It's like blaming the gun maker for a sniper attack.
If UNIX were in the same dominating position today, it would be exploited similarly.
And please don't glorify UNIX.
Microsoft did in 5 years what UNIX took 25 years.
Accelerated development has its price.
Come on you guys !
If not Microsoft, we would still be teletyping, telnetting and what other gory stuff to access the 'Net.
UNIX Sucks! Big Time
Somebody should put the RIAA in place !
Fine their fat millions and give it to the innocent people caught in cross-fire. Better still force the RIAA bosses to listen to the worthless songs / albums they promote.
Dear All,
I just returned to my PC after taking a break for a few days due to flue to find someone has been mis-using my ID to post such comments, which i find personally disturbing.
I apologize for comments made in my name.
The Emperor is not wearing any clothes!
I always suspected Linux to be not as enterprise-friendly as Windows. Now this is true.
As i keep saying Linux is just good for servers administered by nerds who eat, drink, compile.
Real world users use Windows, because- IT IS SO EASY !!!
Get that you Linux crowd !
Make Linux Desktop as great as Windows and your market will boom.
I again promise: Linux will NEVER, NEVER make it to the enterprise desktop.
Pity Brazil still remains a land of Soccer, Samba, & Coffee.
Slashdot is *infested* with Indians because we are IT Capital of the world.
With an economy chugging at 4.3% growth and a +tive BoP siutation with HUGE foreign reserves (last known $88 billion) pretty soon we will race ahead of so-called super-economies of Latin A.
We have a 5,000 year old wisdom to guide us.
We were building monuments and drainage systems and trading over seas long before others came down from trees.
You are from Brazil? BRAZIL???
Ha ha ha ha.....
LOL.
The only good thing you guys can make is Coffee...
Now only if you look at us (indians) and learn a few good things....
BRAZIL??? ha ha ha ha...
No one is discouraged and prevented from Voting.
In fact WE Indians jealously guard our right to vote even though we may have differences in castes.
The booth is the only place where you can see a high-caste hindu standing beside a low-caste outcaste.
At the time of election we are proud we can vote.
My Dell Axim X5 has MUCH, MUCH more.
An MP3 player, 320x320 crisp TFT screen, 64 MB memory, 32MB SD Card, audio recorder, etc.,
Of course you need to buy a video camera and attach... but its just that.
For the price Dell gives me $250/- its dirt cheap/
WoW !!! Shortwave radio ??
You mean the VOA, BBC, Deutsche Welle, etc stuff and all???
Do they still exist?
I thought shortwave went along with tube radios.
Satellite radio, FM, AM, etc., have started ruling so much that i thought it went the way of gramaphone records.
Hmmmm....
China has a conditioned population that is Great in manufacturing where you do what you are told, precisely.
IT requires brains, and thinking power and creativity, not Borg drones who are super-efficient.
China will be the manufacturing hub of the World. India will be the IT hub of the world.
$187.26 may be the average.
However no one disputes the fact that India has the LARGEST middle-class working group in the world, larger than the entire population of USA.
That is why our mobile-phone market IS the largest in the world.
No wonder AT&T, BT, Verizon are making a beeline to India.
Do you know India has a 3G mobile phone service with 1 million connections capable of onstream video and phone-banking?
Hmmm, the word india still conjures up images of poverty, snake charmers, beggars just like US depicts Al Capone to us.
poverty-stricken country.
FYI, stop clubbing India along with countries poor in Africa, all the while thinking the 'Western' world is the 'Greatest' and Richest.
Our economy grows at 6% Per Year. How much does yours grow? (>snicker)
gun-toting monkey for a president so
Atleast we don;t have a confirmed war-mongrel, with big investments in oil companies and who plans to dig up his own Alaska for oil as a president.
Thank God ! for small favours
How untrue!
MSFT wanted to jeopardise the future of Linux and the only way is to legitimise SCO claims by 'licensing' it.
MSFT is a Boa Constrictor. It embraces to Kill.
Death to MSFT
I disagree.
A MSFT monopoly is far far better.
All these Linux Geeks out there support Linux not for its excellence, but for the thrill of standing against MSFT !
Try to understand that Microsoft has achieved in just 5 years what UNIX could not achieve in 20. Uniformity and standardization.
After all you UNIX geeks out there could not even agree on a standard GUI after all those years and continue to ship Gnome and KDE !
Now the success of MSFT burns in to your hearts.
How many of you will continue to love UNIX/LINUX after staring down at Microsoft Weaponry (Stocks) for the first time.
Come on guys ! Deep down everyone is a Ferengi.
Hack Apple's Airport Extreme and make it your wireless transmitter.
Use that to transmit your video & audio throught the house!
Do NOT use wires at any cost.
Iam already drowning in wires with my home music-VCD-VCR-computer system.
Slashdot Mirror
Yup! This i agree. If not for UNIX, we would all be accessing MSN and paying by the minute with tolls at EVERY stage.
It's like blaming the gun maker for a sniper attack. If UNIX were in the same dominating position today, it would be exploited similarly. And please don't glorify UNIX. Microsoft did in 5 years what UNIX took 25 years. Accelerated development has its price. Come on you guys ! If not Microsoft, we would still be teletyping, telnetting and what other gory stuff to access the 'Net. UNIX Sucks! Big Time
He is much better than a crackpot President who thinks all moslems are terrorists and bites the hand that feeds him.
I agree, more nukes is bad. ICBMs trigger the work more closer to Death. Let's see how we fare.
Somebody should put the RIAA in place ! Fine their fat millions and give it to the innocent people caught in cross-fire. Better still force the RIAA bosses to listen to the worthless songs / albums they promote.
Dear All, I just returned to my PC after taking a break for a few days due to flue to find someone has been mis-using my ID to post such comments, which i find personally disturbing. I apologize for comments made in my name.
The Emperor is not wearing any clothes! I always suspected Linux to be not as enterprise-friendly as Windows. Now this is true. As i keep saying Linux is just good for servers administered by nerds who eat, drink, compile. Real world users use Windows, because- IT IS SO EASY !!! Get that you Linux crowd ! Make Linux Desktop as great as Windows and your market will boom. I again promise: Linux will NEVER, NEVER make it to the enterprise desktop.
Pity Brazil still remains a land of Soccer, Samba, & Coffee. Slashdot is *infested* with Indians because we are IT Capital of the world. With an economy chugging at 4.3% growth and a +tive BoP siutation with HUGE foreign reserves (last known $88 billion) pretty soon we will race ahead of so-called super-economies of Latin A. We have a 5,000 year old wisdom to guide us. We were building monuments and drainage systems and trading over seas long before others came down from trees.
You are from Brazil? BRAZIL??? Ha ha ha ha..... LOL. The only good thing you guys can make is Coffee... Now only if you look at us (indians) and learn a few good things.... BRAZIL??? ha ha ha ha...
No one is discouraged and prevented from Voting. In fact WE Indians jealously guard our right to vote even though we may have differences in castes. The booth is the only place where you can see a high-caste hindu standing beside a low-caste outcaste. At the time of election we are proud we can vote.
My Dell Axim X5 has MUCH, MUCH more. An MP3 player, 320x320 crisp TFT screen, 64 MB memory, 32MB SD Card, audio recorder, etc., Of course you need to buy a video camera and attach... but its just that. For the price Dell gives me $250/- its dirt cheap/
What non-MSFT platforms? Oh you mean, Windows 98, Windows ME, NT, W2K, XP??? yeah, yeah, they are different platforms. aahem... cough...cough...
WoW !!! Shortwave radio ?? You mean the VOA, BBC, Deutsche Welle, etc stuff and all??? Do they still exist? I thought shortwave went along with tube radios. Satellite radio, FM, AM, etc., have started ruling so much that i thought it went the way of gramaphone records. Hmmmm....
Great thought-provoking stuff. Unfortunately the r**e of a country is nothing
China has a conditioned population that is Great in manufacturing where you do what you are told, precisely. IT requires brains, and thinking power and creativity, not Borg drones who are super-efficient. China will be the manufacturing hub of the World. India will be the IT hub of the world.
$187.26 may be the average. However no one disputes the fact that India has the LARGEST middle-class working group in the world, larger than the entire population of USA. That is why our mobile-phone market IS the largest in the world. No wonder AT&T, BT, Verizon are making a beeline to India. Do you know India has a 3G mobile phone service with 1 million connections capable of onstream video and phone-banking? Hmmm, the word india still conjures up images of poverty, snake charmers, beggars just like US depicts Al Capone to us.
poverty-stricken country.
FYI, stop clubbing India along with countries poor in Africa, all the while thinking the 'Western' world is the 'Greatest' and Richest. Our economy grows at 6% Per Year. How much does yours grow? (>snicker)
If they find some _Real_ money they would buy $210 toilet seats
gun-toting monkey for a president so Atleast we don;t have a confirmed war-mongrel, with big investments in oil companies and who plans to dig up his own Alaska for oil as a president. Thank God ! for small favours
ya ya ya. Yawn !!! PSX adds 120GB,blah,blah,... PSX looks more like XBox than PSX. Follow the leader.
>>I wonder how hard they bargained on the price
Just enough to keep the lawyers ticking.
How untrue! MSFT wanted to jeopardise the future of Linux and the only way is to legitimise SCO claims by 'licensing' it. MSFT is a Boa Constrictor. It embraces to Kill. Death to MSFT
ha ha ha. Good. Real Good. Now if we just correctly replace the terms Linux with Windows 98 wherever it occurs in the article...
I disagree. A MSFT monopoly is far far better. All these Linux Geeks out there support Linux not for its excellence, but for the thrill of standing against MSFT ! Try to understand that Microsoft has achieved in just 5 years what UNIX could not achieve in 20. Uniformity and standardization. After all you UNIX geeks out there could not even agree on a standard GUI after all those years and continue to ship Gnome and KDE ! Now the success of MSFT burns in to your hearts. How many of you will continue to love UNIX/LINUX after staring down at Microsoft Weaponry (Stocks) for the first time. Come on guys ! Deep down everyone is a Ferengi.
Hack Apple's Airport Extreme and make it your wireless transmitter. Use that to transmit your video & audio throught the house! Do NOT use wires at any cost.
Iam already drowning in wires with my home music-VCD-VCR-computer system.