wow, just the thought that you'd dislike an operating system etcetera so much that you'd be willing to blow up a bunch of innocent people is pretty sick.
The millions of blogs out there didn't clog searches up nearly enough, now maybe we can fill google image search with the hundreds of thousands of pictures that will now go along with the description of "got up this morning, had breakfast, went out of the front door..."
Seriously, the 15 updates per day about what SCO is doing and what Darl had for breakfast is really enough already. All you're doing is making it look like they might have a valid case since you're so intent on discrediting them all the freaking time...just shut up and let them discredit themselves.
I think the BSD style license is more susceptible to this sort of thing. Ala MAC OSX. Plus MS will never validify linux/OSS by building something off it.
I don't see any reason why MS should have to bundle someone else's media player with their operating system. I wouldn't buy a Ford car expecting them to give me the option of installing a Chevy seat; nor, more appropriately, would I expect them to put a Toyota cd-player in it. A media player is not something that is even remotely difficult to download from somewhere else. Many of the sites use RealMedia or Quicktime only feeds, so you have to get an alternate player anyway. I know everyone likes to take shots at MS, but this is just stupid.
Diversity can help keep viruses and such from spreading, but it can also be a hindrance. If linux had some standardization where all of the distros all used the same directory structure, package management, etc, it would be a lot easier for companies to write software for it. Now the best they can do is write the software and hope someone else will port it over, or spend time porting it to.RPM,.DEB, etc etc. With windows you don't ever run across cascading dependency nightmares, and every software company knows how to write their software for it. Yes, you should be able to compile linux packages from source without any problems, but when you're talking about trying to get home users to accept linux more, making them compile packages from source definately isn't the way to do it.
Who decides this stuff anyway?
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WB Cancels Angel
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They take a decent show with a devoted following off the air and replace it with something to catch an audience that will last for maybe half-a-season; such as a reality show or another lame comedy
Its basically what Fox did with Futurama; even though it had high ratings and a good viewer following, they kept manipulating its timeslot and pre-empting it over and over. Then they finally cancelled it because its 7:00pm Sunday timeslot (that was pre-empted by baseball or football four out of five times) didn't garner enough ratings for it.
At least we can look forward to WB presenting us with "Showgirls: The Series" or "Lawn Care Crisis: The Reality Show"
The source code is free, but you'll notice that most distros now are charging people. Suse, Redhat, Lindows, and Xandros all have what amount to premium only distros and they aren't the cheapest things on the market. Linux may be free, but invariably there will always be costs involved. The interesting thing is that all of this software was written to be free, but all of these companies have no problem charging people for it. I guess the new business plan is convince everyone that open source is the way to go, get them to write your software for you, bundle it all up, give it away free for a few years, then switch over to charging people $80 for it. Note that I have nothing against linux at all, I just don't agree with what most of the major distros are doing these days.
It really doesn't matter if its open source or closed source. The weakest part of any system will always be the person attached to the keyboard.
Blaster was a big problem because no one can be bothered to download a patch.
The MS source code was leaked because no one could be bothered to download a patch.
How is this unlike the RIAA? They started off small, hitting users of the major US ISPs like Verizon, Comcast, etc. I don't know all of the Canadian ISPs, but those sound like all of the big ones to me.
Is probably make Microsoft be a bit more proactive about patching their systems. Don't forget that there are also alot of pro-Microsoft people out there who will go through this code and point out the flaws.
E-books are great and all, but they pretty much destroy the simplicity of a regular book. It doesn't matter if I'm laying in bed, walking around town, sitting in a car (not while driving like some idiots do), or waiting for a class to start, I can open up a book and never have to worry about battery charge. The boot up time on a regular paperback is lightning fast, too. Plus the most expensive accesory you need for it is maybe a $5 bookmark, or a bookbag if you want to get really fancy. There are some things that technology just can't replace.
You have no privacy anyway. Anytime you pay for something with a credit card, make a local phone call, a long distance phone call, buy a plane ticket, sign online, apply for a loan, pay a utility bill late, turn on your cell phone, rent a video, use your frequent shopper card, get a ticket, goto the doctor, get health insurance, or buy anything online you're just adding yourself to a big database somewhere.
Insightful? How bout Troll? Uninformed?
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King Rat
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Aside from this being an obvious troll, how's this idiot throwing comic books, graphic novels, and hentai all into the same category. In addition, how is hentai even something that would be dumbing down America since that's a Japanese thing.
Aside from that, just because something is presented in a form that you're not used to, doesn't make it any less worthwhile for people to read. Plus, since you don't know what a graphic novel is, you really have no business being on slashdot...next you'll be asking what SCO is.
Well, they're both operating systems that will usually sit side by side on a shelf. If I created a soda and called it Moca-Mola and had it next to Coca-Cola on the shelves, I would expect flocks of lawyers to come after me. And Lindows can't possibly claim they didn't name their product to rhyme with Windows accidentally.
Why would they want to report on a computer flaw that could affect millions when they could be filling us in on the latest happenings of the Jayson Blair, Kobe Bryant, Scott Peterson, and Martha Stuart trials; plus news on what Janet Jackson's nipple is up to today.
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yes, and you're still an idiot
For the only reasonably stated intelligent reply. Your argument is persuasive. :)
wow, just the thought that you'd dislike an operating system etcetera so much that you'd be willing to blow up a bunch of innocent people is pretty sick.
The millions of blogs out there didn't clog searches up nearly enough, now maybe we can fill google image search with the hundreds of thousands of pictures that will now go along with the description of "got up this morning, had breakfast, went out of the front door..."
Seriously, the 15 updates per day about what SCO is doing and what Darl had for breakfast is really enough already. All you're doing is making it look like they might have a valid case since you're so intent on discrediting them all the freaking time...just shut up and let them discredit themselves.
Link to a geocities site on /.
That should last about 2 mins before it goes over bandwidth allowances.
1) Thanks spell check
2) IBM is already working on Office for Linux, but the discussion was about MS building a version of Open Office, not porting Office to Linux.
I think the BSD style license is more susceptible to this sort of thing. Ala MAC OSX. Plus MS will never validify linux/OSS by building something off it.
I don't see any reason why MS should have to bundle someone else's media player with their operating system. I wouldn't buy a Ford car expecting them to give me the option of installing a Chevy seat; nor, more appropriately, would I expect them to put a Toyota cd-player in it. A media player is not something that is even remotely difficult to download from somewhere else. Many of the sites use RealMedia or Quicktime only feeds, so you have to get an alternate player anyway. I know everyone likes to take shots at MS, but this is just stupid.
Diversity can help keep viruses and such from spreading, but it can also be a hindrance. If linux had some standardization where all of the distros all used the same directory structure, package management, etc, it would be a lot easier for companies to write software for it. Now the best they can do is write the software and hope someone else will port it over, or spend time porting it to .RPM, .DEB, etc etc. With windows you don't ever run across cascading dependency nightmares, and every software company knows how to write their software for it. Yes, you should be able to compile linux packages from source without any problems, but when you're talking about trying to get home users to accept linux more, making them compile packages from source definately isn't the way to do it.
They take a decent show with a devoted following off the air and replace it with something to catch an audience that will last for maybe half-a-season; such as a reality show or another lame comedy
Its basically what Fox did with Futurama; even though it had high ratings and a good viewer following, they kept manipulating its timeslot and pre-empting it over and over. Then they finally cancelled it because its 7:00pm Sunday timeslot (that was pre-empted by baseball or football four out of five times) didn't garner enough ratings for it.
At least we can look forward to WB presenting us with "Showgirls: The Series" or "Lawn Care Crisis: The Reality Show"
$4,000 a karat sounds a bit higher than a natural diamond.
"Look...I got you this overpriced diamond...and its all nice and yellow"
The source code is free, but you'll notice that most distros now are charging people. Suse, Redhat, Lindows, and Xandros all have what amount to premium only distros and they aren't the cheapest things on the market. Linux may be free, but invariably there will always be costs involved. The interesting thing is that all of this software was written to be free, but all of these companies have no problem charging people for it. I guess the new business plan is convince everyone that open source is the way to go, get them to write your software for you, bundle it all up, give it away free for a few years, then switch over to charging people $80 for it. Note that I have nothing against linux at all, I just don't agree with what most of the major distros are doing these days.
It really doesn't matter if its open source or closed source. The weakest part of any system will always be the person attached to the keyboard.
Blaster was a big problem because no one can be bothered to download a patch.
The MS source code was leaked because no one could be bothered to download a patch.
something about fire, wire, and vagina all in the same sentence brings up terrible mental images.
How is this unlike the RIAA? They started off small, hitting users of the major US ISPs like Verizon, Comcast, etc. I don't know all of the Canadian ISPs, but those sound like all of the big ones to me.
Is probably make Microsoft be a bit more proactive about patching their systems. Don't forget that there are also alot of pro-Microsoft people out there who will go through this code and point out the flaws.
E-books are great and all, but they pretty much destroy the simplicity of a regular book. It doesn't matter if I'm laying in bed, walking around town, sitting in a car (not while driving like some idiots do), or waiting for a class to start, I can open up a book and never have to worry about battery charge. The boot up time on a regular paperback is lightning fast, too. Plus the most expensive accesory you need for it is maybe a $5 bookmark, or a bookbag if you want to get really fancy. There are some things that technology just can't replace.
You have no privacy anyway. Anytime you pay for something with a credit card, make a local phone call, a long distance phone call, buy a plane ticket, sign online, apply for a loan, pay a utility bill late, turn on your cell phone, rent a video, use your frequent shopper card, get a ticket, goto the doctor, get health insurance, or buy anything online you're just adding yourself to a big database somewhere.
Aside from this being an obvious troll, how's this idiot throwing comic books, graphic novels, and hentai all into the same category. In addition, how is hentai even something that would be dumbing down America since that's a Japanese thing.
Aside from that, just because something is presented in a form that you're not used to, doesn't make it any less worthwhile for people to read. Plus, since you don't know what a graphic novel is, you really have no business being on slashdot...next you'll be asking what SCO is.
Well, they're both operating systems that will usually sit side by side on a shelf. If I created a soda and called it Moca-Mola and had it next to Coca-Cola on the shelves, I would expect flocks of lawyers to come after me. And Lindows can't possibly claim they didn't name their product to rhyme with Windows accidentally.
Why would they want to report on a computer flaw that could affect millions when they could be filling us in on the latest happenings of the Jayson Blair, Kobe Bryant, Scott Peterson, and Martha Stuart trials; plus news on what Janet Jackson's nipple is up to today.
No guarantee anyone going up to fix Hubble will survive launch either.
I'm sure fixing the hubble would garner tons of votes.
sheesh
1. Making of the movie 2. Making of the special effects 3. Making of the money with footage of George Lucas hauling bags of cash to bank.