In China rule by a fascist (i.e. capitalist/national socialist dictatorship) one-party clique, the use of encryption by "citizens" is strictly forbidden. Not necessary. As far as I know, companies are using VPN, and HTTPS is still the way to do online shopping in China.
Unless you have a different understanding of citizens, the term that you quoted.
Suppose a third-party entity, be it Sun or the open source community, decided to relase a Java VM for OS X, I believe Apple won't be banning it. The fact is, just like Microsoft, Apple does not maintain the Java compatibility anymore (or as it seems at this moment).
Please note that I am not speaking for Apple. I agree that their stand is arrogant (deleting Java-related complaints from their forums, no public words for the Java plan, bad Java support on Leopard, retracted Java1.6 beta from their website), and Steve Jobs promised to make OS X a nice Java development platform.
Seems like somebody forgot what he promised, or we just have a different definition for "nice" with those guys in Cupertino.
I remember back then when Steve Jobs promised OS X to be a nice Java development platform. It seems like somebody has forgotten his promise, and went his old way (just like his style back in the early days of Apple).
I had planned for buying a Macbook Pro to replace my laptop, but then I am thinking about getting a Thinkpad or Latitude instead. The feature I miss the most on Mac is the integration provided by iSync, everything else is replaceable.
Access is more than just the database. It is a compact tool with little bit of reporting and application development. As a matter of fact, you can have Access connecting to other database engines via ODBC (though the performance sucks in my experience).
In Linux, this "System Restore" feature is not as demanding as Windows. Basically, the configuration files are pretty obvious on Linux (mostly rested in/etc and your home directories), and the installed applications are pretty much modularized. People just have to backup the configuration file before they make the change.
On Windows, however, the idea of registry hives make it difficult to backtrack which file has been changed. The difference in philosophy behind may be the reason why you don't see the "System Restore" feature.
Surely, one would be able to roll his/her own with tar / cpio and crontab (regardless of the user-friendliness).
Right. Suppose I buy a hammer from Home Depot, and hit a nail purchased from Menards, I would expect the hammer to break because it's Home Depot's product (and it's their choice).
Given that the fluorescent light on the LCD is illuminating even on black background webpage, that doesn't suprise me.
Since the energy saving figure is based on CRT monitors (as the Wall Street Journal blog pointed out), the most significant improvements would be switching to LCD whenever you have to replace a wear-out CRT.
Perhaps others have already told you - the Telecoms don't have to sim-lock the phones they sell to earn the profit. Instead, the Telecoms just have to bind the customer with a contract.
In other words, the sim-lock defendings are nothing but BS from the Telecoms. They just don't want to admit that they are so greedy.
Right, sort of like the monkey boy, who gets hypered easily in public conferences and meetings. Oh, and let's not forget him vowed to kill one another, and threw a chair across the room.
Well, if Steve Ballmer's children and wife gone missing one day, I bet the public may not apply the same prejudice to his case.
> This explains perfectly why rich people overlook other rich people's crimes. Right, damn the California law enforcement for sending Paris Hilton to jail
You are now required to activate your copy of SlingPlayer.
I was at first impressed by Slingbox, right until I read this line. It is already too many software activation to deal with on the Windows platform, and I would avoid that like a plague on my Mac.
I am always under the impression that Microsoft will deny my windows activation request on an unused license (or reactivate my computer in case the Redmond's fragile software is broken / infected with virus) after they pulled the support for Windows XP (and the activation is also a reason why I would stick to OpenOffice.org only on Windows). Some people find it hard to believe for Microsoft to do that, but then I don't want to bet for the software companies' greediness with my money.
There is nothing wrong for the boycott. If you don't agree on LinuxTag (its theme / guest speaker) feel uncomfortable, you would definitely have the freedom not to go, and persuade your friends not to go as well.
It is just like going to an Open Source fair organized by Microsoft / SCO. It doesn't hurt the open source community, it just reflects the feeling and belief among the community. Don't forget that we are living in a free world.
What makes it worse is that they spent money and corporate resources to develop those technologies, and then having you to pay for those shits that are not benefital to you (by raising the price / sacrifice other features useful to the consumer).
By UnixWare, do you mean this product from our friend in Utah?
For some, UnixWare is considered the directly-inherited child of AT&T's Unix. However, it's a POS comparing to AIX and Linux
> I guess he's in the USA
Well, you don't have to guess. According to the first sentence of the OP:
"I work at a large hosting company in Texas" So far, the place "Texas" is commonly referring to a state in United States.
Most, if not all, current CD/DVD writers on the market supports CD-RW burning and reading. If the user frequently burn and dump CD-R, but then refused to use CD-RW instead, it is the user's own fault.
That is quite different than what Micro$oft has you to do.
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Why was it mod insightful? Was the modding itself a joke?
Unless you have a different understanding of citizens, the term that you quoted.
Suppose a third-party entity, be it Sun or the open source community, decided to relase a Java VM for OS X, I believe Apple won't be banning it. The fact is, just like Microsoft, Apple does not maintain the Java compatibility anymore (or as it seems at this moment).
Please note that I am not speaking for Apple. I agree that their stand is arrogant (deleting Java-related complaints from their forums, no public words for the Java plan, bad Java support on Leopard, retracted Java1.6 beta from their website), and Steve Jobs promised to make OS X a nice Java development platform.
Seems like somebody forgot what he promised, or we just have a different definition for "nice" with those guys in Cupertino.
I remember back then when Steve Jobs promised OS X to be a nice Java development platform. It seems like somebody has forgotten his promise, and went his old way (just like his style back in the early days of Apple).
I had planned for buying a Macbook Pro to replace my laptop, but then I am thinking about getting a Thinkpad or Latitude instead.
The feature I miss the most on Mac is the integration provided by iSync, everything else is replaceable.
Access is more than just the database. It is a compact tool with little bit of reporting and application development. As a matter of fact, you can have Access connecting to other database engines via ODBC (though the performance sucks in my experience).
In Linux, this "System Restore" feature is not as demanding as Windows. Basically, the configuration files are pretty obvious on Linux (mostly rested in /etc and your home directories), and the installed applications are pretty much modularized. People just have to backup the configuration file before they make the change.
On Windows, however, the idea of registry hives make it difficult to backtrack which file has been changed. The difference in philosophy behind may be the reason why you don't see the "System Restore" feature.
Surely, one would be able to roll his/her own with tar / cpio and crontab (regardless of the user-friendliness).
Right. Suppose I buy a hammer from Home Depot, and hit a nail purchased from Menards, I would expect the hammer to break because it's Home Depot's product (and it's their choice).
Microsoft do make / "co-make" Linux version of their software, if that helps promote their monopoly. Silverlight comes to my mind.
Given that the fluorescent light on the LCD is illuminating even on black background webpage, that doesn't suprise me.
Since the energy saving figure is based on CRT monitors (as the Wall Street Journal blog pointed out), the most significant improvements would be switching to LCD whenever you have to replace a wear-out CRT.
Perhaps others have already told you - the Telecoms don't have to sim-lock the phones they sell to earn the profit. Instead, the Telecoms just have to bind the customer with a contract.
In other words, the sim-lock defendings are nothing but BS from the Telecoms. They just don't want to admit that they are so greedy.
Right, sort of like the monkey boy, who gets hypered easily in public conferences and meetings. Oh, and let's not forget him vowed to kill one another, and threw a chair across the room.
Well, if Steve Ballmer's children and wife gone missing one day, I bet the public may not apply the same prejudice to his case.
My Knoqueror is 3.5.5 (release 45.4), and it passed all 578 tests as well.
> This explains perfectly why rich people overlook other rich people's crimes.
Right, damn the California law enforcement for sending Paris Hilton to jail
Oh, and let's not forget Martha Stewart
I was at first impressed by Slingbox, right until I read this line. It is already too many software activation to deal with on the Windows platform, and I would avoid that like a plague on my Mac.
I am always under the impression that Microsoft will deny my windows activation request on an unused license (or reactivate my computer in case the Redmond's fragile software is broken / infected with virus) after they pulled the support for Windows XP (and the activation is also a reason why I would stick to OpenOffice.org only on Windows). Some people find it hard to believe for Microsoft to do that, but then I don't want to bet for the software companies' greediness with my money.
There is nothing wrong for the boycott. If you don't agree on LinuxTag (its theme / guest speaker) feel uncomfortable, you would definitely have the freedom not to go, and persuade your friends not to go as well.
It is just like going to an Open Source fair organized by Microsoft / SCO. It doesn't hurt the open source community, it just reflects the feeling and belief among the community. Don't forget that we are living in a free world.
IIRC, JunOS is actually a Unix (FreeBSD variant).
Or maybe AVG Personal? (Actually, it is a violation of license if it is used in a profit / commerical sector)
I'm pretty sure they are referring to this rather than that
What makes it worse is that they spent money and corporate resources to develop those technologies, and then having you to pay for those shits that are not benefital to you (by raising the price / sacrifice other features useful to the consumer).
By UnixWare, do you mean this product from our friend in Utah? For some, UnixWare is considered the directly-inherited child of AT&T's Unix. However, it's a POS comparing to AIX and Linux
Verizon has the best customer service?! Give me a break
Most, if not all, current CD/DVD writers on the market supports CD-RW burning and reading. If the user frequently burn and dump CD-R, but then refused to use CD-RW instead, it is the user's own fault.
That is quite different than what Micro$oft has you to do.
Wait... you are giving ideas to Ralph Yarro and his army...
Nope, they were running NetBSD