I would post non-anonymous but moderators are going berzerk today with negatives based on opinions of their own. Even tho this IS a news site. "news for nerds" ring a bell? Yellow journalism anyone?
You have to remember there are 3 major religious factions in Iraq and the flag wavers were of the 2 non oppressed by Saddam. They have more freedom now but the 1/3 radical faction has the same mindset that the 9/11 hijackers had and they'll literally die trying to stop others from keeping them from their 13 virgins in heaven.
I totally agree with you. Just making some facts straight. We will be in a neverending series of 9/11 attacks just like other countries in the middle east if we don't stop them. It's awesome they have freedoms now they never had before. Unfortunately our world of seperate church & state can't comprehend the world they live in. Church is everything there.
Personally I view it as this: Imagine a month before 9/11 the president says we're invading Afghanistan because they could do substantial damage to us. Imagine now the laughter & hatred as we bomb them before it happened. It's a PROVEN FACT Iraq was pursuing these weapons. Their own scientists said they were but admitted they were not able to complete them.
So...democratic viewpoint, let them finish the bombs & kill thousands of innocent Americans before we react?
THAT is why I switched from democrat to republican. That is also why Bush will win in 2004. Democrats think about it. I was converted by the democratic mudslinging and others are too.
I watched the last unsuccessful landing on the NASA web page feed. It abrubtly cut me off with a "not found" message when trying to reconnect. I turned on CNN & saw that it had problems. Feed from NASA on there had been shut off as well.
The nasa web feed started 30 mins before & it is still going. No interruptions by reporters showing their faces during transmissions either. That bugged me. Computer feed full screen with TV on mute with captions enabled was the best way to watch.
Perhaps it's a sign we'll get back some of the 2/3 cut in spending Clinton did. Since that cut we've lost several lives & probes. You can't do rocket science on entry lvl I.T. salaries.
It's also a good sign that putting more spending in the program by Bush actually helped.
Premature but hopefully a good sign. Any president of either party that cuts spending on something so important gets my thumbs down. They use their cell phones developed by NASA to make the phone call to cut their spending.
I worked at a.com during the boom and the entire company had ICQ installed. It was SO much better than playing phone tag. Hell if someone was on the phone you could pop-up msg them saying who was on the line wanting to talk to them. Or if I was on the phone I could still keep taking care of business via ICQ. For the home I think it's just silly or at the least, lazy. The only time I've ever used it room to room in the home was joking around. "It's 10pm. Do youk now what your son is doing behind your back?"
They had to reverse engineer the KISS software to see the "stolen code". So why were they reverse engineering competitions code? Makes me wonder if THEY were planning on stealing code.
as they think that having the anti-virus is enough Apparently they don't even think that if you look at how many viruses are on kazaa. The pure irony is that Norton, McAfee, etc are ON kazaa.
You do know mankind has good devices in civilian hands based on research done by military funding, right? The world isn't out to get you. Go back to using the cell phone (thanks to NASA space research) and your GPS (thanks to military research). Next time you fly you can thank military research on jet engines too. The examples here are endless. A more on-topic example would be the robotic arms used in surgery.
One big problem. It can't open all of their old Office documents yet. I have openoffice on my machine but keep having to use my laptop to open Office documents sent to me in formats it can't open correctly. The whole world isn't going to open all of their documents & reformat so the burden still lies with OpenOffice.
Don't forget software. A movement has to start for companies to make *nix compatible versions of their software or there just won't be a huge shift. Remember OS2? Great OS alternative, not enough software.
Have you bought any of this new "free trade" Chinese stuff? I've blown fuses in my truck from cigarette-lighter adapters proudly wearing the "Made in China" stickers when they fell apart & shorted it out. Take it back & exchange/repeat. It's hard to get those things out when they're glowing red hot. They even had some special on the news a few weeks ago showing the extension cords bearing the stickers saying they were approved by American safety organizations were forged and they were nowhere near the correct gauge to handle the load.
They're not "my" contractors. They're contracting agencies that I do work for & vice-versa. And to say this is a solution when you don't know why they have them in this specific format is presumptuous. It can't be done in another format.
We're talking about moving away from MS completely so that would mean installing a whole new OS, training all employees, and doing IT support now that they've outsourced most of the IT staff. I'm willing to bet the people who took those 5 title IT jobs for $5/hr aren't going to get this accomplished.
"They'll keep reducing, keep producing the same stuff people dont want"
If this is true, why is *nix bending over backwards trying to make compatible software and companies not switching over because only Windows can run the software they need?
The only reason I don't have all Linux in my house is because I need MS to run half of my software.
Exactly! I bought Windows 98 in 1999 and next Windows 2000 in 2002. I still use my old copy of Office 97. There is no need to upgrade. My MS machine only locks up about 1-2 times per year. I reboot when I feel like it. I have never got a blue screen on this machine. Conclusion: I don't need XP or 2003. It's not broke. It does what I need it to.
That's just me. Entire companies of hundreds of machines have to consider A) Do we NEED this or are we still productive? B) Can we INSTALL this after we outsourced to India? C) If A & B are yes, can we AFFORD this?
I have openoffice running on Linux on my laptop. The problem is it still won't open all of the files I need that contractors send me. If they can get beyond all of this then I would say this story is warranted. Right now saying MS is "on the tipping point" sounds like something I'd read in a supermarket tabloid headline.
Amazing how it's running on Linux and command center is running on Linux and nobody comments on that. If it was Microsoft there would be pages of replies blaming them.
*snicker*. I posted in html format by accident so the was left off of the first sentence. But the 2nd half is serious. Companies that sue individuals when they are clearly in the wrong (gateway created 10 yrs after gateway.com was purchased) are against the little guy that they want to be their customer. I'm not sure how this is flamebait unless the moderator was a salesman for Gateway. haha.
I forget what the exact amount was but it was per email up to something like $250,000 maximum fine. It was in a different section. It also stated you could sue them if they did damage in another section. About the only damage they could be shown to have done would be filling up the email server with a billion emails overnight and you can prove the company lost business. Hey it happens.
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I would post non-anonymous but moderators are going berzerk today with negatives based on opinions of their own. Even tho this IS a news site. "news for nerds" ring a bell? Yellow journalism anyone?
You have to remember there are 3 major religious factions in Iraq and the flag wavers were of the 2 non oppressed by Saddam. They have more freedom now but the 1/3 radical faction has the same mindset that the 9/11 hijackers had and they'll literally die trying to stop others from keeping them from their 13 virgins in heaven.
I totally agree with you. Just making some facts straight. We will be in a neverending series of 9/11 attacks just like other countries in the middle east if we don't stop them. It's awesome they have freedoms now they never had before. Unfortunately our world of seperate church & state can't comprehend the world they live in. Church is everything there.
Personally I view it as this: Imagine a month before 9/11 the president says we're invading Afghanistan because they could do substantial damage to us. Imagine now the laughter & hatred as we bomb them before it happened. It's a PROVEN FACT Iraq was pursuing these weapons. Their own scientists said they were but admitted they were not able to complete them.
So...democratic viewpoint, let them finish the bombs & kill thousands of innocent Americans before we react?
THAT is why I switched from democrat to republican. That is also why Bush will win in 2004. Democrats think about it. I was converted by the democratic mudslinging and others are too.
I watched the last unsuccessful landing on the NASA web page feed. It abrubtly cut me off with a "not found" message when trying to reconnect. I turned on CNN & saw that it had problems. Feed from NASA on there had been shut off as well.
The nasa web feed started 30 mins before & it is still going. No interruptions by reporters showing their faces during transmissions either. That bugged me. Computer feed full screen with TV on mute with captions enabled was the best way to watch.
Perhaps it's a sign we'll get back some of the 2/3 cut in spending Clinton did. Since that cut we've lost several lives & probes. You can't do rocket science on entry lvl I.T. salaries.
It's also a good sign that putting more spending in the program by Bush actually helped.
Premature but hopefully a good sign. Any president of either party that cuts spending on something so important gets my thumbs down. They use their cell phones developed by NASA to make the phone call to cut their spending.
Nods. Same here. I really hoped it would make it & I'm an American. It's sad it didn't. But some people get really defensive & too much & react to it.
Long live the queens Beagle 2!
nods me too. actually mine first hit the error 500 page not found reject page then after the 15th try it was already in there.
I worked at a .com during the boom and the entire company had ICQ installed. It was SO much better than playing phone tag. Hell if someone was on the phone you could pop-up msg them saying who was on the line wanting to talk to them. Or if I was on the phone I could still keep taking care of business via ICQ.
For the home I think it's just silly or at the least, lazy. The only time I've ever used it room to room in the home was joking around. "It's 10pm. Do youk now what your son is doing behind your back?"
I'm sorry. Did I say that out loud?
But seriously, what is it with mods always modding the top lines way up like that?
Karma-karma-karma-karma-karma-karmaaaaawhooooore.
They had to reverse engineer the KISS software to see the "stolen code". So why were they reverse engineering competitions code? Makes me wonder if THEY were planning on stealing code.
as they think that having the anti-virus is enough
Apparently they don't even think that if you look at how many viruses are on kazaa. The pure irony is that Norton, McAfee, etc are ON kazaa.
You do know mankind has good devices in civilian hands based on research done by military funding, right? The world isn't out to get you. Go back to using the cell phone (thanks to NASA space research) and your GPS (thanks to military research). Next time you fly you can thank military research on jet engines too. The examples here are endless. A more on-topic example would be the robotic arms used in surgery.
One big problem. It can't open all of their old Office documents yet. I have openoffice on my machine but keep having to use my laptop to open Office documents sent to me in formats it can't open correctly. The whole world isn't going to open all of their documents & reformat so the burden still lies with OpenOffice.
Don't forget software. A movement has to start for companies to make *nix compatible versions of their software or there just won't be a huge shift. Remember OS2? Great OS alternative, not enough software.
Maybe next year we'll see "CEO'd in America, made everywhere else" as the big flop of 2003-2004.
Have you bought any of this new "free trade" Chinese stuff? I've blown fuses in my truck from cigarette-lighter adapters proudly wearing the "Made in China" stickers when they fell apart & shorted it out. Take it back & exchange/repeat. It's hard to get those things out when they're glowing red hot. They even had some special on the news a few weeks ago showing the extension cords bearing the stickers saying they were approved by American safety organizations were forged and they were nowhere near the correct gauge to handle the load.
They're not "my" contractors. They're contracting agencies that I do work for & vice-versa. And to say this is a solution when you don't know why they have them in this specific format is presumptuous. It can't be done in another format.
We're talking about moving away from MS completely so that would mean installing a whole new OS, training all employees, and doing IT support now that they've outsourced most of the IT staff. I'm willing to bet the people who took those 5 title IT jobs for $5/hr aren't going to get this accomplished.
"They'll keep reducing, keep producing the same stuff people dont want"
If this is true, why is *nix bending over backwards trying to make compatible software and companies not switching over because only Windows can run the software they need?
The only reason I don't have all Linux in my house is because I need MS to run half of my software.
Exactly! I bought Windows 98 in 1999 and next Windows 2000 in 2002. I still use my old copy of Office 97. There is no need to upgrade. My MS machine only locks up about 1-2 times per year. I reboot when I feel like it. I have never got a blue screen on this machine. Conclusion: I don't need XP or 2003. It's not broke. It does what I need it to.
That's just me. Entire companies of hundreds of machines have to consider
A) Do we NEED this or are we still productive?
B) Can we INSTALL this after we outsourced to India?
C) If A & B are yes, can we AFFORD this?
I have openoffice running on Linux on my laptop. The problem is it still won't open all of the files I need that contractors send me. If they can get beyond all of this then I would say this story is warranted. Right now saying MS is "on the tipping point" sounds like something I'd read in a supermarket tabloid headline.
Amazing how it's running on Linux and command center is running on Linux and nobody comments on that. If it was Microsoft there would be pages of replies blaming them.
The spacecraft is running an OS on top of Linux and the command center is a single Linux workstation. Care to do a little research next time?
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031212/175/egxcu.html
ugh. we can't do /sarcasm inside <>'s any more? It totally changed the meaning of the post.
Oh I see. Extrans is added to type.
*snicker*. I posted in html format by accident so the was left off of the first sentence. But the 2nd half is serious. Companies that sue individuals when they are clearly in the wrong (gateway created 10 yrs after gateway.com was purchased) are against the little guy that they want to be their customer. I'm not sure how this is flamebait unless the moderator was a salesman for Gateway. haha.
I forget what the exact amount was but it was per email up to something like $250,000 maximum fine. It was in a different section. It also stated you could sue them if they did damage in another section. About the only damage they could be shown to have done would be filling up the email server with a billion emails overnight and you can prove the company lost business. Hey it happens.