Microsoft is planning a closed-source car. The keys to the car are, of course, proprietary so consumers are not allowed to use them. However, Microsoft will leave the windows open all the time so consumers are free to use the car at anytime as long as they agree never to pop-the-hood. This car is not available for lease although you and every passenger must purchase a special "per-seat" licence of Car 1.0 for at least twice the cost of a regular open-sourced car.
Mozilla exists to be a really good browser. Mozilla doesn't exist to break M$'s balls and that's why it keeps getting better. Let's face it, if all they did was try to be better than Microsoft they'd be just like the zillions of other sucky open-source projects that suffer from the wrong motivation.
"Build a better toilet-paper, and every asshole will come running" -R
Actually there was an article on Slate or one of those other MSN-related sites that showed the top-50 all-time highest grossing movies, based on figures adjusted for inflation. The number one movie of all time is (drum-roll please...) "Gone with the Wind". In adjusted figures, this movie grossed about 1.1 BILLION dollars U.S.-- the next closest was Star Wars with about 900 mil.
I can't find the original article but I Googled "top 50 movies gross adjusted inflation" and found this
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they're just movies. Besides, Clones played in less theatres, and kids are just plain stupid and relative to the rest of the movie fare out there, they threw away just as much money at both Spiderman and Clones.
Without education/exposure, no matter how well-intentioned or well-selected the change is, it would be doomed to catastrophe without getting the users onside first.
Often it's not the fact that they see something new and different, it just stresses a user out if they see they have to spend time re-learning instead of getting their 'real' work done...
Its just the same old broken record. It was only five years ago when RealPlayer went into "partnership" with M$ to extend Real's innovation with streaming media and lo-and-behold, eight months into the deal M$ pulls out citing all sorts of difficulties and problems and four months after that *poof* Windows Media Player is launched with M$'s own proprietary media format.
Doesn't anybody remember those old movies where the guy makes a deal with the devil, only to get burned later on?
If you ask me it's their own fault if they're going to fall for M$'s tired old shell game.
The "Gated Community" comment just shows how bad an idea it really is-- The level of isolation they aspire to sell to the public seems to me the exact opposite of the meaning of 'The Internet'.
Is this what things are coming to?
Since the 80's the Internet has been opening up the world, now it's going to be shuttered off piece-by-piece in the interest of making a quick buck.
My favourite online community was the Trojan Room cafeteria web cam-- no I'm not kidding I really wanted to know how the coffee pot was doing.
As a coffeedrinker I found it fascinating and I've asked for a similar web cam here but everybody thinks I'm joking.
Considering the community this web cam serves is on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean I guess I'm only involved in this community out of a sense of long-distance voyeurism...
In Dublin, Ireland some of the crosswalks had countdown-style clocks. Although jaywalking was pretty bad all over the city, wherever these clocks appeared everybody waited for the right time to cross... I think it helped people realize that they weren't stopping for quite as long is it felt because they could see the 20-30 seconds tick away before their eyes.
Maybe people would be less likely to run the red lights if they knew how long they were waiting...
The translated reply to Microsoft Peru by the congressman is a work of art. The case stated in the letter does more for the free software movement than 100,000 posts on Slashdot.
...Well copyright laws are just getting applied wrong and until we tell lawyers to start doing their jobs properly they're going to keep doing stuff like this (if you got paid thousands of dallars to draft stupid warnings like Wired News got you would, wouldn't you? You'd go out and find ways to generate more warnings too, and you'd agree with anyone who asked you to write one too!)
Ask a bushman in Botswana how Quantum Mechanics helps him feed his family...
Ask anybody on the subway ride in to work tomorrow morning if knowing Coulomb's Laws will change their plans for the weekend.
...What a bad article. Starting off by claiming Apache 2 outperforms IIS in their very own tests, yet making not one iota of these alleged "tests" available. Really an artivle like this does a dis-service to Apache and Linux, smacking of evangelism.
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Resistance to learning is not a new thing-- You've heard of the "Flat-Earth Society"?
The Rocjoe Institute is reporting that under some conditions, Windows *may* crash...
Microsoft is planning a closed-source car. The keys to the car are, of course, proprietary so consumers are not allowed to use them. However, Microsoft will leave the windows open all the time so consumers are free to use the car at anytime as long as they agree never to pop-the-hood. This car is not available for lease although you and every passenger must purchase a special "per-seat" licence of Car 1.0 for at least twice the cost of a regular open-sourced car.
Mozilla exists to be a really good browser. Mozilla doesn't exist to break M$'s balls and that's why it keeps getting better. Let's face it, if all they did was try to be better than Microsoft they'd be just like the zillions of other sucky open-source projects that suffer from the wrong motivation.
"Build a better toilet-paper, and every asshole will come running" -R
Actually there was an article on Slate or one of those other MSN-related sites that showed the top-50 all-time highest grossing movies, based on figures adjusted for inflation. The number one movie of all time is (drum-roll please...) "Gone with the Wind". In adjusted figures, this movie grossed about 1.1 BILLION dollars U.S.-- the next closest was Star Wars with about 900 mil.
I can't find the original article but I Googled "top 50 movies gross adjusted inflation" and found this .
they're just movies. Besides, Clones played in less theatres, and kids are just plain stupid and relative to the rest of the movie fare out there, they threw away just as much money at both Spiderman and Clones.
Is there a Nobel Prize for Open Source yet? This guy should get the first one.
Listen to this guy!
Without education/exposure, no matter how well-intentioned or well-selected the change is, it would be doomed to catastrophe without getting the users onside first.
Often it's not the fact that they see something new and different, it just stresses a user out if they see they have to spend time re-learning instead of getting their 'real' work done...
Its just the same old broken record. It was only five years ago when RealPlayer went into "partnership" with M$ to extend Real's innovation with streaming media and lo-and-behold, eight months into the deal M$ pulls out citing all sorts of difficulties and problems and four months after that *poof* Windows Media Player is launched with M$'s own proprietary media format.
Doesn't anybody remember those old movies where the guy makes a deal with the devil, only to get burned later on?
If you ask me it's their own fault if they're going to fall for M$'s tired old shell game.
The "Gated Community" comment just shows how bad an idea it really is-- The level of isolation they aspire to sell to the public seems to me the exact opposite of the meaning of 'The Internet'.
Is this what things are coming to?
Since the 80's the Internet has been opening up the world, now it's going to be shuttered off piece-by-piece in the interest of making a quick buck.
My favourite online community was the Trojan Room cafeteria web cam-- no I'm not kidding I really wanted to know how the coffee pot was doing.
As a coffeedrinker I found it fascinating and I've asked for a similar web cam here but everybody thinks I'm joking.
Considering the community this web cam serves is on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean I guess I'm only involved in this community out of a sense of long-distance voyeurism...
...but I can get help for that.
In Dublin, Ireland some of the crosswalks had countdown-style clocks. Although jaywalking was pretty bad all over the city, wherever these clocks appeared everybody waited for the right time to cross... I think it helped people realize that they weren't stopping for quite as long is it felt because they could see the 20-30 seconds tick away before their eyes.
Maybe people would be less likely to run the red lights if they knew how long they were waiting...
The translated reply to Microsoft Peru by the congressman is a work of art. The case stated in the letter does more for the free software movement than 100,000 posts on Slashdot.
...Well copyright laws are just getting applied wrong and until we tell lawyers to start doing their jobs properly they're going to keep doing stuff like this (if you got paid thousands of dallars to draft stupid warnings like Wired News got you would, wouldn't you? You'd go out and find ways to generate more warnings too, and you'd agree with anyone who asked you to write one too!)
Ask a bushman in Botswana how Quantum Mechanics helps him feed his family... Ask anybody on the subway ride in to work tomorrow morning if knowing Coulomb's Laws will change their plans for the weekend.
...What a bad article. Starting off by claiming Apache 2 outperforms IIS in their very own tests, yet making not one iota of these alleged "tests" available. Really an artivle like this does a dis-service to Apache and Linux, smacking of evangelism.