Actually, Crays run Unicos, which is System V based and not BSD based.
Well, the US government can say, "Told ya so"
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This Public Announcement alerts American citizens to the situation in Zimbabwe following that country's March 2002 presidential election. This Public Announcement supersedes the one issued for Zimbabwe on April 2, 2002, and will expire on August 1, 2002.
U.S. citizens in Zimbabwe should be aware of continuing conditions that could adversely affect their personal security. The political, social, economic, and security situation in Zimbabwe remains fluid. There continue to be incidents of land seizures, police roadblocks, political violence and intimidation in urban, and especially rural areas. The possibility of mass demonstrations cannot be discounted. Growing food shortages and increasing numbers of internally displaced persons have added to social and economic tensions. The Government of Zimbabwe has enacted the Public Order and Security Act, which makes it an offense to "undermine the authority of the President" or "engender hostility" towards him. This includes speaking negatively of the President in public. The bill also bars individuals from speaking negatively of the police and carrying weapons of any kind. The Government has also enacted the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act which, among other things, deals with the abuse of journalistic privilege.Journalists, including Americans, have been detained on charges stemming from this Act.
American citizens should avoid public demonstrations or large gatherings and refrain from taking pictures or videos of political events of any kind. Americans should also monitor the local and international media for developments that may affect their safety. Additionally, American citizens should exercise caution when traveling anywhere in Zimbabwe, should travel with reputable tour operators and are urged to register with the U.S. Embassy, located at 172 Herbert Chitepo Ave., in the capital, Harare, telephone (263)4-250-593/4.
For additional information on travel to Zimbabwe, please consult the Department of State's latest Consular Information Sheet for Zimbabwe, as well as the World Wide Caution Public Announcement, available via the Internet at http://travel.state.gov. ---- Department of State travel information and publications are available at Internet address: http://travel.state.gov. U.S. travelers may hear recorded information by calling the Department of State in Washington, D.C. at 202-647-5225 from their touchtone telephone, or receive information by automated telefax by dialing 202-647-3000 from their fax machine.
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I tried to highlight the important parts. Point is, Zimbabwe isn't exactly a haven for personal freedoms.
That's all a bunch of malarkey. Look here, Louie Es-quire. For a lawyer, you do seem to have your head shoved quite far up your ass.
IE has a monopoly now because it was illegally bundled with the OS. Any other reason simply does not matter much.
That's cause like all you slimeball lawyers (cheap-shot stereotype) don't care to hear any other side but yours. You are simply WRONG.
Did it never occur to you that the many popular web sites that boasted "This site requires IE x.x" boosted sales?
By your logic I suppose you could hold AOL as a monopoly of online services because "it's so damn easy to use, any retarded fool with his hands tied behind his back can install and use it."
"AOL 7.0! It's so easy! All my friends are on it!"
You know, it's really sickening how assholes like you try and bring down good products like Internet Explorer without recognizing what that technology can do to the world.
This was also true back in the day here in the US when American-loyal car owners refused to buy Japanese cars. In the industrial Midwest, you risked getting your car keyed if you dared to drive a Japanese car into a parking lot.
Well, times have changed. It turns out that Jap cars are indeed probably the most reliable and efficient cars in the world. The Honda Accord? Best sedan ever made. Toyota Land Cruiser (or any Toyota for that matter)? They're built to go 500,000 miles! Try that with an American car.
Netscape had it coming to them. They just couldn't keep up. IE4 came out a little before Windows 98 (the official "bundling") --- the official browser that did in Netscape. It killed them. Why? It was twice as fast. Crashed half as much. Supported plugins more flexibly than Netscape did.
My question is, why can't Netscape develop their own OS and call it NetscapeOS? Huh? Cause they suck, that's why. Everyone is jealous of Microsoft, jealous of their success. Well, let me tell you something mister, it's called capitalism. If Ford had 95% of the car market, should they stop offering Fords and sell GM cars too, just to "allow competition." No, that's totaly absurd.
Lindows? Ha! Linux "on the desktop?" Ha ha! When those take over the desktop, or when IE is de-throned as the browser king, I'll be hanging myself from the ceiling of RMS's office, mark my words.
As for your phoney credentials, you don't have to look lofty to make a good point. I think I've just been trolled.
So are you suggesting they "stole" Netscape. Both browsers are based on Mosiac, the original browser, so it's more like McDonalds and Burger King bought rights to square hamburgers from Wendy's. Burger King was selling them for a nominal price and making money, but here comes McDonalds giving them away for free.
I know back in the day running IE 2.0, the 'freeness' of the whole thing is what made me choose IE. Never went back.
So by that logic if McDonalds Corp comes out with this killer sandwich that just tastes so good, and everybody starts eating that McDonald sandwich, which subsequently takes business from Burger King, Wendy's, and White Castle, is that "utilization of monopoly position to gain power?" No, it's just making a damn good sandwich. Should then we force McDonalds do package sandwiches from competing companies with your order???
That's an absolutely retarded idea. That's like mailing MSN CDs to people who you knowingly know are running AOL. (They already have a browser, why should they switch?!?) I think those CDs would go straight to the trash, or make a good coaster.
Word. Although IE is my main browser, I do all my testing in Moz cause I know if it looks perfect in Moz it will look perfect in IE. IE is a little lenient, which is a catch-22... it encourages lazy coding. It may look like shit in other browsers.
No. Where I work there's lots (20,000+) of corporate desktops. We recently just switched from Netscape 4.x to IE 5.5. What's the big reason? Well, our company has a large auto-configure proxy server configuration script that becomes broken on Mozilla and Netscape 6+, but works fine with Netscape 4 and IE.
Plus, screw the MSIs, most corporate places use stuff like Novell's ZenWorks SnAppshot or Seagate WinInstall to take a snapshot of the installation, wrap it up as files-to-copy-where and stuff-to-put-in-the-registry scripts, and no installer is subsequently run on the client systems.
Nah. I think Mozilla is a niche browser --- it offers an Internet Explorer-like "this site actually displays correctly and fast" browser to the Linux desktop. Prior to that, most Linux users were stuck with Netscape 4.x, which was probably the worst thing to hit the world since British food (no offense to the Brits). At least you could run IE on Solaris. It gives people confidence that if they need to install Linux to do some UNIX programming, at lease they now have a decent web browser to use! (And no, Konquereor doesn't cut it.)
Netscape didn't lose because Microsoft had a 'monoloplistic share of the market.' It lost because IE was:
1) A better browser than Netscape 2) Free as in beer
Amazing how some 'free software' advocates tend to side with the opposite on this argument. Netscape used to cost $50 a pop back in the day.
IE got its 'monopolistic market share' before Windows 98 integration. It simply won it over by being the best. I even remember running IE 3 on lil' old slowpoke Mac LC's back in the day... cause, seriously, who the fudge wanted to pay the Netscape license fee?
Netscape 4.x did them over. I'd rather stick pins though my eyes while simultaneously having my testicles placed into a Salad Shooter than use that browser. It would crash faster than I could type this sentence.
Mark is just a whiny little pansy, cause he lost the browser war. That cock Larry Ellison would be saying the same if tomorrow Microsoft decided to say "Well, hell, we're deciding to give SQL Server away for free now, just pay for support."
"But nooooo! It's not fair!"
-- Larry Ellison, 2003
Just to show how much of an idiot he is, this comes from the Oracle 9i site:
"Unbreakable Can't break it. Oracle9i Database won't go down if your server fails and won't go down if your site fails."
Right. So the power supply on the server dies, and Milton from Office Space burns down the building, but Oracle keeps on running! Go Larry! Please, show me the car that keeps running when the f**king powertrain falls out of the hood. Puh-leeze.
Every single decent compiler will tell you when you mess up...paper doesn't.
Ever see the look on someone's face when they use gcc for the first time? It's horrific. One semicolon gone and you get 5,000 errors, none of which are "Syntax error on line 14" or "You forgot the fucking semicolon on like 14, moron."
Neither do I. Remember that huge gaping buffer overflow in BIND 9 (which ships in practically 1/2 of the major Linux distros). They never posted it. Phooey on them. "Propaganda by obscurity" if anything. Plus, anything posted/written by michael is questionable. Timothy is the only author I trust, really.
On some DVD players, you can disable Macrovision by means of uploading a new ROM into the player by burning it onto an ISO 9660 CD-R, or by hitting a secret key combination on the remote. It's mostly APEXes and Daewoos that let you do this; ironic that they are the cheapest yet most hackable DVD players. I have a cute little APEX I scored for $70 at Circuit City... that sucker plays DVDs, VCDs, SVCDs, CD-Rs, MP3s (!), and they kitchen sink. Most DVD players have a "Factory setting" menu that you can get to, but you need to know the secret code.
Of course you'd never get goodies like this from the big boys (aka Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic).
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Actually, Crays run Unicos, which is System V based and not BSD based.
This Public Announcement alerts American citizens to the situation in Zimbabwe following that country's March 2002 presidential election. This Public Announcement supersedes the one issued for Zimbabwe on April 2, 2002, and will expire on August 1, 2002.
U.S. citizens in Zimbabwe should be aware of continuing conditions that could adversely affect their personal security. The political, social, economic, and security situation in Zimbabwe remains fluid. There continue to be incidents of land seizures, police roadblocks, political violence and intimidation in urban, and especially rural areas. The possibility of mass demonstrations cannot be discounted. Growing food shortages and increasing numbers of internally displaced persons have added to social and economic tensions. The Government of Zimbabwe has enacted the Public Order and Security Act, which makes it an offense to "undermine the authority of the President" or "engender hostility" towards him. This includes speaking negatively of the President in public. The bill also bars individuals from speaking negatively of the police and carrying weapons of any kind. The Government has also enacted the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act which, among other things, deals with the abuse of journalistic privilege. Journalists, including Americans, have been detained on charges stemming from this Act.
American citizens should avoid public demonstrations or large gatherings and refrain from taking pictures or videos of political events of any kind. Americans should also monitor the local and international media for developments that may affect their safety. Additionally, American citizens should exercise caution when traveling anywhere in Zimbabwe, should travel with reputable tour operators and are urged to register with the U.S. Embassy, located at 172 Herbert Chitepo Ave., in the capital, Harare, telephone (263)4-250-593/4.
For additional information on travel to Zimbabwe, please consult the Department of State's latest Consular Information Sheet for Zimbabwe, as well as the World Wide Caution Public Announcement, available via the Internet at http://travel.state.gov.
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Department of State travel information and publications are available at Internet address: http://travel.state.gov. U.S. travelers may hear recorded information by calling the Department of State in Washington, D.C. at 202-647-5225 from their touchtone telephone, or receive information by automated telefax by dialing 202-647-3000 from their fax machine.
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I tried to highlight the important parts. Point is, Zimbabwe isn't exactly a haven for personal freedoms.
That's all a bunch of malarkey. Look here, Louie Es-quire. For a lawyer, you do seem to have your head shoved quite far up your ass.
IE has a monopoly now because it was illegally bundled with the OS. Any other reason simply does not matter much.
That's cause like all you slimeball lawyers (cheap-shot stereotype) don't care to hear any other side but yours. You are simply WRONG.
Did it never occur to you that the many popular web sites that boasted "This site requires IE x.x" boosted sales?
By your logic I suppose you could hold AOL as a monopoly of online services because "it's so damn easy to use, any retarded fool with his hands tied behind his back can install and use it."
"AOL 7.0! It's so easy! All my friends are on it!"
You know, it's really sickening how assholes like you try and bring down good products like Internet Explorer without recognizing what that technology can do to the world.
This was also true back in the day here in the US when American-loyal car owners refused to buy Japanese cars. In the industrial Midwest, you risked getting your car keyed if you dared to drive a Japanese car into a parking lot.
Well, times have changed. It turns out that Jap cars are indeed probably the most reliable and efficient cars in the world. The Honda Accord? Best sedan ever made. Toyota Land Cruiser (or any Toyota for that matter)? They're built to go 500,000 miles! Try that with an American car.
Netscape had it coming to them. They just couldn't keep up. IE4 came out a little before Windows 98 (the official "bundling") --- the official browser that did in Netscape. It killed them. Why? It was twice as fast. Crashed half as much. Supported plugins more flexibly than Netscape did.
My question is, why can't Netscape develop their own OS and call it NetscapeOS? Huh? Cause they suck, that's why. Everyone is jealous of Microsoft, jealous of their success. Well, let me tell you something mister, it's called capitalism. If Ford had 95% of the car market, should they stop offering Fords and sell GM cars too, just to "allow competition." No, that's totaly absurd.
Lindows? Ha! Linux "on the desktop?" Ha ha! When those take over the desktop, or when IE is de-throned as the browser king, I'll be hanging myself from the ceiling of RMS's office, mark my words.
As for your phoney credentials, you don't have to look lofty to make a good point. I think I've just been trolled.
So are you suggesting they "stole" Netscape. Both browsers are based on Mosiac, the original browser, so it's more like McDonalds and Burger King bought rights to square hamburgers from Wendy's. Burger King was selling them for a nominal price and making money, but here comes McDonalds giving them away for free.
I know back in the day running IE 2.0, the 'freeness' of the whole thing is what made me choose IE. Never went back.
So by that logic if McDonalds Corp comes out with this killer sandwich that just tastes so good, and everybody starts eating that McDonald sandwich, which subsequently takes business from Burger King, Wendy's, and White Castle, is that "utilization of monopoly position to gain power?" No, it's just making a damn good sandwich. Should then we force McDonalds do package sandwiches from competing companies with your order???
"Gave" in the sense of "forced it on you" ... just like he meant it. You're the idiot.
Someone didn't read my message completely. They had already destroyed Netscape before they "gave" you IE. Plus, you didn't have to take it, did you?
That's an absolutely retarded idea. That's like mailing MSN CDs to people who you knowingly know are running AOL. (They already have a browser, why should they switch?!?) I think those CDs would go straight to the trash, or make a good coaster.
Also, they could become good teething rings for toodlers, as this toddler is putting her Linux CD to good use!!!!!
Word. Although IE is my main browser, I do all my testing in Moz cause I know if it looks perfect in Moz it will look perfect in IE. IE is a little lenient, which is a catch-22... it encourages lazy coding. It may look like shit in other browsers.
No. Where I work there's lots (20,000+) of corporate desktops. We recently just switched from Netscape 4.x to IE 5.5. What's the big reason? Well, our company has a large auto-configure proxy server configuration script that becomes broken on Mozilla and Netscape 6+, but works fine with Netscape 4 and IE.
Plus, screw the MSIs, most corporate places use stuff like Novell's ZenWorks SnAppshot or Seagate WinInstall to take a snapshot of the installation, wrap it up as files-to-copy-where and stuff-to-put-in-the-registry scripts, and no installer is subsequently run on the client systems.
Nah. I think Mozilla is a niche browser --- it offers an Internet Explorer-like "this site actually displays correctly and fast" browser to the Linux desktop. Prior to that, most Linux users were stuck with Netscape 4.x, which was probably the worst thing to hit the world since British food (no offense to the Brits). At least you could run IE on Solaris. It gives people confidence that if they need to install Linux to do some UNIX programming, at lease they now have a decent web browser to use! (And no, Konquereor doesn't cut it.)
Netscape didn't lose because Microsoft had a 'monoloplistic share of the market.' It lost because IE was:
1) A better browser than Netscape
2) Free as in beer
Amazing how some 'free software' advocates tend to side with the opposite on this argument. Netscape used to cost $50 a pop back in the day.
IE got its 'monopolistic market share' before Windows 98 integration. It simply won it over by being the best. I even remember running IE 3 on lil' old slowpoke Mac LC's back in the day... cause, seriously, who the fudge wanted to pay the Netscape license fee?
Netscape 4.x did them over. I'd rather stick pins though my eyes while simultaneously having my testicles placed into a Salad Shooter than use that browser. It would crash faster than I could type this sentence.
Mark is just a whiny little pansy, cause he lost the browser war. That cock Larry Ellison would be saying the same if tomorrow Microsoft decided to say "Well, hell, we're deciding to give SQL Server away for free now, just pay for support."
"But nooooo! It's not fair!"
-- Larry Ellison, 2003
Just to show how much of an idiot he is, this comes from the Oracle 9i site:
"Unbreakable
Can't break it. Oracle9i Database won't go down if your server fails and won't go down if your site fails."
Right. So the power supply on the server dies, and Milton from Office Space burns down the building, but Oracle keeps on running! Go Larry! Please, show me the car that keeps running when the f**king powertrain falls out of the hood. Puh-leeze.
No, it's more like saying a Ford isn't a Mercedes-Benz because... well, it isn't!
Every single decent compiler will tell you when you mess up...paper doesn't.
Ever see the look on someone's face when they use gcc for the first time? It's horrific. One semicolon gone and you get 5,000 errors, none of which are "Syntax error on line 14" or "You forgot the fucking semicolon on like 14, moron."
The funny thing about that is that it's not UNIX-based. GNU/OS is a UNIX-alike, but alas, not UNIX per se.
We should start testing Deerhunter and such on Lindows and Wine!
Hahaha... they should quality test Lindows in a trailer home, while they're at it!
Neither do I. Remember that huge gaping buffer overflow in BIND 9 (which ships in practically 1/2 of the major Linux distros). They never posted it. Phooey on them. "Propaganda by obscurity" if anything. Plus, anything posted/written by michael is questionable. Timothy is the only author I trust, really.
This sounds like a case for Catbert: 'Evil HR Director.'
APEX was the first company to have an MP3-DVD player. I think it retailed at 80 or 90 USD when it first came out. Still way below other DVD players.
No, I'm talking all desktop, buddy. Running memory-leaking MATLAB all the time, too. =]
Just like Mitsubishi.... they make electronics.... and cars!
On some DVD players, you can disable Macrovision by means of uploading a new ROM into the player by burning it onto an ISO 9660 CD-R, or by hitting a secret key combination on the remote. It's mostly APEXes and Daewoos that let you do this; ironic that they are the cheapest yet most hackable DVD players. I have a cute little APEX I scored for $70 at Circuit City... that sucker plays DVDs, VCDs, SVCDs, CD-Rs, MP3s (!), and they kitchen sink. Most DVD players have a "Factory setting" menu that you can get to, but you need to know the secret code.
Of course you'd never get goodies like this from the big boys (aka Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic).
You pro-Free Software people can be so brainwashed that you are retarded.
eBay runs IIS. Hear that? eBay RUNS IIS!
The site cgi.ebay.com is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98.
Grow some pubes, please.