Of COURSE the IE folks think that MS is the underdog. MS religionists, much like fundamentalist Christians (think Jack Chick), are under the impression that their group is being persecuted, and that they are somehow 'victims'. Christians far outnumber adherents of all other religions combined in the US, and at least one Christian holiday is a Federal holidays, yet morons like Chick still seem to believe that Christians in the US are a persecuted minority. Ditto with Microsoft... despite having a tremendous monopoly, and having had said monopoly for quite a long time, Microsoft people like to think they're the underdogs. They aren't!
The possessive of "it" is "its", NOT "it's". Fucking retard. Learn English. God, am I getting fucking pissed at idiots like you. Don't they still teach this sort of shit in second grade!?
There is no such thing as "the Linux OS". There are only "Linux distributions" (or "GNU/Linux distributions" if you please) containing "Linux" (which is just a kernel) and a bunch of pieces of code that are not Linux, but individual pieces like a compiler (GCC), an editor (nano, EMACS, vim), a libc (glibc), a graphical environment (X.org)......
I am sick of hearing about "Linux OS". There is no such god-damned thing. It's like calling DOS systems (DR-DOS, MS-DOS, PC-DOS, FreeDOS, etc.) the "io.sys/msdos.sys OS".
These drivers are still closed-source (except for the "kernel interface layer", a la VMWare and their similar layer). There are still no real "mass-market" cards with vendor-supplied open-source/free software drivers, or that supply complete specs to the OSS/FS communities. People who use "exotic" architectures such as SPARC or PPC with their Linux/*BSD installations are still SOL.
"Carl Johnson, the attorney representing the school board, said board members were "well within the legal guidelines" when they supported the 15-day sentence in December." (Emphasis mine)
That's the problem with lawyers. They don't give a rat's ass about what's right or wrong. They only care about what's legal or illegal. Incidentally, oral sex is still illegal in many states, and there are still a metric fuckton of outdated and/or bizarre laws like "You cannot own more than 3 sheep or more than 2 cows if you live West of the railroad tracks" or "you cannot chew gum while walking past a church on Sunday". Meanwhile, all sorts of nasty crap is legal. Crap, until recently, it was perfectly legal to shout "nigger" at a black person. (Maybe it still is? I don't know.) The point is that there is a massive gap between the realms of "what is legal" and "what is moral", and lawyers couldn't give half a rat's ass.
I have a bunch of genuine (no, I'm being quite serious!) Commodore Security patches, in excellent condition. $30 and one's yours. Email me at Jay Ell Bee at Tee Double-You You Dot Net.:)
I want a handheld C64 system. No, not a Game Boy Advance emulating a C64. An actual handheld C64 gaming system. Maybe with a little keyboard a la the Zaurus. And I want it under $100.
...because people do not UNDERSTAND software. To them, software (and computers!) are these ephemeral concepts that they will simply Never Grok, just like the average human being will Never Grok quantum physics, or third-year Calculus, or brain surgery. Ah, but cars, they understand. Cars, they feel comfortable with. Joe Average is not afraid of cars; he IS afraid of computers. To him, software is like this mysterious gift passed down from the Gods-- a gift which he does not even PARTIALLY understand, much less fully. All he knows is "I clicks duh button, an' it does somefing."
Because of this ignorance (note-- not stupidity but IGNORANCE, detestable only because in so many cases it is a willful ignorance), software companies can bend Joe Beer over and fuck him repeatedly-- since he won't even know he's been fucked. Heck, in this case, he doesn't even know what fucking is, or that software can fuck you. (OK, I'm getting silly now, but you get my point.)
"The thought of a networked media device is not new, but I'm curious as to how many people actually own one? How well do they work? What are the best ones? Is UP&P support worth the extra money? Is this the future of all DVD players for the home theater?"
I love free software; I love the GPL. But let's be honest here: producing (not using or doing other things with) such software isn't a great way to make money. Just look at how many years it took Red Hat to turn a modest profit-- and those were years where it was easily the #1 Linux distribution in the US.
How will Real make money from this? If they won't, and I'm betting they won't, they will simply wither and die. Then we won't have any sort of a standard. We'll have yet another company survived by Microsoft, which won't help anyone (except, well, Microsoft)
Try "predictably", or "obviously". Of course MS is going to go with a more BSD-like license, as opposed to a more GPL-like license. MS has always made it quite clear (through actions as well as statements) that they like the BSD-type open-source licenses, as it allows them to embrace and extend without breaching the license. (Thus far, they haven't really "embraced and extended" BSD code-- but they do use BSD's command-line FTP client code, and I believe BSD's TCP/IP stack? Or was the latter only in the past?) Anyone who thought that they would go for a more GPL-like paradigm was only fooling themselves.
Frankly, I think it's surprising that Microsoft is releasing any source code at all. I actually think it's a bit premature for MS to be doing such things. Here in the "trenches", dealing with tons of end users, all I see is Windows users to the left of me, Windows users to the right of me. I don't see Linux encroaching on Windows turf on the desktop-- and, in fact, I see Windows encroaching on Linux/Unix turf on the server side of things. (This frightens me deeply.) It is surprising that MS is scared enough of Linux and the open-source/free software movement to be releasing some of their source code while their market share is still so ridiculously high.
"If you're file-server is running X & Gnome & KDE & Wine & Kazaa, you're *BEGGING* for trouble."
You just said "If you are file-server (sic) is running X & Gnome & KDE & Wine (sic; it's actually WINE) & Kazaa (sic; I believe it's KaZaa, but I could be wrong), you're *BEGGING* for trouble."
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You don't know how to make an HTML link? What the hell sort of geek are you?
...where the editors need to define "bipedal" for the SlashDot audience? Have we really gotten that much dumbed down?
I was born in the US. Most people who were born in the US seem to not know how to speak write English. I don't know what happened.
I have an excuse for not being so good at writing French. I'm not French.
What's the excuse of the millions of AOL kiddies who think that "lol how r u its' (sic) getting hot 2day" is acceptable English?
Of COURSE the IE folks think that MS is the underdog. MS religionists, much like fundamentalist Christians (think Jack Chick), are under the impression that their group is being persecuted, and that they are somehow 'victims'. Christians far outnumber adherents of all other religions combined in the US, and at least one Christian holiday is a Federal holidays, yet morons like Chick still seem to believe that Christians in the US are a persecuted minority. Ditto with Microsoft... despite having a tremendous monopoly, and having had said monopoly for quite a long time, Microsoft people like to think they're the underdogs. They aren't!
The possessive of "it" is "its", NOT "it's". Fucking retard. Learn English. God, am I getting fucking pissed at idiots like you. Don't they still teach this sort of shit in second grade!?
There is no such thing as "the Linux OS". There are only "Linux distributions" (or "GNU/Linux distributions" if you please) containing "Linux" (which is just a kernel) and a bunch of pieces of code that are not Linux, but individual pieces like a compiler (GCC), an editor (nano, EMACS, vim), a libc (glibc), a graphical environment (X.org)......
I am sick of hearing about "Linux OS". There is no such god-damned thing. It's like calling DOS systems (DR-DOS, MS-DOS, PC-DOS, FreeDOS, etc.) the "io.sys/msdos.sys OS".
The possessive of "it" is "its", not "it's."
Geeks used to pride themselves on being pedantic. What the hell happened?
These drivers are still closed-source (except for the "kernel interface layer", a la VMWare and their similar layer). There are still no real "mass-market" cards with vendor-supplied open-source/free software drivers, or that supply complete specs to the OSS/FS communities. People who use "exotic" architectures such as SPARC or PPC with their Linux/*BSD installations are still SOL.
"Carl Johnson, the attorney representing the school board, said board members were "well within the legal guidelines" when they supported the 15-day sentence in December." (Emphasis mine)
That's the problem with lawyers. They don't give a rat's ass about what's right or wrong. They only care about what's legal or illegal. Incidentally, oral sex is still illegal in many states, and there are still a metric fuckton of outdated and/or bizarre laws like "You cannot own more than 3 sheep or more than 2 cows if you live West of the railroad tracks" or "you cannot chew gum while walking past a church on Sunday". Meanwhile, all sorts of nasty crap is legal. Crap, until recently, it was perfectly legal to shout "nigger" at a black person. (Maybe it still is? I don't know.) The point is that there is a massive gap between the realms of "what is legal" and "what is moral", and lawyers couldn't give half a rat's ass.
Maybe. They'll realize it... and then they'll shrug. Never underestimate the apathy of the American public.
I have a bunch of genuine (no, I'm being quite serious!) Commodore Security patches, in excellent condition. $30 and one's yours. Email me at Jay Ell Bee at Tee Double-You You Dot Net. :)
I want a handheld C64 system. No, not a Game Boy Advance emulating a C64. An actual handheld C64 gaming system. Maybe with a little keyboard a la the Zaurus. And I want it under $100.
...because people do not UNDERSTAND software. To them, software (and computers!) are these ephemeral concepts that they will simply Never Grok, just like the average human being will Never Grok quantum physics, or third-year Calculus, or brain surgery. Ah, but cars, they understand. Cars, they feel comfortable with. Joe Average is not afraid of cars; he IS afraid of computers. To him, software is like this mysterious gift passed down from the Gods-- a gift which he does not even PARTIALLY understand, much less fully. All he knows is "I clicks duh button, an' it does somefing."
Because of this ignorance (note-- not stupidity but IGNORANCE, detestable only because in so many cases it is a willful ignorance), software companies can bend Joe Beer over and fuck him repeatedly-- since he won't even know he's been fucked. Heck, in this case, he doesn't even know what fucking is, or that software can fuck you. (OK, I'm getting silly now, but you get my point.)
The possessive of "it" is "its", not "it's".
"The thought of a networked media device is not new, but I'm curious as to how many people actually own one? How well do they work? What are the best ones? Is UP&P support worth the extra money? Is this the future of all DVD players for the home theater?"
Not many. Not well. None of them. No. No.
...the video is Windows Media. How ironic.
...you insensitive clod.
I love free software; I love the GPL. But let's be honest here: producing (not using or doing other things with) such software isn't a great way to make money. Just look at how many years it took Red Hat to turn a modest profit-- and those were years where it was easily the #1 Linux distribution in the US.
How will Real make money from this? If they won't, and I'm betting they won't, they will simply wither and die. Then we won't have any sort of a standard. We'll have yet another company survived by Microsoft, which won't help anyone (except, well, Microsoft)
Try "predictably", or "obviously". Of course MS is going to go with a more BSD-like license, as opposed to a more GPL-like license. MS has always made it quite clear (through actions as well as statements) that they like the BSD-type open-source licenses, as it allows them to embrace and extend without breaching the license. (Thus far, they haven't really "embraced and extended" BSD code-- but they do use BSD's command-line FTP client code, and I believe BSD's TCP/IP stack? Or was the latter only in the past?) Anyone who thought that they would go for a more GPL-like paradigm was only fooling themselves.
Frankly, I think it's surprising that Microsoft is releasing any source code at all. I actually think it's a bit premature for MS to be doing such things. Here in the "trenches", dealing with tons of end users, all I see is Windows users to the left of me, Windows users to the right of me. I don't see Linux encroaching on Windows turf on the desktop-- and, in fact, I see Windows encroaching on Linux/Unix turf on the server side of things. (This frightens me deeply.) It is surprising that MS is scared enough of Linux and the open-source/free software movement to be releasing some of their source code while their market share is still so ridiculously high.
"If you're file-server is running X & Gnome & KDE & Wine & Kazaa, you're *BEGGING* for trouble."
You just said "If you are file-server (sic) is running X & Gnome & KDE & Wine (sic; it's actually WINE) & Kazaa (sic; I believe it's KaZaa, but I could be wrong), you're *BEGGING* for trouble."
Isn't this one of the two clients supported by Vonage?
The word is "added", not "add'd". Jesus fuck, are you people obsessed with creating whole new (incorrect) words?
That's "barons", you fucking retard.
...What the heck is T-Moble? ;) Could you mean T-Mobile?
Actually, there are GAJILLIONS of people who DO believe 100% of what religion claims. Ever been to Oklahoma? (I have. I lived there for a while.)