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Our was a military victory over the indians won by the US Army. They lost; we won.
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You mae it sound like Americans were handed their standard of living. It has been EARNED through hard work and through democratic institutions. Make sure you are aware of the oft ignored fact about the USA.
What a bunch of silly people
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If you are part of a religion whose leaders profess death to non-believers, and whose more radical element have NO PROBLEM in flying loaded airliners into buildings to fulfil that concept, expect to be monitored more closlely.
Yes, read the constitution but also read the great body of law which has refined it. Free speech is responsible speech, not saying anything you want any time you want in any form you want. The first amendment is not a national suicide pact, which means religious radicals (including Islamic, Christian and left wing religionists) may not tear the basic fabric of our nation apart just because they think they are entitled to do so.
Take my advice. Sell this hyper-liberal bullshit about losing 'our' righs by placing religionists known to tke up arms against innocents, to the porn belt, but not to the rest of us.
Kindly note I don't have a problem with Islamicists unless they are toting munitions or are helping to pay for munitions.
I have had some successes with Wine (mainly with the installer). I run Cerulean Studios Trillian as my ICQ client in Linux. The setup program even placed a launch icon on my Gnome desktop. I run a chat program in Wine (pueblo) and I have used wine to setup newer DOS games (steel panthers 3, SPMBT)so I can play them in freedos/dosemu. I play Empire Deluxe using Wine.
I have also had some abject and disappointing failures, mainly with Talonsoft's Campaign series, East Front II, West Front, Rising Sun) due I think to safe disc or some copy protection scheme.
The point to the above is that Wine is advancing albeit slowly in running Windows games Transgaming is doing a fine job in catering to the more popular games, and I say that not just because I am a subscriber. The economic/ statistics apparently do not support concentrating effort on the Campaign Series, but that doesn't stop me from getting the latest Winex and giving it a whirl. I would love to see these games ported to Linux via Winemaker myself but I think you need the source code of these works to do that. Not being a developer, I don't know. But a Linux version if these games would be awesome; I think East Front II running in a Linux enviroment would blow away a lot of other games just becuase of their multi-player capabilities. It would certainly be a boon to wargame clubs on the internet to be able to host online tourneys.
Maybe this is just a cry in the wilderness but I think that Transgaming is doing a lot for games be they Windows or Linux.
I am facing a situation at work where our only internet machine has been rendered unusable by viruses, through no fault of mine. The machine won't even allow an AV programs to be installed. I suggested we use Linux to access email and do business related surfing; and even deployed a nice Redhat 7.1 machine, but the box is sitting there unused; internet work is not getting done.
So I figure the thing to do is to keep the network protected and let them deploy Windows machine after Windows machine, and let viruses wreck each machine in series until this learning surve can be flattened enough to lead them to Linux.
I write all this that in this small shop, even though I am responsible for what happens, I can't control people who insist on using Windows. It's like trying to control an alchoholic. I can only sit back, do the best I can to protect the LAN and know with a certain amount of confidence that Linux will be the only sensible long-term solution for internet work. I just do not know how machine Windows machines they can plow through before they reach this point.
But consider this: With news security holes being discovered every day, a man could get arrest, released and with the proper contacts, have his record expunged the next day.
It is a glorious time for New Orleans organized crime now that they have a government they can work with: a governemnt using MS products.
Companies are making profits selling open source software. Open source software does work and works well, and the only reason why they can work better than MS software is because the user and alter the code to their own purposes.
This is 2002, and the profit motive is driving companies to Open Source as well as governments to enable access for all to government over the internet, not just the few who can afford MS's attack prone crappy software.
NOTHING stops ANY software company from purveying open source software, outside their normal business model, that includes Microsoft.
So a law forcing use of open source software only prevents government from losing choice to a single software source.
To the, this is a dual reality.
Palladium is the concept of the prevention of users from viewing content they haven't paid for yet on thier computers. But I think the eventual implementation will be on appliances such as Xbox as well as PCs.
If MS rolls out a (select MS-format movie file) player and can get large studios to convert to these formats, they must surely know the file can be hacked and distributed in any case. So, when MS rolls out the MS Cool Movie Player appliance, they have their proprietary means of distributing movies; in other words they can convince Big Hollywood to use their format, since BG will produce hundred of millions of these, and all anyone has to do is to download their copy of whatever film, etc from the Big Hollywood website, after an appropriate transaction, that is.;o) But if enough PCs are sold which lock out hacked versions, then MS can claim to its vendors and customers that these formats are safe from piracy when run on MS-approved Palladium PCs, not from the Evil Ones, who run Linux or who still run Win98.
Actually their strategy, if true, is quite shrewd. MS must surely recognize that the Entertaiment industry has the highest bars to entry, such as cost, but yields the greatest profit once the initial costs are amortized. Perhaps we may see a Microsoft Studios making and selling content themselves.
The first time someone wants to replay their child's birth (or conception:o)) MPEG and they are informed they can't unless they use the internet or they jump through the right hoops. Then at that point will DRM be an infringement on a person's own right to play their own content on any machine they want?
What about burning the image of a child, as an example, playing little league you want to send to the folks at home? Does this DRM mean that those images can only play on the originating computer?
I guess in MS's world, content managament means they can manage any content that plays on any of their licensed products. Wasn't this, like, declared illegal summer 2001? Help me out here, you folks who are so in love with Redmond's products... Enlighten me...
You know MS is so fixated on digital rights management they don't even consider what their obligations are to the world at large, the obligations that though the new paradigm is they own the software you are using and you have only those rights they grant you, at some point there must be a delineation of responsibilities by MS: that they may not interfere with your online or offline activities, EVEN IF ILLEGAL, unless they go through the same processes that law enforcement agencies must go through to build a prima facie case; where is MS's obligation? Doesn't their use of the internet to manage XP constitute broadcasting and is subject to the same strictures that everyone else is under the FCC? Even in computers it would seem to me that citizens in a republic such as ours (USA) must be protected from outlaw contracts such as EULAs.
I dunno. Seeing Dell ads on TV about their server solutions, they keep hinting about not being locked into proprietary technology, to me a clear buzz word for Microsoft. I think Dell is being shrewd, rather than playing a PR stunt...
You have to also consider the possibiity that some users do not want XP; they have their own Win98 and Win95 CDs and EULAs, and they are okay with those; they would rather install their own copy and tweak it the way they want it tweaked.
I say good for Dell.
Open source only laws as they apply to government information will insure access to government documents and information regardless of who sells the software.
If Microsoft (and that is who we are speaking of) sells a propreitary solution to, as an example, a county government for accessing property records on line, you know for a definitive fact they are going to require their products be on the desktop of anyone who wishes to access this information. (I can see some arguments coming that governments can require MS to allow any browser to access records, but that would entail MS not being able to sell their latest and best technology, and they could conceivably tell a governmental body that it is their way or perhaps a software audit is in order? As it is now in some courts, you MUST have MS Office to access some court records, you do NOT have a CHOICE!) Open source on the other hand, which hold to open standards will only require a browser of ANY kind, or in the case of documents, some accepted standard; there are no backroom deals, no threat that MS nazis will appear at your door demanding to see CDs and licenses, no security headaches, no threats that 'upgrades will force other upgrades, and no being locked into a hostile company's proprietary and ultimately damaging formats. It is simply a means of enforcing a concept of general and free access to government through the internet using open standards, which Open Source adheres to stringently.
I guess some folks love of Microsoft products keeps them from understanding the nature of open source software, and makes them see things backwards, and not for what they are. Pity...
Just go to a small, local PC shop and have your own system custom built sans Windows et al. You may be paying a tiny bit more, but at least you won't be giving your money to MS, and that is a good feeling.
I have gone to a small shop, which is also a hard core MS builder (certificates, the whole shot, hopefully you get the idea...) and have purchased a 686-500 with Windows 98, and I asked the OS be removed. Not a problem, they said. They knocked off a few bucks off the price and it is now humming along happily with Rehat 7.1.
Small shops really are the sinew of the computer industry, and if you REALLY want to screw over MS, you probably need to shop there instead of Best Buy or whoever sells Dells, etc..., and tell others to do the same as well The service is better anyway and whomever they hire to sell at least has some idea of what you want.
I have Steel Panthers: MBT and Steel Panthers III running on freedos on a Linux machine. No sound, and the mouse is kinda jerky, but it does work. Have been exchanging PBEM games using tar and gzip.
The advantage is that while the AI is running or the opponent replay is running, I can iconify the window and check mail. Can't do that with Steel Panthers and Windows or even DOS.
On Windows install programs, I have used Wine.
Getting at least this game to run has been a strong factor in my chucking of Windows in favor of (another more stable, less expensive) operating system.
In my view, the partition scheme in Linux can be viewed as a security feature. Wanna partition that only root or SU can access, change its settings and the data will be unviewable by anyone other than them.
Partitioning is easy. I make a tiny boot partition and after that the rest is easy; I can partition the disk how I see fit.
Thanks for saying that, Bill:o)
But seriously:
It's about privacy and freedom, not whether a user is committing a criminal act or a civil tort.
Microsoft is saying if you want to use MS products you must consent to whatever actions they deem necessary, period, whther the action is needed or not, such action including logging into a personal system which you consider to be private.
But I have to agree with Microsoft. You want convenience, you will allow MS to run the show.
As for piracy: I use Linux now and I think what MS is doing, where they are moving their customers to and how they are doing it is at the very least immoral. I dont listen to MP3s from the internet, and I don't steal or swap movies, and when I did run MS I paid all for all their licensing, so I think your assertion is an outrage, but the kind of assertion that MS operates from. Thus the reason I chucked Windows for Linux
I fail to see how you got such a high rating for such a nasty post.
I would have to concur. What Transgaming is doing is a real public service, especially if they can make money from it.
From what I have seen of the project, it is professionally done and the price is right. Besides,
There are plenty of companies which use source code and charge per seat licensing and they have as much a right to turn a buck as Microsoft does in the software business.
Winex is a product which deserves the OS community's loyal and ongoing support.
Considering the problems Corel (which is in Ottawa, Ont.) has had with Microsoft, and Transgaming is in Ottawa as well, consider Winex Canada's revenge.
Myself, I'm on pins and needles. Its a Friday and I can't wait to get home to see if Winex will FINALLY run East Front II And Lotus Approach.
Who decides what is proportional? You? Me? Some commie at the U.N?
All the resources we are 'consuming' we are paying for, every drop we use. Nothing is being stolen: we even have receipts for what we are using.
Why don;'t you stop wringing your hands like some nanny, and let the markets take care of economics?
Malthusian was wrong then, and you are wrong now.
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Our was a military victory over the indians won by the US Army. They lost; we won.
You mae it sound like Americans were handed their standard of living. It has been EARNED through hard work and through democratic institutions. Make sure you are aware of the oft ignored fact about the USA.
If you are part of a religion whose leaders profess death to non-believers, and whose more radical element have NO PROBLEM in flying loaded airliners into buildings to fulfil that concept, expect to be monitored more closlely. Yes, read the constitution but also read the great body of law which has refined it. Free speech is responsible speech, not saying anything you want any time you want in any form you want. The first amendment is not a national suicide pact, which means religious radicals (including Islamic, Christian and left wing religionists) may not tear the basic fabric of our nation apart just because they think they are entitled to do so. Take my advice. Sell this hyper-liberal bullshit about losing 'our' righs by placing religionists known to tke up arms against innocents, to the porn belt, but not to the rest of us. Kindly note I don't have a problem with Islamicists unless they are toting munitions or are helping to pay for munitions.
I have had some successes with Wine (mainly with the installer). I run Cerulean Studios Trillian as my ICQ client in Linux. The setup program even placed a launch icon on my Gnome desktop. I run a chat program in Wine (pueblo) and I have used wine to setup newer DOS games (steel panthers 3, SPMBT)so I can play them in freedos/dosemu. I play Empire Deluxe using Wine. I have also had some abject and disappointing failures, mainly with Talonsoft's Campaign series, East Front II, West Front, Rising Sun) due I think to safe disc or some copy protection scheme. The point to the above is that Wine is advancing albeit slowly in running Windows games Transgaming is doing a fine job in catering to the more popular games, and I say that not just because I am a subscriber. The economic/ statistics apparently do not support concentrating effort on the Campaign Series, but that doesn't stop me from getting the latest Winex and giving it a whirl. I would love to see these games ported to Linux via Winemaker myself but I think you need the source code of these works to do that. Not being a developer, I don't know. But a Linux version if these games would be awesome; I think East Front II running in a Linux enviroment would blow away a lot of other games just becuase of their multi-player capabilities. It would certainly be a boon to wargame clubs on the internet to be able to host online tourneys. Maybe this is just a cry in the wilderness but I think that Transgaming is doing a lot for games be they Windows or Linux.
The New York Times would LOVE to have those gullible people buying from them...
Where's the 1/8 inch long row? What OS do they use?
I am facing a situation at work where our only internet machine has been rendered unusable by viruses, through no fault of mine. The machine won't even allow an AV programs to be installed. I suggested we use Linux to access email and do business related surfing; and even deployed a nice Redhat 7.1 machine, but the box is sitting there unused; internet work is not getting done. So I figure the thing to do is to keep the network protected and let them deploy Windows machine after Windows machine, and let viruses wreck each machine in series until this learning surve can be flattened enough to lead them to Linux. I write all this that in this small shop, even though I am responsible for what happens, I can't control people who insist on using Windows. It's like trying to control an alchoholic. I can only sit back, do the best I can to protect the LAN and know with a certain amount of confidence that Linux will be the only sensible long-term solution for internet work. I just do not know how machine Windows machines they can plow through before they reach this point.
The Mozilla version that comes stock with Redhat 7.3 is a genuine pleasure to run on Linux. It has gone through some very good and impressive updates.
Let that footprint do all the talking!
Wait'll you see the bill!
But consider this: With news security holes being discovered every day, a man could get arrest, released and with the proper contacts, have his record expunged the next day. It is a glorious time for New Orleans organized crime now that they have a government they can work with: a governemnt using MS products.
Companies are making profits selling open source software. Open source software does work and works well, and the only reason why they can work better than MS software is because the user and alter the code to their own purposes. This is 2002, and the profit motive is driving companies to Open Source as well as governments to enable access for all to government over the internet, not just the few who can afford MS's attack prone crappy software.
NOTHING stops ANY software company from purveying open source software, outside their normal business model, that includes Microsoft. So a law forcing use of open source software only prevents government from losing choice to a single software source.
To the, this is a dual reality. Palladium is the concept of the prevention of users from viewing content they haven't paid for yet on thier computers. But I think the eventual implementation will be on appliances such as Xbox as well as PCs. If MS rolls out a (select MS-format movie file) player and can get large studios to convert to these formats, they must surely know the file can be hacked and distributed in any case. So, when MS rolls out the MS Cool Movie Player appliance, they have their proprietary means of distributing movies; in other words they can convince Big Hollywood to use their format, since BG will produce hundred of millions of these, and all anyone has to do is to download their copy of whatever film, etc from the Big Hollywood website, after an appropriate transaction, that is. ;o) But if enough PCs are sold which lock out hacked versions, then MS can claim to its vendors and customers that these formats are safe from piracy when run on MS-approved Palladium PCs, not from the Evil Ones, who run Linux or who still run Win98.
Actually their strategy, if true, is quite shrewd. MS must surely recognize that the Entertaiment industry has the highest bars to entry, such as cost, but yields the greatest profit once the initial costs are amortized. Perhaps we may see a Microsoft Studios making and selling content themselves.
The first time someone wants to replay their child's birth (or conception :o)) MPEG and they are informed they can't unless they use the internet or they jump through the right hoops. Then at that point will DRM be an infringement on a person's own right to play their own content on any machine they want?
What about burning the image of a child, as an example, playing little league you want to send to the folks at home? Does this DRM mean that those images can only play on the originating computer?
I guess in MS's world, content managament means they can manage any content that plays on any of their licensed products. Wasn't this, like, declared illegal summer 2001? Help me out here, you folks who are so in love with Redmond's products... Enlighten me...
You know MS is so fixated on digital rights management they don't even consider what their obligations are to the world at large, the obligations that though the new paradigm is they own the software you are using and you have only those rights they grant you, at some point there must be a delineation of responsibilities by MS: that they may not interfere with your online or offline activities, EVEN IF ILLEGAL, unless they go through the same processes that law enforcement agencies must go through to build a prima facie case; where is MS's obligation? Doesn't their use of the internet to manage XP constitute broadcasting and is subject to the same strictures that everyone else is under the FCC? Even in computers it would seem to me that citizens in a republic such as ours (USA) must be protected from outlaw contracts such as EULAs.
I dunno. Seeing Dell ads on TV about their server solutions, they keep hinting about not being locked into proprietary technology, to me a clear buzz word for Microsoft. I think Dell is being shrewd, rather than playing a PR stunt...
You have to also consider the possibiity that some users do not want XP; they have their own Win98 and Win95 CDs and EULAs, and they are okay with those; they would rather install their own copy and tweak it the way they want it tweaked. I say good for Dell.
Open source only laws as they apply to government information will insure access to government documents and information regardless of who sells the software. If Microsoft (and that is who we are speaking of) sells a propreitary solution to, as an example, a county government for accessing property records on line, you know for a definitive fact they are going to require their products be on the desktop of anyone who wishes to access this information. (I can see some arguments coming that governments can require MS to allow any browser to access records, but that would entail MS not being able to sell their latest and best technology, and they could conceivably tell a governmental body that it is their way or perhaps a software audit is in order? As it is now in some courts, you MUST have MS Office to access some court records, you do NOT have a CHOICE!) Open source on the other hand, which hold to open standards will only require a browser of ANY kind, or in the case of documents, some accepted standard; there are no backroom deals, no threat that MS nazis will appear at your door demanding to see CDs and licenses, no security headaches, no threats that 'upgrades will force other upgrades, and no being locked into a hostile company's proprietary and ultimately damaging formats. It is simply a means of enforcing a concept of general and free access to government through the internet using open standards, which Open Source adheres to stringently. I guess some folks love of Microsoft products keeps them from understanding the nature of open source software, and makes them see things backwards, and not for what they are. Pity...
Just go to a small, local PC shop and have your own system custom built sans Windows et al. You may be paying a tiny bit more, but at least you won't be giving your money to MS, and that is a good feeling. I have gone to a small shop, which is also a hard core MS builder (certificates, the whole shot, hopefully you get the idea...) and have purchased a 686-500 with Windows 98, and I asked the OS be removed. Not a problem, they said. They knocked off a few bucks off the price and it is now humming along happily with Rehat 7.1. Small shops really are the sinew of the computer industry, and if you REALLY want to screw over MS, you probably need to shop there instead of Best Buy or whoever sells Dells, etc..., and tell others to do the same as well The service is better anyway and whomever they hire to sell at least has some idea of what you want.
I have Steel Panthers: MBT and Steel Panthers III running on freedos on a Linux machine. No sound, and the mouse is kinda jerky, but it does work. Have been exchanging PBEM games using tar and gzip. The advantage is that while the AI is running or the opponent replay is running, I can iconify the window and check mail. Can't do that with Steel Panthers and Windows or even DOS. On Windows install programs, I have used Wine. Getting at least this game to run has been a strong factor in my chucking of Windows in favor of (another more stable, less expensive) operating system.
Maybe Microsoft is getting ready to get into the video card/chip manaufacturing business and their logical first step would be to hose Nvidia.
In my view, the partition scheme in Linux can be viewed as a security feature. Wanna partition that only root or SU can access, change its settings and the data will be unviewable by anyone other than them. Partitioning is easy. I make a tiny boot partition and after that the rest is easy; I can partition the disk how I see fit.
Thanks for saying that, Bill :o)
But seriously:
It's about privacy and freedom, not whether a user is committing a criminal act or a civil tort.
Microsoft is saying if you want to use MS products you must consent to whatever actions they deem necessary, period, whther the action is needed or not, such action including logging into a personal system which you consider to be private.
But I have to agree with Microsoft. You want convenience, you will allow MS to run the show.
As for piracy: I use Linux now and I think what MS is doing, where they are moving their customers to and how they are doing it is at the very least immoral. I dont listen to MP3s from the internet, and I don't steal or swap movies, and when I did run MS I paid all for all their licensing, so I think your assertion is an outrage, but the kind of assertion that MS operates from. Thus the reason I chucked Windows for Linux
I fail to see how you got such a high rating for such a nasty post.
I would have to concur. What Transgaming is doing is a real public service, especially if they can make money from it. From what I have seen of the project, it is professionally done and the price is right. Besides, There are plenty of companies which use source code and charge per seat licensing and they have as much a right to turn a buck as Microsoft does in the software business. Winex is a product which deserves the OS community's loyal and ongoing support. Considering the problems Corel (which is in Ottawa, Ont.) has had with Microsoft, and Transgaming is in Ottawa as well, consider Winex Canada's revenge. Myself, I'm on pins and needles. Its a Friday and I can't wait to get home to see if Winex will FINALLY run East Front II And Lotus Approach.
Who decides what is proportional? You? Me? Some commie at the U.N? All the resources we are 'consuming' we are paying for, every drop we use. Nothing is being stolen: we even have receipts for what we are using. Why don;'t you stop wringing your hands like some nanny, and let the markets take care of economics? Malthusian was wrong then, and you are wrong now.