Please, PLEASE do not mod the parent "troll" or "flamebait". It's at the very least, funny (thought REALLY, it's not very funny at all). Remember: the consept expressed in the parent is what a lot of people think.
Guys with a boner for dress socks...
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Microsoft Patents sudo
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I'm not really worried about patents like these because I feel that the whole patent issue is coming to a head, and that in the end, things will change. Silly patents will not even be contested in court, and many will be tossed out for sheer sillyness.
I live in Washington State (USA). Here we have the state capital of Olympia, Olympic mountain range, and not to mention America's finest piss water, Olympia Beer. A few years back, the Olympic Committee sued several businesses in Olympia and around the Olympic mountains for using "Olympia" in their name. I can only suspect that Miller Brewing, which owns Olympia Beer, paid them off, but the rest went to court and more or less lost.
I see Google turning into a useless advertising poisoned portal someday which takes an hour to load on a DSL connection and doesn't work on anything but MSIE.
And by that time, Brin and Company will be long gone, and someone else will have perfected the ultimate search as a Ph.D. project, then spin it off to a privately held company, only to fall prey to the allure of money and take it public and walk away richer than Bill Gates while the company becomes a profit driven IPO...
...is still shit. Cheap and free shit is still shit. Real needs to focus on product engineering, and provide a useful tool free of spy / adware, rather than a PR / FUD campaign to drive sales. People are not quite that stupid anymore when it comes to technology.
No chance that a device like this could one day find people trapped in collapsed buildings after an earthquake.
Correct. No chance. More realistic would be crawlers that move like roaches.
Some of the migration cost issues are probably partially valid, as migrating away from a system that already uses MS technology to something else is going to involve a bit more than migrating from older MS to newer MS. But what caught my eye and really caused my jaw to drop off and bounce across the floor was this:
On the risks of Open Source:
Open source vendors are currently experiencing more vulnerabilities and receiving more security advisories than Microsoft. In addition, Microsoft has made a substantial investment in further improving security levels with its Trustworth Computing initiative
And...
One final point to note is that Newham will be using Internet Explorer. Steel explained that this is because Microsoft is very serious about addressing security concerns.
I think of Real as more or less of a spyware / adware company that packages their crap with a marginally useful media player. To me, no better than KazzaGold. And, since it's marketed to the same crowd of users (i.e. the AOL crowd), I end up paying very little attention to what they are doing at Real.
AOL's token finger still in the pie...
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Netscape 7.2 Released
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I think that like many multi-nationals, AOL thought that OSS / Linux / Microsoft alternatives would never take off, that Microsoft would vanquish the evil free-software-movement. I think that they have decided that might not be the way things go, and they want to be still in the game.
Missed expectations? That may have to do with your gif patent expiring and your corporate pigs getting their snouts pulled out of everyone elses troughs.
Many here may be pissed about the GIF issue, but UniSys's finantial situation has neither gained nor lost because of it.
Open Source defiantly means free money to some of the "Capitalist Pigs" that fold parts of it into proprietary commercial packages or bundle apps with proprietary commercial packages. There are without question commercial companies abusing the GPL / BSD licenses. Of course, while one might suspect, it can be difficult to prove.
The Big Three in Detroit agreed to and signed off on everyBecause they had to. Unions where and are very strong back east. It's hard, though to label one or the other as the bad one when if the union had not forced a cushy contract, the car companies would have screwed the workers. letter of those contracts
Re:MPC: possibly the next standard?
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RGB to become RGBCMY
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Heh, I was wrong, was just repeating what a salesman at Fry's told me it was, I should know better than to trust anything those guys say, they never know what they're talking about.
So... Do you believe EVERYTHING you hear? If your friend jumped off of a cliff would you too?
Lindberg (sp?) was considered to be underfunded, minimal experience, using an aircraft that had only been tested once (on a transcontinental flight) and only had one engine and one pilot to boot!
tHIS is not *even* in the same park. The factors are much, much different.
I Believe Space Ship One will buy out the competition, and then dump the companies so only they can win, in about 15 years though, and open source space ship will be put into space.
I know it's a joke / troll, but honestly, I think it's important to understand that there are several "competitors", but only one real contender, based on the development cycle and reality of the technological ability to achieve the goal. All these rocket people are trying to do this on garage technology, and the end result is going to be dead fools in a tin can, if they even try. It still cost a lot of money to send a body to space, even if it is done on the cheap. The Russians have perfected this. And while they are poor, they still have a lot more $$ than just about any of these guys. I see dead bodies.
hmmm.... how much are you paying to read "on-line mags and such?" Are you paying to read Slashdot? Last I heard Roblimo and Taco were getting by giving this "stuff" away..."RobLimo" and "Taco" made a shitload of money selling Slashdot to OSDN nee OSTG several years ago, they no longer need to work. Check your facts dude.
I'm sorry, have you not all been reading the on-line mags and such? Your local newspaper? There is no way to make money on the internet giving away things for free. Rob Enderle of SCO has something to say about this (Free Software and the Fools That Use it). Thank you very much.
First they put apples in tablets...
next we'll be eating all our food from tubes!
So, it's "just" a thin laptop with a flexible spine and a touch screen? Actually, sounds like the way to go, than you have the best of both worlds, keyboard or no keyboard.
Tens of thousands of motorcyclists do this every day.
And there is a well know inherent risk to motorcycle riding that motorcyclists take. Most are fully aware of this, but some are not. Many people have died operating experimental crafts, it goes with the territory.
But it is sad. It's sad whenever someone loses their life, especially in an accedent.
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Please, PLEASE do not mod the parent "troll" or "flamebait". It's at the very least, funny (thought REALLY, it's not very funny at all). Remember: the consept expressed in the parent is what a lot of people think.
I'm not really worried about patents like these because I feel that the whole patent issue is coming to a head, and that in the end, things will change. Silly patents will not even be contested in court, and many will be tossed out for sheer sillyness.
I live in Washington State (USA). Here we have the state capital of Olympia, Olympic mountain range, and not to mention America's finest piss water, Olympia Beer. A few years back, the Olympic Committee sued several businesses in Olympia and around the Olympic mountains for using "Olympia" in their name. I can only suspect that Miller Brewing, which owns Olympia Beer, paid them off, but the rest went to court and more or less lost.
And by that time, Brin and Company will be long gone, and someone else will have perfected the ultimate search as a Ph.D. project, then spin it off to a privately held company, only to fall prey to the allure of money and take it public and walk away richer than Bill Gates while the company becomes a profit driven IPO...
Are you implying that Google is biased towards MS or Apple? I don't see that.
...is still shit. Cheap and free shit is still shit. Real needs to focus on product engineering, and provide a useful tool free of spy / adware, rather than a PR / FUD campaign to drive sales. People are not quite that stupid anymore when it comes to technology.
No chance that a device like this could one day find people trapped in collapsed buildings after an earthquake. Correct. No chance. More realistic would be crawlers that move like roaches.
Can't get your mind off of porn , can you? They have laws, you know...
Open source vendors are currently experiencing more vulnerabilities and receiving more security advisories than Microsoft. In addition, Microsoft has made a substantial investment in further improving security levels with its Trustworth Computing initiative
And...
One final point to note is that Newham will be using Internet Explorer. Steel explained that this is because Microsoft is very serious about addressing security concerns.
Really I'm quite speechless.
I think of Real as more or less of a spyware / adware company that packages their crap with a marginally useful media player. To me, no better than KazzaGold. And, since it's marketed to the same crowd of users (i.e. the AOL crowd), I end up paying very little attention to what they are doing at Real.
I think that like many multi-nationals, AOL thought that OSS / Linux / Microsoft alternatives would never take off, that Microsoft would vanquish the evil free-software-movement. I think that they have decided that might not be the way things go, and they want to be still in the game.
I sent an offer of $699, but as yet I have no response. I think it's quite generous, I can't imagine what's keeping them.
Jesus, get out of the basement.
Many here may be pissed about the GIF issue, but UniSys's finantial situation has neither gained nor lost because of it.
Open Source defiantly means free money to some of the "Capitalist Pigs" that fold parts of it into proprietary commercial packages or bundle apps with proprietary commercial packages. There are without question commercial companies abusing the GPL / BSD licenses. Of course, while one might suspect, it can be difficult to prove.
"Stuff that matters", folks!
So... Do you believe EVERYTHING you hear? If your friend jumped off of a cliff would you too?
tHIS is not *even* in the same park. The factors are much, much different.
I know it's a joke / troll, but honestly, I think it's important to understand that there are several "competitors", but only one real contender, based on the development cycle and reality of the technological ability to achieve the goal. All these rocket people are trying to do this on garage technology, and the end result is going to be dead fools in a tin can, if they even try. It still cost a lot of money to send a body to space, even if it is done on the cheap. The Russians have perfected this. And while they are poor, they still have a lot more $$ than just about any of these guys. I see dead bodies.
hmmm.... how much are you paying to read "on-line mags and such?" Are you paying to read Slashdot? Last I heard Roblimo and Taco were getting by giving this "stuff" away..."RobLimo" and "Taco" made a shitload of money selling Slashdot to OSDN nee OSTG several years ago, they no longer need to work. Check your facts dude.
I'm sorry, have you not all been reading the on-line mags and such? Your local newspaper? There is no way to make money on the internet giving away things for free. Rob Enderle of SCO has something to say about this (Free Software and the Fools That Use it). Thank you very much.
So, it's "just" a thin laptop with a flexible spine and a touch screen? Actually, sounds like the way to go, than you have the best of both worlds, keyboard or no keyboard.
Anyone here remember the "Space Food" that came out during the Apollo missions?
And there is a well know inherent risk to motorcycle riding that motorcyclists take. Most are fully aware of this, but some are not. Many people have died operating experimental crafts, it goes with the territory.
But it is sad. It's sad whenever someone loses their life, especially in an accedent.