This woman is an idiot. Really, what would the warning labels say? "Warning:Depressed teenagers may commit suicide"? How about "Warning:Those who cannot discern fantasy from reality should avoid fantasy"? That's almost as dumb as demanding condoms have warning labels -- I'm certain sex has caused more suicides by far than a game for obsessive RPG addicts.
I've already mentioned it in this thread, but K-Meleon is a good, fast browser. It uses the Mozilla rendering engine, but slimmed down somewhat. I'd say it's as fast as a much less capable browser.:)
If you want a light browser for windows(noting "my linux boxes" probably means you use Windows somewhere), try K-Meleon. I find it renders pages much more nicely than Opera, and it's quite fast, even though I have no RAM to speak of.:)
Could you point me to where this is? If It's truly against the EULA, I'd like to know, at least to inform my employers(who use just that combination) of this!
Yes. When somebody pirates a piece of software, and doesn't pay for it despite finding it useful, it's the developers fault for not trusting the user in the first place. I agree fully...
I've found that the CCNA is nothing more than a pain in the ass to get for any person with experience. You read the curriculum, and you end up hearing yourself saying things like "what does that have to do with networking?", and "wait...that isn't nessessarily the correct answer..." all the time. Honestly, does it matter that much in the grand scheme of things if you know what marketing thinks functionallity, scalability, manageability, and flexibility mean? Or all the major port numbers(I personally just look them up...)? Even having to memorize router commands is really sort of a waste of time -- just hit ? and what you should be typing will show up. Easy, no?
at 500,000 light years, the star isn't close enough to do any damage. They're not saying "it won't happen for 500,000 years", they're saying "it won't happen again. The next nearest star is too far away."
...And when linux, with it's faults, is Microsofts nearest competitor in the OS market, and, despite being completely free, is still hurting badly in market share, the market has failed.
Way to get an ignorant stab at linux there. Despite the fact that you obviously have no clue what I just said up there, good work. So what if I was talking about market forces and not Linux. Good work nonetheless. Maybe while you are bitching about Linux's terrible UI, you could check out the other OS I mentioned? BeOS blows Windows away in the UI department, especially in terms of consistency. It's just that ignorant folks like you assume that every alternate OS out there uses a 9x shell lookalike.
My point, all I'm saying, the reason I wrote all that junk, is that the state of the industry makes it a very fragile business, staying above water, these days in the tech industry. Whether or not my predictions are correct, they certainly have been proven accurate in the past with MSs other competitors(most of whom are long dead). Sure, it's easy to say that Java will survive, but in practice, something like this is often enough to put a competitor over the edge. It's foolish to be saying that sun shouldn't be suing, since they are among the oldest survivors of this fight.
Maybe I'm just too cynical in the market after seeing so many promising platforms taken out by MS. It does seem to me that the only way to survive in this marketplace after you've been targetted by MS.
First they sued so that Microsoft wouldn't include Java in the OS, and now they're suing because they didn't.
No, first they sued MS because MS was trying to pull and "embrace and extend" on their language. MS is famous for this tactic, of embracing a standard, then extending it to be a MS only standard. If they hadn't sued then, Java wouldn't exist in a form we'd recognise today.
Now, they sue MS for removing Java from their OS because it's obviously meant as a way to destroy Java. MS is trying to displace Java using their.Net architecture and C#. Once again, if they don't sue, Java will not exist in a form we can recognise in the future.
They became a strong competitor by staying under MSs radar. Now that they are one, it is only intervention by the US Government which keeps them from being taken out by MS.
I know in your little world of Linux, KDE, StarOffice, where you don't have to put food on the table, and MS isn't trying to destroy you at every turn, it's easy to say "oh, those competitors are just poor losers! They shouldn't try to sue anyone!". In the real world, when one company has a hugely unfair advantage over it's competitors, those competitors can't just lay down and say die. They must use whatever force, including the courts, to survive.
KDE and GNOME exist outside of the market. They exist outside of the market due to the problems of competiting commercially against the "most compatible" player. No gratis-ware can be used to refute the existence of a monopoly. The fact that gratis-ware is the most likely competition against the market leader is infact a demonstration that the market leader enjoys a monopoly as defined by the Sherman Act.
I was suprised when I read this. It's not often an attitude shown on slashdot, but it is true. When it takes a completely free OS, with tons of completely free Applications, and free access to the source code of all these Applications, to get a tiny 1% market share, the market has failed miserably. I have tremendous respect for Linux and it's supporting projects, but it isn't a good example of how the market isn't being monopolized. BeOS, a commercial project which showed incredible potential, and had even met some of that potential(and I'm running it right now), on the other hand, is a good example of how it is monopolized.
How about fraud, like when Bill Gates told IBM that he had an OS ready for the IBM XT when he didn't, so he went out and bought QDOS? How about purjury, a crime which they have admitted to, in the videos showing Windows 98 falling apart (supposedly without IE), where the tapes were just faked.
The reason for this antitrust suit is that the consumer doesn't have a choice. If the collective consciousness of the US were to decide that Microsoft were terrorists or something tomorrow, there wouldn't be a consumer-level OS waiting for them. MS killed them all. Now they have a huge market share, and they continue to use the same tactics to quash competition, and there are foolish naieve fools like yourself going "why? They commited no crime! Why are they being punished for being successful?"
Just FYI(and I don't mean to sound pretentious in using that phrase, I really just want to let you know), K-Meleon is a very, very nice browser. It's a 3 megabyte download, it uses the Mozilla rendering engine, and it's quite fast, and has a tiny memory footprint. I use it on my laptop because IE sucks the life out of my 32 MBs of RAM. I think the URL is k-meleon.sourceforge.net... but I don't know for certain. there may not be a dash in there. I use it with 98lite to get a nice, light, fast, stable machine*.
*I know it may not seem possible with 98, but I've figured out that the core OS coders actually do make improvements, which are destroyed by the MS UI and marketing departments.
First things first -- the Apple chips are *NOT* RISC. Reduced Instruction Set Computing means that you have a processor with vary few instructions, and you let the compiler and ASM coder do the work. This leads to larger code and simpler, cooler running processors. The Apple CPU has a huge number of instructions, but most of those are designed to finish in one clock cycle. This makes that processor a SISC(Simple Intruction Set Computing) processor. Any RISC vs. CISC arguement is (and should be) lost in the light that both are merely models, and implementation is rarely, if ever pure.
As for your assertion that the quality of Apple computers, the speed of the G5, and the quality of MacOS 10 somehow mean that they will thrive in the marketplace, you are both ignorant and naieve. Welcome to the MS dominated marketplace. Innovation, and the idea that quality breeds sales, died years ago, along with such quality OSs as BeOS, OS/2 Warp, DR-DOS, CP/M, and even earlier incarnations of MacOS. This industry has proven that the one dominant product, once entrenched, will remain the dominant product, no matter how innovative, high quality, or impressive the competition, no matter how shoddy the dominant product. In this case, I see the rise of Linux as a sign of the destructive force of MS. It takes an OS whose structure is as cancerous as a starfish, where you can cut off an arm, and that arm will grow into a whole new creature, whose economic model is as painful, where companies literally give away their products *and* the blueprints to those products, and whose longevity has already been proven, where Linux has been in development far longer than Windows 9x(I believe it was first released in '91, and I used a UMSDOS version of slackware in '95, and X was well on it's way by then) to even exist on the same platform, let alone thrive. Apple is a special case -- they were able to get a large portion of their user-base a long time ago, when Apple was popular. Many users stick with apple because it is indeed a superior platform for many applications, but new users are few and far between.
Basically, you sound like I did about a year ago, but I was talking excitedly about BeOS R5 for the x86 platform. Be was a reality check -- no single company can compete in this marketplace. A painful lesson, but very true. Learn this quickly, and you may not be as hurt when the next Apple flops commercially, like every non-MS operating product before it.
I'd say that my site is pretty good design-wise. I tried to make the navigation as minimal and clean as possible, while still allowing it to be pleasing to the eye. I have gotten complaints about my background from colourblind folks though...
Artists get very, very little from the sales of their CDs. Perhaps you've heard about the many artists complaining about abuse by RIAA companies? The Courtney Love suit immediately comes to mind.
Don't give credit to Hackers for that version of Windows -- Microsoft is soley responsible for it. I don't think most IT or IS departments out there would put up with having to individually activate every copy in an enterprise network.
They can stick their copy protection into my PCs when they pry them from my cold dead hands. Pure and simple. The whole media industry can go to hell for all the stuff they've tried to pull. They already don't deserve the rights they have(see: 150 year copyright terms, DMCA style laws, huge media ogliopoly, ability to buy as many laws as they'd like), I'm obviously not in favour of giving them more.
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This woman is an idiot. Really, what would the warning labels say? "Warning:Depressed teenagers may commit suicide"? How about "Warning:Those who cannot discern fantasy from reality should avoid fantasy"? That's almost as dumb as demanding condoms have warning labels -- I'm certain sex has caused more suicides by far than a game for obsessive RPG addicts.
however, since there are many english-speaking nations over the world, the word "international" still applies.
Where does the late PCXL fall into this 90/10 rule?
I've already mentioned it in this thread, but K-Meleon is a good, fast browser. It uses the Mozilla rendering engine, but slimmed down somewhat. I'd say it's as fast as a much less capable browser. :)
If you want a light browser for windows(noting "my linux boxes" probably means you use Windows somewhere), try K-Meleon. I find it renders pages much more nicely than Opera, and it's quite fast, even though I have no RAM to speak of. :)
kmeleon.sourceforge.net
Could you point me to where this is? If It's truly against the EULA, I'd like to know, at least to inform my employers(who use just that combination) of this!
Yes. When somebody pirates a piece of software, and doesn't pay for it despite finding it useful, it's the developers fault for not trusting the user in the first place. I agree fully...
/me smiles and nods, while slowly backing away.
I've found that the CCNA is nothing more than a pain in the ass to get for any person with experience. You read the curriculum, and you end up hearing yourself saying things like "what does that have to do with networking?", and "wait...that isn't nessessarily the correct answer..." all the time. Honestly, does it matter that much in the grand scheme of things if you know what marketing thinks functionallity, scalability, manageability, and flexibility mean? Or all the major port numbers(I personally just look them up...)? Even having to memorize router commands is really sort of a waste of time -- just hit ? and what you should be typing will show up. Easy, no?
Oh man. That's funny. You either have a fantastic sense of humor or a terrible hatred for the world. :)
I tried their voice recognition.
:)
It's a lot like this.
Me: "Testing, 1, 2, 3 period. This is a cool technology which lets be dictate letters."
It: "...And when the third ring falls, the enemy of technology witches will dictate the letters of accord"
Whoah. I think that it's not so much voice recognition as nostrodamus emulation.
at 500,000 light years, the star isn't close enough to do any damage. They're not saying "it won't happen for 500,000 years", they're saying "it won't happen again. The next nearest star is too far away."
...And when linux, with it's faults, is Microsofts nearest competitor in the OS market, and, despite being completely free, is still hurting badly in market share, the market has failed.
Way to get an ignorant stab at linux there. Despite the fact that you obviously have no clue what I just said up there, good work. So what if I was talking about market forces and not Linux. Good work nonetheless. Maybe while you are bitching about Linux's terrible UI, you could check out the other OS I mentioned? BeOS blows Windows away in the UI department, especially in terms of consistency. It's just that ignorant folks like you assume that every alternate OS out there uses a 9x shell lookalike.
My point, all I'm saying, the reason I wrote all that junk, is that the state of the industry makes it a very fragile business, staying above water, these days in the tech industry. Whether or not my predictions are correct, they certainly have been proven accurate in the past with MSs other competitors(most of whom are long dead). Sure, it's easy to say that Java will survive, but in practice, something like this is often enough to put a competitor over the edge. It's foolish to be saying that sun shouldn't be suing, since they are among the oldest survivors of this fight.
Maybe I'm just too cynical in the market after seeing so many promising platforms taken out by MS. It does seem to me that the only way to survive in this marketplace after you've been targetted by MS.
Maybe I'm just getting old.
First they sued so that Microsoft wouldn't include Java in the OS, and now they're suing because they didn't.
.Net architecture and C#. Once again, if they don't sue, Java will not exist in a form we can recognise in the future.
No, first they sued MS because MS was trying to pull and "embrace and extend" on their language. MS is famous for this tactic, of embracing a standard, then extending it to be a MS only standard. If they hadn't sued then, Java wouldn't exist in a form we'd recognise today.
Now, they sue MS for removing Java from their OS because it's obviously meant as a way to destroy Java. MS is trying to displace Java using their
They became a strong competitor by staying under MSs radar. Now that they are one, it is only intervention by the US Government which keeps them from being taken out by MS.
I know in your little world of Linux, KDE, StarOffice, where you don't have to put food on the table, and MS isn't trying to destroy you at every turn, it's easy to say "oh, those competitors are just poor losers! They shouldn't try to sue anyone!". In the real world, when one company has a hugely unfair advantage over it's competitors, those competitors can't just lay down and say die. They must use whatever force, including the courts, to survive.
KDE and GNOME exist outside of the market. They exist outside of the market due to the problems of competiting commercially against the "most compatible" player. No gratis-ware can be used to refute the existence of a monopoly. The fact that gratis-ware is the most likely competition against the market leader is infact a demonstration that the market leader enjoys a monopoly as defined by the Sherman Act.
I was suprised when I read this. It's not often an attitude shown on slashdot, but it is true. When it takes a completely free OS, with tons of completely free Applications, and free access to the source code of all these Applications, to get a tiny 1% market share, the market has failed miserably. I have tremendous respect for Linux and it's supporting projects, but it isn't a good example of how the market isn't being monopolized. BeOS, a commercial project which showed incredible potential, and had even met some of that potential(and I'm running it right now), on the other hand, is a good example of how it is monopolized.
How about fraud, like when Bill Gates told IBM that he had an OS ready for the IBM XT when he didn't, so he went out and bought QDOS? How about purjury, a crime which they have admitted to, in the videos showing Windows 98 falling apart (supposedly without IE), where the tapes were just faked.
The reason for this antitrust suit is that the consumer doesn't have a choice. If the collective consciousness of the US were to decide that Microsoft were terrorists or something tomorrow, there wouldn't be a consumer-level OS waiting for them. MS killed them all. Now they have a huge market share, and they continue to use the same tactics to quash competition, and there are foolish naieve fools like yourself going "why? They commited no crime! Why are they being punished for being successful?"
Just FYI(and I don't mean to sound pretentious in using that phrase, I really just want to let you know), K-Meleon is a very, very nice browser. It's a 3 megabyte download, it uses the Mozilla rendering engine, and it's quite fast, and has a tiny memory footprint. I use it on my laptop because IE sucks the life out of my 32 MBs of RAM. I think the URL is k-meleon.sourceforge.net ... but I don't know for certain. there may not be a dash in there. I use it with 98lite to get a nice, light, fast, stable machine*.
*I know it may not seem possible with 98, but I've figured out that the core OS coders actually do make improvements, which are destroyed by the MS UI and marketing departments.
First things first -- the Apple chips are *NOT* RISC. Reduced Instruction Set Computing means that you have a processor with vary few instructions, and you let the compiler and ASM coder do the work. This leads to larger code and simpler, cooler running processors. The Apple CPU has a huge number of instructions, but most of those are designed to finish in one clock cycle. This makes that processor a SISC(Simple Intruction Set Computing) processor. Any RISC vs. CISC arguement is (and should be) lost in the light that both are merely models, and implementation is rarely, if ever pure.
As for your assertion that the quality of Apple computers, the speed of the G5, and the quality of MacOS 10 somehow mean that they will thrive in the marketplace, you are both ignorant and naieve. Welcome to the MS dominated marketplace. Innovation, and the idea that quality breeds sales, died years ago, along with such quality OSs as BeOS, OS/2 Warp, DR-DOS, CP/M, and even earlier incarnations of MacOS. This industry has proven that the one dominant product, once entrenched, will remain the dominant product, no matter how innovative, high quality, or impressive the competition, no matter how shoddy the dominant product. In this case, I see the rise of Linux as a sign of the destructive force of MS. It takes an OS whose structure is as cancerous as a starfish, where you can cut off an arm, and that arm will grow into a whole new creature, whose economic model is as painful, where companies literally give away their products *and* the blueprints to those products, and whose longevity has already been proven, where Linux has been in development far longer than Windows 9x(I believe it was first released in '91, and I used a UMSDOS version of slackware in '95, and X was well on it's way by then) to even exist on the same platform, let alone thrive. Apple is a special case -- they were able to get a large portion of their user-base a long time ago, when Apple was popular. Many users stick with apple because it is indeed a superior platform for many applications, but new users are few and far between.
Basically, you sound like I did about a year ago, but I was talking excitedly about BeOS R5 for the x86 platform. Be was a reality check -- no single company can compete in this marketplace. A painful lesson, but very true. Learn this quickly, and you may not be as hurt when the next Apple flops commercially, like every non-MS operating product before it.
I'd say that my site is pretty good design-wise. I tried to make the navigation as minimal and clean as possible, while still allowing it to be pleasing to the eye. I have gotten complaints about my background from colourblind folks though...
Artists get very, very little from the sales of their CDs. Perhaps you've heard about the many artists complaining about abuse by RIAA companies? The Courtney Love suit immediately comes to mind.
Besides tapes? or learning to play Guitar? or VCRs?
I'm pretty sure the MPAA and RIAA have attacked all of these at some point.
"Stop him! He knows how to sing! He'll circumvent our copyrights!"
Don't give credit to Hackers for that version of Windows -- Microsoft is soley responsible for it. I don't think most IT or IS departments out there would put up with having to individually activate every copy in an enterprise network.
They can stick their copy protection into my PCs when they pry them from my cold dead hands. Pure and simple. The whole media industry can go to hell for all the stuff they've tried to pull. They already don't deserve the rights they have(see: 150 year copyright terms, DMCA style laws, huge media ogliopoly, ability to buy as many laws as they'd like), I'm obviously not in favour of giving them more.
This would be used to create a whole new generation of Apple paraphenalia.
The new: iCar!
The exciting: iBoat!
The unbelieveable: iRoof!
The possibilities are endless, with our strong, clear steel!