The point is what special insight does Linus have based on his leadership of Linux? If he hasn't investigated the patents, the answer is none. So he has the same opinion as all the "right-thinkers" have at Slashdot and others who are pro-FOSS, so why ask him?
Because he's Linus Torvalds, the guy that Linux is named after?
But I thought Linus made a point of not investigating possible patent problems with Linux so that he couldn't be accused of deliberately violating them. If he hasn't looked into the patents, how could he possibly know that MS's claims are FUD?
That's an easy one. If they weren't just FUD, Microsoft would detail the patents and the infringement. This is directly analogous to the SCO case, where rather than showing which code was copied they just claimed that a bunch was.
If you're truly being harmed by someone's infringement, you have a legal duty to let them know as soon as possible so that they have the opportunity to quit infringing. If, on the other hand, you're using FUD to muddy the waters...
Democracy Now is also the organization that, during a story on Cuba, played part of a propoganda piece created by a Castro admirer explaining how Castro established a democracy on the island and keeps getting re-elected because he's so loved.
They're left-wing-nuts. That doesn't mean they're never right, but it does mean that you should carefully scrutinize what comes out of there.
. Nothing below 22kHz is misrepresented in CD-quality audio.
Bullshit. A 22kHz sine wave will be a 22kHz square wave when recorded onto a CD. They don't sound the same. Of course, humans can't hear that high, but the point is that if you're quantizing a wave you won't get the exact same thing out at any frequency. However, 22kHz is far enough above the limits of our hearing and even moreso above the limits of what is interesting to record that the effects are limited.
But the higher the frequency, the more it's going to look like a square wave after it't digitized.
Records have other effects, but a new vinyl record can likely produce better sound quality than a CD the first time it's played. For the long term, I prefer a CD, or, frankly an mp3 (which is even worse than a CD). There's more to it than sound quality for me.
There's one huge advantage for governments who go with the intel classmate and run XP - it's likely that the Gates Foundation will give grants to the governments to buy them as long as they don't run Linux. Watch and see.
"Terrified" isn't really the word, but "paranoid" would probably do. Microsoft, as an organization, doesn't like to compete with other companies. So, their way of doing business is to rig the system so that they have such an overwhelming competitive advantage they don't have to compete. This is why they are paranoid about someone figuring out their file formats, certain network protocols. And they're paranoid about their army of developers being able to quickly and easily develop for other platforms. Look at their actions and you'll see that.
Frankly, that paranoia got them the $50B in the bank, so it's hard to argue against.
That said, they have as much interest in making cross-platform development tools as they have in supporting ODF, and basically for the same reason. The WWW is one of the only truly cross-platform development environments left; why do you think they want so badly to make a "flash-killer"? It's not about flash - it's about the web.
There are tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of old songs languishing at barely measurable sales numbers-I think that a hell of a lot of those could sell pretty well at $.25 or $.50.
Or at least $.05, if allofmp3.com proved anything. Whatever the price point is there's a lot of money being left on the table because the labels aren't smart enough to go after it.
I hate to break it to you, MS, but the higher-end linksys routers (for about $100) now have a usb port where I can stick a hard drive and share it with all the network even if I'm not real computer literate. Likewise, the airport extreme from apple does the same.
I'm not sure what all your "home server" does, but coming from you it probably uses far more hardware than most people want to buy for the purpose and it probably locks me into using one of your buggy, insecure operating systems to access it. Put another way, you're going to have a tough time convincing people who want to have a hard drive shared on the network (probably 99.99% of all people who would want a "server" in the house) to go with your buggy crap rather than the linksys router.
I might be wrong, and laugh at me in 10 years if I am, but I really think you guys are getting in a huff because someone leaked your latest "Microsoft Bob" to the world.
By the way, the people who downloaded it probably didn't do so to use it; it was probably most hackers getting their paws on it to figure out how to break into it.
So from the *very* beginning, this was not a case of listeners being morally outraged; it was a matter of a leftish organization waiting for a conservative radio talk show host
Um, no, he was assigned to Don Imus, a very liberal radio talk show host.
(IE6/7 have all those weird box model problems with XHTML 1.0).
No they don't. You simply have to declare a doctype which will trigger standards mode in both IE and mozilla. Problem solved. There are other IE issues to deal with, but thankfully this isn't one of them.
Ironically, this is *exactly* what secure certificates were supposed to do, remember? Prove who you are to verisign and they'll give you a certificate so that anybody who comes to your site can see that verisign has verified that it's you.
Such a system will serve *only* to enrich whoever is the verifier.
As I've said here before, there's been plenty of testing of whether the cell phones interfere with flight instruments and the results are negative. Seriously, do you think everybody remembers to turn the phone off every time? Of course not. I'd go so far as to say that most flights have a few cell phones on inside the cabin.
Now, here's the other side. Let's imagine the fairy-tale world where cell phones do bring down airliners. Is the fix to tell everybody to turn them off, or to fix the plane so that it can't be crashed with a $50 piece of equipment that 99% of the passengers own?
Fairly obvious, eh?
I thought nothing much of this until I was flying into Manila one time, sitting in the front row with a bulkhead & flight attendant seat directly in front of me and the gentleman to my side. He was furiously getting his "I'm back home" texts typed into his phone so that he could send them on the ground. The poor stewardess nearly had a heart attack (I'm serious) when she saw him with a phone turned on while we were landing. She really thought we'd crash if he didn't get it off immediately. I was in the unenviable position of getting him to turn off the phone (he'd been taking advantage of free drinks for most of the 10 hour flight) while simultaneously trying to assure her that phones don't really make planes crash. She was hyperventalating.
It struck me then that lying to people about the real reasons for not allowing phones on the plane was causing just a little bit of harm, probably more than the phones would...
My copy problem? I don't use vista. Funny thing was, I was joking in the grandparent and got modded up to interesting. It actually is something to consider, though, to fix vista's problems by hacking it to bypass the bs.
Gen. Sonthi Boonyaratglin, the army chief who led the Sept. 19 coup that overthrew Thailand's elected civilian government,
Gen. Sonthi is a Muslim. This isn't exactly a great secret, as even CNN says it in the story that I linked to above. Yes, he's unusual in a nation that is majority Buddhist. But your method of argument (most people in Thailand are Buddhist therefore the coup leaders must be also) is moronic.
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Well, if the iPhone is anything like the iPod, it may well have a schematic under the battery, but you'd never know.
Because he's Linus Torvalds, the guy that Linux is named after?
That's an easy one. If they weren't just FUD, Microsoft would detail the patents and the infringement. This is directly analogous to the SCO case, where rather than showing which code was copied they just claimed that a bunch was.
If you're truly being harmed by someone's infringement, you have a legal duty to let them know as soon as possible so that they have the opportunity to quit infringing. If, on the other hand, you're using FUD to muddy the waters...
Democracy Now is also the organization that, during a story on Cuba, played part of a propoganda piece created by a Castro admirer explaining how Castro established a democracy on the island and keeps getting re-elected because he's so loved.
They're left-wing-nuts. That doesn't mean they're never right, but it does mean that you should carefully scrutinize what comes out of there.
Bullshit. A 22kHz sine wave will be a 22kHz square wave when recorded onto a CD. They don't sound the same. Of course, humans can't hear that high, but the point is that if you're quantizing a wave you won't get the exact same thing out at any frequency. However, 22kHz is far enough above the limits of our hearing and even moreso above the limits of what is interesting to record that the effects are limited.
But the higher the frequency, the more it's going to look like a square wave after it't digitized.
Records have other effects, but a new vinyl record can likely produce better sound quality than a CD the first time it's played. For the long term, I prefer a CD, or, frankly an mp3 (which is even worse than a CD). There's more to it than sound quality for me.
I mean, reading it, it's like she's just oblivious to all the stolen intellectual property from Microsoft that she's using.
We're using the mainstream media method now of ignoring party affiliation when casting Democrats in a bad light, eh?
Doesn't Gonzalez realize that this sort of corporate pandering won't happen now that we have Democrats in charge of congress?
There's one huge advantage for governments who go with the intel classmate and run XP - it's likely that the Gates Foundation will give grants to the governments to buy them as long as they don't run Linux. Watch and see.
Or, as I always say, "make something foolproof and they'll make a better fool."
"Terrified" isn't really the word, but "paranoid" would probably do. Microsoft, as an organization, doesn't like to compete with other companies. So, their way of doing business is to rig the system so that they have such an overwhelming competitive advantage they don't have to compete. This is why they are paranoid about someone figuring out their file formats, certain network protocols. And they're paranoid about their army of developers being able to quickly and easily develop for other platforms. Look at their actions and you'll see that.
Frankly, that paranoia got them the $50B in the bank, so it's hard to argue against.
That said, they have as much interest in making cross-platform development tools as they have in supporting ODF, and basically for the same reason. The WWW is one of the only truly cross-platform development environments left; why do you think they want so badly to make a "flash-killer"? It's not about flash - it's about the web.
New /. id and new gmail account. You've went to an impressive length to get modded up as funny.
Find out who the guy is and I'll *buy* him an iPod. I'm dead serious.
If you don't believe me, well, think about it.
Or at least $.05, if allofmp3.com proved anything. Whatever the price point is there's a lot of money being left on the table because the labels aren't smart enough to go after it.
Are you kidding? Look at how greatly the arts and sciences are being promoted by this!
Seriously, though, this might just be the wakeup call that's needed.
I hate to break it to you, MS, but the higher-end linksys routers (for about $100) now have a usb port where I can stick a hard drive and share it with all the network even if I'm not real computer literate. Likewise, the airport extreme from apple does the same.
I'm not sure what all your "home server" does, but coming from you it probably uses far more hardware than most people want to buy for the purpose and it probably locks me into using one of your buggy, insecure operating systems to access it. Put another way, you're going to have a tough time convincing people who want to have a hard drive shared on the network (probably 99.99% of all people who would want a "server" in the house) to go with your buggy crap rather than the linksys router.
I might be wrong, and laugh at me in 10 years if I am, but I really think you guys are getting in a huff because someone leaked your latest "Microsoft Bob" to the world.
By the way, the people who downloaded it probably didn't do so to use it; it was probably most hackers getting their paws on it to figure out how to break into it.
Um, no, he was assigned to Don Imus, a very liberal radio talk show host.
Presumably when she gives permission....
Any chance you can narrow it down a bit? I can think of three off the top of my head that you just described.
No they don't. You simply have to declare a doctype which will trigger standards mode in both IE and mozilla. Problem solved. There are other IE issues to deal with, but thankfully this isn't one of them.
Ironically, this is *exactly* what secure certificates were supposed to do, remember? Prove who you are to verisign and they'll give you a certificate so that anybody who comes to your site can see that verisign has verified that it's you.
Such a system will serve *only* to enrich whoever is the verifier.
Period.
As I've said here before, there's been plenty of testing of whether the cell phones interfere with flight instruments and the results are negative. Seriously, do you think everybody remembers to turn the phone off every time? Of course not. I'd go so far as to say that most flights have a few cell phones on inside the cabin.
Now, here's the other side. Let's imagine the fairy-tale world where cell phones do bring down airliners. Is the fix to tell everybody to turn them off, or to fix the plane so that it can't be crashed with a $50 piece of equipment that 99% of the passengers own?
Fairly obvious, eh?
I thought nothing much of this until I was flying into Manila one time, sitting in the front row with a bulkhead & flight attendant seat directly in front of me and the gentleman to my side. He was furiously getting his "I'm back home" texts typed into his phone so that he could send them on the ground. The poor stewardess nearly had a heart attack (I'm serious) when she saw him with a phone turned on while we were landing. She really thought we'd crash if he didn't get it off immediately. I was in the unenviable position of getting him to turn off the phone (he'd been taking advantage of free drinks for most of the 10 hour flight) while simultaneously trying to assure her that phones don't really make planes crash. She was hyperventalating.
It struck me then that lying to people about the real reasons for not allowing phones on the plane was causing just a little bit of harm, probably more than the phones would...
My copy problem? I don't use vista. Funny thing was, I was joking in the grandparent and got modded up to interesting. It actually is something to consider, though, to fix vista's problems by hacking it to bypass the bs.
Could this technology be used to make a file copy command for Vista that isn't dog slow? Just wondering...
Gen. Sonthi is a Muslim. This isn't exactly a great secret, as even CNN says it in the story that I linked to above. Yes, he's unusual in a nation that is majority Buddhist. But your method of argument (most people in Thailand are Buddhist therefore the coup leaders must be also) is moronic.