What Miguel fails to realize is that IF his twisted view of the world comes to pass ONLY an complete and total idiot will use Linux... period.. or any other competing OS implementation. As he has already mentioned, Microsoft has the channel, and under his bizarrely incorrect viewpoint, the world WILL blindly follow Microsoft. Of course, we have all seen how successful Microsoft has been over the past couple of years in getting everyone to blindly follow them.... err... wait a minute. Actually, it would appear that over the past couple of years, more and more people realize the dangers of a Microsoft controlled IT world. Does Miguel want full control over your IT datacenter too? Perhaps so. Linux is about returing control of IT decision making back into the hands of individual companies. Miguel's vision will take us back to Redmond for ALL decision making.
Follow Miguel, follow Microsoft... there's not any difference except in the end, one may have more of a surprised look on their face than the other. I can hear, "Oh... well.. I never saw that one coming." But in reality, I think Miguel is smart enough to FULLY comprehend what will happen... and that's what is really scary.
Miguel would say that we're all asleep... are we?? I wonder who really has their eyes closed on this one.
"Rocketman Eric Scott shot 46 metres into the air in London..."
I hear that Darl went 47 metres into the air after getting kicked by Baystar.
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I just installed Office 2003 on my laptop here:
1. Put the CD in the drive
2. Enter the registration key
3. Select "Complete Installation"
4. Wait and watch the blinkenlights
Huh? That's strange.. here's my additional steps...
5. Insert CD#2 (Professional) 6. Watch more blikenlights 7. Reboot 8. Go to Windows Update 9. Traverse through a couple of loops to Office Update. 10. Update Office 11. Eject CD#2 and put CD#1 back in. 12...blinken-da-blinken... 13. Eject CD#1 and put CD#2 back in. 14. More blinken... 15. Reboot
I hear that Angel Soft, the maker of tissue for... well you know... has also been approached by Microsoft (Soft). Seems that they will be using Angel Stuff now instead of their original name.
One exec supposedly said,
"I don't understand it. Why on earth would anyone confuse toilet paper with Microsoft software."
If the "value" of out-of-country labor is strictly centered around what is "good" and "right" for the company, then we sort of lose the idea that we are a "republic"... which seems to be the popular thought anyhow (especially on this forum where most lean anti-Republican).
Right now, there's a big assumption, and an incorrect one at that, that the Republicans are behind all of this out-of-country outsourcing of American jobs.
Well... consider this... if the Democrats get back into office (hold you applause please), then they will likely try to "fix" the problem by taxing the companies more (Democrats regard all companies as evil heavy money greedies that need to be taxed and regulated to death)... which in turn will make companies want to employ more inexpensive out-of-country workers.
Companies need to realize that out-of-country workers do NOT follow OUR laws... now, there are some "good" countries and some "not-so-good". Since most of the "cheap" labor is found in developing countries where laws and ideals are often sacrificed for the sake of survial (money)... What is the long term end result? What are you going to do when India/China/Indonesia/etc. steals your "patented" idea, tells you to take a hike and starts selling into all countries using the engineering and upfront work that YOU provided to them for FREE?
To me.. this is the crux of the matter. U.S. companies no longer compete with each other by investing large somes of money into R&D, but rather by putting patents/etc. onto OLD ideas and suing each other. We assume we can move our (small) R&D offshore to save money.. but don't realize that the long term effect is FREE R&D for those developing countries (so much for R&D "savings"). So revenue now comes from "lawsuits" and from "cheaper labor"... does that sound like a good long-term business plan to anyone here??
The fix is extremely long term. Taxing everyone IS NOT the answer... that just pushes the snowball faster down the existing slope.
The fix is to put back the incentive for American companies to take bigger risks in R&D just to survive. Let's take away to the friviolous lawsuit engines fueled by silly patents... America can return to the days of productivity rather than just being a service shop for goods produced outside of the U.S.A. And then.. just maybe, there will be value in hiring our own instead of others (who often times are anti-American and often times are looking for anyway to cheat the American "system"). Let's make the cheap-labor unattractive by giving tax based incentives for U.S.A.-only backed R&D.
In my "perfect" U.S.A., we return the days where large companies competed with each by trying to come up with the "big thing" rather than hiring lawyers to protect inventions that are many, many years old and finding the cheapest source of (potentially anti-Amercian) labor.
Patents should only help those who CANNOT afford to help themselves... right now our patent system is primarily of use to large industry and it's used to STIFLE our R&D and keep us locked into the past. If we should regulate something, we should limit the number of patents that can be filed (if not get rid of them altogether) based on the size of a company. Give the patent back to the small inventor...where it belongs. Which allows the inventor to take some time deciding on how to bring the new idea to market. This is what patents are for.
Tax incentives should be used for potential long term gain, instead of short term bandaids. Give tax breaks for good things... like helping to offset the risks of true R&D... make it good enough to where out-of-country R&D would be STUPID.
Fix these kinds of things and we can probably bring jobs and prosperity back to the U.S.A.
Doesn't mean we can't use other labor... but let's stop sending our "future" overseas.
That was a whole lot funnier than my post.
You are saying that rendering hundreds of words of text all done with vectors is as fast?
You are saying that you can render 1,000,000 vector objects faster (or just as fast) to the screen than a single raster formatted image?? Maybe if cached the final rastered result... but that's not vector anymore is it?
Only in the most simplistic cases is vector rendering going to be faster(or nearly as fast). I suppose we can all simplify our desktops to get rid of the eye candy that will make SVG based desktops crawl...
I do not see any information to support your position on this. In fact, history has show this to be incorrect, over and over again.
With that said... anyone who knows me... knows that I am a champion of vector graphics development (and creator of vector based image editing applications). It is my preferred format. I like the end result, but it will never be the speedy desktop choice.
Hee, hee... all these posts about the evils of KDE/Qt are hilarious.
Use GNOME/Gtk, because you can USE Gtk as much as you want for COMMERCIAL development without paying anything.
Don't use KDE/Qt, because you can only develop FREE software using it, otherwise it costs money.
So.. NOW KDE/Qt is the champion of free software, whereas GNOME/Gtk is for the COMMERCIAL (and apparently not so evil after all) PROPRIETARY closed source solutions.
You make me laugh!
If GNOME/Gtk is REALLY a friend, let's see them place everything under GPL (for true software protection) rather than the LGPL.
What's the big deal about support Qt is you use the toolkit? Yep.. it's commercial...and if you use it for commercial development, it costs money... so?? Is someone suggesting their software business plan is only to sell like 10 copies of their software, so they can't afford to by a real development license?? Just seems weird.
Sure.. it's easy to say just by Opterons... and you are right in that Intel will not have the Hypertransport linkage that makes Opteron do quite well in SMP, especially low-end SMP up to 8 CPUs, however, with Intel coming into the picture with higher clock speeds, look for Intel's entry to trounce the Opteron on single and dual systems. Given AMD's absolutely horrible track record with high end chipsets (e.g. MPX), look for Intel to obliterate AMD where it counts... revenue.
Opteron has coolness factor built in... but in the end Intel wins... sad but true. It's strictly up to Intel to mess this one up.
I understand that at the time, it was in AMD's best interest to sign the cross-licensing agreements... but here is a clear case where it will hurt AMD. AMD better have a rabbit in their hat, or it's "show's over".
1. 200 cartons of biological chemical agents. 2. 400 delivery canisters 3. 50 lead lined radioactive transport carriers 4. 5 rocket propelled grenades 5. 10 fake pilot id's 6. 25 bacteria growth containers 7. 100 gallons of unidentified chemical 8. 6 packages of unidentified white powder 9. 25 expelled radioactive cores 10. 1 picutre of Uday and Qusay 11. 1 picture of Beagle II 12. 1 magnetic dart board with George Bush Sr's picture. 13. 1 picture of Sadaam Hussein and apparently an Elvis impersonator. 14. Many pictures of an Elvis impersonator together with someone who looks similar to JFK. 15. 2 pictures of Jimmy Hoffa playing Nintendo.
I hear that Angel Soft, the maker of tissue for... well you know... has also been approached by Microsoft (Soft). Seems that they will be using Angel Stuff now instead of their original name.
"I don't understand it. Why on earth would anyone confuse toilet paper with Microsoft software."
SCO has also announced a website where you can turn in all of your derivative works (anything built on Unix). You can simply upload your entire source code base to SCO and they will ensure the future protection of the technology by placing the SCO IP license on it.
Linux is still a long way behind Solaris with things like NFS - massive speed differences.
Huh? Have you bechmarked this recently? What are making your claims on? While there was certainly a good case for this in the past, I think it's an unfair criticism today. I can show you a Linux based NFS that is outperforming a Solaris based NFS by at least 20-30%.
Tell them exactly what they can do with their NDA. In fact, tell me their address and the hiring manager so I can make an appointment to talk to them about this job offer too!!
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I'll cut & paste my way to an "A"!!
Follow Miguel, follow Microsoft... there's not any difference except in the end, one may have more of a surprised look on their face than the other. I can hear, "Oh... well.. I never saw that one coming." But in reality, I think Miguel is smart enough to FULLY comprehend what will happen... and that's what is really scary.
Miguel would say that we're all asleep... are we?? I wonder who really has their eyes closed on this one.
I hear that Darl went 47 metres into the air after getting kicked by Baystar.
Huh? That's strange.. here's my additional steps...
http://www.space1999.net/~catacombs/main/tscript/z 01b.html
Texas Aggie War Hymn
One exec supposedly said,
Ok. So now you need a really big hill that's on fire. A bit more difficult.
He's working on a water powered car I hear... just requires a really big hill.
No word if the car will support square wheels or not.
Apart from the Chinese limitation on the number of child processes that can be forked... this sounds like a reasonable proposal.
Right now, there's a big assumption, and an incorrect one at that, that the Republicans are behind all of this out-of-country outsourcing of American jobs.
Well... consider this... if the Democrats get back into office (hold you applause please), then they will likely try to "fix" the problem by taxing the companies more (Democrats regard all companies as evil heavy money greedies that need to be taxed and regulated to death)... which in turn will make companies want to employ more inexpensive out-of-country workers.
Companies need to realize that out-of-country workers do NOT follow OUR laws... now, there are some "good" countries and some "not-so-good". Since most of the "cheap" labor is found in developing countries where laws and ideals are often sacrificed for the sake of survial (money)... What is the long term end result? What are you going to do when India/China/Indonesia/etc. steals your "patented" idea, tells you to take a hike and starts selling into all countries using the engineering and upfront work that YOU provided to them for FREE?
To me.. this is the crux of the matter. U.S. companies no longer compete with each other by investing large somes of money into R&D, but rather by putting patents/etc. onto OLD ideas and suing each other. We assume we can move our (small) R&D offshore to save money.. but don't realize that the long term effect is FREE R&D for those developing countries (so much for R&D "savings"). So revenue now comes from "lawsuits" and from "cheaper labor"... does that sound like a good long-term business plan to anyone here??
The fix is extremely long term. Taxing everyone IS NOT the answer... that just pushes the snowball faster down the existing slope.
The fix is to put back the incentive for American companies to take bigger risks in R&D just to survive. Let's take away to the friviolous lawsuit engines fueled by silly patents... America can return to the days of productivity rather than just being a service shop for goods produced outside of the U.S.A. And then.. just maybe, there will be value in hiring our own instead of others (who often times are anti-American and often times are looking for anyway to cheat the American "system"). Let's make the cheap-labor unattractive by giving tax based incentives for U.S.A.-only backed R&D.
In my "perfect" U.S.A., we return the days where large companies competed with each by trying to come up with the "big thing" rather than hiring lawyers to protect inventions that are many, many years old and finding the cheapest source of (potentially anti-Amercian) labor.
Patents should only help those who CANNOT afford to help themselves... right now our patent system is primarily of use to large industry and it's used to STIFLE our R&D and keep us locked into the past. If we should regulate something, we should limit the number of patents that can be filed (if not get rid of them altogether) based on the size of a company. Give the patent back to the small inventor.. .where it belongs. Which allows the inventor to take some time deciding on how to bring the new idea to market. This is what patents are for.
Tax incentives should be used for potential long term gain, instead of short term bandaids. Give tax breaks for good things... like helping to offset the risks of true R&D... make it good enough to where out-of-country R&D would be STUPID.
Fix these kinds of things and we can probably bring jobs and prosperity back to the U.S.A.
Doesn't mean we can't use other labor... but let's stop sending our "future" overseas.
Combine this with Bill Gates new time machine... go back in time and watch what happens!!
That was a whole lot funnier than my post. You are saying that rendering hundreds of words of text all done with vectors is as fast? You are saying that you can render 1,000,000 vector objects faster (or just as fast) to the screen than a single raster formatted image?? Maybe if cached the final rastered result... but that's not vector anymore is it? Only in the most simplistic cases is vector rendering going to be faster(or nearly as fast). I suppose we can all simplify our desktops to get rid of the eye candy that will make SVG based desktops crawl... I do not see any information to support your position on this. In fact, history has show this to be incorrect, over and over again. With that said... anyone who knows me... knows that I am a champion of vector graphics development (and creator of vector based image editing applications). It is my preferred format. I like the end result, but it will never be the speedy desktop choice.
I can't even create one good spam mail address from google. It's like they're not even setup to support the spammer. Lame google.
Use GNOME/Gtk, because you can USE Gtk as much as you want for COMMERCIAL development without paying anything.
Don't use KDE/Qt, because you can only develop FREE software using it, otherwise it costs money.
So.. NOW KDE/Qt is the champion of free software, whereas GNOME/Gtk is for the COMMERCIAL (and apparently not so evil after all) PROPRIETARY closed source solutions.
You make me laugh!
If GNOME/Gtk is REALLY a friend, let's see them place everything under GPL (for true software protection) rather than the LGPL.
What's the big deal about support Qt is you use the toolkit? Yep.. it's commercial...and if you use it for commercial development, it costs money... so?? Is someone suggesting their software business plan is only to sell like 10 copies of their software, so they can't afford to by a real development license?? Just seems weird.
... so I can finally use my 8 way Opteron with 16GB to its fullest potential!!
Opteron has coolness factor built in... but in the end Intel wins... sad but true. It's strictly up to Intel to mess this one up.
I understand that at the time, it was in AMD's best interest to sign the cross-licensing agreements... but here is a clear case where it will hurt AMD. AMD better have a rabbit in their hat, or it's "show's over".
We know that Lindows MEANS Windows... at least according to Microsoft... IF AND ONLY if you keep the "dows" (Lindows changes name).
So if we remove the "dows", we have Lin vs. Win, and it's pretty obvious now isn't it??
Wasn't that easy? I don't know why people have to constantly rehash this!
I think SCO owns "ux"... so don't even try that argument!! (don't tell HP though)
"I don't understand it. Why on earth would anyone confuse toilet paper with Microsoft software."
What a deal!! Better than the GPL!!
Huh? Have you bechmarked this recently? What are making your claims on? While there was certainly a good case for this in the past, I think it's an unfair criticism today. I can show you a Linux based NFS that is outperforming a Solaris based NFS by at least 20-30%.
Plays ok under winex today.
Tell them exactly what they can do with their NDA. In fact, tell me their address and the hiring manager so I can make an appointment to talk to them about this job offer too!!
Mine listens for 2,546,782 simultanaeous connections to port 80 within 10 seconds, then it opens up the back door.
Try it at:
http://slashdot-this.org