Well since: "They have created a site that looks exactly like Paypal"
I guess you could go to paypal.com and pretend you're getting scammed. I just did, and I'm pretty pissed off and calling my credit card company right now.
*joke* Just so that everyone can complain together, can we agree that Slashdot officially started to suck immediately after this story was posted? Just for everyone to get their time lines synced.
"I will not be voting in the next election, nor in any election after that. I refuse to give my name to a system which can so easily be diverted and corrupted."
Thus making my vote and political work just slightly more powerful. Yay cynical people! More power to them (and thus to me)!
I had a similar experience just setting up my DSL service. My Inet service and DSL service were ordered from USWest (USWorst).
Both the Telco DSL provider and Inet providers had different support lines and guidelines and would blame one another for the problems I was having. I won't go into detail to save time, but it was actually a mix of both of their problems. They constantly bitched and moaned how they're not able to be in "direct contact" with one another so that they won't have a competitive advantage and all.
Regardless of how accurate their claims were, it still gave both convenient excuses to make claims about who's problem it was that my DSL was not functioning. This just drew out the process and made it just as bad as if I still had an ISP from another company.
"As Linux grows because of its capabilities in other areas and its openness, it will gain market share, and the disparity between the two will decrease."
So if things were different they wouldn't be the same. Go figure. & Linux will improve over time. Oh my gosh, what a revelation.
You're saying that this isn't a comparison of the OS. I think the article was pretty straight forward in saying that it was just comparing Windows vs. Linux 3D Performance in Q3A. Do we really need to give Linux a hug and say "Don't worry that doesn't really matter because it will get better in the future." and make excuses every time someone points out a short coming?
Linux comes up short when comparing Windows vs. Linux 3D Performance in Q3A. Accept it and help provide suggestions in improving things or move on. Excuses doesn't make Linux any better.
I don't mean to be hyper critical here. I hear allot of "Well windows has lots of developers." or "Well windows has X or Y." and such statements when Linux comes up short in certain areas. In the end that doesn't help anything, in fact Linux does do poorly in these tests. I refer to the last line in the Linux Advocacy how to.
Yeah, that's what I said: I could lend the DVD out to people for $20 and that would indeed probably be illegal. However I'm not sure this restricts just lending it to a friend for free for a night or something.
I can't imagine IBM making that big of a commitment to remove OS/390 on such a successful product as the S/390. There's tons of S/390s out there running OS/390 and doing just fine.
This is not to say Linux won't be good. However, reliability is one of it's big selling points and I'm not sure many of IBM's current S/390 customers will want to just hop into Linux when they already have a proven product.
It seems to be restricting unauthorized lending. I'm not sure exactly that means ANY lending at all. I could lend the DVD out to people for $20 and that would indeed probably be illegal. However I'm not sure this restricts just lending it to a friend for free for a night or something. From the short lines of the text that we have here this doesn't sound much different than the rules that have been applied to VHS for ages.
The only downside I can see is availability. Sometimes my cell service goes down (well back in the day more often than now) and my traditional phone service almost never does. But I think your on the right track, Cell only will one day be a great way to go.
The only down side I can see is perhaps is data communications. I'm not sure about most places but all the cable companies that I know ask that you pay for cable TV for cablemodem services.
If you use DSL or some other Telco inet access, they might toss in the same idea that you need some basic phone service.
I love my current "teacher desk." It's big and is VERY durable and can take tons of punishment. I got it at a school system surplus warehouse. Cost me $50 and was such a great deal. "Teacher Desks" are just great for taking the weight of multiple monitors and taking some punishment from me when I'm working. Easy as heck to clean too, it has some type of composite material on top. I've spilt everything on it and it comes right off.
In my experience few school systems publicly have "sales" but if you find one and can find the right person and ask. Most have misc desks they can get rid of and are willing to haggle on price (but $50 wasn't a bad initial offer anyway).
In my impression strong beliefs in internet privacy, open source, free software and a strong contingent of anti-MS feelings have built up an almost religious belief that one day there will be some sort of great legal or otherwise apocalyptic event where one if not all of these beliefs will be challenged. I'm concerned that people might use this occasion to try to fulfill their own prophecy.
There's always talk about the great GPL lawsuit where a company (the prophecy wouldn't quite be as nice if it was just an individual) violates the GPL and a lawsuit is filed and GPL is tested in court. There's much rhetoric about how the government and corporations are trying to take away our privacy. There's always unsubstantiated claims about MS's conspiracy to destroy free or open source software. Personally I believe many people actually want some situation like this to occur to confirm their beliefs about MS, or corporate greed, or government oppression. It's always easy to be the wounded hero.
I'm not saying I do not believe in some ways some of these beliefs are true. However I worry that this might be chosen as the great event. It's simply the wrong fight to fight. Slashdot would lose, and for good reason. The information posted is clearly copyrighted material in it's entirety from MS. It's a straightforward case. I would rather see questions of freedom be challenged where it can truly show that people need to pay attention and gather further support, not die a martyr in a dirty case.
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Nader didn't do it by running cars off the road and hurting people.
I also doubt your socially conscious kiddies do many public education activities or letter writing campaigns before causing damage.
Oddly enough, I was thinking of checking it out BECAUSE of the illegal content . . . :-)
I'm going for the full effect, I'm pretending I'm getting scammed, and I'm pretty pissed off. I'm going to call my credit card company right next.
Well since:
"They have created a site that looks exactly like Paypal"
I guess you could go to paypal.com and pretend you're getting scammed. I just did, and I'm pretty pissed off and calling my credit card company right now.
Fingerprint?
I won't trust these things until I can use urine.
There would be at least one benefit, I can set a preference oh how low my alcohol level is set before I start buying stuff online.
Let me fix your first line a little:
Democracy is based on that 51%+ of the people (Whom vote!) are right atleast 51% of the time.
Oh please, take some responsibility for yourself. If you run around running everything you receive in e-mail you're gonna get burnt.
You could find a problem of one degree in almost all software's default configs. Not just AOL or MS.
If you listen very closely, you can just hear Al Gore in the background whispering "Hot Grits! Hot Grits!"
"70-minute original score of ambient music"
Why did they bother with 70 min?!?! It's ambient music for goodness sake! It could have been 10 min and I wouldn't have noticed a difference.
I'm just going to be playing my mp3s anyway.
*joke*
Just so that everyone can complain together, can we agree that Slashdot officially started to suck immediately after this story was posted? Just for everyone to get their time lines synced.
I thought Rob sounded like . . . Rob :-)
Then again for all I know it was Hemos who sounded like Rob.
"I will not be voting in the next election, nor in any election after that. I refuse to give my name to a system which can so easily be diverted and corrupted."
Thus making my vote and political work just slightly more powerful.
Yay cynical people! More power to them (and thus to me)!
I had a similar experience just setting up my DSL service. My Inet service and DSL service were ordered from USWest (USWorst).
Both the Telco DSL provider and Inet providers had different support lines and guidelines and would blame one another for the problems I was having. I won't go into detail to save time, but it was actually a mix of both of their problems. They constantly bitched and moaned how they're not able to be in "direct contact" with one another so that they won't have a competitive advantage and all.
Regardless of how accurate their claims were, it still gave both convenient excuses to make claims about who's problem it was that my DSL was not functioning. This just drew out the process and made it just as bad as if I still had an ISP from another company.
"As Linux grows because of its capabilities in other areas and its openness, it will gain market share, and the disparity between the two will decrease."
- 6.html
So if things were different they wouldn't be the same. Go figure. & Linux will improve over time. Oh my gosh, what a revelation.
You're saying that this isn't a comparison of the OS. I think the article was pretty straight forward in saying that it was just comparing Windows vs. Linux 3D Performance in Q3A. Do we really need to give Linux a hug and say "Don't worry that doesn't really matter because it will get better in the future." and make excuses every time someone points out a short coming?
Linux comes up short when comparing Windows vs. Linux 3D Performance in Q3A. Accept it and help provide suggestions in improving things or move on. Excuses doesn't make Linux any better.
I don't mean to be hyper critical here. I hear allot of "Well windows has lots of developers." or "Well windows has X or Y." and such statements when Linux comes up short in certain areas. In the end that doesn't help anything, in fact Linux does do poorly in these tests. I refer to the last line in the Linux Advocacy how to.
http://howto.tucows.com/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Advocacy
""lending" a DVD out for $20 is RENTING "
Yeah, that's what I said:
I could lend the DVD out to people for $20 and that would indeed probably be illegal. However I'm not sure this restricts just lending it to a friend for free for a night or something.
Well this was just posted in the AskSlashdot area, so you'll get nice responses.
:-)
I've tried IE in Solaris. It was ugly at first but survivable later, enough so I don't mind using it too much when I rember I have it
I can't imagine IBM making that big of a commitment to remove OS/390 on such a successful product as the S/390. There's tons of S/390s out there running OS/390 and doing just fine.
This is not to say Linux won't be good. However, reliability is one of it's big selling points and I'm not sure many of IBM's current S/390 customers will want to just hop into Linux when they already have a proven product.
It seems to be restricting unauthorized lending. I'm not sure exactly that means ANY lending at all. I could lend the DVD out to people for $20 and that would indeed probably be illegal. However I'm not sure this restricts just lending it to a friend for free for a night or something. From the short lines of the text that we have here this doesn't sound much different than the rules that have been applied to VHS for ages.
"a neato printed manual"
What are these printed manuals you speak of?
That sounds like a cool idea! Someone should try that!
I figured it would be something like that.
The only downside I can see is availability. Sometimes my cell service goes down (well back in the day more often than now) and my traditional phone service almost never does. But I think your on the right track, Cell only will one day be a great way to go.
No!
I said WARP SPEED!
Not GIVE WORF SPEED!
Someone get that crazy Klingon under controll!
The only down side I can see is perhaps is data communications. I'm not sure about most places but all the cable companies that I know ask that you pay for cable TV for cablemodem services.
If you use DSL or some other Telco inet access, they might toss in the same idea that you need some basic phone service.
I love my current "teacher desk." It's big and is VERY durable and can take tons of punishment. I got it at a school system surplus warehouse. Cost me $50 and was such a great deal. "Teacher Desks" are just great for taking the weight of multiple monitors and taking some punishment from me when I'm working. Easy as heck to clean too, it has some type of composite material on top. I've spilt everything on it and it comes right off.
In my experience few school systems publicly have "sales" but if you find one and can find the right person and ask. Most have misc desks they can get rid of and are willing to haggle on price (but $50 wasn't a bad initial offer anyway).
Why would that be a test? Do you think MS wouldn't remove it from MSN? I can't see any reason they would chose not to remove it.
In my impression strong beliefs in internet privacy, open source, free software and a strong contingent of anti-MS feelings have built up an almost religious belief that one day there will be some sort of great legal or otherwise apocalyptic event where one if not all of these beliefs will be challenged. I'm concerned that people might use this occasion to try to fulfill their own prophecy.
There's always talk about the great GPL lawsuit where a company (the prophecy wouldn't quite be as nice if it was just an individual) violates the GPL and a lawsuit is filed and GPL is tested in court. There's much rhetoric about how the government and corporations are trying to take away our privacy. There's always unsubstantiated claims about MS's conspiracy to destroy free or open source software. Personally I believe many people actually want some situation like this to occur to confirm their beliefs about MS, or corporate greed, or government oppression. It's always easy to be the wounded hero.
I'm not saying I do not believe in some ways some of these beliefs are true. However I worry that this might be chosen as the great event. It's simply the wrong fight to fight. Slashdot would lose, and for good reason. The information posted is clearly copyrighted material in it's entirety from MS. It's a straightforward case. I would rather see questions of freedom be challenged where it can truly show that people need to pay attention and gather further support, not die a martyr in a dirty case.