Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq MSFT) is the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software -- any time, any place and on any device.
Lord, where does that sound familiar... I thought that was Sun's tag line. "empower people through great software"... uh yeah, whatever.
VMware Ready to Run is also an excellent way to try Windows 2000. A user can keep their current world completely intact and also, with simply a file copy, have Windows 2000.
Oh yes. You can pay $200 for an upgrade copy of W2k, wow.
I guess it's good for Linux users, but all I can think of is how entering into agreements with MS is bad, and wonder if they will try to get VMware to quit making VMware for Linux. I was in the computer store yesterday buying myself a boxed copy of RedHat 6.1, and walked down the Windows OS aisle... $89 for Win95 upgrade, $99 for Win98 upgrade, $199 for Win2k upgrade... I fail to see how an OS that's 5 years old is worth only $10 less than the current home version.
Well maybe I just answered my own question... if you want to have 3 windows OS's on your Linux box, and you're paying that kind of money for each version, the hell if MS doesn't want you to do that...
Yeah but do they FORCE you to install AIM?? That's the big thing that irks me about NS. (I'm sure this sounds familiar when installing Windows...) You can't not install some of the components of NS, including AIM...
The non-NS AIM is supposed to be a lot better than the one that's included, it seems silly to have it installed twice.
The problem I've been running into, being a devout Netscape user is that sometimes (errr OFTEN I mean) I run into websites that just plain don't work with Netscape. Sometimes it's because of buggy code (IE is more forgiving of buggy code than NS is), sometimes it's because MS added some non-standard utility into IE and people creating websites using MS tools (*cough*frontpage*cough*) have it "optimized" for IE.
I hope that NS6 can overcome these and work on all webpages. *sigh*
Actually, they could copy it, but they can't copy the domain name. So all the people who go to your site still go to your site, and all they have is a lousy mirror.
Yeah, maybe it's just so the ticket booth doesn't get long lines. They still make the same amount of money whether the ticket is sold through ticketmaster or through the event location. Who knows... my point is you can buy the SAME EXACT ticket through other outlets, you don't HAVE to buy it through Ticketmaster. You're paying for the convenience of not having to go the location and having a lot of events to choose from.
Microsoft is a whole nother ballpark. An analogy between ticketmaster and microsoft just doesn't fly.
Ticketmaster is NOT a monopoly. I buy my tickets by going to the place that the event is held at and saving around $8 per ticket because they don't have those fees. I think you can usually even call the stadium/arena/theater and do it over the phone and give your credit card #. A LOT easier than dealing with ticketmaster. If you go on the day of the show at the place, you can usually get a better seat than if you go to ticketmaster and buy a ticket (around the same time, not like as soon as the ticket sales open). The local #'s for ticketmaster are about impossible to go through, and if you aren't interested in purchasing a ticket, but rather want customer support, you have to manage to get through the number, hold for 20 minutes, ask to be transferred to customer service, then hold for another 20 mins.
But I digress... no, ticketmaster is NOT a monopoly.
There's I think 2 or 3 different versions of the UltraSparc II...
The problem with the processor wars is that they just focus on a number (now many MHz they can get up to) when there are lots of other factors in computer performance. People see the 800 mhz and think it must be 2x as fast as their 400 mhz chip. If some of the bottlenecks in the hardware would be resolved, there'd be a lot better performance everywhere.
What kind of people need new CPUs? The people who have motivation to upgrade. Usually it's because of games that require a faster processor in order to get the 3d movement to be more real time and more realistic (not blocky). These power users aren't the kind of people who generally buy Celerons... they get the full fledged PIII or Athlon.
I don't play those kind of games (I don't like 1st person shoot em up games), and my Celeron 433 is just fine for the kinds of games I play on it. Other people with previous generation Celerons are most likely the same kind of user that I am.
Intel SHOULD develop new products... they SHOULD work on getting the high end processors even better. Not cripple their high end processors and try to get Joe user who uses office apps to "upgrade" just because an upgrade is available.
I agree.... I can see it now. Kid wants some money for cigarettes, and calls the # to turn in a friend. The friend is just a typical teenager, who now has counselors and people on his/her back, assuming he/she is depressed, and this person having to prove that s/he isn't.
I dunno, sounds like the old witch hunts to me. You're only not a witch if you burn when you get burnt at the stake.
I have a celeron 433 computer at home (of the home assembled variety). A celeron works fine for me because I don't play games that require real time 3d. I play Heroes III, AOE, and Civ II - Test of Time for the most part, and internet stuff on my computer. I'm the kind of person who buys a Celeron. So if my Celeron 433 works just fine and dandy, what in the world would I need a Celeron II for? I think that the only reason they're coming up with these new chips is so that people who have other chips that work just fine for what they use it for will be pressured to upgrade, and thus contribute to their bottom line.
Well you can't have pizza delivery without a telephone. Just try it, I dare you.
"but there are also other means of communication than a phone."
Hey YOU can use tin cans and string, I'll keep my telephone. Maybe carrier pigeon. Telegram.
See my point? What other means of communication are there? Only ancient ones that no one uses anymore. Email? Well you need phone lines (or at least cable lines) for that.
If you live way out in the boonies, and you fall and can't get up, how are you going to get an ambulance? I guess you're NOT unless you have a phone. We may not have a RIGHT to be GIVEN a phone, but we certainly have a right to get one if we want one. Which is why they do lay lines for people in Nowheresville and don't charge them more. That's why local phone is a government regulated monopoly (right now, in most areas).
There is no other good alternative means of communication other than the telephone, whereas with pizza, you can go out and grow a tomato garden or something.
Net access hasn't grown to the point yet that phone service has. Someday it probably will.
Education: The thing about this is that people who are poor generally don't have the time on their hands to home school children, unless they're on welfare. And if you're on welfare, how much education do you have? Generally not enough, otherwise you'd have a skilled labor job. It's a catch 22. This is why if education is no longer available to the poor, that would be a BAD thing... the poor wouldn't have the opportunity to become more educated and have the potential to get a good job.
Taxation may be "inevitable" and a fact of life BUT... I pay taxes out of my paycheck to federal, state, local, and social security. Then, anything I buy has a 5.75% sales tax on it. Then, if I owned a house, I'd have to pay property tax. I have to pay to have my car registered in my state. Any gas, alcohol, or cigarettes I buy would have an additional tax. The companies that make the products that I buy pay lots of taxes. We still pay taxes to fund wars from 1899. What the hell do they need a NEW tax for, when they have plenty of money with the taxes we're already giving them?? (30-40% of gross salary including the non income taxes) And you know, if a tax goes on the books, it NEVER comes off, even when deemed to be a temporary one. Take some of the old "temporary" taxes off and I might be ok with an internet sales tax.
That wouldn't work. System vendors would have to apply to all system vendors, including Apple, Sun, et al. This would require Apple to preload something other than Mac OS or Sun to preload something other than Solaris which would require them to support the other OS's. It just wouldn't fly for the vendors who only support one OS (but say if you wanna install something else, be my guest.)
But justice is not a popularity contest. The general public has shown to be not informed of the laws of the land... they like using Windows and haven't read the findings of fact.
There will NOT be an apocolypse today! Coca-cola will NOT be handing out cocaine laced cola free to the city of San Francisco! Natalie Portman will NOT be petrified! The Statue of Liberty will NOT be modified to show an extended middle finger! Babies will NOT be stuck to the wall with a mixture of chewing gum and peanut butter!
This is like... non-news. (disclaimer... this is a joke, ok, laugh, funny, ha ha... with a dash of sarcasm)
I personally would love a device that I can hook to my home network. I've been working on getting some new 'puters and setting things up, and it's been a pain in the ass, especially dealing with used computer stores that won't take things back after 24 hrs after you buy it if at all. One 486 I got wouldn't work with any ethernet card I put in the ISA slot, and a P90 I got had controller failures and memory failures when you power it on. If I could buy a new box that is guaranteed to work, maybe have linux preinstalled even, i'd be a happy camper.
As it stands now, I've bought a box (on clearance bc it was a return) that hooks computers to tvs for $125. Wireless keyboard for $99. P90 (1 of the 3 boxes that actually worked) for $80. (it came with an ethernet card) - has a 600 mb hard drive, got it hooked up to the tv in the living room and the stereo, and it being networked to my computer w/ a 30 gig hd, I can play all my mp3's, browse the internet, etc, and lay on the couch. I want something like that off the shelf rather than having to piece parts together.
It'd be cheaper to tape it off pay-per-view. $3.75 and you have your own copy on tape. I just don't see much point in spending oodles of money in order to copy DVDs, when you can get it off pay per view (if it's a new movie) or buy the tape for $10.
It's not necessarily her gender, but the fact that she is the founder of a gender-based Linux group, and an advocate for getting females into technology. Any other female, and the question would probably not have been posed.
Not true: MS invented the red squiggly line underneath the misspelled word. They also invented the talking paperclip.
They've also not "held back PC technology" for the past 13 years. Oh no. They help it along. Didn't you read that Win2k needs more CPU power and more memory? You can't run it on your current system, you need to UPGRADE!
Thus they ARE capable of true innovation (although to what extent may be arguable).
They will succeed, if not for the fact that once companies standardize on a platform, trying to get them to change to something else is like pulling teeth.
He also hasn't done anything harmful on the domain name either. He hasn't put porn up. He hasn't put up a Coca Cola sucks page. He just doesn't have anything up. He also hasn't offered to sell it to Coca Cola for an exorbitant amount of money.
Slashdot Mirror
I've already got a motherboard and processor...
Do I want to upgrade them JUST to save $60 on W2k? yeah right.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq MSFT) is the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software -- any time, any place and on any device.
Lord, where does that sound familiar... I thought that was Sun's tag line. "empower people through great software"... uh yeah, whatever.
VMware Ready to Run is also an excellent way to try Windows 2000. A user can keep their current world completely intact and also, with simply a file copy, have Windows 2000.
Oh yes. You can pay $200 for an upgrade copy of W2k, wow.
I guess it's good for Linux users, but all I can think of is how entering into agreements with MS is bad, and wonder if they will try to get VMware to quit making VMware for Linux. I was in the computer store yesterday buying myself a boxed copy of RedHat 6.1, and walked down the Windows OS aisle... $89 for Win95 upgrade, $99 for Win98 upgrade, $199 for Win2k upgrade... I fail to see how an OS that's 5 years old is worth only $10 less than the current home version.
Well maybe I just answered my own question... if you want to have 3 windows OS's on your Linux box, and you're paying that kind of money for each version, the hell if MS doesn't want you to do that...
Yeah but do they FORCE you to install AIM?? That's the big thing that irks me about NS. (I'm sure this sounds familiar when installing Windows...) You can't not install some of the components of NS, including AIM...
The non-NS AIM is supposed to be a lot better than the one that's included, it seems silly to have it installed twice.
The problem I've been running into, being a devout Netscape user is that sometimes (errr OFTEN I mean) I run into websites that just plain don't work with Netscape. Sometimes it's because of buggy code (IE is more forgiving of buggy code than NS is), sometimes it's because MS added some non-standard utility into IE and people creating websites using MS tools (*cough*frontpage*cough*) have it "optimized" for IE.
I hope that NS6 can overcome these and work on all webpages. *sigh*
Actually, they could copy it, but they can't copy the domain name. So all the people who go to your site still go to your site, and all they have is a lousy mirror.
Yeah, maybe it's just so the ticket booth doesn't get long lines. They still make the same amount of money whether the ticket is sold through ticketmaster or through the event location. Who knows... my point is you can buy the SAME EXACT ticket through other outlets, you don't HAVE to buy it through Ticketmaster. You're paying for the convenience of not having to go the location and having a lot of events to choose from.
Microsoft is a whole nother ballpark. An analogy between ticketmaster and microsoft just doesn't fly.
I believe it's 20...
Ticketmaster is NOT a monopoly. I buy my tickets by going to the place that the event is held at and saving around $8 per ticket because they don't have those fees. I think you can usually even call the stadium/arena/theater and do it over the phone and give your credit card #. A LOT easier than dealing with ticketmaster. If you go on the day of the show at the place, you can usually get a better seat than if you go to ticketmaster and buy a ticket (around the same time, not like as soon as the ticket sales open). The local #'s for ticketmaster are about impossible to go through, and if you aren't interested in purchasing a ticket, but rather want customer support, you have to manage to get through the number, hold for 20 minutes, ask to be transferred to customer service, then hold for another 20 mins.
But I digress... no, ticketmaster is NOT a monopoly.
There's I think 2 or 3 different versions of the UltraSparc II...
The problem with the processor wars is that they just focus on a number (now many MHz they can get up to) when there are lots of other factors in computer performance. People see the 800 mhz and think it must be 2x as fast as their 400 mhz chip. If some of the bottlenecks in the hardware would be resolved, there'd be a lot better performance everywhere.
What kind of people need new CPUs? The people who have motivation to upgrade. Usually it's because of games that require a faster processor in order to get the 3d movement to be more real time and more realistic (not blocky). These power users aren't the kind of people who generally buy Celerons... they get the full fledged PIII or Athlon.
I don't play those kind of games (I don't like 1st person shoot em up games), and my Celeron 433 is just fine for the kinds of games I play on it. Other people with previous generation Celerons are most likely the same kind of user that I am.
Intel SHOULD develop new products... they SHOULD work on getting the high end processors even better. Not cripple their high end processors and try to get Joe user who uses office apps to "upgrade" just because an upgrade is available.
I agree....
I can see it now. Kid wants some money for cigarettes, and calls the # to turn in a friend. The friend is just a typical teenager, who now has counselors and people on his/her back, assuming he/she is depressed, and this person having to prove that s/he isn't.
I dunno, sounds like the old witch hunts to me. You're only not a witch if you burn when you get burnt at the stake.
I have a celeron 433 computer at home (of the home assembled variety). A celeron works fine for me because I don't play games that require real time 3d. I play Heroes III, AOE, and Civ II - Test of Time for the most part, and internet stuff on my computer. I'm the kind of person who buys a Celeron. So if my Celeron 433 works just fine and dandy, what in the world would I need a Celeron II for? I think that the only reason they're coming up with these new chips is so that people who have other chips that work just fine for what they use it for will be pressured to upgrade, and thus contribute to their bottom line.
When will the insanity end??
Huh? That link says "java a plus" not "7 years or more of Java experience required"
Well you can't have pizza delivery without a telephone. Just try it, I dare you.
"but there are also other means of communication than a phone."
Hey YOU can use tin cans and string, I'll keep my telephone. Maybe carrier pigeon. Telegram.
See my point? What other means of communication are there? Only ancient ones that no one uses anymore. Email? Well you need phone lines (or at least cable lines) for that.
If you live way out in the boonies, and you fall and can't get up, how are you going to get an ambulance? I guess you're NOT unless you have a phone. We may not have a RIGHT to be GIVEN a phone, but we certainly have a right to get one if we want one. Which is why they do lay lines for people in Nowheresville and don't charge them more. That's why local phone is a government regulated monopoly (right now, in most areas).
There is no other good alternative means of communication other than the telephone, whereas with pizza, you can go out and grow a tomato garden or something.
Net access hasn't grown to the point yet that phone service has. Someday it probably will.
Education:
The thing about this is that people who are poor generally don't have the time on their hands to home school children, unless they're on welfare. And if you're on welfare, how much education do you have? Generally not enough, otherwise you'd have a skilled labor job. It's a catch 22. This is why if education is no longer available to the poor, that would be a BAD thing... the poor wouldn't have the opportunity to become more educated and have the potential to get a good job.
Taxation may be "inevitable" and a fact of life BUT... I pay taxes out of my paycheck to federal, state, local, and social security. Then, anything I buy has a 5.75% sales tax on it. Then, if I owned a house, I'd have to pay property tax. I have to pay to have my car registered in my state. Any gas, alcohol, or cigarettes I buy would have an additional tax. The companies that make the products that I buy pay lots of taxes. We still pay taxes to fund wars from 1899. What the hell do they need a NEW tax for, when they have plenty of money with the taxes we're already giving them?? (30-40% of gross salary including the non income taxes) And you know, if a tax goes on the books, it NEVER comes off, even when deemed to be a temporary one. Take some of the old "temporary" taxes off and I might be ok with an internet sales tax.
That wouldn't work. System vendors would have to apply to all system vendors, including Apple, Sun, et al. This would require Apple to preload something other than Mac OS or Sun to preload something other than Solaris which would require them to support the other OS's. It just wouldn't fly for the vendors who only support one OS (but say if you wanna install something else, be my guest.)
But justice is not a popularity contest. The general public has shown to be not informed of the laws of the land... they like using Windows and haven't read the findings of fact.
There will NOT be an apocolypse today!
Coca-cola will NOT be handing out cocaine laced cola free to the city of San Francisco!
Natalie Portman will NOT be petrified!
The Statue of Liberty will NOT be modified to show an extended middle finger!
Babies will NOT be stuck to the wall with a mixture of chewing gum and peanut butter!
This is like... non-news.
(disclaimer... this is a joke, ok, laugh, funny, ha ha... with a dash of sarcasm)
I personally would love a device that I can hook to my home network. I've been working on getting some new 'puters and setting things up, and it's been a pain in the ass, especially dealing with used computer stores that won't take things back after 24 hrs after you buy it if at all. One 486 I got wouldn't work with any ethernet card I put in the ISA slot, and a P90 I got had controller failures and memory failures when you power it on. If I could buy a new box that is guaranteed to work, maybe have linux preinstalled even, i'd be a happy camper.
As it stands now, I've bought a box (on clearance bc it was a return) that hooks computers to tvs for $125. Wireless keyboard for $99. P90 (1 of the 3 boxes that actually worked) for $80. (it came with an ethernet card) - has a 600 mb hard drive, got it hooked up to the tv in the living room and the stereo, and it being networked to my computer w/ a 30 gig hd, I can play all my mp3's, browse the internet, etc, and lay on the couch. I want something like that off the shelf rather than having to piece parts together.
It'd be cheaper to tape it off pay-per-view. $3.75 and you have your own copy on tape. I just don't see much point in spending oodles of money in order to copy DVDs, when you can get it off pay per view (if it's a new movie) or buy the tape for $10.
Even more typical - I just bought the box of RH6.1 at the store yesterday.
It's not necessarily her gender, but the fact that she is the founder of a gender-based Linux group, and an advocate for getting females into technology. Any other female, and the question would probably not have been posed.
I think Uncle F*cka would've been more original, and has a more catchy tune. Can you imagine the censors going on that one....
Shut your f.... face, uncle f.....
you're a c... sucking a... licking uncle f.....
you're an uncle f.... yes it's true
nobody f.... uncles quite like you!
Not true:
MS invented the red squiggly line underneath the misspelled word.
They also invented the talking paperclip.
They've also not "held back PC technology" for the past 13 years. Oh no. They help it along. Didn't you read that Win2k needs more CPU power and more memory? You can't run it on your current system, you need to UPGRADE!
Thus they ARE capable of true innovation (although to what extent may be arguable).
They will succeed, if not for the fact that once companies standardize on a platform, trying to get them to change to something else is like pulling teeth.
You both are pulling things from your ass.
He also hasn't done anything harmful on the domain name either. He hasn't put porn up. He hasn't put up a Coca Cola sucks page. He just doesn't have anything up. He also hasn't offered to sell it to Coca Cola for an exorbitant amount of money.