"Now that she's gorged herself on the spirit of thousands, no doubt she'll float down to another company via her golden parachute and repeat the process there."
Back when I used Windowmaker creating great looking themes was easy, finding a way to work with the desktop clutter wasn't. Is there a way to configure this thing so it doesn't chew up so much screen real estate with 64x64 box icons? (Enjoying pekwm for now.)
I'll wager he doesn't feel that way about standards outside of the industry such as food quality, rules of the road, medical practices, etc.. He probably wouldn't accept the 'oopsie defense' should he ever suffer harm "due to misunderstandings, an accident, oversight, or plain stupidity", "none were intentional or malicious."
"Now it is time for slashdotters to say that businesses should Install all their systems from scratch...."
Guess what. Large businesses do install their systems from scratch. It's called imagining. Did you really think they drop, for example, an HP system with all those additional HP OS 'enhancements' cold onto the network, or sit in front of each box in a 1000 computer shipment with install discs? All Buck demonstrated was that he didn't spend any time talking to IT departments, which is hardly 'trying' to do a fair analysis in my book. In fact his article was so slovenly I question if he's really a Linux devote at all.
Anyone know if that's what happened to the last "Ghost in the Shell" movie? I bought the CD after watching the download a few times. In an early scene, in which the detectives go to an 'autopsy' of a robot 'doll', the download represents the location as the manufacturering plant, the official movie release as a police coroner. The only thing the two subs have in common is moving cartoon lips.
The wishes of copyright holders - that all information transfer mechanisms used by all embed licensed DRM schemes to which they control the key in concert with hardware manufacturers - is, "quite bluntly, wrong." Society is a balance, the view your'e expousing is totalitarian.
You can't *legally* rely on Micrsoft doing so either. They have no legal obligations in the EULA and, in fact, do stop providing patches to end-of-life product like NT4, Win 9X, etc. It's how they force upgrades and new business from old customers. If I'm not mistaken it's still possible to get patches for the 2.0.x Linux kernel tree, so in this case long term support is arguably better than MS provides.
Don't kid yourself, they see through it. Choosing to neglect it though shifts accountability from the vendor to the person who made the decision on behalf of the company, with potential repercussions serious enough to stick to the Teflon suits favoured by most CTO's nowadays. This - partially, MS products have some real advantages in large systems - isn't just about picking the best technical solution, it's also about employees minimizing personal exposure for anything which could go wrong. No one ever got fired for buying Windows.
Profits = return - costs. What I've heard from people working for Microsoft is the company continues to reduce internal operating expenditures by trimming staff. It's 'invisible' because Microsoft employs a high proportion of semi-permanent contract personel. Staff aren't being layed off, contractor renewal options aren't being picked up, which is un-newsworthy. My understanding is being a Microsoft employee today is not what it was in the nineties.
More accurately it's not safe to assume any OS sales, MS included, from server sales. All Linux installs are effectively site licenses too. BTW, does the Windows EULA permit migrating server software to a new machine? I thought it was one machine per license, period.
I not saying any such thing. What I am saying is giving credit for an action so obviously tainted with self-interest is misplaced. Good effects are not synonymous with good acts. Even the Mafia gives to charity.
Navigate to Financial... Financial Statements. The Foundation made (repeat:made) two and a half billion dollars in 2003 alone. Look under projects and you'll see plenty of initaitives to get Microsoft product into libraries and schools. This doesn't begin to touch on the tax benefits, and its questionable the Foundation would exist without them. Much of what the Foundation does is in its own 'enlightened self-interest', not a bad thing in itself but please don't position it as a personal or selfless sacrifice on the part of the Gates. It simply isn't true.
They should because Firefox makes it obvious people can do better than Microsoft and Microsoft doesn't care about regular users. Firefox shows Micrsoft structures products to permit spyware at the expense of paying customers. In bold letters it writes 'Microsoft isn't the best, a notion often granted them due to their market dominance.
Of course it's ridiculous, as are most straw man arguments. The right to exchange information is a basic human right, what the media companies require to effectively preserve their 'product' attacks it directly. Don't kid yourself, the only way for them to 'protect product' in perpetuity is by way of a mechanism which clears all data transactions. That the current focus is on what's now termed P2P doesn't mean it won't shift to physical media, e-mail, etc. in the future. It's not what the founders of the western democracies intended and nothing I want to see. It benefits a tuniy minority at the expense of all. Find a new business model.
Hasn't your mom ever warned you about talking to people living on the streets, pretending to be graphic artists waiting for the next Star Wars? On the west coast they're everywhere.
Completely agree with you, though it looks like some work was done on it for 4.2.0. Most distros have rox-filer as an install option, a very nice alternative.
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Is Nortel hiring? =D
The Seasonic which made honourable mention is almost dead quiet. The entire inside is one large fan, the largest I've seen.
Back when I used Windowmaker creating great looking themes was easy, finding a way to work with the desktop clutter wasn't. Is there a way to configure this thing so it doesn't chew up so much screen real estate with 64x64 box icons? (Enjoying pekwm for now.)
Which, translated into humanspeak, means "use anything else and we'll lock you out."
I'll wager he doesn't feel that way about standards outside of the industry such as food quality, rules of the road, medical practices, etc.. He probably wouldn't accept the 'oopsie defense' should he ever suffer harm "due to misunderstandings, an accident, oversight, or plain stupidity", "none were intentional or malicious."
Guess what. Large businesses do install their systems from scratch. It's called imagining. Did you really think they drop, for example, an HP system with all those additional HP OS 'enhancements' cold onto the network, or sit in front of each box in a 1000 computer shipment with install discs? All Buck demonstrated was that he didn't spend any time talking to IT departments, which is hardly 'trying' to do a fair analysis in my book. In fact his article was so slovenly I question if he's really a Linux devote at all.
Anyone know if that's what happened to the last "Ghost in the Shell" movie? I bought the CD after watching the download a few times. In an early scene, in which the detectives go to an 'autopsy' of a robot 'doll', the download represents the location as the manufacturering plant, the official movie release as a police coroner. The only thing the two subs have in common is moving cartoon lips.
The wishes of copyright holders - that all information transfer mechanisms used by all embed licensed DRM schemes to which they control the key in concert with hardware manufacturers - is, "quite bluntly, wrong." Society is a balance, the view your'e expousing is totalitarian.
When the truth's out?
You can't *legally* rely on Micrsoft doing so either. They have no legal obligations in the EULA and, in fact, do stop providing patches to end-of-life product like NT4, Win 9X, etc. It's how they force upgrades and new business from old customers. If I'm not mistaken it's still possible to get patches for the 2.0.x Linux kernel tree, so in this case long term support is arguably better than MS provides.
Don't kid yourself, they see through it. Choosing to neglect it though shifts accountability from the vendor to the person who made the decision on behalf of the company, with potential repercussions serious enough to stick to the Teflon suits favoured by most CTO's nowadays. This - partially, MS products have some real advantages in large systems - isn't just about picking the best technical solution, it's also about employees minimizing personal exposure for anything which could go wrong. No one ever got fired for buying Windows.
Profits = return - costs. What I've heard from people working for Microsoft is the company continues to reduce internal operating expenditures by trimming staff. It's 'invisible' because Microsoft employs a high proportion of semi-permanent contract personel. Staff aren't being layed off, contractor renewal options aren't being picked up, which is un-newsworthy. My understanding is being a Microsoft employee today is not what it was in the nineties.
More accurately it's not safe to assume any OS sales, MS included, from server sales. All Linux installs are effectively site licenses too. BTW, does the Windows EULA permit migrating server software to a new machine? I thought it was one machine per license, period.
Fork? A wooden stake is more appropriate.
I not saying any such thing. What I am saying is giving credit for an action so obviously tainted with self-interest is misplaced. Good effects are not synonymous with good acts. Even the Mafia gives to charity.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/nr/public/media/ann ualreports/annualreport03/flash/Gates_AR-2003.html
Navigate to Financial ... Financial Statements. The Foundation made (repeat: made ) two and a half billion dollars in 2003 alone. Look under projects and you'll see plenty of initaitives to get Microsoft product into libraries and schools. This doesn't begin to touch on the tax benefits, and its questionable the Foundation would exist without them. Much of what the Foundation does is in its own 'enlightened self-interest', not a bad thing in itself but please don't position it as a personal or selfless sacrifice on the part of the Gates. It simply isn't true.
Microsoft is incapable of customizing per distro and distributing it themselves?
They should because Firefox makes it obvious people can do better than Microsoft and Microsoft doesn't care about regular users. Firefox shows Micrsoft structures products to permit spyware at the expense of paying customers. In bold letters it writes 'Microsoft isn't the best, a notion often granted them due to their market dominance.
You forgot the "from the industry's perspective" part.
Of course it's ridiculous, as are most straw man arguments. The right to exchange information is a basic human right, what the media companies require to effectively preserve their 'product' attacks it directly. Don't kid yourself, the only way for them to 'protect product' in perpetuity is by way of a mechanism which clears all data transactions. That the current focus is on what's now termed P2P doesn't mean it won't shift to physical media, e-mail, etc. in the future. It's not what the founders of the western democracies intended and nothing I want to see. It benefits a tuniy minority at the expense of all. Find a new business model.
As opposed to the stereotypical passive-aggressive geek asshole?
Hasn't your mom ever warned you about talking to people living on the streets, pretending to be graphic artists waiting for the next Star Wars? On the west coast they're everywhere.
Completely agree with you, though it looks like some work was done on it for 4.2.0. Most distros have rox-filer as an install option, a very nice alternative.
By the time humanity gets there robots will control the means of production and the entire discusson will be moot.
Bloated: Has anyone done a recent memory usage comparison between Mozilla and Firefox to justify this perception?