Then again... there were LOTS of troops from EU countries in Kosova and Bosnia. Or hadn't you heard of NATO? If you actually bothered to check your facts you probably would have discovered that it was troops under NATO that were sent into the former Yugoslavia, not just US troops.
BTW, small hint to all those posting about the lack of EU troops in US wars.... The EU doesn't have ANY say in the defence affairs of it's member states (at least yet). They are run on a country by country basis.
Who said anything about prefering a pro-microsoft source? I personally would prefer an unbiased source.
As for this story, where the hell is the relevance to MS trying to detsory open source? AFAIK these donations have been going on (and been increased annually) for a number of years, since Open Source as a serious commercial competitor was just a twinkle in developers eyes. Why claim that all of a sudden that this is out to destroy Open Source? Paranoia?
Why not treat the story as what it is? As a story about MS giving away more copies of it's software to boost it's image? Discuss it on that basis, rather than people trying to read what THEY wish to see into the story.
Are they being manipulative? I certainly believe so, but I also believe that many of these organisations have volunteers who use Windows at home, never used Linux and aren't necssarily very "trainable" with the resources at hand.
All in all, a cynical move that does actually help people, but NOT necessarily aimed at the destruction of Open Source, Free Speech or the American Way of Life etc..... Feel free to disagree, I'm sure lots of people will.
AFAIK, the xbox doesn't force region protection on games, but it does allow games producers to implement it if they wish.
Is it a way to manipulate the market? Absolutely! But, are you still morally allowed to bypass protection when you have agreed to a license agreement that says it is only for use in one country? Or is it OK to "lie" when agreeing to the license just in order to let you bypass it later, just because you REALLY, REALLY want to watch/play that foreign version of the latest Matrix?
Until those protection schemes are defined LEGALLY as being anti-competitive and anti-trust then they aren't, so you have no "right" to break the protection.
I don't necessarily agree with DRM systems, I also don't agree with piracy or region encoding, but I have to live in a world where I deal with the actual reality, not just the one that I would like it to be!
He may just not have a daughter! (or even be married)
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Take a look at the "classic" range that MS have just released... one of the requirements to be in the range is that the game has to have sold over 1 million copies, so I guess there must be other fun games than Halo.
From your quote about number of players I take it that PC users ONLY ever play MMORPGs online, like Everquest, sort of rules Counter Strike, Battlefield 1942, Quake, Wolfenstein etc. out of the game doesn't it?
#3 Halo is generic? Just one query on this... in what way? The AI is cool (although could be improved), the vehicles work like a dream without dominating gameplay. And yes, I DO know they repeated some sections of levels.
#5 Long Live Huge Controllers! Personally I bought one of the smaller controllers and found that my hands started to cramp up into claws after five minutes use. Too big for the japanese market possibly, but keep churning them out please MS, I need them!
#8 Project Gotham Racing, Amped, Dead or Alive 3, surely at least one of these must rate a "good" off you?
Well I have had one for 3 months now and am very happy with it. Admittedly the battery life was pathetic until I updated the phone (which contrary to a previous post you DONT have to download over GPRS, in fact it requires a PC with an Internet connection) , but now that seems to have been solved I am more than satisfied with the system.
Since their software is currently inferior to Symbian OS for smartphone use
Sorry, I can't agree. Used both and I don't personally feel that the smartphone software is in any way inferior to Symbian. Different certainly, but not inferior.
Actually you don't, are you sure you aren't thinking of Pocket PC Phone Edition? (A PDA with a phone built in rather than vice-versa)
I own one of the Orange Smartphones and it works just great for me, you just tap in your number once the phone it turned on and off you go.
Gosh! And if you thought about it for more than.00001 seconds, maybe you would figure out that Mira is a system of software running on hardware and Microsoft don't build the hardware, but it does help for the OS to support the processor being used, at least occasionally!
Why is it so many of the/. crowd remind me of Joe McArthy?
As far as I am aware the 'You may not disclose the... is pretty much standard for a lot of software now, I seem to remember that Oracle used to have it in their EULA, and I suspect a few other companies too, it was originally intended to prevent one software company from running competing software under inappropriate circumstances and then claiming "look how we beat them... we couldn't even get the RPM of MySQL to install on XP!!";)
1. I go out and work my ass off everyday to get money to buy things like CDs, Video Game Consoles, DVDs, DVD Players, etc....
Well done!
2. I now OWN these items that I have purchased. I am told I can't copy my CDs, rip my DVD's to make a "backup" copy and burn it to a CDR media. Also, I am not allowed to modify any hardware that I own.. (Which by the way it sounds like to me.. That since I bought a computer that runs at a clock speed of 1.4GHz I am not able to overclock it to 1.6Ghz if I want to because it was sold to me as running at 1.4GHz, I dont like that.)
Of course you can, you just lose the warranty, your money at the end of the day, so your choice.
3. Soon if all of this DRM crap goes through I will not beable to install anything that is not approved by certain companies (i.e. Microsoft). Meaning I can't install Linux on a computer that I purchased with Microsoft Windows on it. Even though I OWN the damn thing. I won't beable to add new hardware as I want to, I will have to call Microsoft to let them know I changed my hardware configuration (Windows XP does this now).
Actually, you will be able to, it just wouldn't run as "trusted" software, unless of course your favourite Linux distro had decided to fork out to pay for a suitable key.
The things that you are on about would only be illegal if you were planning on circumventing copy protection. It stinks, but it is the law. Unless you are a PS2 owner living in Australia apparently.
About being wrong, point proven, I heartily apologise;)
I agree in principle with what you are saying, but to my mind this illustrates a problem (NOT a weakness) with Open Source. It is unfortunate that Miguel stated that he may release a certain set of functionality, and the for whatever reason found out that he would not.
Where the problem appears is in using a list of proposed features as the basis of a business decision. To be fair, it is not only Mono that suffers from this problem, many projects do (and not all Open Source).
After one or two of these situations happening at work where I recommended Open Source software on the basis of "next release" only to find out that I was wrong, I was forced to take the position that I could and would, only rely on features contained within currently released code.
I personally feel that this has a detrimental effect on the software, many of the coders employed within industry who may be able to contribute code as the basis of their work would be forced into released bug fixes for current code as that is what the customer would be taking at the end of the day, rather than attempting to add new features.
Many small companies simply don't have the resource to add new features on the basis of "a customer may want it in the future" and so that job is left (in many cases) to individual coders who would add features on the basis of what they would like to see rather than on what is the most "commercial" product.
At I said at the start of this (too long) response, I believe the best advice that can be given at the moment is to base decisions on the released code that is available, as there are no guarantees on what will or won't make it to the final version of any software.
Yep, absolutely true, and most of us manage to be wrong at least once in our lives (apart from yourself obviously). Miguel had a bad day, leave it at that, find something else to whine about (sure you can find it somewhere in the/. headlines) and let him get on with his project to which it doesn't sound like you have contributed.
But the whole point of Mono is that is doesn't contain any MS runtimes or sample code, that is why the big fuss about their implementation of C# being able to compile itself without using MS libraries.
Just wondering about the vibrating razor, I notice that it has patent pending and I was wondering when you came up with the idea.
There was a TV program called "better by design" here in the UK about 1998 (I think) where a pair of industrial designers had to improve everyday products, coming up with a range of alternatives, one of which was (go on, guess)... a vibrating razor.
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Or sold F-14s to Iran?
BTW, small hint to all those posting about the lack of EU troops in US wars.... The EU doesn't have ANY say in the defence affairs of it's member states (at least yet). They are run on a country by country basis.
Have to admit, you do have a point, after all, you didn't want any culture when we offered it did you? ;)
As for this story, where the hell is the relevance to MS trying to detsory open source? AFAIK these donations have been going on (and been increased annually) for a number of years, since Open Source as a serious commercial competitor was just a twinkle in developers eyes. Why claim that all of a sudden that this is out to destroy Open Source? Paranoia?
Why not treat the story as what it is? As a story about MS giving away more copies of it's software to boost it's image? Discuss it on that basis, rather than people trying to read what THEY wish to see into the story.
Are they being manipulative? I certainly believe so, but I also believe that many of these organisations have volunteers who use Windows at home, never used Linux and aren't necssarily very "trainable" with the resources at hand.
All in all, a cynical move that does actually help people, but NOT necessarily aimed at the destruction of Open Source, Free Speech or the American Way of Life etc..... Feel free to disagree, I'm sure lots of people will.
only if you have code in the kernel, they aren't (as far as I am aware) saying anything about the rest of open source code
Is it a way to manipulate the market? Absolutely! But, are you still morally allowed to bypass protection when you have agreed to a license agreement that says it is only for use in one country? Or is it OK to "lie" when agreeing to the license just in order to let you bypass it later, just because you REALLY, REALLY want to watch/play that foreign version of the latest Matrix?
Until those protection schemes are defined LEGALLY as being anti-competitive and anti-trust then they aren't, so you have no "right" to break the protection.
I don't necessarily agree with DRM systems, I also don't agree with piracy or region encoding, but I have to live in a world where I deal with the actual reality, not just the one that I would like it to be!
He may just not have a daughter! (or even be married)
From your quote about number of players I take it that PC users ONLY ever play MMORPGs online, like Everquest, sort of rules Counter Strike, Battlefield 1942, Quake, Wolfenstein etc. out of the game doesn't it?
Don't forget the monitor and gamepad
THAT explains the poor gameplay people are complaining about then!
#3 Halo is generic? Just one query on this ... in what way? The AI is cool (although could be improved), the vehicles work like a dream without dominating gameplay. And yes, I DO know they repeated some sections of levels.
#5 Long Live Huge Controllers! Personally I bought one of the smaller controllers and found that my hands started to cramp up into claws after five minutes use. Too big for the japanese market possibly, but keep churning them out please MS, I need them!
#8 Project Gotham Racing, Amped, Dead or Alive 3, surely at least one of these must rate a "good" off you?
Well I have had one for 3 months now and am very happy with it. Admittedly the battery life was pathetic until I updated the phone (which contrary to a previous post you DONT have to download over GPRS, in fact it requires a PC with an Internet connection) , but now that seems to have been solved I am more than satisfied with the system.
Sorry, I can't agree. Used both and I don't personally feel that the smartphone software is in any way inferior to Symbian. Different certainly, but not inferior.
Never trust someone who tells you they are grown up. They also think you are "really really old" when you hit 30.
Actually you don't, are you sure you aren't thinking of Pocket PC Phone Edition? (A PDA with a phone built in rather than vice-versa) I own one of the Orange Smartphones and it works just great for me, you just tap in your number once the phone it turned on and off you go.
Gosh! And if you thought about it for more than .00001 seconds, maybe you would figure out that Mira is a system of software running on hardware and Microsoft don't build the hardware, but it does help for the OS to support the processor being used, at least occasionally!
/. crowd remind me of Joe McArthy?
Why is it so many of the
They left because they didn't have their own Internet?
As far as I am aware the 'You may not disclose the... is pretty much standard for a lot of software now, I seem to remember that Oracle used to have it in their EULA, and I suspect a few other companies too, it was originally intended to prevent one software company from running competing software under inappropriate circumstances and then claiming "look how we beat them ... we couldn't even get the RPM of MySQL to install on XP!!" ;)
Well done!
2. I now OWN these items that I have purchased. I am told I can't copy my CDs, rip my DVD's to make a "backup" copy and burn it to a CDR media. Also, I am not allowed to modify any hardware that I own.. (Which by the way it sounds like to me.. That since I bought a computer that runs at a clock speed of 1.4GHz I am not able to overclock it to 1.6Ghz if I want to because it was sold to me as running at 1.4GHz, I dont like that.)
Of course you can, you just lose the warranty, your money at the end of the day, so your choice.
3. Soon if all of this DRM crap goes through I will not beable to install anything that is not approved by certain companies (i.e. Microsoft). Meaning I can't install Linux on a computer that I purchased with Microsoft Windows on it. Even though I OWN the damn thing. I won't beable to add new hardware as I want to, I will have to call Microsoft to let them know I changed my hardware configuration (Windows XP does this now).
Actually, you will be able to, it just wouldn't run as "trusted" software, unless of course your favourite Linux distro had decided to fork out to pay for a suitable key.
The things that you are on about would only be illegal if you were planning on circumventing copy protection. It stinks, but it is the law. Unless you are a PS2 owner living in Australia apparently.
I agree in principle with what you are saying, but to my mind this illustrates a problem (NOT a weakness) with Open Source. It is unfortunate that Miguel stated that he may release a certain set of functionality, and the for whatever reason found out that he would not.
Where the problem appears is in using a list of proposed features as the basis of a business decision. To be fair, it is not only Mono that suffers from this problem, many projects do (and not all Open Source).
After one or two of these situations happening at work where I recommended Open Source software on the basis of "next release" only to find out that I was wrong, I was forced to take the position that I could and would, only rely on features contained within currently released code.
I personally feel that this has a detrimental effect on the software, many of the coders employed within industry who may be able to contribute code as the basis of their work would be forced into released bug fixes for current code as that is what the customer would be taking at the end of the day, rather than attempting to add new features.
Many small companies simply don't have the resource to add new features on the basis of "a customer may want it in the future" and so that job is left (in many cases) to individual coders who would add features on the basis of what they would like to see rather than on what is the most "commercial" product.
At I said at the start of this (too long) response, I believe the best advice that can be given at the moment is to base decisions on the released code that is available, as there are no guarantees on what will or won't make it to the final version of any software.
Yep, absolutely true, and most of us manage to be wrong at least once in our lives (apart from yourself obviously). Miguel had a bad day, leave it at that, find something else to whine about (sure you can find it somewhere in the /. headlines) and let him get on with his project to which it doesn't sound like you have contributed.
But the whole point of Mono is that is doesn't contain any MS runtimes or sample code, that is why the big fuss about their implementation of C# being able to compile itself without using MS libraries.
The Design Council were involved apparently.
There was a TV program called "better by design" here in the UK about 1998 (I think) where a pair of industrial designers had to improve everyday products, coming up with a range of alternatives, one of which was (go on, guess) ... a vibrating razor.