A monopoly? The only monopoly present is the cable monopoly that they have in some areas, but that is a government sponsored one. There are alternatives to TW magazines, books, television, and movies, although not many. It isn't that much better to have 3 or 4 monolithic companies bowing down to the lowest common denominator than 1, but they can't be called a monopoly.
I don't know if it's just that. I know how the Unix philosophy is a large number of small tools that form a coherent package, but what AOL has done is provide a single seemless package for going online. Everything is included in one program, and is so simple the most brain dead script kiddie could use it. AOL is the Model T of ISPs, cheap, easily accesible, and simple, if only in the interface and not in the internals.
But, just like Ford allowed every yahoo who had some spare change could get a car, and go hurtling down the road, oblivious to trees, people, and farm animals, AOL does the same thing to the Internet. One the Internet, knowledge is the common currency, and AOL lowers the entry fee by a large percentage.
This is a good step for Linux and gaming, but right now, it isn't the best. Linux gets games a good while after they are published for other platforms, with notable exceptions, and besides Quake 3, never gets them at the same time. Even Macs sometimes get this.
As an avid game player, I don't want to run a game months after it is out. I hope the best for Linux, it could and probably is our only hope for more competition in this world. It needs work, before it ever becomes an attractive market for game players.
Be a bit easy on them. They are overreacting in reguard to the petrified posters. After that story, a lot of people probably will try to moderate down anything that remotely looks asinine or inflammotory. That's no excuse, I know, but maybe they will calm down in a couple of days.
I'm running the beta right now. Seems a bit faster than 5, depending on the page you browse, stability is about the same, no crashes yet. Has a neat print preview feature, nothing to write home about though.
With the US government in a much greater position to leverage a settlement out of microsoft, what do you think will come of the settlement and/or ruling? If microsoft has some small bit of intelligence in the area of politics, though none has been seen yet, they will go for a settlement.
I doubt that the government will want and try to split up Microsoft, just because they are (sarcasm) a shining example of the US economy. I do see, however, the following:
1. Huge fine. It's something that microsoft has in bushels, so it wouldn't hurt them too much. Maybe something on the order of a half to a full billion.
2. Stop the OEM contracts. Either stop microsoft from using price leverage, or allow no difference in the price for selling copies with or without a certain product.
3. Stop putting IE with windows. This was the straw that broke the camels back. A link can be put up to download IE, but the web browser installed can be left to the manufacter.
As for the breaking up of microsoft, I can only see this happening if ms is stupid enough to appeal and go on to the court. This gives us a 60% chance of this happening, so it's possible.
In a way, it would be worse if microsoft was split up. The smaller companies would stand a better chance of survivng if any other part fell. If microsoft fell together, it might sell of its parts, giving them a greater chance of being bought by someone who might open source them, or at least release API's.
That's the point. Stallman denies that the creator of a piece of software has any intrinsic rights to determine the rules by which his or her software is distributed. Now, although I am not in favor of this idea, this is not the time or the place to debate the philospical ideals of Intellectual property, distrobution rights, etc., etc., because slashdot usually provides the same environment for debate as, say, the Jerry Springer show.
Now, back from the tangent. Stallman is an egalitarian IP man, everyone has the rights to code. No more, no less.
"All Corporations Merge into Omnicorp" I know this isn't a monopoly or any kind of real poly, but do we really need a company to hangle all our communications and cook our dinners also. I know this kinda sounds like the typical/. rant of "Trust no companies with over 1000 employees" but it just worries me.
This can either go two ways. One, they submit, and release the materials, or two, they resist, and we have a case to test the validity of the GPL. A court case would have some small chance of failure, but I think it would be worth to have a tested license that would deter others from breaking the license.
We need to show Corel that if they want to gain some of the benefits of being a Linux ditributor, they must follow the rules. If they don't they risk a public relations and a legal problem.
I have to say that I feel safer putting money into Andover than Redhat. Andover owns two parts of the glue that holds the Linux community together, and, barring any screwups, can forge into new paths using the money. They seem to have a good collective head on their shoulders, and I wait to see what will happen in the months ahead.
Why does it seem that every time an article about BSD or Linux or Microsoft or Be or anything shows up, the author takes up a militant stance against who ever he or she thinks is the the competition? It seems that most operating systems have good points to them, and although the need for propoganda is great for any operating system, open sourced or not, it becomes a slugfest, of us against them, and we must prevail.
If you like a system, fine, use it, and tell us all about what it can offer, but don't try to deride others in the process. In the end, it's all about choice and freedom, and that's what we all want, right?
This is why it will be fated to the same grave as the CDA. The Supreme Court seems to have a problem with bills that are vague in their intent. Or at least I hope.
There is. Go to the Display Properties, Screen Saver, Hit the settings button, check the go to blank box, and put 0 minutes in for time. It will show no pretty pictures, and give your speed a shot in the arm.
While the presence of this game is heartening to someone who is considering switching to Linux, there still is a ways to go. I mainly use my computer to surf the Internet or to play games, so all that remains in order to make Linux my main gaming platform is it's full emergence in the game market. In order for Linux to be a full player in the game market, steps must be taken to include many different types of games, not just ones that may have a mass appeal. The maturity of a system as a game platform can be determined by the type and amount of games that are available. A mature system will have genres that are not the most popular, ones out of the public fascination at the moment. While Linux has full coverage in terms of first person shouters, and now, real time strategy games, both of these games represent what most of the public is playing at the moment, games that have wide taste. RPG's, puzzle games, and adventures might not be your or my cup of tea, but their presence would mean that Linux was not a niche market, but could support a wide variety of gaming. What does this all mean? Advocate, Advocate, Advocate. Call up Interplay and ask that Baldur's Gate be ported. Write Lucasarts and try to convince them that they should port some of their adventures games. More importantly, try to convince developers to develop for both systems at the same time. As much as the arrival of Myth 2 brings joy to the Linux fans everywhere, most of the buzz has grown cold in the gaming industry. When more companies start announcing their games as "Coming in 99, for Linux & Win 95", it will be the start of Linux as a true gamer's platform.
There is a Anti Censorship proxy in development at https://lesser-magoo.lcs.mit.edu/s/. Don't know how well it works, I'm not censored, but might be something to check out.
The best way to put this is that Microsoft products take the ability to crash out of the user's hands and put it into the programs, which crash anyway.
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Supposeably that's in 5, which will be coming out before the month's end.
A monopoly? The only monopoly present is the cable monopoly that they have in some areas, but that is a government sponsored one. There are alternatives to TW magazines, books, television, and movies, although not many. It isn't that much better to have 3 or 4 monolithic companies bowing down to the lowest common denominator than 1, but they can't be called a monopoly.
I don't know if it's just that. I know how the Unix philosophy is a large number of small tools that form a coherent package, but what AOL has done is provide a single seemless package for going online. Everything is included in one program, and is so simple the most brain dead script kiddie could use it. AOL is the Model T of ISPs, cheap, easily accesible, and simple, if only in the interface and not in the internals.
But, just like Ford allowed every yahoo who had some spare change could get a car, and go hurtling down the road, oblivious to trees, people, and farm animals, AOL does the same thing to the Internet. One the Internet, knowledge is the common currency, and AOL lowers the entry fee by a large percentage.
This is a good step for Linux and gaming, but right now, it isn't the best. Linux gets games a good while after they are published for other platforms, with notable exceptions, and besides Quake 3, never gets them at the same time. Even Macs sometimes get this.
As an avid game player, I don't want to run a game months after it is out. I hope the best for Linux, it could and probably is our only hope for more competition in this world. It needs work, before it ever becomes an attractive market for game players.
Be a bit easy on them. They are overreacting in reguard to the petrified posters. After that story, a lot of people probably will try to moderate down anything that remotely looks asinine or inflammotory. That's no excuse, I know, but maybe they will calm down in a couple of days.
I'm running the beta right now. Seems a bit faster than 5, depending on the page you browse, stability is about the same, no crashes yet. Has a neat print preview feature, nothing to write home about though.
With the US government in a much greater position to leverage a settlement out of microsoft, what do you think will come of the settlement and/or ruling? If microsoft has some small bit of intelligence in the area of politics, though none has been seen yet, they will go for a settlement.
I doubt that the government will want and try to split up Microsoft, just because they are (sarcasm) a shining example of the US economy. I do see, however, the following:
1. Huge fine. It's something that microsoft has in bushels, so it wouldn't hurt them too much. Maybe something on the order of a half to a full billion.
2. Stop the OEM contracts. Either stop microsoft from using price leverage, or allow no difference in the price for selling copies with or without a certain product.
3. Stop putting IE with windows. This was the straw that broke the camels back. A link can be put up to download IE, but the web browser installed can be left to the manufacter.
As for the breaking up of microsoft, I can only see this happening if ms is stupid enough to appeal and go on to the court. This gives us a 60% chance of this happening, so it's possible.
In a way, it would be worse if microsoft was split up. The smaller companies would stand a better chance of survivng if any other part fell. If microsoft fell together, it might sell of its parts, giving them a greater chance of being bought by someone who might open source them, or at least release API's.
That's the point. Stallman denies that the creator of a piece of software has any intrinsic rights to determine the rules by which his or her software is distributed. Now, although I am not in favor of this idea, this is not the time or the place to debate the philospical ideals of Intellectual property, distrobution rights, etc., etc., because slashdot usually provides the same environment for debate as, say, the Jerry Springer show.
Now, back from the tangent. Stallman is an egalitarian IP man, everyone has the rights to code. No more, no less.
"All Corporations Merge into Omnicorp" /. rant of "Trust no companies with over 1000 employees" but it just worries me.
I know this isn't a monopoly or any kind of real poly, but do we really need a company to hangle all our communications and cook our dinners also. I know this kinda sounds like the typical
This can either go two ways. One, they submit, and release the materials, or two, they resist, and we have a case to test the validity of the GPL. A court case would have some small chance of failure, but I think it would be worth to have a tested license that would deter others from breaking the license.
We need to show Corel that if they want to gain some of the benefits of being a Linux ditributor, they must follow the rules. If they don't they risk a public relations and a legal problem.
I have to say that I feel safer putting money into Andover than Redhat. Andover owns two parts of the glue that holds the Linux community together, and, barring any screwups, can forge into new paths using the money. They seem to have a good collective head on their shoulders, and I wait to see what will happen in the months ahead.
Why does it seem that every time an article about BSD or Linux or Microsoft or Be or anything shows up, the author takes up a militant stance against who ever he or she thinks is the the competition? It seems that most operating systems have good points to them, and although the need for propoganda is great for any operating system, open sourced or not, it becomes a slugfest, of us against them, and we must prevail.
If you like a system, fine, use it, and tell us all about what it can offer, but don't try to deride others in the process. In the end, it's all about choice and freedom, and that's what we all want, right?
This is why it will be fated to the same grave as the CDA. The Supreme Court seems to have a problem with bills that are vague in their intent. Or at least I hope.
Teachers first, then students. You want to put all those teachers through tech training?
VNC
Probably got some tips from his drummer, Jon Schwartz, who also runs his website.
There is.
Go to the Display Properties, Screen Saver, Hit the settings button, check the go to blank box, and put 0 minutes in for time. It will show no pretty pictures, and give your speed a shot in the arm.
While the presence of this game is heartening to someone who is considering switching to Linux, there still is a ways to go. I mainly use my computer to surf the Internet or to play games, so all that remains in order to make Linux my main gaming platform is it's full emergence in the game market.
In order for Linux to be a full player in the game market, steps must be taken to include many different types of games, not just ones that may have a mass appeal. The maturity of a system as a game platform can be determined by the type and amount of games that are available. A mature system will have genres that are not the most popular, ones out of the public fascination at the moment. While Linux has full coverage in terms of first person shouters, and now, real time strategy games, both of these games represent what most of the public is playing at the moment, games that have wide taste. RPG's, puzzle games, and adventures might not be your or my cup of tea, but their presence would mean that Linux was not a niche market, but could support a wide variety of gaming.
What does this all mean? Advocate, Advocate, Advocate. Call up Interplay and ask that Baldur's Gate be ported. Write Lucasarts and try to convince them that they should port some of their adventures games. More importantly, try to convince developers to develop for both systems at the same time. As much as the arrival of Myth 2 brings joy to the Linux fans everywhere, most of the buzz has grown cold in the gaming industry. When more companies start announcing their games as "Coming in 99, for Linux & Win 95", it will be the start of Linux as a true gamer's platform.
wintop. really nice low level process shower. Shame it was released only as a kernel toy, not a part of the operating system
There is a Anti Censorship proxy in development at https://lesser-magoo.lcs.mit.edu/s/. Don't know how well it works, I'm not censored, but might be something to check out.
The best way to put this is that Microsoft products take the ability to crash out of the user's hands and put it into the programs, which crash anyway.