I wouldn't say allergic, I come out of the house all the time. Alright, so it does coincide when gentoo is compiling and I'm out of caffine and natalie portman is in a movie playing that I can't download, but I do get out of the house!
This is only good for those with broadband. No one on a modem is going to download this. Service packs are great until you factor in the time to download and install. People who were too lazy to update once a week aren't going to install this service pack for the same reason. Windows, if you patch and use antivirus and a hardware firewall, can be pretty stable and secure. However, without all that you're asking for trouble. I still think the majority of problems stem from ignorant users, not the horribly evil company itself. And why do they charge for mailing these service pack CDs? If you paid $300 retail or even the $40 or so from an oem, you should be entitled to a free update CD with no shipping cost. If AOL can afford to send out millions of those discs, Microsoft can do the same. Hell, they already do it for MSN.
Well, yeah, call me captain obvious. I saw this show on the history channel a little while ago that did a computer simulation of traffic on a highway. It actually showed that up to a certain point, a lot of cars on the road is fine. However, once it hits a certain point, the flow dramatically drops.
Living in New Jersey, traffic is a part of my daily life. I've noticed that even when there are a lot of cars on the road, the traffic can still move along above the speed limit in rush hour. But there is still that point when all the traffic just seems to stop and you're crawling along at 10 miles an hour.
The show also mentioned a study the government funded. They spend several million dollars to try and figure this problem out. Their conclusions: "there are too many cars on the road." Now, for the low low price of $20,000, I could have told them that.
This affects all browsers I've tried it on. When you click in a "hyperlink" it brings you to a page without asking you specifically if you would like to switch pages. Things to watch out for is the mouse pointer changing to a finger. In fact, if you pointer does change to a finger, you're probably vulnerable. The most shocking aspect is even Lynx is vulnerable to this web bug.
You could say the same thing about packages in linux. Little programs requiring these obscure packages mucks up the system too. I think this is a little trollish for you to say that just because windows isn't bad now it will be because it's microsoft. I've had more segfaults than windows crashed and I've been running linux for a month. All the anti-microsoft trolls have to realize that windows xp kept up to date and firewalled is pretty damn stable. I really think the only problem with windows is how easy it is to install software (spyware) on it.
Even though I use linux now exclusively at home, I don't see too many benefits. I honestly use it because I'm bored and I like to tinker around. If I wasn't into computers or felt linux experience would be good for a career, I wouldn't do it.
Hey I NEED those folders. Back when those folders didn't exist, I would just randomly throw music anywhere. I had 302 mp3's on my desktop at one time. Thank god microsoft stepped in with this innovation.
And Settings? Who needs to adjust settings? What are you? Some terrorist trying to run "linux"?
"NOOOOO!!!! Don't say standard!!! It's closed source. Only oggs are acceptable for my ears. Everytime I hear an mp3 my ear drums burst."
Sorry, I couldn't help myself as that is the required slashdot response when someone says "mp3" and "standard" in the same sense. I agree with you though, mp3s will always dominate because they have no DRM and they sound damn good enough to just about everyone. And all this paranoia about people thinking some day their "closed music collection" will be inaccessable is BS because every music player worth a download plays mp3. I'll bet there were a lot of people in sony complaining about the ATRAC format. Nothing like a PHB and idiot marketting majors to fuck up the walkman
I am assuming this is to prevent terrorists and rogue nations from developing super computers that would...do something bad? Alright, maybe some nuclear weapons simulations? Here's the problem, any country or group of people can get their hands on pentiums if they tried hard enough. I think that the past few years has shown us that a country or terrorist group can accomplish a lot of they are dedicated. This is one of those typical laws that just makes it difficult for the ligitimate people who follow the rules.
I'll bring up an example every slashdotter can relate to. Microsoft's activation didn't prevent piracy one bit. The corporate version or crack patches that would disable activation got around it easily. All it did was inconvienence people who went to the stores and bought the software legally and honestly.
I'd say a good portion of my search queries on google are linux related. Things like entering the error message in quotes or the name of a file to get specific help on it are invaluable. I like that I can trust google not to blatently skew results their favor.
This has nothing directly to do with lawyers. The people who initiate these patent fights are companies who thought it would be a good idea to patent something either really general or already existing. Alright so their lawyers are going to make some money, but that's a side effect, not a direct cause. If they lawyers were getting all the money, the company wouldn't initially start these patent fights.
When microsoft patented that double click thing a few months ago and everyone on slashdot flipped a shit, I doubt there was a manager at microsoft thinking "yes, now all those lawyers will make some more money!"
While people can debate about this, I do think it's something important for linux. It says that no matter what one company can do to try to make their development platform closed and proprietary, the open source community can retort back with their open standards. Yeah, this is just an attempt at cloning yet another microsoft product by the open source community, but when the world uses microsoft and they're distributing this for free, it hardly is as bad as one software giant cloning say...word perfect. I haven't tried mono yet, but when the day arrives when I can run a windows app and linux app without jumping through wine I'll be a happy linux user.
I really think operating systems have become a comodity anyway. To me, linux, windows, and mac don't mean much but the software that runs on them. Sure, making different versions like mozilla does works now, but you can't expect companies like adobe to ever do the same. I think running things off the same compiled code is where software should be headed. This would make the argument of not being able to switch to linux because of lack of supported applications moot.
This is the first time I've ever thought of.NET as something positive.
That's the first thing I thought when I saw this video. Hell, even I could park in that spot. They did a good job, but until they can park in a spot 8 inches longer than your car like in NYC, it doesn't have so much practical purpose. Nice trick nonetheless.
I tried this with my laptop running gentoo once. It worked pretty well until I hit a wifi hotspot and it found 3 updates and started compiling for 8 hours.
I'm running kde 3.2.2 on a p4 1.8 ghz with 512 mb of ram and it's sluggish compared to windows xp. I don't think time should be spent trying to make cool looking 3d wm's but trying to improve xfree (alright, now xorg) or kde.
I mean I think what they're doing is cool in terms of "hey let's try this" but I don't see this as where window managers are headed. People still want fast and colorful icons and a nice file browser that's well integrated with apps. If you're unsure what I meant, compare the "save as" dialogs in mozilla and kedit.
Sorry for the rant, I was just a little annoyed I had to reboot after having an uptime of only 8 days.
How about rather than joining 3 million other slashdotters in bitching about the rich guy down the street you actually contribute. If you think you can do better, than help an open source project. All of the programs you listed have an open source counterpart that in ways don't measure up to microsoft's "crap clones" as of yet. I'd rather you use your talent to help or at least donate to open office. Spreading FUD about microsoft's programs isn't going to help shit.
Does there have to be a damn blue screen of death joke in every microsoft article? It was funny 2 years ago when people actually got them. Pull your head out of your ass or at least get a sense of humor that people in this century can relate to. Actually, the rating system of slashdot should have modded that down below my browsing level but someone decided to waste a whole mod point on thinking that was funny.
Microsoft could give the windows source code out with a compiler so people could create their own custom windows and people would still bitch at them. Face it, microsoft is starting to do what everyone has been bashing them for not doing for years and people still find something to complain about. As far as F/OSS zealots on/. go, microsoft should just give up as they'll never please them.
This is a waste of microsoft's time and money. When piracy is common and not enforced people still are not going to pay for a cheaper version of windows. My guess is they did this to slow the adoption of linux in these countries. I think microsoft should instead started some bullshit charity program and just give copies of windows out. They don't care so much about making money off each copy of windows out there. They care about people depending on it so they keep using it thus making adoption to linux more difficult and expensive.
That's a pretty unrealistic generalization in my opinion. I know few people who will crack open their case. I think you could make that generalization about linux users and further geek-ify that operating system. I've always thought that mac owners are people who are willing to spend the extra money for style and for a computer that generally works with no effort at all. I don't think that's bad at all. If you're not interested in computers then why should geeks on slashdot care? I enjoy cracking computers open. I enjoy overclocking my 500 Mhz K6-2 in the box I use for linux "projects" and just messing around with. I enjoy when I get a problem and I fix it. But to claim we're somehow better people because of our predilection of getting down and dirty with our computers is absolute nonsense.
You almost had me going there until you mentioned your snappy 500 Mhz K6. I've got one of those running gentoo and it's still slow as hell. Well, the console is snappy, but any window manager is like motor oil on a frozen winter morning.
And by the way, it was a lot snappier when it was running windows. I bring this up simply because you sound like a linux fanboy and that bigbrotherware shit is just fud and tin foil hat conspiracy shit.
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I wouldn't say allergic, I come out of the house all the time. Alright, so it does coincide when gentoo is compiling and I'm out of caffine and natalie portman is in a movie playing that I can't download, but I do get out of the house!
This is only good for those with broadband. No one on a modem is going to download this. Service packs are great until you factor in the time to download and install. People who were too lazy to update once a week aren't going to install this service pack for the same reason. Windows, if you patch and use antivirus and a hardware firewall, can be pretty stable and secure. However, without all that you're asking for trouble. I still think the majority of problems stem from ignorant users, not the horribly evil company itself. And why do they charge for mailing these service pack CDs? If you paid $300 retail or even the $40 or so from an oem, you should be entitled to a free update CD with no shipping cost. If AOL can afford to send out millions of those discs, Microsoft can do the same. Hell, they already do it for MSN.
Well, yeah, call me captain obvious. I saw this show on the history channel a little while ago that did a computer simulation of traffic on a highway. It actually showed that up to a certain point, a lot of cars on the road is fine. However, once it hits a certain point, the flow dramatically drops.
Living in New Jersey, traffic is a part of my daily life. I've noticed that even when there are a lot of cars on the road, the traffic can still move along above the speed limit in rush hour. But there is still that point when all the traffic just seems to stop and you're crawling along at 10 miles an hour.
The show also mentioned a study the government funded. They spend several million dollars to try and figure this problem out. Their conclusions: "there are too many cars on the road." Now, for the low low price of $20,000, I could have told them that.
Seriously, how long? I've only seen this in windows XP. I never used it because i didn't like it, but it may just be legitimate. Gasp!!!
Nope, he sucks.
This affects all browsers I've tried it on. When you click in a "hyperlink" it brings you to a page without asking you specifically if you would like to switch pages. Things to watch out for is the mouse pointer changing to a finger. In fact, if you pointer does change to a finger, you're probably vulnerable. The most shocking aspect is even Lynx is vulnerable to this web bug.
You could say the same thing about packages in linux. Little programs requiring these obscure packages mucks up the system too. I think this is a little trollish for you to say that just because windows isn't bad now it will be because it's microsoft. I've had more segfaults than windows crashed and I've been running linux for a month. All the anti-microsoft trolls have to realize that windows xp kept up to date and firewalled is pretty damn stable. I really think the only problem with windows is how easy it is to install software (spyware) on it.
Even though I use linux now exclusively at home, I don't see too many benefits. I honestly use it because I'm bored and I like to tinker around. If I wasn't into computers or felt linux experience would be good for a career, I wouldn't do it.
Hey I NEED those folders. Back when those folders didn't exist, I would just randomly throw music anywhere. I had 302 mp3's on my desktop at one time. Thank god microsoft stepped in with this innovation.
And Settings? Who needs to adjust settings? What are you? Some terrorist trying to run "linux"?
"NOOOOO!!!! Don't say standard!!! It's closed source. Only oggs are acceptable for my ears. Everytime I hear an mp3 my ear drums burst."
Sorry, I couldn't help myself as that is the required slashdot response when someone says "mp3" and "standard" in the same sense. I agree with you though, mp3s will always dominate because they have no DRM and they sound damn good enough to just about everyone. And all this paranoia about people thinking some day their "closed music collection" will be inaccessable is BS because every music player worth a download plays mp3. I'll bet there were a lot of people in sony complaining about the ATRAC format. Nothing like a PHB and idiot marketting majors to fuck up the walkman
I am assuming this is to prevent terrorists and rogue nations from developing super computers that would...do something bad? Alright, maybe some nuclear weapons simulations? Here's the problem, any country or group of people can get their hands on pentiums if they tried hard enough. I think that the past few years has shown us that a country or terrorist group can accomplish a lot of they are dedicated. This is one of those typical laws that just makes it difficult for the ligitimate people who follow the rules.
I'll bring up an example every slashdotter can relate to. Microsoft's activation didn't prevent piracy one bit. The corporate version or crack patches that would disable activation got around it easily. All it did was inconvienence people who went to the stores and bought the software legally and honestly.
I'd say a good portion of my search queries on google are linux related. Things like entering the error message in quotes or the name of a file to get specific help on it are invaluable. I like that I can trust google not to blatently skew results their favor.
This has nothing directly to do with lawyers. The people who initiate these patent fights are companies who thought it would be a good idea to patent something either really general or already existing. Alright so their lawyers are going to make some money, but that's a side effect, not a direct cause. If they lawyers were getting all the money, the company wouldn't initially start these patent fights.
When microsoft patented that double click thing a few months ago and everyone on slashdot flipped a shit, I doubt there was a manager at microsoft thinking "yes, now all those lawyers will make some more money!"
Yeah, but you have to manually compile the kernel module as EZcompile doesn't support it ;)
While people can debate about this, I do think it's something important for linux. It says that no matter what one company can do to try to make their development platform closed and proprietary, the open source community can retort back with their open standards. Yeah, this is just an attempt at cloning yet another microsoft product by the open source community, but when the world uses microsoft and they're distributing this for free, it hardly is as bad as one software giant cloning say...word perfect. I haven't tried mono yet, but when the day arrives when I can run a windows app and linux app without jumping through wine I'll be a happy linux user.
.NET as something positive.
I really think operating systems have become a comodity anyway. To me, linux, windows, and mac don't mean much but the software that runs on them. Sure, making different versions like mozilla does works now, but you can't expect companies like adobe to ever do the same. I think running things off the same compiled code is where software should be headed. This would make the argument of not being able to switch to linux because of lack of supported applications moot.
This is the first time I've ever thought of
That's the first thing I thought when I saw this video. Hell, even I could park in that spot. They did a good job, but until they can park in a spot 8 inches longer than your car like in NYC, it doesn't have so much practical purpose. Nice trick nonetheless.
I tried this with my laptop running gentoo once. It worked pretty well until I hit a wifi hotspot and it found 3 updates and started compiling for 8 hours.
I'm running kde 3.2.2 on a p4 1.8 ghz with 512 mb of ram and it's sluggish compared to windows xp. I don't think time should be spent trying to make cool looking 3d wm's but trying to improve xfree (alright, now xorg) or kde.
I mean I think what they're doing is cool in terms of "hey let's try this" but I don't see this as where window managers are headed. People still want fast and colorful icons and a nice file browser that's well integrated with apps. If you're unsure what I meant, compare the "save as" dialogs in mozilla and kedit.
Sorry for the rant, I was just a little annoyed I had to reboot after having an uptime of only 8 days.
I was just about to ask "but how do windows users play these files on their default media player?"
How about rather than joining 3 million other slashdotters in bitching about the rich guy down the street you actually contribute. If you think you can do better, than help an open source project. All of the programs you listed have an open source counterpart that in ways don't measure up to microsoft's "crap clones" as of yet. I'd rather you use your talent to help or at least donate to open office. Spreading FUD about microsoft's programs isn't going to help shit.
Does there have to be a damn blue screen of death joke in every microsoft article? It was funny 2 years ago when people actually got them. Pull your head out of your ass or at least get a sense of humor that people in this century can relate to. Actually, the rating system of slashdot should have modded that down below my browsing level but someone decided to waste a whole mod point on thinking that was funny.
Microsoft could give the windows source code out with a compiler so people could create their own custom windows and people would still bitch at them. Face it, microsoft is starting to do what everyone has been bashing them for not doing for years and people still find something to complain about. As far as F/OSS zealots on /. go, microsoft should just give up as they'll never please them.
This is a waste of microsoft's time and money. When piracy is common and not enforced people still are not going to pay for a cheaper version of windows. My guess is they did this to slow the adoption of linux in these countries. I think microsoft should instead started some bullshit charity program and just give copies of windows out. They don't care so much about making money off each copy of windows out there. They care about people depending on it so they keep using it thus making adoption to linux more difficult and expensive.
Or Open Office
They are both free alternatives and I'm sure I'm the first to inform everyone of these.
That's a pretty unrealistic generalization in my opinion. I know few people who will crack open their case. I think you could make that generalization about linux users and further geek-ify that operating system. I've always thought that mac owners are people who are willing to spend the extra money for style and for a computer that generally works with no effort at all. I don't think that's bad at all. If you're not interested in computers then why should geeks on slashdot care? I enjoy cracking computers open. I enjoy overclocking my 500 Mhz K6-2 in the box I use for linux "projects" and just messing around with. I enjoy when I get a problem and I fix it. But to claim we're somehow better people because of our predilection of getting down and dirty with our computers is absolute nonsense.
You almost had me going there until you mentioned your snappy 500 Mhz K6. I've got one of those running gentoo and it's still slow as hell. Well, the console is snappy, but any window manager is like motor oil on a frozen winter morning.
And by the way, it was a lot snappier when it was running windows. I bring this up simply because you sound like a linux fanboy and that bigbrotherware shit is just fud and tin foil hat conspiracy shit.