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I'm just glad to see that Intel has got a real competitor (by the looks of things, anyway) for higher end servers and workstations. This is like a wake up call to them. They are having a helluva time with RAMBUS and Merced has been delayed forever. The Athlon/K7 is very scalable (again, by the looks of things) and it looks like the Camino will not be enough to catch up to it.
I don't know what will come of this, but I do know consumers are going to be winning big. We're going to have some cheap CPU's that are very good in the near future. Games are (hopefully) going to take advatange of this power. Maybe we'll have some on Linux too. I would just love to be able to put together a great system that does not involve two companies I simply do not like very much.
Oh yes, and it was nice to see the Linux Benchmarks on Ars:-)
Canada has a few really dumb suits as well. However, we're much lower profile. Nobody cares if someone is suing The Canadian Ice Company for not getting their free Cold Car as implied by the little cube of frozen water that had wheels on it in the local paper. The courts would just give them a free space heater and send them home.
Besides, we have to answer skill testing questions to get prizes in Canada. Even the total skids of society at least have basic math skills:-)
The best way you can encourage companies to stop mindless ads is to not fall for them. They make them because they know people are idiots. They're taking advantage of them.
The ads may appear to be false advertising but they are skillfully crafted to not be. That is what marketers do -- push the boundries of linguistic definitions. With the 7 million Pepsi points, they can just say "It's obviously a joke". This lawsuit is scary because a) it really was a joke and he's stupid or he's trying to piss off Pepsi, b) there's a remote possibility we would get legal definitions of a joke or something as equally stupid. I severly doubt it will be a landmark case for The People vs. Advertisements.
I do agree, however, that the ads (if not most ads for anything) are idiotic and mindless.
You are correct. People really are that stupid. However, it would be erroneous to reward that behaviour by giving him the jet. That would encourage people to actually believe the crap that is on television.
I'm glad the judge is essentially saying, "You're an idiot. Quit wasting my time"
I'm sure they're just compying the iMac trend. The Planet part is almost undoubtedly for their portal (soon to be amalgamated soon too, I'm sure). Marketers have a funny way of thinking.
Agreed. Not only that, I'd have trouble fitting my computer in there anyway. I don't know how extensible it is, but I doubt it would be fun with my kind of setup (and what happens when you feel like moving your computer around?)
I'm in agreement here. Think about it - if you don't promote yourself anywhere in life you get nowhere. No man is an island. This metaphor doesn't translate perfectly into the open source movement, but aspects of it are there.
You may be saying that it is unnecessary to do this sort of thing. You just want to be happy within yourself or "just let the the movement be and see what happens". Well, I like to help people, and if I can help future sofware developers do a better job to make programs that benefit people for whatever they want to do, then I'm going to do something about it.
Nothing gets done unless you do something. Even if you don't like the APSL or NPL, that doesn't matter. The point is something was done and ESR helped make it happen. If it was a mistake, you learn from it and move on.
If you want to keep the movement quiet, grab some source code that is out there and form the "Quiet OSS movement". Feel free to do so. Be thankful you have that freedom. I'm going to go out there and make sure everyone does.
I'm in agreement. I certainly didn't see Contact as a disaster but rather one of the more intellectual films I've ever seen. It was quite refreshing. Most people I know agree with me. (not that it makes my argument any stronger:) However, because Robert Zemeckis directed it and his last film prior to "Contact" was "Forrest Gump", it could be looked at as a box office failure (although I don't know how much it made).
As for "EDtv", I haven't seen it yet, but I had my doubts simply from the ads. "The Truman Show" caught my interest because it looked like it had something to think about in it. "EDtv" looks interesting because Elizabeth Hurley is in it. I'll still probably watch "EDtv" at some point though. At $8.50 a ticket, it will have to wait for a cheap Tuesday...
My computer use has been calm sailing since I switched over to Linux from Win95 since Win95 found a creative way to erase my hard drive.
My only headaches have been alternate drivers for sound cards - but that hacking is for a later date.
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Frankly, I don't care. They can track me all they want. I also think that, assuming that the article is true, what Microsoft is doing is very underhanded, nasty and reprehensible. It's akin to spying. They should be brought up on this.
However, will say that I have been used many illegal copies of Windows for some time. Also, their number of users has got rather inflated as I ususally use a different name every time I have to install it - which is _very_ often.
Maybe it's just to inflate their egos - "The more installs we have, the better our OS is!"
I agree with you. Although Berst has no clue other than the "point-and-click" mentality, he does have apoint about Linux breaking into factions. People who use and love Linux now don't care that much about different varieties - it just gives us more choice. Also, most Linux users know how to customize it to our needs already. However, business and end-users want someting they know will work (which still amazes me because Windows rarely does) and something they do not have to maintain (they just want tech support:). If there are 4 or 5 Linux factions out there and not all are compatible with each other, then the Linux world is going to be in lots of trouble.
If people just keep a clear head and apply some reasoning, this sort of thing will not happen. I know one thing - I haven't "pledged allegiance" to any distribution and I probably never will. I just like Linux.
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I'm just glad to see that Intel has got a real competitor (by the looks of things, anyway) for higher end servers and workstations. This is like a wake up call to them. They are having a helluva time with RAMBUS and Merced has been delayed forever. The Athlon/K7 is very scalable (again, by the looks of things) and it looks like the Camino will not be enough to catch up to it.
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I don't know what will come of this, but I do know consumers are going to be winning big. We're going to have some cheap CPU's that are very good in the near future. Games are (hopefully) going to take advatange of this power. Maybe we'll have some on Linux too. I would just love to be able to put together a great system that does not involve two companies I simply do not like very much.
Oh yes, and it was nice to see the Linux Benchmarks on Ars
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Canada has a few really dumb suits as well. However, we're much lower profile. Nobody cares if someone is suing The Canadian Ice Company for not getting their free Cold Car as implied by the little cube of frozen water that had wheels on it in the local paper. The courts would just give them a free space heater and send them home.
Besides, we have to answer skill testing questions to get prizes in Canada. Even the total skids of society at least have basic math skills
The best way you can encourage companies to stop mindless ads is to not fall for them. They make them because they know people are idiots. They're taking advantage of them.
The ads may appear to be false advertising but they are skillfully crafted to not be. That is what marketers do -- push the boundries of linguistic definitions. With the 7 million Pepsi points, they can just say "It's obviously a joke". This lawsuit is scary because a) it really was a joke and he's stupid or he's trying to piss off Pepsi, b) there's a remote possibility we would get legal definitions of a joke or something as equally stupid. I severly doubt it will be a landmark case for The People vs. Advertisements.
I do agree, however, that the ads (if not most ads for anything) are idiotic and mindless.
You are correct. People really are that stupid. However, it would be erroneous to reward that behaviour by giving him the jet. That would encourage people to actually believe the crap that is on television.
I'm glad the judge is essentially saying, "You're an idiot. Quit wasting my time"
iDon't know....
I'm sure they're just compying the iMac trend. The Planet part is almost undoubtedly for their portal (soon to be amalgamated soon too, I'm sure). Marketers have a funny way of thinking.
Agreed. Not only that, I'd have trouble fitting my computer in there anyway. I don't know how extensible it is, but I doubt it would be fun with my kind of setup (and what happens when you feel like moving your computer around?)
None-the-less, the chair looks comfy...
I'm in agreement here. Think about it - if you don't promote yourself anywhere in life you get nowhere. No man is an island. This metaphor doesn't translate perfectly into the open source movement, but aspects of it are there.
You may be saying that it is unnecessary to do this sort of thing. You just want to be happy within yourself or "just let the the movement be and see what happens". Well, I like to help people, and if I can help future sofware developers do a better job to make programs that benefit people for whatever they want to do, then I'm going to do something about it.
Nothing gets done unless you do something. Even if you don't like the APSL or NPL, that doesn't matter. The point is something was done and ESR helped make it happen. If it was a mistake, you learn from it and move on.
If you want to keep the movement quiet, grab some source code that is out there and form the "Quiet OSS movement". Feel free to do so. Be thankful you have that freedom. I'm going to go out there and make sure everyone does.
Agreed. It is a shame that usually the ones that posses the loudest voices are the ones with the smallest brains.
When people in the Linux community start thinking before they start speaking, much more good will come of it.
I'm in agreement. I certainly didn't see Contact as a disaster but rather one of the more intellectual films I've ever seen. It was quite refreshing. Most people I know agree with me. (not that it makes my argument any stronger :) However, because Robert Zemeckis directed it and his last film prior to "Contact" was "Forrest Gump", it could be looked at as a box office failure (although I don't know how much it made).
As for "EDtv", I haven't seen it yet, but I had my doubts simply from the ads. "The Truman Show" caught my interest because it looked like it had something to think about in it. "EDtv" looks interesting because Elizabeth Hurley is in it. I'll still probably watch "EDtv" at some point though. At $8.50 a ticket, it will have to wait for a cheap Tuesday...
My computer use has been calm sailing since I switched over to Linux from Win95 since Win95 found a creative way to erase my hard drive.
My only headaches have been alternate drivers for sound cards - but that hacking is for a later date.
Frankly, I don't care. They can track me all they want. I also think that, assuming that the article is true, what Microsoft is doing is very underhanded, nasty and reprehensible. It's akin to spying. They should be brought up on this.
However, will say that I have been used many illegal copies of Windows for some time. Also, their number of users has got rather inflated as I ususally use a different name every time I have to install it - which is _very_ often.
Maybe it's just to inflate their egos - "The more installs we have, the better our OS is!"
I agree with you. Although Berst has no clue other than the "point-and-click" mentality, he does have apoint about Linux breaking into factions. People who use and love Linux now don't care that much about different varieties - it just gives us more choice. Also, most Linux users know how to customize it to our needs already. However, business and end-users want someting they know will work (which still amazes me because Windows rarely does) and something they do not have to maintain (they just want tech support :). If there are 4 or 5 Linux factions out there and not all are compatible with each other, then the Linux world is going to be in lots of trouble.
If people just keep a clear head and apply some reasoning, this sort of thing will not happen. I know one thing - I haven't "pledged allegiance" to any distribution and I probably never will. I just like Linux.