Until it came out they had hired a former MS exec.
I think it was funny that they pooh-poohed a demonstration by a dozen people. Any number of people come out to protest a technology choice should be an eye-opener. One of the first things I learned working for public radio was that you didn't piss off opera fans. There weren't very many of them, but they were vocal and passionate. Much like Linux users. The Beeb should have more class.
It still surprises me to find IE only web sites from big companies, but they're still out there. It's so rude and comes across as primitive and...last week.
My last experience buying anything from Best Buy was four or five years ago and involved their manufacturer rebates. It was a Phillips CDROM drive. Filled out the paperwork carefully, sent in the rebate forms and it was denied because they claimed they couldn't scan the UPC code...totally bogus. Wrote to Best Buy, they agreed I was due a refund and they'd contact Phillips. No check. Another letter, this time a phone call and letter, they'd get right on it. Again, no check. A third letter, just because it was becoming a contest of wills. Another agreement that I was due $30.00, another apology, and still no check.
Between that and door Nazi stories, that was the last time I set foot in a Best Buy. And it sounds like they've done nothing but swirl even further down the customer service toilet since that time.
Pro-Kremlin bloggers have used their skills to bury news about anti-Kremlin demonstrations: at Russian news portals, web links to news about pro-Kremlin rallies consistently rank higher than web links to news about anti-Kremlin demonstrations.
So, the Russians are adopting the tactics of the Bush administration. It's a sad day for Russia.
Years from now we're going to find out Gates and Ballmer secretly shorted their Microsoft stock and bought Apple. We'll find out the day we wake up to discover they now own the entire planet.
The APA, the agreement managing SCO and Novell's working relationship as it pertains to Unix, stipulates that in the event of bankruptcy the ownership rights shift back to Novell. I don't think SCO can sell them if they wanted to.
And why would YCM want to take on the potential liability of the counter-claims against SCO? That makes no sense. Sounds like they want to try to take the meat and leave the potatoes. I doubt that will fly with the BK court.
Interestingly coincidental that the sales price is the exact same amount as the converted funds SCO took, isn't it? What are the odds?
I wonder how long it will take for the FOSS community to find the links between YCM and Microsoft?
I had to spend a lot of frustrating time learning to do things GIMP's way. It takes longer if you're used to working with other programs. But if you stick with it over time it starts to make its own kind of sense. Now I have to think about how to do the same thing in PS.
Blender is the same way. If you learn other 3D programs, you'll be tearing your hair out with Blender. If you learn it the other way around, Blender has its own logic about how to do things.
I do still wish the GIMP team would change the name.
The problem with using device drivers as the basis for activation information is that a change in the driver model which has the result of changing the way that the hardware information is reported back to Windows can be enough to register as a physical hardware change.
How could MS not know that would happen? It's like they just got into the computer business last year, but they act like it sometimes.
What a headache for admins. I just can't believe companies take this kind of treatment from a vendor when there are really good alternatives available.
What I always liked about Linux was that developers didn't need to be driven by bottom line concerns. If changing the color scheme bothered them, that's what they'd work on. If someone else didn't like it, they could go fork it themselves.
I'm a little concerned when corporate interests take over funding much of the Linux development that business concerns will start trumping community interests. In some ways that's inevitable and, from the standpoint of the paid developers, not all a bad thing. Still, I think we'll lose some of the community feeling. Like when AOL users descended on the internet.
Sort of like the difference between playing golf as a hobby and as a craft. Takes all the fun out of the game.
Yes and the same can be said of the Democrats who went along with this travesty...
That's what really chaps my undies. I despise the Republicans but the Wishycrats being such pussies dealing with the White House is hair-pulling maddening.
I would vote for a yellow dog before I'd vote Republican, but I can really understand why they despise Democrats. Voting for telecom immunity just really pisses me off. Yeah, trample on the Constitution but don't worry about any actual consequences.
It seems to me law enforcement has some responsibility here as well. They don't look at the house when they got there? Unless gunfire is routine in your neighborhood the neighbors would all be up, there would be lights on, sometimes people in the street. It's a circus. Did they run priors on the homeowner for drugs? Check the record on vehicles registered at that address? All things they could do en route. You can't tell me their cop instincts weren't telling them something was wrong with that call. At least enough to do two minutes of research before kicking in someone's door or talk to the 911 operator.
I know the local cops here, they double check. L.A. just sends in the SWAT team to kick down their door without running some background? WTF? They're lucky they didn't have a defensive pet, it would have likely gotten shot down. Great for the kid's well being.
Don't even try to tell me the cops shouldn't be making those kinds of judgment calls because that's bullshit. Those are exactly the kinds of things a SWAT team has to be prepared for. Any snitch can give out a bogus address, it could have been a crank call or the dispatch operator could have messed up. They don't have an SoP to verify that level of response? That's bullshit.
I'll admit this may be a little tinfoil-hattish but it makes me wonder if MSFT is the only player in this saga. Just supposed in the wake of 9-11 hysteria that someone in the administration had the brainy idea to slip a traceable...something...in PC's to track terror suspects. Not something that reported to a third party...too easy to spot the traffic. Something that relayed the data through MSFT so the destination would remain hidden. Now the forced updates are wiping out whatever it was.
Probably out there but a few years ago suspecting the phone companies of listening in on the phone calls of millions of Americans without a warrant would have been really out there.
And before that was the revelation that printers were spitting out identifiable information in the background.
It's a sad testimony that wholesale spying on PC users is not out of the realm of the plausible for the current administration to attempt or Microsoft to cooperate.
It may be years from now before we find out the whole truth. What we know today should send a shudder through every freedom loving person in this country. I'm mildly surprised so many hard-core right wingers are okay with the government spying on them.
Sounds like someone needs a little dose of American style freedom and democracy! Bomb them back into the stone age and then monitor all their phone calls.
Better watch it, or we'll start dropping democracy on your country. Get some! Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat Get some! Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat....
We'll bomb your country into the stone age, invade so we can bring you freedom, then listen in on your phone calls because you sneaky bastards might be harboring terrorists, weapons of mass destruction or Canadians.
I'd definitely consider getting certified but Canonical's certification program doesn't seem well developed. Unless there's another one I don't know about, your only options are Toronto and Seattle.
I'm definitely up for supporting Dell Ubuntu servers.
Suck is sort of a generic term but when it comes to specific customer installations go I've never seen one go smoothly...ever. Never seen one come in on budget, either. The best thing I can say for either one of them is they're better than Seibel.
I have seen the reps leapfrog over the technical department to pitch the executives, glossing over the implementation and cost issues. Seen them give out customer testimonials that didn't hold up to investigation, low ball hardware requirements and suggest that the IT people were well-meaning but out of their depth.
I also disagree that it's something that couldn't be custom built for less money and deliver longer and more reliable service. Now if you mean having EDS or Dell Consulting build it for you then, yes, you're completely correct in that context.
The other day I was looking for a song that's been off the air for some time. Finally ended up going to eBay and buying the CD, which was the effort of least time. It was an artist with the Sony/BMG label. If their library were online and I could download a high quality MP3 for a buck, I'd do that just to save myself the time hunting around for the CD.
It's like the music business is being run by the Bush administration. They couldn't screw it up any worse if they planned it. First they sue their customers, always a way to win the hearts and minds. Then they try to wrap everything in DRM and license yet another company to distribute it. The user has to figure out which company is distributing that label, then which operating system/music player you have to have to play their music. Then hope they don't pull a Microsoft Plays For Sure on you and drop support for the old format.
There are too many good alternatives for artists to go straight to the consumer these days. The old record companies take everything from the artist and give very little back. I think the EMI guy is right. Either start providing value to artists and consumers or f'ing die and good riddance you greedy, cocaine laced fucktards.
Linux will always be a niche player on the desktop.
I believe Linux will become the definitive commodity desktop and Windows will gradually be regulated to a niche player and compete with Apple for a limited pool of users with specific software needs. And that commodity desktop will be, largely, the Linux we know today.
Perhaps from the perspective of a gamer your perspective would be true, but when you look across the corporate enterprise it's a different picture. The level of effort to keep a Windows enterprise running in any sort of decent shape is staggering. Running it securely requires a level of effort that borders on the insane and limits user production so severely it sometimes seems the users are serving the machine, ala Metropolis. I have a customer doing...trying to do...that very thing. It's an ongoing disaster that challenges users to find ever more creative ways to skirt the restrictions.
The byzantine license requirements and ever escalating costs merely increase the market pressure to a shift away from pure Microsoft environments.
Never underestimate market pressure. 5 to 7 years ago the economic pressure in the film industry started to shift toward video over film. I remember discussions on video forums there would be a lot of "not in our lifetime" comments about the demise of film. But the film empire in entertainment production has been crumbling ever since at an ever increasing pace. A shift in projection delivery coupled with a push to retrofit film projectors with digital projectors, and you'll see film processing equipment in the museum next to punch card readers.
I think you'll be surprised how fast the sea change can take place. Strangely, I don't think they'll be surprised in Redmond. They see it coming.
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Until it came out they had hired a former MS exec.
I think it was funny that they pooh-poohed a demonstration by a dozen people. Any number of people come out to protest a technology choice should be an eye-opener. One of the first things I learned working for public radio was that you didn't piss off opera fans. There weren't very many of them, but they were vocal and passionate. Much like Linux users. The Beeb should have more class.
It still surprises me to find IE only web sites from big companies, but they're still out there. It's so rude and comes across as primitive and...last week.
Please note that all "In Soviet Russia..." jokes have now been replaced with "In post 9-11 America..."
My last experience buying anything from Best Buy was four or five years ago and involved their manufacturer rebates. It was a Phillips CDROM drive. Filled out the paperwork carefully, sent in the rebate forms and it was denied because they claimed they couldn't scan the UPC code...totally bogus. Wrote to Best Buy, they agreed I was due a refund and they'd contact Phillips. No check. Another letter, this time a phone call and letter, they'd get right on it. Again, no check. A third letter, just because it was becoming a contest of wills. Another agreement that I was due $30.00, another apology, and still no check.
Between that and door Nazi stories, that was the last time I set foot in a Best Buy. And it sounds like they've done nothing but swirl even further down the customer service toilet since that time.
And it was a crap drive anyway.
Pro-Kremlin bloggers have used their skills to bury news about anti-Kremlin demonstrations: at Russian news portals, web links to news about pro-Kremlin rallies consistently rank higher than web links to news about anti-Kremlin demonstrations.
So, the Russians are adopting the tactics of the Bush administration. It's a sad day for Russia.
in which FEMA employees posed as reporters
Maybe one of these days FEMA employees could start impersonating first responders.
has suddenly flared to be literally a million times brighter,
It's the Silver Surfer! Aaaaah, we're all gonna die when the giant cloud-thing comes and eats our planet.
Last call.
Years from now we're going to find out Gates and Ballmer secretly shorted their Microsoft stock and bought Apple. We'll find out the day we wake up to discover they now own the entire planet.
The APA, the agreement managing SCO and Novell's working relationship as it pertains to Unix, stipulates that in the event of bankruptcy the ownership rights shift back to Novell. I don't think SCO can sell them if they wanted to.
And why would YCM want to take on the potential liability of the counter-claims against SCO? That makes no sense. Sounds like they want to try to take the meat and leave the potatoes. I doubt that will fly with the BK court.
Interestingly coincidental that the sales price is the exact same amount as the converted funds SCO took, isn't it? What are the odds?
I wonder how long it will take for the FOSS community to find the links between YCM and Microsoft?
I had to spend a lot of frustrating time learning to do things GIMP's way. It takes longer if you're used to working with other programs. But if you stick with it over time it starts to make its own kind of sense. Now I have to think about how to do the same thing in PS.
Blender is the same way. If you learn other 3D programs, you'll be tearing your hair out with Blender. If you learn it the other way around, Blender has its own logic about how to do things.
I do still wish the GIMP team would change the name.
The problem with using device drivers as the basis for activation information is that a change in the driver model which has the result of changing the way that the hardware information is reported back to Windows can be enough to register as a physical hardware change.
How could MS not know that would happen? It's like they just got into the computer business last year, but they act like it sometimes.
What a headache for admins. I just can't believe companies take this kind of treatment from a vendor when there are really good alternatives available.
What I always liked about Linux was that developers didn't need to be driven by bottom line concerns. If changing the color scheme bothered them, that's what they'd work on. If someone else didn't like it, they could go fork it themselves.
I'm a little concerned when corporate interests take over funding much of the Linux development that business concerns will start trumping community interests. In some ways that's inevitable and, from the standpoint of the paid developers, not all a bad thing. Still, I think we'll lose some of the community feeling. Like when AOL users descended on the internet.
Sort of like the difference between playing golf as a hobby and as a craft. Takes all the fun out of the game.
Darth RIAA just felt a great shudder go through the record industry. As if thousands of A&R reps cried out at once and were suddenly silenced.
Yes and the same can be said of the Democrats who went along with this travesty...
That's what really chaps my undies. I despise the Republicans but the Wishycrats being such pussies dealing with the White House is hair-pulling maddening.
I would vote for a yellow dog before I'd vote Republican, but I can really understand why they despise Democrats. Voting for telecom immunity just really pisses me off. Yeah, trample on the Constitution but don't worry about any actual consequences.
A pox on both our houses. We need a third option.
It seems to me law enforcement has some responsibility here as well. They don't look at the house when they got there? Unless gunfire is routine in your neighborhood the neighbors would all be up, there would be lights on, sometimes people in the street. It's a circus. Did they run priors on the homeowner for drugs? Check the record on vehicles registered at that address? All things they could do en route. You can't tell me their cop instincts weren't telling them something was wrong with that call. At least enough to do two minutes of research before kicking in someone's door or talk to the 911 operator.
I know the local cops here, they double check. L.A. just sends in the SWAT team to kick down their door without running some background? WTF? They're lucky they didn't have a defensive pet, it would have likely gotten shot down. Great for the kid's well being.
Don't even try to tell me the cops shouldn't be making those kinds of judgment calls because that's bullshit. Those are exactly the kinds of things a SWAT team has to be prepared for. Any snitch can give out a bogus address, it could have been a crank call or the dispatch operator could have messed up. They don't have an SoP to verify that level of response? That's bullshit.
I'll admit this may be a little tinfoil-hattish but it makes me wonder if MSFT is the only player in this saga. Just supposed in the wake of 9-11 hysteria that someone in the administration had the brainy idea to slip a traceable...something...in PC's to track terror suspects. Not something that reported to a third party...too easy to spot the traffic. Something that relayed the data through MSFT so the destination would remain hidden. Now the forced updates are wiping out whatever it was.
Probably out there but a few years ago suspecting the phone companies of listening in on the phone calls of millions of Americans without a warrant would have been really out there.
And before that was the revelation that printers were spitting out identifiable information in the background.
It's a sad testimony that wholesale spying on PC users is not out of the realm of the plausible for the current administration to attempt or Microsoft to cooperate.
It may be years from now before we find out the whole truth. What we know today should send a shudder through every freedom loving person in this country. I'm mildly surprised so many hard-core right wingers are okay with the government spying on them.
[the creators] hope to encourage people to undermine, or at least mock, the online social communities...
Before Snubster there was /.
Sounds like someone needs a little dose of American style freedom and democracy! Bomb them back into the stone age and then monitor all their phone calls.
This is a job for Decider Man!
Yes... and The US of A also invented "Democrazy".
Better watch it, or we'll start dropping democracy on your country. Get some! Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat Get some! Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat....
We'll bomb your country into the stone age, invade so we can bring you freedom, then listen in on your phone calls because you sneaky bastards might be harboring terrorists, weapons of mass destruction or Canadians.
I'd definitely consider getting certified but Canonical's certification program doesn't seem well developed. Unless there's another one I don't know about, your only options are Toronto and Seattle.
I'm definitely up for supporting Dell Ubuntu servers.
The second relates to the collection or possession of information useful in the preparation of an act of terrorism.
That could be anything. A road map, rail pass, bus ticket, blueprints...just about anything on paper could be useful in preparing an act of terrorism.
This whole war on terror is getting loony. The real terrorists are probably laughing their ass off watching us twist ourselves in knots.
Neither SAP nor Peoplesoft suck.
Suck is sort of a generic term but when it comes to specific customer installations go I've never seen one go smoothly...ever. Never seen one come in on budget, either. The best thing I can say for either one of them is they're better than Seibel.
I have seen the reps leapfrog over the technical department to pitch the executives, glossing over the implementation and cost issues. Seen them give out customer testimonials that didn't hold up to investigation, low ball hardware requirements and suggest that the IT people were well-meaning but out of their depth.
I also disagree that it's something that couldn't be custom built for less money and deliver longer and more reliable service. Now if you mean having EDS or Dell Consulting build it for you then, yes, you're completely correct in that context.
The other day I was looking for a song that's been off the air for some time. Finally ended up going to eBay and buying the CD, which was the effort of least time. It was an artist with the Sony/BMG label. If their library were online and I could download a high quality MP3 for a buck, I'd do that just to save myself the time hunting around for the CD.
It's like the music business is being run by the Bush administration. They couldn't screw it up any worse if they planned it. First they sue their customers, always a way to win the hearts and minds. Then they try to wrap everything in DRM and license yet another company to distribute it. The user has to figure out which company is distributing that label, then which operating system/music player you have to have to play their music. Then hope they don't pull a Microsoft Plays For Sure on you and drop support for the old format.
There are too many good alternatives for artists to go straight to the consumer these days. The old record companies take everything from the artist and give very little back. I think the EMI guy is right. Either start providing value to artists and consumers or f'ing die and good riddance you greedy, cocaine laced fucktards.
Linux will always be a niche player on the desktop.
I believe Linux will become the definitive commodity desktop and Windows will gradually be regulated to a niche player and compete with Apple for a limited pool of users with specific software needs. And that commodity desktop will be, largely, the Linux we know today.
Perhaps from the perspective of a gamer your perspective would be true, but when you look across the corporate enterprise it's a different picture. The level of effort to keep a Windows enterprise running in any sort of decent shape is staggering. Running it securely requires a level of effort that borders on the insane and limits user production so severely it sometimes seems the users are serving the machine, ala Metropolis. I have a customer doing...trying to do...that very thing. It's an ongoing disaster that challenges users to find ever more creative ways to skirt the restrictions.
The byzantine license requirements and ever escalating costs merely increase the market pressure to a shift away from pure Microsoft environments.
Never underestimate market pressure. 5 to 7 years ago the economic pressure in the film industry started to shift toward video over film. I remember discussions on video forums there would be a lot of "not in our lifetime" comments about the demise of film. But the film empire in entertainment production has been crumbling ever since at an ever increasing pace. A shift in projection delivery coupled with a push to retrofit film projectors with digital projectors, and you'll see film processing equipment in the museum next to punch card readers.
I think you'll be surprised how fast the sea change can take place. Strangely, I don't think they'll be surprised in Redmond. They see it coming.
The appendix's job is to reboot the digestive system in that case.
So your appendix is run by Microsoft support.
Crows.