I mean there are laws out there against such things as painting on public buildings and such. Why should MS (tm) be exempt from that? Just because they are a corporation that has oodles of money doesn't mean they are above the law, or does it?
this copy protection seems to be pretty good, how ever how long till someone will come up with another magic permanent marker fix to get rid off it?
and this bit of info:
"I was also told that No-CD hacks are not something these folks care much about. A couple of folks told me that No-CD hacks are pretty benign and if it keeps a loyal customer happy, they are ok with it. It is the copy and dissemination of the originals that seems to be what they are worried about."
semms to indicate that they are not worried about a casual copying of their media but rather want to prevent wide scale comercial copying by the "sham wham" industry giants out of Tiwan and China
Well every society needs some form of government right?
At the same time I think that the retirement of the Baby Boomers will be a blessing to all those government entities that are forced to sustain unproductive and aged employees in the positions that are not needed, duplicated or outright wasteful.
With the mass retirements the governments will be in the position to streamline the operations and run the departments sorta like a private enterprises.
To give a little comparison.
6 years ago the municipal government I am going to work for had only one professional accountant on staff. The decisions on how to spend all the taxpayers money were made by people that had little or no idea how to run profitable enterprise.
Today the same government has over 40 professionals (CA, CGA, CMAs) that were able to streamline the operations and have some (notice that word some= 80 to 90%) influence on the spending priorities of the government.
Six years ago the City I live in was faced by ever increasing school and property taxes. For the last couple of years the City actually cut the taxes.
While I agree with you that as a government employee I will not contribute to the tax base, as a professional accountant I will contribute in other ways.
in the next 2 to 5 years all the Baby boomers will start retiring from their "life long" government jobs. If you have good education (and I mean Grad school degree or professional designation like I do) the future is bright.
As a matter of fact I am looking forward to the Baby Boomers retiring because I will be able to secure a government (Municipal, Provincial or Federal) job position that will last me till the retirement and will pay above average wage for the next 25-30 years. Plus the pension benefits are insane. I don't need to contribute to my pension plan for the rest of my life once I get me one of those jobs.
that as long as the clueless IT managers are running/purchasing equipment, os and apps based on marketing promos, the world will see the domination by MSFT. However if someone on the top with a clue gave the IT managing jobs to propelerheads then we might see bigger and faster adoption of Linux in the corporate offices across America and the whole world.
Until then it is the <sarcasm>IT management </sarcasm> that will drive MSFT bid for the world domination.
PS I cringed recently when I saw Canadian Prime Minister Jean Ch. mingling with Bill G.
according to this article
http://www.llnl.gov/str/Durham.html they did try to create Hydrates with other gasses. Namely with carbon dioxide. Wouldn't this method be a cost effective way of removing the "green house" gasses from the athmosphere? Could someone with chemist background provide some more info plz.?
1. micro ATX case with front and rear conection panels 2. microATX mofo Gigabyte GA-6PMM with 3 pci
and 1 agp slot Socket 370 3. VIA C3 - 800Mhz CPU 4. ATI Radeon 7000 slim video card with video out 5. Standard 12x DVD Rom 6. 20 gig Maxtor HD 7. slim 10/100 pci network card
the cost was under $300 and it works great. The mofo has a sound on board and it is not too too bad.
video playback for DVD, DIVX or MPEG movies is flawless on my Sony Flat TV. Over all a nice little system that fits nice in my entertainment unit
well I would love to have native windows appz ( accounting, taxation etc.) running just as good (read native) on linux. It would provide a viable alternative to MS monopoly. As it stands right now Quickbooks runs fine under Wine however majority of other apps either doesn't work or if it works it is unusable.
IMHO this is the biggest draw back for linux adoption in small/medium business environments.
work pretty good IMHO I recently tried the wine, wineX and crossover office. This is what I found out: Crossover office works fine with MS Office, Exploder and Outlook Express. However, it doesn't work well, if at all with accounting, taxation and game software.
WineX with compiled OpenGL support, works fine. I mean, I haven't tried anything other that Half-life and Day of Defeat, but it works fine with those two game titles. I also tried CS but it didn't work.
Wine supports some of the software but it is way to difficult to use for me ( I am accountant and not a software hacker).
The two games that I have used are just as responsive as their windows installs. And no, I am using the WineX built in dlls and not the MS Windows dlls.
what's next Mandrake 9.0 PR1?
where does the insanity end. I just installed MDK 9.0 beta 1 and they have beta 3 on the servers now.
KDE 3.1 ? I haven't tested the vs. 3.0x yet !!!
gota go out (arrg the sun is bad for my CRT burnt skin) and get me some more cdrs. Thank gawd they are cheep.
But seriously why do we need newer and newer versions of the same software every 2, 3 months? Can't they just provide seervice packs or something to upgrade the software?
Is it worthwhile to pay and download the transgaming wine (tar, rpm whatever). I am a regular Half-life Day of Defeat player and did try the wineX with Open GL support, but the game (HL and D0d) crashes after minute or two of playing under linux. HL itself works fine (haven't tried CS or any other mod). Has anyone else encountered similar problem(s) with Hl and Dod under transgaming/wine and found a solution?
Plz help me!! I really would like to use Linux full time and this small dod addiction is costing me a Win98 partition of the drive- just for hl
and d0d
Maybe aside from the.NET push MS will do at the expo they will also show new (ported) native versions of their software for the LINUX world.
Wouldn't it be great to have a native MS Office running on your box so you don't have to worry that the resume you just whipped up in Star Office (OO) will look good on the execs own computer?
I personally don't think MS will try to discredit LINUX at it's own show if anything this will give LINUX even more credibility in the corp. world.
IE. if MS is taking note (positive note at that) of this "new" linux movement then it must be good
how he feels about it?????
"You can read his.plan or you can finger him"
I don't think anybody would appreciate being fingered by so many people:-)
And especially the/. crowd
hm it brings the new meaning to the/. effect - finger anyone?
If an average Joe blow of the street come to Wal-Mart and buy the Lindows box he will be expecting to run any of the shelf programs available at your local Best Buy or Future Shop. That is just not going to happen. So now we will have one very angry and disappointed user to deal with. Talking about bad first impression for LINUX.
But then again I might be wrong and most people will be happy with their purchase.
will I be able to download or buy (for nominal fee) a copy of Star Office on my own or do I have to ask my school, faculty etc to get it for me?
I think this is a great news
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I mean there are laws out there against such things as painting on public buildings and such. Why should MS (tm) be exempt from that? Just because they are a corporation that has oodles of money doesn't mean they are above the law, or does it?
train the song just doesn't sound the same anymore
this copy protection seems to be pretty good, how ever how long till someone will come up with another magic permanent marker fix to get rid off it?
and this bit of info:
"I was also told that No-CD hacks are not something these folks care much about. A couple of folks told me that No-CD hacks are pretty benign and if it keeps a loyal customer happy, they are ok with it. It is the copy and dissemination of the originals that seems to be what they are worried about."
semms to indicate that they are not worried about a casual copying of their media but rather want to prevent wide scale comercial copying by the "sham wham" industry giants out of Tiwan and China
Well every society needs some form of government right?
At the same time I think that the retirement of the Baby Boomers will be a blessing to all those government entities that are forced to sustain unproductive and aged employees in the positions that are not needed, duplicated or outright wasteful.
With the mass retirements the governments will be in the position to streamline the operations and run the departments sorta like a private enterprises.
To give a little comparison.
6 years ago the municipal government I am going to work for had only one professional accountant on staff. The decisions on how to spend all the taxpayers money were made by people that had little or no idea how to run profitable enterprise.
Today the same government has over 40 professionals (CA, CGA, CMAs) that were able to streamline the operations and have some (notice that word some= 80 to 90%) influence on the spending priorities of the government.
Six years ago the City I live in was faced by ever increasing school and property taxes. For the last couple of years the City actually cut the taxes.
While I agree with you that as a government employee I will not contribute to the tax base, as a professional accountant I will contribute in other ways.
in the next 2 to 5 years all the Baby boomers will start retiring from their "life long" government jobs. If you have good education (and I mean Grad school degree or professional designation like I do) the future is bright.
As a matter of fact I am looking forward to the Baby Boomers retiring because I will be able to secure a government (Municipal, Provincial or Federal) job position that will last me till the retirement and will pay above average wage for the next 25-30 years. Plus the pension benefits are insane. I don't need to contribute to my pension plan for the rest of my life once I get me one of those jobs.
Well if you count Europe, Japan, Australia and Far East countries I think you will find more wealthy peaople there than in the whole of the USA
why don't we start war with Iraq and send all the lawyers to fight for America?
We would probably lose this war but we would at least get rid off the lawyer scum.
that as long as the clueless IT managers are running/purchasing equipment, os and apps based on marketing promos, the world will see the domination by MSFT. However if someone on the top with a clue gave the IT managing jobs to propelerheads then we might see bigger and faster adoption of Linux in the corporate offices across America and the whole world.
Until then it is the <sarcasm>IT management </sarcasm> that will drive MSFT bid for the world domination.
PS I cringed recently when I saw Canadian Prime Minister Jean Ch. mingling with Bill G.
That was about 1.5 years ago and let me tell you it rocked. The visuals and sound were incredible.
The screen size of IMAX creates the illusion of actually being in the movie.
I will probably will go and see the Apollo 13 movie and LOTR if it ever comes to IMAX. I will skip the Attack of Clones for obvious reasons.
according to this article http://www.llnl.gov/str/Durham.html they did try to create Hydrates with other gasses. Namely with carbon dioxide. Wouldn't this method be a cost effective way of removing the "green house" gasses from the athmosphere? Could someone with chemist background provide some more info plz.?
I did not know one can run win98 ( and I assume win95, and ME) in multi-user mode. Could you please elaborate a little more on this subject plz.
I have built a smal microATX based puter
Parts I used
1. micro ATX case with front and rear conection panels
2. microATX mofo Gigabyte GA-6PMM with 3 pci
and 1 agp slot Socket 370
3. VIA C3 - 800Mhz CPU
4. ATI Radeon 7000 slim video card with video out
5. Standard 12x DVD Rom
6. 20 gig Maxtor HD
7. slim 10/100 pci network card
the cost was under $300 and it works great. The mofo has a sound on board and it is not too too bad.
video playback for DVD, DIVX or MPEG movies is flawless on my Sony Flat TV. Over all a nice little system that fits nice in my entertainment unit
well I would love to have native windows appz ( accounting, taxation etc.) running just as good (read native) on linux. It would provide a viable alternative to MS monopoly. As it stands right now Quickbooks runs fine under Wine however majority of other apps either doesn't work or if it works it is unusable.
IMHO this is the biggest draw back for linux adoption in small/medium business environments.
work pretty good IMHO
I recently tried the wine, wineX and crossover office.
This is what I found out: Crossover office works fine with MS Office, Exploder and Outlook Express. However, it doesn't work well, if at all with accounting, taxation and game software.
WineX with compiled OpenGL support, works fine. I mean, I haven't tried anything other that Half-life and Day of Defeat, but it works fine with those two game titles. I also tried CS but it didn't work.
Wine supports some of the software but it is way to difficult to use for me ( I am accountant and not a software hacker).
The two games that I have used are just as responsive as their windows installs. And no, I am using the WineX built in dlls and not the MS Windows dlls.
did't anyone tell the author that Dot.Net is all tha Shi@t now?
If you don't want your software to "infect" others, use the LGPL so what you are saying is that LGPL is the GPL with a condom on??
what's next Mandrake 9.0 PR1? where does the insanity end. I just installed MDK 9.0 beta 1 and they have beta 3 on the servers now. KDE 3.1 ? I haven't tested the vs. 3.0x yet !!! gota go out (arrg the sun is bad for my CRT burnt skin) and get me some more cdrs. Thank gawd they are cheep. But seriously why do we need newer and newer versions of the same software every 2, 3 months? Can't they just provide seervice packs or something to upgrade the software?
Nah it is once or twice a week 2hr addiction so I will proli not stop it- for me it is just like watching TV or any other hobby.
Is it worthwhile to pay and download the transgaming wine (tar, rpm whatever). I am a regular Half-life Day of Defeat player and did try the wineX with Open GL support, but the game (HL and D0d) crashes after minute or two of playing under linux. HL itself works fine (haven't tried CS or any other mod). Has anyone else encountered similar problem(s) with Hl and Dod under transgaming/wine and found a solution? Plz help me!! I really would like to use Linux full time and this small dod addiction is costing me a Win98 partition of the drive- just for hl and d0d
Maybe aside from the .NET push MS will do at the expo they will also show new (ported) native versions of their software for the LINUX world.
Wouldn't it be great to have a native MS Office running on your box so you don't have to worry that the resume you just whipped up in Star Office (OO) will look good on the execs own computer?
I personally don't think MS will try to discredit LINUX at it's own show if anything this will give LINUX even more credibility in the corp. world.
IE. if MS is taking note (positive note at that) of this "new" linux movement then it must be good
how he feels about it????? "You can read his .plan or you can finger him"
I don't think anybody would appreciate being fingered by so many people :-)
And especially the /. crowd
hm it brings the new meaning to the /. effect - finger anyone?
If an average Joe blow of the street come to Wal-Mart and buy the Lindows box he will be expecting to run any of the shelf programs available at your local Best Buy or Future Shop. That is just not going to happen. So now we will have one very angry and disappointed user to deal with. Talking about bad first impression for LINUX.
But then again I might be wrong and most people will be happy with their purchase.
will I be able to download or buy (for nominal fee) a copy of Star Office on my own or do I have to ask my school, faculty etc to get it for me? I think this is a great news
and keep the key !!!!!!!!!
will it run Quake at reasonable FPS ?