Oooh, so it's not a matter that anyone has actually proven that consumers have actually been harmed in any way, it's a matter that the uncompetetive european software industry can't compete effectively with MS.
MS gets punished for offering MORE to their customers.
"Hello, thank you for flying with American Rocket Lines from Le Bourget to Moscow. We'd like to offer you pressure suits and escape pods, but the EU Anti-Trust Division says that would be an "uncompetetive act"." Our rockets may be clunky, but we are not allowed to fix the bugs in our rockets, nor are we allowed to sell you any insurance. To purchase escape pods from Airbus, you must order them three months in advance. Oh, and they insist on building them to metric measurements, while our Boeing Rockets are build to Standard. Thanks so much."
Legally forcing someone to make their proprietary software into open software is tantamount to the government forcing you to open your land as a free public campground. The only benefits you are allowed is the right to charge people to use the toilets.
Quite so. Half the slashdotters will have nothing to talk about, and with have to find some other bad guy to spin conspiracy theories about.
Seriously, though. As much as MS offends me, I am more offended by the idea that governments can confiscate somebodys property rights so easily.
People's Republik of Europe, here we come.
Prepare to wait in line 24 hours, comrade, for a chance to browse the empty shelves of the People's Software Commissary. Prepare to wait 10 months for the government to agree to allow you the privilege to use a compiler, after you agree to offer your output for free to your fellow comrades.
YET ONE MORE story I reported on a LONG time ago and got boned, once again, by the moderators. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. When you folks want to hear an original story, be sure to call me next time, rather than waiting for the moderator's pet dweebs to quote some article posted on some other site like they always do, rather than generate original content.
There are also those among us who again, balls notwithstanding, would simply prefer not to die.
You can get papercut infections anywhere, not just in Pentagon offices...
Seriously, one thing I learned serving in the military is that it is the best place to hide from a war... join up, get a cushy desk job specialist rating in some stateside coding outfit that will never see a battlefront in a million years, and watch all the nutless idiots get sent off to be cannon fodder.
Redmond (AP) - In a stunning revision of the laws of the free market, Justice Penfield Jackson has ruled today that Microsoft's closing of the vast plethora of security holes in its operating system is an anti-competetive act and ordered an injunction against releasing the patches to close these holes.
"This is the only possible just ruling," says the head of CSIA, stooge for security companies made rich by Microsoft's past stupidity....
If you mean "everyone" as in every user of the internet reaching consensus, then I agree with you. If, instead, you mean "a privileged few intellectually and politically correct giants using their vastly superior intellects to come up with the alleged perfect solution, who then shove it down everyone else's throats in a one-size-fits-all frenzy", then no.
Oh, I could go on and on about the Pentagon report on global warming. It is essentially a piece of crap produced by an ignorant hack, and contains a number of claims to facts not in evidence, outright falsehoods, and conclusions which contradict each other.
For example, even the much political tortued IPCC Climate Change Report admits that the best climate models predict only a 2 degree change over the next century (certainly not the next 20 years), while only the most mouth-foaming Green believes the claims of as much as 6 degrees.
Secondly, the Pentago Report recognises that most all of the warming is happening in arctic regions, NOT near the equator, yet goes on to claim that storms will get more severe as a result.
This conclusion doesn't match the evidence. When the temperature differential between the equator and the poles is reduced due to polar warming (in this case only at the north polar region), then storms, which are the engine for transferring heat from the equator to the poles, will be reduced in severity.
The Pentagon's conclusion to the contrary is evidence that they did not even have a meteorologist involved in the report, not to mention a glacial geologist or climatologist of any competence.
The claim is that the shut down of the North Atlantic current conveyor will result in an Ice Age for northern Europe. Hogwash. The conveyor shut down because northern Europe is too warm. When the arctic cools down again, the conveyor will start back up. This is a cycle called the North Atlantic Occillation which is well known to real climatologists.
Thirdly, Andrew Lorrey (a cousin of mine) of the U of Auckland proved several years ago that the Antarctic Ice Cap has been stable for the last 22 million years, contrary to the claims of the Green chicken-littles, and endured through periods where the earth was as much as 8-10 degrees warmer than today. Antarctica has become more and more thermally isolated over time as it tectonically separated from South America and the circumpolar wind and ocean currents have acted like a thermos bottle. The Antarctic Ice Caps are going nowhere any time soon.
Everyone involved needs to agree on a solution THEN implement it.
That is hardly productive.
Let mail app makers team up and propose their own solutions, and let the market decide which spam killing system works best.
Top down planning is for communists. While I realize there are plenty on/., you don't need to shove it down the throats of everyone else. Please contain your reflexes.
Nope, abstracted languages like that were made for typing. The fastway will be learning to program in machine code, by either tapping the pen to a binary cadence, or learning to speak binary.
1) Look for Extended Morse Code to communicate a 256 character set.
2) Whistle Code in octets. Two notes equals a letter or number, four notes is any of 256 characters.
3) Color Code with 16 colored keys on the side of the pen. Two Color Keys depressed, one by finger on right hand, the other by a finger on the left hand, equals 256 character possibilities.
Well, everyone who has replied so far to you is full of crap, both for and against, since nobody has posted any stats. Let's see some people who know the inside scoop post actualy stats.
I don't do the online gaming thing beyond flight sims, so all I have to go on is the only real world equivalent to FPS: paintball. In my experience in paintball, as well as real firearms competitions, while women can often be far more accurate shooters than most men, as far as agression and tactics go they generally lag, unless you have at just one authoritative and agressive woman to lead the squad. More than one, and you have major problems with teamwork. If you don't have one, the women get rolled over by male opposing teams.
Please, can someone with real stats give us some objective reality?
It's pretty simple and on-topic:/.ers who submit other people's stories without adding any original content or not getting their own scoop on happenings are no different from script kiddies who release other peoples viruses and worms to feel special.
Now I realize that the public schools these days are too incompetent to check the sources on your homework to see whether you are just rehashing or even copying other people's stuff, but the/. community is way too big and diverse to let people get away with it here.
Before submitting an article, try searching for similar stories in the/. archives before posting. Not only will this make you feel more responsible and professional, but it will reduce the workload on the overburdened/. moderators and editors, so that they can produce higher quality product. Total quality starts with everyone caring.
I read this morning (and submitted to Slashdot) a story...
Here is a fantastic new concept: how about people submit ORIGINAL stories to slashdot, not just pointers to stories published elsewhere on the web? Citing references to support your points is fine, but how about/.ers creating some original content for a change?
THis guy does NOT deserve a 5 mod in any way. This sort of argument is the typical statist propaganda. Under the civil law system, as is used in France, he would be right. We don't live under such a system (except for Louisiana), we live under common law, which is based on the natural law rights of the individual that our Constitution recognises (it does not grant them, an important point).
The facts are that the common law has recognised the jury's responsibility to judge both the defendant and the law. This is why the scales of justice have TWO plates, being balanced, not just one being weighed. One plate represents the defendant, the other represents the law.
This American style is to shuck off old clothes in time for next years fashions. Problem is, the fashion train ain't pullin into that station any time soon...
Newsflash: Microsoft has now concluded that any attempt whatsoever to add features to its flagship product will be labelled 'monopolistic bundling' by its competitors and the Axis of Anti-America. It is therefore laying off 3/4 of its workforce and reintroducing Windows 3.11 to the marketplace. 3.11 is now the most compact and fastest running operating system on the market...
Next story: Pentium wristwatches to run Windows...
The Russians have the capacity, and are for hire. If they're willing to baby sit Lance Bass for a couple weeks for $20 mil, they should be able to work on the Hubble pretty cheaply.
They would also jump at the chance to show up the arrogant NASA people, who by all accounts are pretty condescending to the Russian space agency.
Please. Telling one species of fish from another is as easy as telling an arab from a norwegian, though fish profiling is PC. You are not trying to discerne one individual tuna identity from another individual tuna identity. Of course, racial profiling is 'wrong' for people, but fishy profiling is entirely appropriate when you are trying to save SOME of the fish.
I am sure there would be objections if you used this system to screen which people you want to rescue from a sinking ship...
By all means, lets privatize the Hubble. Surely a consortium of universities can sufficiently fund it, given how much of the research via hubble is being done by university astronomy and physics types. Then, have the Hubble Consortium copyright all of the images and start the merchandizing bandwagon: posters, t-shirts, screen savers.
Information wants to be free.... free enterprise, that is...
I'm attractive to women whose superpower is to rapidly inflate...
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Actually, I can forsee an intergalactic market for human ash pills. Like the chinese penchant for tiger penises and rhino tusks, human ash capsules will be 'herbal viagra'. Considering how much the media act like dick heads all the time, media that is streaming out into space, I am sure the aliens would look at our ash capsules as aphrodesiacs.
Actually, according to VH1's "Behind the Music", the true number (i.e. in the right area code) was to Jenny's parents home, and they allegedly still have the number...
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MS gets punished for offering MORE to their customers.
"Hello, thank you for flying with American Rocket Lines from Le Bourget to Moscow. We'd like to offer you pressure suits and escape pods, but the EU Anti-Trust Division says that would be an "uncompetetive act"." Our rockets may be clunky, but we are not allowed to fix the bugs in our rockets, nor are we allowed to sell you any insurance. To purchase escape pods from Airbus, you must order them three months in advance. Oh, and they insist on building them to metric measurements, while our Boeing Rockets are build to Standard. Thanks so much."
XCOR has applied as well, though they are being even more coy than Scaled with what they are doing with their Xerus vehicle.
Seriously, though. As much as MS offends me, I am more offended by the idea that governments can confiscate somebodys property rights so easily.
People's Republik of Europe, here we come.
Prepare to wait in line 24 hours, comrade, for a chance to browse the empty shelves of the People's Software Commissary. Prepare to wait 10 months for the government to agree to allow you the privilege to use a compiler, after you agree to offer your output for free to your fellow comrades.
YET ONE MORE story I reported on a LONG time ago and got boned, once again, by the moderators. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. When you folks want to hear an original story, be sure to call me next time, rather than waiting for the moderator's pet dweebs to quote some article posted on some other site like they always do, rather than generate original content.
You can get papercut infections anywhere, not just in Pentagon offices...
Seriously, one thing I learned serving in the military is that it is the best place to hide from a war... join up, get a cushy desk job specialist rating in some stateside coding outfit that will never see a battlefront in a million years, and watch all the nutless idiots get sent off to be cannon fodder.
I hear there's this new craze sweeping the corporate world of looters and con men acting like executives, called CEO-okie...
Judge Orders Microsoft to Keep Security Flaws
Redmond (AP) - In a stunning revision of the laws of the free market, Justice Penfield Jackson has ruled today that Microsoft's closing of the vast plethora of security holes in its operating system is an anti-competetive act and ordered an injunction against releasing the patches to close these holes.
"This is the only possible just ruling," says the head of CSIA, stooge for security companies made rich by Microsoft's past stupidity ....
If you mean "everyone" as in every user of the internet reaching consensus, then I agree with you. If, instead, you mean "a privileged few intellectually and politically correct giants using their vastly superior intellects to come up with the alleged perfect solution, who then shove it down everyone else's throats in a one-size-fits-all frenzy", then no.
For example, even the much political tortued IPCC Climate Change Report admits that the best climate models predict only a 2 degree change over the next century (certainly not the next 20 years), while only the most mouth-foaming Green believes the claims of as much as 6 degrees.
Secondly, the Pentago Report recognises that most all of the warming is happening in arctic regions, NOT near the equator, yet goes on to claim that storms will get more severe as a result.
This conclusion doesn't match the evidence. When the temperature differential between the equator and the poles is reduced due to polar warming (in this case only at the north polar region), then storms, which are the engine for transferring heat from the equator to the poles, will be reduced in severity.
The Pentagon's conclusion to the contrary is evidence that they did not even have a meteorologist involved in the report, not to mention a glacial geologist or climatologist of any competence.
The claim is that the shut down of the North Atlantic current conveyor will result in an Ice Age for northern Europe. Hogwash. The conveyor shut down because northern Europe is too warm. When the arctic cools down again, the conveyor will start back up. This is a cycle called the North Atlantic Occillation which is well known to real climatologists.
Thirdly, Andrew Lorrey (a cousin of mine) of the U of Auckland proved several years ago that the Antarctic Ice Cap has been stable for the last 22 million years, contrary to the claims of the Green chicken-littles, and endured through periods where the earth was as much as 8-10 degrees warmer than today. Antarctica has become more and more thermally isolated over time as it tectonically separated from South America and the circumpolar wind and ocean currents have acted like a thermos bottle. The Antarctic Ice Caps are going nowhere any time soon.
That is hardly productive.
Let mail app makers team up and propose their own solutions, and let the market decide which spam killing system works best.
Top down planning is for communists. While I realize there are plenty on /., you don't need to shove it down the throats of everyone else. Please contain your reflexes.
1) Look for Extended Morse Code to communicate a 256 character set.
2) Whistle Code in octets. Two notes equals a letter or number, four notes is any of 256 characters.
3) Color Code with 16 colored keys on the side of the pen. Two Color Keys depressed, one by finger on right hand, the other by a finger on the left hand, equals 256 character possibilities.
I don't do the online gaming thing beyond flight sims, so all I have to go on is the only real world equivalent to FPS: paintball. In my experience in paintball, as well as real firearms competitions, while women can often be far more accurate shooters than most men, as far as agression and tactics go they generally lag, unless you have at just one authoritative and agressive woman to lead the squad. More than one, and you have major problems with teamwork. If you don't have one, the women get rolled over by male opposing teams.
Please, can someone with real stats give us some objective reality?
Now I realize that the public schools these days are too incompetent to check the sources on your homework to see whether you are just rehashing or even copying other people's stuff, but the /. community is way too big and diverse to let people get away with it here.
Before submitting an article, try searching for similar stories in the /. archives before posting. Not only will this make you feel more responsible and professional, but it will reduce the workload on the overburdened /. moderators and editors, so that they can produce higher quality product. Total quality starts with everyone caring.
Here is a fantastic new concept: how about people submit ORIGINAL stories to slashdot, not just pointers to stories published elsewhere on the web? Citing references to support your points is fine, but how about /.ers creating some original content for a change?
The facts are that the common law has recognised the jury's responsibility to judge both the defendant and the law. This is why the scales of justice have TWO plates, being balanced, not just one being weighed. One plate represents the defendant, the other represents the law.
^^^^ Has sex outside his species (i.e. with real women)...
This American style is to shuck off old clothes in time for next years fashions. Problem is, the fashion train ain't pullin into that station any time soon...
Next story: Pentium wristwatches to run Windows...
They would also jump at the chance to show up the arrogant NASA people, who by all accounts are pretty condescending to the Russian space agency.
I am sure there would be objections if you used this system to screen which people you want to rescue from a sinking ship...
Information wants to be free.... free enterprise, that is...