"not being able to open that complex word attachment that your coworker mailed you"
many Windows users can't do that. Don't forget that Microsoft Works DOES NOT like Word files. I know of companies who standardized on Works to save money. They use Windows, but they don't use MS Office.
So, it seems this has nothing to do with Linux. It just has to do with whether or not they run the software YOU want them to run.
Most of these are solved by just using Mandrake, with the exception of commercial games.
I would have no qualms about giving Mandrake to someone not computer literate. In fact, I'd be more likely to give them Mandrake than Windows, since on Mandrake they are less likely to get viruses and spyware.
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Not always. I've run into programs that have a watcher on the registry, and then a watcher on the program watching the registry. AdAware didn't take it out. It took quite a while to find a program that could actuallly handle this bugger (NOTE - this was on a friend's machine - at least we were friends before he started wasting my time fixing his computer...)
The fun is actually just beginning, as Darl couldn't even convince his multimillion dollar legal team to show up for the judge. I think it was his brother who was making arguments, not Boies or even a Boies representative.
It looks like even the lawyers have left SCO for dead.
I disagree with the stance of finance theory, because there is a great big difference between simply losing your investment and losing all your personal assets, too. When you are in debt, you lose personal control - you are under control of the person you are indebted to. This is a qualitative, not quantitative, difference.
"VC is just a loan that you pay back with stock/IP"
Actually, equity financing is very different from loans. Basically, with loans if your business fails you still owe the money. With equity financing if your business fails you don't owe anything.
I'm not a big fan of debt. Equity financing, however, is an excellent way of doing things.
I don't understand the reference. How does respect for the law translate into loving Soviet Russia? I love freedom, but to have freedom you have to have boundaries. Unbounded freedom is not really free, only an illusion.
"in your view, is everyone who knowingly breaks the law a terrorist and / or a mobster?"
Everyone who teaches lawlessness as a way of life is equivalent to a mobster, yes. Basically what they are saying is their own rules outweigh anyone else's, period. They have no respect for the law at all. They differ from terrorists in that they have respect for human life.
There is a difference between intentionally breaking the law for a specific time and circumstance and teaching breaking laws as a valid method of operation. In the former, the act is judged and weighed, and in the latter the law simply does not matter except how someone might be punished.
I believe that supernatural explanations are complementary to scientific ones, not contradictory.
For example, did the man die because of massive head trauma caused by by a foreign object being implanted in the frontal lobe of his brain, or did he die because I killed him? One gives details and mechanism, the other gives purpose. Neither would be incorrect (well, actually, since I didn't kill anyone, they are both incorrect.)
"I should hope so. OO risks getting a black eye if they're missing that one big important feature."
No they aren't. If it's missing, they will tell Sun "Fix this", and they will. No big deal. That's why you have a vendor. People have been working with Microsoft so long that they forget that the vendor's job is to SERVE THE CUSTOMER'S NEEDS.
Apparently the market isn't so small as to, say, attract Sun and IBM to it.
The fact is that it's a legitimate market, which Microsoft was ignoring. If you are a big customer for someone, you have the right to ask for special things, especially if you are willing to pay for them. Microsoft has continually snubbed these kinds of requests, and basically said "you're going to do it our way".
Well, in this case, there was another vendor willing to take on what Microsoft refused to do, and they won the contract. They won future contracts too, on account of the fact that they, *gasp*, worked to solve the customer's problems, not just force the customer to do it their way.
'Face it: terrorists are terrorists, violent protestors are criminals, and peaceful protestors, whether they go to "training camps" or not, and even if they do non-violent, illegal things, are just civil annoyances given purpose.'
I guess I don't take the same view of organized crime that you do.
I do live in Tulsa. Send me an email and we'll have lunch sometime - johnnyb@eskimo.com.
I'm pretty poor, but I can usually splurge for Subway or McDonald's. I'm downtown, so my favorite place to eat is the Subway on 6th and Boulder.
By the way, in case you didn't know, we're having a Linux installfest at Hardesty library this Saturday from 10 AM to 12 PM - it's the new library at 93rd and Memorial. The more, the merrier - http://tulsa.sf.net/
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"not being able to open that complex word attachment that your coworker mailed you"
many Windows users can't do that. Don't forget that Microsoft Works DOES NOT like Word files. I know of companies who standardized on Works to save money. They use Windows, but they don't use MS Office.
So, it seems this has nothing to do with Linux. It just has to do with whether or not they run the software YOU want them to run.
Most of these are solved by just using Mandrake, with the exception of commercial games.
I would have no qualms about giving Mandrake to someone not computer literate. In fact, I'd be more likely to give them Mandrake than Windows, since on Mandrake they are less likely to get viruses and spyware.
Not always. I've run into programs that have a watcher on the registry, and then a watcher on the program watching the registry. AdAware didn't take it out. It took quite a while to find a program that could actuallly handle this bugger (NOTE - this was on a friend's machine - at least we were friends before he started wasting my time fixing his computer...)
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I've been surprised at the number of people who got that joke. I didn't know so many people watched Newhart.
Yet it's only a subdivision of theology.
The fun is actually just beginning, as Darl couldn't even convince his multimillion dollar legal team to show up for the judge. I think it was his brother who was making arguments, not Boies or even a Boies representative.
It looks like even the lawyers have left SCO for dead.
Socializing with students is not a necessary part of college.
It's called decompiling. It's not the easiest solution, but it certainly isn't impossible.
I think having no copyrights would be more beneficial than GPL.
I disagree with the stance of finance theory, because there is a great big difference between simply losing your investment and losing all your personal assets, too. When you are in debt, you lose personal control - you are under control of the person you are indebted to. This is a qualitative, not quantitative, difference.
"VC is just a loan that you pay back with stock/IP"
Actually, equity financing is very different from loans. Basically, with loans if your business fails you still owe the money. With equity financing if your business fails you don't owe anything.
I'm not a big fan of debt. Equity financing, however, is an excellent way of doing things.
I wouldn't put the acronym, I'd spell it out.
:)
"Yes sir. I am the most qualified for this job. In fact, I am an officially certified UNIX Pimp!"
If someone said that to me, I'd hire them on the spot
I would go ahead and file. This way, if any additional class-action litigation comes about because of this, you would be elegible for that, too.
Unless it's a subdomain.
"Boy... you'd looooooove Soviet Russia, I'll bet..."
I don't understand the reference. How does respect for the law translate into loving Soviet Russia? I love freedom, but to have freedom you have to have boundaries. Unbounded freedom is not really free, only an illusion.
"in your view, is everyone who knowingly breaks the law a terrorist and / or a mobster?"
Everyone who teaches lawlessness as a way of life is equivalent to a mobster, yes. Basically what they are saying is their own rules outweigh anyone else's, period. They have no respect for the law at all. They differ from terrorists in that they have respect for human life.
There is a difference between intentionally breaking the law for a specific time and circumstance and teaching breaking laws as a valid method of operation. In the former, the act is judged and weighed, and in the latter the law simply does not matter except how someone might be punished.
I believe that supernatural explanations are complementary to scientific ones, not contradictory.
For example, did the man die because of massive head trauma caused by by a foreign object being implanted in the frontal lobe of his brain, or did he die because I killed him? One gives details and mechanism, the other gives purpose. Neither would be incorrect (well, actually, since I didn't kill anyone, they are both incorrect.)
YES!!!! Someone who understands this distinction!!!!
Thank you. There are so few pro-science people willing to admit that science cannot answer all questions. I appreciate your honesty.
"I should hope so. OO risks getting a black eye if they're missing that one big important feature."
No they aren't. If it's missing, they will tell Sun "Fix this", and they will. No big deal. That's why you have a vendor. People have been working with Microsoft so long that they forget that the vendor's job is to SERVE THE CUSTOMER'S NEEDS.
Apparently the market isn't so small as to, say, attract Sun and IBM to it.
The fact is that it's a legitimate market, which Microsoft was ignoring. If you are a big customer for someone, you have the right to ask for special things, especially if you are willing to pay for them. Microsoft has continually snubbed these kinds of requests, and basically said "you're going to do it our way".
Well, in this case, there was another vendor willing to take on what Microsoft refused to do, and they won the contract. They won future contracts too, on account of the fact that they, *gasp*, worked to solve the customer's problems, not just force the customer to do it their way.
'Face it: terrorists are terrorists, violent protestors are criminals, and peaceful protestors, whether they go to "training camps" or not, and even if they do non-violent, illegal things, are just civil annoyances given purpose.'
I guess I don't take the same view of organized crime that you do.
If you come back for a visit, send me an email and we'll do lunch or something. johnnyb@eskimo.com.
Jon
Saying it isn't too far off isn't equating them. It's saying, "yes, it's a bit over the top, but they are both organized illegal activity".
I do live in Tulsa. Send me an email and we'll have lunch sometime - johnnyb@eskimo.com.
I'm pretty poor, but I can usually splurge for Subway or McDonald's. I'm downtown, so my favorite place to eat is the Subway on 6th and Boulder.
By the way, in case you didn't know, we're having a Linux installfest at Hardesty library this Saturday from 10 AM to 12 PM - it's the new library at 93rd and Memorial. The more, the merrier - http://tulsa.sf.net/
"Yea, blocking people from going into a federal building and blowing one up. That's pretty much the same thing, huh?"
Never said that. Thanks for playing.