We need a national bluetooth transmitter network!! then we can leave our mobile phones at home and use the headset where the hell we want.
Oh and we'll need a keypad to enter phone numbers, oh a display too, cus you need to see what you're dialing. Hmm this will need more power too, I think we'd better increase the size of the battery. Oh and I'm sure some people will prefer to hold the phone when speaking (pose value), so we'd better make it phone shaped.
They're small and signed a rather silly contract (meaning M$ pockets all their IP if they go bust). Ideal company for Microsoft to run down and swallow up. Making friends has nothing to do with it, they just picked the wrong business partner.
Not exactly, the user accounts dialog retains it's stupid dumbed down XP look and the shares still remain "simple". You can alter a registry setting to use 2000 style shares of course, but that's not so well known.
Log off dialog still looks like XP, if you want to edit the start menu using the Advanced mode (takes you to the directory they're kept in) then you have to wade thorugh another tab or two.
Find me a Windows 2000/XP driver for the Iomega Buz capture card. There isn't one, yet I run this card under Linux with no problems.
Linux has good hardware compatibility where specs are in the public domain, it often supports pieces of perfectly hardware that have been made obselete by the manufacturer.
Well if they keep redesigning the GUI for each release of Windows, adding in more annoyances like Messenger (which they make hard to remove for the less IT literate people) then their future isn't looking too rosy.
With Linux you can upgrade to the latest kernel and stick with KDE2 if you want. You're getting the latest drivers, security and performance enhancements but you're maintaining a familiar front end.
In fact you can install various GUI systems on one machine if you want, giving users the choice of which one to use.
Now of course you can change back to the older style GUI in XP, however things are still slightly different even after you have done that.
Some of them are like this. You lift the screen off a docking station that has a keyboard.I myself can't do without a keyboard. But surely there's a market for this product if they can release foreign language versions, entering in japanese or chinese would be a lot better with a pen than a keyboard.
That's one of the reasons I believe this is all about, falling revenues.
If they win and the code is removed from the kernel that's fine, but the current userbase which is running the code will be in violation. SCO will probably propose that such people pay them a license fee.
Safari is innovative? only because Apple had access to some very nice open source browsers.
Repackaging an open source browser and fixing a few bugs isn't innovatation my friend. It's probably the Microsoft dictionary definition of innovation.
Not at all, India knows it is in a win-win situation. The main reason why Microsoft are investing there is the time difference. Testing can be done in India while the US is sleeping, US programmers can then arrive at work the next day and read the results.
Sure there are other countries with similar time offsets, but Indians for the most part speak good english and those who study computing are well trained.
Couldn't they try a cluster bomb approach? have tiny little sensors communicating to a main section using radio. When the device is falling into the atmosphere, these sections could be ejected over a large area.
It should be up to the distributers really, anyway I don't care if they don't show blockbusters, I can see those anywhere. It's the smaller (often better) films that get squeezed out of the cinemas when the distributers start doing their dodgy deals.
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We need a national bluetooth transmitter network!! then we can leave our mobile phones at home and use the headset where the hell we want.
Oh and we'll need a keypad to enter phone numbers, oh a display too, cus you need to see what you're dialing. Hmm this will need more power too, I think we'd better increase the size of the battery. Oh and I'm sure some people will prefer to hold the phone when speaking (pose value), so we'd better make it phone shaped.
Aww shucks it's a mobile phone again.....
I can remove the code and all is well, that's why I'm saying I have no need to worry.
Sure SCO are doing it for publicity, but it's bad publicity.
So I will remove the offending code, recompile the kernel and not be using it. I doubt I'm using this code already.
This code could be removed from the kernel easily, but if they do this SCO will say they're trying to cover their tracks.
Unless SCO are coming to my house to format my hard disk and install SCO Unix.
Seriously though, I doubt I'm even using their stupid code, plus my distro of choice isn't commercial.
Which is why I run Linux full time now, I have no Windows install on this PC. Linux jobs are growing in numbers.
To the phrase "I'll get my coat".
:)
Of course in warmer weather you'll need the computer shorts/bikini, then you run into the problem of water
Give hackers and virus authors virtual computers made of cardboard :)
They're small and signed a rather silly contract (meaning M$ pockets all their IP if they go bust). Ideal company for Microsoft to run down and swallow up. Making friends has nothing to do with it, they just picked the wrong business partner.
Not exactly, the user accounts dialog retains it's stupid dumbed down XP look and the shares still remain "simple". You can alter a registry setting to use 2000 style shares of course, but that's not so well known.
Log off dialog still looks like XP, if you want to edit the start menu using the Advanced mode (takes you to the directory they're kept in) then you have to wade thorugh another tab or two.
With dumbed down Linux distros it's simple to change the kernel and play around with the different GUIs.
Compatibility with what for example?
Find me a Windows 2000/XP driver for the Iomega Buz capture card. There isn't one, yet I run this card under Linux with no problems.
Linux has good hardware compatibility where specs are in the public domain, it often supports pieces of perfectly hardware that have been made obselete by the manufacturer.
Well if they keep redesigning the GUI for each release of Windows, adding in more annoyances like Messenger (which they make hard to remove for the less IT literate people) then their future isn't looking too rosy.
With Linux you can upgrade to the latest kernel and stick with KDE2 if you want. You're getting the latest drivers, security and performance enhancements but you're maintaining a familiar front end.
In fact you can install various GUI systems on one machine if you want, giving users the choice of which one to use.
Now of course you can change back to the older style GUI in XP, however things are still slightly different even after you have done that.
I guess they're using the DMCA because it's a website they're trying to shutdown.
I don't see that resale of merchanside is hacking or infringing copyright.
Some of them are like this. You lift the screen off a docking station that has a keyboard.I myself can't do without a keyboard. But surely there's a market for this product if they can release foreign language versions, entering in japanese or chinese would be a lot better with a pen than a keyboard.
That's one of the reasons I believe this is all about, falling revenues.
If they win and the code is removed from the kernel that's fine, but the current userbase which is running the code will be in violation. SCO will probably propose that such people pay them a license fee.
Well I want to see if it runs well :)
Makes you wonder doesn't it, how can we be sure SCO aren't using tactics to help Microsoft in exchange for sales and licensing?
Opera isn't free and preinstalled, there's plenty of computer users (non experts) out there that use IE as it's just there and works ok for them.
Safari is innovative? only because Apple had access to some very nice open source browsers.
Repackaging an open source browser and fixing a few bugs isn't innovatation my friend. It's probably the Microsoft dictionary definition of innovation.
Not at all, India knows it is in a win-win situation. The main reason why Microsoft are investing there is the time difference. Testing can be done in India while the US is sleeping, US programmers can then arrive at work the next day and read the results.
Sure there are other countries with similar time offsets, but Indians for the most part speak good english and those who study computing are well trained.
Couldn't they try a cluster bomb approach? have tiny little sensors communicating to a main section using radio. When the device is falling into the atmosphere, these sections could be ejected over a large area.
Medical gear is expensive as it hardly ever goes wrong, when it does there's often backup circuits.
It should be up to the distributers really, anyway I don't care if they don't show blockbusters, I can see those anywhere. It's the smaller (often better) films that get squeezed out of the cinemas when the distributers start doing their dodgy deals.
They'll be suing people that have been dead for many hundreds of years for using C# D# F# G# in their musical scales.
We're just going to see all the dust on the back of the screen and on the desk behind the monitor. Yet more cleaning to do... :)