Alright. I have read dozens of posts saying how this shows how great the linux community is. Personally, I think that is a load of crap. I have been a part of the community for about a year and a half, I have submitted hacks to kernel.org and have helped new people. But, I think this man paying for a companies mistake, then giving the money (along with 2500 dollars) away only shows how great this man is, not how great the linux community? Granted 3000 (or however much it totals) is a fair sum, it isn't like it will create a new charity, it isn't a rather outrageous donation. Its just an interesting happening, and this man seems to be very nice, but what did the Linux community? If a man is part of a car club, and that man helps an elderly women cross the street, it reflects the man, not the freaking car club. Same goes for linux. THe community is just trying to take credit. The linux community does many good things as a whole, BUT THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM.
Well - just thought that the quote at the bottom of the page applies - VERY MUCH!
Monopolies are not really that threatening. Think about it! Windows has been dominant since what? 1989? Well, BSD, Unix Clones (like Linux) managed to thrive as well. People. Really. Does it matter that much to you what service your neighbhor uses? You can still use Prodigy or a plain ISP (IDT for instance) or run BSD instead of windows. Notice how i steer away from Linux, it has become too mainstream and it starting to MONOPOLIZE unix clones market. OH NO!!! MONOPOLIES, LINUX IS A MONOPOLY!!! LETS ALL COMPLAIN AND DRAW UP PROTESTING LAW SUITS!!!
Sorry this was a rant. Please understand me and don't give me a flam moderation. Listen to me please. I am only one, but I am one. My voice matters, my voice counts, and I think my voice makes sense.
PS - sorry if this post was posted several times - problems in my ISP (see! its not just AOL, its the whole analog line system)
Year dating makes very much sense for programs like windows, where it comes out roughly every 2 years (but not if they release a program dated for 2005 in 2004). But what happens when it comes out semi-annualy? I think the best solution is one I've seen implemented in several little applets, and in the programs that I write, is in the mm.dd.year format, so one can easily see what version is older than the other, and it accompanies up to 365 versions a year.
As for year dating in Pentium chips, this has an added bonus for intel - obscellence intoleration. People will no longer have their main concern being the megahertz power of the processor (a bogus value anyway) but whether or not the year the calendar is turned to is stamped on the chip in their computer. So next time you hear two new computer owners bantering about whose processor is better, the 450 mhz or the 650 mhz PIII, you may hear "Well, yours is 98 buddy, get with it, its 2000! That computer won't even get you on the internet. 2 whole years!!!" This ofcourse is false logic, I have been using a "95" for quite some time, (since 95!) and have done everything I want.
But this poses two problems for consumers. First, it takes the pressure off of intel's engineers to follow moore's law (a rather unlegitimately self-prophecy in my opinion) and get faster processors in little time, because everyone will just care about the date, not the speed. And second, when people are striving to get new processors every year, this added power won't serve consumers with faster speeds - software coders at factories like Microsoft will take that oppurtunity to lay off optimizing their code, and make it more bloated than ever. This has been happening for years, but will happen more than ever if Intel takes up a new coding scheme.
All we need is a touch screen handheld? Hell, I've had one for months. In June I picked up an Everex Freestyle and reflashed it with BSD, which is available for the mips freestyle at www.freebsd.org. All this is available, its just waiting for people to realize that unix really is that portable.
Praying is not just words. In fact, prayers don't have to be words. I am fairly religious, and a lot of the times when I pray, I don't say anything at all. Just acknowledge Gods presence. And, I fell, that God is not looking for words or meaning or insight, he's looking for effort. The hospital experiment worked because God saw that people cared about the patients, because they took the time to pray for him. Thus, when a computer say "words" it's not a prayer. Thats like having a computer text-to-speech program recite a play. He's not an actor, he's a recording. And recordings don't have effort, thus, in prayer, computers can't do it either, because they aren't making effort, they aren't thinking about it, and God knows it, and will take that into consideration.
No Need for that. I'm not smoking anything, I wasn't talking about their sales, and no, they aren't the epitome of capitalism, capitalism involved competition and fair chances, being the only game on the market if you want to be compatible isn't capitalism, it's COMMUNISM. And the viral marketing part is about how they get schools and enterprises to use their software, and they in turn force their employees at home to use it, then their wife, then their wife's home business, and their kids, and their home business's employees, and their kids, and their spouse, and so on. Understand now?
It is good news. Microsoft is a mix between communism and viral marketing, and deserves to be shot down. It could have been a purposely crackable format, which I doubt, but it is still good news. And as for your comment, that is not the only three choices. Why would the release/crack of this format make everybody stop using MP3's? It just makes no sense. Yes, those three choices are some of the possible alternatives, but if you go into IRC, you can get mp3's quickly, Lycos is not the only source (in fact it is not really a source, most links are dead, and it is just leading you to other people's sites). Also, interesting fact, the file for cracking the format is called unfuck.exe, that's pretty cool. Well, with that said, I hope you see the error in your coments.
Yes, they better be free, and there will probably be ways to change the ads too, like changing the damn cloud screen in windows. I would hope though that there are other alternatives, and that this is not the "wave of the future" where every company will follow. God damn, they always find a way to screw things up!!!
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Alright. I have read dozens of posts saying how this shows how great the linux community is. Personally, I think that is a load of crap. I have been a part of the community for about a year and a half, I have submitted hacks to kernel.org and have helped new people. But, I think this man paying for a companies mistake, then giving the money (along with 2500 dollars) away only shows how great this man is, not how great the linux community? Granted 3000 (or however much it totals) is a fair sum, it isn't like it will create a new charity, it isn't a rather outrageous donation. Its just an interesting happening, and this man seems to be very nice, but what did the Linux community? If a man is part of a car club, and that man helps an elderly women cross the street, it reflects the man, not the freaking car club. Same goes for linux. THe community is just trying to take credit. The linux community does many good things as a whole, BUT THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM.
Well - just thought that the quote at the bottom of the page applies - VERY MUCH!
Monopolies are not really that threatening. Think about it! Windows has been dominant since what? 1989? Well, BSD, Unix Clones (like Linux) managed to thrive as well. People. Really. Does it matter that much to you what service your neighbhor uses? You can still use Prodigy or a plain ISP (IDT for instance) or run BSD instead of windows. Notice how i steer away from Linux, it has become too mainstream and it starting to MONOPOLIZE unix clones market. OH NO!!! MONOPOLIES, LINUX IS A MONOPOLY!!! LETS ALL COMPLAIN AND DRAW UP PROTESTING LAW SUITS!!!
Sorry this was a rant. Please understand me and don't give me a flam moderation. Listen to me please. I am only one, but I am one. My voice matters, my voice counts, and I think my voice makes sense.
PS - sorry if this post was posted several times - problems in my ISP (see! its not just AOL, its the whole analog line system)
Well - just thought that the quote at the bottom of the page applies - VERY MUCH!
Year dating makes very much sense for programs like windows, where it comes out roughly every 2 years (but not if they release a program dated for 2005 in 2004). But what happens when it comes out semi-annualy? I think the best solution is one I've seen implemented in several little applets, and in the programs that I write, is in the mm.dd.year format, so one can easily see what version is older than the other, and it accompanies up to 365 versions a year.
As for year dating in Pentium chips, this has an added bonus for intel - obscellence intoleration. People will no longer have their main concern being the megahertz power of the processor (a bogus value anyway) but whether or not the year the calendar is turned to is stamped on the chip in their computer. So next time you hear two new computer owners bantering about whose processor is better, the 450 mhz or the 650 mhz PIII, you may hear "Well, yours is 98 buddy, get with it, its 2000! That computer won't even get you on the internet. 2 whole years!!!" This ofcourse is false logic, I have been using a "95" for quite some time, (since 95!) and have done everything I want.
But this poses two problems for consumers. First, it takes the pressure off of intel's engineers to follow moore's law (a rather unlegitimately self-prophecy in my opinion) and get faster processors in little time, because everyone will just care about the date, not the speed. And second, when people are striving to get new processors every year, this added power won't serve consumers with faster speeds - software coders at factories like Microsoft will take that oppurtunity to lay off optimizing their code, and make it more bloated than ever. This has been happening for years, but will happen more than ever if Intel takes up a new coding scheme.
Just my 1/50th of a US green back.
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All we need is a touch screen handheld? Hell, I've had one for months. In June I picked up an Everex Freestyle and reflashed it with BSD, which is available for the mips freestyle at www.freebsd.org. All this is available, its just waiting for people to realize that unix really is that portable.
Praying is not just words. In fact, prayers don't have to be words. I am fairly religious, and a lot of the times when I pray, I don't say anything at all. Just acknowledge Gods presence. And, I fell, that God is not looking for words or meaning or insight, he's looking for effort. The hospital experiment worked because God saw that people cared about the patients, because they took the time to pray for him. Thus, when a computer say "words" it's not a prayer. Thats like having a computer text-to-speech program recite a play. He's not an actor, he's a recording. And recordings don't have effort, thus, in prayer, computers can't do it either, because they aren't making effort, they aren't thinking about it, and God knows it, and will take that into consideration.
No Need for that. I'm not smoking anything, I wasn't talking about their sales, and no, they aren't the epitome of capitalism, capitalism involved competition and fair chances, being the only game on the market if you want to be compatible isn't capitalism, it's COMMUNISM. And the viral marketing part is about how they get schools and enterprises to use their software, and they in turn force their employees at home to use it, then their wife, then their wife's home business, and their kids, and their home business's employees, and their kids, and their spouse, and so on. Understand now?
It is good news. Microsoft is a mix between communism and viral marketing, and deserves to be shot down. It could have been a purposely crackable format, which I doubt, but it is still good news. And as for your comment, that is not the only three choices. Why would the release/crack of this format make everybody stop using MP3's? It just makes no sense. Yes, those three choices are some of the possible alternatives, but if you go into IRC, you can get mp3's quickly, Lycos is not the only source (in fact it is not really a source, most links are dead, and it is just leading you to other people's sites). Also, interesting fact, the file for cracking the format is called unfuck.exe, that's pretty cool. Well, with that said, I hope you see the error in your coments.
Yes, they better be free, and there will probably be ways to change the ads too, like changing the damn cloud screen in windows. I would hope though that there are other alternatives, and that this is not the "wave of the future" where every company will follow. God damn, they always find a way to screw things up!!!