I don't get your second bit. I use firefox and it is exactly how you say it is for Mozilla: edit->preferences and the managers under "Tools" (though it doesn't say "Manager").
The main difference here is that most people who visit Slashdot use Microsoft products, but then again, www.fuckmicrosoft.com probably had the same problem.
I liked it - it had a good clear interface and nice gameplay and a decent storyline with good cutscenes. However my favourite is the expansion pack for privateer. I can't remember that it was called, I only remember rc (I think that's its initials). Anyway for me it came with privateer. It was good.
The parent of my grandparent post used his full karma when posting his message. Since it had a score of 2, it was fully expanded and only polluted the board.
Service. You get relatively high speeds, a broad selection of songs, choise of format, choise of quality, general anonymity from the bad guys, and a nice thank you for using their service. Don't you think it's worth US$10 for that?
Besides, it hasn't been proven by Russian law to be illegal. All they are saying is that they think that it might be illegal, but they can't do anything about it anyway.
the problem is that the computer world is becoming Jennifer Government's world. No more laws to protect the common man, only coorperations to exploit him. Hopefully linux will gain in popularity enough so that companies cannot afford to fight it.
I hate to break it to you mate, but the guys with mod points won't go "oh that guy wants me to mod him up. Well okay, obviously he knows what he's talking about!"
Please, if you have mod points, use them. If you don't, either post on topic or shut up and stop polluting the board.
Though I understand and there's many examples of arrogant idiots in the open source community giving those answers, there are many more cases of the community actually recieving good input and acting on this. One of the main advantages of open source is that the users are in the same group as the developers, so if the idea is a good one it will be implemented.
Unfortunately commercial equivalents give no or an irrelevant response, and don't even bother to listen.
Firstly, in my rebuttal I'll immediately dismiss no. 1, since in my experience linux "just works" far more easily than Windows. You obviously either haven't used linux in a while or have used the wrong distro.
Secondly, obviously linux already has threatened Windows on the desktop otherwise Microsoft wouldn't be significantly lowering coorperate and government prices to counter linux's cost advantage.
But anyway, usually nos 2 and 3 is what people describe as "tipping point". It means that application developers will fully support the OS, and people will compare both operating systems like equals when choosing which to buy, thus the better one will win automatically. This can't be achieved before the "tipping point".
For games this is starting to happen. Linux now has several extremely big name engines that include support, including the Doom 3 and UT2004 engine, which will bring a multitude of games along for the ride, for example Americas Army. UE3 will support linux to an even greater degree, at at least a similar level to Windows. Worlds of Warcraft can be run on linux through Wine without problems, though I haven't personally run this.
Your no. 2 falls some due to the fact that at least 90% of home desktop users do not want specialist programs that aren't web, email and word processor. Many specialist windows programs run quite easily through wine, like Adobe Photoshop. Others have extremely good linux equivalents, if you look at the linux app stack it is extremely comprehensive.
I'm not sure how full my rebuttal was, but I definitely disagree with you. I think all it takes is time.
I think that Microsoft shouldn't be able to call it a robot if it's inanimate. But that aside, I don't think should even be considered as a full replacement for a parent, and may even be extremely bad for the wellbeing of a child.
Ross Schibler, CTO of InfiniBand vendor Topspin Communications, told internetnews.com. . . . "Now that the technology has matured to such a point that Linus has accepted it into the kernel, the way is paved for greater distribution of the code and accelerated deployment of the technology," Schibler said.
That makes for an interesting comment, previously people have been ignoring linux and gunning for windows.
when you get into customisations, I'll go for linux every time. That's because I'm a sucker for eye candy, and the kde-look and gnome-look websites feed it to me in droves.
This is sad, but true. If I am primary author, I do it in LaTeX & get it done in a tenth of the time. But people are locked into Word & Powerpoint and my life is occasionally made a little more painful because of that. OO.o and abiword go a long way, as does latex2rtf. Depending on how much content I am creating, it is often faster to use my preferred tools: LaTeX and vim.
I agree wholeheartedly (though I use KWrite, it's just my preference). We were forced to use latex for a softare engineering project and we were all complaining, but just ten or so minutes of testing and it's just . . . brilliant.
It gives as much flexability of word without the annoyances and bloat. Yes even OO.Org suffers from the annoyances and bloat.
However I can't use it most of the time as preference because of the bloody file format wars.
The Linux and Macintosh sytems were installed out of the box without any additional security patches. Windows SP 2 automatically downloads the latest security patches from the Microsoft website.
It seems all they were saying is if you don't patch your windows box promptly then you're stuffed, otherwise you're fine.
If Microsoft tried to do that then that would give Sony and Phillips an easy few billion dollar anti-trust suit. They aren't allowed to use Windows to muscle in on the video media market. That is just not allowed.
But probably you're still right, this is a tempest in a teacup. I'd be willing to bet that it'll just "go away".
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I don't get your second bit. I use firefox and it is exactly how you say it is for Mozilla: edit->preferences and the managers under "Tools" (though it doesn't say "Manager").
the under-chiwawa of the operating system industry.
lol, I wouldn't. You say that as if Linus doesn't still use linux.
Sheesh - I don't even know why that even got reported - Linus got a computer for free and he's actually using linux on it!
The main difference here is that most people who visit Slashdot use Microsoft products, but then again, www.fuckmicrosoft.com probably had the same problem.
That's like having an ISP say "go to our website for more info on this wonderful deal". Always made me giggle.
If you don't have bittorrent, how will you download it?
For example:
The enemies of linux? Linux zealots are the ones attacking Microsoft!
Bad one I know, but hey I just wanted to show a cool comic.
I liked it - it had a good clear interface and nice gameplay and a decent storyline with good cutscenes. However my favourite is the expansion pack for privateer. I can't remember that it was called, I only remember rc (I think that's its initials). Anyway for me it came with privateer. It was good.
The parent of my grandparent post used his full karma when posting his message. Since it had a score of 2, it was fully expanded and only polluted the board.
Service. You get relatively high speeds, a broad selection of songs, choise of format, choise of quality, general anonymity from the bad guys, and a nice thank you for using their service. Don't you think it's worth US$10 for that?
Besides, it hasn't been proven by Russian law to be illegal. All they are saying is that they think that it might be illegal, but they can't do anything about it anyway.
the problem is that the computer world is becoming Jennifer Government's world. No more laws to protect the common man, only coorperations to exploit him. Hopefully linux will gain in popularity enough so that companies cannot afford to fight it.
I wrote the grandparent post in the position as user #3349358BXC, not a coorperate customer.
and, at least, in Australia. Not really relevant, so no karma, but I just feel like pointing that out.
I hate to break it to you mate, but the guys with mod points won't go "oh that guy wants me to mod him up. Well okay, obviously he knows what he's talking about!"
Please, if you have mod points, use them. If you don't, either post on topic or shut up and stop polluting the board.
Though I understand and there's many examples of arrogant idiots in the open source community giving those answers, there are many more cases of the community actually recieving good input and acting on this. One of the main advantages of open source is that the users are in the same group as the developers, so if the idea is a good one it will be implemented.
Unfortunately commercial equivalents give no or an irrelevant response, and don't even bother to listen.
umm because it's a beta? If it were totally reliable then it would be 2.0, but they think that they could give it time to iron out bugs.
That's the development lifecycle, live with it.
you're probably right, however they have an astoundingly good record for having games work on Wine. Hey, I'm not complaining, better than nothing!
"never" is a very strong word.
Firstly, in my rebuttal I'll immediately dismiss no. 1, since in my experience linux "just works" far more easily than Windows. You obviously either haven't used linux in a while or have used the wrong distro.
Secondly, obviously linux already has threatened Windows on the desktop otherwise Microsoft wouldn't be significantly lowering coorperate and government prices to counter linux's cost advantage.
But anyway, usually nos 2 and 3 is what people describe as "tipping point". It means that application developers will fully support the OS, and people will compare both operating systems like equals when choosing which to buy, thus the better one will win automatically. This can't be achieved before the "tipping point".
For games this is starting to happen. Linux now has several extremely big name engines that include support, including the Doom 3 and UT2004 engine, which will bring a multitude of games along for the ride, for example Americas Army. UE3 will support linux to an even greater degree, at at least a similar level to Windows. Worlds of Warcraft can be run on linux through Wine without problems, though I haven't personally run this.
Your no. 2 falls some due to the fact that at least 90% of home desktop users do not want specialist programs that aren't web, email and word processor. Many specialist windows programs run quite easily through wine, like Adobe Photoshop. Others have extremely good linux equivalents, if you look at the linux app stack it is extremely comprehensive.
I'm not sure how full my rebuttal was, but I definitely disagree with you. I think all it takes is time.
"Why is a linux box so memory intensive?" apt-get install * That's my problem.
apparently Blizzard did this with Warcraft 3 and WoW. The only reason apparently they didn't do a native linux port is that it worked in Wine so well.
I can't verify that though, it may be just a rumour.
I think that Microsoft shouldn't be able to call it a robot if it's inanimate. But that aside, I don't think should even be considered as a full replacement for a parent, and may even be extremely bad for the wellbeing of a child.
Ross Schibler, CTO of InfiniBand vendor Topspin Communications, told internetnews.com. . . . "Now that the technology has matured to such a point that Linus has accepted it into the kernel, the way is paved for greater distribution of the code and accelerated deployment of the technology," Schibler said.
That makes for an interesting comment, previously people have been ignoring linux and gunning for windows.
when you get into customisations, I'll go for linux every time. That's because I'm a sucker for eye candy, and the kde-look and gnome-look websites feed it to me in droves.
This is sad, but true. If I am primary author, I do it in LaTeX & get it done in a tenth of the time. But people are locked into Word & Powerpoint and my life is occasionally made a little more painful because of that. OO.o and abiword go a long way, as does latex2rtf. Depending on how much content I am creating, it is often faster to use my preferred tools: LaTeX and vim.
I agree wholeheartedly (though I use KWrite, it's just my preference). We were forced to use latex for a softare engineering project and we were all complaining, but just ten or so minutes of testing and it's just . . . brilliant.
It gives as much flexability of word without the annoyances and bloat. Yes even OO.Org suffers from the annoyances and bloat.
However I can't use it most of the time as preference because of the bloody file format wars.
It seems all they were saying is if you don't patch your windows box promptly then you're stuffed, otherwise you're fine.
Windows XP SP1a: February 3, 2003
Windows XP SP2: Auto updated
Mac OSX Jaguar: July 17, 2002
Suse Professional 9.2: November 1, 2004 (Novell website didn't show release date)
Fedora Core 3: November 8, 2004
Red Hat 9: March 31, 2003
Microsoft have the second oldest operating system there, and the only one that got successfully attacked.
To answer the second part of your post, people just don't go running down the street yelling "I got pwned! I got pwned!"
Most people who get their computers taken over don't even know it.
If Microsoft tried to do that then that would give Sony and Phillips an easy few billion dollar anti-trust suit. They aren't allowed to use Windows to muscle in on the video media market. That is just not allowed.
But probably you're still right, this is a tempest in a teacup. I'd be willing to bet that it'll just "go away".