Large forces and trends ultimately win; like the desire to be free. MS has simply begun to recognize that the inputs required to overcome the market's natural forces will soon exceed the outputs. this is partly due to an increasing realization that consumers have become satisfied with existing technology.
Very true but the hardest thing for Microsoft is that they are the authors to a large degree of there own nemesis
see what I wrote above, I very much doubt Microsoft can change fast enough, they have already begun to pay for their own missdeeds, but still they try to blame everything and everyone else.
If that were indeed the case, don't u think they'd have been dead as a dodo long ago?
you could not be more misstaken
read what I said above, these things take time to gain momentum, sure their tactics work in the short term, but sooner or later the day comes to pay the piper, and Microsoft has only just begun to pay.
The big lie which they tell themselves as much as anyone is, yes sure Linux/OSS is the number two threat, but number one sure isn't the present state of the economy, thats maybe number three at most, nope number one hasn't changed in years the # 1 threat to Microsoft is Microsoft always has been, the thing thats killing their bussiness more than anything else is their own nasty bussiness practices.
You might make the the argument as I'm sure they would, that it never hurt them before, and thats where you'd both be wrong, this has been building up momentum for decades, now they have begun to pay for years of abuses, the only real question now is will they be smart enough to change their ways before it kills them.
I'd have to say highly unlikely, Microsoft is too much Bill's company and it corparate culture is too much like him, smart when it comes to dishonest bussiness practices, but otherwise, anti social, stupid, and lacking in any real vision, just like Bill.
In the end it won't be Linux (much as I love it) that kills Microsoft, but Microsoft.
Don't be silly we could wait years for decent injurys that way, go the the home job, some ones bound to get it wrong and hurt themself, soon:-)
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Mensa member, beware of the high IQ
beware of the high Ego:-)
To be serious I mean that, Mensa are a load of elitist loosers, if you want friends & people who like you for who you are not for some irrelevant parameter of your being, then loose the Mensa loosers.
If they really new how stuff works they wouldn't be sticking that mouse in their head,
owch don't they know how bad a mouse can be for their brain,:-), repeat after me: I will not be putting the mouse inside my cranium.
Forget that, whats more important is why crappy old duct tape why not real mans tape, gaffer tape, and forget miniture, I must remember to stick a nice big roll in my bag.
Hmmm, the thing that I cheifly noticed, was how little O'Reilly said, many of his answers, were nonsence, and for the most part I don't mean that it was his thinking that was flawed, quite a bit of it was as if you asked him a question, and he quoted back "peter piper picked a...." i.e. the so called answer was
a) not concected to the question properly.
and
b). devoid or nearly devoid of meaningful content.
I cannot but wonder at O'Reillys consumate arrogance in expecting us to consume this dribble. His last three so called answer was the worst, full of silly nonsence phrases like "open source stack" like what the hell is that the full sentance was "Somebody will come along eventually and put together the complete open source stack.", sorry that still don't scan, *alert*market droid*alert*, the best one would have to be in the last so called answer "The value will be driven up the stack to data.", right, ummm lets see ah, that would be the stack you've yet to define would it?
Well tim you've certainly gone down in my estimation
"Nothing beats the taste of a Cuban cigar, except maybe a Cuban cigar lit with a $100 bill."
Lots of things beat the taste of your cuban cigar, lets see; raw sewage, vomit, shit petty much anything, tobbaco & all it's products suck.
The really weird thing is how come smoking is so popular, and gargling raw sewage isn't, after all smoking is much more disgusting, and uncouth, and more dangerous to your health.
NB: yeah I know you was only kidding but it kind of annoys me how the myth of smoking being some how cool is still perpetuated, come on it it's a really gross disgusting habbit, practiced by gross and disgusting loosers, and anyone who smokes now that we know what it does to you, is a a moron as well as a disgusting looser.
Why this Obsesion with the sound of computers, like there so quiet, I love the noise my PC makes, it's kind of reasuring, Either some of you have very sensitive hearing (poor didums) or your sissys (sorry but it needs saying).
Framemaker --- give me a break, I started using it in '91 to do my honours thesis, I quickly moved to LaTex, what was wrong with it, what wasn't, slow, cludgy, and it just couldn't do maths right, basically it was junk.
If you read his comments in context, the truth of what he said becomes obvious.
Cyberphobia among the old guard, as represented by people in Hatch's generation, has given way to overt, unbridled hatred of technology and its advocates. He views internet users as a group of miscreants who must be taught a lesson and his suggestions of remote computer destruction as a perfectly valid means of holding due process hostage to force us to solve the content industry's problems.
Hmmm, that just proves he's past his sell by date, put the stupid senile old loony away some where safe.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, the committee's senior Democrat, later said the problem is serious but called Hatch's idea too drastic a remedy to be considered.
TOO DRASTIC, how about just cutting out the bull and saying, Senitor Hatch Your a totally fuck witted psycho, Talk about shit for brains.
Hmmm is there a law some where against politicians having brains, they all seam to be either total loonies, or total moron's or both, this guy is clearly both, in order to stop people, committing one crime he want's to make it legal to commit a far more serious crime.
Please some one apply the clue stick to this psycho
<voice type="weird style="commentators:whisper">the story so far: SCO formerly Caldera a commpany known for never achieving anything of note, buys The name "SCO" formally the name of another equally achievment challenged company, along with some really dodgy IP, realising their going broke due to overwhealming stupidity on there own part, finally realise a way to achieve the fame they have always desired, by simply doing what they do best,... being stupid</voice>
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Yep, basically SCO have realised that IBM's neither going to cough up, nor buy them, so plan B for profit is ??? ....
Yes You've Guessed it .............. it's a shake down!!
clearly McBride hasn't changed a bit from his pre-school bully days.
Very true but the hardest thing for Microsoft is that they are the authors to a large degree of there own nemesis see what I wrote above, I very much doubt Microsoft can change fast enough, they have already begun to pay for their own missdeeds, but still they try to blame everything and everyone else.
you could not be more misstaken read what I said above, these things take time to gain momentum, sure their tactics work in the short term, but sooner or later the day comes to pay the piper, and Microsoft has only just begun to pay.
except I'm sure their as aware as any of us (the SCO deluded excepted) that SCO doesn't own UNIX.
You might make the the argument as I'm sure they would, that it never hurt them before, and thats where you'd both be wrong, this has been building up momentum for decades, now they have begun to pay for years of abuses, the only real question now is will they be smart enough to change their ways before it kills them.
I'd have to say highly unlikely, Microsoft is too much Bill's company and it corparate culture is too much like him, smart when it comes to dishonest bussiness practices, but otherwise, anti social, stupid, and lacking in any real vision, just like Bill.
In the end it won't be Linux (much as I love it) that kills Microsoft, but Microsoft.
I kept finding my programs in compromising positions in various parts of my hard drive. :-)
Fourth class mail hmmm maybe we don't have that in Australia, I don't know what it is anyway :-)
The Bill Gates for President campaign is said to be going very well :-)
Don't be silly we could wait years for decent injurys that way, go the the home job, some ones bound to get it wrong and hurt themself, soon :-)
beware of the high Ego :-)
To be serious I mean that, Mensa are a load of elitist loosers, if you want friends & people who like you for who you are not for some irrelevant parameter of your being, then loose the Mensa loosers.
If they really new how stuff works they wouldn't be sticking that mouse in their head, owch don't they know how bad a mouse can be for their brain, :-), repeat after me: I will not be putting the mouse inside my cranium.
Ofcourse it's my head that spins backwards, due to all the this overload of detail, heeeellllp :-)
Can we just moderate SCO -1 Troll
Forget that, whats more important is why crappy old duct tape why not real mans tape, gaffer tape, and forget miniture, I must remember to stick a nice big roll in my bag.
- a) not concected to the question properly.
- and
- b). devoid or nearly devoid of meaningful content.
I cannot but wonder at O'Reillys consumate arrogance in expecting us to consume this dribble. His last three so called answer was the worst, full of silly nonsence phrases like "open source stack" like what the hell is that the full sentance was "Somebody will come along eventually and put together the complete open source stack.", sorry that still don't scan, *alert*market droid*alert*, the best one would have to be in the last so called answer "The value will be driven up the stack to data.", right, ummm lets see ah, that would be the stack you've yet to define would it?Well tim you've certainly gone down in my estimation
Lots of things beat the taste of your cuban cigar, lets see; raw sewage, vomit, shit petty much anything, tobbaco & all it's products suck.
The really weird thing is how come smoking is so popular, and gargling raw sewage isn't, after all smoking is much more disgusting, and uncouth, and more dangerous to your health.
NB: yeah I know you was only kidding but it kind of annoys me how the myth of smoking being some how cool is still perpetuated, come on it it's a really gross disgusting habbit, practiced by gross and disgusting loosers, and anyone who smokes now that we know what it does to you, is a a moron as well as a disgusting looser.
Why this Obsesion with the sound of computers, like there so quiet, I love the noise my PC makes, it's kind of reasuring, Either some of you have very sensitive hearing (poor didums) or your sissys (sorry but it needs saying).
Framemaker --- give me a break, I started using it in '91 to do my honours thesis, I quickly moved to LaTex, what was wrong with it, what wasn't, slow, cludgy, and it just couldn't do maths right, basically it was junk.
How'd this get modded funny, Insightful and true it is, funny no, more like painful, if only it wasn't the absolute truth.
Hmmm, that just proves he's past his sell by date, put the stupid senile old loony away some where safe.
TOO DRASTIC, how about just cutting out the bull and saying, Senitor Hatch Your a totally fuck witted psycho, Talk about shit for brains.
Hmmm is there a law some where against politicians having brains, they all seam to be either total loonies, or total moron's or both, this guy is clearly both, in order to stop people, committing one crime he want's to make it legal to commit a far more serious crime.
Please some one apply the clue stick to this psycho
Technically yes, though in less polite society we'd say they eat their shit, but aparently it's part of the same phenomena as cud chewing.
As for the rest of your rubbish, well I guess facts don't affect your belief system any more than the conspiracy theorists.
<voice type="weird style="commentators:whisper">the story so far: SCO formerly Caldera a commpany known for never achieving anything of note, buys The name "SCO" formally the name of another equally achievment challenged company, along with some really dodgy IP, realising their going broke due to overwhealming stupidity on there own part, finally realise a way to achieve the fame they have always desired, by simply doing what they do best, ... being stupid</voice>
In short we can't bribe them like the companies can, but we can: "not vote for them" and in the end they find that hurts more if enough people do it.
The real soln is to treat this sort of behaviour like the crime it is, and penalise anyone who does this.