But the definition of "convicted" is "proven guilty of a crime". Therefore Microsoft is a "convicted" monopolist. Just because you think the word "convicted" is too harsh, doesn't mean it isn't accurate.
Your own admittance that "Microsoft has been found by a court of law to be an abusive monopolist" proves that the word "convicted" holds in this case.
Next time, try to argue that the pot wasn't black in the first case.
Speak for yourself. For the longest while, I was stuck without internet at home, so I'd simply run to school, sync my PDA with the news feeds from the week, and check mark the ones I wanted to read. Next morning, I'd sync again to download the actual articles. It may have been slow, but I actually got to read the news, and if I cared enough, I could have set it up to do it all in one fell swoop, but even then memory was a bit too expensive.
And now with WiFi PDAs, it should be even better to read the news on!!
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Sadly, I fear it works in reverse. Women see cameras as devil incarnate, and will do their best to stay clear of the camera's view angle, meaning you'll never come face to face to a woman again.
So, if you *really* want to attract women, put the camera on the BACK of your head, and they'll flock to you.
Looked into the Celeron-M much? Pretty much all of the same offering as a Pentium-M, minus some of the super nice speedstep features, and some L2. It's for the midrange laptops, and I'd say AMD will have a hard time competing with it, except for the fact that Intel has pushed "Celeron" as meaning "cheap" instead of "better option for most people who don't need bells and whistles". I believe if Intel pushed Celeron as being their mainline, they could use the Pentium line as being in the same position as the "Pentium EXTREEEEM edition", and probably charge a bit more for them. Of course, that'd be even more reason for Intel bashing.
They've both got something coming if IBM decides to start making PPC-based PCs and Laptops. If Freescale would just hurry up with those damned Dual core G4's, and IBM would go ahead and trim the G5 down...
BTW, I'm a known Intel enthusiast. But in my defense, I own at least as much AMD/PPC equipment.. so I'd rather consider myself a "microprocessing enthusiast".
Plus the way the "windows" dir is layed out, all files dumped in there, or in "system32" with no real organisation.. Seems that executeables, libraries, kernel drivers and data files are all dumped into the same dirs, what the hell is with that?
This happened because of another design flaw in Windows; letting entire library routines become executable through RunDLL. Basically, if it's code, and it's written in Windows, it is capable of being executed. In Windows 9x, this wasn't too bad of a problem. Everyone just threw anywhere where they wanted it, and since there weren't any permissions, everything worked as long as it knew all of the likely places to search for a file.
With Windows NT, they should have came up with a UNIX-style application/library sorting. But then you run into those gray area applications.. you know, the stupid ones which are just an executable compiled as a library so foolish people wouldn't try to run them (or something like that; Microsoft never gave a good reason for why they obfuscate things that way).
my guess is they'll have someone physically sitting at the machine, or connected via VNC/SSH/something to monitor hacker's progress/make sure the machine/associated daemon/network stack doesn't go down, and to keep it up.
Another guess is that there will be multiple machines masquerading behind that one IP address, either running simultianiously, or in some kind of fallover configuration so that if one goes down, the next will instantly come up. But that's a guess.
The reason this doesn't work is because Google can't "pay themselves" to use AdWords to pimp...AdWords. Besides, they own the company and make the rules. And maybe they should follow their own rules, but they most certainly don't have to. Besides, they don't block out competitor's results, they simply bring theirs to the top (Think: on-site searching, THEN offsite).
Firefox with two tabs: 49,532K Opera with two tabs: 20,188K Opera with 13 tabs: 31,780K
OS X[.3] (G4, 1.256GB ram):
Safari with one tab: 29,340K. Safari with 20 tabs: 36,500K.
Firefox with one tab: 30,011K. Firefox with 20 tabs: 35,790K.
I'd say your numbers are either bogus, a worst-case scenario (flash on both tabs in firefox?), or all the tabs in Opera were of a blank page. A link to benchmarks would be more accurate, kthx.
..And I'd like an iPod with FLAC support, or how about OGG support? Oh, and how about an Intel chip with an integrated memory controller? Or a video card with swappable DDR2 ram?
Us tech geeks have plenty of wants. The problem is we represent a very small percentage of the population, and therefore, "we don't matter". AM is a technology soon to disappear altogether with the emergence of Satellite radio, Microwave-based wireless techologies (I can't wait to see a WiFi-based MP3 Player, play streams directly from the Internet!!).. very much like the way of UHF and VHF television. We live in a digital age.
So I'm sorry to tell you but you might be toting around that Portable AM player until AM's doomsday.
While all of the above is true, in the case of Linux, most of this doesn't matter.
Linux is home to very little innovation past it's continual reform and review; that's its key innovation. Linux is nothing more than a knockoff of an idea that's passing twenty years old, that is being created for the people, by the people. Truthfully, if I were a company, I'd want it stopped too, firing whatever I could in its way to stop it. And a great way of doing that, is of course, patents.
Now let me also say that if UNIX ideals and traditions did have any patentable base, that by now it should have long outgrown patent protection; not that newer, more innovative ways have came about (look at UNIX directory layout, for example), but simply the old ways of doing things have been published many times over, and became a standard in which business software works.
I think for Linux is in for some very hard times. Companies will begin to launch patent infringment cases against it soon, and in many cases, Linux will be found to be blatently violating them, whether or not the patent was created after Linux. Many patents will be thrown out because of this. Others will be deemed instantly obsoleted. Still others, specifically any filed by UNIX companies in the days of yore, run the distinct possibility of halting Linux development, and causing massive costs to be incurred all across the board. And I think the best way Linux can get around this is to evolve.
We developers need to look at the old UNIX model, and the current Linux model, even the NT kernel model, and see if there's anywhere to improve it. Any improvements we find, we need to copyright and patent ourselves (as individuals, or as a part of understanding, Linux-supporting companies). Lastly, we need to create a license, specifically for patents, that commit them to the Public Domain, and insures that they are not used in closed projects.
Lastly, when these attacks start to happen, Linux developers need to go on a counter attack. Disassemble everything you can find; find every shrapnel of machine code that's even distantly related to any open source project, commercial or private. Prove that Linux and Open Source are now ubiquitous and required by _all_ information technologies, and cause the courts to be completely and totally overloaded by the amount of activity. This buzz will quickly get the attention of the mainstream media, and draw out our politicians to fix this broken Patent/Copyright system, once and for all. Hell, this same attack can be used against the multimedia conglomerates.
Please, let's fight this. No more settling lawsuits because you don't have the money, and can't afford a lawyer. Walk into court without one, and plead to the judge's sensibility. Get a court-designated worker to help you out. If you can't fight the case, go to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. At this point, money is no longer an object, this is our ability to be creative with our logic that's on the line.
The better question is "Why would they want to?". M$'s siege weaponry's doing a tremendously awesome job at eroding away our government as is, now's just their time to go worldwide with their destruction.
As a consideration that most Slashdot readers are American, and that Slashdot is hosted by an American, and that Slashdot was created by an American, it's quite easy to assume that "our" would mean "American". Now, if you're NOT an American on Slashdot, then you probably should read a bit more carefully, because there are hundreds of these subtleties that we Americans use every day, and that people who are not American also use to indicate people of their citizenship, whatever that may be.
Communication boundries aside, if you understand the context of the sentence, then there's no reason to get hostile about it. Slashdot is a forum of open communication and what should be a common area for discussion about technology and how it affects us. Too much lately it's a bashfest for whoever can bash the most. It's time for Slashdot readers to grow up..
Okay, if you want to be anal about it, yes, it does require more:
The requirements for naturalization past the continuous citizenship are:
residence in a particular USCIS District prior to filing for citizenship;
an ability to read, write, and speak English;
a knowledge and understanding of U.S. history and government;
good moral character;
attachment to the principles of the U.S. Constitution; and,
favorable disposition toward the United States.
More information on how to obtain US citizenship is available Here.
It is sad that it requires more work to become a citizen of America than just living here, but basically, if you've lived and worked here for long enough, know enough about the government, have moral decency, and are fluent in the ~unofficial~ primary language of the United States, then getting your citizenship is as trivial as filling out some paperwork, taking a test, and an oath.
If you're a poor immigrant, yes, it is much harder, but if you've been living here for long enough to attain citizenship, you've probably been working, have a load of cash somewhere, or someone to bankroll you (a college, for example), and THEY are willing to go the distance to help you become a citizen... Don't make it seem like it's next to impossible.
According to Wikipedia, if you subsequently become a citizen of GB, you are upgraded to full Knight status. I dunno what the citizenry requirements are like, but I'd assume they're like ours; live there for so many years and you become a naturalized citizen.
Whellp, time for Redmond to pick up off of Washington state and hover over to GB..
Quoting Wikipedia: "Citizens of other countries, however, may be admitted as "honorary members". They do not count towards the numerical limits aforementioned, nor are they addressed as "Sir". (They may be made full members if they subsequently become British citizens.) Notable foreign members of the Order have included Pelé, Bob Geldof, Bill Gates, Rudy Giuliani, Alan Greenspan, Steven Spielberg, Tommy Franks and Wesley Clark (all Knights Commander)."
I'll just use my XSLT to parse my XTC to convert my XML to XHTML, of course checking it with my XSD, because my XCOCK isn't long enough, and my XHEAD isn't filled to the brim with XLANGs yet.
This is the one thing I've always hated about XML. It's an incomplete solution; you end up needing six different programming languages/abstractions layers/formatting layers/document validators/rendering layers... it seems like all we're doing is adding more and more overhead to something that used to be as simple as "".
Please people, consider this before you start writing/converting everything to XML. Most of the time it adds countless thousands of un-needed characters to parse through, and could very well be obsoleted by the next big thing..
Better question: With the iPod AC adapters, have they revamped them to hooking up via USB, or do you have to buy a seperate AC adapter, or do you have to buy a firewire cable to use the AC Adapter?
actually, you know what? I was going to moderate you +1, but I figured it's better just to post this: Why aren't there more people like you on slashdot? instead of the ordinary "slash and bash", you added the little "otherwise, great post" to the end.. and i thought that was awesome; a slashdot reader who DOESN'T have the soul purpose of bashing other people..
The fact is, AMD and Intel have BOTH been better than this for years (I believe they started Out-of-order operations and register renaming with the original Pentium, but don't quote me on that), but to maintain compatibility, Intel really didn't want to budge on this original spec. In fact, Intel really didn't want to budge on ANY of the spec, so the ISA got really old, really fast. Of course, through multiple layers of obsfuscation, AMD and Intel have gotten around most all of the lagging bits. The last problem that really couldn't be snuck around was the memory address space, which AMD fixed with their spec, and Intel stole.
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remember how many versions of MS-DOS shipped without a decent text editor?
Yeah, and I also remember when Windows ME shipped without a decent operating system.
Yeah, and I also remember when Dell (and others) shipped boxes without a decent operating system. Oh wait...
But the definition of "convicted" is "proven guilty of a crime". Therefore Microsoft is a "convicted" monopolist. Just because you think the word "convicted" is too harsh, doesn't mean it isn't accurate.
Your own admittance that "Microsoft has been found by a court of law to be an abusive monopolist" proves that the word "convicted" holds in this case.
Next time, try to argue that the pot wasn't black in the first case.
PDA's just don't work..
Speak for yourself. For the longest while, I was stuck without internet at home, so I'd simply run to school, sync my PDA with the news feeds from the week, and check mark the ones I wanted to read. Next morning, I'd sync again to download the actual articles. It may have been slow, but I actually got to read the news, and if I cared enough, I could have set it up to do it all in one fell swoop, but even then memory was a bit too expensive.
And now with WiFi PDAs, it should be even better to read the news on!!
Sadly, I fear it works in reverse. Women see cameras as devil incarnate, and will do their best to stay clear of the camera's view angle, meaning you'll never come face to face to a woman again.
So, if you *really* want to attract women, put the camera on the BACK of your head, and they'll flock to you.
Looked into the Celeron-M much? Pretty much all of the same offering as a Pentium-M, minus some of the super nice speedstep features, and some L2. It's for the midrange laptops, and I'd say AMD will have a hard time competing with it, except for the fact that Intel has pushed "Celeron" as meaning "cheap" instead of "better option for most people who don't need bells and whistles". I believe if Intel pushed Celeron as being their mainline, they could use the Pentium line as being in the same position as the "Pentium EXTREEEEM edition", and probably charge a bit more for them. Of course, that'd be even more reason for Intel bashing.
They've both got something coming if IBM decides to start making PPC-based PCs and Laptops. If Freescale would just hurry up with those damned Dual core G4's, and IBM would go ahead and trim the G5 down...
BTW, I'm a known Intel enthusiast. But in my defense, I own at least as much AMD/PPC equipment.. so I'd rather consider myself a "microprocessing enthusiast".
Plus the way the "windows" dir is layed out, all files dumped in there, or in "system32" with no real organisation.. Seems that executeables, libraries, kernel drivers and data files are all dumped into the same dirs, what the hell is with that?
This happened because of another design flaw in Windows; letting entire library routines become executable through RunDLL. Basically, if it's code, and it's written in Windows, it is capable of being executed. In Windows 9x, this wasn't too bad of a problem. Everyone just threw anywhere where they wanted it, and since there weren't any permissions, everything worked as long as it knew all of the likely places to search for a file.
With Windows NT, they should have came up with a UNIX-style application/library sorting. But then you run into those gray area applications.. you know, the stupid ones which are just an executable compiled as a library so foolish people wouldn't try to run them (or something like that; Microsoft never gave a good reason for why they obfuscate things that way).
Too far :(
(knljgkufjydfjydjydf lameness sucks...)
...Shoulda linked Ash to Ash Ketchum (pokemon).
At least then nobody would care if you blew him out a volcano...
my guess is they'll have someone physically sitting at the machine, or connected via VNC/SSH/something to monitor hacker's progress/make sure the machine/associated daemon/network stack doesn't go down, and to keep it up.
Another guess is that there will be multiple machines masquerading behind that one IP address, either running simultianiously, or in some kind of fallover configuration so that if one goes down, the next will instantly come up. But that's a guess.
The reason this doesn't work is because Google can't "pay themselves" to use AdWords to pimp...AdWords. Besides, they own the company and make the rules. And maybe they should follow their own rules, but they most certainly don't have to. Besides, they don't block out competitor's results, they simply bring theirs to the top (Think: on-site searching, THEN offsite).
I don't see Google in the wrong here.
Firefox with two tabs: 49,532K Opera with two tabs: 20,188K Opera with 13 tabs: 31,780K
OS X[.3] (G4, 1.256GB ram):
Safari with one tab: 29,340K. Safari with 20 tabs: 36,500K.
Firefox with one tab: 30,011K. Firefox with 20 tabs: 35,790K.
I'd say your numbers are either bogus, a worst-case scenario (flash on both tabs in firefox?), or all the tabs in Opera were of a blank page. A link to benchmarks would be more accurate, kthx.
..And I'd like an iPod with FLAC support, or how about OGG support? Oh, and how about an Intel chip with an integrated memory controller? Or a video card with swappable DDR2 ram?
Us tech geeks have plenty of wants. The problem is we represent a very small percentage of the population, and therefore, "we don't matter". AM is a technology soon to disappear altogether with the emergence of Satellite radio, Microwave-based wireless techologies (I can't wait to see a WiFi-based MP3 Player, play streams directly from the Internet!!).. very much like the way of UHF and VHF television. We live in a digital age.
So I'm sorry to tell you but you might be toting around that Portable AM player until AM's doomsday.
Civil war? What about the Zombie war against this Undead Patent Legislation?
I always knew those damned zombies would cause problems *loads shotgun*.
Other noteworthy differences include:
Cappuccino (here on out CPC) has full legacy ports (1LPT, 1 Serial, PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard).
CPC only supports SD-RAM.
CPC has no DVD Writing capabilities
CPC comes with the incredibly nice option of having a "solid state" hard drive; a compact flash card stuck into an IDE channel.
All in all, once configured similiarly, the Mac Mini is still cheaper. It's a wonder that Apple isn't selling those babies at a huge loss..
While all of the above is true, in the case of Linux, most of this doesn't matter.
Linux is home to very little innovation past it's continual reform and review; that's its key innovation. Linux is nothing more than a knockoff of an idea that's passing twenty years old, that is being created for the people, by the people. Truthfully, if I were a company, I'd want it stopped too, firing whatever I could in its way to stop it. And a great way of doing that, is of course, patents.
Now let me also say that if UNIX ideals and traditions did have any patentable base, that by now it should have long outgrown patent protection; not that newer, more innovative ways have came about (look at UNIX directory layout, for example), but simply the old ways of doing things have been published many times over, and became a standard in which business software works.
I think for Linux is in for some very hard times. Companies will begin to launch patent infringment cases against it soon, and in many cases, Linux will be found to be blatently violating them, whether or not the patent was created after Linux. Many patents will be thrown out because of this. Others will be deemed instantly obsoleted. Still others, specifically any filed by UNIX companies in the days of yore, run the distinct possibility of halting Linux development, and causing massive costs to be incurred all across the board. And I think the best way Linux can get around this is to evolve.
We developers need to look at the old UNIX model, and the current Linux model, even the NT kernel model, and see if there's anywhere to improve it. Any improvements we find, we need to copyright and patent ourselves (as individuals, or as a part of understanding, Linux-supporting companies). Lastly, we need to create a license, specifically for patents, that commit them to the Public Domain, and insures that they are not used in closed projects.
Lastly, when these attacks start to happen, Linux developers need to go on a counter attack. Disassemble everything you can find; find every shrapnel of machine code that's even distantly related to any open source project, commercial or private. Prove that Linux and Open Source are now ubiquitous and required by _all_ information technologies, and cause the courts to be completely and totally overloaded by the amount of activity. This buzz will quickly get the attention of the mainstream media, and draw out our politicians to fix this broken Patent/Copyright system, once and for all. Hell, this same attack can be used against the multimedia conglomerates.
Please, let's fight this. No more settling lawsuits because you don't have the money, and can't afford a lawyer. Walk into court without one, and plead to the judge's sensibility. Get a court-designated worker to help you out. If you can't fight the case, go to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. At this point, money is no longer an object, this is our ability to be creative with our logic that's on the line.
The better question is "Why would they want to?". M$'s siege weaponry's doing a tremendously awesome job at eroding away our government as is, now's just their time to go worldwide with their destruction.
As a consideration that most Slashdot readers are American, and that Slashdot is hosted by an American, and that Slashdot was created by an American, it's quite easy to assume that "our" would mean "American". Now, if you're NOT an American on Slashdot, then you probably should read a bit more carefully, because there are hundreds of these subtleties that we Americans use every day, and that people who are not American also use to indicate people of their citizenship, whatever that may be.
Communication boundries aside, if you understand the context of the sentence, then there's no reason to get hostile about it. Slashdot is a forum of open communication and what should be a common area for discussion about technology and how it affects us. Too much lately it's a bashfest for whoever can bash the most. It's time for Slashdot readers to grow up..
Okay, if you want to be anal about it, yes, it does require more:
The requirements for naturalization past the continuous citizenship are:
residence in a particular USCIS District prior to filing for citizenship;
an ability to read, write, and speak English;
a knowledge and understanding of U.S. history and government;
good moral character;
attachment to the principles of the U.S. Constitution;
and, favorable disposition toward the United States.
More information on how to obtain US citizenship is available Here.
It is sad that it requires more work to become a citizen of America than just living here, but basically, if you've lived and worked here for long enough, know enough about the government, have moral decency, and are fluent in the ~unofficial~ primary language of the United States, then getting your citizenship is as trivial as filling out some paperwork, taking a test, and an oath.
If you're a poor immigrant, yes, it is much harder, but if you've been living here for long enough to attain citizenship, you've probably been working, have a load of cash somewhere, or someone to bankroll you (a college, for example), and THEY are willing to go the distance to help you become a citizen... Don't make it seem like it's next to impossible.
According to Wikipedia, if you subsequently become a citizen of GB, you are upgraded to full Knight status. I dunno what the citizenry requirements are like, but I'd assume they're like ours; live there for so many years and you become a naturalized citizen.
Whellp, time for Redmond to pick up off of Washington state and hover over to GB..
An explaination of who gets to call themselves sir.. For those not quite in the know of how the Brittish Knighting system works.
Quoting Wikipedia: "Citizens of other countries, however, may be admitted as "honorary members". They do not count towards the numerical limits aforementioned, nor are they addressed as "Sir". (They may be made full members if they subsequently become British citizens.) Notable foreign members of the Order have included Pelé, Bob Geldof, Bill Gates, Rudy Giuliani, Alan Greenspan, Steven Spielberg, Tommy Franks and Wesley Clark (all Knights Commander)."
Hopefully the queen will do more than "gently tapping" Gates with the sword.
;)
Here's to hoping Thursday's headline involves a headless Gate
I'll just use my XSLT to parse my XTC to convert my XML to XHTML, of course checking it with my XSD, because my XCOCK isn't long enough, and my XHEAD isn't filled to the brim with XLANGs yet.
This is the one thing I've always hated about XML. It's an incomplete solution; you end up needing six different programming languages/abstractions layers/formatting layers/document validators/rendering layers... it seems like all we're doing is adding more and more overhead to something that used to be as simple as "".
Please people, consider this before you start writing/converting everything to XML. Most of the time it adds countless thousands of un-needed characters to parse through, and could very well be obsoleted by the next big thing..
Better question: With the iPod AC adapters, have they revamped them to hooking up via USB, or do you have to buy a seperate AC adapter, or do you have to buy a firewire cable to use the AC Adapter?
Walton
actually, you know what? I was going to moderate you +1, but I figured it's better just to post this: Why aren't there more people like you on slashdot? instead of the ordinary "slash and bash", you added the little "otherwise, great post" to the end.. and i thought that was awesome; a slashdot reader who DOESN'T have the soul purpose of bashing other people..
The fact is, AMD and Intel have BOTH been better than this for years (I believe they started Out-of-order operations and register renaming with the original Pentium, but don't quote me on that), but to maintain compatibility, Intel really didn't want to budge on this original spec. In fact, Intel really didn't want to budge on ANY of the spec, so the ISA got really old, really fast. Of course, through multiple layers of obsfuscation, AMD and Intel have gotten around most all of the lagging bits. The last problem that really couldn't be snuck around was the memory address space, which AMD fixed with their spec, and Intel stole.