Keep in mind that this is only an estimate of the AU pricing. From the link:
Microsoft has just announced local Australian pricing information for all Full Packaged Product Windows Vista editions. Doesn't sound like an estimate to me...
There is nothing illegal about having a monopoly. Microsoft are not an illegal monopoly.
They were ruled as being a monopoly, which was important for the anti trust case, because if they weren't ruled as being a monopoly then there was no case to answer under anti trust laws.
They were convicted for the actions they took in maintaining and extending that monopoly.
Too many people on slashdot seem to have confused the finding of facts in that case where the judge found that Microsoft was in fact a monopoly for the purposes of the case, and the outcome where they were convicted for anti-trust violations. The violation wasn't that they were a monopoly.
Alternatively there's reason to think it probably isn't dangerous, and no proof that it is. Besides, the only reason to think it MAY be dangerous is "ooh it's new and techmanological, it MUST be dangerous".
I'm sure you could find people who suffer similar symptoms in the presence of the colour red, but that doesn't mean that we should paint stop signs blue.
it's not an online voting system, it's a recommendation system. There's no reason at all why something similar couldn't be used in the USA. IP Addresses have nothing to do with it.
I use it for my proxy password. It'd be nice if it would separate Proxy authentication, HTTP authentication, and HTML forms. I never want to save passwords for HTML forms, always want to save the password for proxy authentication, and sometimes want to save HTTP authentication.
> How many people used email in 2001? I don't know....most of them? Do _you_ know? Do you have figures. Or are you just making vague statements without even clarifying your position?
> How many gmail accounts are there today? Hang on, let me just do a SELECT COUNT(1) FROM GMAIL_USERS. Waitaminute, I can't and neither can you.
So, number of people using email is $unspecified, number of people with gmail accounts today is $unknown, $unspecified is less than or greater than or equal to $unknown so from that we can draw conclusions! Brillant!
Why don't you ask AMD, as they've apparently already considered it, or they wouldn't be talking about putting both the CPU and the GPU in the same package.
Without knowing anything about it, it would seem that if CPU+GPU in the same package is possible, then CPU + GPU in two separate CPU sized packages would be possible.
"What I find more bizarre about the whole state of gov't in Australia currently is that although we have right-wing upper/lower house in Federal parliament, why the hell is there left-wing state governments?! I think people in this country have failed to learn how Government works."
Because the federal labor party is a joke. The only thing keeping the Liberal Party in, is a lack of credible opposition.
I'd say that people should be less afraid of voting for minor parties, but since the Democrats disintegrated there's not really anyone (sane) worth bothering with there either...
I'm confused. Exactly _what_ is being circumvented?
As far as I'm aware, the agreement between Microsoft and Novell doesn't require the end user to agree to any extra or different terms, it's completely disconnected from the license in the first place. It doesn't change anything about the user's rights in regards to the use and distribution of the software provided by Novell.
Basically, what the hell does this have to do with the FSF in the first place?
The trouble is, the moment you start firing people over something, other people start wondering if it's really worth working in an environment like that, and start leaving.
It's particularly bad if they're really not convinced the new practice will provide any benefit, and feel that their objections are not being listened to or taken seriously. If you want to keep good employees you have to treat them like human beings, otherwise they'll go find somewhere that does respect them, and you'll be left with the McDonald's rejects who are used to being ordered around like misbehaving school children.
And your lack of knowledge about Java, and the lack of documentation of some projects don't in themselves make Java bad either.
By that measure, C has got to the be worst language in existence, because I can almost guarantee that it has the largest volume of non documented projects of any language. 23 meg doesn't sound that bad for a compiler plus development platform. How much space does gcc/g++ + libc (runtime _and_ development packages) take up? The Java platform offers significantly more functionality.
BTW, most of the time you don't unjar a jar file - any more than you use ar to extract the.o files from a.a file. The only reason you'd want to unjar a jar file is if you wanted to combine multiple jars together for convienience. It sounds like you'd decided it was going to be hard so set out to find the hardest way to do it first.
To run a Java program from a jar file you simply use: java -jar jarfilename.jar, or in Windows you just double click on the jar like you would an.exe (Gnome and KDE may also allow this by default, but I'm not sure)
If the program author has any sense they'll have registered the start class in the jar file, if they haven't that's hardly Java's fault.
If you need to include dependency jar files then the following will do it:
java -classpath dependency1.jar:dependency2.jar -jar jarfilename.jar Although if there's multiple jars required and you can't figure out how to start it, then again it's the program author's fault for not providing a script to run it or proper documentation or bundling everything into a single jar for convenience.
Well, technically the median is an average too, although admittedly most people do associate the word "Average" with the mean. But if you were going to be pedantic, you probably should've specified mean instead of average.
I'm not sure there's ever been a point in time in the history of the English language where "steal" and similar words have been strictly limited to the definition favoured by some here.
Do you start lecturing your girlfriend when she tells you that you stole her heart? Do you rant at friends when they ask to steal a minute of your time?
I'm all for preventing the perversion of the English language, but if the age of a particular usage is counted in centuries then I think we can call it acceptable.
Picasa is pretty good, and is certainly more polished and finished than F-Spot, but F-Spot's export options are better than Picasa's and I like their approach to versioning better as well as the way they completely hide the filesystem from me. F-Spot's editing interface needs to take some lessons from Picasa - it's a little more cumbersome than it needs to be.
I really like F-Spot's tagging interface. The "Albums" introduced (or maybe just made more obvious) in the latest Picasa aren't quite as easy or useful for me.
However, Picasa is certainly what I recommend to Windows using friends - either that or the full version of Photoshop Album, but Picasa usually wins out on price there;)
> The only Mono GUI app I've seen is F-Spot, which I won't use due to its poor UI.
Then what do you use? I have coincidentally just started using F-Spot because as far as I can tell, it's the best, most well thought out application of its class available for Linux.
DigiKam looks like it has more features, but its UI is pretty impenetrable compared to F-Spot
If there's something that's even better then I'm genuinely interested in finding it before I waste too much time tagging my photos in F-Spot.
And on the topic of Mono - I had no idea that F-Spot was a Mono application (as I haven't had to install it from source, due to it being standard in Ubuntu), it just looked like any other Gnome application to me...
No, but a company doesn't need to screw everyone in sight to make money. There's only very few companies that can do that and get away with it, and Novell is not even close to being big enough to be one of them.
They didn't manage to survive as long as they have by pissing off their customers.
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well both of you will just have to close your eyes or do something else for a few minutes then.
Maybe you could re-adjust your tinfoil hat while you're at it.
Alternatively:
When they came for some moron stoner wanting to cause trouble,
I remained silent;
The world can do with one less trouble making idiot stoner.
When they came for a respectable human being who had done nothing wrong,
THAT's when I spoke out.
It's not like the idiot stoner was going to speak out for me anyway.
He's too busy sharing a bong with Jesus.
um, given that he only made the mistake in the subject despite using plurals all through his comment, I think you could give the poor guy a break.
We all make mistakes sometimes.
There is nothing illegal about having a monopoly.
Microsoft are not an illegal monopoly.
They were ruled as being a monopoly, which was important for the anti trust case, because if they weren't ruled as being a monopoly then there was no case to answer under anti trust laws.
They were convicted for the actions they took in maintaining and extending that monopoly.
Too many people on slashdot seem to have confused the finding of facts in that case where the judge found that Microsoft was in fact a monopoly for the purposes of the case, and the outcome where they were convicted for anti-trust violations. The violation wasn't that they were a monopoly.
Alternatively there's reason to think it probably isn't dangerous, and no proof that it is.
Besides, the only reason to think it MAY be dangerous is "ooh it's new and techmanological, it MUST be dangerous".
I'm sure you could find people who suffer similar symptoms in the presence of the colour red, but that doesn't mean that we should paint stop signs blue.
>they are not convinced that the treatment leaves the nutritional value of the meat intact.
Surely that's pretty easy to test for though? Or is it somehow magical non nutritional protein that's left?
it's not an online voting system, it's a recommendation system. There's no reason at all why something similar couldn't be used in the USA.
IP Addresses have nothing to do with it.
In Smalltalk installing the Microwave package would add the microwave message to Object ;)
I use it for my proxy password. It'd be nice if it would separate Proxy authentication, HTTP authentication, and HTML forms. I never want to save passwords for HTML forms, always want to save the password for proxy authentication, and sometimes want to save HTTP authentication.
What I want to know is why they bother with a minor version number when they only make major increments...
> How many people used email in 2001?
I don't know....most of them? Do _you_ know? Do you have figures. Or are you just making vague statements without even clarifying your position?
> How many gmail accounts are there today?
Hang on, let me just do a SELECT COUNT(1) FROM GMAIL_USERS. Waitaminute, I can't and neither can you.
So, number of people using email is $unspecified, number of people with gmail accounts today is $unknown, $unspecified is less than or greater than or equal to $unknown so from that we can draw conclusions!
Brillant!
Why don't you ask AMD, as they've apparently already considered it, or they wouldn't be talking about putting both the CPU and the GPU in the same package.
Without knowing anything about it, it would seem that if CPU+GPU in the same package is possible, then CPU + GPU in two separate CPU sized packages would be possible.
"What I find more bizarre about the whole state of gov't in Australia currently is that although we have right-wing upper/lower house in Federal parliament, why the hell is there left-wing state governments?! I think people in this country have failed to learn how Government works."
Because the federal labor party is a joke.
The only thing keeping the Liberal Party in, is a lack of credible opposition.
I'd say that people should be less afraid of voting for minor parties, but since the Democrats disintegrated there's not really anyone (sane) worth bothering with there either...
I'm confused. Exactly _what_ is being circumvented?
As far as I'm aware, the agreement between Microsoft and Novell doesn't require the end user to agree to any extra or different terms, it's completely disconnected from the license in the first place. It doesn't change anything about the user's rights in regards to the use and distribution of the software provided by Novell.
Basically, what the hell does this have to do with the FSF in the first place?
The trouble is, the moment you start firing people over something, other people start wondering if it's really worth working in an environment like that, and start leaving.
It's particularly bad if they're really not convinced the new practice will provide any benefit, and feel that their objections are not being listened to or taken seriously.
If you want to keep good employees you have to treat them like human beings, otherwise they'll go find somewhere that does respect them, and you'll be left with the McDonald's rejects who are used to being ordered around like misbehaving school children.
Language != implementation.
.o files from a .a file.
.exe (Gnome and KDE may also allow this by default, but I'm not sure)
And your lack of knowledge about Java, and the lack of documentation of some projects don't in themselves make Java bad either.
By that measure, C has got to the be worst language in existence, because I can almost guarantee that it has the largest volume of non documented projects of any language.
23 meg doesn't sound that bad for a compiler plus development platform. How much space does gcc/g++ + libc (runtime _and_ development packages) take up? The Java platform offers significantly more functionality.
BTW, most of the time you don't unjar a jar file - any more than you use ar to extract the
The only reason you'd want to unjar a jar file is if you wanted to combine multiple jars together for convienience.
It sounds like you'd decided it was going to be hard so set out to find the hardest way to do it first.
To run a Java program from a jar file you simply use: java -jar jarfilename.jar, or in Windows you just double click on the jar like you would an
If the program author has any sense they'll have registered the start class in the jar file, if they haven't that's hardly Java's fault.
If you need to include dependency jar files then the following will do it:
java -classpath dependency1.jar:dependency2.jar -jar jarfilename.jar
Although if there's multiple jars required and you can't figure out how to start it, then again it's the program author's fault for not providing a script to run it or proper documentation or bundling everything into a single jar for convenience.
Well, technically the median is an average too, although admittedly most people do associate the word "Average" with the mean.
But if you were going to be pedantic, you probably should've specified mean instead of average.
I'm not sure there's ever been a point in time in the history of the English language where "steal" and similar words have been strictly limited to the definition favoured by some here.
Do you start lecturing your girlfriend when she tells you that you stole her heart?
Do you rant at friends when they ask to steal a minute of your time?
I'm all for preventing the perversion of the English language, but if the age of a particular usage is counted in centuries then I think we can call it acceptable.
Ballmer is a foaming at the mouth lunatic.
Someone probably forgot to give him his medication before making that statement.
> if it's something everyone thinks then you can call it a fact.
No, then it's a widely held opinion. But still an opinion.
Picasa is pretty good, and is certainly more polished and finished than F-Spot, but F-Spot's export options are better than Picasa's and I like their approach to versioning better as well as the way they completely hide the filesystem from me.
;)
F-Spot's editing interface needs to take some lessons from Picasa - it's a little more cumbersome than it needs to be.
I really like F-Spot's tagging interface. The "Albums" introduced (or maybe just made more obvious) in the latest Picasa aren't quite as easy or useful for me.
However, Picasa is certainly what I recommend to Windows using friends - either that or the full version of Photoshop Album, but Picasa usually wins out on price there
doesn't it? Then in that case the fact that some people can't figure out Linux doesn't make Windows superior either.
> The only Mono GUI app I've seen is F-Spot, which I won't use due to its poor UI.
Then what do you use? I have coincidentally just started using F-Spot because as far as I can tell, it's the best, most well thought out application of its class available for Linux.
DigiKam looks like it has more features, but its UI is pretty impenetrable compared to F-Spot
If there's something that's even better then I'm genuinely interested in finding it before I waste too much time tagging my photos in F-Spot.
And on the topic of Mono - I had no idea that F-Spot was a Mono application (as I haven't had to install it from source, due to it being standard in Ubuntu), it just looked like any other Gnome application to me...
No, but a company doesn't need to screw everyone in sight to make money.
There's only very few companies that can do that and get away with it, and Novell is not even close to being big enough to be one of them.
They didn't manage to survive as long as they have by pissing off their customers.