linux will remain what it is today: either a hobby or a tool for the technically competent.
Yeah, ok, everyone may think MS is the big evil because, "They don't let us see their code!" Whine. Whine. Whine.
I have always been of the opinion that this whole idea of letting a lot of people look at code to keeps out bugs was a total joke. I'm sorry, if I had to trust a programmer that had the skills I did 10 years ago to maintain a piece of code, let alone to develop an algorithm that performed better than exponential time, I'd have a lot of problems on my hands today. The fact is, any monkey can learn a programming language. Any monkey can write an algorithm that "works." This "hole" just goes to prove the point. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't generalize this incompetence to the point that I'd believe that every OS programmer is a monkey. Come on though, a fricking high school kid adding a k-k00l mod to a time critical application? I don't think so.
I saw a news report somewhere online that said that the authors of ILOVEYOU were, in effect, the best and most talented at the school they were from. I damn near spewed a mouth full of pepsi out my nose when the sudden laugh came upon me. If these guys are the brightest, I guess that we don't have to worry too much about info terrorism from the Phillipines.
Oh, yeah, and no one in the open source community ever steals anything. Oh, I guess since no one makes a profit with open source this means making your look-and-feel or semantics look like commercial stuff is ok.
Look at most popular window managers. They look less like X and more like Windows than anything. But, I guess its ok since they just switch around the meanings of the window controls and make the user interface a pain in the butt to use. It may look the same, but it works different, so, uh, "... we didn't steal anything."
How about making the lame ass teachers stop using the embarassment tactic to try to get kids to learn? I remember the thing I *HATED* most about school is that if you screwed up just a little bit, the teacher would make you an example in front of the class. I remember one time in junior high when I wrote on a photo copied handout the teacher was passing out when I was supposed to use my own paper. The fucker actually made a big deal of it and asked me, "Are you stupid or something?"
Given that my mother was as involved in what I was doing in school as she was, I never had too much problem with it. I think she convinced me that the teachers that did this BS and the kids that would use it as harassment ammunition were basically just morons that were unworthy of my attention. But think, what if she wasn't able to talk to me? Lets see....teacher belittles you in class, kids belittle you for same thing on playground....go back in class and get belittled some more from teacher, get beat up by other kids on way home from school while being taunted with what the teacher said that day. What fun....let me go home and get my dad's gun.
Its funny how the people running the schools all go on camera, scratch their heads in disbelief, and blame the parents of the kids. The morons running the schools are the problem. I don't know about other states or countries, but in California most of the teachers are there with an emergency credential. They get these emergency credentials and skip the whole post college part of the education that is supposed to prepare them for teaching. The schools recruit these losers since no one with a brain wants to take a teaching job for the crappy pay and mega-politics that it now involves. I remember my spanish teacher in HS telling us that he was at the top of his pay range after 20+ years of teaching. Where is the incentive to go through 4 years of college and start teaching?
So, this is why I play a woman in Quake3....I thought it was just because I thought it was funny when she dies and is spread eagle in front of your spectator view.
I always tell the other guys, "don't look too close, you might see my balls tucked up between my legs." hahaha
Well, I thought it was damn funny, but this guy is nothing but a pompous asshole looking for some sort of hacker glory or something. I bet he considers himself "smart" for doing this. So what, you can exploit someone elses IRC screw up with an IRC script that is faster than the op can type. IRC people are the dog shit of the internet. AOL people are the maggot infested dog shit of the internet. Pulling one over on the dog shit on the internet is not magic....it just means you smell like dog shit now because it is stuck to the bottom of your shoe.
Yeah, some dude who shaves his head once a week and was trained to fix only things covered in manuals would be an authority figure in this field. Did anyone ever consider that the navy's screw up with MS products might just have been due to the majority of mid-west morons that join up to avoid working at the lube rack?
Who was it that said, "Stupid is as stupid does."
If you don't like what you see on the highway, put your computer back in the box and take it back to the store damnit.
Yeah, at least they are known about. This just means you won't have to roll the dice and hope your Linux server doesn't have some odd anomoly at the worst possible time.
Slashdot not biased? Thats funny as hell. About a third of the stories posted here are anti-MS in some way or another. This is the result of a bunch of loose cannon Linux junkies with tunnel vision.
It is funny how easily this report was dismissed as BS by/.'s biased reporters. So what if MS was a founder? Why is it when someone starts talking true about the shortcomings of Linux that everyone is so eager to flame/discredit/disbelieve something that is true? Sure the shortcomings can be fixed, but that is the point - the shortcomings need to be fixed. What company wants to invest the time and money to do this? What company wants to rely on a bunch of weekend Codewarriors to hack out the code in a timely manner?
I think breaking up MS could put a nail in Linux's coffin. Take one big shark that can't move all that fast, break it up into a bunch of little pihranna's (sp?) and you'll see competition alright. You now have a bunch of other smaller companies creating closely integrated business solutions. You also have a bunch of small companies stealing ideas and creating their own standards. It will be utter chaos, but no - no one in the Linux/Open source community will believe this. Nothing could possibly be better than Linux and open source (sarcasm).
This is not surprising, and reeks of FUD and propaganda created by those who claim most bad press about Linux is FUD.
Considering anyone can run into the kernel code and hack away at any moment on a non-beta release of Linux, I guess it would turn back into beta in that particular installation.
I find it particularly funny that Linux people are so anti-MS, they don't even want to pay attention to the fact that there is always the right tool for the right job. Some jobs work better with Linux, some better with MS products.
You can rant a rage about MS all you want, but there are security issues in all OSes regardless of its lifecycle state. You can detect all detectable bugs, but you can't detect undetected bugs.
When you install Novell, you get to have CNEs hanging around your office. CNEs don't deserve to lick the dog shit off the bottom of my shoes. They must train CNEs how to dial phone numbers real fast because I've never seen a CNE that didn't spend 80% of the network installation time on the phone to tech support.
"If it doesn't work, call tech support (and wait on hold for a real long time while we help all the other CNE morons)."
Slashdot should have the smell of an old, smelly sneaker.
My wife is always complaining about how my shoes stink. I think other geek's wives that I know complain about it too. I guess coding makes your feet sweat alot.
I used to work for a company that did some research on data casting over TV signals. I was in the process of writing a Linux multicast router to get away from MS's Broadcast router. In the process, I discovered that all but the last octet of the source machine's address that is doing the data casting is masked in the data casted multicast packets. Considering that the broadcast router didn't appear to have a way to authenticate who was opening tunnels to it, someone could connect to the broadcasting machine and start their own datacast.
Imagine....your grandmother is watching TV with her WebTV unit and up pops a picture of a woman having sex with some animal. Fun.
I did a web search for "Leonardo" on Lycos and Yahoo....all I got were a bunch of Leonardo Di Caprio websites. Why don't they just go and sue that little fairy?
This reminds me of the series of Microsoft Bob jokes about lawsuits against guys named Bob.
No, there would be no way the entertainment industry could make a movie that deals with computers even a little bit true. I used to work in the entertainment industry - music studios, post production houses, and a production company. I got the hell out because they are all self centered morons (and programming pays a hell of a lot better than being a diode head in the 'biz). It payed the way through college to the point where I could get out.
A common factor among all places I worked in the 'biz is the proliferation of Macintoshes. When you see a Mac in a movie, it isn't because Apple placed it there; it is because they are making this stuff up from things that they know best. Another common denominator is they are usually AOL members. Does anyone see where this is going?
OK, I'm going to make a generalization here. If anyone doesn't like it, tough. People in the 'biz have Macintoshes because.....they don't really know what the computer can do to begin with! Yes, Macs are oversimplified toys for morons that just need a word processor, spread sheet, and graphical design tools. Don't get me wrong, a Mac in the right hands is as good a tool as any computer. I have always believed in using the right tool for the job, so the right tool in the case of a moron is a Mac. Lets face it, its simple as hell to use out of the box. Most Mac users throw away their OS disks and don't miss them for years.
So why can't Hollywood make a good computer movie? For the same reason someone comes to me.5 hours before a trade show is to begin and says, "Can you transfer this 40MB media presentation from my laptop to this computer hooked up to the big plasma monitors?" (All I had was pcAnywhere and a serial cable for "emergencies only") "Why can't you get it done before the show starts?" Hollywood is on the level of making Excel documents while trying to apeal to an audience that could make an interrupt handler for breakfast and code an OO B+Tree library by dinner time.
It might eventually be outdated, but probably not anytime in the near future. I prefer email since it is fast and my handwriting sucks, but I still have to use it to send check to pay the bills. There are also a great many people who will never own a computer in their lifetimes. Hey, there are still people around that have 8-track tape players and claim they don't need a CD player since the 8-track has all the music they want.
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Yeah, you forgot to mention the chaos that has ensued since the domain name registrar monopoly was abolished. Check the archives of Wired....domain hijaakings, concurrency problems between registrar databases, etc.
Breaking a monopoly would increase competition? Maybe, but probably not in this case. The reason people don't go out and replace MS Office and windows with Star Office and Linux is simply because it fricking sucks. The reason why people like IE better than Netscrape is because IE has a lot more capabilities.
What probably will happen is that many businesses, including the ones that many Slashdot readers work for, will face a crisis. It may no longer be easy to get support or technical information for MS software. The office suites that integrate well with their Exchange servers will eventually cease to integrate well, and we'll be back to filing cabinets and paper trails.
Will this benefit the Linux community? Probably not as much as all the diode-heads on here think. Linux and open source is still run by a bunch of techies. There is too much for your average MBA/CEO/CFO to grok now that they are used to doing it the MS way. They still won't be able to find companies that will install Linux served LANs, and they won't be able to find competent sys admins. Linux will remain what it is today: either a hobby or a tool for the technically competent.
Yeah, ok, everyone may think MS is the big evil because, "They don't let us see their code!" Whine. Whine. Whine.
I have always been of the opinion that this whole idea of letting a lot of people look at code to keeps out bugs was a total joke. I'm sorry, if I had to trust a programmer that had the skills I did 10 years ago to maintain a piece of code, let alone to develop an algorithm that performed better than exponential time, I'd have a lot of problems on my hands today. The fact is, any monkey can learn a programming language. Any monkey can write an algorithm that "works." This "hole" just goes to prove the point. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't generalize this incompetence to the point that I'd believe that every OS programmer is a monkey. Come on though, a fricking high school kid adding a k-k00l mod to a time critical application? I don't think so.
I saw a news report somewhere online that said that the authors of ILOVEYOU were, in effect, the best and most talented at the school they were from. I damn near spewed a mouth full of pepsi out my nose when the sudden laugh came upon me. If these guys are the brightest, I guess that we don't have to worry too much about info terrorism from the Phillipines.
What the hell? What frickin' victory? MS has a bug, and they are shit....someone finds a bug in Linux and...."its a victory?!?!"
What a joke. You Linux fanatics are nothing but propaganda lovers.
Oh, yeah, and no one in the open source community ever steals anything. Oh, I guess since no one makes a profit with open source this means making your look-and-feel or semantics look like commercial stuff is ok.
Look at most popular window managers. They look less like X and more like Windows than anything. But, I guess its ok since they just switch around the meanings of the window controls and make the user interface a pain in the butt to use. It may look the same, but it works different, so, uh, "... we didn't steal anything."
If MS had done this, all you Linux zealots would be strutting around, stroking yourselves and saying, "See, MS is evil!!!!"
You people are just plain funny.
How about making the lame ass teachers stop using the embarassment tactic to try to get kids to learn? I remember the thing I *HATED* most about school is that if you screwed up just a little bit, the teacher would make you an example in front of the class. I remember one time in junior high when I wrote on a photo copied handout the teacher was passing out when I was supposed to use my own paper. The fucker actually made a big deal of it and asked me, "Are you stupid or something?"
Given that my mother was as involved in what I was doing in school as she was, I never had too much problem with it. I think she convinced me that the teachers that did this BS and the kids that would use it as harassment ammunition were basically just morons that were unworthy of my attention. But think, what if she wasn't able to talk to me? Lets see....teacher belittles you in class, kids belittle you for same thing on playground....go back in class and get belittled some more from teacher, get beat up by other kids on way home from school while being taunted with what the teacher said that day. What fun....let me go home and get my dad's gun.
Its funny how the people running the schools all go on camera, scratch their heads in disbelief, and blame the parents of the kids. The morons running the schools are the problem. I don't know about other states or countries, but in California most of the teachers are there with an emergency credential. They get these emergency credentials and skip the whole post college part of the education that is supposed to prepare them for teaching. The schools recruit these losers since no one with a brain wants to take a teaching job for the crappy pay and mega-politics that it now involves. I remember my spanish teacher in HS telling us that he was at the top of his pay range after 20+ years of teaching. Where is the incentive to go through 4 years of college and start teaching?
So, this is why I play a woman in Quake3....I thought it was just because I thought it was funny when she dies and is spread eagle in front of your spectator view.
I always tell the other guys, "don't look too close, you might see my balls tucked up between my legs." hahaha
Well, I thought it was damn funny, but this guy is nothing but a pompous asshole looking for some sort of hacker glory or something. I bet he considers himself "smart" for doing this. So what, you can exploit someone elses IRC screw up with an IRC script that is faster than the op can type. IRC people are the dog shit of the internet. AOL people are the maggot infested dog shit of the internet. Pulling one over on the dog shit on the internet is not magic....it just means you smell like dog shit now because it is stuck to the bottom of your shoe.
Yeah, some dude who shaves his head once a week and was trained to fix only things covered in manuals would be an authority figure in this field. Did anyone ever consider that the navy's screw up with MS products might just have been due to the majority of mid-west morons that join up to avoid working at the lube rack?
Who was it that said, "Stupid is as stupid does."
If you don't like what you see on the highway, put your computer back in the box and take it back to the store damnit.
Yeah, at least they are known about. This just means you won't have to roll the dice and hope your Linux server doesn't have some odd anomoly at the worst possible time.
Slashdot not biased? Thats funny as hell. About a third of the stories posted here are anti-MS in some way or another. This is the result of a bunch of loose cannon Linux junkies with tunnel vision.
It is funny how easily this report was dismissed as BS by /.'s biased reporters. So what if MS was a founder? Why is it when someone starts talking true about the shortcomings of Linux that everyone is so eager to flame/discredit/disbelieve something that is true? Sure the shortcomings can be fixed, but that is the point - the shortcomings need to be fixed. What company wants to invest the time and money to do this? What company wants to rely on a bunch of weekend Codewarriors to hack out the code in a timely manner?
I think breaking up MS could put a nail in Linux's coffin. Take one big shark that can't move all that fast, break it up into a bunch of little pihranna's (sp?) and you'll see competition alright. You now have a bunch of other smaller companies creating closely integrated business solutions. You also have a bunch of small companies stealing ideas and creating their own standards. It will be utter chaos, but no - no one in the Linux/Open source community will believe this. Nothing could possibly be better than Linux and open source (sarcasm).
This is not surprising, and reeks of FUD and propaganda created by those who claim most bad press about Linux is FUD.
Considering anyone can run into the kernel code and hack away at any moment on a non-beta release of Linux, I guess it would turn back into beta in that particular installation.
I find it particularly funny that Linux people are so anti-MS, they don't even want to pay attention to the fact that there is always the right tool for the right job. Some jobs work better with Linux, some better with MS products.
You can rant a rage about MS all you want, but there are security issues in all OSes regardless of its lifecycle state. You can detect all detectable bugs, but you can't detect undetected bugs.
When you install Novell, you get to have CNEs hanging around your office. CNEs don't deserve to lick the dog shit off the bottom of my shoes. They must train CNEs how to dial phone numbers real fast because I've never seen a CNE that didn't spend 80% of the network installation time on the phone to tech support.
"If it doesn't work, call tech support (and wait on hold for a real long time while we help all the other CNE morons)."
Slashdot should have the smell of an old, smelly sneaker.
My wife is always complaining about how my shoes stink. I think other geek's wives that I know complain about it too. I guess coding makes your feet sweat alot.
I used to work for a company that did some research on data casting over TV signals. I was in the process of writing a Linux multicast router to get away from MS's Broadcast router. In the process, I discovered that all but the last octet of the source machine's address that is doing the data casting is masked in the data casted multicast packets. Considering that the broadcast router didn't appear to have a way to authenticate who was opening tunnels to it, someone could connect to the broadcasting machine and start their own datacast.
Imagine....your grandmother is watching TV with her WebTV unit and up pops a picture of a woman having sex with some animal. Fun.
I did a web search for "Leonardo" on Lycos and Yahoo....all I got were a bunch of Leonardo Di Caprio websites. Why don't they just go and sue that little fairy?
This reminds me of the series of Microsoft Bob jokes about lawsuits against guys named Bob.
No, there would be no way the entertainment industry could make a movie that deals with computers even a little bit true. I used to work in the entertainment industry - music studios, post production houses, and a production company. I got the hell out because they are all self centered morons (and programming pays a hell of a lot better than being a diode head in the 'biz). It payed the way through college to the point where I could get out.
.5 hours before a trade show is to begin and says, "Can you transfer this 40MB media presentation from my laptop to this computer hooked up to the big plasma monitors?" (All I had was pcAnywhere and a serial cable for "emergencies only") "Why can't you get it done before the show starts?" Hollywood is on the level of making Excel documents while trying to apeal to an audience that could make an interrupt handler for breakfast and code an OO B+Tree library by dinner time.
A common factor among all places I worked in the 'biz is the proliferation of Macintoshes. When you see a Mac in a movie, it isn't because Apple placed it there; it is because they are making this stuff up from things that they know best. Another common denominator is they are usually AOL members. Does anyone see where this is going?
OK, I'm going to make a generalization here. If anyone doesn't like it, tough. People in the 'biz have Macintoshes because.....they don't really know what the computer can do to begin with! Yes, Macs are oversimplified toys for morons that just need a word processor, spread sheet, and graphical design tools. Don't get me wrong, a Mac in the right hands is as good a tool as any computer. I have always believed in using the right tool for the job, so the right tool in the case of a moron is a Mac. Lets face it, its simple as hell to use out of the box. Most Mac users throw away their OS disks and don't miss them for years.
So why can't Hollywood make a good computer movie? For the same reason someone comes to me
It might eventually be outdated, but probably not anytime in the near future. I prefer email since it is fast and my handwriting sucks, but I still have to use it to send check to pay the bills. There are also a great many people who will never own a computer in their lifetimes. Hey, there are still people around that have 8-track tape players and claim they don't need a CD player since the 8-track has all the music they want.