Have you grown weed? It's A LOT of work for it to be really good, as in sticky green bud. Sure, you can have some bushy stuff that's ok by just letting some plants grow in your yard, but for "da kine", it's a great deal of ongoing attention: light schedule, early and on ongoing trimming, taking cuttings for the next crop, when to pick, how long to dry, etc.
Word == Wordperfect (== Wordstar or somesuch) Excel == Lotus 1-2-3 (== Visicalc)
Point being, everyone rips off everyone else. The difference with Microsoft is that they use their OS monopoly to crush the competition. Whether that is OK or not will be debated ad nauseum until MS is no longer in existence.:)
Microsoft competes with Oracle, what a shock that an update broke their application.
I remember way back when Windows 98 came out, there was an article that listed the top five applications broken by the upgrade from Windows 95. The number one broken application (by number of reports) was Lotus Notes. Very shocking that they were battling Lotus with Exchange.
The article didn't even point it out as being possibly intentional, just printed the list. No one even made a stink about it, which I thought was interesting at the time.
You can call me a foilhat conspiracy theorist if you like but this has happened over and over and over with Microsoft. One eventually begins to question whether these are all truly honest mistakes.
I bank with Washington Mutual, have a CapitolOne VISA card, and have my investments at E*Trade. I used Firefox exclusively and all above sites work flawlessly.
I remember a discussion here on Slashdot a couple of years ago about Mozilla, around the time of ver 0.9.2 or so. At the time CapitolOne didn't work in Mozilla and I had to use IE. A Mozilla developer posted a reply to my question about that, saying that it probably would never get fixed. Then, out of the blue, it started working. Probably around Mozilla 1.2 or so.
That's the only problem I've ever had with a financial institution with any Mozilla products.
This will be a bit difficult to explain, so please bear with me: Let's say there is some copyrighted code that is found in the Linux kernel. It wasn't supposed to be there, it was put there by someone who wrote the code while at their place of work. This would mean that company holds copyright. This programmer submitted it to the Linux kernel saying it was his own work.
This company would obviously want to have the offending code removed immediately, and I'm sure it would be. But one of my managers at work is of the opinion that if another company had been using the Linux kernel containing the offending code, and they weren't using a distribution that they paid for (Red Hat, Novell/Suse), but rather downloaded it themselves (Debian, say) for free, the company using the offending code would be liable for damages from the company that holds the copyright. His contention is basically "ignorance is no excuse." Since they didn't have the right to use the code, and were using it to run their business, they would be liable for "back license fees" or somesuch.
...is now michael's personal forum for his political views? FWIW, I've been planning on voting against the current president for a long time now. Someone like David Duke would have to have received the Democratic nomination in order for me to fail to vote Democratic in November, 2004.
That being said, that's two articles on the current main page posted by michael that have an anti-Bush tone to them. I guess michael doesn't care about being "fair and balanced" as a journalist.
Seriously, I don't want all this stuff in my cel phone. Obviously many people do, or they wouldn't be making this stuff, but I just want a PHONE, preferably one with just a grayscale text display. I don't ever want my phone to crash, y'know?
Does such an animal even exist anymore? Or do you have to get a multi-color screen, mp3 player, etc. etc.???
I've been something of an IBM supporter for some time. I always buy a Thinkpad when I buy a notebook computer and I and other friends and relatives have had excellent experiences with their tech support and customer service.
Throw in the fact that they have (arguably) done more to increase Linux public mindshare than any other company, and I think quite highly of them.
I guess no company is perfect, but if you had asked me if I thought IBM was capable of something like this, my reply would have been, "No way, IBM takes care of its customers."
Ok, which one of those pages came first? (LinuxDevices.com or WindowsForDevices.com) They both look amazingly similar.
I guess I could check register.com, but that would require actual work, which I obviously am not capable of since I am posting on Slashdot while 'working'.:)
The SCO Group (Nasdaq: SCOX - News) helps millions of customers in more than 82 countries to grow their businesses everyday.
Wow, is that what they do?:) Yeah, they really help people grow their business, don't they. Whenever I, as a software vendor, want to help my customers grow their business, I threaten to sue them.
I, like many others, am salivating to see what happens after the hearing on the 23rd. May SCO go down in flames after that, or at least just STFU.
Even if you're right, d00d, no one will listen. It's just too wacky sounding.
Also, a few points:
-To say that we are 'no longer living in a Democratic Republic' is nonsense. Am I worried about Ashcroft et al infringing on our Constitutional freedoms? Yes. Do I think that corporations have way too much influence in our society overall? Yes. But our court system and system of laws still works, more or less.
-"How are you going to live...When a gallon of gas costs 4 bucks? 5 bucks?" It already does in most of Europe, if not more. They seem to be living ok.
-"We burned 80 billion barrels of oil this year but discovered less than 10 billion." When we run out of oil, we'll find an alternative. We, as humans, are very clever and creative. It may be a (very) troublesome and painful transition, but we'll make it.
-"I certainly have noticed an undercurrent, a sub-text if you will, of this administration to gain more effective control of the Internet and OSS." While the Internet began here in the US, and a large percentage of it still is controlled here, it is truly a worldwide system now. If the US starts over-stepping their bounds with regards to control of the Internet, the rest of the world will route around us. That's the way it was designed in the first place. Again, the US can cause a great deal of difficulty and pain, but they can't control the internet.
And to say that the US is going to gain 'control' of OSS in general is absolutely ludicrous. If the US were to pass some nefarious legislation 'outlawing' OSS (which would never, ever happen, it's legally impossible and IBM, HP, etc. have too many lobbyists to allow it to happen), the rest of the world would, again, 'route around us'.
Just a little kidding here, d00d, but did you go off your meds?:)
I know I'll get modded down for this, but whatever, I'll be the heretic in this thread (referencing another Slashdot story).
What's the problem here? Seriously, why are so many people so rabidly against this law? I've seen a lot of people in this thread saying something like, "We have laws against copyright infringement, whereas this law makes it illegal to operate a camera in a movie theatre."
WTF?!? I have NEVER had the desire to use a camera in a theatre, nor have any of my friends, nor have I ever seen anyone using a camera in a theatre.
Listen closely: THERE IS NO REASON ANYONE WOULD HAVE A CAMERA IN A THEATRE EXCEPT TO RECORD A MOVIE AND THAT'S ILLEGAL!!
If for some reason someone were using a camera in a theatre for reasons other than recording the movie (recording their friends, seeing who's in the theatre, getting that delicious down-blouse/up-skirt shot), they should rightfully have their ass kicked and get removed from the theatre for interrupting everyone else trying to actually watch the movie!
Sheesh, folks, pick your battles. Is this law a bit draconian? Maybe. Are there other offenses that most would agree are worse that receive lesser sentences? Probably.
But the point is that no one's rights are being infringed here.
Look, I'm no fan of the RIAA or MPAA (I think they're oligarchical monopolies that exist to conrol popular media to keep themselves in power and profitable) but don't let your hatred for them cause you to fight for something that just isn't worth fighting for.
Correct, but Windows NT/2000/XPPro was supposed to be the replacement for Unix workstations. Linux may not be taking market share directly from Windows, but it is taking market share that Windows was supposed to get (according to MS' PR department, anyway).
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I only have a few computer nerd friends. All my other friends' eyes just glaze over when I try to explain the benefits of using Mozilla. So I don't even try any more.
Hey, if they love popups (they aren't usually even aware of the Google Toolbar, for instance), and enjoy the occasional virus or homepage hijacking, they can help themselves.
How sad that most people just don't really seem to care.:(
Most definitely. 713 comments may sound like a lot on its face, but do the math: 1 comment per day for 2 years is 730 comments. My other account has a 4-digit UID so that's how many years ago? And I've been in discussions during a rainy evening at home or during a dead period at work where I've easily posted a dozen comments or more in a single sitting. At that rate, it doesn't take long at all to hit hundreds of comments (or more).
Besides, nice attitude of an editor of a website towards someone who's obviously one of his best customers. "Hey, I see you're here a lot and are very active in our community. Instead of thanking you for the page views, which allows us to charge for advertising, which pays my salary, I'll just give you a snide 'Get a life!' Thanks for stopping by!"
Follow the link to the discussions and read what Michael has to say. He's a pompous ass who will never admit he's ever done anything wrong and will never admit that there's the slightest thing shady about the was Slashdot works. They claim to be so 'open' because they don't delete comments, but they continually 'repress' people with bitchslaps, editor moderations, IP bans and the like without explanation or openness.
As many others have said, all they have to do is make the entire moderation system completely open so that we can all see who has moderated what (users and editors alike) and all this complaining would just fade away. Since they continue to hide something, it makes it seem like they have something to hide, especially when so many regular Slashdot readers are so irritated (myself included) with the way things work. Sure it's their site and they can do whatever they want, but when they claim to be open when there are legitimate complaints about the process that they ignore, there's going to be some flak.
Fortunately, Slashdot doesn't rank real high on my list of priorities, so I don't really care.
As a final note, it will be interesting if I get bitch-slapped or somesuch after this comment since I called Michael a name. Only time will tell...
I don't understand this new line of reasoning that's cropping up. If they had a business model and products/services that all came together to keep them afloat in the first place, they wouldn't have to irritate their customers to make money.
I see your point, but the deal here is that you don't have 37 choices for DVR's. Tivo has had a huge impact on many people's (TV) lives, and they (we) wouldn't want to live without it now that we've grown accustomed to it.
We'll put up with one or two minor annoyances because of all the benefit we receive. If there were several other types of DVR's to choose from, we could just switch.
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Have you grown weed? It's A LOT of work for it to be really good, as in sticky green bud. Sure, you can have some bushy stuff that's ok by just letting some plants grow in your yard, but for "da kine", it's a great deal of ongoing attention: light schedule, early and on ongoing trimming, taking cuttings for the next crop, when to pick, how long to dry, etc.
Windows == MacOS (== Xerox PARC, if you like) :)
:)
Regarding office components:
Word == Wordperfect (== Wordstar or somesuch)
Excel == Lotus 1-2-3 (== Visicalc)
Point being, everyone rips off everyone else. The difference with Microsoft is that they use their OS monopoly to crush the competition. Whether that is OK or not will be debated ad nauseum until MS is no longer in existence.
Microsoft competes with Oracle, what a shock that an update broke their application.
I remember way back when Windows 98 came out, there was an article that listed the top five applications broken by the upgrade from Windows 95. The number one broken application (by number of reports) was Lotus Notes. Very shocking that they were battling Lotus with Exchange.
The article didn't even point it out as being possibly intentional, just printed the list. No one even made a stink about it, which I thought was interesting at the time.
You can call me a foilhat conspiracy theorist if you like but this has happened over and over and over with Microsoft. One eventually begins to question whether these are all truly honest mistakes.
I bank with Washington Mutual, have a CapitolOne VISA card, and have my investments at E*Trade. I used Firefox exclusively and all above sites work flawlessly.
I remember a discussion here on Slashdot a couple of years ago about Mozilla, around the time of ver 0.9.2 or so. At the time CapitolOne didn't work in Mozilla and I had to use IE. A Mozilla developer posted a reply to my question about that, saying that it probably would never get fixed. Then, out of the blue, it started working. Probably around Mozilla 1.2 or so.
That's the only problem I've ever had with a financial institution with any Mozilla products.
Please let me know where I sign up for one of those...
This will be a bit difficult to explain, so please bear with me: Let's say there is some copyrighted code that is found in the Linux kernel. It wasn't supposed to be there, it was put there by someone who wrote the code while at their place of work. This would mean that company holds copyright. This programmer submitted it to the Linux kernel saying it was his own work.
This company would obviously want to have the offending code removed immediately, and I'm sure it would be. But one of my managers at work is of the opinion that if another company had been using the Linux kernel containing the offending code, and they weren't using a distribution that they paid for (Red Hat, Novell/Suse), but rather downloaded it themselves (Debian, say) for free, the company using the offending code would be liable for damages from the company that holds the copyright. His contention is basically "ignorance is no excuse." Since they didn't have the right to use the code, and were using it to run their business, they would be liable for "back license fees" or somesuch.
Comments?
...is now michael's personal forum for his political views? FWIW, I've been planning on voting against the current president for a long time now. Someone like David Duke would have to have received the Democratic nomination in order for me to fail to vote Democratic in November, 2004.
That being said, that's two articles on the current main page posted by michael that have an anti-Bush tone to them. I guess michael doesn't care about being "fair and balanced" as a journalist.
Seriously, I don't want all this stuff in my cel phone. Obviously many people do, or they wouldn't be making this stuff, but I just want a PHONE, preferably one with just a grayscale text display. I don't ever want my phone to crash, y'know?
Does such an animal even exist anymore? Or do you have to get a multi-color screen, mp3 player, etc. etc.???
Here is a chart of SCOX stock over the last 3 months. This makes me very happy, how 'bout you? :)
News.com has an article saying it was all "a misunderstanding". Just released minutes ago, there you go, now you know! :)
I've been something of an IBM supporter for some time. I always buy a Thinkpad when I buy a notebook computer and I and other friends and relatives have had excellent experiences with their tech support and customer service.
Throw in the fact that they have (arguably) done more to increase Linux public mindshare than any other company, and I think quite highly of them.
I guess no company is perfect, but if you had asked me if I thought IBM was capable of something like this, my reply would have been, "No way, IBM takes care of its customers."
How sad...
How frosty is this???
Ok, which one of those pages came first? (LinuxDevices.com or WindowsForDevices.com) They both look amazingly similar.
:)
I guess I could check register.com, but that would require actual work, which I obviously am not capable of since I am posting on Slashdot while 'working'.
About SCO
:) Yeah, they really help people grow their business, don't they. Whenever I, as a software vendor, want to help my customers grow their business, I threaten to sue them.
The SCO Group (Nasdaq: SCOX - News) helps millions of customers in more than 82 countries to grow their businesses everyday.
Wow, is that what they do?
I, like many others, am salivating to see what happens after the hearing on the 23rd. May SCO go down in flames after that, or at least just STFU.
That would be nice, but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to hear that these reports are typed in MS Word and emailed, at least in some places.
ON!!
:)
Even if you're right, d00d, no one will listen. It's just too wacky sounding.
Also, a few points:
-To say that we are 'no longer living in a Democratic Republic' is nonsense. Am I worried about Ashcroft et al infringing on our Constitutional freedoms? Yes. Do I think that corporations have way too much influence in our society overall? Yes. But our court system and system of laws still works, more or less.
-"How are you going to live...When a gallon of gas costs 4 bucks? 5 bucks?" It already does in most of Europe, if not more. They seem to be living ok.
-"We burned 80 billion barrels of oil this year but discovered less than 10 billion." When we run out of oil, we'll find an alternative. We, as humans, are very clever and creative. It may be a (very) troublesome and painful transition, but we'll make it.
-"I certainly have noticed an undercurrent, a sub-text if you will, of this administration to gain more effective control of the Internet and OSS." While the Internet began here in the US, and a large percentage of it still is controlled here, it is truly a worldwide system now. If the US starts over-stepping their bounds with regards to control of the Internet, the rest of the world will route around us. That's the way it was designed in the first place. Again, the US can cause a great deal of difficulty and pain, but they can't control the internet.
And to say that the US is going to gain 'control' of OSS in general is absolutely ludicrous. If the US were to pass some nefarious legislation 'outlawing' OSS (which would never, ever happen, it's legally impossible and IBM, HP, etc. have too many lobbyists to allow it to happen), the rest of the world would, again, 'route around us'.
Just a little kidding here, d00d, but did you go off your meds?
I know I'll get modded down for this, but whatever, I'll be the heretic in this thread (referencing another Slashdot story).
What's the problem here? Seriously, why are so many people so rabidly against this law? I've seen a lot of people in this thread saying something like, "We have laws against copyright infringement, whereas this law makes it illegal to operate a camera in a movie theatre."
WTF?!? I have NEVER had the desire to use a camera in a theatre, nor have any of my friends, nor have I ever seen anyone using a camera in a theatre.
Listen closely: THERE IS NO REASON ANYONE WOULD HAVE A CAMERA IN A THEATRE EXCEPT TO RECORD A MOVIE AND THAT'S ILLEGAL!!
If for some reason someone were using a camera in a theatre for reasons other than recording the movie (recording their friends, seeing who's in the theatre, getting that delicious down-blouse/up-skirt shot), they should rightfully have their ass kicked and get removed from the theatre for interrupting everyone else trying to actually watch the movie!
Sheesh, folks, pick your battles. Is this law a bit draconian? Maybe. Are there other offenses that most would agree are worse that receive lesser sentences? Probably.
But the point is that no one's rights are being infringed here.
Look, I'm no fan of the RIAA or MPAA (I think they're oligarchical monopolies that exist to conrol popular media to keep themselves in power and profitable) but don't let your hatred for them cause you to fight for something that just isn't worth fighting for.
though
thought
through
tough
not to mention:
bough
5, count 'em, 5 different pronunciations for 'ough'. Is any other language this insane?
Correct, but Windows NT/2000/XPPro was supposed to be the replacement for Unix workstations. Linux may not be taking market share directly from Windows, but it is taking market share that Windows was supposed to get (according to MS' PR department, anyway).
I only have a few computer nerd friends. All my other friends' eyes just glaze over when I try to explain the benefits of using Mozilla. So I don't even try any more.
:(
Hey, if they love popups (they aren't usually even aware of the Google Toolbar, for instance), and enjoy the occasional virus or homepage hijacking, they can help themselves.
How sad that most people just don't really seem to care.
Whoa, dude, that's kind of cool. Can I use it? I wanna write a little punk-rock-ish ditty to it.
Actually, hilarity ensues, you asshat! ;)
...but can you really argue with him?
Most definitely. 713 comments may sound like a lot on its face, but do the math: 1 comment per day for 2 years is 730 comments. My other account has a 4-digit UID so that's how many years ago? And I've been in discussions during a rainy evening at home or during a dead period at work where I've easily posted a dozen comments or more in a single sitting. At that rate, it doesn't take long at all to hit hundreds of comments (or more).
Besides, nice attitude of an editor of a website towards someone who's obviously one of his best customers. "Hey, I see you're here a lot and are very active in our community. Instead of thanking you for the page views, which allows us to charge for advertising, which pays my salary, I'll just give you a snide 'Get a life!' Thanks for stopping by!"
Follow the link to the discussions and read what Michael has to say. He's a pompous ass who will never admit he's ever done anything wrong and will never admit that there's the slightest thing shady about the was Slashdot works. They claim to be so 'open' because they don't delete comments, but they continually 'repress' people with bitchslaps, editor moderations, IP bans and the like without explanation or openness.
As many others have said, all they have to do is make the entire moderation system completely open so that we can all see who has moderated what (users and editors alike) and all this complaining would just fade away. Since they continue to hide something, it makes it seem like they have something to hide, especially when so many regular Slashdot readers are so irritated (myself included) with the way things work. Sure it's their site and they can do whatever they want, but when they claim to be open when there are legitimate complaints about the process that they ignore, there's going to be some flak.
Fortunately, Slashdot doesn't rank real high on my list of priorities, so I don't really care.
As a final note, it will be interesting if I get bitch-slapped or somesuch after this comment since I called Michael a name. Only time will tell...
I don't understand this new line of reasoning that's cropping up. If they had a business model and products/services that all came together to keep them afloat in the first place, they wouldn't have to irritate their customers to make money.
I see your point, but the deal here is that you don't have 37 choices for DVR's. Tivo has had a huge impact on many people's (TV) lives, and they (we) wouldn't want to live without it now that we've grown accustomed to it.
We'll put up with one or two minor annoyances because of all the benefit we receive. If there were several other types of DVR's to choose from, we could just switch.
Yeah, 225 horsepower, heated leather seats, killer 11-speaker Bose sound system with subwoofer, great handling, dead reliable.
It's really gay, I hate it.