I guess for the same reason that you don't get paid to have your phone number put in the phone book (in fact usually, you pay more not to have it put it....) Having said that, I have no reason why not......
(BTW: For those not reading at Score: 0, his parent said "Typical Lunix user. If I can't think why x feature would be useful, then it must NOT BE USEFUL at all!")
The only times I've ever seen much usage from macros is viruses. The lab in my school would get infected with a.doc with a viral macro (someone would bring it on disk, accidentally). Okay. A few computers. Well, they'd store the macro on the public file server. It didn't take long to get several dozen computers infected. Being the single resident geek at school (think pop. 400) it was my job to fix them. Grrrrr...... Antivirus didn't catch them for about two weeks. They finally started working.
Anyway. I had never seen them used for anything productive. Now I know.
Okay. I figure that could happen, except for a few things.
1) Industries don't like selling / distributing technologies that will make them (the industries) obsolete. It's bad for their (so called) business model.
2) Assuming that someone does create this device, whoever comes up with a new design for you to download will probably still want to be paid. And will try to influence politians.
3) This is where we would normally say "Profit!!!!!". But I'm not going too.... ah crap.....
It just seems that for an office suite people would want to edit documents. Write text, read text. I don't really see the benifit in creating macros. Or if one insists in creating macros, I don't see the point in giving the macro ability to get outside of its sandbox. Oh well. Granted, I've never worked in a Fortune 500 company, so I really don't have any idea what they might use macros for. Oh well.
>>Do you not think that market dominance is not an appropriate goal for Linux? "Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect." -- Linus
I don't think it should be a goal. I think the goal should be to design a stable, secure and efficent kernel. If it gains market dominance in the process, so much the better, but that should not be one of the main driving forces.
>> Do you think that the principal designers of NT are only interested in market control?
No, but I believe the team in charge of marketing it is. And the CEO... and the people that actually get to make the decisions....
>> Am I completely deluded?
No more than myself, or any other regular slashdot reader....:P
Because the enemy (Linux) of my enemy (Microsoft) is my friend. Or at least so I assume. Lots of companies have just got annoyed at Microsoft. This is there way of fighting back. Besides, it's a good way for IBM to get a few points for Karma.
You get a restraining order for me and I'll give you the $45. And toss in a copy of any CodeWeavers product, BeOS and your choice of Linux Distro.
If you could get a restraining order for me against some of the clueless Windows users that call me up at 11:30P.M., I'd throw in a few bottles of OxyClean and a copy of Billy G's "The Road Ahead" (I believe that's the title). I'll even toss an autographed photo of Clippy in Hawaii.
>>>The 3,000+ degree graphite moderator was now exposed to open air and.....
Wow. You're telling me that have nuclear reactors to do slashdot moderation?! Of course! When a site gets slashdotted, the unfortunate server probably gets shot to kingdom come. Think if we could harness that power....
You are attempting to harm 911 = Terrorist
You are attempting to harm 18 of your closest enemies (with unintentional side effect of harming 911). = Moron.
I just wasted my mod point for this article, but I believe the difference would be that between terrorism and harassment or maybe assault. He was attacking 18 individuals. 18 Particular individuals. He wasn't attacking a group, but instead just individuals. Granted that had to be one of the stupidist things he could have done to get back at people. Really stupid....
Well, as long as SCO sticks by there current tactics, they will continue to be in violation of the GPL. As long as they are in violation of the GPL, they do not have rights to distribute any GPLed software. They deserve to get sued.
>>...So the next time a unknowing user goes to windowsupdate to get patches, he/she might get (automatically) Media Player as well....
Why not just go ahead and say, "during the next ice-age" or "When we finally find alien life" or how about "When Bill gives all his money to slashdot..."
Slashdot Mirror
Granted, it might be to your advantage if you're the server....
I guess for the same reason that you don't get paid to have your phone number put in the phone book (in fact usually, you pay more not to have it put it....) Having said that, I have no reason why not......
(BTW: For those not reading at Score: 0, his parent said "Typical Lunix user. If I can't think why x feature would be useful, then it must NOT BE USEFUL at all!")
The only times I've ever seen much usage from macros is viruses. The lab in my school would get infected with a .doc with a viral macro (someone would bring it on disk, accidentally). Okay. A few computers. Well, they'd store the macro on the public file server. It didn't take long to get several dozen computers infected. Being the single resident geek at school (think pop. 400) it was my job to fix them. Grrrrr...... Antivirus didn't catch them for about two weeks. They finally started working.
Anyway. I had never seen them used for anything productive. Now I know.
Okay. I figure that could happen, except for a few things.
1) Industries don't like selling / distributing technologies that will make them (the industries) obsolete. It's bad for their (so called) business model.
2) Assuming that someone does create this device, whoever comes up with a new design for you to download will probably still want to be paid. And will try to influence politians.
3) This is where we would normally say "Profit!!!!!". But I'm not going too.... ah crap.....
It just seems that for an office suite people would want to edit documents. Write text, read text. I don't really see the benifit in creating macros. Or if one insists in creating macros, I don't see the point in giving the macro ability to get outside of its sandbox. Oh well. Granted, I've never worked in a Fortune 500 company, so I really don't have any idea what they might use macros for. Oh well.
1) go to the commandline
2) su (and successfully login as root)
3) rm / -r
There are several variations of this your might try. I'm sure that other slashdotters will quickly correct me on the proper method.
"Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect." -- Linus
I don't think it should be a goal. I think the goal should be to design a stable, secure and efficent kernel. If it gains market dominance in the process, so much the better, but that should not be one of the main driving forces.
>> Do you think that the principal designers of NT are only interested in market control?
No, but I believe the team in charge of marketing it is. And the CEO... and the people that actually get to make the decisions....
>> Am I completely deluded?
No more than myself, or any other regular slashdot reader.... :P
If you could get a restraining order for me against some of the clueless Windows users that call me up at 11:30P.M., I'd throw in a few bottles of OxyClean and a copy of Billy G's "The Road Ahead" (I believe that's the title). I'll even toss an autographed photo of Clippy in Hawaii.
Then your next answer's free.
But are we really ready for armagedon?
If only we had something more scientific.... like scrabble....
Wow. You're telling me that have nuclear reactors to do slashdot moderation?! Of course! When a site gets slashdotted, the unfortunate server probably gets shot to kingdom come. Think if we could harness that power....
Oh, and how do I get a 3000 degree karma?
I've never had any problem with Flash MX and Wine. Dreamweaver a problem (Stability wise), but Flash already apprears to be fine.
Oh wow!! Where do I get this BacOS? Can I run it on linux? How about my 486.... oh Bacos..... like the little chunks of food thingy..... right....
You are attempting to harm 18 of your closest enemies (with unintentional side effect of harming 911). = Moron.
Until it goes with your shirt into the laundry.... then you have very wet source code and very liquid commodities....
I just wasted my mod point for this article, but I believe the difference would be that between terrorism and harassment or maybe assault. He was attacking 18 individuals. 18 Particular individuals. He wasn't attacking a group, but instead just individuals. Granted that had to be one of the stupidist things he could have done to get back at people. Really stupid....
However, in SCO's letter to congress they did call it (correct me if I'm wrong) unconstitutional. I could be wrong though.
Well, as long as SCO sticks by there current tactics, they will continue to be in violation of the GPL. As long as they are in violation of the GPL, they do not have rights to distribute any GPLed software. They deserve to get sued.
Wow! I better go get out my Windows 3.1.... It's been a while since the I've had any new updates on that.... It must be real safe!
Why not just go ahead and say, "during the next ice-age" or "When we finally find alien life" or how about "When Bill gives all his money to slashdot..."