Except, that's a cynical approach. I sell a lot of stuff on eBay, and I go out of my way to make sure people know what they're getting. It's not that uncommon a practice on eBay. People list an antique piece of furniture, and provide detailed closeups of all the flaws and dings.
It's because eBay has this 'feedback' feature and if you want to have credibility as a seller, you have to make sure you're selling to people who want what you're offering.
Yes. It's somewhat telling that someone who makes up a story about 'having done a study for Microsoft' has a goatse.cx link in his sig. That gives what he says a lot of credibility.
Not that it matters. People will now snowball on it and quote him as their reference to make the same claim over again. That's how 'credibility' is built online.
Well, IBM is hardly any more objective than Microsoft. They're rooting for an alternative to Microsoft, which makes them just as biased.
A disinterested third party probably don't even exist, but don't pretending IBM is unbiased, and that their whitepapers, etc. aren't filled with marketing bias as well.
Computer Science is an intellectual endeavor, i.e. Knuth's books, and actually science (sort of).
I get really pissed when I tell a contract service that I have experience programming embedded controllers and they come back with sentences with the word 'IT' in them. No. I'm an electronics guy who can sling assembly language and has designed and coded several battery powered medical devices. Not some guy with a cart who wheels around PCs, and not some Visual Basic coder.
Hey, Apple 'released the source' for the Darwin core of MacOS X. Which is pretty much the equivalent of Microsoft releasing the source for 'KERNEL32.DLL' (and nothing more).
No, it explains the almost complete absence of retail-box Linux software. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it is the state of affairs at this point in time.
Oh, so that's what the single mouse button is about, copy protection!
Soon, the Mac user who dares plug in a two (or three!) button mouse won't just have Macintosh aesthetes on his case, the DMCA squadron will be after him as well!
Depends on what you listen to. I like acoustic piano music sometimes. It's music that is very real, by which I mean that since there's a directly listenable reference, (i.e. real piano music played live) and it's easy to discern a corrupted recording. I have music that I just don't enjoy listening to unless I'm sitting in the 'golden spot' between my Klipch tower speakers. Too much of the experience is lost listening to it any other way.
If the music you listen to never existed outside a studio, it's all relative and there's no 'real' sound to worry about.
If, that is, you wander into Sam Goody and pay full price for every album.
A lot of us buy albums used in used stores, on eBay, and places like that. I rarely pay as much as $10 for an album, and I get a lot of music that I like. On pressed CDs, with the inserts and artwork, etc. What I buy has the same resale value, aprox., as what I paid for it. If I spent ten bucks on a nebulous 'CD' through the iTunes service, what do I have? Bits on a hard drive that I can decompress into a format I can burn on a CDR. Wow. That has a lot of sales appeal to me.
Once they start cracking and hacking, are they a legitimate owner in the language of the license? Have they voided the licence and ceased to be legitimate owners?
Again, how do laws excercize 'their' freedom? It's a logical impossibility. Laws have no 'will' of their own to excercize freely. What you're saying makes no sense at all.
some of it was won off of the back of altruistic programmers of things like BSD.
I don't know that I buy that at all. Really the only BSD code in Windows software is some of the TCP/IP functionality. Microsoft basically 'ported' BSD code to make up that particular flavor of networking. They've since rewritten most of that themselves.
Further, the BSD code Microsoft adopted wasn't really written by 'altruistic BSD programmers.' It was written by publicly funded staffers, presumably at Berkeley. Most of the BSD that is 'altruistic' is post-Berkeley stuff like Net/Open/FreeBSD.
Mandating open source software in Government would be removing their freedom.
Government workers, while they are on the job, are no more free than any of the rest of us while at work.
In fact, they're called 'civil servants.'
I've often been in queue at a government facility, i.e. renewing my driver's license, and wanted to yell out: 'civil servants! on your knees!' It'd probably just slow things down even more, though.
(try "ls / -l" with GNU ls and compare it to any Unix version)
I used to be sloppy at the command prompt and stuff like 'ls / -l' was typical of what I'd type. But now I don't just use systems with GNU userlands. I have expanded out and run a wide varity of UNIX and freenix variants. I figured out how to order my arguements and that sloppy entry wasn't a good thing. There's a lot of 'embrace and extend' design in the GNU system. The 'extinguish' is tacitly implied.
Will WinXP run on my ancient P-75 with 64M of RAM?
That's a good question. But how relevant is it? You presumably have the install media for the Win98 you run on that machine. Nobody waved a magic wand and 'expired' it.
Why would you need to upgrade to WinXP on that machine? Because of rhetoric on slashdot that snidely refers to koolaide and arsenic?
You could always go into the 'Setup Printers' control for the NT machine and see what Printers it pulls up in the menu. Those are already supported. I recommend staying away from any printers that are so OS-specific that they come with a driver CD anyway. Could end up with a winprinter if you're not careful.
It's hard to understand why you're letting Microsoft specify January 16 as the day to switch. You should have switched earlier if the need arose. You should switch later if the need arises. Why does Microsoft decide for you?
Dig a little harder. They have all the patches available as free-standing.exe programs. I found it a mess, in that I had to download each and every patch seperately after a click-through license page, but now I have them all (I think). Look for the 'administrator/professional support' links.
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Except, that's a cynical approach. I sell a lot of stuff on eBay, and I go out of my way to make sure people know what they're getting. It's not that uncommon a practice on eBay. People list an antique piece of furniture, and provide detailed closeups of all the flaws and dings.
It's because eBay has this 'feedback' feature and if you want to have credibility as a seller, you have to make sure you're selling to people who want what you're offering.
Most people pay their taxes "voluntarily" if you're going to call it that.
No. Wrong. Completely. People don't get to choose to pay taxes or not. There's no choice, they live in the US, they pay taxes.
People choose voluntarily to purchase, or not, Microsoft software.
It's almost not worth arguing with someone like you who is so stubborn about staying ignorant.
Yes. It's somewhat telling that someone who makes up a story about 'having done a study for Microsoft' has a goatse.cx link in his sig. That gives what he says a lot of credibility.
Not that it matters. People will now snowball on it and quote him as their reference to make the same claim over again. That's how 'credibility' is built online.
Well, IBM is hardly any more objective than Microsoft. They're rooting for an alternative to Microsoft, which makes them just as biased.
A disinterested third party probably don't even exist, but don't pretending IBM is unbiased, and that their whitepapers, etc. aren't filled with marketing bias as well.
'IT' jobs are glorified clerical work.
Computer Science is an intellectual endeavor, i.e. Knuth's books, and actually science (sort of).
I get really pissed when I tell a contract service that I have experience programming embedded controllers and they come back with sentences with the word 'IT' in them. No. I'm an electronics guy who can sling assembly language and has designed and coded several battery powered medical devices. Not some guy with a cart who wheels around PCs, and not some Visual Basic coder.
And since Apple sells the experience as part of the deal,
Yeah, but anybody can sell a big piece of brushed metal. Perhaps even shaped in an attractive 'frame' with velcro to attach it to the screen.
Hey, Apple 'released the source' for the Darwin core of MacOS X. Which is pretty much the equivalent of Microsoft releasing the source for 'KERNEL32.DLL' (and nothing more).
No, it explains the almost complete absence of retail-box Linux software. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it is the state of affairs at this point in time.
Shouldn't you be out at the coffeehouse at this hour of the night, finding out what's fashionable and what clothes you should wear tomorrow?
Oh, so that's what the single mouse button is about, copy protection!
Soon, the Mac user who dares plug in a two (or three!) button mouse won't just have Macintosh aesthetes on his case, the DMCA squadron will be after him as well!
Depends on what you listen to. I like acoustic piano music sometimes. It's music that is very real, by which I mean that since there's a directly listenable reference, (i.e. real piano music played live) and it's easy to discern a corrupted recording. I have music that I just don't enjoy listening to unless I'm sitting in the 'golden spot' between my Klipch tower speakers. Too much of the experience is lost listening to it any other way.
If the music you listen to never existed outside a studio, it's all relative and there's no 'real' sound to worry about.
If, that is, you wander into Sam Goody and pay full price for every album.
A lot of us buy albums used in used stores, on eBay, and places like that. I rarely pay as much as $10 for an album, and I get a lot of music that I like. On pressed CDs, with the inserts and artwork, etc. What I buy has the same resale value, aprox., as what I paid for it. If I spent ten bucks on a nebulous 'CD' through the iTunes service, what do I have? Bits on a hard drive that I can decompress into a format I can burn on a CDR. Wow. That has a lot of sales appeal to me.
Once they start cracking and hacking, are they a legitimate owner in the language of the license? Have they voided the licence and ceased to be legitimate owners?
Just asking.
Coercion would involve men in dark suits arriving at your house and saying 'you WILL purchase this from us OR ELSE.'
The fact that you don't grasp this means it's really hardly worth arguing the point further.
Again, how do laws excercize 'their' freedom? It's a logical impossibility. Laws have no 'will' of their own to excercize freely. What you're saying makes no sense at all.
Oh, and phone books are NOT public domain.
Actually, no. Not at all.
If you read the grandparent comment closely, you'll notice that Microsoft produces most of it's wealth through method 1. and method 2.
Both of which are voluntary association.
How, then, are laws free as in freedom?
Is a law free to wander around in the woods?
It's not 'animated' at all, in fact it's not an entity. It's a social pact that has no 'me.'
Please elaborate.
some of it was won off of the back of altruistic programmers of things like BSD.
I don't know that I buy that at all. Really the only BSD code in Windows software is some of the TCP/IP functionality. Microsoft basically 'ported' BSD code to make up that particular flavor of networking. They've since rewritten most of that themselves.
Further, the BSD code Microsoft adopted wasn't really written by 'altruistic BSD programmers.' It was written by publicly funded staffers, presumably at Berkeley. Most of the BSD that is 'altruistic' is post-Berkeley stuff like Net/Open/FreeBSD.
Mandating open source software in Government would be removing their freedom.
Government workers, while they are on the job, are no more free than any of the rest of us while at work.
In fact, they're called 'civil servants.'
I've often been in queue at a government facility, i.e. renewing my driver's license, and wanted to yell out: 'civil servants! on your knees!' It'd probably just slow things down even more, though.
(try "ls / -l" with GNU ls and compare it to any Unix version)
I used to be sloppy at the command prompt and stuff like 'ls / -l' was typical of what I'd type. But now I don't just use systems with GNU userlands. I have expanded out and run a wide varity of UNIX and freenix variants. I figured out how to order my arguements and that sloppy entry wasn't a good thing. There's a lot of 'embrace and extend' design in the GNU system. The 'extinguish' is tacitly implied.
Will WinXP run on my ancient P-75 with 64M of RAM?
That's a good question. But how relevant is it? You presumably have the install media for the Win98 you run on that machine. Nobody waved a magic wand and 'expired' it.
Why would you need to upgrade to WinXP on that machine? Because of rhetoric on slashdot that snidely refers to koolaide and arsenic?
Their chip could probably fit into an expensive Ball Grid Array test/burn-in socket that costs half again as much as the whole laptop.
You could always go into the 'Setup Printers' control for the NT machine and see what Printers it pulls up in the menu. Those are already supported. I recommend staying away from any printers that are so OS-specific that they come with a driver CD anyway. Could end up with a winprinter if you're not careful.
It's hard to understand why you're letting Microsoft specify January 16 as the day to switch. You should have switched earlier if the need arose. You should switch later if the need arises. Why does Microsoft decide for you?
Dig a little harder. They have all the patches available as free-standing .exe programs. I found it a mess, in that I had to download each and every patch seperately after a click-through license page, but now I have them all (I think). Look for the 'administrator/professional support' links.