Switching away from MSN is a real pain though, I experimented with it once when I was young and foolish, but don't remember there being an uninstall once the msn client was on your machine.
They also were instrumental in encouraging word perfect to port, oracle to port, and novell to port apps to linux...thanks in no small part to Ray Noorda (former Novell Pres/CEO) who started or was deeply involved in Caldera getting off the ground
Now don't go ripping on the Timex Sinclair! If the good people at Banana ever get it together and send me that extra 64k memory expansion I ordered 10 years ago, I'm going to resume trying to set up my Timex Beowulf cluster!
I think that to say the "microsoft era" is over is dead wrong...they still have cash, market share, and much corporate mindshare.
What may be over, however, is the "bill gates era" (which I think is more likely). Consider the _slightly_ lower profile he keeps now in his new role. No longer CEO, no longer calling all the shots. I think he has more recognition of his mistakes than the tone of the review gives him credit for.
Although this could be more of a retirement from the spotlight and not really a change of beliefs, but the end result is the same, the Bill Gates Era is over
While I would love to see reform of the patent process, sadly I am hesitant to have the Congress involved in this without a firm and clear mandate sent to them by us, the backbone of technological society, that provided the substance of the reform. Remember that the Congress is the same collection of softly-funded chaps that passed DMCA and been involved in other dilutions of public rights.
Intel USB Camera: win98 NOT win2k
Haupplegue USB TV Tuner: win98 not win2k
do you want a list of games too? I'm NOT an anti-MS FUD. In fact, I happen to be an MCSE+I, MCT, and have made my living the last couple years installing, configuring, and consulting on the stuff. I just happen to know a bit more than you obviously do, having tried both those USB devices and have checked the vendor web sites several times.
Ok, after reading several other posts, I thought I'd throw in my opinion only because this is an issue I feel rather strongly about.
"Free Speech" is not "unlimited speech" or even "say/show/produce what ever you want" speech. Free Speech has several restrictions placed on it:
1. While you can slander, you can be sued for false claims, detriment of character, etc.
2. You cannot use free speech to endanger people via threats or yelling "fire" in a theater or saying "this is the bomb" at an airport.
There are others, and I think, "Child Porn" in any form, including "Virtual" falls into this catagory. Why? Because it puts at risk a portion of the population which cannot yet exercise their rights under the law. Children are in the (legal) minority and do not have their full rights (such as voting or drinking). I think as an extension of this concept that it is our responsibility to protect their interests by not considering the depiction of sexual acts with children as "protected speech."
Although the subjects are "virtual" they are still depictions of CHILDREN, a group which is dependant on society for protection.
According to the story as posted on MSNBC, the CreditCards.com stole the database _4_ months ago and has only now gone public with this information.
Granted, the feds were trying to catch the thief in action, but as a question to all of you, what responsibility did they have to alert their cardholders when it was confirmed that the database was stolen? I know it's business as usual to put the burden on the card holder to alert them of incorrect charges, but in this case the company KNEW the numbers had been taken.
Also, can someone give me a better idea of how to write submits, I submitted this story at 3:40pm yesterday and had it rejected. Not sour grapes, just frustrated grapes.
Let's face reality on this one, as a consultant of enough years I can tell you without equivocation that a closed source solution does not guarentee you can point to them and say "fix it".
Before you implement ANY system of significant size you test it, you test it, and you test it. You discover through this testing whether the product will do what you want it to. In the case of an open source or closed source project if the functionality and reliability aren't there, you look for another solution.
I am currently in the process of rolling out a fairly recently released network management tool and have discovered a couple problems our lab and pilot program didn't uncover. Does this mean that the company who I bought it from is going to turn around and fix it for me right now? Most likely, no. Their response is simply "we have reported this issue to engineering" and I'll be forced to wait for a patch, fix, or update. The same holds true for open source. However, I have a much better chance of speaking with the development team under an open source project than I will by calling technical support.
I for one am very glad to have corporate involvement in open source projects such as KDE.
Corel's modifications to KDE (if given back to KDE) are perfectly legit, but these same actions have the potential to bite KDE hard.
I have always envisioned Open Source as a sort of "free market" darwinism where changes are jockeyed about and dominate features eventually replacing weaker features. Some where along the way then, the project inevitably forks and multiple versions emerge as "viable" in the environment either for a long term or for a short term. I'd like to believe that normally forks are short term events and the project merges back together. These are the kind of forks that serve the project best (by not splitting the codebase in the long term).
But now with deeper pockets backing one vision, a fork can be carried beyond what it should have because money can keep bad code alive. It will become easy to let weaker visions live longer. I'm not saying it's happened, but the potential is there.
On a different note, I'm not a fan of Corel putting Copyright notices in KDE distributions. The integration of proprietary and nonprorietary pieces inside a product like this is a clear rode to Hell. We go from being a "licensed open" free people to "lawless pirates" overnight because the typical user doesn't review every license in his or her distribution before they install it on dozens of machines.
And in closing, I'm ok with Corel wanting to simplify the look and feel for users assuming:
1. We don't lose advanced user functionality that is easily accessible.
2. We don't assume that a mirror image of win9x is the best a UI can be.
If you are 18+ you are in the "legal majority" and are entititled to all the rights and freedoms allowed under the constitution. If you are yet in the "minority" than I'm not so sure you are entitled to exposure to what would be illegal material.
There is a responsibility to "protect" access to material that is "socially inappropriate." There are things better left not to the eyes of children.
I do not agree that the appropriate remedy is to ban providers from broadcasting when they see fit because they are taking appropriate steps by trying to filter content. I believe they have a responsibility to make a good faith effort to control access to this content, but cannot be responsible for the resourcefulness of kids.
After all, I still remember finding where my dad hid his magazines....
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Switching away from MSN is a real pain though, I experimented with it once when I was young and foolish, but don't remember there being an uninstall once the msn client was on your machine.
I bet this could bite them in the ass...i think they're underestimating how many teenage girls do use cd's on computer.
They also were instrumental in encouraging word perfect to port, oracle to port, and novell to port apps to linux...thanks in no small part to Ray Noorda (former Novell Pres/CEO) who started or was deeply involved in Caldera getting off the ground
Now don't go ripping on the Timex Sinclair! If the good people at Banana ever get it together and send me that extra 64k memory expansion I ordered 10 years ago, I'm going to resume trying to set up my Timex Beowulf cluster!
I concur.
I think that to say the "microsoft era" is over is dead wrong...they still have cash, market share, and much corporate mindshare.
What may be over, however, is the "bill gates era" (which I think is more likely). Consider the _slightly_ lower profile he keeps now in his new role. No longer CEO, no longer calling all the shots. I think he has more recognition of his mistakes than the tone of the review gives him credit for.
Although this could be more of a retirement from the spotlight and not really a change of beliefs, but the end result is the same, the Bill Gates Era is over
While I would love to see reform of the patent process, sadly I am hesitant to have the Congress involved in this without a firm and clear mandate sent to them by us, the backbone of technological society, that provided the substance of the reform. Remember that the Congress is the same collection of softly-funded chaps that passed DMCA and been involved in other dilutions of public rights.
Ok, I'll make a correction and half an apology...
the hauppauge wintv/usb has released updated drivers to allow win2k.
the intel camera, however, will not be updated.
I apologize for not checking since last May.
No, it's not bullshit:
Intel USB Camera: win98 NOT win2k
Haupplegue USB TV Tuner: win98 not win2k
do you want a list of games too? I'm NOT an anti-MS FUD. In fact, I happen to be an MCSE+I, MCT, and have made my living the last couple years installing, configuring, and consulting on the stuff. I just happen to know a bit more than you obviously do, having tried both those USB devices and have checked the vendor web sites several times.
Who's the reactionary now?
I can think of one reason, most of the USB devices I have do not work under Win2k, but work ok under 98/ME...a couple games fall this way to.
Ok, after reading several other posts, I thought I'd throw in my opinion only because this is an issue I feel rather strongly about.
"Free Speech" is not "unlimited speech" or even "say/show/produce what ever you want" speech. Free Speech has several restrictions placed on it:
1. While you can slander, you can be sued for false claims, detriment of character, etc.
2. You cannot use free speech to endanger people via threats or yelling "fire" in a theater or saying "this is the bomb" at an airport.
There are others, and I think, "Child Porn" in any form, including "Virtual" falls into this catagory. Why? Because it puts at risk a portion of the population which cannot yet exercise their rights under the law. Children are in the (legal) minority and do not have their full rights (such as voting or drinking). I think as an extension of this concept that it is our responsibility to protect their interests by not considering the depiction of sexual acts with children as "protected speech."
Although the subjects are "virtual" they are still depictions of CHILDREN, a group which is dependant on society for protection.
According to the story as posted on MSNBC, the CreditCards.com stole the database _4_ months ago and has only now gone public with this information.
Granted, the feds were trying to catch the thief in action, but as a question to all of you, what responsibility did they have to alert their cardholders when it was confirmed that the database was stolen? I know it's business as usual to put the burden on the card holder to alert them of incorrect charges, but in this case the company KNEW the numbers had been taken.
Also, can someone give me a better idea of how to write submits, I submitted this story at 3:40pm yesterday and had it rejected. Not sour grapes, just frustrated grapes.
Let's face reality on this one, as a consultant of enough years I can tell you without equivocation that a closed source solution does not guarentee you can point to them and say "fix it".
Before you implement ANY system of significant size you test it, you test it, and you test it. You discover through this testing whether the product will do what you want it to. In the case of an open source or closed source project if the functionality and reliability aren't there, you look for another solution.
I am currently in the process of rolling out a fairly recently released network management tool and have discovered a couple problems our lab and pilot program didn't uncover. Does this mean that the company who I bought it from is going to turn around and fix it for me right now? Most likely, no. Their response is simply "we have reported this issue to engineering" and I'll be forced to wait for a patch, fix, or update. The same holds true for open source. However, I have a much better chance of speaking with the development team under an open source project than I will by calling technical support.
I for one am very glad to have corporate involvement in open source projects such as KDE.
Corel's modifications to KDE (if given back to KDE) are perfectly legit, but these same actions have the potential to bite KDE hard.
I have always envisioned Open Source as a sort of "free market" darwinism where changes are jockeyed about and dominate features eventually replacing weaker features. Some where along the way then, the project inevitably forks and multiple versions emerge as "viable" in the environment either for a long term or for a short term. I'd like to believe that normally forks are short term events and the project merges back together. These are the kind of forks that serve the project best (by not splitting the codebase in the long term).
But now with deeper pockets backing one vision, a fork can be carried beyond what it should have because money can keep bad code alive. It will become easy to let weaker visions live longer. I'm not saying it's happened, but the potential is there.
On a different note, I'm not a fan of Corel putting Copyright notices in KDE distributions. The integration of proprietary and nonprorietary pieces inside a product like this is a clear rode to Hell. We go from being a "licensed open" free people to "lawless pirates" overnight because the typical user doesn't review every license in his or her distribution before they install it on dozens of machines.
And in closing, I'm ok with Corel wanting to simplify the look and feel for users assuming:
1. We don't lose advanced user functionality that is easily accessible.
2. We don't assume that a mirror image of win9x is the best a UI can be.
>>After all, I still remember finding where my >dad hid his magazines....
>and ofcourse that scarred you for life, causing >endless mental anguish and cerebral trauma, >showing to everyone that censorship is good.
Well, cerebral trauma anyway. Mental anguish only came in when I thought they had found me with the magazines...
If you are 18+ you are in the "legal majority" and are entititled to all the rights and freedoms allowed under the constitution. If you are yet in the "minority" than I'm not so sure you are entitled to exposure to what would be illegal material.
There is a responsibility to "protect" access to material that is "socially inappropriate." There are things better left not to the eyes of children.
I do not agree that the appropriate remedy is to ban providers from broadcasting when they see fit because they are taking appropriate steps by trying to filter content. I believe they have a responsibility to make a good faith effort to control access to this content, but cannot be responsible for the resourcefulness of kids.
After all, I still remember finding where my dad hid his magazines....