It's called leeching. It's not called leeching. It's called being stupid and short-sighted.
If you take a piece of BSD software, fork it and close source it, you HAVE to give back your changes to the community. Otherwise your fork will get gradually away from the BSD 'still-open' branch. Soon enough incorporating changes from the main branch will be next to impossible: You won't benefit from the community effort anymore.
In clear, the BSD license grant people the right to be stupid. Hard to call that a weakness: There are and always will be stupid people.
So giving $5 Million, even if it were to charity, should excuse all of Microsoft's bad behavior? Who said that? Just curious... can't find that post you're referring to.
What is being said is that instead of shouting "a**holes" at them, for once, people could shout "thanks". This is all. On the next news, we'll be back to the "a**holes" shouting and all will be well.
One of their CEOs (don't remember which) openly admited that the high-end graphic cards were priced according to what people would pay for them and not at all related to the price of making the card itself
If there is anything one can say about the StarTac is that it had one of the worst reception/sensivity relatively to ALL other phones on the market at that time. I never owned one but know a few people that did and all complained. All reviews did list the reception in the bad points for the StarTac as well...
I was having a tendinitis on my right wrist from using my Logitech mouse too much. I bought a MS mouse and put it at the left side of my keyboard. Tada! No more pain!
While this story can be absolutely true, one thing can be absolutely wrong about it: Thinking that MS mice hurt less that Logitech ones.
The mere fact that some pain vanished by using a different keyboard can hardly be affected to the keyboard layout itself. Other things have changed, such as the muscles used to type the same characters because they're in a different place. And the fact that the old muscles pain vanished can hardly proves that a new pain will not appear in several years/month. There are so many factors mixed in here that it seems just stupid to blindly put all the benefit on the layout itself.
Exactly. While some are computer savvy enough to download the stuff they need, some others are not. And paying $20 for a CD with Photoshop and Premiere on it is still saving you more than a thousand bucks.
So it is simple: If you don't want to invest $1000, and you still want it, you've got to have it pirated. And $20 is a fair price since downloading these is always time and bandwidth-consuming.
Someone is claiming that a command line is universal. I'm just saying it's not. As with everything else in UNIX, it is highly configurable up to the point to prevent usability by someone unaware of this specific configuration.
I call that configurable 'ad nauseum';-) I don't know if that makes any sense, but it sounds cool...
She knows a number of things. She knows clicking in the cross at the top right will close the window. She knows that the small bar will iconify (in the taskbar). She knows ESC will close a dialog box. She knows where to find MS Word (In the start menu). She knows a bunch already, even if it seems null to us nerds.
All of these she can show anyone that might be even less computer knowledgeable.
Using Linux this is just not possible. One person will use KDE, the next one Gnome, the other openbox and the last one will just use console with no X-Win because its computer should be in a museum. But they all use Linux. And all of the things described above can be just radically different on any of these linux systems.
What the mass wants is not something you can configure. They want something already configured which is not too annoying. And Linux is not there yet, that's all I'm saying.
Under it all is the command line. That is universal, my friend...
Once I got to a friend desktop and tried to find something for him. He had set his bash in vi mode. I just couldn't do anything with that piece of crap. I didn't even know how to get back to a "normal" bash.
I am sure you can find something better as far as universality is concerned.
I think you are mixing everything here. Diversity makes linux marginal. Because My grandma will not be able to help my aunt fix her computer, because she uses a different shell, a different WM, a different flavor of the same thing. What you dislike in Windows ("The same interface and settings for everyone") is what makes it popular. Because most of the people don't care to take time/energy into configuring the damn thing. You do because it's your hobby.
For people (ie: The Mass Market) what is needed is something that will get to the point: editing images, recording a video, etc...
Linux's configurability (as well as UNIX's in general) is what prevent it from getting to the mass market. People and distros are working toward a simpler Linux, but we're far from it yet, and there's so many of them!
People need to be able to interoperate simply. Between two flavors of Linux, it might just be impossible for a non-techy, which makes the entire Linux base highly fragmented. I am pretty sure that I can administer any flavor of Windows out there (from '95 to XP) without great difficulty, because it is so STANDARDIZED. And that's exactly what Linux is missing. User Interface Standard (note as I didn't add an S to standard)
As far as OASIS is concerned, it might be the holy grail of nerds, that might make it no less useless. Until the main Office suite supports it, it will remain marginal. Proof is the de-facto standard is MS's format, and rightly so since they just dominate the market.
Don't get me wrong, I hope this will change. I just don't see OASIS having any part in it. Nerds are too focused on technical perfection and not enough on marketting. People don't give a sh**t about how it works most of the time.
Save it as Word 2k. It will work everywhere.
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The main reason I did not install any flavor of flash is that it consistently uses up to 100% CPU with many websites. I know it's not Macromedia's fault if some crappy coders generated a SWF that eats up 100% of my CPU, but it is their responsibility after all.
Everytime I install Flash (because I need to see something) I get screwed a while later with Firefox eating up all the resources. Then I uninstall.
English does set a certain number of rules for some words. You can interpret them the way you want (these words), but there's generally a generally accepted sense (or many).
Saying the Linux kernel is the best is like saying snails are the best of all animals.
While maybe true when referencing to their salad-eating skills, this is generally just nonsense. There is no "best animal", because there is no universal way of comparing animals. Jaguars may be the best mammals at running, whales at weighting.
The same way, there is no "best kernel". However, there might be a best kernel for you. Therecertainly is a best kernel at security, at pure performance on a specific system, etc...
Oh well, I think you're just trolling anyways, so why bother?
You just misused the word best, that is all. I keep telling my son: "This is not bad, it's just that you don't like it". No kernel is the "best". By any means. But you might have a preference for a specific kernel.
Just saying it's the best just denotes a big immaturity because it is a universal concept which cannot be applied to a kernel by nature, unless you explicitely specify a set of objective and well defined rules. Then one kernel might be the best for this set of rules.
Actually, it is funnier than you thought, because it does apply as well to the story and the article. The guys are mispelling "UI" with "Software" all along.
When will people understand that such flaws are not flaws in "the software" but in the software's UI.
UI programming/designing is a special skill and not everyone can do it well. But unlike other areas in software, everyone can do a bad one and most of all, everyone think they can do a good one.
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This clearly proves you are more able to troubleshoot printer problems under Mandrake than under Windows, nothing else.
It's called leeching.
It's not called leeching. It's called being stupid and short-sighted.
If you take a piece of BSD software, fork it and close source it, you HAVE to give back your changes to the community. Otherwise your fork will get gradually away from the BSD 'still-open' branch. Soon enough incorporating changes from the main branch will be next to impossible: You won't benefit from the community effort anymore.
In clear, the BSD license grant people the right to be stupid. Hard to call that a weakness: There are and always will be stupid people.
So giving $5 Million, even if it were to charity, should excuse all of Microsoft's bad behavior?
Who said that? Just curious... can't find that post you're referring to.
What is being said is that instead of shouting "a**holes" at them, for once, people could shout "thanks". This is all. On the next news, we'll be back to the "a**holes" shouting and all will be well.
Dude, That one made me laugh out loud at work... Damn you!
One of their CEOs (don't remember which) openly admited that the high-end graphic cards were priced according to what people would pay for them and not at all related to the price of making the card itself
;-)
I see. You haven't read marketing 101...
if you really insist, kilometers per hour
I insist that this unit is covered by sentence you are quoting.
Given that there is no such thing as modding a post "Normal", I assume the grandparent was talking about Meta-Modding both posts.
If there is anything one can say about the StarTac is that it had one of the worst reception/sensivity relatively to ALL other phones on the market at that time. I never owned one but know a few people that did and all complained. All reviews did list the reception in the bad points for the StarTac as well...
Maybe you got a special version or something...
Where's the .torrent?
That's the same concept as OpenBSD: The box is 100% secure - GUARANTEED - from any remote attack out of the box. ...
Not TCP/IP stack !
I was having a tendinitis on my right wrist from using my Logitech mouse too much. I bought a MS mouse and put it at the left side of my keyboard. Tada! No more pain! While this story can be absolutely true, one thing can be absolutely wrong about it: Thinking that MS mice hurt less that Logitech ones. The mere fact that some pain vanished by using a different keyboard can hardly be affected to the keyboard layout itself. Other things have changed, such as the muscles used to type the same characters because they're in a different place. And the fact that the old muscles pain vanished can hardly proves that a new pain will not appear in several years/month. There are so many factors mixed in here that it seems just stupid to blindly put all the benefit on the layout itself.
Exactly. While some are computer savvy enough to download the stuff they need, some others are not. And paying $20 for a CD with Photoshop and Premiere on it is still saving you more than a thousand bucks.
So it is simple: If you don't want to invest $1000, and you still want it, you've got to have it pirated. And $20 is a fair price since downloading these is always time and bandwidth-consuming.
Someone is claiming that a command line is universal. I'm just saying it's not. As with everything else in UNIX, it is highly configurable up to the point to prevent usability by someone unaware of this specific configuration.
;-) I don't know if that makes any sense, but it sounds cool...
I call that configurable 'ad nauseum'
She knows a number of things. She knows clicking in the cross at the top right will close the window. She knows that the small bar will iconify (in the taskbar). She knows ESC will close a dialog box. She knows where to find MS Word (In the start menu). She knows a bunch already, even if it seems null to us nerds.
All of these she can show anyone that might be even less computer knowledgeable.
Using Linux this is just not possible. One person will use KDE, the next one Gnome, the other openbox and the last one will just use console with no X-Win because its computer should be in a museum. But they all use Linux. And all of the things described above can be just radically different on any of these linux systems.
What the mass wants is not something you can configure. They want something already configured which is not too annoying. And Linux is not there yet, that's all I'm saying.
Under it all is the command line. That is universal, my friend...
Once I got to a friend desktop and tried to find something for him. He had set his bash in vi mode. I just couldn't do anything with that piece of crap. I didn't even know how to get back to a "normal" bash.
I am sure you can find something better as far as universality is concerned.
I think you are mixing everything here. Diversity makes linux marginal. Because My grandma will not be able to help my aunt fix her computer, because she uses a different shell, a different WM, a different flavor of the same thing. What you dislike in Windows ("The same interface and settings for everyone") is what makes it popular. Because most of the people don't care to take time/energy into configuring the damn thing. You do because it's your hobby.
For people (ie: The Mass Market) what is needed is something that will get to the point: editing images, recording a video, etc...
Linux's configurability (as well as UNIX's in general) is what prevent it from getting to the mass market. People and distros are working toward a simpler Linux, but we're far from it yet, and there's so many of them!
People need to be able to interoperate simply. Between two flavors of Linux, it might just be impossible for a non-techy, which makes the entire Linux base highly fragmented. I am pretty sure that I can administer any flavor of Windows out there (from '95 to XP) without great difficulty, because it is so STANDARDIZED. And that's exactly what Linux is missing. User Interface Standard (note as I didn't add an S to standard)
As far as OASIS is concerned, it might be the holy grail of nerds, that might make it no less useless. Until the main Office suite supports it, it will remain marginal. Proof is the de-facto standard is MS's format, and rightly so since they just dominate the market.
Don't get me wrong, I hope this will change. I just don't see OASIS having any part in it. Nerds are too focused on technical perfection and not enough on marketting. People don't give a sh**t about how it works most of the time.
Save it as Word 2k. It will work everywhere.
The main reason I did not install any flavor of flash is that it consistently uses up to 100% CPU with many websites. I know it's not Macromedia's fault if some crappy coders generated a SWF that eats up 100% of my CPU, but it is their responsibility after all.
Everytime I install Flash (because I need to see something) I get screwed a while later with Firefox eating up all the resources. Then I uninstall.
Oh well...
Isn't there already a little clock on the screen in the lower-right corner
That would suppose your notebook is turned on and open. You could need time in many other situatoins...
How are you going to download a browser if you don't already have a browser?
FTP ?
I'll bite once more...
English does set a certain number of rules for some words. You can interpret them the way you want (these words), but there's generally a generally accepted sense (or many).
Saying the Linux kernel is the best is like saying snails are the best of all animals.
While maybe true when referencing to their salad-eating skills, this is generally just nonsense. There is no "best animal", because there is no universal way of comparing animals. Jaguars may be the best mammals at running, whales at weighting.
The same way, there is no "best kernel". However, there might be a best kernel for you. Therecertainly is a best kernel at security, at pure performance on a specific system, etc...
Oh well, I think you're just trolling anyways, so why bother?
He was expressing an opinion. I agreed with him.
You just misused the word best, that is all. I keep telling my son: "This is not bad, it's just that you don't like it". No kernel is the "best". By any means. But you might have a preference for a specific kernel.
Just saying it's the best just denotes a big immaturity because it is a universal concept which cannot be applied to a kernel by nature, unless you explicitely specify a set of objective and well defined rules. Then one kernel might be the best for this set of rules.
Actually, it is funnier than you thought, because it does apply as well to the story and the article. The guys are mispelling "UI" with "Software" all along.
When will people understand that such flaws are not flaws in "the software" but in the software's UI.
UI programming/designing is a special skill and not everyone can do it well. But unlike other areas in software, everyone can do a bad one and most of all, everyone think they can do a good one.
That is assuming /. stores password in clear text of course.
It says "the data will be encrypted starting July 2005" in the article
But who reads those?
... are linking to? The project is long-dead...
Sorry about the double post, but some stupid guy thought that tab would be well-fitted next to A, unaccounting for my tendinitis.