What price do you want to put on peoples bank accounts, credit cards, ss#, etc? One piece of malware and that initial savings turns into a vastly expensive liability. Phishing is bad enough. Windows helps fill in the gaps.
In some states you are required to declare out of state purchases (Internet purchases) in some form or another. A lot of people ignore it though or argue the interpretation. Wisconsin also requires out of state purchases to be declared on income taxes.
If Novell is looking to undo the situation they've found themselves in, they should have done it when the Protest the Microsoft-Novell Patent Agreement* petition came out. They had lots of time to rethink their decision. For all I know, Novell's intentions with the EFF may not be as noble as suggested.
Well, now that's certainly something to look forward to. You can pretty much bet you'll be harpooned by the huge cock of capitalism as soon as OPEC withdraws. Ethanol isn't going to save you money. It's going to make election candidates look like they give a shit. Plan on $3.50 for a gallon of Ethanol, if not more. The argument will be "Hey, you're money is going back into your own economy instead of Kuwait. Whatsamatter are you anti-american?" And then of course, you are labeled an enemy combatant and sent to gitmo.
Sounds like they're doing it right
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I've never liked Dell, but they seem to be doing it right.
* The default software from the Ubuntu media will be installed * hardware options thoroughly tested by the Linux team * restricted drivers where there is no equivalent open-source driver. * wiki page that gives technical details * recommend Linux users buy Dell printers that have PostScript engines in them. * We are evaluating options for providing (mp3/wma/etc codecs) this support in the future.
They're not rolling their own distro (hello Oracle), they're checking out the hardware focusing on GPL drivers wherever possible, documenting via wiki, recommending Postscript supported printers, and they aren't ruling out the *legal* mp3 support down the road. They seem to just be saying "We are trying to figure something out with this mp3 royalty mess". Not to mention, they *must* be pissing off Microsoft big-time. I bet Balmer has chairs tatooed with the Dell execs names on them, just waiting for the right time. That's not like Dell either, historically. They are usually just another little m$ bitch when Bill cracks the whip. Maybe this is a new era for Dell.
"So, in summary, Novell will be protected for the long haul, and Microsoft will be endangered for the long haul by GPL 3, and that's as it should be."
You can pan-fry Novell's ass too for all I care. They knew what they were getting into and went ahead with it anyway. Thing I don't get is how Microsoft's army of lawyers missed this.
Why not fuse RealID, RFID, Bluetooth and Wireless capability ont it? AT&T could then supply Cellular service for it. You could talk on the phone, while a cop is writing you a ticket remotely, while the RIAA is emailing you a subpoena for transferring mp3s to the car in front of you, all of it being recorded by Experian for data-mining purposes under the guise of the Patriot Act. It's perfect.
409 of 259,000 people is a pretty small percentage. How many of those clicks were just accidents where people only read the first sentance? How many were just mac people trying to make windows people look bad?
I work for a large organization where the lawyers are seasoned and don't run amok from simple allegations. We have a large installation of solaris and linux hardware with some Redhat clustering coming down the road for Oracle. The plans are not changing until/if/when the legal system determines the Microsoft allegations are founded and laws have been broken. Until then, Microsoft is, as usual, probably full of shit. As I suspect your post is.
> No, all software patents should be shot down.
> Patents should only be given to inventions which operate in the physical world
I agree, but it's too late to change the books now. There are a lot of US companies with zillions of dollars invested in their patent claims. Do you really expect the USPTO to say "Ok, we see now. All these software patents are mathematical algorithms and cannot be patented. Null and void everybody."? Besides, Microsoft has been buying them up like cheap hookers for the past couple years and they're not about to stop. It's likely their Next Big Thing.
my 2400 and 4800 baud modem didn't have em (internal) so when I got my 9600 hayes it was tits. Watching td and sd blink spastically was enough to convince me I'd never buy another internal modem. I welcome the plethora of LEDs on everything. The Blue ones get a little bright but a round piece of electrical tape with a small hole in it makes a nice mask.
Can you not read? "..on the boys, who did not hope to ignite his mà quinas,.." Anyone can tell the article is obviously dealing with igniting your ma's quinas. It's simple english
The Web in the air of Cardal Near 40 niños of the Italy school they received its computers of the hand of several authorities of the government. In one week the niños podrà n to accede to Internet from all the points of the city
In a brief speech during the act, Và single zquez refirià to "the importance" of the Ceibal project and asegurà that "cumplirà with the cronogram of arriving itself at 2009 to all the schools from paÃs". The agent chief executive prefirià to yield its time to one of the niños, that articulà words that moved to the presents.
To I finish of the act, Và zquez was consulted by the present journalists on if to raÃz of cuts in the RendiciÃn de Cuentas it were going to be all the money for the plan. Và zquez asegurà that was not going to lack the money. "the USS 15 anticipated million està n in the budget", asegurà the conductor of the Uruguayan government.
Under the glance of many parents, some from the windows or accommodated in algÃn rincÃn of the halls class, about 40 niños of 3 and 6 año received their computers X-O. DonaciÃn of Nicholas Negroponte is of 200 units. The rest of the students of that school of cardal recibirà its computers in these dÃas.
AlgarabÃa to have a PC in its hands, some for the first time, dejà won the boys, who did not hope to ignite his mà quinas, to introduce their personal data (the first time that ignite it is necessary to put the one name and to choose the colors of the screen) and to put themselves to experiment with the X-O. What mà s entusiasmà was to be able to remove photos and to film themselves with webcam that come including.
The niños by this week podrà n to sail in Internet from the Italy school, where instalà a servant to provide itself with conexiÃn in the classrooms, that in the prÃximos dÃas extenderà to the rest of the city so that the niños can be connected to the Web dese its homes. For mbrica it utilizarà tecnologÃa of conexiÃn inalà - it does not need cables that proveyà ANTEL with colaboraciÃn of UTE.
We all like global warming, The hotter sun is habit forming. Fossil fuels we need to burn, There is no worry or concern. Just get the publisher those slanted papers, To confuse the issues of oil capers.
Unless you want to run notepad.exe or calc.exe. Everytime I try to use it for something cool (games), it's just not quite there yet. I do not mean to detract from Wine's accomplishments - they've bee astounding and commendable. The devs have really crossed some great divides to get Wine where it is today. The task at hand, if the goal is to provide 100% redmond compatibility, is insurmountable IMO, but they will probably do it someday.
It wasn't until solaris 7 that the X11 header files were actually useable. Compiling anything 'non-sun' was, and still is, a pain in the ass. Especially Xlib. Especially if you don't want to buy Sun cc. Sun is doing too little, way to late, IMO. I've been replacing Sun workstations and servers with linux stuff left and right for the past couple years. Users enjoy the desktop facelift, and admins like the myriad of tools available for Linux (not to mention tcp-wrappers and netfilter). The budget likes the cheaper hardware. Yes, the PC hardware is crap compared to Sun's but transplanting hardware is a breeze with a lot of PCs on site. Let me say also that I don't agree with the svcs stuff in Solaris 10. The idea of not trying to mount NFS partitions if the nic isn't coming up is a great idea but the time it takes to master the complexity of svcs is not ample tradeoff to boot -s and editing vfstab.
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> So maybe it DOES cost less overall to install Windows.
Initially, perhaps. Overall, no. Reason: Security.
What price do you want to put on peoples bank accounts, credit cards, ss#, etc?
One piece of malware and that initial savings turns into a vastly expensive liability.
Phishing is bad enough. Windows helps fill in the gaps.
In some states you are required to declare out of state purchases (Internet purchases) in some form or another. A lot of people ignore it though or argue the interpretation. Wisconsin also requires out of state purchases to be declared on income taxes.
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http://www.revenue.wi.gov/faqs/ise/usetax.html
http://www.boe.ca.gov/pdf/pub79b.pdf
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-perfin18mar
If Novell is looking to undo the situation they've found themselves in, they should have done it when the Protest the Microsoft-Novell Patent Agreement* petition came out. They had lots of time to rethink their decision. For all I know, Novell's intentions with the EFF may not be as noble as suggested.
[*] - http://techp.org/p/1
I guess you got it.
> because it gets OPEC's huge cock out of my ass.
Well, now that's certainly something to look forward to. You can pretty much bet you'll be harpooned by the huge cock of capitalism as soon as OPEC withdraws. Ethanol isn't going to save you money. It's going to make election candidates look like they give a shit. Plan on $3.50 for a gallon of Ethanol, if not more. The argument will be "Hey, you're money is going back into your own economy instead of Kuwait. Whatsamatter are you anti-american?" And then of course, you are labeled an enemy combatant and sent to gitmo.
I've never liked Dell, but they seem to be doing it right.
* The default software from the Ubuntu media will be installed
* hardware options thoroughly tested by the Linux team
* restricted drivers where there is no equivalent open-source driver.
* wiki page that gives technical details
* recommend Linux users buy Dell printers that have PostScript engines in them.
* We are evaluating options for providing (mp3/wma/etc codecs) this support in the future.
They're not rolling their own distro (hello Oracle), they're checking out the hardware focusing on GPL drivers wherever possible, documenting via wiki, recommending Postscript supported printers, and they aren't ruling out the *legal* mp3 support down the road. They seem to just be saying "We are trying to figure something out with this mp3 royalty mess". Not to mention, they *must* be pissing off Microsoft big-time. I bet Balmer has chairs tatooed with the Dell execs names on them, just waiting for the right time. That's not like Dell either, historically. They are usually just another little m$ bitch when Bill cracks the whip. Maybe this is a new era for Dell.
This whole debacle really needs to live forever in the form of a Star Trek episode somehow.
"So, in summary, Novell will be protected for the long haul, and Microsoft will be endangered for the long haul by GPL 3, and that's as it should be."
You can pan-fry Novell's ass too for all I care. They knew what they were getting into and went ahead with it anyway. Thing I don't get is how Microsoft's army of lawyers missed this.
Why not fuse RealID, RFID, Bluetooth and Wireless capability ont it? AT&T could then supply Cellular service for it. You could talk on the phone, while a cop is writing you a ticket remotely, while the RIAA is emailing you a subpoena for transferring mp3s to the car in front of you, all of it being recorded by Experian for data-mining purposes under the guise of the Patriot Act. It's perfect.
seems to need work though. searching for boobies just returns a bunch of pics of seagulls.
409 of 259,000 people is a pretty small percentage. How many of those clicks were just accidents where people only read the first sentance? How many were just mac people trying to make windows people look bad?
fsck the fscking fsck?
I work for a large organization where the lawyers are seasoned and don't run amok from simple allegations. We have a large installation of solaris and linux hardware with some Redhat clustering coming down the road for Oracle. The plans are not changing until/if/when the legal system determines the Microsoft allegations are founded and laws have been broken. Until then, Microsoft is, as usual, probably full of shit. As I suspect your post is.
Can you imagine a Hybrid Harley? It would just sound like a golf cart taking off from the stoplight.
> No, all software patents should be shot down. > Patents should only be given to inventions which operate in the physical world I agree, but it's too late to change the books now. There are a lot of US companies with zillions of dollars invested in their patent claims. Do you really expect the USPTO to say "Ok, we see now. All these software patents are mathematical algorithms and cannot be patented. Null and void everybody."? Besides, Microsoft has been buying them up like cheap hookers for the past couple years and they're not about to stop. It's likely their Next Big Thing.
my 2400 and 4800 baud modem didn't have em (internal) so when I got my 9600 hayes it was tits. Watching td and sd blink spastically was enough to convince me I'd never buy another internal modem. I welcome the plethora of LEDs on everything. The Blue ones get a little bright but a round piece of electrical tape with a small hole in it makes a nice mask.
Ultimately, the words "criminals" and "taxpayers" are interchangeable here.
Hope you're all nice an cozy in your Redmond patent blanket. I'll be grinning when Microsoft pulls a Microsoft on you.
It was talking on a cell phone while passing in a no passing zone and careened in to the ditch and exploded.
Can you not read? "..on the boys, who did not hope to ignite his mà quinas,.."
Anyone can tell the article is obviously dealing with igniting your ma's quinas. It's simple english
The Web in the air of Cardal
Near 40 niños of the Italy school they received its computers of the hand of several authorities of the government. In one week the niños podrà n to accede to Internet from all the points of the city
In the middle of great expectation and much alegrÃa of the niños, president Tabaré Và zquez next to a great retinue of authorities left inaugurated the experience pilot of the Ceibal Plan in the Italy school n 24 of the city of Cardal (in Florida), the one that in the prÃximos dÃas quedarà connected to Internet by means of mbricas connections inalÃ, in order that the students can accede to the Web from their homes.
In a brief speech during the act, Và single zquez refirià to "the importance" of the Ceibal project and asegurà that "cumplirà with the cronogram of arriving itself at 2009 to all the schools from paÃs". The agent chief executive prefirià to yield its time to one of the niños, that articulà words that moved to the presents.
To I finish of the act, Và zquez was consulted by the present journalists on if to raÃz of cuts in the RendiciÃn de Cuentas it were going to be all the money for the plan. Và zquez asegurà that was not going to lack the money. "the USS 15 anticipated million està n in the budget", asegurà the conductor of the Uruguayan government.
Under the glance of many parents, some from the windows or accommodated in algÃn rincÃn of the halls class, about 40 niños of 3 and 6 año received their computers X-O. DonaciÃn of Nicholas Negroponte is of 200 units. The rest of the students of that school of cardal recibirà its computers in these dÃas.
AlgarabÃa to have a PC in its hands, some for the first time, dejà won the boys, who did not hope to ignite his mà quinas, to introduce their personal data (the first time that ignite it is necessary to put the one name and to choose the colors of the screen) and to put themselves to experiment with the X-O. What mà s entusiasmà was to be able to remove photos and to film themselves with webcam that come including.
The niños by this week podrà n to sail in Internet from the Italy school, where instalà a servant to provide itself with conexiÃn in the classrooms, that in the prÃximos dÃas extenderà to the rest of the city so that the niños can be connected to the Web dese its homes. For mbrica it utilizarà tecnologÃa of conexiÃn inalà - it does not need cables that proveyà ANTEL with colaboraciÃn of UTE.
One of that mà s divirtià giving the PC was the minister of EducaciÃn and Cultura, Jorge Brovetto. Ademà s of this jerarca, también was present the minister of Industry, Jorge Leprosy asà like the minister of GanaderÃa, José Mujica, next to their wife LucÃa Topolansky.
También participated in the act the director of EducaciÃn of the MEC, Luis Garibaldi, the president of the ANEP, Luis bal YarzÃ, the president of the LATU, Miguel Brezhner, the Intendant of Florida, Juan Giaccetto asà like industralists of INTEL and Microsoft, that lanzarà n its own pilot in the department of PaysandÃ.
ProducciÃn: Cecilia Pérez and Pablo Solari, envoys of the Observer to Cardal
(It observes)
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr
and repeat after me:
We all like global warming,
The hotter sun is habit forming.
Fossil fuels we need to burn,
There is no worry or concern.
Just get the publisher those slanted papers,
To confuse the issues of oil capers.
Unless you want to run notepad.exe or calc.exe. Everytime I try to use it for something cool (games), it's just not quite there yet. I do not mean to detract from Wine's accomplishments - they've bee astounding and commendable. The devs have really crossed some great divides to get Wine where it is today. The task at hand, if the goal is to provide 100% redmond compatibility, is insurmountable IMO, but they will probably do it someday.
It wasn't until solaris 7 that the X11 header files were actually useable. Compiling anything 'non-sun' was, and still is, a pain in the ass. Especially Xlib. Especially if you don't want to buy Sun cc. Sun is doing too little, way to late, IMO. I've been replacing Sun workstations and servers with linux stuff left and right for the past couple years. Users enjoy the desktop facelift, and admins like the myriad of tools available for Linux (not to mention tcp-wrappers and netfilter). The budget likes the cheaper hardware. Yes, the PC hardware is crap compared to Sun's but transplanting hardware is a breeze with a lot of PCs on site. Let me say also that I don't agree with the svcs stuff in Solaris 10. The idea of not trying to mount NFS partitions if the nic isn't coming up is a great idea but the time it takes to master the complexity of svcs is not ample tradeoff to boot -s and editing vfstab.