This is an hoax according to the PDF document on their web site. This post seems to be the result of an attempt to sue people selling M.A.M.E machines with illegal ROMS. Since, it's impossible to know who is right or not...
I'm a "vimer" and was a "emacser".
I do respect "emacsers". It is a matter of "choice".
Do not put everybody in the same basket, please.
I perseive that those who hate each other are the most vociferous, but are far from being the majority. I think you were misled by those vociferous people, namely that in my opinion you are in the matrix and not me;). I perseive that most of vimer and emacser do not hate each other and respect each other a lot.
What we should care about, is Microsoft communication department. Anybody that has computer skills and knowledge knows that Microsoft is technically *out*... but not the average joe. So the only ways Microsoft has left in order to be not too much ridiculous, are dishonnest communication, demagogy and legal attacks.
Microsoft is improving because it's using/copying open source technologies.
For instance download the Microsoft Platform SDK of februrary 2003, and in the objbase.h header you will find some perl code!
This kind of declaration is an insult to intelligence.
The idea is to bring cross-platform portability through graphical toolkits(gtk and QT for instance, the latter does support a directfb backend too...) and the desktop libraries. The X11 backend will be still supported, don't worry!
http://www.directfb.org/ is a very good answer... Look at the gtk-directfb implementation.
The GNOME desktop could quickly drop the X11 dependency using a directfb backend gtk implementation.
Maybe all that is just a huge trick... strategy kind of thing. SCO sues as much as it can... and at the end they fail. Then nobody will be able to stand anymore against open source as a legal threat. As open source systems get more mature, it will be harder and harder for proprietary software to compete, even impossible economically speaking. So their only remaining option will be legal assault, since technically they could not match.
The current electric infrastructure is not efficient enough to power up zillions of cars. There is too much loss of energy because of the Joule effect. We would need a supra-conductor one. But we don't know if we will be able to discover it, and then industrially produce it. There is still hope, I guess. In the mean time, the best answer to car pollution is this one:
http://www.edmunds.com/news/innovations/articles/46906/article.html
We just need a few more nuclear plants, the will... and... ahem... face all the $$$ oil lobbies can use against any enterprise promoting hydrogen fuel............
Some companies started to offshore finance, accounting and... medical diagnosis. IT is only the first one, because it is the one needed to make possible offshore plenty of other domains.
M$ is at war with open source. Communication is a battle-ground, they have 50 billions US $ in cash, and slashdot is an open source communication focal point!
Rumors:full-time paid people to be M$ friendly all over the Net! They are among us... moderating our forums...
Yope, it is the way to go, full throttle! Jabber support should be done by our ISPs. And as a matter of fact, there are some functions that are more or less made for that: moving your jabber account from one server to another for instance.
We have to hurry now... I already started to tease my ISP on this matter... everybody should do the same. But the jabber guys should come up quickly with the final draft of the protocol with the same features than MSN. Server implementations and clients should follow very quickly. Then the MSN messenger will just be a bad souvenir.
Assuming that Jabber will be the standard, DOJ should force MSN to inter-opertate with it. Indeed anything that M$ ships with its OS must be checked. Their market share makes the competition unfair in any case.
I agree. One the main issues is that the Jabber protocol is not standardized yet. We need it fast with the same features than MSN. For instance it should be able to deal with video conferencing.
Internet Sevice Providers should provide their own jabber server member of the jabber network. Like DNS, email etc...
Changing of jabber server (I should say Jabber account) should be automated in the case you want to change of internet provider.
IMHO, it is the way to go.
I have been reading quite a lot slashdot in the past few months... don't forget M$ is at war with open source, and communication is a very important battle ground. They have 50 billion of $ in cash and slashdot is an open source communication focal point...
Has anybody heard of the people paid full-time to post messages in favor of M$ or drive topic the wrong way?! They can be part of the moderators! We need to come up with something to secure all that! Quickly!
This is strategy: M$ owns the vast majority of the home user market... So they created their own IM system, and distributed its client bundled with their OS: That means the vast majority of home users were drived to use MSN (like IE). Of course all clients were allowed to access their IM network. So they took also a signifiant share of the open source clients IM market, but everybody knows M$ is fighting open source as hard as it can. So, now they have a bootstraping share of the IM market, they deny access to the other clients, knowing that open source clients cannot follow. The vast majority of open source client users is screwed, because most of them have the vast majority of their online friends using MSN and those won't migrate to another IM system, because it is too much annoying (... and the MSN messenger "urge them" to subscribe as soon as they start windows, and this is done in only a matter of a few clicks).
Chess play: Good move from M$.
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This is an hoax according to the PDF document on their web site. This post seems to be the result of an attempt to sue people selling M.A.M.E machines with illegal ROMS. Since, it's impossible to know who is right or not...
I'm a "vimer" and was a "emacser". I do respect "emacsers". It is a matter of "choice". Do not put everybody in the same basket, please. I perseive that those who hate each other are the most vociferous, but are far from being the majority. I think you were misled by those vociferous people, namely that in my opinion you are in the matrix and not me ;). I perseive that most of vimer and emacser do not hate each other and respect each other a lot.
What we should care about, is Microsoft communication department. Anybody that has computer skills and knowledge knows that Microsoft is technically *out*... but not the average joe. So the only ways Microsoft has left in order to be not too much ridiculous, are dishonnest communication, demagogy and legal attacks. Microsoft is improving because it's using/copying open source technologies. For instance download the Microsoft Platform SDK of februrary 2003, and in the objbase.h header you will find some perl code! This kind of declaration is an insult to intelligence.
The idea is to bring cross-platform portability through graphical toolkits(gtk and QT for instance, the latter does support a directfb backend too...) and the desktop libraries. The X11 backend will be still supported, don't worry!
http://www.directfb.org/ is a very good answer... Look at the gtk-directfb implementation. The GNOME desktop could quickly drop the X11 dependency using a directfb backend gtk implementation.
Maybe all that is just a huge trick... strategy kind of thing. SCO sues as much as it can... and at the end they fail. Then nobody will be able to stand anymore against open source as a legal threat. As open source systems get more mature, it will be harder and harder for proprietary software to compete, even impossible economically speaking. So their only remaining option will be legal assault, since technically they could not match.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/03/16/hydro gen.cars/
http://www.edmunds.com/news/innovations/articles /46906/article.html
We just need a few more nuclear plants, the will... and... ahem... face all the $$$ oil lobbies can use against any enterprise promoting hydrogen fuel............
Another stealth M$ paid survey? It is called communication war...
Some companies started to offshore finance, accounting and... medical diagnosis. IT is only the first one, because it is the one needed to make possible offshore plenty of other domains.
Doh! Then I will have to play to DOOM III instead of HL2 on my linux box... waiting transgaming to support DX9.
mingw and cygwin dependencies could be statically linked into the mplayer exe and modules DLLs, wouldn't they?
M$ is at war with open source. Communication is a battle-ground, they have 50 billions US $ in cash, and slashdot is an open source communication focal point! Rumors:full-time paid people to be M$ friendly all over the Net! They are among us... moderating our forums...
Yope, it is the way to go, full throttle! Jabber support should be done by our ISPs. And as a matter of fact, there are some functions that are more or less made for that: moving your jabber account from one server to another for instance. We have to hurry now... I already started to tease my ISP on this matter... everybody should do the same. But the jabber guys should come up quickly with the final draft of the protocol with the same features than MSN. Server implementations and clients should follow very quickly. Then the MSN messenger will just be a bad souvenir. Assuming that Jabber will be the standard, DOJ should force MSN to inter-opertate with it. Indeed anything that M$ ships with its OS must be checked. Their market share makes the competition unfair in any case.
Duh... people on my side disable their auto update because they own a illegal copy of windows and they don't want to be busted.
I agree. One the main issues is that the Jabber protocol is not standardized yet. We need it fast with the same features than MSN. For instance it should be able to deal with video conferencing. Internet Sevice Providers should provide their own jabber server member of the jabber network. Like DNS, email etc... Changing of jabber server (I should say Jabber account) should be automated in the case you want to change of internet provider. IMHO, it is the way to go.
I have been reading quite a lot slashdot in the past few months... don't forget M$ is at war with open source, and communication is a very important battle ground. They have 50 billion of $ in cash and slashdot is an open source communication focal point... Has anybody heard of the people paid full-time to post messages in favor of M$ or drive topic the wrong way?! They can be part of the moderators! We need to come up with something to secure all that! Quickly!
This is strategy: M$ owns the vast majority of the home user market... So they created their own IM system, and distributed its client bundled with their OS: That means the vast majority of home users were drived to use MSN (like IE). Of course all clients were allowed to access their IM network. So they took also a signifiant share of the open source clients IM market, but everybody knows M$ is fighting open source as hard as it can. So, now they have a bootstraping share of the IM market, they deny access to the other clients, knowing that open source clients cannot follow. The vast majority of open source client users is screwed, because most of them have the vast majority of their online friends using MSN and those won't migrate to another IM system, because it is too much annoying (... and the MSN messenger "urge them" to subscribe as soon as they start windows, and this is done in only a matter of a few clicks). Chess play: Good move from M$.