I think it is rediculous that Microsoft can continue it's monopolistic practices even after being deamed a monopoly. Hum, let's see, the browser wars are over, Media player is taking over, they are now making watches, pda's, cell phones, etc. Now they want to buy Google? I hope it never comes to that. I also hope that the people at Google are not that stupid. MS is locking out others from MSN Messenger, Office files, and the like. Any one who doesn't think they are hindering technologys growth doesn't know business. Competition breads innovation and at at rapid pace. MS = Shotty software at best and put out at a snails pace. Has anyone seen Anti-Trust? I could only hope MS would go down in flames like in the movie. We would all benifit in the long run. Expecially since we are now expected to pay more money for the OS and Office suite than the we are for the entire computer!
Well stated!!! I am sick of the people who comment on posts or post opionions themselves with little or no knowledge of the facts. I am sure opinion on any topic is more than welcome at any time, but some people feel that their opinion should matter and is correct. Even if they haven't the slightest knowledge in the subject or facts to back up their own opionions. I don't go to medical doctor forums and reply to some subject or post. Why? I don't have any knowledge of the facts so my opinion would be of absolute zero value. Most of the people on slashdot should follow one simple rule, Have an opionion? Share it. But don't comment on things you know absolutely nothing about. If you do comment,... raise ideas and comments as questions not as fact... unless the person can backup, or provide proof and/or data to support their possition.
I agree with you tremendously and feel that if this were a truely "moderated" forum, factless, baseless, pointless, posts would not appear or would appear as a different color. (for being baseless opinion and not "valid points for debate" with facts or statements that can be backed up in some way.) However great this would be, it is beyond the capabilities of anything but an extremely large company. The one simple thing would be to add an age range icon to each comment. So that I am not going to have to sit here and wonder if the guy/gal on the other end is just an idiot for his/her stupidity or is too young to have any large amount of knowledge of historic events. I am not age bias... I just believe that unless your truley gifted, a 12 year olds opinion is, on average, going to be more baseless than someone who was around during an event or time period.
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I think it is rediculous that Microsoft can continue it's monopolistic practices even after being deamed a monopoly. Hum, let's see, the browser wars are over, Media player is taking over, they are now making watches, pda's, cell phones, etc. Now they want to buy Google? I hope it never comes to that. I also hope that the people at Google are not that stupid. MS is locking out others from MSN Messenger, Office files, and the like. Any one who doesn't think they are hindering technologys growth doesn't know business. Competition breads innovation and at at rapid pace. MS = Shotty software at best and put out at a snails pace. Has anyone seen Anti-Trust? I could only hope MS would go down in flames like in the movie. We would all benifit in the long run. Expecially since we are now expected to pay more money for the OS and Office suite than the we are for the entire computer!
Well stated!!! I am sick of the people who comment on posts or post opionions themselves with little or no knowledge of the facts. I am sure opinion on any topic is more than welcome at any time, but some people feel that their opinion should matter and is correct. Even if they haven't the slightest knowledge in the subject or facts to back up their own opionions. I don't go to medical doctor forums and reply to some subject or post. Why? I don't have any knowledge of the facts so my opinion would be of absolute zero value. Most of the people on slashdot should follow one simple rule, Have an opionion? Share it. But don't comment on things you know absolutely nothing about. If you do comment,... raise ideas and comments as questions not as fact... unless the person can backup, or provide proof and/or data to support their possition.
I agree with you tremendously and feel that if this were a truely "moderated" forum, factless, baseless, pointless, posts would not appear or would appear as a different color. (for being baseless opinion and not "valid points for debate" with facts or statements that can be backed up in some way.) However great this would be, it is beyond the capabilities of anything but an extremely large company. The one simple thing would be to add an age range icon to each comment. So that I am not going to have to sit here and wonder if the guy/gal on the other end is just an idiot for his/her stupidity or is too young to have any large amount of knowledge of historic events. I am not age bias... I just believe that unless your truley gifted, a 12 year olds opinion is, on average, going to be more baseless than someone who was around during an event or time period.