My first post was supportive of the DGA's efforts.
However, Hollywood is probably the most guilty party when it comes to bastardizing source material. I listed three books in my first post, Tom Sawyer, Brave New Worlds and the Scarlet Letter. On reflection, everyone of these great books have been totally reinvented on celluloid.
In fact, most of my favorite books have been chopped by tinsletown:
The Postman took the title character and made him into one of the most unlikeable heroes ever. In the book it was mistaken identity in the movie he was a complete fraud.
Starship Troopers took infantry to the extreme, where a single soldier commanded miles of terrain. In the movie it was mob left, mob right, mob runaway. Even the starships were a mob in space.
"The isochronous network, developed with input from Nintendo Co. Ltd., Sony Corp. and other game platform developers"
Gee, I wonder who that could be. Could it be, hmm, I don't know....SATAN!
Only a Slashdot posting could be so bold. Don't you guys profess to be about openness? Don't you guys whine every time someone tries to shut you up? Don't you guys want every secret about every protocol written by whoever?
The truth is that the average user (i.e. MS USER) needs to be a little paranoid about file types and such.
You should be required to add 'on x86 processors' everytime you say monopoly. It's sad that our government can make such a narrow definition that is so pivotal to the entire case and then have it be ignored after the fact. There should be a more realistic model of the computing industry. But then that would have defeated the whole case from the begining. After all, how do you even compare a 486 running win 3.1 to a solaris workstation or an IBM as400. How many users can an IBM as400 support concurrently? Alot more than windows.
What's Microsoft's OS market share if you factor in all the strongArm, motorolla, mips, powerPC, etc chips in the world. I doubt bery bery much that it's anywhere near a monopoly and judging from the adoption rate of Microsoft on handhelds, cell phones and embedded products, I'd bet that the real percentage is getting lower all the time.
Let's just keep it real.
Who the phuckamania cares what other freaks are running? My linux box can be running IPV4 or IPV6, doesn't help the adoption of IPV6 if I never run it in IPV6 mode. True for windows, apple, hpux and every other os. Sweet linus can you folks please not bring the devil into every conversation? Stare into the abyss long enough and you will find it staring back.
Huckamania running wild!
This piece was definately written for the kiddies here on/. and it contains as much fud as the ms piece. Here are my criticisms...
According to Lineo, nothing in the entire universe is not supported by Linux because someone will volunteer to write it for you or you can write it yourself you lazy bastard. This is amazing. I guess GM and Ford can call all of their cars electric since they could actually replace all of the engines.
IE is less compatable because it includes ms extensions. That doesn't make it less compatable. If that's the argument than it don't work.
Java is not agreed upon by organizations and companies. Unless Sun has split into multiple companies and organizations. Java is still owned by Sun, is still mostly interpreted and still slower than something written with the os in mind.
Linux has multiple GUI's. If your product needs a gui and you want to have the largest pool of customers to draw form than that is an issue. In my mind the lack of a common GUI is what keeps Linux from grabbing more desktop space. Lineo's answer is par for the course, support them all you lazy bastard and not only that but be glad you have the freedom to choose and differentiate.
Fighting FUD with FUD is a losing proposition. Fighting MS FUD with Linux FUD is also counter-productive and playing into their hands.
I guess all the time I've been spending playing Civ III accounts for the last 1%. I remember when all I did on my computer was write and print letters, oh wait, that was a typewriter.
...should be the realization that our entire race is on a ball of dirt rotating around a ball of fire that is rotating around a nucleus of black holes at the center of our galaxy which is hurtling away from the center of the universe. Globalization should lead to improving our ball of dirt and trying to get some people permanently off our ball of dirt. Unfortunately, nobody is selling that, governments or corporations. We have government sponsored idiots trying to terraform Mars (a dry ball of dirt with no atmosphere) and the closest we come to terraforming our own planet is Palm Springs. We have the Clipper Graham which could launch multiple times in a week and a government that picks a design so unworkable that the contractor actually gave up before the contract ran out.
Unfortunately, globalization only means the ability to sell things like pokemon, windoze and American Pie, even if some other region doesn't want to buy them.
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My first post was supportive of the DGA's efforts.
However, Hollywood is probably the most guilty party when it comes to bastardizing source material. I listed three books in my first post, Tom Sawyer, Brave New Worlds and the Scarlet Letter. On reflection, everyone of these great books have been totally reinvented on celluloid.
In fact, most of my favorite books have been chopped by tinsletown:
The Postman took the title character and made him into one of the most unlikeable heroes ever. In the book it was mistaken identity in the movie he was a complete fraud.
Starship Troopers took infantry to the extreme, where a single soldier commanded miles of terrain. In the movie it was mob left, mob right, mob runaway. Even the starships were a mob in space.
So in hindsight I have to say "Screw em!".
No one would allow or even argue that it is okay for anybody but the author of a book to edit and remarket a book without objectionable content.
Imagine "Tom Sawyer" without slavery.
Imagine "Brave New Worlds" without drug use.
Imagine "The Scarlet Letter" without adultery.
You get the point. It's not like these movies are released under an open source licensing agreement.
"The isochronous network, developed with input from Nintendo Co. Ltd., Sony Corp. and other game platform developers" Gee, I wonder who that could be. Could it be, hmm, I don't know....SATAN!
Only a Slashdot posting could be so bold. Don't you guys profess to be about openness? Don't you guys whine every time someone tries to shut you up? Don't you guys want every secret about every protocol written by whoever? The truth is that the average user (i.e. MS USER) needs to be a little paranoid about file types and such.
You should be required to add 'on x86 processors' everytime you say monopoly. It's sad that our government can make such a narrow definition that is so pivotal to the entire case and then have it be ignored after the fact. There should be a more realistic model of the computing industry. But then that would have defeated the whole case from the begining. After all, how do you even compare a 486 running win 3.1 to a solaris workstation or an IBM as400. How many users can an IBM as400 support concurrently? Alot more than windows. What's Microsoft's OS market share if you factor in all the strongArm, motorolla, mips, powerPC, etc chips in the world. I doubt bery bery much that it's anywhere near a monopoly and judging from the adoption rate of Microsoft on handhelds, cell phones and embedded products, I'd bet that the real percentage is getting lower all the time. Let's just keep it real.
Who the phuckamania cares what other freaks are running? My linux box can be running IPV4 or IPV6, doesn't help the adoption of IPV6 if I never run it in IPV6 mode. True for windows, apple, hpux and every other os. Sweet linus can you folks please not bring the devil into every conversation? Stare into the abyss long enough and you will find it staring back. Huckamania running wild!
and your still screaming, all the time, about anything and everything, which is why the only people who listen are fellow screamers.
This piece was definately written for the kiddies here on /. and it contains as much fud as the ms piece. Here are my criticisms...
According to Lineo, nothing in the entire universe is not supported by Linux because someone will volunteer to write it for you or you can write it yourself you lazy bastard. This is amazing. I guess GM and Ford can call all of their cars electric since they could actually replace all of the engines.
IE is less compatable because it includes ms extensions. That doesn't make it less compatable. If that's the argument than it don't work.
Java is not agreed upon by organizations and companies. Unless Sun has split into multiple companies and organizations. Java is still owned by Sun, is still mostly interpreted and still slower than something written with the os in mind.
Linux has multiple GUI's. If your product needs a gui and you want to have the largest pool of customers to draw form than that is an issue. In my mind the lack of a common GUI is what keeps Linux from grabbing more desktop space. Lineo's answer is par for the course, support them all you lazy bastard and not only that but be glad you have the freedom to choose and differentiate.
Fighting FUD with FUD is a losing proposition. Fighting MS FUD with Linux FUD is also counter-productive and playing into their hands.
I guess all the time I've been spending playing Civ III accounts for the last 1%. I remember when all I did on my computer was write and print letters, oh wait, that was a typewriter.
...should be the realization that our entire race is on a ball of dirt rotating around a ball of fire that is rotating around a nucleus of black holes at the center of our galaxy which is hurtling away from the center of the universe. Globalization should lead to improving our ball of dirt and trying to get some people permanently off our ball of dirt. Unfortunately, nobody is selling that, governments or corporations. We have government sponsored idiots trying to terraform Mars (a dry ball of dirt with no atmosphere) and the closest we come to terraforming our own planet is Palm Springs. We have the Clipper Graham which could launch multiple times in a week and a government that picks a design so unworkable that the contractor actually gave up before the contract ran out. Unfortunately, globalization only means the ability to sell things like pokemon, windoze and American Pie, even if some other region doesn't want to buy them.