That's an interesting perspective, albeit an incorrect one. Microsoft recognized at an early stage that Linux would be a contender in the OS market and some praise should be given to their foresight. So many companies infact choose to simply not address the issue of this new platform that it would have become embarassing if a survey was conducted that showed this relatively unknown and obscure OS had eaten up 20% of the market. Microsoft pre-empted this attack early on by generating defensive evidence support Windows.
Wow, you must be taking lessons from Baghdad Bob...
Microsoft effectively made the biggest clanger well before when they sponsored that benchmark of NT4 server versus Linux... beforehand, there was only word of mouth for Linux, afterwards, Microsoft had raised Linux to be a real alternative to NT4 server (even though the benchmark was bad for Linux). it not only put Linux up there as a creditable alternative, it kickstarted development on the Linux kernel to fix the bottlenecks and beat NT4...
To a lesser extent, the JFTC objected to the Intel Inside co-marketing fund, which provides money to manufacturers bearing Intel's logo. One of the 'requests' from Intel was that AMD logos and machines were moved to pages buried deeper within their websites.
with Microsoft, you get the ridiculous situation of OEMs hiding their Linux offerings as well and also having "XXX recommend Microsoft XP Pro" messages on the same pages...
now we need to apply this reasoning to the case of Microsoft's unfair practices in regards to OEMS wanting to offer the choice of Linux or MS to the customer...
Mac hardware has always been legitimate in my eyes... except I've never really had the means to afford it... remember, for an ex-windows Linux user... (which, face it, the vast majority of us Linux users are) it means having to aquire entirely new hardware, whereas, it's far easier to wipe windows off your PC to install Linux... I take great pleasure in letting distros have the entire disk... secondhand windows boxes are far easier to obtain as Macs only get disposed of when they die
"We want to be a resource for politically left people and community-based organizations," said Jeff Reifman, a former Microsoft manager who works at Groundspring.org, a Web-tools builder for nonprofits. He helped put together CommonBits.
Any legal or fair-use content, including Seattle-based events and gatherings, is appropriate for CommonBits, Reifman says. But it needs to fit CommonBits' philosophy and will be screened to meet the service's goals.
so any legal material that doesn't fit their leftist worldview will be censored... how nice...
What I want to see is for this to have no biases except possibly to comply with hate crime legislation and to suitably screen access to some items for over 18s only. I want no political slanting of what gets in, I would far rather it be noted for the fairness of their coverage.
my daughter's school has two cellphone masts on the roof... the pub down the road has got a mini transmitter hidden in the sign... and the local church has got a transmitter array built into the spire
The nice thing about the standards is that there never is a shortage of them:-). GRAMPS is tested to support the following flavors of GEDCOM: GEDCOM5.5, Brother's Keeper, Family Origins, Familty Tree Maker, Ftree, GeneWeb, Legacy, Personal Ancestral File, Pro-Gen, Reunion, and Visual Genealogie.
People have lots and lots of data in formats that are only supported by proprietary Windows software. For example, my elderly neighbor has megabytes worth of genealogical material (digitized wills, etc.) on her Windows box in a format that she can only use with the proprietary genealogy software she bought.
well, now you know why we keep saying that proprietary formats are bad... and as for genealogical formats... GRAMPS handles gedcom format with no problems (as long as the program that created followed the standard correctly that is)... so you've lost that cop-out excuse.;)
who cares... any modern Linux distro has proper anti-aliased fonts set up correctly right out of the box... I had NO post install configuration to do whatsoever...
well if you're actually working on the train then you should be able to book those hours towards your working time... this then leads to the next step of getting them to recognise that you can work from home just as well...
Believe it or not, just like Apple, Microsoft also used to have an army of fanboys for whom MS could do no wrong. I remember the fevered launch of Windows 95, with them all lining up outside stores at midnight to be the first to own a copy - I don't think even the Apple fanboys have got this bad yet!
you do realise that 2.6 is a massive rewrite of 2.4. Whole subsystems are completely different along with wholly new APIs to talk to devices etc. Perhaps we should have gone to 3.0 instead of 2.6, then there would be less hassle by having dev work going on in 3.1, backporting interesting stuff when it's working properly to 3.0...
If you're stuck with XP and you simply MUST do something else while ripping a CD in the background, launch Taskmanager and show the running tasks, then select the one for the CD ripping program, right click on it and change it's priority to low... that way, the foreground program doesn't slow down while the ripping is going on and remains fully responsive to your keyboard and mouse inputs.
you do realise that if it CAN be proved that US corporations are behind this manipulation of the European democratic process then they are in breach of US law... also "threatening" to withdraw "investement" in a country if you don't get your way should also come under bribery as money is effectively involved... the Danes were most unimpressed and Microsoft had to hurridly kick up a misdirection statement...
Surely business interests can reclaim this "tax" or not pay it in the first place the same way they can reclaim VAT or avoid paying VAT??? ie, if you order this media using a corporate buying account then you shouldn't have it on your invoice.
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Wow, you must be taking lessons from Baghdad Bob...
what we're seeing with BSD is merely post-mortem nervous activity causing the corpse to twitch...
runs for cover...
Microsoft effectively made the biggest clanger well before when they sponsored that benchmark of NT4 server versus Linux... beforehand, there was only word of mouth for Linux, afterwards, Microsoft had raised Linux to be a real alternative to NT4 server (even though the benchmark was bad for Linux). it not only put Linux up there as a creditable alternative, it kickstarted development on the Linux kernel to fix the bottlenecks and beat NT4...
with Microsoft, you get the ridiculous situation of OEMs hiding their Linux offerings as well and also having "XXX recommend Microsoft XP Pro" messages on the same pages...
now we need to apply this reasoning to the case of Microsoft's unfair practices in regards to OEMS wanting to offer the choice of Linux or MS to the customer...
yeah... that was a rather sneaky upgrade on us... we got KDE3.4 as well at the same time... ;)
Mac hardware has always been legitimate in my eyes... except I've never really had the means to afford it... remember, for an ex-windows Linux user... (which, face it, the vast majority of us Linux users are) it means having to aquire entirely new hardware, whereas, it's far easier to wipe windows off your PC to install Linux... I take great pleasure in letting distros have the entire disk... secondhand windows boxes are far easier to obtain as Macs only get disposed of when they die
no-ones asked the obvious yet... Gnome or KDE...
runs for cover...
this email guy sure gets around... we've logged his Ip from all over the world... perhaps Santa should enlist him as a helper
so any legal material that doesn't fit their leftist worldview will be censored... how nice...
What I want to see is for this to have no biases except possibly to comply with hate crime legislation and to suitably screen access to some items for over 18s only. I want no political slanting of what gets in, I would far rather it be noted for the fairness of their coverage.
judging by recent events... you'll be wanting to get a head start into the patent suit free for all that's about to kick off...
my daughter's school has two cellphone masts on the roof... the pub down the road has got a mini transmitter hidden in the sign... and the local church has got a transmitter array built into the spire
anh... far worse than that... more like biting into a really juicy apple and finding half a maggot in it...
Sadly not... if it were Darwinism at work, then they'ed just disappear and never be heard from again... ;)
well, now you know why we keep saying that proprietary formats are bad... and as for genealogical formats... GRAMPS handles gedcom format with no problems (as long as the program that created followed the standard correctly that is)... so you've lost that cop-out excuse. ;)
nice... and supports Linux right out of the box... :)
I get really happy with soapy bits as well... fnar, fnar...
well if you're actually working on the train then you should be able to book those hours towards your working time... this then leads to the next step of getting them to recognise that you can work from home just as well...
oh how little you know... look at these sad muppets... ;)
you do realise that 2.6 is a massive rewrite of 2.4. Whole subsystems are completely different along with wholly new APIs to talk to devices etc. Perhaps we should have gone to 3.0 instead of 2.6, then there would be less hassle by having dev work going on in 3.1, backporting interesting stuff when it's working properly to 3.0...
If you're stuck with XP and you simply MUST do something else while ripping a CD in the background, launch Taskmanager and show the running tasks, then select the one for the CD ripping program, right click on it and change it's priority to low... that way, the foreground program doesn't slow down while the ripping is going on and remains fully responsive to your keyboard and mouse inputs.
you do realise that if it CAN be proved that US corporations are behind this manipulation of the European democratic process then they are in breach of US law... also "threatening" to withdraw "investement" in a country if you don't get your way should also come under bribery as money is effectively involved... the Danes were most unimpressed and Microsoft had to hurridly kick up a misdirection statement...
Surely business interests can reclaim this "tax" or not pay it in the first place the same way they can reclaim VAT or avoid paying VAT??? ie, if you order this media using a corporate buying account then you shouldn't have it on your invoice.