Contrary to the earlier post that those most opposed to Rush get all their info from the media, not by listening, the truth is a very liberarian person like myself listens to Rush to find out what hogwash is being believed by the lemmings who retain citizenship, vote, and otherwise mess up this fantastic country. Rush is a Neanderthal with a gift for gab. Nothing more. Most of his listeners would never admit listening, like the lemmings do. We just need a hardy laugh or the information we need to counteract the Rush Virus.
Open source means that I can get to the code and make it even better. That is not anarchism and it is not the end of capitalism, free enterprise. When MS open sources their software, then MS will find the love they so desperately want from slashdot.org. Until then, they will send paid flamers like you to say how naughty truth tellers like me are. The purpose of slashdot.org is to show the world that making all the source code available for any software you write is the best possible way to make all the code work better, faster, smarter and [oh my gosh] even less expensive. Hmmm. For those of you who bother to read these threads that espouse the virtues of MS, remember that true free enterprise does resemble anarchy in some respects. Monopolists fear true free enterprise. Let free enterprise reign and let the anarchy begin!!!
Do you get paid by the slashdot.org post?!
Slashdot.org does not have to pay homage to MS to survive. It has proven that over and over again. Slashdot.org will prove its resilience again as Vista is released and the MS FUD spews waste in amounts and levels of hatred never seen before. MS knows that this is the battle of Armegeddon for its OS. If you think that your FUD will go unresponded to, you are sorely mistaken. Slashdot.org loyalists are ready for your dirt and we will respond with class and truth.
Reject your weathly master and join us. You still can. You are always welcome./bigweenie
Bashing MS is the whole point of this website...
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Are you a newbie? That is the whole point of this website.
If you don't want to bash MS, then go to some MScentric site and wax wonderful about their propietary crapola. Some that are on the MS payroll continue to espouse the virtues of MS here (perhaps you?!), but we all enjoy how much time, money and effort MS spends trying to alter the overall message of slashdot.org.
Lesson for MS to learn: FUD doesn't effect a community of a single mind and purpose.
C# will not replace Java. It is a wonderful Java knock-off with a great IDE (Visual Studio), but it is not a Java killer.
Simple designs are sometimes dumb designs too, failure is not reserved for complicated solutions. Perhaps I do not know enough about this topic, but I would guess that cable failure could pose a serious risk to the terrestrial bound.
I have included a link to an IE-only accessible MS presentation by a VP. Basically, the intent is to provide backward compatibility to at least Win2K.
The presentation pulls together XAML/Avalon, Indigo, WinFS, WinFX, Visual Studio Everett-Whidbey-Orcas, XML-Infoset, SQL Server Yukon, Jupiter - Model Driven Architecture/UML, Rights Management, and Business Intelligence UDM.
This is about 1 1/2 hours presentation, nevertheless, it is worthwhile to get the big picture of where Microsoft believes it is heading.
What is a decent way to serve up a hot dog, that is delicious, different and retains some of the barehandedness that makes so much of american cuisine so much fun!!!
"They're like bullies in a sandbox who take away their toys when you don't agree with them," Dr. Kahn told The Chronicle of Higher Education.
I am always disgusted by how the media will defend the 1st amendment to defend their right to publish anything but are weak weenies when it comes to defending individuals to exercise their 1st amendment rights. Big money, free enterprise and survival of the fittest makes the individual have less rights than the corporation. Now universities are feeling the pinch, as they are second class citizens too when compared to corporate entities. The corporations will flex the liberal rules of academic research laboratories to circumvent some of the liability and legal entanglements of doing these same experiments in their own labs, they will defend these liberal institutions to the hilt, but only for their right to access them - they leave everyone one else to fend for themselves.
The general line of reasoning is that the universities win by gaining access to corporate dollar$ and the corporations win by gaining access to highly trained research technicians and very lenient or nonexistent research restrictions. Both are supposed to benefit, however, academic institutions need to have the VETO power over decisions that result in a obvious change in a research facility from "academic" to "r&d". The rules need to be amended so that the academic institution remains preeminent in all contractual agreements.
Every quote you referenced is a strong argument for Open Source and not Shared Source, thank you for writing a response that provides quotes for the Open Source movement to use to defend GPL!!!
I like how you spoke in the heartland of the very place where the death knell of Microsoft is taking place - institutions of higher education, particularly those with the very brightest students (Harvard and MIT).
I make my living as a Microsoft consultant, I don't hold any ill will toward any licensing model, but America is about freedom and Open Source is the ultimate expression of freedom, powerful software code that lets you control the most powerful tools in history - and its all available at no cost!!! Microsoft needs to join the Open Source movement and not continue to believe it can actually FUD its way around this obstacle.
Microsoft has always demonstrated amazing flexibility and swift adoption of new technologies. Now is the time to become the world leader in Open Source development and abandon this ridiculous argument that intellectual property is some kind of DEVINE RIGHT. Evangelism for intellectual property rights is not going to win the battle of the hearts and minds of C-level management personnel. Knowing that they don't have to pay big licensing fees just to use software applications is what will win these people over. The future economy is a service economy, you know that as well as I do. Why do you continue to treat software as a commodity rather that a service? Are you just stupid?
I am surprised by the desire to resort to FUD when this obstacle has real roots, a real engine and no one single individual you can debunk and expose as some kind of jerk (i.e., Larry Ellison). Go ahead and tell the world about Linus, the Free Software Foundation and Eric Raymond!!! That is a great strategy. Anyone that now searches GNU and GPL will discover only positive press and you have instigated more searches on this than have ever happened in the last 5 years!!!
The incredible profits MS has made under the current market atmosphere is commendable and the fear that changing the model will take away any measure of predictability - the heart and soul of good business practices - is stupifying. But, intellectual property is not more valuable than a model that treats written code as "air". Your attempt to scare people into choosing the status quo over making a choice to move to the unpredictable world of Open Source will fall on dead ears. If you wish to know the principle weakness of MS in competing againt Open Source and why this attack won't influence anyone to not leap to Open Source. Just ask.
Unfortunately, what some governments believe to be "wrong" are not necessarily what I believe to be "wrong".
Orwellian acquiesence to behavior accountability every second of every day is hardly necessary nor advisable. Privacy means exactly that, privacy, including privacy from intrusion by the government.
Even if you are doing nothing "wrong" by "their" standars, will you be able to edit/review this archive of information about you to determine its accuracy and authenticity? Who will have access to this information as a normal responsibility of employment? What if something you do today is not "wrong", but in the future it is, will this be held against you, if only to defame you?
No, I don't find the upside to this at all. This must be stopped, interferred with, circumvented and/or delayed as much as is possible.
Perhaps we need to create a sight that documents all the abuses of this power that have occurred over time and link to it frequently.
The point is simple, does archiving of your elove letters have any value other than to possible embarass you in the future? "Gee, Honey Dumpling, I can't wait to tie you to that tree again and pound you from behind." There is real value in having the government archive meaningless diatribe!!!
I am in total disagreement with you about this laissev faire response to keeping a record of all my online behaviors and communiques. As intelligent as you appear to be, your naivete frightens and abhors me.
What do you need to know to change your mind?
Respectfully,/bigweenie
There is no primeval forest, not even one tree, in the State of Georgia (my home). Are we to violate this planet completely, is that our destiny? I hope not.
YOu are advocating a state where people are no longer citizens, only vassals.
This is a grave error on your part. In fact, it is fascist at best. NO ONE NEEDS TO KNOW WHAT I THINK, DO, SAY, OR COMMUNICATE OTHER THAN THOSE IN WHOM I PERSONALLY HAVE TRUST. The Government needs bounds, and severe restrictions on access to electronic communications is essential for individuals to even BEGIN to pursue liberty and happiness.
Rethink your trust in Government. The power must reside in the hands of the people first, then reluctantly be sacraficed only when necessary and on a case-by-case basis.
Wrong. The US government routinely screws up and to suggest that carte blanche US Govt access to any and all communications is justifiable is insane. Risk is part of life and nature. To suggest that if I have no privacy then I am safer, is insane. I would rather suffer the risk than trust some amorphous, irresponsible agency that claims to have my best interest in mind. Give privacy a chance.
This article should be considered "a reasonable sound of an alarm" and not a wholesale debunking of pre-fourth grade use of computers.
If teachers were adequately compensated and trained, then the proper use of computers would enhance every facet of learning. It is time to place a higher tax distribution emphasis on paying and training teachers, this includes the proper use of computers.
Dumb, poor (read:underpaid) teachers are the enemy, not computers. Fix the system that allows teachers to have no incentive to be the best and to be compensated as the best. Pay good teachers well, pay excellent teachers better and pay phenomenal teachers gargantuan salaries. Put bad teachers out on the street.
Keep the computers in the classroom and have the teachers/students learn how to use them constructively.
Now is the only moment you have complete control over. Use now wisely.
It is time for every regular poster and reader at/. to run for office. We can all run in mass against one another and flood the precincts with like-minded people, at least in respect to eliminating the abuse of patents and copyrights to the detriment of our children.
Everyone of us is qualified, assuming of course you are an American citizen. We need to put software developers in Congress. How do we do that? By each one of us trying to get there. We are so much smarter, in some cases so much richer, and some of us even better "networked/connected" than these hand-out grabbing sycophants that we get to select from on election day.
Any one out there interested in having an election where the/. karma measurement for each candidate is the lead story on CNN?
"She said, 'You are not as dumb as you look.' I replied, 'Thank you.'"
Activist liberals at Duke University coined the term "politically correct" and liberals hailed the "temperance" of speech and actions against minorities, disadvantaged and the like. What has happened since is a complete annihilation of the 1st Amendment. Don't you get it? You can't prescribe the "correct" things for people to say and not be infringing on their rights. By defining what is acceptable, you are taking away the free will and liberty of the citizen. Sure, we will all make mistakes and we need to learn to tolerate them. But, to punish persons for not saying, looking, acting, being what is defined as "politically correct" is insane. What is amazing is that the most draconian of all movements in the USA is one that is a liberal initiative. Liberals are the most dangerous element in politics.
Consider another point. A conservative will espouse certain virtues and eventually fall short him/herself and violate one of these virtues publicly. Then the conservative is chastised mercilessly for "saying one thing and doing another". Liberals can never fall into this trap because they do not stand for anything. They can commit any atrocity and not ever be accused of hypocrisy. Hey, you elected me and you knew I was a scum bag, "so there you go!"
Liberals do incredible and are never held responsible for the results of their insanity.
Columbine is just another result of blind liberal support of the public school system "as is". Liberals will never fix the school system. That leaves the conservatives to fix the system, and nobody wants that either.
My suggestion: Become a Reform Party candidate in a local election and solve the problem yourself.
Slashdot Mirror
Agreed!!!
The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951
The Day the Earth Stood Still,1951
Contrary to the earlier post that those most opposed to Rush get all their info from the media, not by listening, the truth is a very liberarian person like myself listens to Rush to find out what hogwash is being believed by the lemmings who retain citizenship, vote, and otherwise mess up this fantastic country. Rush is a Neanderthal with a gift for gab. Nothing more. Most of his listeners would never admit listening, like the lemmings do. We just need a hardy laugh or the information we need to counteract the Rush Virus.
Rant over.
Open source means that I can get to the code and make it even better. That is not anarchism and it is not the end of capitalism, free enterprise. When MS open sources their software, then MS will find the love they so desperately want from slashdot.org. Until then, they will send paid flamers like you to say how naughty truth tellers like me are. The purpose of slashdot.org is to show the world that making all the source code available for any software you write is the best possible way to make all the code work better, faster, smarter and [oh my gosh] even less expensive. Hmmm. For those of you who bother to read these threads that espouse the virtues of MS, remember that true free enterprise does resemble anarchy in some respects. Monopolists fear true free enterprise. Let free enterprise reign and let the anarchy begin!!!
/bigweenie
Do you get paid by the slashdot.org post?!
Slashdot.org does not have to pay homage to MS to survive. It has proven that over and over again. Slashdot.org will prove its resilience again as Vista is released and the MS FUD spews waste in amounts and levels of hatred never seen before. MS knows that this is the battle of Armegeddon for its OS. If you think that your FUD will go unresponded to, you are sorely mistaken. Slashdot.org loyalists are ready for your dirt and we will respond with class and truth.
Reject your weathly master and join us. You still can. You are always welcome.
Are you a newbie? That is the whole point of this website.
If you don't want to bash MS, then go to some MScentric site and wax wonderful about their propietary crapola. Some that are on the MS payroll continue to espouse the virtues of MS here (perhaps you?!), but we all enjoy how much time, money and effort MS spends trying to alter the overall message of slashdot.org.
Lesson for MS to learn: FUD doesn't effect a community of a single mind and purpose.
C# will not replace Java. It is a wonderful Java knock-off with a great IDE (Visual Studio), but it is not a Java killer.
End of rant.
/bigweenie
the cable breaks?
Simple designs are sometimes dumb designs too, failure is not reserved for complicated solutions. Perhaps I do not know enough about this topic, but I would guess that cable failure could pose a serious risk to the terrestrial bound.
Please advise.
Thanks.
Some bells that ring, doors that open and shut, etc. with electrical switches and a simple basic program that alters the path of the marble.
I have included a link to an IE-only accessible MS presentation by a VP. Basically, the intent is to provide backward compatibility to at least Win2K.
w .a sp?url=/Seminar/en/20040317SolArch09/manifest.xml& rate=0
The presentation pulls together XAML/Avalon, Indigo, WinFS, WinFX, Visual Studio Everett-Whidbey-Orcas, XML-Infoset, SQL Server Yukon, Jupiter - Model Driven Architecture/UML, Rights Management, and Business Intelligence UDM.
This is about 1 1/2 hours presentation, nevertheless, it is worthwhile to get the big picture of where Microsoft believes it is heading.
http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/shared/asp/vie
Simple, yet full of garlic. How can it not be great? I think I will propose another question to Alton about the use of garlic!!!
/bigweenie
Thanks for the recipe. I will try it this weekend.
What is a decent way to serve up a hot dog, that is delicious, different and retains some of the barehandedness that makes so much of american cuisine so much fun!!!
"They're like bullies in a sandbox who take away their toys when you don't agree with them," Dr. Kahn told The Chronicle of Higher Education.
I am always disgusted by how the media will defend the 1st amendment to defend their right to publish anything but are weak weenies when it comes to defending individuals to exercise their 1st amendment rights. Big money, free enterprise and survival of the fittest makes the individual have less rights than the corporation. Now universities are feeling the pinch, as they are second class citizens too when compared to corporate entities. The corporations will flex the liberal rules of academic research laboratories to circumvent some of the liability and legal entanglements of doing these same experiments in their own labs, they will defend these liberal institutions to the hilt, but only for their right to access them - they leave everyone one else to fend for themselves.
The general line of reasoning is that the universities win by gaining access to corporate dollar$ and the corporations win by gaining access to highly trained research technicians and very lenient or nonexistent research restrictions. Both are supposed to benefit, however, academic institutions need to have the VETO power over decisions that result in a obvious change in a research facility from "academic" to "r&d". The rules need to be amended so that the academic institution remains preeminent in all contractual agreements.
Sig. Are you dumber than you look?
Every quote you referenced is a strong argument for Open Source and not Shared Source, thank you for writing a response that provides quotes for the Open Source movement to use to defend GPL!!!
I like how you spoke in the heartland of the very place where the death knell of Microsoft is taking place - institutions of higher education, particularly those with the very brightest students (Harvard and MIT).
I make my living as a Microsoft consultant, I don't hold any ill will toward any licensing model, but America is about freedom and Open Source is the ultimate expression of freedom, powerful software code that lets you control the most powerful tools in history - and its all available at no cost!!! Microsoft needs to join the Open Source movement and not continue to believe it can actually FUD its way around this obstacle.
Microsoft has always demonstrated amazing flexibility and swift adoption of new technologies. Now is the time to become the world leader in Open Source development and abandon this ridiculous argument that intellectual property is some kind of DEVINE RIGHT. Evangelism for intellectual property rights is not going to win the battle of the hearts and minds of C-level management personnel. Knowing that they don't have to pay big licensing fees just to use software applications is what will win these people over. The future economy is a service economy, you know that as well as I do. Why do you continue to treat software as a commodity rather that a service? Are you just stupid?
I am surprised by the desire to resort to FUD when this obstacle has real roots, a real engine and no one single individual you can debunk and expose as some kind of jerk (i.e., Larry Ellison). Go ahead and tell the world about Linus, the Free Software Foundation and Eric Raymond!!! That is a great strategy. Anyone that now searches GNU and GPL will discover only positive press and you have instigated more searches on this than have ever happened in the last 5 years!!!
The incredible profits MS has made under the current market atmosphere is commendable and the fear that changing the model will take away any measure of predictability - the heart and soul of good business practices - is stupifying. But, intellectual property is not more valuable than a model that treats written code as "air". Your attempt to scare people into choosing the status quo over making a choice to move to the unpredictable world of Open Source will fall on dead ears. If you wish to know the principle weakness of MS in competing againt Open Source and why this attack won't influence anyone to not leap to Open Source. Just ask.
Thank you.
Michael L. Deane
I wish you would run for political office. We need people who have good common sense in positions of power and responsibility.
What else is there to say?
Orwellian acquiesence to behavior accountability every second of every day is hardly necessary nor advisable. Privacy means exactly that, privacy, including privacy from intrusion by the government.
Even if you are doing nothing "wrong" by "their" standars, will you be able to edit/review this archive of information about you to determine its accuracy and authenticity? Who will have access to this information as a normal responsibility of employment? What if something you do today is not "wrong", but in the future it is, will this be held against you, if only to defame you?
No, I don't find the upside to this at all. This must be stopped, interferred with, circumvented and/or delayed as much as is possible.
Perhaps we need to create a sight that documents all the abuses of this power that have occurred over time and link to it frequently.
The point is simple, does archiving of your elove letters have any value other than to possible embarass you in the future? "Gee, Honey Dumpling, I can't wait to tie you to that tree again and pound you from behind." There is real value in having the government archive meaningless diatribe!!!
I am in total disagreement with you about this laissev faire response to keeping a record of all my online behaviors and communiques. As intelligent as you appear to be, your naivete frightens and abhors me.
What do you need to know to change your mind? Respectfully, /bigweenie
There is no primeval forest, not even one tree, in the State of Georgia (my home). Are we to violate this planet completely, is that our destiny? I hope not.
My wife and I both have received our snail mail confirmation. It took about two weeks.
YOu are advocating a state where people are no longer citizens, only vassals.
This is a grave error on your part. In fact, it is fascist at best. NO ONE NEEDS TO KNOW WHAT I THINK, DO, SAY, OR COMMUNICATE OTHER THAN THOSE IN WHOM I PERSONALLY HAVE TRUST. The Government needs bounds, and severe restrictions on access to electronic communications is essential for individuals to even BEGIN to pursue liberty and happiness.
Rethink your trust in Government. The power must reside in the hands of the people first, then reluctantly be sacraficed only when necessary and on a case-by-case basis.
Wrong. The US government routinely screws up and to suggest that carte blanche US Govt access to any and all communications is justifiable is insane. Risk is part of life and nature. To suggest that if I have no privacy then I am safer, is insane. I would rather suffer the risk than trust some amorphous, irresponsible agency that claims to have my best interest in mind. Give privacy a chance.
Please read.
Bull. Teachers need to learn how to use the computers correctly.
This article should be considered "a reasonable sound of an alarm" and not a wholesale debunking of pre-fourth grade use of computers.
If teachers were adequately compensated and trained, then the proper use of computers would enhance every facet of learning. It is time to place a higher tax distribution emphasis on paying and training teachers, this includes the proper use of computers.
Dumb, poor (read:underpaid) teachers are the enemy, not computers. Fix the system that allows teachers to have no incentive to be the best and to be compensated as the best. Pay good teachers well, pay excellent teachers better and pay phenomenal teachers gargantuan salaries. Put bad teachers out on the street.
Keep the computers in the classroom and have the teachers/students learn how to use them constructively.
Now is the only moment you have complete control over. Use now wisely.
It is time for every regular poster and reader at /. to run for office. We can all run in mass against one another and flood the precincts with like-minded people, at least in respect to eliminating the abuse of patents and copyrights to the detriment of our children.
/. karma measurement for each candidate is the lead story on CNN?
Everyone of us is qualified, assuming of course you are an American citizen. We need to put software developers in Congress. How do we do that? By each one of us trying to get there. We are so much smarter, in some cases so much richer, and some of us even better "networked/connected" than these hand-out grabbing sycophants that we get to select from on election day.
Any one out there interested in having an election where the
"She said, 'You are not as dumb as you look.' I replied, 'Thank you.'"
Activist liberals at Duke University coined the term "politically correct" and liberals hailed the "temperance" of speech and actions against minorities, disadvantaged and the like. What has happened since is a complete annihilation of the 1st Amendment. Don't you get it? You can't prescribe the "correct" things for people to say and not be infringing on their rights. By defining what is acceptable, you are taking away the free will and liberty of the citizen. Sure, we will all make mistakes and we need to learn to tolerate them. But, to punish persons for not saying, looking, acting, being what is defined as "politically correct" is insane. What is amazing is that the most draconian of all movements in the USA is one that is a liberal initiative. Liberals are the most dangerous element in politics.
Consider another point. A conservative will espouse certain virtues and eventually fall short him/herself and violate one of these virtues publicly. Then the conservative is chastised mercilessly for "saying one thing and doing another". Liberals can never fall into this trap because they do not stand for anything. They can commit any atrocity and not ever be accused of hypocrisy. Hey, you elected me and you knew I was a scum bag, "so there you go!"
Liberals do incredible and are never held responsible for the results of their insanity.
Columbine is just another result of blind liberal support of the public school system "as is". Liberals will never fix the school system. That leaves the conservatives to fix the system, and nobody wants that either.
My suggestion:
Become a Reform Party candidate in a local election and solve the problem yourself.
how do I get a browser out of this mess?
any help would be appreciated....
don't spam me just because this is a windows machine, this is my first post after lurking here for 9 months
i just want mozilla
any help would be appreciated