How does it feel being a Canadian-born world reknown celebrity? Are you happy with the Canadian image in movies today? Do you still live in Canada? Oh, and is Bones really gay? He hit on my uncle in a bar in Santa Barbara in the 70's.
The article states that the unit will have MSN Messenger built in. This might be a stupid question, but how will they get a licensed MSN Messenger on the Linux box? Doesn't that mean Microsoft will have to create a Linux port?
I believe Microsoft will give away their operating system but will NEVER give their source code up. 3rd party companies would clean up and make their OS more efficient than Microsoft's bloated version, creating competition that Microsoft doesn't need. However, would Microsoft lose their footing in the OS department if other companies were releasing their own versions of Windows?
This comment is ridiculous. Nintendo sold Rare for around the same amount they're getting fined--- so this means it's no real big loss? Have you no comprehension of business?
Why is it that everytime there's a Canadian story on/. it generates a flame war between Canada and the U.S.? "U.S. rulez! Canadians rule eh!" Get over it.
BTW I'm Canadian and I've travelled the world. No, I don't announce that I'm Canadian upon arrival anywhere. And no, none of my buddies do that either.
Wow, I thought Canada was behind the U.S. Being Canadian, I experience many slants in the media, those often being left-wing biases, and sometimes I can't even watch the news without being frustrated by liberal agendas and canned news reporters. You can't print whatever's on your mind in Canada.
the churchies have a history of wanting to censor things that they find objectionable.
Wait a sec... I'm a churchie and my church doesn't censor anything. Please don't put all Christians into a stereotypical and narrowminded little box with a label.
I don't doubt for a second that the Linux companies would be granting loans and stock options left and right, if they had any money.
Exactly. They don't have the money to loan and grant millions of dollars. Let's not pretend we know what they would do if they had the money--- until they actually do earn more money.
The ripple effects of an organization as large as either of the above two going under is *enormous*, affecting almost everyone.
What planet are you from? The WorldCom stuff has not affected me at all. Neither is an exec from Microsoft "borrowing" 15 million dollars. I highly doubt that affected you either.
Not trying to start an argument here, but can somebody explain to me how anyone can make a living writing open-source, free software? It just doesn't add up. Sure, you can grab investments, but if the only thing you're selling is support, how can there be a future with programmers making nothing for their efforts? Please explain! Thanks:-D
Linus Torvalds a god? What about his old mentor, Andrew Tanenbaum, whose Minix code Linus used to developed Linux? Let's put things into perspective, here.
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How does it feel being a Canadian-born world reknown celebrity? Are you happy with the Canadian image in movies today? Do you still live in Canada? Oh, and is Bones really gay? He hit on my uncle in a bar in Santa Barbara in the 70's.
The article states that the unit will have MSN Messenger built in. This might be a stupid question, but how will they get a licensed MSN Messenger on the Linux box? Doesn't that mean Microsoft will have to create a Linux port?
software patents are ALWAYS a bad idea
Why? You don't think any software is worth a patent? That's foolish.
I believe Microsoft will give away their operating system but will NEVER give their source code up. 3rd party companies would clean up and make their OS more efficient than Microsoft's bloated version, creating competition that Microsoft doesn't need. However, would Microsoft lose their footing in the OS department if other companies were releasing their own versions of Windows?
This comment is ridiculous. Nintendo sold Rare for around the same amount they're getting fined--- so this means it's no real big loss? Have you no comprehension of business?
BTW I'm Canadian and I've travelled the world. No, I don't announce that I'm Canadian upon arrival anywhere. And no, none of my buddies do that either.
Wow, I thought Canada was behind the U.S. Being Canadian, I experience many slants in the media, those often being left-wing biases, and sometimes I can't even watch the news without being frustrated by liberal agendas and canned news reporters. You can't print whatever's on your mind in Canada.
the churchies have a history of wanting to censor things that they find objectionable.
Wait a sec... I'm a churchie and my church doesn't censor anything. Please don't put all Christians into a stereotypical and narrowminded little box with a label.
Yeah sure. If we had a friendly superpower as our neighbor, we could spend a lot less on defense, too.
Canda doesn't piss off other countries like the U.S. has the habit of doing. Whether this is purposeful or not is another debate.
RTFA and you will know that it is too expensive to provide this service free of charge to women.
Well, technically Half-Life was built on the licensed Quake and Quake II engine. John Carmack gets a piece of the pie any way you slice it.
And there's a problem with building a company then selling it for cash? Please. Enlighten me. This is called Free Trade.
Steve Jobs of Apple. He came back to Apple in the later part of the 90's and basically turned the company around.
Oops, I seem to have missed your double negative. "I don't doubt for a second..." Looks like I jumped the gun a bit on that one, eh ;-)
I don't doubt for a second that the Linux companies would be granting loans and stock options left and right, if they had any money.
Exactly. They don't have the money to loan and grant millions of dollars. Let's not pretend we know what they would do if they had the money--- until they actually do earn more money.
The ripple effects of an organization as large as either of the above two going under is *enormous*, affecting almost everyone.
What planet are you from? The WorldCom stuff has not affected me at all. Neither is an exec from Microsoft "borrowing" 15 million dollars. I highly doubt that affected you either.
Most Americans? Last time I checked that figure was more around 3-5%.
OK please provide some proof of this. It's always easy to say that a wealthy company can just buy its way out of any legal mess.
I was up and running in less than one day, Girl Scout's honor.
* Insert warm fuzzy feeling here *
Yes, but you have to run Outlook Express for it to be a problem. If it's just sitting there on your hard drive--- big deal.
well if they commercialized it, it would probably be way too expensive for the average user.
Not trying to start an argument here, but can somebody explain to me how anyone can make a living writing open-source, free software? It just doesn't add up. Sure, you can grab investments, but if the only thing you're selling is support, how can there be a future with programmers making nothing for their efforts? Please explain! Thanks :-D
Linus Torvalds a god? What about his old mentor, Andrew Tanenbaum, whose Minix code Linus used to developed Linux? Let's put things into perspective, here.
OMG LOL ROFL
I think the world would rejoice if we could get a PS2 emulator running on Linux, running on the XBox. Oh the bliss! *swoon*