There's a problem with this story: it requires the acknowledgement of those obnoxious persons (i.e. most of Slashdot) to admit they are, in fact, obnoxious and pushy when it comes to open source software vs. closed software.
The way I did it with my wife was to show her the benefits of one over the other, then I let her decide. Mind you, I wasn't pushy, nor did I mock Outlook or IE or go on zealous rants about how Microsoft is supposedly evil. The end result is that she now uses Firefox instead of her AOL browser because she "can't live without tabs".
Oh dear Lord, not the religious right! Oh how eeeeevil! (as opposed to the holy & righteous secular left? Bwahaha!)
Microsoft just donates money to whoever happens to be in power at the time (see opensecrets.org). Your original post was totally off-topic and inflammatory, and is being modded as such by secular, leftist Slashdotters like yourself. Kind of ironic.
I despise the various "free as in xyz" catch phrases. The reader can derive what version of "free" is being spoken of by reading the context of its usage.
Maybe we ought to rename French DVDs as "Freedom DVDs", but this time not as a political statement, but rather because of the true freedom one has in DRM-less content.
Not to flame, but #2 is a tad misleading. While OO supports.doc, exporting to the Microsoft.doc format isn't there, meaning people who only have MS Office (i.e. most people) can't open your document.
The default swx format can't be opened by MS Office either, which means there will be some trouble viewing student/teacher documents unless the defaults were changed (or if one was to teach everyone to export to some cross-office compatible format, but that's boiling the ocean...)
(For dim witted bible bashers out there, the above is what is known as "not really true")
It's a funny joke, har har har. Reality is, though, that's what most ignorant Slashdotters think of Christians. But secular technozealots know as much about us as hermit Pennsylvania Amish know about the innards of the Linux kernel.
Reality is, we believers in Christ aren't all Bush loving TV evangelists out to get your money, out to smack you with our Bibles, or kill gays because it's "God's work". If that's what you see Christians as, then it's sad you've been exposed to the worst of our bunch.
I love how Slashbots like you are so pathetic that you have to post anonymously and resort to personal attacks when you lose an argument. Such a fine example of a "scientific" Slashbot.
You're basing your opinion of Microsoft on a news headline from Slashdot, an anti-Microsoft website. Unbelievable.
The original article mentions nothing about this being similar to Unix permissions; only a single quote saying "In Unix, people ask 'will this run under non-root'?". This "copy of Unix" idea is nothing more than an editorializing tactic by people who happen to hate Microsoft so much that they will criticize the company for everything from writing anti-child porn software, or for donating money to stop AIDS, or donating computers to schools.
This so-called tech community is truely blinded by an obsessive hatred of everything Microsoft, anything remotely religious, and anything that isn't GPL. This used to be a great technical oriented community, but its now become nothing more than a "we hate Microsoft, we hate Bush, we hate yahda yahda" fan club.
Exactly my point. When I said "compiled", I was speaking of compiled to native code. Java, C# and other.NET languages are compiled, just not to native.
Java depends on interpretation and JITing to get to native, while.NET/Mono apps depend on JITing and AOTing to get to native.
I know you were being sarcastic in your first post, but a lot of people (especially ex-VB6ers) don't understand that Java is JIT'd, or even what is JIT'd means.
Java isn't entirely interpreted anymore. In fact, much of it is just-in-time (JIT) compiled to machine language, meaning when you're about to run some Java code, the Java Virtual Machine compiles the byte code to native code on the fly.
FYI, the various.NET/Mono languages are all JIT'd, zero interpreting. Java is much the same now, it was just originally designed to be an interpreted language.
Also,.NET/Mono have ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation, meaning you can compile your dll libraries or exe applications to native code at install time.
That's too bad. The situation here in the US was much like that until quite recently -- rural areas have little choice, as DSL and Cable haven't been available.
Fortunately, now cable and DSL are both rolled out more in even the rural areas. And because of that, broadband prices are dropping; something like $30 (about $10 more than dialup) whereas only a few years ago it was between $50-60 for broadband.
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Noise, noise, noise...
There's a problem with this story: it requires the acknowledgement of those obnoxious persons (i.e. most of Slashdot) to admit they are, in fact, obnoxious and pushy when it comes to open source software vs. closed software.
The way I did it with my wife was to show her the benefits of one over the other, then I let her decide. Mind you, I wasn't pushy, nor did I mock Outlook or IE or go on zealous rants about how Microsoft is supposedly evil. The end result is that she now uses Firefox instead of her AOL browser because she "can't live without tabs".
Oh dear Lord, not the religious right! Oh how eeeeevil! (as opposed to the holy & righteous secular left? Bwahaha!)
Microsoft just donates money to whoever happens to be in power at the time (see opensecrets.org). Your original post was totally off-topic and inflammatory, and is being modded as such by secular, leftist Slashdotters like yourself. Kind of ironic.
Taking a break from the typical Slashdot cynicism, I gotta say you just made my day with that one. I'm adding you to my friends list...
I despise the various "free as in xyz" catch phrases. The reader can derive what version of "free" is being spoken of by reading the context of its usage.
Cirque de Soleil style. :-)
But the parent wasn't redundant when I posted it. :puts head between legs and runs away from evil mods:
Maybe we ought to rename French DVDs as "Freedom DVDs", but this time not as a political statement, but rather because of the true freedom one has in DRM-less content.
Not to flame, but #2 is a tad misleading. While OO supports .doc, exporting to the Microsoft .doc format isn't there, meaning people who only have MS Office (i.e. most people) can't open your document.
The default swx format can't be opened by MS Office either, which means there will be some trouble viewing student/teacher documents unless the defaults were changed (or if one was to teach everyone to export to some cross-office compatible format, but that's boiling the ocean...)
(For dim witted bible bashers out there, the above is what is known as "not really true")
It's a funny joke, har har har. Reality is, though, that's what most ignorant Slashdotters think of Christians. But secular technozealots know as much about us as hermit Pennsylvania Amish know about the innards of the Linux kernel.
Reality is, we believers in Christ aren't all Bush loving TV evangelists out to get your money, out to smack you with our Bibles, or kill gays because it's "God's work". If that's what you see Christians as, then it's sad you've been exposed to the worst of our bunch.
Wow, that hurt so much, what am I to do, dear me.
I love how Slashbots like you are so pathetic that you have to post anonymously and resort to personal attacks when you lose an argument. Such a fine example of a "scientific" Slashbot.
As opposed to public schools, which would have you believe evolution is infallible, and anything that teaches otherwise is automatically false.
Be prepared to get modded down by all who believe evolution is infallible (i.e. the large majority of Slashdot).
You're basing your opinion of Microsoft on a news headline from Slashdot, an anti-Microsoft website. Unbelievable.
The original article mentions nothing about this being similar to Unix permissions; only a single quote saying "In Unix, people ask 'will this run under non-root'?". This "copy of Unix" idea is nothing more than an editorializing tactic by people who happen to hate Microsoft so much that they will criticize the company for everything from writing anti-child porn software, or for donating money to stop AIDS, or donating computers to schools.
This so-called tech community is truely blinded by an obsessive hatred of everything Microsoft, anything remotely religious, and anything that isn't GPL. This used to be a great technical oriented community, but its now become nothing more than a "we hate Microsoft, we hate Bush, we hate yahda yahda" fan club.
That was one of the best posts I have read on Slashdot, ever. Nail on the head, man.
Haha I can see my grandpa saying that. Thanks, that just made my day. :-)
You know that when your company's sounds better pronounced backwards, you've picked a lousy name.
Search for Slashdot on Yagoohoogle, and what do you get? THIS!
Exactly my point. When I said "compiled", I was speaking of compiled to native code. Java, C# and other .NET languages are compiled, just not to native.
.NET/Mono apps depend on JITing and AOTing to get to native.
Java depends on interpretation and JITing to get to native, while
I know you were being sarcastic in your first post, but a lot of people (especially ex-VB6ers) don't understand that Java is JIT'd, or even what is JIT'd means.
Java isn't entirely interpreted anymore. In fact, much of it is just-in-time (JIT) compiled to machine language, meaning when you're about to run some Java code, the Java Virtual Machine compiles the byte code to native code on the fly.
.NET/Mono languages are all JIT'd, zero interpreting. Java is much the same now, it was just originally designed to be an interpreted language.
.NET/Mono have ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation, meaning you can compile your dll libraries or exe applications to native code at install time.
FYI, the various
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Beat me to it.
I was looking for a more Rick James-oriented comment though. So no mod points for you.
Brilliant.
That's too bad. The situation here in the US was much like that until quite recently -- rural areas have little choice, as DSL and Cable haven't been available.
Fortunately, now cable and DSL are both rolled out more in even the rural areas. And because of that, broadband prices are dropping; something like $30 (about $10 more than dialup) whereas only a few years ago it was between $50-60 for broadband.
With the recent survey saying Italy has the lowest broadband internet acceptance rate, I think your country might be down on the list a ways.