Asus isn't payng anything for XP, Microsoft stopped selling. XP is 8 years old $6 is just about right for 8 year old software. And talk about making a stink for the exclusive purpose of making a stink... This is just a "non issue".
The point is not to replace Windows, it's an OS for web surfing. It's not for playing World of Warcraft, doing heavy photo editing, video editing, etc.
It's not a popular idea here in Geekdom, but many people think Web applications *are* the future...
The government will have to bail them out with billions in aid. They geared up to produce all this vaccine, and now no one wants it. People will lose jobs, big business will fold... Bring on the corporate welfare.
Slashdot odds are that this story turns out to be pure crap. It's always been a little bit of an issue here with a submission from a blog or other less than solid source ca while uses a Slashdot "editor" to pound the Accept button while shrieking about rights and information needs to be free and so forth, and we discover later that there was some other issue, a misunderstanding, or no issue at all. Now that many have run out of I Hate Microsoft steam, Apple and Google are the natural targets.
Who the fuck cares? Just how many people actually use Silverlight anyways?
"Back in the day" when Netscape was king, how many people used IE? Microsoft will keep pounding away with Silverlight to the large "enterprise" clients, and eventually, one day, it will pass Flash. At that point, AOL will merge with Adobe, and it'll be all over.
Have you ever heard of this wonderful thing called Google? Try "Dagy raid". Have a look at the FIRST linky.
The raid at the Ivy Street home of Beryl and Dina Dagy was one of 25 conducted Friday in North County and San Diego after a six-month investigation by the San Diego Integrated Narcotic Task Force into marijuana being grown in rented homes. Agents found marijuana in 20 of the raids and arrested 24 people.
But this will be useful in some cases (3rd world education, your grandparents, etc) where all your need are webapps...
No. A thousand times no.
This type of exclusionary thinking is why OLPC is a joke. Have you been to the "The Third World"? They have cell phones in the middle of nowhere. Their needs for a computer device do not involve dumbed down toys that have little relationships to "real" computers and "real" applications.
As a minimum, "The Third World" needs net-books, not some idiot box with useless toy applications, and while things like OLPC might be fine for *children* to play with, adults with adult problems to solve need real computers.
Laptops and net-books are quite cheap and quite sturdy and perfectly suitable for the real needs of "Third World" people.
This view is skewed @ Slashdot, but *most* people are not as wrapped up in technology. They will say "I have to pay for this? Than I want something tangible like a paper". It's easy to say "I'll never read a newspaper
again" when it's free on-line. When the on-line edition cost something, people will back peddle and demand something tangible for their money.
It has to be political.. there has to be something going on behind the scenes here.
He's not that stupid a person.. and there's no way that someone hasn't explained to him what a robots.txt file is by now..
Of course. Merdoch (or his minons) know this. There are probably two things going on: A lame attempt to convince the public that he is being ripped off, and also he is almost certainly in discussions with Google about having Google pay for the content that Google clearly profits from. Neither will work out. And until web content of these "publications" provide a lot more value to the consumer, pay-for-access is a dead idea as well.
Of course there are certain publications, like the WSJ that can pull it off, but most can not, and certainly not local newspapers.
Having seen what they say they have on me, two thoughts come to mind: Either they are being misleading and this is just the things they feel like telling me, or they are really incompetent because the stuff they say they know about me is pretty limited (and I'm a HEAVY Google user).
I mean, I installed Firefox on a parents laptop, and they're first worry was that they wouldn't be able to find their favourite website 'because it was a different internet'.
This is a tired anecdote that is by far a tiny minority today.
Does anyone else long for the days when the web was more about content than fancy presentation?
Most people don't surf with Lynx anymore (maybe RMS does...). The visual presentation is part of the content because the Web is now (today, the current era) a visual media.
How long before Microsoft embraces and extends this format?
The problem here is not that MS will extend/embrace, but that they will ignore. If IE does not implement this, it will be a long long time before serious Web designers / developers pay attention to it. The sad but simple fact: IE is still has the market share.
Every time there's a story about this self-promotion king, everyone here seems to go wild with all the masterbations. And Doctrow goes for more. He must be a Bukkaki fan.
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If Asus are paying $6 for Windows XP OEM
Asus isn't payng anything for XP, Microsoft stopped selling. XP is 8 years old $6 is just about right for 8 year old software. And talk about making a stink for the exclusive purpose of making a stink... This is just a "non issue".
The point is not to replace Windows, it's an OS for web surfing. It's not for playing World of Warcraft, doing heavy photo editing, video editing, etc.
It's not a popular idea here in Geekdom, but many people think Web applications *are* the future...
Imagine the effects on the vaccine producers!
The government will have to bail them out with billions in aid. They geared up to produce all this vaccine, and now no one wants it. People will lose jobs, big business will fold... Bring on the corporate welfare.
Slashdot odds are that this story turns out to be pure crap. It's always been a little bit of an issue here with a submission from a blog or other less than solid source ca while uses a Slashdot "editor" to pound the Accept button while shrieking about rights and information needs to be free and so forth, and we discover later that there was some other issue, a misunderstanding, or no issue at all. Now that many have run out of I Hate Microsoft steam, Apple and Google are the natural targets.
Who the fuck cares? Just how many people actually use Silverlight anyways?
"Back in the day" when Netscape was king, how many people used IE? Microsoft will keep pounding away with Silverlight to the large "enterprise" clients, and eventually, one day, it will pass Flash. At that point, AOL will merge with Adobe, and it'll be all over.
The raid at the Ivy Street home of Beryl and Dina Dagy was one of 25 conducted Friday in North County and San Diego after a six-month investigation by the San Diego Integrated Narcotic Task Force into marijuana being grown in rented homes. Agents found marijuana in 20 of the raids and arrested 24 people.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/article_ea2047e8-59e1-551e-b173-ce89ffad4d90.html
Can you READ? What does that say?
But this will be useful in some cases (3rd world education, your grandparents, etc) where all your need are webapps...
No. A thousand times no.
This type of exclusionary thinking is why OLPC is a joke. Have you been to the "The Third World"? They have cell phones in the middle of nowhere. Their needs for a computer device do not involve dumbed down toys that have little relationships to "real" computers and "real" applications.
As a minimum, "The Third World" needs net-books, not some idiot box with useless toy applications, and while things like OLPC might be fine for *children* to play with, adults with adult problems to solve need real computers.
Laptops and net-books are quite cheap and quite sturdy and perfectly suitable for the real needs of "Third World" people.
What smelly place did you pull that statistic from?
An actual real news story on the bust that contained real actual quotes from those involved..
They keep performing these heinous searches and "eating out the substance" of our citizens
20 of 25 raids that day resulted in illegal drugs being found.
These cops are enforcing the law. Don't like it? Get the law changed. We do elect our lawmakers, you know.
Yes, it is time for sane drug laws (or no drug laws?)
www.NoJailForPot.com
...a brace of contracts...
I get lost with all the legal verbiage.
It would be nice if FireFox updated with detection for sites that would allow this (and other) kinds of attacks.
FF already nags enough.
Whether the software giant is actually violating the GPL, a widely used (including by the Linux kernel) free software license...
Widely used? Really? Who knew...
I've heard of editors being too lazy to check for dupes and too lazy to proofread and article...
Dupes? Really Wow. I've heard of posters being too lazy to proofread an article, but just wow!
again" when it's free on-line. When the on-line edition cost something, people will back peddle and demand something tangible for their money.
It has to be political.. there has to be something going on behind the scenes here. He's not that stupid a person.. and there's no way that someone hasn't explained to him what a robots.txt file is by now..
Of course. Merdoch (or his minons) know this. There are probably two things going on: A lame attempt to convince the public that he is being ripped off, and also he is almost certainly in discussions with Google about having Google pay for the content that Google clearly profits from. Neither will work out. And until web content of these "publications" provide a lot more value to the consumer, pay-for-access is a dead idea as well.
Of course there are certain publications, like the WSJ that can pull it off, but most can not, and certainly not local newspapers.
They don't understand why you need to be on the internet so much so they decide you are sick, deamonize the "illness", and take steps to cure you.
They don't understand why I need my medicine (comes in 40 ounce bottles, you know), and are taking actions to "cure" me.
Having seen what they say they have on me, two thoughts come to mind: Either they are being misleading and this is just the things they feel like telling me, or they are really incompetent because the stuff they say they know about me is pretty limited (and I'm a HEAVY Google user).
Wonder which it is?
Adobe doesn't seem to care.
It's not the only thing they don't care about.
When will they come out with Photoshop / Image Raedy for Linux? No market? Bullshit.
Basically, a wink wink nod nod with the money men @ Microsoft and Apple.
I mean, I installed Firefox on a parents laptop, and they're first worry was that they wouldn't be able to find their favourite website 'because it was a different internet'.
This is a tired anecdote that is by far a tiny minority today.
Does anyone else long for the days when the web was more about content than fancy presentation?
Most people don't surf with Lynx anymore (maybe RMS does...). The visual presentation is part of the content because the Web is now (today, the current era) a visual media.
How long before Microsoft embraces and extends this format?
The problem here is not that MS will extend/embrace, but that they will ignore. If IE does not implement this, it will be a long long time before serious Web designers / developers pay attention to it. The sad but simple fact: IE is still has the market share.
Every time there's a story about this self-promotion king, everyone here seems to go wild with all the masterbations. And Doctrow goes for more. He must be a Bukkaki fan.
already a lost battle when you see chromium outperforming from far FF. So seamonkey is few years late...
This is essentially the JavaScript engine, which is fairly sucky in Mozilla projects.
How long before "it" becomes self-aware? This is the beginning of the end, folks... By 2012 it'll be all over.
It's a fusion reaction.
I'll never eat day-old sushi again.