well im glad you were raised by english teachers. i was able to have fun outside. its slashdot, you know an informal forum, get off your high horse since you too make mistakes.
People also believe that the moon landings never happened, doesn't mean they're right. If MS deliberatly broke competing software, every software company on the planet would be sueing them and their chances of winning would be pretty good. You might like to think of MS as the devil but its just a company, and its not going to do something so obvious to harm its self.
Microsoft isn't the only company that changes its file formats with every release or so, in fact I believe a recent change in a minor release to db4 breakes OpenLDAP if you upgrade. Did it even occur to you that someone made the changes because they thought they were needed or were a good idea?
Not everyone is a zealot. I choose to use Microsoft products as well. In fact, they are even viable options for deployment. If the product is good, then its good. Its just software so don't let idology blind you.
Parents buy GTA for their kids, do you really think that Penny Arcade needs to sensor? Parents that whine about it anyway only do it to pretend they care, and cover for everything else they don't give a flying rats ass about.
Net Install Solaris from Linux. These are the instructions I used to install Solaris from a Slackware machine. The instructions are for Solaris 8, and I had to tweek them a little, but between that and the scripts that set up netbooting on Solaris that are on the Solaris CD's you should be able to get it working.
Except the market hasn't demanded worker friendly environment, and shows no signs of going that way. EA doesn't have to worry about doing anything. A few people whining about it do not make a 'market influence.'
Ya because we all know those dell gaming systems would run games just kick ass if they had Linux or FreeBSD. For a lot of Dell's customers, there is no alternative to Windows.
Murder is wrong but there is no shortage of people that are willing to do it. Just because people are willing to argue, question or do things does not make it a 'grey area' of judgement. The game was not to be sold untill the 16th, when activation will be available. This keeps an even playing field for those who pre-order and those who buy online. Just because someone else did something they weren't supposed to does not mean you can crack another system because you want to. Both are wrong, and as was said, two wrongs to not make a right.
I first heard about open source from a bunch of loud dirty linux advocates and i equated Open source to a bunch of jackasses.
More seriously though, the most vocal proponants of Open Source are the GPL advocates, and they are very loud. If you have anything to do with Open Source and think it means free, or to use it however you want to, you will very quickly relaize you were wrong.
BTW that was how I first heard about Open Source, and I still think about a lot of OSS advocates that way.
Those are basic usage things. Clicking on an icon labeled Internet is basic usage (steering), as is turning it on (Filling up and applying gas), getting email and playing a game (general driving). Defrag, popup blocking, anti-virus and knowing what program does what and how to replace them are not basic usage, just like changing the oil, getting a tune up and whatnot are not basic usage people take it to a garage for that. When i turn the wheel in a car, it turns, but I couldn't even begin to tell you how nor do I care, because I don't need to know how it works to do this. Just like clicking on a link to IE, I don't need to know how it does what it does, or what program it launches in order to use it, I need to know how to click it, enter a url and use google, thats it.
Money is irrelevent here. As is the Free/Less free. The only thing that is relevent is the wishes of the copyright holder(s). They decided to release their work not as BSD, MIT or public domain, but as GPL. Why? Obviously it was their wish that anyone who modified it would have to contribute those chages back if it was for anything other then their personal use. No one has any rights to that piece of code with out the approval of the copyright holder, therefore in order to continue to have the right to modify and distribute the code, they have to abide by the licencing restrictions placed on the code. That is what is wrong with this, by closing the source and not distrbuting changes, they have violated the agreements that gives them the freedom to make the changes and therefore no longer have any rights to the code at all.
Given the liberal use of the term 'limited beta' that Google has used for gmail, I doubt they need more users who don't generate revenue just to hone their spam blocking.
Hiring my ass. I just spent almost 2 years unemployed in my field, and turned down at even supermarkets and retail because they 'wanted someone who was going to stay.' I only just got a job but its only a 6 month position, and if I can't find something soon after that, I'm forgetting I ever wanted to work in IT and finding something else to do.
Not like Theo can do anything about it. I might like his input on OS and security related matters, but personally I don't care what he thinks I should or shouldn't buy. If its a solution to a problem you have, buy it, if not, don't, but don't let other peoples beliefs about what should and should not happen as regards how open things are. Its a free OS, the user is the one with the freedom to choose how and where to run it.
You can blame it on whomever you want, the fact remains that the Internet is a very unreliable network by the time you get to end users, and the users are not going to stand for it. On top of that, I know the last major outage, 5 days, was the Electric companies fault, installing an improperly shielded something or other, so its not just 'them young whipper-snappers.'
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well im glad you were raised by english teachers. i was able to have fun outside. its slashdot, you know an informal forum, get off your high horse since you too make mistakes.
People also believe that the moon landings never happened, doesn't mean they're right. If MS deliberatly broke competing software, every software company on the planet would be sueing them and their chances of winning would be pretty good. You might like to think of MS as the devil but its just a company, and its not going to do something so obvious to harm its self.
Microsoft isn't the only company that changes its file formats with every release or so, in fact I believe a recent change in a minor release to db4 breakes OpenLDAP if you upgrade. Did it even occur to you that someone made the changes because they thought they were needed or were a good idea?
Not everyone is a zealot. I choose to use Microsoft products as well. In fact, they are even viable options for deployment. If the product is good, then its good. Its just software so don't let idology blind you.
Parents buy GTA for their kids, do you really think that Penny Arcade needs to sensor? Parents that whine about it anyway only do it to pretend they care, and cover for everything else they don't give a flying rats ass about.
AT&T and Sun jointly developed SysV, Sun couln't exactly steal that now could they?
Net Install Solaris from Linux. These are the instructions I used to install Solaris from a Slackware machine. The instructions are for Solaris 8, and I had to tweek them a little, but between that and the scripts that set up netbooting on Solaris that are on the Solaris CD's you should be able to get it working.
If I'm going to install an alternative Unix on my Mac, it'll be something like Linux using a more standard GUI like KDE or Gnome.
Sun dropped Gnome?
"Duke Nukem: Forever Half-Life Everquest Doom"
Why does that make me laugh.
I didnt mean to imply that you had. I was just adding to it.
Except the market hasn't demanded worker friendly environment, and shows no signs of going that way. EA doesn't have to worry about doing anything. A few people whining about it do not make a 'market influence.'
Then mean educational institutions an corporations took it over so their mummy is going to buy them another one.
Ya because we all know those dell gaming systems would run games just kick ass if they had Linux or FreeBSD. For a lot of Dell's customers, there is no alternative to Windows.
'M$' makes you sound like an idiot.
Murder is wrong but there is no shortage of people that are willing to do it. Just because people are willing to argue, question or do things does not make it a 'grey area' of judgement. The game was not to be sold untill the 16th, when activation will be available. This keeps an even playing field for those who pre-order and those who buy online. Just because someone else did something they weren't supposed to does not mean you can crack another system because you want to. Both are wrong, and as was said, two wrongs to not make a right.
You'll go back within a year. Personally I hate rural towns.
I first heard about open source from a bunch of loud dirty linux advocates and i equated Open source to a bunch of jackasses.
More seriously though, the most vocal proponants of Open Source are the GPL advocates, and they are very loud. If you have anything to do with Open Source and think it means free, or to use it however you want to, you will very quickly relaize you were wrong.
BTW that was how I first heard about Open Source, and I still think about a lot of OSS advocates that way.
Those are basic usage things. Clicking on an icon labeled Internet is basic usage (steering), as is turning it on (Filling up and applying gas), getting email and playing a game (general driving). Defrag, popup blocking, anti-virus and knowing what program does what and how to replace them are not basic usage, just like changing the oil, getting a tune up and whatnot are not basic usage people take it to a garage for that. When i turn the wheel in a car, it turns, but I couldn't even begin to tell you how nor do I care, because I don't need to know how it works to do this. Just like clicking on a link to IE, I don't need to know how it does what it does, or what program it launches in order to use it, I need to know how to click it, enter a url and use google, thats it.
Money is irrelevent here. As is the Free/Less free. The only thing that is relevent is the wishes of the copyright holder(s). They decided to release their work not as BSD, MIT or public domain, but as GPL. Why? Obviously it was their wish that anyone who modified it would have to contribute those chages back if it was for anything other then their personal use. No one has any rights to that piece of code with out the approval of the copyright holder, therefore in order to continue to have the right to modify and distribute the code, they have to abide by the licencing restrictions placed on the code. That is what is wrong with this, by closing the source and not distrbuting changes, they have violated the agreements that gives them the freedom to make the changes and therefore no longer have any rights to the code at all.
Given the liberal use of the term 'limited beta' that Google has used for gmail, I doubt they need more users who don't generate revenue just to hone their spam blocking.
The access database format is what drives MS MOM 2000. Its not that bad, it just wasn't meant for huge databases.
Yes I know that MS MOM says MS twice, would you have known what I was talking about if I had just said access drives MOM?
You don't really have friends do you.
Hiring my ass. I just spent almost 2 years unemployed in my field, and turned down at even supermarkets and retail because they 'wanted someone who was going to stay.' I only just got a job but its only a 6 month position, and if I can't find something soon after that, I'm forgetting I ever wanted to work in IT and finding something else to do.
Not like Theo can do anything about it. I might like his input on OS and security related matters, but personally I don't care what he thinks I should or shouldn't buy. If its a solution to a problem you have, buy it, if not, don't, but don't let other peoples beliefs about what should and should not happen as regards how open things are. Its a free OS, the user is the one with the freedom to choose how and where to run it.
Employee discount, and the other broadband provider is no better.
The young whipper-snappers just seemed to fit.
You can blame it on whomever you want, the fact remains that the Internet is a very unreliable network by the time you get to end users, and the users are not going to stand for it. On top of that, I know the last major outage, 5 days, was the Electric companies fault, installing an improperly shielded something or other, so its not just 'them young whipper-snappers.'