Amish people are far less likely to be involved in automobile accidents than the general population. Amish do not vaccinate, therefore vaccinations cause automobile accidents..
47 programs that report to Microsoft ? Military control of the OS ? Auto-degrading of content ?
Honestly, you sound like an idiot. I doubt you even have a working computer in your home, let alone have a "job" fixing them.
And to all the moderators who modded this as "Informative", shame on you. I know many of you are paid to moderate up any anti-Microsoft posts, but please do yourselves a favor and read them first...
As that particular point has been utterly debunked as FUD, may I assume the remainder of your comments are just cut&paste from the anti-Vista handbook?
I'll second that. Nortel will either implode or be sold off in pieces by the end of the year. Word is that yet another round of layoffs is coming; with so few employees working there already it's like watching a snake eating its own tail...
It wasn't mentioned because the DRM issues you claim don't exist. Honestly, this has been debunked so many times that anyone who brings it up is either lazy or just trolling...
"Bought" ?? Got any proof ? Names, numbers, dates, anything ?? And claiming "They must have been bought because they did something I disagree with" doesn't count. And no Groklaw links, I'm pretty sure where they get their marching orders from...
Honestly, the OSS lobby pushes for ISO approval of their pet format and does everything they can to prevent their mortal enemy from doing the same. And the only arguments I see against OOXML are fear-mongering, FUD and narrow minded zealotry from the OSS crowd. At least that's what I see on Slashdot, no-one else outside of here seems to give a damn..
Thank you for that post, I had lost hope that anyone on SlashDot could see beyond their OSS zealotry to see the ODF/OOXML fight for what it really is, an attempt to eliminate a closed-source competitor.
Then you admit that the only purpose of the OLPC project was to further the spread of your particular brand of open source evangelism, and the kids education be damned ?
You're not helping children at all if your just using them as pawns to promote your own ideals. In fact, I see no difference between your position and Microsoft's.
Attitudes like yours give the entire open source movement a bad name.
I have two Vista installs here at work, one laptop and one desktop. Neither machine is terribly powerful, and I've played all the media that the parent poster did and a few more as well. I even attached a crappy old 15" CRT and could still watch DVDs no sweat.
So much for the "DRM in Vista prevents media playback" FUD that gets tossed around so often around here. I swear that there is some sort of "anti-Vista" handbook being passed around, so many posts here quote the same misinformation over and over that it's just sad.
Please do us a favor and don't offer opinions on something you obviously know nothing about and have never tried for yourself.
There is no connection between DRM and the issues you raised. Did you even read the articles you quoted ?
I'm curious, is there some sort of anti-Vista handbook that you've been quoting from ? I see the same FUD and disproved arguments being repeated verbatim by so many posters here that it's resembling some sort of organized campaign to slam Vista.
You really don't know what you're talking about. Please try actually researching the issue and not relying on anti-Vista propaganda. The DRM issue you've been pounding on was disproved long ago.
I swear, I see so many Slashdot posts repeating the same FUD about Vista over and over it's become something of a mantra with some posters. Mindlessly repeating something over and over again does not make it a fact.
Was the point of OLPC to provide low cost computers to needy children or to promote Mandriva/OSS ??
If the Nigerian Government says "thanks for the computers, but we'd like to make our own choice as to what software to run on them" then how is that bad ? The kids still get their laptops and all the supposed benefits they were to deliver. Is Mandriva suggesting that the entire point of the OLPC project was to force children to use their software to the exclusion of all else ?
Here's a neat trick, take the "open letter to Steve Ballmer" and swap any references to Mandriva to Microsoft and vice versa. Now we have a nasty letter from M$ complaining that Nigeria is dumping the Windows OS on their new laptops for Linux. If you find this a perfectly acceptable situation, then admit to yourself that your support for the OLPC project was not to "help the children" but to promote your own beliefs.
We have finally upgraded the majority of W98 machines to W2000, only a handful remain.
Just started switching desktops from W2000 to XP a few months ago, should be complete by 2009.
We have one Dell laptop running Vista, works fine. No plans to deploy Vista anywhere else.
One HP server running UNIX, Red Hat Linux running on a few test boxes and that's it.
Please don't keep repeating that old meme, there is no army of coders examining each and every line of OSS code to keep it squeaky clean. Do you believe your software is safe because it was someone else's responsibility to check it ? Do you examine each line of code yourself? ?
Don't recall ever seeing the scene you described in Erik the Viking, but one fitting your description appears in The Vikings (1958) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052365/ .
The village witch gives Eric a lodestone compass in the shape of a fish and claims "..it always points to the star that was it's home, the North star..".
Got me thinking, wasn't there an ad campaign from Atari that had Alan Alda demonstrating how easy it was to set up an Atari XL ? Something like "unpack it, plug it in, turn it on, it's easy !"
The Atari commercial aired around 1982 and I think the Jeff Goldblum Apple ad dates from about 1998. It's good to see that things still haven't gotten complicated;)
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Amish people are far less likely to be involved in automobile accidents than the general population. Amish do not vaccinate, therefore vaccinations cause automobile accidents..
Do I need to spell out the sloppy thinking ?
Bravo and well said!
But curiously it appears the post is modded as "Troll" instead of "Insightfull", methinks some Slashdotter's clicked the wrong moderation option...
47 programs that report to Microsoft ? Military control of the OS ? Auto-degrading of content ?
Honestly, you sound like an idiot. I doubt you even have a working computer in your home, let alone have a "job" fixing them.
And to all the moderators who modded this as "Informative", shame on you. I know many of you are paid to moderate up any anti-Microsoft posts, but please do yourselves a favor and read them first ...
"7 - It's bogged down with DRM"
As that particular point has been utterly debunked as FUD, may I assume the remainder of your comments are just cut&paste from the anti-Vista handbook?
Thought so..
What "entangled DRM" are you speaking of ? Can you elaborate or are you just trolling ?
I'll second that. Nortel will either implode or be sold off in pieces by the end of the year. Word is that yet another round of layoffs is coming; with so few employees working there already it's like watching a snake eating its own tail...
No matter how often I hear that, it's still funny as hell...
It wasn't mentioned because the DRM issues you claim don't exist. Honestly, this has been debunked so many times that anyone who brings it up is either lazy or just trolling...
"Bought" ?? Got any proof ? Names, numbers, dates, anything ?? And claiming "They must have been bought because they did something I disagree with" doesn't count. And no Groklaw links, I'm pretty sure where they get their marching orders from...
Honestly, the OSS lobby pushes for ISO approval of their pet format and does everything they can to prevent their mortal enemy from doing the same. And the only arguments I see against OOXML are fear-mongering, FUD and narrow minded zealotry from the OSS crowd. At least that's what I see on Slashdot, no-one else outside of here seems to give a damn..
Thank you for that post, I had lost hope that anyone on SlashDot could see beyond their OSS zealotry to see the ODF/OOXML fight for what it really is, an attempt to eliminate a closed-source competitor.
Then you admit that the only purpose of the OLPC project was to further the spread of your particular brand of open source evangelism, and the kids education be damned ?
You're not helping children at all if your just using them as pawns to promote your own ideals. In fact, I see no difference between your position and Microsoft's.
Attitudes like yours give the entire open source movement a bad name.
Absolutely true, the fight between ODF and OOXML is entirely ideological.
The Open Source industry doesn't want a closed-source competitor to be approved as a document standard, pure and simple..
You could be right, there's a few other possibilities I've thought of as well..
People like attention, and having "normal" kids doesn't get you any
Autistic kids count for extra school funding
Parents looking for a excuse for their kids not being the pinnacle of perfection they expected
Media's obsession with creating fear and panic
Did you forget a sarcasm tag there ? Just asking...
Because otherwise your comment makes no sense and make you appear to be an ignoramus.
Really ? What DRM is that ? Do you have any actual evidence of this "DRM" being in any way related to this discussion ?
Not that "Vista is filled with DRM" crap again.
I have two Vista installs here at work, one laptop and one desktop. Neither machine is terribly powerful, and I've played all the media that the parent poster did and a few more as well. I even attached a crappy old 15" CRT and could still watch DVDs no sweat.
So much for the "DRM in Vista prevents media playback" FUD that gets tossed around so often around here. I swear that there is some sort of "anti-Vista" handbook being passed around, so many posts here quote the same misinformation over and over that it's just sad.
Please do us a favor and don't offer opinions on something you obviously know nothing about and have never tried for yourself.
There is no connection between DRM and the issues you raised. Did you even read the articles you quoted ?
I'm curious, is there some sort of anti-Vista handbook that you've been quoting from ? I see the same FUD and disproved arguments being repeated verbatim by so many posters here that it's resembling some sort of organized campaign to slam Vista.
You really don't know what you're talking about. Please try actually researching the issue and not relying on anti-Vista propaganda. The DRM issue you've been pounding on was disproved long ago.
I swear, I see so many Slashdot posts repeating the same FUD about Vista over and over it's become something of a mantra with some posters. Mindlessly repeating something over and over again does not make it a fact.
Way ahead of you, in Canada our Government has already chosen option 2.. http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/product_of_canada_eh/
Was the point of OLPC to provide low cost computers to needy children or to promote Mandriva/OSS ??
If the Nigerian Government says "thanks for the computers, but we'd like to make our own choice as to what software to run on them" then how is that bad ? The kids still get their laptops and all the supposed benefits they were to deliver. Is Mandriva suggesting that the entire point of the OLPC project was to force children to use their software to the exclusion of all else ?
Here's a neat trick, take the "open letter to Steve Ballmer" and swap any references to Mandriva to Microsoft and vice versa. Now we have a nasty letter from M$ complaining that Nigeria is dumping the Windows OS on their new laptops for Linux. If you find this a perfectly acceptable situation, then admit to yourself that your support for the OLPC project was not to "help the children" but to promote your own beliefs.
We have finally upgraded the majority of W98 machines to W2000, only a handful remain. Just started switching desktops from W2000 to XP a few months ago, should be complete by 2009. We have one Dell laptop running Vista, works fine. No plans to deploy Vista anywhere else. One HP server running UNIX, Red Hat Linux running on a few test boxes and that's it.
Please don't keep repeating that old meme, there is no army of coders examining each and every line of OSS code to keep it squeaky clean. Do you believe your software is safe because it was someone else's responsibility to check it ? Do you examine each line of code yourself? ?
Lemme check... Nope, don't smell anything. I do hear a lot of angry squeaking sounds from the FOSS cultists, but that's normal...
Don't recall ever seeing the scene you described in Erik the Viking, but one fitting your description appears in The Vikings (1958) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052365/ .
The village witch gives Eric a lodestone compass in the shape of a fish and claims "..it always points to the star that was it's home, the North star..".
Got me thinking, wasn't there an ad campaign from Atari that had Alan Alda demonstrating how easy it was to set up an Atari XL ? Something like "unpack it, plug it in, turn it on, it's easy !"
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The Atari commercial aired around 1982 and I think the Jeff Goldblum Apple ad dates from about 1998. It's good to see that things still haven't gotten complicated