Horses can keep their darned douvres in the field where they belong. I ain't going near them without wellington boots. Now don't get me started on cows...
Yeah, there's people that have OEM Pro and installed VLK or MSDN edition to avoid activation hassles. (I myself was on an infringing VLK edition for a while, because my 'legit' was an original retail upgrade, while the VLK was a full version SP2... so it was FAR less hassle (no disk flipping, no activation, and hours of patches avoided.) When genuine advantage came out and got in my face and I got tired of hacking around it I reverted to the legit copy. Wasted half a day. (I couldn't just change the key because it rejected my legit original upgrade key.)
No matter how badly Microsoft treats its customers, they keep coming back.
If you read their letter, they didn't ask him to shut down, they asked him to filter his IP addresses to prohibit accesses from regions where their copyright is still in force. That seems like a reasonable request to me.
Do you know what a proxy server is? Do you see now why this is asinine?
This is the intarweb we're talking about... every PHB, politician and priest's worst nightmare.
The evidence put forward is the mountains of historic text describing miracles etc from years gone by. Now I'm an athiest/agnostic (and lets not get into what that means), but just suppose that Jesus rose from the dead today and started performing miracles, and those miracles were scientifically verified etc by all the worlds leading skeptics, and then documented for all eternity, and then we got bored with him, crucified him (again) and we never heard from him again.
Only the Anitchrist would let that happen. If it were the real Christ, the scientific verification would not work. See, he'd have you fooled. That's the End of the World. It said so on TV.
But since common tasks like watching a movie or syncing an iPod require hunting for and installing extra software, Linux is best for technically savvy users or for people whose needs are so basic that they will never need anything other than the bundled software.
Do you ever get the impression that reviewers feel compelled to put something negative about a product in every review, no matter how contrived, just to make it appear more objective?
When did finding and installing additional software ever become a problem for users of Windows and the Mac? Why should Linux be any different? It's not like you even have to go to the store and buy a box with a CD in it, even. Google usually knows where to get all the important and useful Linux (and by extension "free unix") software.
Even us Slackware die-hards can get pre-packaged third-party software on the Intarweb nowadays.
This is just the standard way IBM goes about its business: amassing an enormous portfolio of patents with which to intimidate other companies and to extort money out of them.
The handy thing is, though, that IBM is standing up for Linux at the moment.
You can be sure that as soon as Linux is no longer of tactical importance to them, the support will dry up and they might become the new enemy.
Instead they became just another business, later honorably defending (their contributions to) the Linux source code against the wretched SCO. Their interests have become more aligned with that of their customers.
IBM's empire collapsed in the early nineties (with a $5G loss IIRC) because no one wanted to buy their over-priced, underpowered and incompatible (MicroChannel) PeeCees any more. Microsoft cleaned up.
IBM's support for Open Source and Linux is for publicity, to get back at Microsoft and to get at Sun, whose UNIX (Solaris) is streets ahead of AIX. IBM realised that to stay competitive in the unix server market, it needed Linux. IBM will sell you Windows, AIX, Solaris, Linux, mainframe boxes, you name it, but you will pay for the privilege. The Evil is still there at IBM, it's just not so explicit. They will always try to lock you in to IBM technology once they've got you hooked.
Microsoft, on the other hand, already has 90% of the market hooked and on the upgrade treadmill. Applications nowadays are largely portable across operating systems, and file formats are open, except for Microsoft's stuff. Every thing they do is to keep people locked in and on the upgrade treadmill.
Microsoft it pulling the wool over peoples' eyes again, paying lip-service to Open Source and Open Standards, whilst actually avoiding them. It's being successful getting to those who don't think so critically, the fans, PHBs and apologists.
Microsoft is doing a wonderful job at getting its "inventions" (i.e. a touch screen on a table top and a clock with peoples' faces on it) on national TV as some kind of great technological breakthrough.
Microsoft is too evil and too stupid to change its ways significantly. They won't die over night, but the writing is on the wall. They are desperate. They are astroturfing slashdot like mad too. The EU has found them guilty of unfair monopolistic practices and will not be bribed. Many countries around the world are moving to Linux and other Open/Free operating systems for government and education. Microsoft is having to give away its software just to remain in the market.
I've been extolling the virtues of Linux since 1995, but at last people around me are getting the message. They're seeing for themselves the benefits (time, money, simplicity, freedom, empowerment) and it's largely due to Ubuntu (which was built on Debian originally).
There will never be a "year of Linux on the desktop." There may be a time very soon now, though, when mainstream media acknowledges it as part of the establishment. This time next year, the question won't be "why should I use Linux?" It'll be, "Why are you still using Windows? No one uses that old crap any more."
But but but... Chairman Bill himself once said that Windows costs less than a bar of "candy" a day over its projected lifetime (3 years). A shill also said that Linux is only free if your time has no value.
The Microsoft apologists say that Linux is too difficult and that it'll never be ready for the desktop. There is also no such thing as Apple. Command lines are bad.
Even supposing it doesn't suffer from a Loss of Coolant Accident (it's "fully automated against [that]" whatever that means) it's not fail-safe, it's horrendously inefficient thermally, but worst of all, it uses reactor coolant to drive the turbines directly.
That means there is radioactive steam in your turbine halls. How dirty and disgusting.
It's 2007 already. Why are they not building a pebble-bed reactor, or at least an SIR or APWR?
The Rotovator can be gradually accelerated back to its former speed by very high efficiency engines, like ion engines.
All the rotovators I've ever seen run on two stroke and are piloted by a burly man called Colin wearing steel toe-cap boots a donkey jacket and ear defenders.
The news comes only a week after IBM announced they were joining OpenOffice.org and dedicating 35 developers to the project. IBM is resurrecting an old name for this brand new software: Lotus Symphony.
So IBM is joining the OpenOffice.org team with a token gesture 35 "developers" and shipping it with the OpenOffice.org name removed and "Lotus Symphony" painted on. What's brand new about that?
I've got a Palm Tungsten T3 and E2. Both have Real One (or something) on them, which is a fairly basic MP3 application. It works. I have some £26 ($50) Sennheiser earphones which sound OK.
I rip my CDs with cdparanoia and encode with LAME, writing the files to MMC or SD with my £10 ($20) multi-card reader/writer all on Linux (Slackware of course).
No problems, no DRM, no obstacles. It Just Works(TM).
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I think you just proved his point with your utterly irrational reply.
Horses can keep their darned douvres in the field where they belong. I ain't going near them without wellington boots. Now don't get me started on cows...
OK, I give up. Exactly whom or what is Pat?
Pat is Slackware.
When Pat sells out, the fat lady will be singing. Not before.
Until then, get busy living.
Yeah, there's people that have OEM Pro and installed VLK or MSDN edition to avoid activation hassles. (I myself was on an infringing VLK edition for a while, because my 'legit' was an original retail upgrade, while the VLK was a full version SP2... so it was FAR less hassle (no disk flipping, no activation, and hours of patches avoided.) When genuine advantage came out and got in my face and I got tired of hacking around it I reverted to the legit copy. Wasted half a day. (I couldn't just change the key because it rejected my legit original upgrade key.)
No matter how badly Microsoft treats its customers, they keep coming back.
If you read their letter, they didn't ask him to shut down, they asked him to filter his IP addresses to prohibit accesses from regions where their copyright is still in force. That seems like a reasonable request to me.
Do you know what a proxy server is? Do you see now why this is asinine?
This is the intarweb we're talking about... every PHB, politician and priest's worst nightmare.
...more productive...
...like a cat tied to a stick...
measured, timed, put into a box, judged, rewarded.....
...stamped, approved...
...packaged, deposited...
...cremated, eulogised...
...remembered.
Apple had their own BASIC!
What was I thinking? Must have been given a duff batch of pills.
Well, 'Apple ignited the personal computer revolution[1]' so I think you should pay them a cut too.
They shipped with Microsoft BASIC in ROM. Most 8-bit micros did.
I wouldn't be surprised but Microsoft has patented the concept of the Operating System for PeeCee hardware.
The evidence put forward is the mountains of historic text describing miracles etc from years gone by. Now I'm an athiest/agnostic (and lets not get into what that means), but just suppose that Jesus rose from the dead today and started performing miracles, and those miracles were scientifically verified etc by all the worlds leading skeptics, and then documented for all eternity, and then we got bored with him, crucified him (again) and we never heard from him again.
Only the Anitchrist would let that happen. If it were the real Christ, the scientific verification would not work. See, he'd have you fooled. That's the End of the World. It said so on TV.
I meant Liz.
And while we're at it, "Gronda gronda, your Majesty!"
It'd better have a painting of Lix on it.
Should I just get a MySpace page and post my medical records on it?
But since common tasks like watching a movie or syncing an iPod require hunting for and installing extra software, Linux is best for technically savvy users or for people whose needs are so basic that they will never need anything other than the bundled software.
Do you ever get the impression that reviewers feel compelled to put something negative about a product in every review, no matter how contrived, just to make it appear more objective?
When did finding and installing additional software ever become a problem for users of Windows and the Mac? Why should Linux be any different? It's not like you even have to go to the store and buy a box with a CD in it, even. Google usually knows where to get all the important and useful Linux (and by extension "free unix") software.
Even us Slackware die-hards can get pre-packaged third-party software on the Intarweb nowadays.
...it's just business.
This is just the standard way IBM goes about its business: amassing an enormous portfolio of patents with which to intimidate other companies and to extort money out of them.
The handy thing is, though, that IBM is standing up for Linux at the moment.
You can be sure that as soon as Linux is no longer of tactical importance to them, the support will dry up and they might become the new enemy.
Instead they became just another business, later honorably defending (their contributions to) the Linux source code against the wretched SCO. Their interests have become more aligned with that of their customers.
IBM's empire collapsed in the early nineties (with a $5G loss IIRC) because no one wanted to buy their over-priced, underpowered and incompatible (MicroChannel) PeeCees any more. Microsoft cleaned up.
IBM's support for Open Source and Linux is for publicity, to get back at Microsoft and to get at Sun, whose UNIX (Solaris) is streets ahead of AIX. IBM realised that to stay competitive in the unix server market, it needed Linux. IBM will sell you Windows, AIX, Solaris, Linux, mainframe boxes, you name it, but you will pay for the privilege. The Evil is still there at IBM, it's just not so explicit. They will always try to lock you in to IBM technology once they've got you hooked.
Microsoft, on the other hand, already has 90% of the market hooked and on the upgrade treadmill. Applications nowadays are largely portable across operating systems, and file formats are open, except for Microsoft's stuff. Every thing they do is to keep people locked in and on the upgrade treadmill.
Microsoft it pulling the wool over peoples' eyes again, paying lip-service to Open Source and Open Standards, whilst actually avoiding them. It's being successful getting to those who don't think so critically, the fans, PHBs and apologists.
Microsoft is doing a wonderful job at getting its "inventions" (i.e. a touch screen on a table top and a clock with peoples' faces on it) on national TV as some kind of great technological breakthrough.
Microsoft is too evil and too stupid to change its ways significantly. They won't die over night, but the writing is on the wall. They are desperate. They are astroturfing slashdot like mad too. The EU has found them guilty of unfair monopolistic practices and will not be bribed. Many countries around the world are moving to Linux and other Open/Free operating systems for government and education. Microsoft is having to give away its software just to remain in the market.
I've been extolling the virtues of Linux since 1995, but at last people around me are getting the message. They're seeing for themselves the benefits (time, money, simplicity, freedom, empowerment) and it's largely due to Ubuntu (which was built on Debian originally).
There will never be a "year of Linux on the desktop." There may be a time very soon now, though, when mainstream media acknowledges it as part of the establishment. This time next year, the question won't be "why should I use Linux?" It'll be, "Why are you still using Windows? No one uses that old crap any more."
they also used a launch vehicle with 30! engines;
Factorial 30 is indeed a lot of engines.
But but but... Chairman Bill himself once said that Windows costs less than a bar of "candy" a day over its projected lifetime (3 years). A shill also said that Linux is only free if your time has no value.
The Microsoft apologists say that Linux is too difficult and that it'll never be ready for the desktop. There is also no such thing as Apple. Command lines are bad.
Why didn't you just install OpenOffice.org? It does exporting to PDFs. No activation required.
Of all the dead horses to flog, why build a BWR?
It's a really primitive and unsafe design.
Even supposing it doesn't suffer from a Loss of Coolant Accident (it's "fully automated against [that]" whatever that means) it's not fail-safe, it's horrendously inefficient thermally, but worst of all, it uses reactor coolant to drive the turbines directly.
That means there is radioactive steam in your turbine halls. How dirty and disgusting.
It's 2007 already. Why are they not building a pebble-bed reactor, or at least an SIR or APWR?
The Rotovator can be gradually accelerated back to its former speed by very high efficiency engines, like ion engines.
All the rotovators I've ever seen run on two stroke and are piloted by a burly man called Colin wearing steel toe-cap boots a donkey jacket and ear defenders.
You should have seen his potatoes and sprouts.
If it's anything like the Fall Guy, I'll give it a miss. I haven't been 7 years old for a long time.
From TFA linked above:
The news comes only a week after IBM announced they were joining OpenOffice.org and dedicating 35 developers to the project. IBM is resurrecting an old name for this brand new software: Lotus Symphony.
So IBM is joining the OpenOffice.org team with a token gesture 35 "developers" and shipping it with the OpenOffice.org name removed and "Lotus Symphony" painted on. What's brand new about that?
Wonder if I should go ahead and open that unopened l33t tin edition of Q3 for Linux...
Yes, and in it you'll find a free copy of SuSE provided just in case you didn't have an OS to run it on :-)
I've got a Palm Tungsten T3 and E2. Both have Real One (or something) on them, which is a fairly basic MP3 application. It works. I have some £26 ($50) Sennheiser earphones which sound OK.
I rip my CDs with cdparanoia and encode with LAME, writing the files to MMC or SD with my £10 ($20) multi-card reader/writer all on Linux (Slackware of course).
No problems, no DRM, no obstacles. It Just Works(TM).