"Microsoft is working to replace all open-source code in SFU with commercially licensed alternatives. Last year it licensed Unix software from SCO."
If I remember correctly, Novell disputed SCO's right to sell Microsoft that license, especially since the Novell-SCO contract says Novell gets 95%, and Novell hasn't seen a penny of that particular sale.
I'm curious to see how this will all turn out. Microsoft might argue that they paid millions for a license so they should get a license and Novell should just beat it out of SCO. And I'd expect Novell to argue that they would never have been willing to grant such a broad license for as little as Microsoft was charged. Maybe Novell will get a medium sized payoff to settle things like Sun did.
The limit of my own experience with SFU has been downloading it and finding that it would refuse to install because I was using FAT32, and rather than repartition my disk or convert to NTFS and accept slower disk performance than if I started fresh, I decided to just accept that I wouldn't be trying it on my current Windows PC. Cygwin works good enough for all my GNU/Windows needs, and has much better Windows compatibility than SFU.
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Slashdotted. His monthly bandwidth limit has been exceeded probably because of your link.
Microsoft employs about 55000 employees, most of them NOT programmers, and the ones that are barely see a fraction of the money that's earned off of their products. Open source helps to replace the overpriced commodity software that's created by a fraction of a percent of the world's developers and pulls in a majority of the world's software spending.
Like something to do all your searching for you so that all you have to do is sit back and watch? (like type "show pages on C++" or "show videos of hardcore porn")
It's more of a distribution for people who only want to switch 99% to open source, and are willing to pay for the few things they need that are protected from being implemented in open source by patents or the DMCA.
No, like notify someone if a person who no longer has full control of his or her mental faculties is in real danger of being harmed
Or want their freedom back. Some old people really don't want to live any longer, and are sane enough to make that decision, whether the powers that be agree with them or not. My grandmother made dozens of suicide attempts while at her nursing home. She was mostly paralyzed, mute, and in constant agony for about 7 years. They gradually took steps to prevent future suicide attempts. It's hard to pull your feeding tube out when your arms are strapped to your sides, and your tube is reinforced in place by stitches. It was a lung infection that finally did her in. The nursing staff was sad to see her depart, as social security paid the home over $5000 a month for her care.
"Key chain fobs for residents that will wirelessly unlock doors to the complex and link to their accounts for purchases in the gift shop and in-house bar."
At least a few of those old people are going to relate this to the beast, though it's difficult to liken a fob to a mark on the right hand or forehead.
I guess that explains the 20+ years of tiny keyboards and one button mice. I've never been a fan of Apple's designs. OSX is a brilliant piece of work, a very good operating system overall, but I still can't stand to use a Mac.
Some shareware download sites now bundle adware with their downloads without clearly notifying the user. One such site is screensaver.com. They're distributing screensavers that I wrote with about 4 pieces of the nastiest spyware/adware that I've seen, against my wishes. I've had to help many customers install adaware on their system to remove it all.
I've sent them emails demanding that they remove my software from their site, but so far they've completely ignored me, the author. I'm considering my options, but currently I'm a student with limited resources.
English has survived over a thousand years with hardly any sort of educational system to enforce its rules upon the masses.
Half of my time in the educational system has been spend learning English, and I sincerely doubt that it's made me a better man, but has instead distracted me from other important subjects. Many people leave school without having developed strong problem solving skills, or having learned much of the basic knowledge in math and science that has been all important to our development as a civilization.
English is just another language out of many, some of which we should have been taught as well but weren't so we could instead spend the time in boring, useless repetition.
Movie special effects are getting better every year, and we do most of our reading on the internet.
I hated reading books in school, but I didn't hate to read. I think they just ruined the experience for me, choosing books I had no interest in and attaching so much work to the task. In high school, the english requirements were like double the math requirements, despite that all the kids had no struggles with english, only the work, and desperately needed those math classes.
My main problem with sound in Linux is that the volume defaults to zero on most distributions, even during the sound test halfway during install. Many people jump to the extremely obvious but not always correct conclusion that it doesn't work with their sound card. I've gotten used to unmuting the volume after installing a new distribution as the first step when the sound doesn't work out of the box, and it's fixed it every time.
To print, I had to research cups a little bit. After days of "access denied" errors, it finally started printing. No idea why it worked this time and not before. Now if I could only disable bidirectional printing or get it to line up so it's not all jagged. Then of course some programs say "no printers installed", but they're the minority.
Now for my digital camera. I plugged it in, and it immediately recognized it and placed an icon on my desktop. I opened it up, and saw my images. The first one at least. All the rest just showed up as duplicates of the first. And I couldn't get the realtime video working.
To run my favorite games, I just download, type tar -xzf,./configure, make, make install, figure out what to do next, and I'm ready to go. For redhat packages it's simpler to download, type rpm -i, figure out what do do next, etc. A little more work is involved if I want something more optimized. For non-Linux games, well, I generally don't play those anymore. Running Windows games without Windows is a difficult task on any operating system.
I guess Linux is just something I want to learn. Most of the problems can be worked around but are very "educational". Windows is easy on one hand, but on the other, I'm restrained from doing anything not typical of a desktop user by high prices and license restrictions. To make the most of my system for one day of the year with Windows, I've gotta pay the same thousands of dollars as the guys who need the performance year round. And with OSX, I'm deterred by high prices and the one size fits all-ness. And I'm rarely excited by the hardware specs, though it's worked fine under such constraints the times I've used it. OSX is very well integrated and earns geek points for its liberal inclusion of open source software. Maybe I'll get a Mac and another Windows PC when I'm out of school, when money is no object.
My suggestion to Apple would be to make an extremely low end Mac, but with 1gb of ram, an 80gb hard disk, a 3-5 button scroll mouse, and a full sized PC-style keyboard. I couldn't care less if it's pretty or the windows are 3d and animated with shadows.
I say let the best strategy win. If you weren't meant to hide in a weapon-unreachable spot at the top of the tallest tower and shoot everyone with guided missiles, then they shouldn't have put those elements into the map.
I would have expected the cause to be Microsoft raising the prices of their products to poorer countries so that they cost the same to everyone. If the price has quadrupled, you can claim that the piracy losses quadrupled too, if you're the kind to misrepresent facts like the BSA by calculating losses as pirated copies multiplied by MSRP, rather than actual lost sales due to piracy, which is no doubt a teeny tiny fraction of their outrageous $29 billion claim.
Switching to FireFox probably won't earn the company a lot of money. We all love FireFox, but whenever a major update comes out, every couple months, you'll probably have to completely delete the old FireFox off each machine, install the new one, and set it all up again. And they'll probably never encounter a website that won't work in IE, but they will see sites that will only work in IE. Every security decision comes with a price, and you have to justify every one of them financially.
As an open source advocate and an employee, it's important not to let your beliefs prevent you from giving advice that's in the best interests of the company. Your boss would probably appreciate a bigger range of recommendations, from adjusting IE's security options to autoupdate to of course installing a new browser and making it the default, or just doing nothing about the problem, in which case state the risks and give past examples of problems that have resulted in loss to the company. You'll probably want to mention Thunderbird for email, since it's also pretty secure, has built in spam blocking, and blocks external images (used to verify good addresses).
Where I work, a lot of us are using FireFox, but it's not a policy, people can still use IE, and the employers were already biased against MS to begin with.
It's mostly a listening quality vs master quality sort of thing. I can listen to 128kbit without noticing artifacts, but I like the flexibility I get from having a high bitrate copy.
If you need to go from a 128k AAC to a 128k MP3 for some weird reason, it will probably sound noticeably worse than if you started with a 192k AAC, even if you couldn't tell the difference between the original AAC's.
Windows 2000 to XP XP is a long used symbol for Christ, dating back to some of the earliest christian artwork, with the symbols pronounced Chi-Rho in Roman. We could say the year of XP is 1.
I sincerely agree. It's totally useless except that a lot of nasty spyware and viruses use the Windows locking behavior to make themselves difficult to remove. The last piece of adware I encountered on a school computer kept 3 copies of the same executable running at once. To delete one, you had to kill the process, but each one is constantly monitoring the other 2 to restart it if it's killed and replace the exe if it's deleted. Adaware had to reboot the system to delete them.
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"Microsoft is working to replace all open-source code in SFU with commercially licensed alternatives. Last year it licensed Unix software from SCO."
If I remember correctly, Novell disputed SCO's right to sell Microsoft that license, especially since the Novell-SCO contract says Novell gets 95%, and Novell hasn't seen a penny of that particular sale.
I'm curious to see how this will all turn out. Microsoft might argue that they paid millions for a license so they should get a license and Novell should just beat it out of SCO. And I'd expect Novell to argue that they would never have been willing to grant such a broad license for as little as Microsoft was charged. Maybe Novell will get a medium sized payoff to settle things like Sun did.
The limit of my own experience with SFU has been downloading it and finding that it would refuse to install because I was using FAT32, and rather than repartition my disk or convert to NTFS and accept slower disk performance than if I started fresh, I decided to just accept that I wouldn't be trying it on my current Windows PC. Cygwin works good enough for all my GNU/Windows needs, and has much better Windows compatibility than SFU.
Slashdotted. His monthly bandwidth limit has been exceeded probably because of your link.
Try Google's cache of it.
Microsoft employs about 55000 employees, most of them NOT programmers, and the ones that are barely see a fraction of the money that's earned off of their products. Open source helps to replace the overpriced commodity software that's created by a fraction of a percent of the world's developers and pulls in a majority of the world's software spending.
Like something to do all your searching for you so that all you have to do is sit back and watch? (like type "show pages on C++" or "show videos of hardcore porn")
I already posted some on this topic to the weblog, but:
Think of ideas involving page thumbnails.
On their ftp site, the non-commercial stuff at least.
It's more of a distribution for people who only want to switch 99% to open source, and are willing to pay for the few things they need that are protected from being implemented in open source by patents or the DMCA.
No, like notify someone if a person who no longer has full control of his or her mental faculties is in real danger of being harmed
Or want their freedom back. Some old people really don't want to live any longer, and are sane enough to make that decision, whether the powers that be agree with them or not. My grandmother made dozens of suicide attempts while at her nursing home. She was mostly paralyzed, mute, and in constant agony for about 7 years. They gradually took steps to prevent future suicide attempts. It's hard to pull your feeding tube out when your arms are strapped to your sides, and your tube is reinforced in place by stitches. It was a lung infection that finally did her in. The nursing staff was sad to see her depart, as social security paid the home over $5000 a month for her care.
And children write "thru", only to be told by teachers that they're wrong.
my Mac has a spectacular keyboard and a four-button programmable mouse.
See, the tiny keyboard and one button mouse wasn't good enough for you either.
"Key chain fobs for residents that will wirelessly unlock doors to the complex and link to their accounts for purchases in the gift shop and in-house bar."
At least a few of those old people are going to relate this to the beast, though it's difficult to liken a fob to a mark on the right hand or forehead.
And Apple has good design wired.
I guess that explains the 20+ years of tiny keyboards and one button mice. I've never been a fan of Apple's designs. OSX is a brilliant piece of work, a very good operating system overall, but I still can't stand to use a Mac.
Some shareware download sites now bundle adware with their downloads without clearly notifying the user. One such site is screensaver.com. They're distributing screensavers that I wrote with about 4 pieces of the nastiest spyware/adware that I've seen, against my wishes. I've had to help many customers install adaware on their system to remove it all.
I've sent them emails demanding that they remove my software from their site, but so far they've completely ignored me, the author. I'm considering my options, but currently I'm a student with limited resources.
English has survived over a thousand years with hardly any sort of educational system to enforce its rules upon the masses.
Half of my time in the educational system has been spend learning English, and I sincerely doubt that it's made me a better man, but has instead distracted me from other important subjects. Many people leave school without having developed strong problem solving skills, or having learned much of the basic knowledge in math and science that has been all important to our development as a civilization.
English is just another language out of many, some of which we should have been taught as well but weren't so we could instead spend the time in boring, useless repetition.
Movie special effects are getting better every year, and we do most of our reading on the internet.
I hated reading books in school, but I didn't hate to read. I think they just ruined the experience for me, choosing books I had no interest in and attaching so much work to the task. In high school, the english requirements were like double the math requirements, despite that all the kids had no struggles with english, only the work, and desperately needed those math classes.
My main problem with sound in Linux is that the volume defaults to zero on most distributions, even during the sound test halfway during install. Many people jump to the extremely obvious but not always correct conclusion that it doesn't work with their sound card. I've gotten used to unmuting the volume after installing a new distribution as the first step when the sound doesn't work out of the box, and it's fixed it every time.
./configure, make, make install, figure out what to do next, and I'm ready to go. For redhat packages it's simpler to download, type rpm -i, figure out what do do next, etc. A little more work is involved if I want something more optimized. For non-Linux games, well, I generally don't play those anymore. Running Windows games without Windows is a difficult task on any operating system.
To print, I had to research cups a little bit. After days of "access denied" errors, it finally started printing. No idea why it worked this time and not before. Now if I could only disable bidirectional printing or get it to line up so it's not all jagged. Then of course some programs say "no printers installed", but they're the minority.
Now for my digital camera. I plugged it in, and it immediately recognized it and placed an icon on my desktop. I opened it up, and saw my images. The first one at least. All the rest just showed up as duplicates of the first. And I couldn't get the realtime video working.
To run my favorite games, I just download, type tar -xzf,
I guess Linux is just something I want to learn. Most of the problems can be worked around but are very "educational". Windows is easy on one hand, but on the other, I'm restrained from doing anything not typical of a desktop user by high prices and license restrictions. To make the most of my system for one day of the year with Windows, I've gotta pay the same thousands of dollars as the guys who need the performance year round. And with OSX, I'm deterred by high prices and the one size fits all-ness. And I'm rarely excited by the hardware specs, though it's worked fine under such constraints the times I've used it. OSX is very well integrated and earns geek points for its liberal inclusion of open source software. Maybe I'll get a Mac and another Windows PC when I'm out of school, when money is no object.
My suggestion to Apple would be to make an extremely low end Mac, but with 1gb of ram, an 80gb hard disk, a 3-5 button scroll mouse, and a full sized PC-style keyboard. I couldn't care less if it's pretty or the windows are 3d and animated with shadows.
I say let the best strategy win. If you weren't meant to hide in a weapon-unreachable spot at the top of the tallest tower and shoot everyone with guided missiles, then they shouldn't have put those elements into the map.
Or file a hoard of frivelous IP lawsuits.
I would have expected the cause to be Microsoft raising the prices of their products to poorer countries so that they cost the same to everyone. If the price has quadrupled, you can claim that the piracy losses quadrupled too, if you're the kind to misrepresent facts like the BSA by calculating losses as pirated copies multiplied by MSRP, rather than actual lost sales due to piracy, which is no doubt a teeny tiny fraction of their outrageous $29 billion claim.
Switching to FireFox probably won't earn the company a lot of money. We all love FireFox, but whenever a major update comes out, every couple months, you'll probably have to completely delete the old FireFox off each machine, install the new one, and set it all up again. And they'll probably never encounter a website that won't work in IE, but they will see sites that will only work in IE. Every security decision comes with a price, and you have to justify every one of them financially.
As an open source advocate and an employee, it's important not to let your beliefs prevent you from giving advice that's in the best interests of the company. Your boss would probably appreciate a bigger range of recommendations, from adjusting IE's security options to autoupdate to of course installing a new browser and making it the default, or just doing nothing about the problem, in which case state the risks and give past examples of problems that have resulted in loss to the company. You'll probably want to mention Thunderbird for email, since it's also pretty secure, has built in spam blocking, and blocks external images (used to verify good addresses).
Where I work, a lot of us are using FireFox, but it's not a policy, people can still use IE, and the employers were already biased against MS to begin with.
I doubt there would have been so many complaints if they bumped it up to 160. As it is, there's not even an option to pay the extra 10 cents.
It's mostly a listening quality vs master quality sort of thing. I can listen to 128kbit without noticing artifacts, but I like the flexibility I get from having a high bitrate copy.
If you need to go from a 128k AAC to a 128k MP3 for some weird reason, it will probably sound noticeably worse than if you started with a 192k AAC, even if you couldn't tell the difference between the original AAC's.
Yeah, she was head of the Microsoft Bob project. This is why we still have Clippy.
Windows 2000 to XP
XP is a long used symbol for Christ, dating back to some of the earliest christian artwork, with the symbols pronounced Chi-Rho in Roman. We could say the year of XP is 1.
So 1999 version numbers skipped backwards.
I've seen more than one from before 99, based on my limited understanding of the patent (haven't read it in full).
I sincerely agree. It's totally useless except that a lot of nasty spyware and viruses use the Windows locking behavior to make themselves difficult to remove. The last piece of adware I encountered on a school computer kept 3 copies of the same executable running at once. To delete one, you had to kill the process, but each one is constantly monitoring the other 2 to restart it if it's killed and replace the exe if it's deleted. Adaware had to reboot the system to delete them.