That has nothing to do with MS. It has everything to do with a good firewall. Put any crappy unpatched version of win9x behind a really good firewall and you now have a very secure OS. Turn off ZoneAlarm and you would be a sitting duck with all the ways to exploit the insecure SMB, the fact that the average MS windows user ALWAYS logs in as a user in the Administrator group, etc. The MS windows update is ANYTHING but excellent. None of the good ms windows admins where I work would touch it to update servers, or any machine for that matter. It has broken one too many machines to be trusted.
You actually trust anyting Tech TV says? They are a bunch of clueless users that just talk about all the current buzz words. There are dozens of holes in even the best patched ms windows os. IE has tons of them, outlook has tons of them. The win32 libs have tons of them. One just came out that affects win9x all the way through ms win2003 with an HTML buffer exploit. No firewall will stop that.
All software will have some exploits from time to time. However, MS has had far too many at the expense of thier users. MS touts the top secret proprietary development model as being so great, yet they have the worst track record for security. Contrast that to OpenBSD where all code is open for anyone to take advantage of, yet they have the best security of all OSes. That is because of the open source, peer review developmente model. MS makes claims that with Linux there is no one to blame when things go wrong, yet with MS thier EULA removes them from ANY possible blame. Just think of the Billions and Billions of USD that MS has cost thier customers because of thier piss poor security practices, things like SQL Slammer, Code Red, Nimda, etc cost an encredible amount of money to fix. Did MS and thier great, hidden, propriety development model help that? No. Sorry, the MS FUD doesn't work.
The reason just windows is because that as much as we hate it, we are in the minority of computer uses, they are not going to Bata test a new technology on a system that only a maximum of 5% of computer users will have.
An internet voting system will most likely be delivered over a web browser. Web browsers work through standard compliant methods such as HTTP, HTML, TCP/IP. What in the hell does IE offer as far as those standards are concerened that any other major browser or OS does not have? Please don't tell me that they are going to try to do this with some stupid, insecure ActiveX control, please, please don't tell me that. The fact is, that this is meant to be the voting system for THE PEOPLE, and we NEED to see every bit of it to make sure that there is no room for foul play. If the US governement tries to push this as the new and only voting system, we must fight back. It is bad enough that our law making politicians are allowed to recieve
bribes from evil monopolies, lets not let our voting system become corrupted.
Exactly. Americans make up only 5% of the worlds population, yet we have 50%+ of the worlds wealth. (Not that I am proud of that greed). However, the one concept that the RIAA/MPAA doesn't seem to get is that Americans love to spend money. We work all week, then get paid. We then pay the bills, put a little away and then want to treat ourselves to some entertainment. Maybe a movie, or dinner, or clothes, whatever. Give the people what they ask for and we will be glad to pay for that service. Treat us as thieves, assume that the only reason we buy a cd burner is to "pirate" and continue to attack us in this manner and you WILL get this type of backlash. I have no pity for the likes of the RIAA/MPAA anymore. If they would just make a service where people could get the music THEY want at a FAIR price using the OS, web browser that THEY want, then the problem would be gone. Sure there will always be a small portion of the population that wants to steal. There is NO way to handle that except on a case by case basis. Go to Walmart, HomeDepot, Lowes, etc. They have a lot of items on display OUTSIDE without anyone guarding it. That is because the feel that the average person WILL pay for goods/services and not steal. The few who do, usually get caught and are handled. However, if Walmart, HomeDepot, Lowes were to treat all thier customers as thieves, then they would not be as large as they are becuase that is not how a customer wants to be treated. Those three large corporations know that they are making a customer for life. In that life time an average American might spend $10,000, $20,000 or more at those stores. It is not worth losing that revenue by treating everyone as a thief to stop those few peopel who are going to steal $50 dollars in goods. If the RIAA/MPAA would wake up and see how much the average American spends on thier goods in a LIFE-TIME, then those few stolen cd's/downloads are not worth it. Except in the case of the RIAA/MPAA, they have assumed that we are all thieves and are trying to stop us all. They charge us taxes on blank media because they think the only use for the media is to pirate. They want to tax burners because they think the only use is to pirate, etc. This type of treatment is what is causing all the backlash. We the customer will not put up with it.
Is it the job of an OS to provide AV detection? What is wrong with MS just leaving it to Norton and McAfee? Those two companies have spent tons of money on R&D and keeping up with the latest viruses. Now MS will use thier monopoly to destroy the market for those two companies and remove competition and choice. However, I use Linux exclusively at home so I don't worry about getting viruses.
I do think that thanks to Mozilla being such a great browser that more sites are doing better. However, that is not always the case. I am a programmer at a fortune 500 company and I constantly pull my hair out over these ASP script kiddies that get hired. The make a web page and say, "it works in IE", and then that is that. There are also still problmes with site that use JavaScript and people don't know how to write simple JavaScript. A lot of sites will use things like form_name.foo when they NEED to use document.form_name.foo. Last week I tried to order some stuff from www.tigerdirect.com and when I tried to use thier shipping calculator, I got a ton of JavaScript errors and was not able to choose the best shipping method. The shipping calculator didn't work because they tried to acces a form element without going through the document object. IE allows this non-standard practice, but Mozilla dies. This is the type of stuff I mean when I say that IE being non-standards compilant has hurt the web an made browser lock-in for many sites.
Gnome is strict about what apps get to be part of the default desktop. That is why there are 1,000s of text editors, yet only one, gedit, is a part of gnome. It does what is needed. If a user wants more apps, then the USER gets to choose, not Gnome. This is also the reason for sites like 5th Toe, which is for Gnome compliant apps that are not part of the default desktop.
If Sherlock was someones open source/free software, then it would not be distributed and "integrated" into the OS. Thus both apps would have to compete on fair grounds. On OS should be a totaly open and application agnostic foundations. An OS needs to have all of its internals available for anyone to build upon and not as a means for a monopoly to take over another part of the playing field. Look at how much MS is controlling and how much more they are taking. They "integrated" a browser to suck up that market and broke away from being standards compliant to lock 90% of the desktop market into using thier browser. They are now "integrating" media player to steal the market way from WinAmp and RealPlayer. They have now purchased an anti-virus app to "integrate" into the os to kill off McAfee and Norton. The sad thing is that Norton and McAfee have put all thier eggs into the MS platform and then MS does a move like this and will render Norton's and McAfee's offerings almost worthless. This is the major problem with a monopoly and this is why I don not support them. I am amazed at how many people continue to be blind to this fact. If people started moving to an OS that was open and agnostic to what applications a user wants to run, then the hardware and software vendors would follow and have thier products on those platforms in no time. They will go where the demand is. For the most part they have stayed with the MS platform because of the monopoly. Every new consumer PC that has been sold for years has only been allowed to have an MS OS on it. MS will not stop until they own every major IT market or we stop them. The government will not stop them because all MS has to do us up thier
bribes
like they did during thier anti-trust case and they will be fine. Start to learn Linux and/or *BSD now. Get your friends and family members to do the same. Email hardware and software makers demanding support for Linux/*BSD. This is the only way to bring choice back.
And that is the point. We want Disney to create. We want EVERYONE to be able to create and not be limeted because of a copyright that lasts 95 years for a corporation or life + 70 years for an idividual. Think about how much material is copyrighted now that people are not able to draw inspiration from because a copyright. 14 years for copyrights and 14 years for patents are the best numbers IMO. 14 years is a long time to profit from a copyrighted work or a patented technology.
Doesn't the trademark just cover the name? If so, someone could release Mikey Mouse, or Stevie Mouse, etc. Or does the trademark also cover the likeness? I think the issues get very confusing. For example, Kellogs corn flakes are a TM of Kellogs. However, there are dozens of other corn flake brand cereal. You just cannot release corn flakes and call them Kellogs Corn Flakes. Wouldn't it be the same for Mickey Mouse? You could release Mickey, though you would have to rename him.
If only you'd seen the look on my 6-year-olds face as Mickey was signing him an autograph in Anaheim. Or the look on mine when I did the same some years ago.
I live 10 miles from Walt Disney World, in Davenport FL USA. I see the point you are trying to make, however, for uncounted years children have been entertained without sacrificing morals. You should have seen the look on my 19 month old daughters face when I sat her in my lap last night and held her as I read to her. You should have seen the look on her face as i went down the slide with her at the park in our neighborhood. You don't need Disney for entertianment. A child wants love and attention, not dumbo and a mouse. I think the experience at Walt Disney World can be "magical" for adults and children. However, it is getting to the point where we as Americans have to constantly compromise our values to support these large corrupted businesses. Disney does have a right to have their voice heard in congress and the senate, however no more then the average American. Why do they have a right to bribe congressmen and senators with millions USD? Where is that in the constitution? Why do they have the right to continually disgregard their end of the copyright bargain by paying off politicians so their copyrights do not expire? Why do we continually allow OUR nation to slide down the crapper so that a few wealthy may continue to grab more power and money? Less then 300 years ago, we fought for our independence from this same crap that is going on now. How much longer should it go on before We The People need to fight to take it back?
Oh stop spreading fud. There is not that much of price difference. A ms windows admin with 2-4 years experience makes an average of $51,907.
While an *nix admin with 2-4 years experience makes an average of $66,418
$14,511 for an employee that can handle up to twice the number of servers is a damn good geal IMO. Also, most *nix admins are generally working with more mission critical servers since that is where *nix has been most used. So it is only natural to pay more. If you had an ms windows or a *nix admin only maintiaing one or two web servers, they would be paid about the same. The fortune 500 company I work for has about 5-10 servers for every one ms windows admin since it takes sooo long to patch and reboot and verify. While we have one senior *nix guy handling about 20 high end solaris boxes with very critical business processes running on it. So it is only logical to pay the *nix guy a little more since he has a far greater responsibility. $14,511 for a larger corp or a government is a drop in the bucket. The company I am at had to pay more then that to hire me as a programmer to the recruiter they hired me through. So stop believing and spreading the MS FUD with all their TCO crap. It just is not true. Especially when you price a system out that is designed to last more then 5 years. I gaurantee those MS TCO figures do not included upgrade fees.
MS does not think this way. The only reason MS Office is on Mac's is because they had a lucrative contract with Apple. MS does not offer software on *nix, and they will not. They simply do not consider selling anything. Their two cash cows are their OS and their office suite. All their other software offerings are nothing compared to those two. Even if you add all the other software sales up, they don't come close to their two cash cows. MS has been trying hard to take over the server platform and especially the data center and they have not done well. They are not going to throw that away to sell a few copies of office or whatever on another OS. So sorry, MS's software will not be platform agnostic ever.
The conclusion, namely that linux is unaffected in all cases is clearly false, as I can think, regardless of my own *opinions* of what chance such an event is said to have, that a judge *could* decide linux was infringing, and that it would be illegal to use it without paying Sco royalties.
Not true. The open nature of Linux will make it VERY easy to remove any offending code and continue on. Sure, anyone that wants to continue to use the offending code will have to pay, however, I don't see anyone doing that. Also, the open nature of Linux will make it VERY easy to replace any funtionality that may have been removed. It is not illegal to reimplement any of the offending code. So, in this respect I think that this document is correct in its assumption that Linux will pretty much be unaffected.
Most of us snickered. Except for the MCSEs - they were impressed. Of course most MCSEs are impressed with a bundle of sticks with a clown hat on top, but I digress.
1) We have single-source logons for all users, even if they migrate workstations.
Been there done that without.net.
2) Users can access their apps and data from anywhere on the network, even offsite.
Same here. This has been a feature of Unix/Linux for many years.
3) Ping times have halved.
Man, you must have had a really bad network. I don't see how just switching you applications to.not will increase ping times. Also, Linux with samba surpasses MS at their own SMB game.
4) You wouldn't believe our uptime, sometimes we go for weeks without rebooting.
Umm, come into the world of Solaris/*BSD/Linux and YOU won't believe our uptimes.
5) The TCO is 1/10th of what it was and we've been able to reduce our IT staff
How does using.net decrease your TCO? I guess you are not factoring in all the application fees, OS license fees, retraining costs, etc. The license fees alone will completely offset ANY benefit of moving to.net.
(maybe this is the real reason the/. readership hates.NET?)
Why would someone on/. hate.net if it truly is a great product? Most people hate it because of WHO it comes from. We all know how that company works and their main goal is to be the ONLY provider of all OSes and appliactions and they use every means possible to lock you in and ensure NO migration paths. Sorry, all.net does is lower the bar for sub-par programmers to produce mediocre solutions that will put you on the "MS Path", which is a path of constant updates, upgrades and expenditures that MS tries to keep at an 18 - 24 month cycle. MS's main goal is to have you upgrade your solutions every 18 - 24 months. They are not in business to provide you with long lasting solutions, otherwise where will there revenue stream come from if everyone doesn't upgrade every 2 years or so? The only thing you get from MS is a band-aid to be applied for an average of 18 - 24 months.
Exaclty. This is the way it is with most benchmarks and especially MS with not allowing benchmarks for most of their applications. This benchmark also appears to be from from 2001. IMO, the 1.4.x JDK/JRE has some nice speed improvements in it.
It is Ximain and GNU that are making mono and dotGNU. Not MS. MS has a beta quality Unix version of it's.net. I will bet you the house that the MS Unix version of.Net will ALWAYS be behind the MS Windows version of.net and NOT function under Linux. MS wants this to be a stepping stone to get Unix stuff moved to MS OSes. It will never be as featurfull as the ms windows version. Your only bet for.net under a unix/linux platform is with mono and dotGNU. MS has not realeased the WinForms, ASP.Net and ADO.Net stuff as ECMA standards. Those three functions will/are the most used parts of.Net. Agian, MS is not doing something here to help "further innovate". Their versions are crafted to tie you to their platform. Mono also runs under ms windows and has implementations of both ADO.NET and ASP.NET. They work with Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM and have SPARC in progress. For.Net to be a great os and platform agnostic solution, we need people like Ximian driving it and not a monopoly like MS. Microsoft's version will only serve to further their empire and lock you in.
A few months ago we got a.Net system to trial and we migrated some of the apps over to it for evaluation. The results showed that.Net was so much faster than java and the support for multi threaded processes far superior. From a technical point of view we wanted to switch but the university wouldn't let us. Switching to.NET would mean swapping from NT to XP and they just wouldn't meet that level of cost.
That is your problem right there. We have a bunch of Java apps running on Solaris which scales FAR, FAR better then ANY MS windows OS can hope for. The VM under ms windows gets really bad after a certain point with trying to manage too many processes or threads. Moving the app from ms windows 2k to solaris fixed the problem. We also moved to Linux and had the same scalabilty as Solaris with a nice little speed boost. You could move those apps right to Linux without all the high costs of OS licenses or Sparc hardware. If you can run NT on it, you can run Linux and get a nice speed/performance boost, thansk to Tux. Also, what JDK/JRE are you using? The 1.4.X versions have a nice increase in performance especially under Linux.
I read that. Though I tought it was just in Canada. How in the hell did they justify that? Did they prove that a majority of blank CD-R/RW usage was for "piracy"?
has it been the job of the US citizens to support the RIAA/MPAA business model or any business model for that matter?
From the article:
Weiss said the recording industry should lobby for special taxes on CD burners and Internet access as a way to recoup losses incurred from file sharing
When has it become our duty as US citizens to make sure that any business model succeeds? If a business cannot adapt its business model for each new generation, then it deserves to go down in flames. The sad thing is that something like the above could happen. The dirty RIAA/MPAA with their dirty money will bribe the prostitutes of congress and have them pass a bill that allows them to tax all internet usage or all cd burner purchases. As if the only possible reasons we dirty citizens use the internet or buy a cd burner is to steal their crapppy music. This crap makes me mad.
I agree. And if you are going to test Apples fastest dual G5, then test it against Intels fastest Dual processor as well. If you are going to test a $3,000 dollar G5, then test against a dual Inetl P4 with the best stuff you can get for $3,000. Tests should be fair across the board and then you can see what is the best you can get for that $3,000. I have my money on a $3,000 Inetl setup over a $3,000 Apple setup.
How the hell is this informative? This is some MS weeine skirting around the issues. MS got off very easy because of "persuasion". They can't even comply with the settlement. Please tell me where all these formerly hidden API's are now published? Oh, and if they say they have now release ALL API's, how in the hell are we to know they are not lying? Do we have the source code to be certain that all API's are released? Also, please tell me how not offering IE anymore and making it a "fully intergrated" part of the desktop compling? As if that was not enough, they are doing the same thing with MS Media Player. It is "integrated" into MS windows 2003. How is this in compliance? It is just MS trying to kill off user choice for a browser, media player and anything else no-ms. MS will not stop until every software application is MS only running on an MS OS, Or a "real" judge finally breaks them up just like Ma Bell. Any endevour they get involved in is not to offer a product for consumers and to compete. It is to use whatever monopolistic practices they can to completly remove the competiton so there is no choice but the MS choice. You keep being an MS-Weenie(tm) and in 5 to 10 years the only choice you will have with an "MS Solution" is what resolution to run your desktop at.
I think this is a nice approach for newer users. They just run the file and it gets everything installed for them. Now if only the major distributions would distribute the NVidia driver, more users can have a better out of the box experience.
Damn our US government sucks. This is so typical. Whenever there is possible legislation that would actually benefit the poeople, there are some dirty lobbiest to hand out money and even dirtier politicians to collect it.
Will the US government ever wake up? Will the politicians stop their corruption? What steps do we need to take to restore our deomocracy so that it is not run by big corporate America and all their paid for votes from their paid for politicians?
I think We the People need to think about using our constitutional rights to use force and bear arms against the government to restructure it to a functioning body again. OK, who is with me?
I've got Mandrake 9.1 running beside Windows2K Pro on an NForce2 MB with a GeForce 4 ti 4400 graphics card. The onboard NIC doesn't work in Linux. The Buolt in sound is iffy. The Nvidia board is not accelerated. Under Windows the NIC works, the sound is fine and the video is accelerated. Out of the flipping box. No bullshit. No recompiling. No problem.
What Nic card is it? I bet it works fine. Did you actually even try to install the drivers from, uhh, www.nvidia.com? They use a common code base so all of the features that are there for MS windows are there for Linux. Maybe try to educate yourself on a topic before you spout out crap. I have installed MS windows hundreds of times and and tons of hardware that did not work until I installed a driver. It is no different for Linux. You can't gripe about having an non-accelerated NVidia card when NVidia puts out a great driver. They have a driver for their NForce stuff for Linux as well.
Linux has come a LONG way since I first used it back in 1993. It's actually to a point where most people might have a chance of actually getting some use out of it. But be realistic. It's not ready for prime time yet.
Whose prime time? Your prime time? I guess Oracle, IBM, HP, DELL, SAP, PeopleSoft and tons of other big players are just wasting their time and efforts? I do believe that an OS has far more capabilities then to just play a game. Go buy a PS2, GameCube, XBox, etc. if you want all the games.
Linux may be fine FOR YOU, but it's not for everyone. Quake, UT, AA and Tux Racer may be all the games you need, but not everyone likes such a limited selection.
Just as Linux may not be FOR YOU, don't try to speak for everyone. I am playing RTCW under Linux now and I get better framerates then under an ms windows OS. Here is a list of some games I see out for Linux natively or work perfectly with Wine:
RTCW
Ballistics
Bandits: Phoenix Rising
Candy Cruncher
Creatures Internet Edition
Disciples 2: Dark Prophecy
Hyperspace Delivery Boy
Majesty Gold
Mindrover
Mindrover Downloadable Update
NingPo MahJong
Soul Ride
Max Payne
Kohan - Immortal Sovereigns For Linux
The Sims (Mandrake Gaming Edition)
Hoyle Card Games 5
Diablo 2
Resident Evil 2
Commandos Behind Enemy Lines
Hoyle Casino 5
Megaman X5
Aces High
Kohan - Ahriman's Gift
Incubation
Shadowman
K Hawk: Survival Instinct
Steel Panthers World At War
Gunman Chronicles
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
Blade Runner
Die Siedler 4
You Dont Know Jack Television
Tropico 2 - Pirate Cove
Jump Start Preschool
3D Mark 2000
Black and White
Fallout 2
Manx TT SuperBike
The Last Express
BlitzIn 2
Crazy Marbles
Warcraft III
Sudden Strike Forever
SimTower
Mortal Kombat IV
Moraff's Maximum Mahjongg V2
Deep Space Nine: The Fallen
Carmageddon 3
Train Town
There a hundreds more that work great in WineX
with either a 5 or 4 out of 5 rating.
You blind elitism is doing more to harm Linux than it is to help it.
And your ignorance for Linux does more harm then good as well.
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That has nothing to do with MS. It has everything to do with a good firewall. Put any crappy unpatched version of win9x behind a really good firewall and you now have a very secure OS. Turn off ZoneAlarm and you would be a sitting duck with all the ways to exploit the insecure SMB, the fact that the average MS windows user ALWAYS logs in as a user in the Administrator group, etc. The MS windows update is ANYTHING but excellent. None of the good ms windows admins where I work would touch it to update servers, or any machine for that matter. It has broken one too many machines to be trusted.
You actually trust anyting Tech TV says? They are a bunch of clueless users that just talk about all the current buzz words. There are dozens of holes in even the best patched ms windows os. IE has tons of them, outlook has tons of them. The win32 libs have tons of them. One just came out that affects win9x all the way through ms win2003 with an HTML buffer exploit. No firewall will stop that.
All software will have some exploits from time to time. However, MS has had far too many at the expense of thier users. MS touts the top secret proprietary development model as being so great, yet they have the worst track record for security. Contrast that to OpenBSD where all code is open for anyone to take advantage of, yet they have the best security of all OSes. That is because of the open source, peer review developmente model. MS makes claims that with Linux there is no one to blame when things go wrong, yet with MS thier EULA removes them from ANY possible blame. Just think of the Billions and Billions of USD that MS has cost thier customers because of thier piss poor security practices, things like SQL Slammer, Code Red, Nimda, etc cost an encredible amount of money to fix. Did MS and thier great, hidden, propriety development model help that? No. Sorry, the MS FUD doesn't work.
Exactly. Americans make up only 5% of the worlds population, yet we have 50%+ of the worlds wealth. (Not that I am proud of that greed). However, the one concept that the RIAA/MPAA doesn't seem to get is that Americans love to spend money. We work all week, then get paid. We then pay the bills, put a little away and then want to treat ourselves to some entertainment. Maybe a movie, or dinner, or clothes, whatever. Give the people what they ask for and we will be glad to pay for that service. Treat us as thieves, assume that the only reason we buy a cd burner is to "pirate" and continue to attack us in this manner and you WILL get this type of backlash. I have no pity for the likes of the RIAA/MPAA anymore. If they would just make a service where people could get the music THEY want at a FAIR price using the OS, web browser that THEY want, then the problem would be gone. Sure there will always be a small portion of the population that wants to steal. There is NO way to handle that except on a case by case basis. Go to Walmart, HomeDepot, Lowes, etc. They have a lot of items on display OUTSIDE without anyone guarding it. That is because the feel that the average person WILL pay for goods/services and not steal. The few who do, usually get caught and are handled. However, if Walmart, HomeDepot, Lowes were to treat all thier customers as thieves, then they would not be as large as they are becuase that is not how a customer wants to be treated. Those three large corporations know that they are making a customer for life. In that life time an average American might spend $10,000, $20,000 or more at those stores. It is not worth losing that revenue by treating everyone as a thief to stop those few peopel who are going to steal $50 dollars in goods. If the RIAA/MPAA would wake up and see how much the average American spends on thier goods in a LIFE-TIME, then those few stolen cd's/downloads are not worth it. Except in the case of the RIAA/MPAA, they have assumed that we are all thieves and are trying to stop us all. They charge us taxes on blank media because they think the only use for the media is to pirate. They want to tax burners because they think the only use is to pirate, etc. This type of treatment is what is causing all the backlash. We the customer will not put up with it.
Is it the job of an OS to provide AV detection? What is wrong with MS just leaving it to Norton and McAfee? Those two companies have spent tons of money on R&D and keeping up with the latest viruses. Now MS will use thier monopoly to destroy the market for those two companies and remove competition and choice. However, I use Linux exclusively at home so I don't worry about getting viruses.
I do think that thanks to Mozilla being such a great browser that more sites are doing better. However, that is not always the case. I am a programmer at a fortune 500 company and I constantly pull my hair out over these ASP script kiddies that get hired. The make a web page and say, "it works in IE", and then that is that. There are also still problmes with site that use JavaScript and people don't know how to write simple JavaScript. A lot of sites will use things like form_name.foo when they NEED to use document.form_name.foo. Last week I tried to order some stuff from www.tigerdirect.com and when I tried to use thier shipping calculator, I got a ton of JavaScript errors and was not able to choose the best shipping method. The shipping calculator didn't work because they tried to acces a form element without going through the document object. IE allows this non-standard practice, but Mozilla dies. This is the type of stuff I mean when I say that IE being non-standards compilant has hurt the web an made browser lock-in for many sites.
Gnome is strict about what apps get to be part of the default desktop. That is why there are 1,000s of text editors, yet only one, gedit, is a part of gnome. It does what is needed. If a user wants more apps, then the USER gets to choose, not Gnome. This is also the reason for sites like 5th Toe, which is for Gnome compliant apps that are not part of the default desktop.
If Sherlock was someones open source/free software, then it would not be distributed and "integrated" into the OS. Thus both apps would have to compete on fair grounds. On OS should be a totaly open and application agnostic foundations. An OS needs to have all of its internals available for anyone to build upon and not as a means for a monopoly to take over another part of the playing field. Look at how much MS is controlling and how much more they are taking. They "integrated" a browser to suck up that market and broke away from being standards compliant to lock 90% of the desktop market into using thier browser. They are now "integrating" media player to steal the market way from WinAmp and RealPlayer. They have now purchased an anti-virus app to "integrate" into the os to kill off McAfee and Norton. The sad thing is that Norton and McAfee have put all thier eggs into the MS platform and then MS does a move like this and will render Norton's and McAfee's offerings almost worthless. This is the major problem with a monopoly and this is why I don not support them. I am amazed at how many people continue to be blind to this fact. If people started moving to an OS that was open and agnostic to what applications a user wants to run, then the hardware and software vendors would follow and have thier products on those platforms in no time. They will go where the demand is. For the most part they have stayed with the MS platform because of the monopoly. Every new consumer PC that has been sold for years has only been allowed to have an MS OS on it. MS will not stop until they own every major IT market or we stop them. The government will not stop them because all MS has to do us up thier bribes like they did during thier anti-trust case and they will be fine. Start to learn Linux and/or *BSD now. Get your friends and family members to do the same. Email hardware and software makers demanding support for Linux/*BSD. This is the only way to bring choice back.
And that is the point. We want Disney to create. We want EVERYONE to be able to create and not be limeted because of a copyright that lasts 95 years for a corporation or life + 70 years for an idividual. Think about how much material is copyrighted now that people are not able to draw inspiration from because a copyright. 14 years for copyrights and 14 years for patents are the best numbers IMO. 14 years is a long time to profit from a copyrighted work or a patented technology.
Doesn't the trademark just cover the name? If so, someone could release Mikey Mouse, or Stevie Mouse, etc. Or does the trademark also cover the likeness? I think the issues get very confusing. For example, Kellogs corn flakes are a TM of Kellogs. However, there are dozens of other corn flake brand cereal. You just cannot release corn flakes and call them Kellogs Corn Flakes. Wouldn't it be the same for Mickey Mouse? You could release Mickey, though you would have to rename him.
Oh stop spreading fud. There is not that much of price difference. A ms windows admin with 2-4 years experience makes an average of $51,907. While an *nix admin with 2-4 years experience makes an average of $66,418 $14,511 for an employee that can handle up to twice the number of servers is a damn good geal IMO. Also, most *nix admins are generally working with more mission critical servers since that is where *nix has been most used. So it is only natural to pay more. If you had an ms windows or a *nix admin only maintiaing one or two web servers, they would be paid about the same. The fortune 500 company I work for has about 5-10 servers for every one ms windows admin since it takes sooo long to patch and reboot and verify. While we have one senior *nix guy handling about 20 high end solaris boxes with very critical business processes running on it. So it is only logical to pay the *nix guy a little more since he has a far greater responsibility. $14,511 for a larger corp or a government is a drop in the bucket. The company I am at had to pay more then that to hire me as a programmer to the recruiter they hired me through. So stop believing and spreading the MS FUD with all their TCO crap. It just is not true. Especially when you price a system out that is designed to last more then 5 years. I gaurantee those MS TCO figures do not included upgrade fees.
MS does not think this way. The only reason MS Office is on Mac's is because they had a lucrative contract with Apple. MS does not offer software on *nix, and they will not. They simply do not consider selling anything. Their two cash cows are their OS and their office suite. All their other software offerings are nothing compared to those two. Even if you add all the other software sales up, they don't come close to their two cash cows. MS has been trying hard to take over the server platform and especially the data center and they have not done well. They are not going to throw that away to sell a few copies of office or whatever on another OS. So sorry, MS's software will not be platform agnostic ever.
Same here. This has been a feature of Unix/Linux for many years.
Man, you must have had a really bad network. I don't see how just switching you applications to
Umm, come into the world of Solaris/*BSD/Linux and YOU won't believe our uptimes.
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Exaclty. This is the way it is with most benchmarks and especially MS with not allowing benchmarks for most of their applications. This benchmark also appears to be from from 2001. IMO, the 1.4.x JDK/JRE has some nice speed improvements in it.
It is Ximain and GNU that are making mono and dotGNU. Not MS. MS has a beta quality Unix version of it's .net. I will bet you the house that the MS Unix version of .Net will ALWAYS be behind the MS Windows version of .net and NOT function under Linux. MS wants this to be a stepping stone to get Unix stuff moved to MS OSes. It will never be as featurfull as the ms windows version. Your only bet for .net under a unix/linux platform is with mono and dotGNU. MS has not realeased the WinForms, ASP.Net and ADO.Net stuff as ECMA standards. Those three functions will/are the most used parts of .Net. Agian, MS is not doing something here to help "further innovate". Their versions are crafted to tie you to their platform. Mono also runs under ms windows and has implementations of both ADO.NET and ASP.NET. They work with Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM and have SPARC in progress. For .Net to be a great os and platform agnostic solution, we need people like Ximian driving it and not a monopoly like MS. Microsoft's version will only serve to further their empire and lock you in.
I read that. Though I tought it was just in Canada. How in the hell did they justify that? Did they prove that a majority of blank CD-R/RW usage was for "piracy"?
Do you have that list of IP's or ranges? We could make up some IPTables rules to block the RIAA/MPAA for *nix users.
From the article:
When has it become our duty as US citizens to make sure that any business model succeeds? If a business cannot adapt its business model for each new generation, then it deserves to go down in flames. The sad thing is that something like the above could happen. The dirty RIAA/MPAA with their dirty money will bribe the prostitutes of congress and have them pass a bill that allows them to tax all internet usage or all cd burner purchases. As if the only possible reasons we dirty citizens use the internet or buy a cd burner is to steal their crapppy music. This crap makes me mad.
I agree. And if you are going to test Apples fastest dual G5, then test it against Intels fastest Dual processor as well. If you are going to test a $3,000 dollar G5, then test against a dual Inetl P4 with the best stuff you can get for $3,000. Tests should be fair across the board and then you can see what is the best you can get for that $3,000. I have my money on a $3,000 Inetl setup over a $3,000 Apple setup.
How the hell is this informative? This is some MS weeine skirting around the issues. MS got off very easy because of "persuasion". They can't even comply with the settlement. Please tell me where all these formerly hidden API's are now published? Oh, and if they say they have now release ALL API's, how in the hell are we to know they are not lying? Do we have the source code to be certain that all API's are released? Also, please tell me how not offering IE anymore and making it a "fully intergrated" part of the desktop compling? As if that was not enough, they are doing the same thing with MS Media Player. It is "integrated" into MS windows 2003. How is this in compliance? It is just MS trying to kill off user choice for a browser, media player and anything else no-ms. MS will not stop until every software application is MS only running on an MS OS, Or a "real" judge finally breaks them up just like Ma Bell. Any endevour they get involved in is not to offer a product for consumers and to compete. It is to use whatever monopolistic practices they can to completly remove the competiton so there is no choice but the MS choice. You keep being an MS-Weenie(tm) and in 5 to 10 years the only choice you will have with an "MS Solution" is what resolution to run your desktop at.
I think this is a nice approach for newer users. They just run the file and it gets everything installed for them. Now if only the major distributions would distribute the NVidia driver, more users can have a better out of the box experience.
Damn our US government sucks. This is so typical. Whenever there is possible legislation that would actually benefit the poeople, there are some dirty lobbiest to hand out money and even dirtier politicians to collect it.
Will the US government ever wake up? Will the politicians stop their corruption? What steps do we need to take to restore our deomocracy so that it is not run by big corporate America and all their paid for votes from their paid for politicians?
I think We the People need to think about using our constitutional rights to use force and bear arms against the government to restructure it to a functioning body again. OK, who is with me?
RTCW
Ballistics
Bandits: Phoenix Rising
Candy Cruncher
Creatures Internet Edition
Disciples 2: Dark Prophecy
Hyperspace Delivery Boy
Majesty Gold
Mindrover
Mindrover Downloadable Update
NingPo MahJong
Soul Ride
Max Payne
Kohan - Immortal Sovereigns For Linux
The Sims (Mandrake Gaming Edition)
Hoyle Card Games 5
Diablo 2
Resident Evil 2
Commandos Behind Enemy Lines
Hoyle Casino 5
Megaman X5
Aces High
Kohan - Ahriman's Gift
Incubation
Shadowman
K Hawk: Survival Instinct
Steel Panthers World At War
Gunman Chronicles
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
Blade Runner
Die Siedler 4
You Dont Know Jack Television
Tropico 2 - Pirate Cove
Jump Start Preschool
3D Mark 2000
Black and White
Fallout 2
Manx TT SuperBike
The Last Express
BlitzIn 2
Crazy Marbles
Warcraft III
Sudden Strike Forever
SimTower
Mortal Kombat IV
Moraff's Maximum Mahjongg V2
Deep Space Nine: The Fallen
Carmageddon 3
Train Town
There a hundreds more that work great in WineX with either a 5 or 4 out of 5 rating. And your ignorance for Linux does more harm then good as well.