*sigh*
Nowhere in the question does he mention the word open or standard. In fact, his complaint seems primarily to be cost:
force the few remaining holdouts, like me, to shell out for a copy of Word
I pointed him to a freely available MS program to read word files. The MS equivalent to Adobe Reader if you will.
Kind of eliminates the need for his/her question really, since the "open standard" issue is some slashdot borg's personal soapbox and does not relate to the question at all.
If he/she is on a unix machine, OO will do the trick, or Anti-Word, or whatever.
or my winxp laptop that thinks everytime I unplug my usb wireless adapter and plug it back in, its a different device. Im up to local area connection #76;) linux is not alone in this regard by a long shot.
same thing with a handspring treo. switch usb ports and it has to go through the install routine all over again. ugggh. at least jpilot "just worked", unfortunately my cheap ass laptop simply will not work properly with any flavor of X video
drivers.
I agree with your points. He can pay up or shut up if he wants the isos. You point is well taken. However, the phrase "information wants to be free" is actually pretty accurate. Kinda like water seeks the lowest point. Water doesnt seek anything. Its just an....nevermind.
when I call someone a m #@#$$@# cker, I don't really mean they have sex with mothers. It means the person is a jerk.
When someone says information wants to be free, it is summing up an idea in a nice compact way. I would explain the idea but I just realized...oh God, did I actually respond to your troll. uugh.
actually he was saying he would throttle the bandwidth down. the mention of computer type was incidental. but you are right. I use a pentium 233 for a firewall/router and it handles everything I can dish at it.
I agree with you, except that the GPL is an open style license. You can do whatever you want with GPL software, even sell it. Fairplay is a closed style of license and you cannot do whatever you want with it. You are totally right that its hypocritical. Hard one to work out because I agree with both sides.
I wouldn't watch the video of the soldier getting beheaded becouse that is a man of honnor being attacked.
You don't know jack sh$t about the soldier, what his morals and ethics were, what kind of person he is, or anything else.
Being a soldier does not automatically make someone honorable (cough vietnam child rapes cough).
You dont know jack about this guy on the video either.
WTF??!! He is not worthy of your respect so its okay to watch his vid ? That is sick. He might be a veteran for christs sake. You actually call him a loser. Wow. You are an a$$h*le.
I've had winamp running for 3 days, streaming from an mp3 server on and off for hours. The memory footprint is 8,464KB right now. I installed Winamp lite so maybe that helped.
I should have qualified my statement with my opinion on the MS case specifically, which is: they can bundle any software they see fit, its their product.
its the claim that total reliance on the system to police itself that I was arguing against. you sum it up precisely with: Now, there are other things that are honestly dirty that microsoft has done for us to talk about..
Slashdot Mirror
*sigh*
Nowhere in the question does he mention the word open or standard.
In fact, his complaint seems primarily to be cost:
force the few remaining holdouts, like me, to shell out for a copy of Word
I pointed him to a freely available MS program to read word files.
The MS equivalent to Adobe Reader if you will.
Kind of eliminates the need for his/her question really, since the "open standard"
issue is some slashdot borg's personal soapbox and does not relate to the question at all.
If he/she is on a unix machine, OO will do the trick, or Anti-Word, or whatever.
In fact, this ask Slashdot is clearly a -1 TROLL
so is the ms word reader.
I dont like the "Evil empire" any more than you do, but get over it.
It is as ubiquitous as PDF. Why are you not raving about PDF ??
You can get a free DOC viewer here or use OO.
Personally I use OO and it rocks.
If I resend a document I always convert it to rtf, txt, pdf, or another format to kind of send a hint.
or my winxp laptop that thinks everytime I unplug my usb wireless adapter and plug it back in, its a different device. Im up to local area connection #76 ;) linux is not alone in this regard by a long shot.
same thing with a handspring treo. switch usb ports and it has to go through the install routine all over again. ugggh. at least jpilot "just worked", unfortunately my cheap ass laptop simply will not work properly with any flavor of X video drivers.
I agree with your points. He can pay up or shut up if he wants the isos. You point is well taken. However, the phrase "information wants to be free" is actually pretty accurate. Kinda like water seeks the lowest point. Water doesnt seek anything. Its just an....nevermind.
does it search through a9 or generic.a9 ??
when I call someone a m #@#$$@# cker, I don't really mean they have sex with mothers.
It means the person is a jerk.
When someone says information wants to be free, it is summing up an idea in a nice compact way.
I would explain the idea but I just realized...oh God, did I actually respond to your troll. uugh.
runs great, just use the older winpcap, not version 3.
2.3 i think it is.
actually he was saying he would throttle the bandwidth down.
the mention of computer type was incidental.
but you are right.
I use a pentium 233 for a firewall/router and it handles everything I can dish at it.
not about the OS you don't
I agree with you, except that the GPL is an open style license. You can do whatever you want with GPL software, even sell it. Fairplay is a closed style of license and you cannot do whatever you want with it. You are totally right that its hypocritical. Hard one to work out because I agree with both sides.
I call this jerk out for making some twisted assumptions and I'm flamebait. Wow. Mods suck.
It is very disappointing that only one other comment points out that this guy is neither insightful nor honorable.
I wouldn't watch the video of the soldier getting beheaded becouse that is a man of honnor being attacked.
You don't know jack sh$t about the soldier, what his morals and ethics were, what kind of person he is, or anything else.
Being a soldier does not automatically make someone honorable (cough vietnam child rapes cough).
You dont know jack about this guy on the video either.
WTF??!! He is not worthy of your respect so its okay to watch his vid ? That is sick.
He might be a veteran for christs sake. You actually call him a loser. Wow. You are an a$$h*le.
I've had winamp running for 3 days, streaming from an mp3 server on and off for hours.
The memory footprint is 8,464KB right now. I installed Winamp lite so maybe that helped.
The ip goes first:
207.46.245.222 slashdot.org
I'd hate to see a lot of newbs try to use your example cut and paste and get no fun out of it !
that the slimserver is cross platform, and you don't need a squeezebox to play the streams.
WinAmp/GQAmp/XMMS/??? work great.
I dont own a squeezbox YET, but the slimp3 server is available to any
friends/family that come over with a laptop and want to listen (wirelessly).
Actually that whole directory is indexed, and there are some cool pictures
SlimDevices SlimDevices
As I read your post I was getting intrigued and hoping for a link to these hacks..
Help a brother out !
agreed.
:
I should have qualified my statement with my opinion on the MS case specifically, which is
they can bundle any software they see fit, its their product.
its the claim that total reliance on the system to police itself that I was arguing against.
you sum it up precisely with:
Now, there are other things that are honestly dirty that microsoft has done for us to talk about..
round 2. thats why the poster said "have an OPTION"
thats why the poster said "have an OPTION"
open source. cross platform. rocks.
SlimServer
XP has a built in firewall you could have enabled BEFORE you connected the ethernet cable
more than enough protection during your race to download patches.
frankly, enough protection for concientious users ALL the time
typical "i dont understand what capitalism is" bs.
Unrestrained, true capitalism will lead to a market dominated by huge corporations, who will then make big brother look like a sunday cartoon.
btw, I am not even close to being a socialist. Feel free to paint me that way though.
I've never understood the reasoning behind "I have more ram, so I make a bigger swap file".
Seems counterintuitive. Does anyone know why this is ??