When a single proprietary system gains large market share this is considered unhealthy around these parts.
Now, an Open Source system gains an overwhelming market share, and this is considered a good thing??? Bubba is confused over why it is good Apache dominates the market over a large number if niche web servers, a few of which are very good web servers.
Microsoft did the correct thing. Anyone that works for a company, allows the company to pay their bills, and then launches a public ad campaign against the company is a low life, scoundrel.
It would be different if this person was a whistleblower, turning them in for illegal deeds. Nope, this person is a cretin, collecting a paycheck from a company while trying to damage the company.
I like my Linux computers. But, Flash MX is the OLD version of Flash. Flash MX 2004 is the current version. If you are platform agnostic, and committed to writing the best code possible, why would you do this???
Use Windows for Windows apps, Linux for Linux Apps.
Certainly the article was an unfair effort to slander open source software. But, people around here should look in the mirror. This (excellent and well loved by me) website is overloaded with similar articles mindlessly spewing anti Microsoft (and such companies) slander and disinformation. The article was no more propaganda than many other Slashdot pieces.
PS, with all the negativity Slashdot puts out, I thought it was sad the article said "Forewarning: The open source community is not portrayed in positive light so you might want to skip reading this. ". You know you are a narrow minded fanatic whn you cannot deal with criticism.
Better start WW3, Lindows is a Linux/Communist plot to take over the world. Soon, all our computers will be impotent.
We'll meet again, lalala, lalala...
Steve Ballmer = Dr Strangelove ???
Anyone who doubts NASA is in its glory age right now, needs to scribble out a Perl Script (or your language of choice), and download all these NASA Pictures of the Day. NASA in the 90's and this decade is accomplishing FAR MORE than the NASA of the Apollo Era.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
This Space Plane is an excellent solution to a pressing problem.
The NASA program that holds the most incredible promise is Project Prometheus. This program should have an incredible impact on the future of mankind, yet is barely known. It is the coolest thing America is doing today. It is highly inaccurate to suggest NASA is idle or unsuccessful. Remember, the Space Shuttle is an important, highly visible PR project as much as a serious project. Much of the real scientific and engineering achievement occurs beneath the publics radar by computer controlled machines.
Obviously with the economies they have, Japan, China and Japan are going to want an OS that does a good job of consumer electronics audio video. Linux at the moment is weak at audio/video and user interface. Windows is also inadequate (although more adequate than Linux) at these tasks.
The article states they might build on Linux. That would make alot of sense. The guts of Linux are solid, it's the user experience that is weak. Laying a 21st century Audio/Video/UI over Linux to create a new OS would leave the current Windows/OSX/Linux/Unix systems behind in the 20th century, to which they all basically belong.
The CD is an inferior storage technology that has propagated due to 3 reasons IMO.
1. For the average person, a file is in some way less real if it is on a hard drive, and more real if it is on a CD, where it is a physical object they can touch.
2. Familiarity with CD's due to long term use on music CDs.
3. Vastly superior marketing to hard drives.
Removable hard drive bays should be standard on all PC's. Once you are used to these, the Hard Drive is just a Cartidge to plug into the PC. Data is easily backed up, and a Hard Drive in closet is safe.
Hard drives are faster, take up less space, and are very cost competative with CD's. I am unclear why CD's are popular with the tech savvy crowd. It's an inferior storage technology.
I would say this is a classic case of Corporate Communism, where the government protects Big Business at the expense of Small Business and the Consumer Class.
I prefer to think of the the economic policies of the American Government (which Americans in our not so great wisdom have elected) as Corporate Communism, for lack of a better terminology. I don't think when government does so much to protect Big Business at the expense of all other of societies economic entiites, that capitalism really applies to the American Economic System.
That was a practical and honest solution to the percieved problems with the voting machines.
Also, I noticed a tidal shift in which American states were now most enlightened this winter, when talking to a California Cousin, he noted that at least his governor kept the power on. Seeing as keeping the power on is a GIVEN down South, I started wondering which states were truly the most advanced in US.
As long as the Internet is an international open network, is there really much an individual nation can do to regulate it??? As long as the SPAM is sent from outside the offended nation, can much really be done about it??? I don't know, just asking...
Doesn't SPAM exist more for Technical than Legal reasons??? IE, Email is sent over the net without a reliable electronic ID, hence you can't easily filter out SPAM???
I am a lifelong blue collar guy, gardening, landscaping and construction. I have worked a fair amount part time with electricians. Do it yourself electrical work is ok for outlets, ceiling fans, etc, if you are smart with your hands.
But you need to stay FAR away from the Main Panel unless you are knowledgeable. That thing is dangerous, there ARE many non obvious mistakes you can make if you are not an experienced electrician. You can hurt yourself, burn down the building, damage stuff attached to the electrical system, and if you do something REAL IGNORANT, it is possible (unlikely) you can hurt someone working for the power company outside the house.
This is coming from a Gung Ho!!! Do It Yourselfer/ Shade Tree Mechanic
A client license for a single user desktop system is $199.
So, I reckon Bubba owes $995. I am straight with SCO I hope, I just mailed my check.
LMAO!!!
Kinda ironic, I was watchin an interview with an NFL player (Patrick Kerney, a "small" lineman if it matters). He doesn't drink beer because it contributes to him losing weight. Of course, I suppose he gets a bit more exercise than the average/.er???
I don't see this replacing manufactured goods in price. Where this process would be invaluable would be for mechanics, construction workers, etc. All sorts of things could be repaired with this. So many items go in the garbage, not because they are useless, but because they are in need of one minor, obscure part that is no longer in stock. Anyone who has done mechanical or construction work can appreciate the need to be able to duplicate one trivial part that cannot be purchased. I am thinking any auto mechanic would go nuts over such a machine.
We need government that is not soft on crime. We got a government that is unbelievably soft on White Collar Crime. There is no telling how expensive White Collar Crime is to the economy. Kinda ironic, white collar criminals make a fortune and face little sanction. Let some poor person rob a few thousand dollars from the same company with burglary. Both belong in prison, but the white collar criminal, who is far more destructive to society, gets a slap on the wrist.
Unless I am mistaken, MCI Sprint, WorldCom and now MCI have been ripping people off right and left, anyway they could, since the beginning (the 80's I think???). They have always been involved in fraud, who has had their service, carefully checked there bill, and NOT discovered getting overcharged for something. What I find shocking is that there are still people that will willingly do business with these folks.
Of sitting under the humongous oak tree in City Park, getting a pile of great food from most anywhere around Tulane, and sitting around doing nothing on a vacation day!!!
New Orleans is a real nice place...
The Mississippi River is awesome.
Governments are supposed to be responcible for maintaining a robust and useful currency system. Supplying a robust currency system should be a slam dunk, no brainer extension of the current monetary system. Online, government secured currency is what is needed.
One of the reasons a 3 cent transaction is doable is that there is not a business making the transaction unworkable by adding a fee. The voter is once again uncouncious, failing to force government to live up to its obligations.
Seems like if the Open Source community would be better off improving Ming.swf file generator. Flash is good, and I don't see the need for adding to the Tower of Babel when a good standard with hooks to Open Source exists.
Why not back Flash and put the effort in improving Open Source support of Flash???
Slashdot Mirror
When a single proprietary system gains large market share this is considered unhealthy around these parts.
Now, an Open Source system gains an overwhelming market share, and this is considered a good thing??? Bubba is confused over why it is good Apache dominates the market over a large number if niche web servers, a few of which are very good web servers.
Microsoft did the correct thing. Anyone that works for a company, allows the company to pay their bills, and then launches a public ad campaign against the company is a low life, scoundrel.
It would be different if this person was a whistleblower, turning them in for illegal deeds. Nope, this person is a cretin, collecting a paycheck from a company while trying to damage the company.
I like my Linux computers. But, Flash MX is the OLD version of Flash. Flash MX 2004 is the current version. If you are platform agnostic, and committed to writing the best code possible, why would you do this???
Use Windows for Windows apps, Linux for Linux Apps.
Certainly the article was an unfair effort to slander open source software. But, people around here should look in the mirror. This (excellent and well loved by me) website is overloaded with similar articles mindlessly spewing anti Microsoft (and such companies) slander and disinformation. The article was no more propaganda than many other Slashdot pieces.
PS, with all the negativity Slashdot puts out, I thought it was sad the article said "Forewarning: The open source community is not portrayed in positive light so you might want to skip reading this. ". You know you are a narrow minded fanatic whn you cannot deal with criticism.
Huh??? How does Jobs even make the top 10 in the 20th century??? To rank him above Bill Gates is an absudity??? Jobs is a Bill Gates wannabe!!!
Better start WW3, Lindows is a Linux/Communist plot to take over the world. Soon, all our computers will be impotent. We'll meet again, lalala, lalala... Steve Ballmer = Dr Strangelove ???
That is a feature I won't purchase!!!
Anyone who doubts NASA is in its glory age right now, needs to scribble out a Perl Script (or your language of choice), and download all these NASA Pictures of the Day. NASA in the 90's and this decade is accomplishing FAR MORE than the NASA of the Apollo Era.
. htm
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
This Space Plane is an excellent solution to a pressing problem.
The NASA program that holds the most incredible promise is Project Prometheus. This program should have an incredible impact on the future of mankind, yet is barely known. It is the coolest thing America is doing today. It is highly inaccurate to suggest NASA is idle or unsuccessful. Remember, the Space Shuttle is an important, highly visible PR project as much as a serious project. Much of the real scientific and engineering achievement occurs beneath the publics radar by computer controlled machines.
http://www.nuclearspace.com/a_project_prometheus3
Obviously with the economies they have, Japan, China and Japan are going to want an OS that does a good job of consumer electronics audio video. Linux at the moment is weak at audio/video and user interface. Windows is also inadequate (although more adequate than Linux) at these tasks.
The article states they might build on Linux. That would make alot of sense. The guts of Linux are solid, it's the user experience that is weak. Laying a 21st century Audio/Video/UI over Linux to create a new OS would leave the current Windows/OSX/Linux/Unix systems behind in the 20th century, to which they all basically belong.
The CD is an inferior storage technology that has propagated due to 3 reasons IMO.
1. For the average person, a file is in some way less real if it is on a hard drive, and more real if it is on a CD, where it is a physical object they can touch.
2. Familiarity with CD's due to long term use on music CDs.
3. Vastly superior marketing to hard drives.
Removable hard drive bays should be standard on all PC's. Once you are used to these, the Hard Drive is just a Cartidge to plug into the PC. Data is easily backed up, and a Hard Drive in closet is safe.
Hard drives are faster, take up less space, and are very cost competative with CD's. I am unclear why CD's are popular with the tech savvy crowd. It's an inferior storage technology.
CPAN rocks. Why contribute to the ongoing Project Tower of Babel in computer software??? CPAN is already Grand Central Station for Perl on Unix/Linux.
Why are so many people determined to add to the Tower of Babel!!! Enough already!!
I would say this is a classic case of Corporate Communism, where the government protects Big Business at the expense of Small Business and the Consumer Class.
I prefer to think of the the economic policies of the American Government (which Americans in our not so great wisdom have elected) as Corporate Communism, for lack of a better terminology. I don't think when government does so much to protect Big Business at the expense of all other of societies economic entiites, that capitalism really applies to the American Economic System.
That was a practical and honest solution to the percieved problems with the voting machines.
Also, I noticed a tidal shift in which American states were now most enlightened this winter, when talking to a California Cousin, he noted that at least his governor kept the power on. Seeing as keeping the power on is a GIVEN down South, I started wondering which states were truly the most advanced in US.
As long as the Internet is an international open network, is there really much an individual nation can do to regulate it??? As long as the SPAM is sent from outside the offended nation, can much really be done about it??? I don't know, just asking...
Doesn't SPAM exist more for Technical than Legal reasons??? IE, Email is sent over the net without a reliable electronic ID, hence you can't easily filter out SPAM???
I am a lifelong blue collar guy, gardening, landscaping and construction. I have worked a fair amount part time with electricians. Do it yourself electrical work is ok for outlets, ceiling fans, etc, if you are smart with your hands.
But you need to stay FAR away from the Main Panel unless you are knowledgeable. That thing is dangerous, there ARE many non obvious mistakes you can make if you are not an experienced electrician. You can hurt yourself, burn down the building, damage stuff attached to the electrical system, and if you do something REAL IGNORANT, it is possible (unlikely) you can hurt someone working for the power company outside the house.
This is coming from a Gung Ho!!! Do It Yourselfer/ Shade Tree Mechanic
A client license for a single user desktop system is $199. So, I reckon Bubba owes $995. I am straight with SCO I hope, I just mailed my check. LMAO!!!
Kinda ironic, I was watchin an interview with an NFL player (Patrick Kerney, a "small" lineman if it matters). He doesn't drink beer because it contributes to him losing weight. Of course, I suppose he gets a bit more exercise than the average /.er???
I don't see this replacing manufactured goods in price. Where this process would be invaluable would be for mechanics, construction workers, etc. All sorts of things could be repaired with this. So many items go in the garbage, not because they are useless, but because they are in need of one minor, obscure part that is no longer in stock. Anyone who has done mechanical or construction work can appreciate the need to be able to duplicate one trivial part that cannot be purchased. I am thinking any auto mechanic would go nuts over such a machine.
We need government that is not soft on crime. We got a government that is unbelievably soft on White Collar Crime. There is no telling how expensive White Collar Crime is to the economy. Kinda ironic, white collar criminals make a fortune and face little sanction. Let some poor person rob a few thousand dollars from the same company with burglary. Both belong in prison, but the white collar criminal, who is far more destructive to society, gets a slap on the wrist.
Unless I am mistaken, MCI Sprint, WorldCom and now MCI have been ripping people off right and left, anyway they could, since the beginning (the 80's I think???). They have always been involved in fraud, who has had their service, carefully checked there bill, and NOT discovered getting overcharged for something. What I find shocking is that there are still people that will willingly do business with these folks.
Excellent responce
Of sitting under the humongous oak tree in City Park, getting a pile of great food from most anywhere around Tulane, and sitting around doing nothing on a vacation day!!! New Orleans is a real nice place... The Mississippi River is awesome.
Governments are supposed to be responcible for maintaining a robust and useful currency system. Supplying a robust currency system should be a slam dunk, no brainer extension of the current monetary system. Online, government secured currency is what is needed.
One of the reasons a 3 cent transaction is doable is that there is not a business making the transaction unworkable by adding a fee. The voter is once again uncouncious, failing to force government to live up to its obligations.
I am a mere Blue Collar worker in a small town in Georgia, USA. I shall endeavor to persevere in my efforts to read and write the American language...
Seems like if the Open Source community would be better off improving Ming .swf file generator. Flash is good, and I don't see the need for adding to the Tower of Babel when a good standard with hooks to Open Source exists.
Why not back Flash and put the effort in improving Open Source support of Flash???