Yeah, go ahead. Take a look at The Hall of Innovations, where the Microsoft innovations are described in detail. Including where they swiped them from.
By the way, did you know that NT started out life as a port of DEC's VMS? Then it got all bloated.
When somebody has broken the law, you're damn right that the government has the right to tell them what to do. Like, go to jail. Or, pay some other penalty. If the findings of law show that Microsoft has broken the law (and assuming they stand up on appeal), then yes, the government DOES get to tell Microsoft what to do.
No, you're right. There's nothing illegal about being a monopoly. However, there IS something illegal about using that monopoly position to squash possible competition (say, by creating hidden API calls into your operating system that only your application programmers know about, thereby putting the competition's applications at a disadvantage, to name but one practice), or to use that market dominance to try to control the market in the future (by proposing collusion with a software house to divide up the marketplace, then when that other software house doesn't agree to start giving away products below cost in order to hurt that other software house).
Don't worry, there's LOTS of ways to illegally use a monopoly. I suspect we'll find out that Microsoft used most of them.
And exactly WHAT percentage of the desktops in the PC world are running RedHat or Caldera? Sorry, but a fraction of one percent does not a SIGNIFICANT COMPETITION make.
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Gawd. Made me spew Dr. Pepper on the monitor, it did.
I'll never look at electrical cords the same again.
No, because the "moderation" is mostly in the form of a suggestion. The moderators rate postings, they don't remove them. If you don't like the ratings, lower your limit and you can see them all.
(1) The guy selling property on the moon probably doesn't have the legal right to sell it - he doesn't own it, nor does he represent the owners. (There probably aren't any.)
(B) This reminds me of Swatch's recent effort to 'bring people together' by violating international communications law (a satellite transmitting in a reserved frequency).
(III) Is this an effort to bring people together or to make some money? I'm all for noble efforts, but how do we know (especially considering (1) above) that this really isn't a cynical way of separating money from people?
You can only sell things that you have a right to sell (by possession or by other means, such as a power of attorney from the true owner). Somehow I don't think that this bunch has the right to really 'sell' moon real estate.
No "christians" in the Old Testament. The 'children of Israel' are Jews. They're the ones running around the middle east, wiping out the Caananites and otherwise following Jehovah's mandates.
No wonder the Romans moved in and sat on them. They were being very anti-social.
If you consider yourself a journalist, then you're a bad one, because you've shown me no evidence of their hipocracy in making this game.
On the contrary, there have been a lot of messages here explicitly stating what the contradictions are, for those folks who were unable to sort it out themselves. (For some reason, fundamentalist christians seem to lack critical reading skills.)
This appears to me to be nothing more then an attack on organized religion. Criticism is not the same as an attack. I wish you folks would figure that out.
These people have absolutely no effect on you whatsoever, so why pick a beef with them?
They most certainly DO have an effect. Just look at public policies being pushed by the religious right, turning up in Kansas and Kentucky. That has effects all over, including making the United States the laughing stock of the educated world.
I myself have drastically reduced the times I check slashdot for news anymore due to fact it's a bunch of bigots who can't stand the idea of a divine creator because this would mean they would have to follow a standard of right and wrong.
No, maybe it's because we wouldn't want to follow your standard.
...but if they're going to play a game, I'd rather it be one where they have the choice to play as an angel than one where they are limited to playing as some entity who can kill, maim and destroy without reason or consequence.
Well, based on this description, it sounds like if you choose to be on the good side, you get to kill, maim, and destroy without much reason other than 'the things you're shooting are bad things (demons, etc)'. As I look back at the leading first-person-shooter games, we had:
Quake II (killing nasty invading space aliens again, only this time we invaded their territory).
By my count, there doesn't seem to be a lot of difference (they are all baddies, and some of them are evil demons too), except for the "God told you to do this, so it's good" element. All those others assume you've joined the battle because you believe in it, for some unexplained reason (patriotism, perhaps).
And, I guess there would be a big winning ceremony at the end, when you've finished all the levels and get the final promotion to be God's hit man and sit at his right hand. (Personally, I'll take Duke Nukem's ending, where he gets the babe.)
It actually occurs to me tha the designers might not want to make the levels too hard, so that people don't get frustrated trying to 'win' and give up.
When the Ohio Turnpike Commission decided it was time to rebuild the entire highway (still ongoing - they're about half done), they took the opportunity to add a conduit down the center of the entire road, with the idea of giving them a place to pull fiber. The Ohio Turnpike runs across the entire top of the state, from east to west border.
Seems to be kind of out of date. Most of it appears to be from around early '96 or so. (Last Modified: Thursday, June 26, 1997 12:12:58 PM GMT) The fact that the site authors are so amazed by the Tiger maps was sort of a giveaway - you can get the same quality maps from Delorme on a CD for less than $50.
Suppose that Microsoft takes an open source tool that is covered by the GPL, repackages it and sells it in violation of the GPL. Who's going to sue them? With what bank account?
I fear that the amount of money that M$ has coule make them pretty much immune from lawsuits unless governments get involved.
Pretty standard technology these days. It's called 'stereolithography' and you can by machines that turn 3D CAD data into physical models. Not cheap, but it *is* off the shelf hardware.
The 7 centimeter number ignores atmospheric effects, which is what adaptive optics compensates for. If you don't compensate for atmospheric turbulance, the number is worse.
7 centimeters is the absolute limit for a Hubble-sized mirror.
Image stabilazation and averaging can increase effective resolution, but that doesn't mean that there aren't items decreasing effective resolution. The trick is to add them all up.
If I were to call myself a satanist, would you HAVE NO CHOICE to believe me? An absurd comment.
Why absurd? If you say you're a Satanist, why shouldn't I believe you? As I said before, I'm not so presumptuous to be able to look in your mind and say that you're lying about matters of faith. You seem to be saying you can look inside the mind of others, a claim which I seriously doubt you can support.
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By the way, did you know that NT started out life as a port of DEC's VMS? Then it got all bloated.
...phil
When somebody has broken the law, you're damn right that the government has the right to tell them what to do. Like, go to jail. Or, pay some other penalty. If the findings of law show that Microsoft has broken the law (and assuming they stand up on appeal), then yes, the government DOES get to tell Microsoft what to do.
...phil
You haven't been paying attention, have you? WordPerfect is used in legal offices - about the only market they've got left.
...phil
Don't worry, there's LOTS of ways to illegally use a monopoly. I suspect we'll find out that Microsoft used most of them.
...phil
And exactly WHAT percentage of the desktops in the PC world are running RedHat or Caldera? Sorry, but a fraction of one percent does not a SIGNIFICANT COMPETITION make.
...phil
I'll never look at electrical cords the same again.
...phil
No, because the "moderation" is mostly in the form of a suggestion. The moderators rate postings, they don't remove them. If you don't like the ratings, lower your limit and you can see them all.
...phil
(B) This reminds me of Swatch's recent effort to 'bring people together' by violating international communications law (a satellite transmitting in a reserved frequency).
(III) Is this an effort to bring people together or to make some money? I'm all for noble efforts, but how do we know (especially considering (1) above) that this really isn't a cynical way of separating money from people?
...phil
You can only sell things that you have a right to sell (by possession or by other means, such as a power of attorney from the true owner). Somehow I don't think that this bunch has the right to really 'sell' moon real estate.
...phil
No wonder the Romans moved in and sat on them. They were being very anti-social.
...phil
Most insightful message of the week. I hope this gets ranked up. (BTW, I'm swiping the text. Thanks.)
...phil
If you consider yourself a journalist, then you're a bad one, because you've shown me no evidence of their hipocracy in making this game.
On the contrary, there have been a lot of messages here explicitly stating what the contradictions are, for those folks who were unable to sort it out themselves. (For some reason, fundamentalist christians seem to lack critical reading skills.)
This appears to me to be nothing more then an attack on organized religion. Criticism is not the same as an attack. I wish you folks would figure that out.
These people have absolutely no effect on you whatsoever, so why pick a beef with them?
They most certainly DO have an effect. Just look at public policies being pushed by the religious right, turning up in Kansas and Kentucky. That has effects all over, including making the United States the laughing stock of the educated world.
...phil
No, maybe it's because we wouldn't want to follow your standard.
Hitler would be so proud.
Time to invoke Godwin's Law.
...phil
Well, based on this description, it sounds like if you choose to be on the good side, you get to kill, maim, and destroy without much reason other than 'the things you're shooting are bad things (demons, etc)'. As I look back at the leading first-person-shooter games, we had:
By my count, there doesn't seem to be a lot of difference (they are all baddies, and some of them are evil demons too), except for the "God told you to do this, so it's good" element. All those others assume you've joined the battle because you believe in it, for some unexplained reason (patriotism, perhaps).
And, I guess there would be a big winning ceremony at the end, when you've finished all the levels and get the final promotion to be God's hit man and sit at his right hand. (Personally, I'll take Duke Nukem's ending, where he gets the babe.)
It actually occurs to me tha the designers might not want to make the levels too hard, so that people don't get frustrated trying to 'win' and give up.
...phil
Still funny, though.
...phil
So, some of them ARE thinking about it.
...phil
Seems to be kind of out of date. Most of it appears to be from around early '96 or so. (Last Modified: Thursday, June 26, 1997 12:12:58 PM GMT) The fact that the site authors are so amazed by the Tiger maps was sort of a giveaway - you can get the same quality maps from Delorme on a CD for less than $50.
...phil
I fear that the amount of money that M$ has coule make them pretty much immune from lawsuits unless governments get involved.
...phil
That's because it's not published yet. Janes said it would appear sometime in November.
...phil
They do. A trademark has to be used in trade, and you can't just sit on it.
...phil
We appreciate your calm, reasoned, rational contribution to the discussion. Thank you.
...phil
Pretty standard technology these days. It's called 'stereolithography' and you can by machines that turn 3D CAD data into physical models. Not cheap, but it *is* off the shelf hardware.
...phil
7 centimeters is the absolute limit for a Hubble-sized mirror.
...phil
Image stabilazation and averaging can increase effective resolution, but that doesn't mean that there aren't items decreasing effective resolution. The trick is to add them all up.
...phil
Why absurd? If you say you're a Satanist, why shouldn't I believe you? As I said before, I'm not so presumptuous to be able to look in your mind and say that you're lying about matters of faith. You seem to be saying you can look inside the mind of others, a claim which I seriously doubt you can support.
...phil