I really don't understand this reasoning. How does bluring out sensitive sites help? If I have a hunch that a certain site might be top secreat all I need to do is look at google now and see if its blurred out. If I'm actually going to attack it, I'll just bomb the heck out of it. doesn't really amtter that much If I knew what it looked like before the mission. I think this would only help prevent smal scale attacks by terrorists, but if you were going to go small scale, you might just be better off casing the joint in person, or flying over with a airplane, or spy camera attached to model helicopter. Or something. I wonder how much of this is just security theater rather than actual security.
They and any product they make. Sory vaio owners, no internet for you! Can we ban anyone still using aol as well. I'm sure aol's guilty of many crimes against the internet. I'd ban microsoft for the trifecta, but then they'd just build their own iternet that was incompatable with the current one and call it Interweb #.net
I think I might have to ignore any novel & microsoft stories. There is just so much bullSh*t about it flying around. Novell is not about to start putting in microsoft patents into its software. THEY cans still be sued by MS. Their customers can not. THe main point of the agreement from Novells perspective is the cooperation. MS has agreed to make its products more interopreable with novells. The current state of novell means that they can gpl these new interconectiosn to the Miscorsoft world. This whole deal will go down as MS biggest mistake. The new XML office version is the first product of this. think of it, an open standard that works with OO.org? I imagine the next step could very well be exchange. Exchange interaction would allow a company to slowly replace its Windows clients with linux. It would also make building a GPL exchange knockoff a lot easier. Too many people are hooked into this emotional pull of a potential MS lawsuit to see the real ramifications of this deal. MS cannot and will not sue anyone over linux. the EU still has them over a barrell and dems are comming back into power in the US. I'm sure the world governments would bring out the butcher knife if they attempted such a stunt. They have to play it safe. This is about the closest it can come to actually doing it.
WOW. I can't believe you post was modded as high as it was. Remind me not to ask you any questions that I don't already know the answer to. A marketing exec couldn't have done a better job lying about a competitor's prodcuts. Are you sure you weren't responsible for the regan administrations re labeling of ketchup as a "vegitable".
Interesting perspective. There are apps that were made for AJAX and those that do work much better on the desktop, like photoshop. Basically web apps make sence for two reasons:
Instalation problems dissapear
Apps need to access centralised data that cannot be stored locally
You can make a good application on windows, mac, linux easily now, with minimal problems with instalation or dependancies, but it wasn't alwasy that way. We've all seen terrable desktop apps ( Real player? What a joke) that crash, don't install correctly, have conflicting dependancies with other apps, ect. Going to the web removes all of that. ALl you need is IE 6 or firefox. Thats it. No instalation, no upgrading, instant functionality. Ajax and other javascript can make the app handle more like a simple desktop app.
Then there are applications that CAN NOT exist on the desktop. Do you really want to install amazon to buy books? What if you find a better deal at barnesandnoble? you have to somehow find the app and install it. Comaprison shopping takes a nose dive. Furthermore, the app has to communicate with a remote server some how inorder to get new products and place orders. WOuldn't it be nice if there was a standard way to create interfaces to interact with these remote services? Well, now your just recreating HTML/ Javascript.
I don't know who you are or what you do. You really remind me of someone I used to work with. We had this same argument. Not about ajax, but web vs Desktop. Are web apps perfect? of course not. Are they always better than a desktop equivalent? No, but they can be. Don't avoid something just because its popular, or it has "hype". You have to apporach any new technology with an open mind and objectively evaluate the facts. Unfortuantly, it doesn't stop there. The moral of this article is that the "facts" change over time. What was once a useless technology now has a use. Keep evaluating technologies in light of new developments.
Good luck with that stratagey. I agree in principal and admire your spirit, but I somehow feel as if the BSA and by extention Microsoft will be less than intimidated by your response. The BSA's power is firmly entrenched in court precident. THe lawsuit for "maclicious prosecution" would last all of 4 seconds.
Ah.. I don't know how to break this to you but I am a united states citizen writing this from Chicago. I don't know how old you are, but I remember a time before Bush. It didn't make any difference then either. The whole world doesn't hate the united states, any more that the united states hates them.
In any case, I was talking about how the rest of the world(including, but not limited to the United states) views the other countries in America. So, your response basically doesn't apply. Thanks for sharing.
As the last election showed, there isn't an overwhelming majority of "red Staters", so my comments are 0bviously point more towards the blue staters. If thats how you would prefer to define them. I think Democrats are just as likely to be internationally ignorant as Republicans. Its like there are two kettles arguing over their blackness.
more, yes, much more, perhaps, so much more.. not really.
As I write this from my macbook, I obviously appreciate the aquaness of the system, but I wouldn't have made the switch with out bsd and all of the accompaning tools availible. I wouldn't have bought it if it was just a rehash of classic mac os. Yeah, its great and much better than BSD for desktop, but only because they stood on the shoulders of giants.
That may be so, but it encourages this idea that the USA is the only important American contry. They don't consider any other country internationaly significant outside of world cup competitions. Usians ( people born in the USA) and other Americans need to start considering the possibilities that inter American cooperation could bring.
NO, I TRIED. I was there for two years. I tried and the best buinesses int he country. The textile factories, the PRestige brewery, Barbencourt, hardware distributers. Most wouldn't accept ANY DISTRO. TRUST ME.
NO! NO! NO! THe hardware support isn't there. THe machines won't accept anythign except win 9x. I tried all of the distos you inked to. THey didn't work!! win 98 will run on any old piece of hardware, because they were built to run it. Ignorance would be a factor but they are a good 7-15 years behind hardware wise. It has nothing to do with ignorance. I'm sorry but you post is absolute unmitigated bullshit! to run linux reliably on the desktop you NEED newer hardware. SUre linux would save them money IF they were buying NEW hardware. THey DONT have the money for NEW hardware so ITS A MOOT POINT.
America is the two continents. Not any one country. There aren't many people afraid of dying in terrorist attacks in Cuba. In light of this slander, I will now refer to Germany as "europe". Casue, lets face it they're the only ones who will matter in the 21st century.
Your comment is correct. I spent two years in Haiti, the poorest in the western hemisphere. Did anyone run Linux, no. They used old hardware everywhere. Old hardware that would not run linux. I tried replacing the pirated copies with linux and failed! Bandwith is very expensice there at least when compared to Income levels. So downloading linux "for free" is actually much more expesive than the 50 cent Devils own copy of windows. You'd have to find an older version of linux that would run on the hardware ( unlikly in most cases) and then compare it the the windows equivalent. I'm sorry I love linux, but redhat 5 doesn't compare to win 2k on the desktop for new users. No, DSL linux didn't work doesn't matter beacause the oss applications running on top neccisary for real work ( openoffice or abiword) perform terribly on older hardware.
Technology flows from the first world to the third. They will be the last to get linux on the desktop, not the first.
Thats godaddy.com maker of the sexist demeaning superbowl commercals? Durring the most watched game, you put on a terrible commercial every year that sends a terrable message to children. I think CBS should reject all of your commercials and Icann reject your status! You don't give a rats ass about "the children". If I had any domains there, I would move them as well. But, it appears I was too smart to use you in the first place. have a good time burning in hell.
I don't "enjoy" anything. There are activities which give me a vaguely pleasant demeanor, but it could never be described in such an obsolete marketoid vernacular term as "enjoyment".
Microsoft is a leading DRM provider. Its one of their markets. They keep trying to improve their DRM so it appeals more to the consumer and more to the content provider. Its not a simple matter of "having to comply with *AA directives". They are enabling trying desperately to be the solution provider for them. Yet for all of their trouble, what does MS get? Crazy demands for further restriction ( see the article on restricted sharing on the zune) from the media companies. So their users get less freedoms, and less usability. Eventually, at some point, Consumers are going to stand up en mass for their rights. Problaley when one of these content protection schemes goes haywire due to a bug or bad design and prevents them from using leagally obtained media. It would be pretty funny if both Blue Ray and HD DVD fail.
Personally, I don't have anything against DRM, but I think this sort of thing should be handled on the player itself and *NOT* by the operating system. A player should *PLAY* media. If that media has special requirements for bitrate based upon connection, then it should hanlde that. At some level you have to have a basic level of trust between content providers and consumers.
Which excel features are you refering to? Or are you just guessing? I've used both in professional engineering projects ( don't ask why the engineer wasn't using CAD?!?) The only problems I ran into were third party excel add ons that obviously didn't work with excel.
honestly, was that ever funny? Ever? IMHO, thats the lamest repeating joke here. I lose respect for people who make it. Come, on go back to yackoff
In soviet Russia, phone eye's you!
see its funnier becuase of the play on eye/I. Plus an I phone doesn't really I or eye you here, pointing out the absurdity of the moniker and the power of marketing to overwelm our normally functioning linguistic center. Do soemthing reallly cool give it a bad name, the cool thing doesn't become bad, but the bad name becomes cool over time with its assosiation with the cool thing.
See, chairs aren't very funny, unless you also use them as a bridge to something unexpected as well. Bobby knight throws chairs too. Reference that somehow.
Ballmer has chairs on backorder, must meet Bobby knight in cage match for next shippment.
see much better now. be creaive with your dead horsees, don't let them ride you.
Acting like you are smarter than people who are experts in their field makes one look like a complete moron - that's not starting a discussion, it's flamebait and ego-stroking.
but it did start a discussion. By that token everthing on the evening news is flamebait. The comment had attitude, but jeesh, do you really think he thought he was smarter than the person who wrote the article? Its subjective. You can't tell from a short comment like that what the author was thinking. I took it as a witty sacrastic comment begging for correction. Its also varies across cultural boundries as well.
I was merely pointing out that the knee-jerk slashdot "post early, post often" karma whoring competitions lead to a whole lot of dumbass assertions without any firm understanding of the actual facts of the discussion.
But thats what slashdot is. Its a discussion forum. It wasn't a stupid question, as you can see it was asked in other places in this subject.Its about the exchange of ideas and is what makes slashdot a *good* place. Its like instant wikipedia that has people pooling their collective areas of expertise together. Just reading a summary, I can usually guess the topics that are going to be raised and discussed because people feel free to express their knee jerk reactions. It makes the discussion richer in the end. It helps me get a sence of what other people are thinking and why they think that way. I don't want people to self sensor themselves, (thats what the mods are for (no, seriously.. stop laughing, the mod system works... usually).
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I really don't understand this reasoning. How does bluring out sensitive sites help? If I have a hunch that a certain site might be top secreat all I need to do is look at google now and see if its blurred out. If I'm actually going to attack it, I'll just bomb the heck out of it. doesn't really amtter that much If I knew what it looked like before the mission. I think this would only help prevent smal scale attacks by terrorists, but if you were going to go small scale, you might just be better off casing the joint in person, or flying over with a airplane, or spy camera attached to model helicopter. Or something. I wonder how much of this is just security theater rather than actual security.
They and any product they make. Sory vaio owners, no internet for you! Can we ban anyone still using aol as well. I'm sure aol's guilty of many crimes against the internet. I'd ban microsoft for the trifecta, but then they'd just build their own iternet that was incompatable with the current one and call it Interweb #.net
I think I might have to ignore any novel & microsoft stories. There is just so much bullSh*t about it flying around. Novell is not about to start putting in microsoft patents into its software. THEY cans still be sued by MS. Their customers can not. THe main point of the agreement from Novells perspective is the cooperation. MS has agreed to make its products more interopreable with novells. The current state of novell means that they can gpl these new interconectiosn to the Miscorsoft world. This whole deal will go down as MS biggest mistake. The new XML office version is the first product of this. think of it, an open standard that works with OO.org? I imagine the next step could very well be exchange. Exchange interaction would allow a company to slowly replace its Windows clients with linux. It would also make building a GPL exchange knockoff a lot easier. Too many people are hooked into this emotional pull of a potential MS lawsuit to see the real ramifications of this deal. MS cannot and will not sue anyone over linux. the EU still has them over a barrell and dems are comming back into power in the US. I'm sure the world governments would bring out the butcher knife if they attempted such a stunt. They have to play it safe. This is about the closest it can come to actually doing it.
I guess, but I really wanted an example of a BeOs user.
WOW. I can't believe you post was modded as high as it was. Remind me not to ask you any questions that I don't already know the answer to. A marketing exec couldn't have done a better job lying about a competitor's prodcuts. Are you sure you weren't responsible for the regan administrations re labeling of ketchup as a "vegitable".
You can make a good application on windows, mac, linux easily now, with minimal problems with instalation or dependancies, but it wasn't alwasy that way. We've all seen terrable desktop apps ( Real player? What a joke) that crash, don't install correctly, have conflicting dependancies with other apps, ect. Going to the web removes all of that. ALl you need is IE 6 or firefox. Thats it. No instalation, no upgrading, instant functionality. Ajax and other javascript can make the app handle more like a simple desktop app.
Then there are applications that CAN NOT exist on the desktop. Do you really want to install amazon to buy books? What if you find a better deal at barnesandnoble? you have to somehow find the app and install it. Comaprison shopping takes a nose dive. Furthermore, the app has to communicate with a remote server some how inorder to get new products and place orders. WOuldn't it be nice if there was a standard way to create interfaces to interact with these remote services? Well, now your just recreating HTML/ Javascript.
I don't know who you are or what you do. You really remind me of someone I used to work with. We had this same argument. Not about ajax, but web vs Desktop. Are web apps perfect? of course not. Are they always better than a desktop equivalent? No, but they can be. Don't avoid something just because its popular, or it has "hype". You have to apporach any new technology with an open mind and objectively evaluate the facts. Unfortuantly, it doesn't stop there. The moral of this article is that the "facts" change over time. What was once a useless technology now has a use. Keep evaluating technologies in light of new developments.
Good luck with that stratagey. I agree in principal and admire your spirit, but I somehow feel as if the BSA and by extention Microsoft will be less than intimidated by your response. The BSA's power is firmly entrenched in court precident. THe lawsuit for "maclicious prosecution" would last all of 4 seconds.
Ah.. I don't know how to break this to you but I am a united states citizen writing this from Chicago. I don't know how old you are, but I remember a time before Bush. It didn't make any difference then either. The whole world doesn't hate the united states, any more that the united states hates them.
In any case, I was talking about how the rest of the world(including, but not limited to the United states) views the other countries in America. So, your response basically doesn't apply. Thanks for sharing.
As the last election showed, there isn't an overwhelming majority of "red Staters", so my comments are 0bviously point more towards the blue staters. If thats how you would prefer to define them. I think Democrats are just as likely to be internationally ignorant as Republicans. Its like there are two kettles arguing over their blackness.
more, yes, much more, perhaps, so much more.. not really. As I write this from my macbook, I obviously appreciate the aquaness of the system, but I wouldn't have made the switch with out bsd and all of the accompaning tools availible. I wouldn't have bought it if it was just a rehash of classic mac os. Yeah, its great and much better than BSD for desktop, but only because they stood on the shoulders of giants.
That may be so, but it encourages this idea that the USA is the only important American contry. They don't consider any other country internationaly significant outside of world cup competitions. Usians ( people born in the USA) and other Americans need to start considering the possibilities that inter American cooperation could bring.
No, but you can run office 95 or 97! where is the OSS equivelent?
NO, I TRIED. I was there for two years. I tried and the best buinesses int he country. The textile factories, the PRestige brewery, Barbencourt, hardware distributers. Most wouldn't accept ANY DISTRO. TRUST ME.
NO! NO! NO! THe hardware support isn't there. THe machines won't accept anythign except win 9x. I tried all of the distos you inked to. THey didn't work!! win 98 will run on any old piece of hardware, because they were built to run it. Ignorance would be a factor but they are a good 7-15 years behind hardware wise. It has nothing to do with ignorance. I'm sorry but you post is absolute unmitigated bullshit! to run linux reliably on the desktop you NEED newer hardware. SUre linux would save them money IF they were buying NEW hardware. THey DONT have the money for NEW hardware so ITS A MOOT POINT.
America is the two continents. Not any one country. There aren't many people afraid of dying in terrorist attacks in Cuba. In light of this slander, I will now refer to Germany as "europe". Casue, lets face it they're the only ones who will matter in the 21st century.
Your comment is correct. I spent two years in Haiti, the poorest in the western hemisphere. Did anyone run Linux, no. They used old hardware everywhere. Old hardware that would not run linux. I tried replacing the pirated copies with linux and failed! Bandwith is very expensice there at least when compared to Income levels. So downloading linux "for free" is actually much more expesive than the 50 cent Devils own copy of windows. You'd have to find an older version of linux that would run on the hardware ( unlikly in most cases) and then compare it the the windows equivalent. I'm sorry I love linux, but redhat 5 doesn't compare to win 2k on the desktop for new users. No, DSL linux didn't work doesn't matter beacause the oss applications running on top neccisary for real work ( openoffice or abiword) perform terribly on older hardware.
Technology flows from the first world to the third. They will be the last to get linux on the desktop, not the first.
Oh, godaddy cares about the children?!?
Thats godaddy.com maker of the sexist demeaning superbowl commercals? Durring the most watched game, you put on a terrible commercial every year that sends a terrable message to children. I think CBS should reject all of your commercials and Icann reject your status! You don't give a rats ass about "the children". If I had any domains there, I would move them as well. But, it appears I was too smart to use you in the first place. have a good time burning in hell.
This is one of the comments that really needs a mod option I've wanted for a long time:
funny, because its true
or optionally
funny, but really sad
I don't "enjoy" anything. There are activities which give me a vaguely pleasant demeanor, but it could never be described in such an obsolete marketoid vernacular term as "enjoyment".
Microsoft is a leading DRM provider. Its one of their markets. They keep trying to improve their DRM so it appeals more to the consumer and more to the content provider. Its not a simple matter of "having to comply with *AA directives". They are enabling trying desperately to be the solution provider for them. Yet for all of their trouble, what does MS get? Crazy demands for further restriction ( see the article on restricted sharing on the zune) from the media companies. So their users get less freedoms, and less usability. Eventually, at some point, Consumers are going to stand up en mass for their rights. Problaley when one of these content protection schemes goes haywire due to a bug or bad design and prevents them from using leagally obtained media. It would be pretty funny if both Blue Ray and HD DVD fail.
Personally, I don't have anything against DRM, but I think this sort of thing should be handled on the player itself and *NOT* by the operating system. A player should *PLAY* media. If that media has special requirements for bitrate based upon connection, then it should hanlde that. At some level you have to have a basic level of trust between content providers and consumers.
damn right! I never have and never will "Enjoy" Coke, Diet Coke,or Sprite!
Which excel features are you refering to? Or are you just guessing? I've used both in professional engineering projects ( don't ask why the engineer wasn't using CAD?!?) The only problems I ran into were third party excel add ons that obviously didn't work with excel.
honestly, was that ever funny? Ever? IMHO, thats the lamest repeating joke here. I lose respect for people who make it. Come, on go back to yackoff
In soviet Russia, phone eye's you!
see its funnier becuase of the play on eye/I. Plus an I phone doesn't really I or eye you here, pointing out the absurdity of the moniker and the power of marketing to overwelm our normally functioning linguistic center. Do soemthing reallly cool give it a bad name, the cool thing doesn't become bad, but the bad name becomes cool over time with its assosiation with the cool thing.
See, chairs aren't very funny, unless you also use them as a bridge to something unexpected as well. Bobby knight throws chairs too. Reference that somehow.
Ballmer has chairs on backorder, must meet Bobby knight in cage match for next shippment.
see much better now. be creaive with your dead horsees, don't let them ride you.
Acting like you are smarter than people who are experts in their field makes one look like a complete moron - that's not starting a discussion, it's flamebait and ego-stroking.
but it did start a discussion. By that token everthing on the evening news is flamebait. The comment had attitude, but jeesh, do you really think he thought he was smarter than the person who wrote the article? Its subjective. You can't tell from a short comment like that what the author was thinking. I took it as a witty sacrastic comment begging for correction. Its also varies across cultural boundries as well.
I was merely pointing out that the knee-jerk slashdot "post early, post often" karma whoring competitions lead to a whole lot of dumbass assertions without any firm understanding of the actual facts of the discussion.
.. stop laughing, the mod system works ... usually).
But thats what slashdot is. Its a discussion forum. It wasn't a stupid question, as you can see it was asked in other places in this subject.Its about the exchange of ideas and is what makes slashdot a *good* place. Its like instant wikipedia that has people pooling their collective areas of expertise together. Just reading a summary, I can usually guess the topics that are going to be raised and discussed because people feel free to express their knee jerk reactions. It makes the discussion richer in the end. It helps me get a sence of what other people are thinking and why they think that way. I don't want people to self sensor themselves, (thats what the mods are for (no, seriously
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