is that it comes with financing that still needs to be payed...In fact, the trunk contains a briefcase that contains a list of AOL email addresses to help with the financing of the car...
While I agree on your education point, I don't believe that Linux on the desktop would be any harder to do than Windows on a desktop. Heck, most users don't ever install their own OS anyway. And my education was on a BBC Micro, no GUI in sight...
Windows XP, even the Home version (in fact probably moreso), is complicated for the beginner...Activation, yep sure...welcome to Windows XP, yep sure...do I want to sign up for a passport? erm, ok....not on the Internet yet, oh my...here is a list of ISPs in your Area:
MSN
Others
I'm sorry, unless you pick MSN you cannot do this online...oh, you will go MSN...ok...credit card please...here you go, here's your passport, your email account on hotmail (containing enough spam to get you started)...
No thanks!
Sorry, started ranting there...Back to topic: Your right in so much that children have to be taught at school, but if you were running a school what would you choose to teach? An upcoming OS or an established and used by 90%+ of the computer users (and dwindling)?
Sorry, I must have replied to the wrong post...the link I had was to the really horrible image of the guy bent (I can't even say it without wanting to throw up)...It wasn't meant to be a troll...I apologise...
I'm serious...the top post has that disgusting image with that guy bent over with arse..can't even remember the link that is so common on/. for that...This is just a warning...
This is not a troll...check out parent of post to find out if you don't mind being offended!
I bet you run a HI-FI store full of different HI-FI's and when someone comes in and asks for a machine that plays music you walk him over to the DC6600 model with THX surround sound, 7 speaker dooper wooper when all he wanted was a walkman... Yes sir, but you can't have the quality that you desire, nor have the different functionalites that this DC6600 offers (not mentioning that to understand it would require a degree in acoustic engineering and a firm grasp of Japanese for the manual)...:D
Linus on the Desktop...A problem? Really? It's not like we haven't used something worse for years...What about Windows 3.0 and 3.1 and 3.11 et al...My god, if people consider Linux not ready for a desktop then they should look back and see what they were using...then look at what they got now...then realise that the only real difference is what Linux has been doing all along...
I reserve the right to choose between a world of choice and a world of no choice. Hence the choosing is a choice in itself. Hence there is no such thing as no choice...
What nobody seems to think about is that M$ might have x billion dollars, but much of that is tied up assets such as copies of Windows. Half a billion dollars is not to be sniffed at, and while it is not what we as an Open Source group would have liked, it is the least of M$ problems with this ruling.
What could hurt it even more is the opening up of interoperability with other servers. This would, in a longer term, cause competition and then M$ will have to innovate to stay market leader rather than destroy competition. If they can't compete, then they will have to leave the market...
I am sure M$ will find another way to stay in its position, or use US government pressure on the EU to alleviate this ruling...I just hope the EU has the bottle at long last to tell the US to go take a long walk of a short pier...
What should Linux take as direction now? Concentrate on server technology that runs M$ Winblows Desktop nicely. Then, once M$ dominance is battered a little, create a Desktop version (2-3 yrs time) that runs nicely with the server...
One thing to note, though, is that Windows Desktop will always be closed source...What stops M$ creating a function that reduces connection speed by 50% when the server returns that it is not Windows2003?
Cause their filling up their coffers for the fight against IBM. If only one or two companies from 10 or so countries cough up this would give SCO a nice amount of $$$ to fight IBM who will trounce them anyway cause they'll just bleed SCO dry before they finish...ahhh, capitalism working for Linux...Makes a change...
When NASA sends up probes or people or whatever into space (such as mars), do they need to take into account the position and orbit of every satelite up there to make sure they don't inadvertently drive a rocket into one?
Micro$oft will be in court in a court near you. This time for bundling their free music download client...Micro$oft will be forced to provide the following versions of XP:
XP with media player and client
XP with client without mediaplayer
XP with mediaplayer without client
XP without mediaplayer or client...
MS Windows XP with WMP.....Euro 139.99
MS Windows XP without WMP..Euro 159.99
erm, Linux please...
Hey, just noticed something. For a site that likes to be open, why can I NOT use the Great British pound sign OR the EURO sign (both are in there now, but don't show on the comment), only the DOLLAR? Is this a consipiracy? Whether text, HTML or Extrans...What's wrong with that?
You can say Micro$oft but not Microoft or Microoft for examples...see, the pound AND Euro don't come out...?
I wreckon this is the landing pod of the robot and he either crossed the crater, turned round and took a holiday snap of his tent, or went around the crater and did the same...
Now what I want is a patch that makes other browsers able to read the thousands of websites created under IE that look like a heap of c**p on anything but IE.
Then again, what I would really like is M$ forced to use the standards, and any improvements to that have to go through the appropriate bodies for inclusion...In fact, i'd just like to see IE gone....and Windows...oh, and M$...
If Microsoft called BayStar to "suggest" that they invest in SCO, wouldn't that indicate that Micro$oft were aware of what SCO was ABOUT to do? I strongly belive, therefore, that Micro$oft and SCO were talking to each other prior to SCO's offensive on Linux. If this is the case, is this legal? Isn't this consipiracy or something?
Why would BayStar invest in a failing company like SCO unless they were aware of the fact that it would sharply increase in the future? If Micro$oft is behind this, and the SCO/IBM case is shown to be unsubstantiated, I hope that M$ will be torn apart by any justice system that can. This is not funny anymore. They have been accused of abusing their monopoly already (in California I think, or is it Florida???), and still it doesn't stop them. I truly think that a "fair" penalty would be to force the termination of all OEM contracts and ban them from OEM licensing for the next 10 years...What do you think?
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is that it comes with financing that still needs to be payed...In fact, the trunk contains a briefcase that contains a list of AOL email addresses to help with the financing of the car...
Windows XP, even the Home version (in fact probably moreso), is complicated for the beginner...Activation, yep sure...welcome to Windows XP, yep sure...do I want to sign up for a passport? erm, ok....not on the Internet yet, oh my...here is a list of ISPs in your Area:
MSN
Others
I'm sorry, unless you pick MSN you cannot do this online...oh, you will go MSN...ok...credit card please...here you go, here's your passport, your email account on hotmail (containing enough spam to get you started)...
No thanks!
Sorry, started ranting there...Back to topic: Your right in so much that children have to be taught at school, but if you were running a school what would you choose to teach? An upcoming OS or an established and used by 90%+ of the computer users (and dwindling)?
what do you mean "WILL"? He's been doing it for the whole of his last term...
Sorry, I must have replied to the wrong post...the link I had was to the really horrible image of the guy bent (I can't even say it without wanting to throw up)...It wasn't meant to be a troll...I apologise...
I'm serious...the top post has that disgusting image with that guy bent over with arse..can't even remember the link that is so common on /. for that...This is just a warning...
This is not a troll...check out parent of post to find out if you don't mind being offended!
Linus on the Desktop...A problem? Really? It's not like we haven't used something worse for years...What about Windows 3.0 and 3.1 and 3.11 et al...My god, if people consider Linux not ready for a desktop then they should look back and see what they were using...then look at what they got now...then realise that the only real difference is what Linux has been doing all along...
Don't click link...Its the arsehole again!
There not leaks as in bucket, but leaks in code...WE TOLD YOU TO PATCH, BUT WOULD YOU LISTEN?
What could hurt it even more is the opening up of interoperability with other servers. This would, in a longer term, cause competition and then M$ will have to innovate to stay market leader rather than destroy competition. If they can't compete, then they will have to leave the market...
I am sure M$ will find another way to stay in its position, or use US government pressure on the EU to alleviate this ruling...I just hope the EU has the bottle at long last to tell the US to go take a long walk of a short pier...
What should Linux take as direction now? Concentrate on server technology that runs M$ Winblows Desktop nicely. Then, once M$ dominance is battered a little, create a Desktop version (2-3 yrs time) that runs nicely with the server...
One thing to note, though, is that Windows Desktop will always be closed source...What stops M$ creating a function that reduces connection speed by 50% when the server returns that it is not Windows2003?
didn't red hat do this?
Cause their filling up their coffers for the fight against IBM. If only one or two companies from 10 or so countries cough up this would give SCO a nice amount of $$$ to fight IBM who will trounce them anyway cause they'll just bleed SCO dry before they finish...ahhh, capitalism working for Linux...Makes a change...
I was thinking about this, couldn't Lindows change its name to Lwindos or Lindos or even better WinLows or WinLin...
so is
scosuxs.com
scodie.com
diescodie.com
darl-mcbride.com
When NASA sends up probes or people or whatever into space (such as mars), do they need to take into account the position and orbit of every satelite up there to make sure they don't inadvertently drive a rocket into one?
XP with media player and client
XP with client without mediaplayer
XP with mediaplayer without client
XP without mediaplayer or client...
SCO is gonna jump on this one so fast...Trouble is, they don't know what they're talking about. Doesn't stop their FUD campaign though...
Knowing M$, they'll charge more for removing Media Player...It requires more work!
MS Windows XP without WMP..Euro 159.99
erm, Linux please...
Hey, just noticed something. For a site that likes to be open, why can I NOT use the Great British pound sign OR the EURO sign (both are in there now, but don't show on the comment), only the DOLLAR? Is this a consipiracy? Whether text, HTML or Extrans...What's wrong with that?
You can say Micro$oft but not Microoft or Microoft for examples...see, the pound AND Euro don't come out...?
I wreckon this is the landing pod of the robot and he either crossed the crater, turned round and took a holiday snap of his tent, or went around the crater and did the same...
Then again, what I would really like is M$ forced to use the standards, and any improvements to that have to go through the appropriate bodies for inclusion...In fact, i'd just like to see IE gone....and Windows...oh, and M$...
Why would BayStar invest in a failing company like SCO unless they were aware of the fact that it would sharply increase in the future? If Micro$oft is behind this, and the SCO/IBM case is shown to be unsubstantiated, I hope that M$ will be torn apart by any justice system that can. This is not funny anymore. They have been accused of abusing their monopoly already (in California I think, or is it Florida???), and still it doesn't stop them. I truly think that a "fair" penalty would be to force the termination of all OEM contracts and ban them from OEM licensing for the next 10 years...What do you think?