Who modded this as offtopic? What the hell is wrong with you? A man described how the president's science advisor, who was directly mentioned in the article, used to be President of a university and how he seemed to be a nice guy. And someone thinks it's offtopic? What the hell article were you reading? Pull your head out and quit modding things down and work on modding the good posts up. I know, it's more fun to criticize, right? Makes you feel real big. Try complimenting for once rather than cutting down. You might be surprised at how better it feels and how much better people react to you as well.
How is it further proof they should have let it go? Lindows has made themselves look ridiculous in the eyes of anyone who takes an objective and reasoned viewpoint to this whole situation.
"Keep it up Microsoft... one of these shots in the foot will keep you from walking!"
They've got more feet than you can imagine and even if they have to resort to crawling, they'll still surpass distros like Lindows who pull childish things like this.
...I'm going home. They come across like Cartman when things don't go his way. This is a rather childish move and it's moves like this that will not get them adopted in the corporate world and this is definitely not a distribution I'd recommend to my friends/family no matter how great it may be.
That everyone here so far has said "This is hilarious! I love it!" shows the immaturity of them and that they don't realize that there is a time and place for humour like this. The time and place is internally. It's not in a public "rebranding" moment. I hope that this is a joke b/c otherwise it's shown Lindows as being more childish than MS over this name clash issue.
So that means I'm able to post my disagreement about continually posting the idea for what is now in my mind, and the minds of a lot more people, a quick karma boost. How can a continually repeated post get modded as "insightful" when it's been repeated ad naeseum? The idea of an insight is very few people have thought of this before. There is a "redundant" mod type though. Maybe people should use that in the right circumstances more often.
"We haven't seen much response from Microsoft about the source leak"
Do you want them to start a blog? Of course they're not saying much b/c it's an internal matter that is currently under investigation. You know when police say "The investigation is underway at this time and I can't comment on it"? Same situation. They aren't going to jump the gun with anything though they have posted how it's not related to the Shared Source initiative which may dissuage arguments that it was done to discredit the open source model.
Come on, who keeps modding this stuff as insightful? It's been beaten to death. Personally I don't agree with the conspiracy theory but that's irrelevant. This was mentioned many times in the first article
No I wouldn't. But not b/c it was driven by O.J. It's b/c I think it's a piece of crap vehicle. I thought so even before he took off on his wonder chase in it so that didn't sway my opinion at all.
Insightful? How about redundant? This comment is made over and over in the original article and that was back when people thought the entire code was leaked. Not just a leak of service pack code.
They were a victim. They can't say "See, open source is bad because all these new viruses are made because our source was leaked" b/c only a gajillionth of the source code was leaked and they've had plenty of viruses before this leak. The amount of code leaked can't give any weight behind a claim like that.
"File-sharing is bad because this is how this is moving around the internet"
Well...if it was a Linux computer then they should damn well say so. You know it would come out as being "off a Windows pc" if that was the case.
"' a red ford suv ran over the child '"
How is that bad? If you think it implies that people will start thinking that red ford suv's kill people, then that's just ridiculous. People tend to be ignorant but not that ignorant.
"' the gun killed the intruder '"
I generally hear "the intruder was shot" or "he killed the intruder with a gun". I don't often hear the phrase you used and if I do it's from some stupid media source that nobody important ever puts any credence to.
Completely mocking hollywood? I call that a good episode. Well, the ass wagging thing didn't make a whole lot of sense unless it was symbolic of them mooning the movie industry;)
Geez, for a second here I was expecting a short video at the end of this guy chanting "Mozilla! Mozilla! Mozilla!".
This was not news. To pretty much anybody here it isn't anyways. What did it say? "Mozilla has turned a corner". Yeah, it turned that corner a little while ago and is now accelerating out of the turn.
I don't want to take anything away from the mozilla devs. I use firebird (haven't upgraded to firefox yet) as my primary and have for the last year or so. However this was nothing short of a fluff article with no real substance behind it. It might as well have just been a post by some random person here.
Actually some of my fondest memories of college do involve spending 48 hours coding on a big project. Or those nights you and a bunch of friends are hanging out in the lab getting work done and having a good time joking around, running out to 7-11 for slurpies and chicken kebobs at 4 am.
Not everyone feels getting plastered and passing out is a "good time". I did my share of partying too but I didn't spend all my time talking on the porcelain telephone or waking up asking "Dude, what happened last night".
Out of genuine curiosity, what are the uses of having wifi access at the gates? I can see in the food court to an extent where people might want to quickly browse or catch up on email while grabbing lunch before/between flights but are there really things that are that necessary we need to quickly get out on the net while at the gate?
No offense but who the f*** are you to say what BBC knows and what they don't. I'm not saying it wasn't deliberate but don't stand there and claim it was just b/c it left out something that would make ms look bad. Get over it for cripes sake. You probably think when it rains out it's a conspiracy set up by car wash owners.
Good stuff:) And true enough. But basically all four of the rules are pretty straight forward and don't have to be said. The problem is in an organization like that, they have to be said. Otherwise there's no accountability. If something goes wrong and they did no simulations then they can just say "Well, we never had that in our guidelines so we didn't do it". With it written down, now there is a accountability.
1) Would you like them to have bundled their own? Or would you like to remember this generally is a home-user oriented OS. 2) Again, home user oriented and I believe server editions have these capabilities. I could be wrong. 3) Not sure exactly what you mean here. Image editing? Graphics programming? Buy/download a program to do it. 4) Get a better network card. Seriously. XP has great hardware support. 5) Vendors usually provide *their* own tools to toy with *their* hardware to make it "optimal". 6) I am unable to optimally understand what your problem is. My hardware all runs fine and I don't have Microsoft written all over any of it. Actually, my ms gamepad is my worst piece of hardware. 7) Would you like them to bundle Word? 8) Home users have enough that when an error happens it can get reported and if you view those error dumps, they actually have a lot of info in them. There are various logs to view in the Computer Management area of Administrative Tools. 9) Granted. 10) What is it with wanting complete customization but also wanting standards compliance? Ok, so you can't customize every single bit of it, but you can customize a reasonable amount. An amount that say....a home user would like? Power users can find those tools easily enough. 11) You're right. You can't get it all for free. Bummer. Some people need to live. 12) It's their problem you can't admin your machine? 13) I don't know about that. Get SP1 and that takes care of a lot and it's not a gig. It may be large but not that large. 14) Why would you install drivers and then....update from old drivers??? 15) So....you had a system that you could then customize to your own working environment? Sounds ok to me.
"Then, Microsoft goes and strips so much "functionality" from Windows XP to publicly admit it's "crippled"?"
Well, I think "crippled" is the term everyone else is using. "Functionally insuperior" might have better marketing spin. Or "function impaired". Or maybe "functionally disabled". Or maybe "Windows ME".
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Who modded this as offtopic? What the hell is wrong with you? A man described how the president's science advisor, who was directly mentioned in the article, used to be President of a university and how he seemed to be a nice guy. And someone thinks it's offtopic? What the hell article were you reading? Pull your head out and quit modding things down and work on modding the good posts up. I know, it's more fun to criticize, right? Makes you feel real big. Try complimenting for once rather than cutting down. You might be surprised at how better it feels and how much better people react to you as well.
Kudos to the other mods who gave him points.
Then why wouldn't the non-drunk just be driving in the first damned place
And he was pointing out that the last licence was incompatible as well so that this isn't a completely new issue.
How is it further proof they should have let it go? Lindows has made themselves look ridiculous in the eyes of anyone who takes an objective and reasoned viewpoint to this whole situation.
"Keep it up Microsoft... one of these shots in the foot will keep you from walking!"
They've got more feet than you can imagine and even if they have to resort to crawling, they'll still surpass distros like Lindows who pull childish things like this.
...I'm going home. They come across like Cartman when things don't go his way. This is a rather childish move and it's moves like this that will not get them adopted in the corporate world and this is definitely not a distribution I'd recommend to my friends/family no matter how great it may be.
That everyone here so far has said "This is hilarious! I love it!" shows the immaturity of them and that they don't realize that there is a time and place for humour like this. The time and place is internally. It's not in a public "rebranding" moment. I hope that this is a joke b/c otherwise it's shown Lindows as being more childish than MS over this name clash issue.
"You don't agree and the idea's old... so what?"
So that means I'm able to post my disagreement about continually posting the idea for what is now in my mind, and the minds of a lot more people, a quick karma boost. How can a continually repeated post get modded as "insightful" when it's been repeated ad naeseum? The idea of an insight is very few people have thought of this before. There is a "redundant" mod type though. Maybe people should use that in the right circumstances more often.
"We haven't seen much response from Microsoft about the source leak"
Do you want them to start a blog? Of course they're not saying much b/c it's an internal matter that is currently under investigation. You know when police say "The investigation is underway at this time and I can't comment on it"? Same situation. They aren't going to jump the gun with anything though they have posted how it's not related to the Shared Source initiative which may dissuage arguments that it was done to discredit the open source model.
Come on, who keeps modding this stuff as insightful? It's been beaten to death. Personally I don't agree with the conspiracy theory but that's irrelevant. This was mentioned many times in the first article
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No I wouldn't. But not b/c it was driven by O.J. It's b/c I think it's a piece of crap vehicle. I thought so even before he took off on his wonder chase in it so that didn't sway my opinion at all.
Insightful? How about redundant? This comment is made over and over in the original article and that was back when people thought the entire code was leaked. Not just a leak of service pack code.
They were a victim. They can't say "See, open source is bad because all these new viruses are made because our source was leaked" b/c only a gajillionth of the source code was leaked and they've had plenty of viruses before this leak. The amount of code leaked can't give any weight behind a claim like that.
"File-sharing is bad because this is how this is moving around the internet"
That's stretching it a bit don't you think?
Well...if it was a Linux computer then they should damn well say so. You know it would come out as being "off a Windows pc" if that was the case.
"' a red ford suv ran over the child '"
How is that bad? If you think it implies that people will start thinking that red ford suv's kill people, then that's just ridiculous. People tend to be ignorant but not that ignorant.
"' the gun killed the intruder '"
I generally hear "the intruder was shot" or "he killed the intruder with a gun". I don't often hear the phrase you used and if I do it's from some stupid media source that nobody important ever puts any credence to.
Get over it.
"Their actions I take as a direct threat to my source of income"
Get over it drama queen.
"Either this is a non-story, or it is woefully misdirected."
This is slashdot so I'll go with the woefully misdirected one.
Completely mocking hollywood? I call that a good episode. Well, the ass wagging thing didn't make a whole lot of sense unless it was symbolic of them mooning the movie industry ;)
Geez, for a second here I was expecting a short video at the end of this guy chanting "Mozilla! Mozilla! Mozilla!".
This was not news. To pretty much anybody here it isn't anyways. What did it say? "Mozilla has turned a corner". Yeah, it turned that corner a little while ago and is now accelerating out of the turn.
I don't want to take anything away from the mozilla devs. I use firebird (haven't upgraded to firefox yet) as my primary and have for the last year or so. However this was nothing short of a fluff article with no real substance behind it. It might as well have just been a post by some random person here.
Actually some of my fondest memories of college do involve spending 48 hours coding on a big project. Or those nights you and a bunch of friends are hanging out in the lab getting work done and having a good time joking around, running out to 7-11 for slurpies and chicken kebobs at 4 am.
Not everyone feels getting plastered and passing out is a "good time". I did my share of partying too but I didn't spend all my time talking on the porcelain telephone or waking up asking "Dude, what happened last night".
True enough. I guess i'm a bit short-sighted today. It happens :) And no, i've never been much of a traveler. I've been on 2 planes, both for pleasure.
Out of genuine curiosity, what are the uses of having wifi access at the gates? I can see in the food court to an extent where people might want to quickly browse or catch up on email while grabbing lunch before/between flights but are there really things that are that necessary we need to quickly get out on the net while at the gate?
Now there you go again..........assuming the editors are thinking when they post stuff ;)
"Thats not bad reporting, its deliberate."
No offense but who the f*** are you to say what BBC knows and what they don't. I'm not saying it wasn't deliberate but don't stand there and claim it was just b/c it left out something that would make ms look bad. Get over it for cripes sake. You probably think when it rains out it's a conspiracy set up by car wash owners.
Good stuff :) And true enough. But basically all four of the rules are pretty straight forward and don't have to be said. The problem is in an organization like that, they have to be said. Otherwise there's no accountability. If something goes wrong and they did no simulations then they can just say "Well, we never had that in our guidelines so we didn't do it". With it written down, now there is a accountability.
"Well, my response was "Hey boss, take your agreement and park it, up left and sideways.""
Well isn't that a wonderful way to deal with problems. "I don't agree with this so shove it". Geez, did you go sulk in the corner after too?
1) Would you like them to have bundled their own? Or would you like to remember this generally is a home-user oriented OS.
2) Again, home user oriented and I believe server editions have these capabilities. I could be wrong.
3) Not sure exactly what you mean here. Image editing? Graphics programming? Buy/download a program to do it.
4) Get a better network card. Seriously. XP has great hardware support.
5) Vendors usually provide *their* own tools to toy with *their* hardware to make it "optimal".
6) I am unable to optimally understand what your problem is. My hardware all runs fine and I don't have Microsoft written all over any of it. Actually, my ms gamepad is my worst piece of hardware.
7) Would you like them to bundle Word?
8) Home users have enough that when an error happens it can get reported and if you view those error dumps, they actually have a lot of info in them. There are various logs to view in the Computer Management area of Administrative Tools.
9) Granted.
10) What is it with wanting complete customization but also wanting standards compliance? Ok, so you can't customize every single bit of it, but you can customize a reasonable amount. An amount that say....a home user would like? Power users can find those tools easily enough.
11) You're right. You can't get it all for free. Bummer. Some people need to live.
12) It's their problem you can't admin your machine?
13) I don't know about that. Get SP1 and that takes care of a lot and it's not a gig. It may be large but not that large.
14) Why would you install drivers and then....update from old drivers???
15) So....you had a system that you could then customize to your own working environment? Sounds ok to me.
"Then, Microsoft goes and strips so much "functionality" from Windows XP to publicly admit it's "crippled"?"
Well, I think "crippled" is the term everyone else is using. "Functionally insuperior" might have better marketing spin. Or "function impaired". Or maybe "functionally disabled". Or maybe "Windows ME".
"from the 3rd paragraph"
from the 3rd last paragraph, I meant
That's not really a little more. It's practically the same thing, though slightly shorter, with altered wording in a few choice places.
For example, the 2nd last paragraph in your text is straight from the 3rd paragraph of the article from the Bangkok Post.
The only difference in yours really is the middle paragraph which basically puts out some unfounded conjecture.