Recordable audio tapes included a subsidy to the RIAA, so did "music" cd-rs. I think that was mostly volentary. Of course there were a few standanole cd recorders that you put in amusic cd and then a music cdr and it would only accept the higher priced music cds, but for the most part everyone just bought the lower priced data cds as no computer or any program checked before burning music onto them. I haven't seen amusic cdr in along time now ( 3-4 years). Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong
As our forefathers correctly surmised, all societies are in the end judged based upon their treatment of the minorities, not the majority. So yeah maybe the majority is okay with the gov, but those that are in prison, being forced to work, and having their organs harvested because they stole a loaf of bread, they might not like it so much. Now the question, which you have proposed, is what can we as foriegners do to help the country? I don't know. Somtimes a wink and a nod are all thats needed ( see ukraine, belarus, ect), other times even millitary intervention just causes more problems ( see Iraq). Will destroying the Great Chinese firewall help or hurt? I think in the end it will help, as currently only those that really wnat the information and are highly technincal can get around it. They want information that the government doesn't want the mto see, and they are highly motivated to get it. Hopefully, they can put the banned information to the greatest possible use for the country, and they aren't just trying to look at illegal pron, or anything else of a lower social redeaming nature.
They can stucture the fines in a varaity of ways. They can ask for the maximum fines from a company, or they will accept a lower amount if you do what they want in a nice polite manner. They have gone as far as recomend that the head IT person be fired, in exchange for lowered fines.
Come on, thats ridiculous. I really wnt to knwo the answer to the at question. Sure I was a bit dramatic, but it was late and I couldn't think striaght. People say the most ridiculous things here,but whenever you check them on something especially if its an anti MS product you're responding to you get labled a troll. OSS is great and I use it on my personal computers, but I CANT use it on my companies because its so slow ( note my company is a nonforprofit operating in the third world, we can't afford new comptuers right now, donations are very difficult to take down)
Market forces are doing a far better job of constraining Microsoft. Perhaps if Microsoft's competitors hadn't relied on antitrust lawsuits to save them, they might have fought MS more aggressively and effectively in the past.
That *is* the rationale against governements breaking up monopolies and it *was* microsoft's argument in the US antitrust trial. In a sector that changes over so quickly as The IT industry, you are only as good as your last release. Hence, the rapid downfall of Netscape.
On a side note, and I say this as one who switched to SUSE 3 years ago, whats so bad about including a media player? Name a distribution or operating system ( intended for the desktop, no QNX or embeded distros) that doesn't include a media player of some sort. OR is the argument that as a monopoly they must behave differntly than if there were more competition? I buy the latter, not the former.
Ad's aren't about getting to a point. People don't understand points, look at ads today. While facts are difficult and confusing, emotions are universial and easy. EX: "I'd like to buy the world a coke", "I wish I was an Oscar myer wiener", "That's a spicy MeatBall", "Whasssup!", "Where do you want to go today", "Think Different", ect, ect. You might not like them, but everyone else does. At least thats what highly paid advertisers think, based upon past performance and ads targed at the general public. Even look at the old webshpere comercieals for IBM. What on earth astronaughts have with the application server, I don't know, but my mom liked them. She wanted to know if we needed to buy it for the home computer, and if it would allow us to see the spacemen on our computer. Yeah she's special, but she also has a Phd in English. She's not stupid, just easily manipulated. It worked for OS 2. Those wacky websurfing nuns led my dad to by OS 2. He didn't even know what a OS was.
I'm not being a troll, I just really want to know. Office XP works on Pentium 150 non MMX's with 32 mb ram and its very usable. What else can do that? Abi word (cant find a box that DSL works on haven't tried)? Please enlighten me,oh wise ones! Bring down fire from the gods, oh prometheius!, so that we might have light and see our path to their wisdom! No, seriously tell me.
Dude. Are you really telling us that ye old click o death zip dripes were *MORE* reliable than floppies?!?! I never resorted to throwing floppy disks or drives out the window, smashing them office space style or setting them on fire. They are the reason why I will never buy iomega products regardless of the price or who actually made the product.
I've tried using it as recovery disk. But usually it lacks a specific tool that I need, and then I discover the true meaning of its name as I yell " DAMN SMALL LINUX!".
ouch. Well, on the contrary it seems as though you are very good at putting together lists. Lists are important when instulting someone. It lets them know exactly in what order they are defiicient. Maybe you could flowchart your next response. Then we could see where how faulty my logic/ grammer worked. You enjoy you're tightly wound universe where things are right or wrong, funny or not, spelt or unsppelled, consistant or green. You also have a fondness for geusssing the sex of random strangers, and realise that most of our abilities are actually determined byt the size and existance of our eroginous zones. You sir, are a genious. On the behalf of Slashdot Inc, I salute you.
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Why is that a troll? Its a dis of t10+myear old hardware. Its really funny. Its like calling a Model T a POS. It doesn't even have any air bags! I think only an idiot would respond to that "troll" in a serious manner.
Its true statistics do not lie. However, I would like to present to the jury conclusive evidence that you gerrysteele are in fact a liar. If it would pleas the court, I would like to direct the juries attention to the pataloons of said defendant. Notice the thin, curling stream of particles suspended in a warm updraft of a gasseous matter. These barbon based particles are more commonly refered to as "smoke". Upon further inspection, you shall notice the increase temperature around the pantaloons indicating a not insignificant amount of energy release that is confirmed by the output of light. Indeed, as we can well determine, the defendant's pantaloons are mightely engaged in a combustive reaction. Ipso facto, habeus corpus, carpe diem, et ect we conclude that the aforementioned Mr. garrysteele can be refered to thusly and I quote from the cannonical archotypal juvinille schoolyard typology " Liar, Liar, Pants on fire".
4)Lower cost, but harder to find, talent exists mainly outside of the huge population cetners california, New York. I think moving out of the place of origin companies lose something. Take a look at gateway, they used to be unbelievable. I think their move out of south dakota was a large reason for their decline. I think its okay to stay in Silicon, like google,apple, whoever, but moving to a place like that just 'cause executives don't like it in the sticks is generally a bad idea. It reeks of vanity, and I think vain managers are the worst ones.
PS. No, that's not a valid complaint. If everyoen jsut stays where they are comfortable, what happens to diversity? you end up with towns, like mine, that one the whole reflect the national average of minority populations, but are self segregrated. It happens on a nationwide, and world wide basis as well. If you want the situation to change, you have to be willing to help it change.
Will this make my hair look strange? Will clouds of fog evelop me and will ambigously looking people be ridding hourses to new wave vibes? I'll have to admit, I'm a bit frightened by the whole concept. I think I saw a hichcock movie about this whole thing.
Java offers nothing useful or exciting compared to what's out there.
What else is *out there*? c,c++,C#, Visual Basic, Python? If your going to tell me its terrible, I certainly understand that point of view, please at least tell me what you cosider to be better and what applications you have in mind. Just telling me its bad and not good for much, doesn't help much.
Any suggustions to what is out ther that holds such great advantages to Java?
How long has it taken to make OSX? Scine Nextstep was founded in 1985. They've had quite a head start on everyone else. Linux isn't bad considering its at least six years behind in time.
Now, if we make a change to the accounting software to redirect a fraction of that penny left over from rounding operation to a different account we could bring down the evil of Netflicks! Who's with me?
Apparently, all of the major harware venders disagree with your definition of "entry level". I don't know who you are or what you do, but you might not want to program for embeded hardware. You're probely one of those jerks that writes a custom media player for a third party vendor (creative labs?) that requires 512 mb of memory to run. If so, I loathe you, sir.
I take, it that! You? are: unfamilar-with mygramm_er style" Pauses. come* where; they? be ^ no more ~ could I! restrict them^ than could # t-he sun+ refuse: to? shine
PS yes I am a native english speaker, sometimes ESL teacher ( pity my students, heaven knows I do). I have no excuse, but I'm working on devising one. I think I might have a grammer disability. Soem people are bad at math. Soem are bad at rocket science: I am bad at grammer. Nothing to do with age or sms, chat, im'ng, I'm over thirty.
It would be very fun to program in avalon, but utlimately the best applications are the ones with the simplest interfaces. Too many comapnies try to be innovative and cool with their UI design and its crap. Its all nonstandard and does not behave the way all of the other controls in windows do. MAYBE avalon will entice those compaines to write all their crap in avalon, which will bring standardisation and a higher level of stability to these programs, but nto for a good 2-3 years after vista. Probley just in time for the update. I can't wait that long, as a user or a developer. I'd just rather use things ina simple elegent way without animated 3-d buttons. I'm not going to buy another computer, for a nother year at least. Even if vista is out then, I might have to take a real look at getting an intel mac Mac.
Actually, you are correct on this one. Win 95 was cobbled together from parts of the Cairo project that either fell apart. You can see exactly what cairo was supposed to be here Ironically, enough the part that still hasn't been introduced is Winfs. Yes that's right winfs is over tweleve years late.
Microsoft WIndows 95! The Best Opperating system ever! It has *real* multitasking. It even has support for long filenames! Lets see Lin-Sux top that!
Note to the metamods and parent poster. This was a joke, perhaps carried too far. I can't contiune if the Original poster ws trolling my toll then well he wins that battle of wits. Its too painful to keep up the sharade. I just complemented win95 for heavens sake. I guess I couldn't bring myself to mention anything good about win me. The original post I reffered to said that the best way to learn about linux without incurring the wrath of linux snobs was to dis linux by stating that windows could do something that linux could not.
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Recordable audio tapes included a subsidy to the RIAA, so did "music" cd-rs. I think that was mostly volentary. Of course there were a few standanole cd recorders that you put in amusic cd and then a music cdr and it would only accept the higher priced music cds, but for the most part everyone just bought the lower priced data cds as no computer or any program checked before burning music onto them. I haven't seen amusic cdr in along time now ( 3-4 years). Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong
As our forefathers correctly surmised, all societies are in the end judged based upon their treatment of the minorities, not the majority. So yeah maybe the majority is okay with the gov, but those that are in prison, being forced to work, and having their organs harvested because they stole a loaf of bread, they might not like it so much. Now the question, which you have proposed, is what can we as foriegners do to help the country? I don't know. Somtimes a wink and a nod are all thats needed ( see ukraine, belarus, ect), other times even millitary intervention just causes more problems ( see Iraq). Will destroying the Great Chinese firewall help or hurt? I think in the end it will help, as currently only those that really wnat the information and are highly technincal can get around it. They want information that the government doesn't want the mto see, and they are highly motivated to get it. Hopefully, they can put the banned information to the greatest possible use for the country, and they aren't just trying to look at illegal pron, or anything else of a lower social redeaming nature.
They can stucture the fines in a varaity of ways. They can ask for the maximum fines from a company, or they will accept a lower amount if you do what they want in a nice polite manner. They have gone as far as recomend that the head IT person be fired, in exchange for lowered fines.
Come on, thats ridiculous. I really wnt to knwo the answer to the at question. Sure I was a bit dramatic, but it was late and I couldn't think striaght. People say the most ridiculous things here,but whenever you check them on something especially if its an anti MS product you're responding to you get labled a troll. OSS is great and I use it on my personal computers, but I CANT use it on my companies because its so slow ( note my company is a nonforprofit operating in the third world, we can't afford new comptuers right now, donations are very difficult to take down)
Market forces are doing a far better job of constraining Microsoft. Perhaps if Microsoft's competitors hadn't relied on antitrust lawsuits to save them, they might have fought MS more aggressively and effectively in the past.
That *is* the rationale against governements breaking up monopolies and it *was* microsoft's argument in the US antitrust trial. In a sector that changes over so quickly as The IT industry, you are only as good as your last release. Hence, the rapid downfall of Netscape.
On a side note, and I say this as one who switched to SUSE 3 years ago, whats so bad about including a media player? Name a distribution or operating system ( intended for the desktop, no QNX or embeded distros) that doesn't include a media player of some sort. OR is the argument that as a monopoly they must behave differntly than if there were more competition? I buy the latter, not the former.
Ad's aren't about getting to a point. People don't understand points, look at ads today. While facts are difficult and confusing, emotions are universial and easy. EX: "I'd like to buy the world a coke", "I wish I was an Oscar myer wiener", "That's a spicy MeatBall", "Whasssup!", "Where do you want to go today", "Think Different", ect, ect. You might not like them, but everyone else does. At least thats what highly paid advertisers think, based upon past performance and ads targed at the general public. Even look at the old webshpere comercieals for IBM. What on earth astronaughts have with the application server, I don't know, but my mom liked them. She wanted to know if we needed to buy it for the home computer, and if it would allow us to see the spacemen on our computer. Yeah she's special, but she also has a Phd in English. She's not stupid, just easily manipulated. It worked for OS 2. Those wacky websurfing nuns led my dad to by OS 2. He didn't even know what a OS was.
I'm not being a troll, I just really want to know. Office XP works on Pentium 150 non MMX's with 32 mb ram and its very usable. What else can do that? Abi word (cant find a box that DSL works on haven't tried)? Please enlighten me,oh wise ones! Bring down fire from the gods, oh prometheius!, so that we might have light and see our path to their wisdom! No, seriously tell me.
Dude. Are you really telling us that ye old click o death zip dripes were *MORE* reliable than floppies?!?! I never resorted to throwing floppy disks or drives out the window, smashing them office space style or setting them on fire. They are the reason why I will never buy iomega products regardless of the price or who actually made the product.
I've tried using it as recovery disk. But usually it lacks a specific tool that I need, and then I discover the true meaning of its name as I yell " DAMN SMALL LINUX!".
ouch. Well, on the contrary it seems as though you are very good at putting together lists. Lists are important when instulting someone. It lets them know exactly in what order they are defiicient. Maybe you could flowchart your next response. Then we could see where how faulty my logic/ grammer worked. You enjoy you're tightly wound universe where things are right or wrong, funny or not, spelt or unsppelled, consistant or green. You also have a fondness for geusssing the sex of random strangers, and realise that most of our abilities are actually determined byt the size and existance of our eroginous zones. You sir, are a genious. On the behalf of Slashdot Inc, I salute you.
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Why is that a troll? Its a dis of t10+myear old hardware. Its really funny. Its like calling a Model T a POS. It doesn't even have any air bags! I think only an idiot would respond to that "troll" in a serious manner.
Its true statistics do not lie. However, I would like to present to the jury conclusive evidence that you gerrysteele are in fact a liar. If it would pleas the court, I would like to direct the juries attention to the pataloons of said defendant. Notice the thin, curling stream of particles suspended in a warm updraft of a gasseous matter. These barbon based particles are more commonly refered to as "smoke". Upon further inspection, you shall notice the increase temperature around the pantaloons indicating a not insignificant amount of energy release that is confirmed by the output of light. Indeed, as we can well determine, the defendant's pantaloons are mightely engaged in a combustive reaction. Ipso facto, habeus corpus, carpe diem, et ect we conclude that the aforementioned Mr. garrysteele can be refered to thusly and I quote from the cannonical archotypal juvinille schoolyard typology " Liar, Liar, Pants on fire".
4)Lower cost, but harder to find, talent exists mainly outside of the huge population cetners california, New York. I think moving out of the place of origin companies lose something. Take a look at gateway, they used to be unbelievable. I think their move out of south dakota was a large reason for their decline. I think its okay to stay in Silicon, like google,apple, whoever, but moving to a place like that just 'cause executives don't like it in the sticks is generally a bad idea. It reeks of vanity, and I think vain managers are the worst ones.
PS. No, that's not a valid complaint. If everyoen jsut stays where they are comfortable, what happens to diversity? you end up with towns, like mine, that one the whole reflect the national average of minority populations, but are self segregrated. It happens on a nationwide, and world wide basis as well. If you want the situation to change, you have to be willing to help it change.
Will this make my hair look strange? Will clouds of fog evelop me and will ambigously looking people be ridding hourses to new wave vibes? I'll have to admit, I'm a bit frightened by the whole concept. I think I saw a hichcock movie about this whole thing.
Java offers nothing useful or exciting compared to what's out there.
What else is *out there*? c,c++,C#, Visual Basic, Python? If your going to tell me its terrible, I certainly understand that point of view, please at least tell me what you cosider to be better and what applications you have in mind. Just telling me its bad and not good for much, doesn't help much.
Any suggustions to what is out ther that holds such great advantages to Java?
Use a spoon. Not only does it prevent you from forking, but its really hard to fragment anything with it.
How long has it taken to make OSX? Scine Nextstep was founded in 1985. They've had quite a head start on everyone else. Linux isn't bad considering its at least six years behind in time.
Now, if we make a change to the accounting software to redirect a fraction of that penny left over from rounding operation to a different account we could bring down the evil of Netflicks! Who's with me?
Apparently, all of the major harware venders disagree with your definition of "entry level". I don't know who you are or what you do, but you might not want to program for embeded hardware. You're probely one of those jerks that writes a custom media player for a third party vendor (creative labs?) that requires 512 mb of memory to run. If so, I loathe you, sir.
I take, it that! You? are: unfamilar-with mygramm_er style" Pauses. come* where; they? be ^ no more ~ could I! restrict them^ than could # t-he sun+ refuse: to? shine
PS yes I am a native english speaker, sometimes ESL teacher ( pity my students, heaven knows I do). I have no excuse, but I'm working on devising one. I think I might have a grammer disability. Soem people are bad at math. Soem are bad at rocket science: I am bad at grammer. Nothing to do with age or sms, chat, im'ng, I'm over thirty.
It would be very fun to program in avalon, but utlimately the best applications are the ones with the simplest interfaces. Too many comapnies try to be innovative and cool with their UI design and its crap. Its all nonstandard and does not behave the way all of the other controls in windows do. MAYBE avalon will entice those compaines to write all their crap in avalon, which will bring standardisation and a higher level of stability to these programs, but nto for a good 2-3 years after vista. Probley just in time for the update. I can't wait that long, as a user or a developer. I'd just rather use things ina simple elegent way without animated 3-d buttons. I'm not going to buy another computer, for a nother year at least. Even if vista is out then, I might have to take a real look at getting an intel mac Mac.
Actually, you are correct on this one. Win 95 was cobbled together from parts of the Cairo project that either fell apart. You can see exactly what cairo was supposed to be here Ironically, enough the part that still hasn't been introduced is Winfs. Yes that's right winfs is over tweleve years late.
Thats good. -rf must stand for "really fast" I like that. Maybe, I should paint a racing stripe on the screen to make it go faster.
Hmm, I think you found a flaw in the strategy.
Microsoft WIndows 95! The Best Opperating system ever! It has *real* multitasking. It even has support for long filenames! Lets see Lin-Sux top that!
Note to the metamods and parent poster. This was a joke, perhaps carried too far. I can't contiune if the Original poster ws trolling my toll then well he wins that battle of wits. Its too painful to keep up the sharade. I just complemented win95 for heavens sake. I guess I couldn't bring myself to mention anything good about win me. The original post I reffered to said that the best way to learn about linux without incurring the wrath of linux snobs was to dis linux by stating that windows could do something that linux could not.