"They want guarantees that either MS' claims are false, or MS will not sue them, even if they are true. This contract provides that guarantee."
Here's the flaw in your logic. Microsoft never said their claims that Linux violates Microsoft's IP. In fact Steve Balmer AFTER they signed the agreement said Linux violates Microsoft IP. What the agreement says, according to Balmer, is that Novell admits Linux violates Microsoft's IP and agreed to pay Microsoft money for that IP and by paying Microosft for Microsoft's IP, Novell customers will not be sued. The rest of the linux community is fair game for lawsuits.
In Europe and Japan and elsewhere they already have the speeds necessary for movie download. USA is sadly behind.
Noone is clamoring for Blueray or HD-DVD. This gives cable and dsl time to upgrade services which they are already doing genius. Do you honestly think these companies are standing still!
In one form it's already here!! Movies on demand.
You can't stop the future, it's happening fast. Blueray or HD-DVD are dead. Next...
And Electronic Arts pays their programmers so very well.
You seem to be under the illusion that ANY person working for ANY company is being well compensated. Unless you are the CEO, you are not. Most people are under paid. Most people do not profit from the fuits of their labor or share in the sucess of their company.
And, this is the kicker, NOT ONE PROGRAMMER owns the code that they write! The company owns that code and you cannot take it with you if you should work for another company.
FACT #1: Any disruption in current oil production drastically increases oil prices because the demand is too great.
FACT #2: Saudia Arabia is pumping at capacity. They can't pump anymore oil.
These two facts alone should scare you. Demand is increasing globally. Take into account that easy to get to oil reserves are dwindling - we have a problem.
PEAK Oil is very real. It's time to stop putting you head in the sand and work on alternative enegery sources. If we had started 30 years ago during the first oil embargo we would not be dependent on oil today.
"The Taliban took over 1 tiny hamlet and the next day they were run out and about 100 of them killed. They haven't tried again."
God you are such an idiot. A recent CIA report states that the Taliban are regaining control of Afganistan and if something is not done soon, that within 6 months it will be too late. Hamid Karzai has lost control and even the people in Karbul are turning away from him.
Face facts, we have lost Afganistan and Iraq is in a civil war.
FYI IEDs are bombs moron! Every army has seen them. You might also want to bone up on the Vietnam war. Iraq and Vietnam are VERY similar.
"Microsoft is not saying "Novell Linux is the only safe Linux distro from Microsoft lawsuits"
Hey ass-wipe, that's EXACTLY what Microsoft is saying! Read the freaking press releases. Microsoft is stating if you want to be safe from patent infringement use Suse. They did not single out mono. In fact several.NET books use Mono as an example of.NET's cross-platform compatiblity.
It's like the scene from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, where the students are giving a presentation, "...it's like computers dud...wow...."
Do any of these jackasses know what they are talking about? WTF is the "happy medium?" Some happy person who talks to the dead?
The moron says both Google and Microsoft are chasing the wrong dream but then say look out Mozilla and Adobe are catching up in your chase after the wrong dream. Earth to Houston, we have a problem here.
Look the internet is not dead nor is the WWW. What you could say is that computers as we know them are dead and are being replaced by computing devices, e.g., cell phones, iPods, DVRs, Web TV, gaming stations, any type of device that can connect to the internet and download information. You have cell phones that have word processors for christs sake!
Most people use a computer for music, movies, games, email and word processing. All these things do not need to be concentrated in a single device. They can be spread out among several different devices with some overlap between devices. So yes I see the home computer market going by the way side. People just want a device that works they don't care about Intel, they don't care about Microsoft, they don't care about HP or Dell. They just want the damn thing to work.
But for businesses and developers, computers are not going away.
Not with morons like you who know jack shit about foreign policy.
North Korea has Bush by the balls and they know it. Bush can do jack shit to stop N. Korea.
What's Bush going to do:
Stop them from kicking the u.n. weapons inspectors out? No. Stop them from unlocking the nuclear fuel? No. Stop them from starting up the nuclear plants? No. Stop them from making a nuclear bomb(s)? No. Stop them from testing missiles? No. Stop them from testing the nuclear bomb(s)? No.
Hmmm....so what exactly is Bush suppose to be given credit for?
"You've both got valid points. Yes, firefox was free, but there's a sort of social contract that suggests that at least the critical security fixes are retroactively applied to older versions - if nothing else so that people developing websites can run old versions safely to check compatibility with users who haven't upgraded or verify that a broken website really is broken and not a bug in newer release of FF. "
Apperantly you don't do web development or else you would realize how assinine that comment really is. When it comes to developing web sites alot of developers do not check their code against different web browsers. They pick one browser and use it as a standard. In most cases it's IE. I used to check my code against both IE and Netscape/Mozilla but at the end of the day, it made no sense because we standardized on IE. I hated that but since that was our policy and most of our clients had IE, that's what we did.
There's no social contract with Firefox on any type of software. Software, for the most part, is provided as is - read the license. What Firefox is good about is responding to bugs unlike Microsoft.
The reasons why web sites are broken are because people do not code properly and code for one browser.
"In an interview with the Mercury News last year, Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive, said he was concerned how accessible a digital library run by Google would be.
``Is the library of the future going to be open?'' Kahle said. ``Or will it be controlled by a couple of big corporate players?''"
WTF! Yeah and I guess Microsoft and Yahoo aren't big corporate players!!
For the morons on this list, the reason Google subpenaed Microsoft and Yahoo is they want to know under what ways are those two allowed to publish material on the internet and Google is not. Basically if all companies are doing the samething then all not doing anything illegal.
But the biggest point is that Google is not giving anything away for free. They are allowing people to search abstracts of books! Jesus christ, that's not illegal and that's very helful for somone doing a literature search. Hell how is that any different from what Amazon does now!!
I would be like walmart suing amazon.com. If you don't like competition then go somwhere else.
I wonder if the studios are also using this as leverage against Apple. The studios want to charge a higher rate than what apple is offering. It could be away for them to get apple to set the prices higher.
"So, you think it is ethical to tax people (take money by force) to hand it over to private entities, for political purposes, while not actually having to provide anything useful, while knowing that the results of the research will not be free (as in beer)?"
Where the hell have you been? Federal and State governments have been doing this for centuries! Welcome to America.
Here's a great example, it's alittle something called Imminent Domain. You know the one where they take your property to give it to a developer so they can build a shopping mall.
"I have seen a marked decrease in gaoline prices during the past month. They have dropped from $0.25-0.35 per gallon, depending upon the station. I have heard rumor prices could hit $1.15 per gallon by Christmas."
BullShit!
What's your source the Republican National Committee? Gasoline is not going to drop below $2/gallon period. In fact I predict after the general election in November oil prices will go up again.
Why? Simply Oil prices dropped, not because of market forces but do to geopolitical changes. Both the US and Iran softened their stances. Oil prices spiked everytime the US or Iran took a hard stance. That's what drove up prices. Now since neither side is taking a hard line, investors aren't jumpy anymore, prices can come back down.
However, it only takes a hard line message to send the prices up again.
It's nice to know that people's view of China haven't changed in 50 years. US Education system is doing it's normal bang up job.
Before you laugh too heavily about China's "space seeds," you might want to remember that most American believe:
1. The earth was created in 7 days 2. That god created people "as is" 3. Evolution is a myth
You see America can trump China in ignorance everytime.
But let's not also forget:
1. all the capital investment going into China - China leads the world in foreign investment. 2. the trade deficit - the US imports more goods from China then we export. 3. China has HUGE cash reserves, meanwhile the US is running a 6 trillion dollar deficit which will only get larger thanks to medicare and social security benefits, the war in iraq. 4. almost all electronics and manufacturing is done in china. 5. china's population - a sellers wet dream. the us' market dominance is fading as more and more chinese have disposable income.
" Didn't they digitally remaster the originals before making all of those changes?! "
Yes he did!! Bastard. Before the big special edition release, he released a remastered version of the originals that only showed up here in america on VHS tape. I believe they may have made onto laser disc in Japan.
See the thing is, your post is really a flame when it's born out of ignorance parading as fact.
This statement is the proof: "..overpriced proprietary machine versus a simple PC?"
1. What the hell are Dells, HPs, Compaqs, etc, if not overpriced proprietary machine? Put another way what is a simple pc? 2. Have you compared prices? 3. You failed to factor in the price of Vista and the cost of the required hardware necessary to run it.
Vista will not run on a simple PC.
The rumors of Apple's demise, that have been going since 1982, have been vasty over-rated.
"The reporting of an error can be quite frustrating to a user who is trying to learn a language and has made a simple spelling error. The user is effectively prevented from learning the correct spelling of that verb."
Umm...pull out a fucking dictionary! How exactly is this person learning a language anyways??
So I guess every time a person mispells their login a computer should just guess what the login they meant to enter and use that one!
"The main reason for circumcision was to reduce the sensitivity of the glans (it removes 60% of the nerve endings in the penis)."
And your reference for this material is???
"Of course the guy can't acheive orgasm, he claims she's barren, and that's a stoning right there. Mmm Hmm."
Now you are a complete moron. Yeah that's it millions of males all over the world can't achieve ejaculation because of circumision. What a load of bull-shit. There isn't one reputable study that clearly shows a drop in sensation because of circumision.
Put another way - it hasn't stop me from masturbating:)
Dammit can't the put a light on the outside of the Fridge to let you know the light on the inside of the Fridge turned off. I hate crawling into the Fridge and closing the door to verify this!
The poster is absolutely correct. The foundation of Christianity is the Bible anything else is here-say. Why do you think the Protestants split from the Catholic church? It was over the intepretation of the Bible. The notion that the Catholic Church says stem cell research is wrong, is irrelevant. There are many practiicng Catholics who disagree with Church law but still consider themselves Catholic. To boil it down to a simple point, there's God's law and then there's the Church's Law. Church law is man made and obviously fallable. God's law says nothing about stem cell research.
In so much that we can tie the destruction of a stem cell violates the 6th commandment - thou shall not kill, stem research is fair game.
Apperantly you did not read AMD's announcement about it's 4x4 architecture which provides EXACTLY what Apple is looking for, Quad computing - 2 dual-core processors.
Again, Intel lags behind. It was a mistake not to have Conroe not be multi socket capable.
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"They want guarantees that either MS' claims are false, or MS will not sue them, even if they are true. This contract provides that guarantee."
Here's the flaw in your logic. Microsoft never said their claims that Linux violates Microsoft's IP. In fact Steve Balmer AFTER they signed the agreement said Linux violates Microsoft IP. What the agreement says, according to Balmer, is that Novell admits Linux violates Microsoft's IP and agreed to pay Microsoft money for that IP and by paying Microosft for Microsoft's IP, Novell customers will not be sued. The rest of the linux community is fair game for lawsuits.
Do you understand now.
Moron.
Insightful you are not.
In Europe and Japan and elsewhere they already have the speeds necessary for movie download. USA is sadly behind.
Noone is clamoring for Blueray or HD-DVD. This gives cable and dsl time to upgrade services which they are already doing genius. Do you honestly think these companies are standing still!
In one form it's already here!! Movies on demand.
You can't stop the future, it's happening fast. Blueray or HD-DVD are dead. Next...
And Electronic Arts pays their programmers so very well.
You seem to be under the illusion that ANY person working for ANY company is being well compensated. Unless you are the CEO, you are not. Most people are under paid. Most people do not profit from the fuits of their labor or share in the sucess of their company.
And, this is the kicker, NOT ONE PROGRAMMER owns the code that they write! The company owns that code and you cannot take it with you if you should work for another company.
So, please spare me your idealistic notions.
You have to be a complete moron.
FACT #1: Any disruption in current oil production drastically increases oil prices because the demand is too great.
FACT #2: Saudia Arabia is pumping at capacity. They can't pump anymore oil.
These two facts alone should scare you. Demand is increasing globally. Take into account that easy to get to oil reserves are dwindling - we have a problem.
PEAK Oil is very real. It's time to stop putting you head in the sand and work on alternative enegery sources. If we had started 30 years ago during the first oil embargo we would not be dependent on oil today.
How on earth are you modded 5 informative?
How about RTFA. But I guess reading isn't fundamental.
"The Taliban took over 1 tiny hamlet and the next day they were run out and about 100 of them killed. They haven't tried again."
God you are such an idiot. A recent CIA report states that the Taliban are regaining control of Afganistan and if something is not done soon, that within 6 months it will be too late. Hamid Karzai has lost control and even the people in Karbul are turning away from him.
Face facts, we have lost Afganistan and Iraq is in a civil war.
FYI IEDs are bombs moron! Every army has seen them. You might also want to bone up on the Vietnam war. Iraq and Vietnam are VERY similar.
"Microsoft is not saying "Novell Linux is the only safe Linux distro from Microsoft lawsuits"
.NET books use Mono as an example of .NET's cross-platform compatiblity.
Hey ass-wipe, that's EXACTLY what Microsoft is saying! Read the freaking press releases. Microsoft is stating if you want to be safe from patent infringement use Suse. They did not single out mono. In fact several
Moron.
Hmmm....maybe....MacWorld is in January, that's when Vista is set to be released to the public....wonder if Steve has something up his sleeve.....
It's like the scene from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, where the students are giving a presentation, "...it's like computers dud...wow...."
Do any of these jackasses know what they are talking about? WTF is the "happy medium?" Some happy person who talks to the dead?
The moron says both Google and Microsoft are chasing the wrong dream but then say look out Mozilla and Adobe are catching up in your chase after the wrong dream. Earth to Houston, we have a problem here.
Look the internet is not dead nor is the WWW. What you could say is that computers as we know them are dead and are being replaced by computing devices, e.g., cell phones, iPods, DVRs, Web TV, gaming stations, any type of device that can connect to the internet and download information. You have cell phones that have word processors for christs sake!
Most people use a computer for music, movies, games, email and word processing. All these things do not need to be concentrated in a single device. They can be spread out among several different devices with some overlap between devices. So yes I see the home computer market going by the way side. People just want a device that works they don't care about Intel, they don't care about Microsoft, they don't care about HP or Dell. They just want the damn thing to work.
But for businesses and developers, computers are not going away.
Not with morons like you who know jack shit about foreign policy.
North Korea has Bush by the balls and they know it. Bush can do jack shit to stop N. Korea.
What's Bush going to do:
Stop them from kicking the u.n. weapons inspectors out? No.
Stop them from unlocking the nuclear fuel? No.
Stop them from starting up the nuclear plants? No.
Stop them from making a nuclear bomb(s)? No.
Stop them from testing missiles? No.
Stop them from testing the nuclear bomb(s)? No.
Hmmm....so what exactly is Bush suppose to be given credit for?
Dumbass.
Another excuse for the Telecoms to delay the rollout of fiber and pocket all the money the tax payers continue to give them to roll out fiber.
"You've both got valid points. Yes, firefox was free, but there's a sort of social contract that suggests that at least the critical security fixes are retroactively applied to older versions - if nothing else so that people developing websites can run old versions safely to check compatibility with users who haven't upgraded or verify that a broken website really is broken and not a bug in newer release of FF. "
Apperantly you don't do web development or else you would realize how assinine that comment really is. When it comes to developing web sites alot of developers do not check their code against different web browsers. They pick one browser and use it as a standard. In most cases it's IE. I used to check my code against both IE and Netscape/Mozilla but at the end of the day, it made no sense because we standardized on IE. I hated that but since that was our policy and most of our clients had IE, that's what we did.
There's no social contract with Firefox on any type of software. Software, for the most part, is provided as is - read the license. What Firefox is good about is responding to bugs unlike Microsoft.
The reasons why web sites are broken are because people do not code properly and code for one browser.
"In an interview with the Mercury News last year, Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive, said he was concerned how accessible a digital library run by Google would be.
``Is the library of the future going to be open?'' Kahle said. ``Or will it be controlled by a couple of big corporate players?''"
WTF! Yeah and I guess Microsoft and Yahoo aren't big corporate players!!
For the morons on this list, the reason Google subpenaed Microsoft and Yahoo is they want to know under what ways are those two allowed to publish material on the internet and Google is not. Basically if all companies are doing the samething then all not doing anything illegal.
But the biggest point is that Google is not giving anything away for free. They are allowing people to search abstracts of books! Jesus christ, that's not illegal and that's very helful for somone doing a literature search. Hell how is that any different from what Amazon does now!!
Except this is extortion and clearly illegal.
I would be like walmart suing amazon.com. If you don't like competition then go somwhere else.
I wonder if the studios are also using this as leverage against Apple. The studios want to charge a higher rate than what apple is offering. It could be away for them to get apple to set the prices higher.
"So, you think it is ethical to tax people (take money by force) to hand it over to private entities, for political purposes, while not actually having to provide anything useful, while knowing that the results of the research will not be free (as in beer)?"
Where the hell have you been? Federal and State governments have been doing this for centuries! Welcome to America.
Here's a great example, it's alittle something called Imminent Domain. You know the one where they take your property to give it to a developer so they can build a shopping mall.
Ain't reality a bitch.
"I have seen a marked decrease in gaoline prices during the past month. They have dropped from $0.25-0.35 per gallon, depending upon the station. I have heard rumor prices could hit $1.15 per gallon by Christmas."
BullShit!
What's your source the Republican National Committee? Gasoline is not going to drop below $2/gallon period. In fact I predict after the general election in November oil prices will go up again.
Why? Simply Oil prices dropped, not because of market forces but do to geopolitical changes. Both the US and Iran softened their stances. Oil prices spiked everytime the US or Iran took a hard stance. That's what drove up prices. Now since neither side is taking a hard line, investors aren't jumpy anymore, prices can come back down.
However, it only takes a hard line message to send the prices up again.
It's nice to know that people's view of China haven't changed in 50 years. US Education system is doing it's normal bang up job.
Before you laugh too heavily about China's "space seeds," you might want to remember that most American believe:
1. The earth was created in 7 days
2. That god created people "as is"
3. Evolution is a myth
You see America can trump China in ignorance everytime.
But let's not also forget:
1. all the capital investment going into China - China leads the world in foreign investment.
2. the trade deficit - the US imports more goods from China then we export.
3. China has HUGE cash reserves, meanwhile the US is running a 6 trillion dollar deficit which will only get larger thanks to medicare and social security benefits, the war in iraq.
4. almost all electronics and manufacturing is done in china.
5. china's population - a sellers wet dream. the us' market dominance is fading as more and more chinese have disposable income.
Kudos to the morons who aren't paying attention.
" Didn't they digitally remaster the originals before making all of those changes?! "
Yes he did!! Bastard. Before the big special edition release, he released a remastered version of the originals that only showed up here in america on VHS tape. I believe they may have made onto laser disc in Japan.
See the thing is, your post is really a flame when it's born out of ignorance parading as fact.
This statement is the proof: "..overpriced proprietary machine versus a simple PC?"
1. What the hell are Dells, HPs, Compaqs, etc, if not overpriced proprietary machine? Put another way what is a simple pc?
2. Have you compared prices?
3. You failed to factor in the price of Vista and the cost of the required hardware necessary to run it.
Vista will not run on a simple PC.
The rumors of Apple's demise, that have been going since 1982, have been vasty over-rated.
*LMOL*
Damn that's good
I like this line the best:
"The reporting of an error can be quite frustrating to a user who is trying to learn a language and has made a simple spelling error. The user is effectively prevented from learning the correct spelling of that verb."
Umm...pull out a fucking dictionary! How exactly is this person learning a language anyways??
So I guess every time a person mispells their login a computer should just guess what the login they meant to enter and use that one!
ROFL
stop it that's too painful
"The main reason for circumcision was to reduce the sensitivity of the glans (it removes 60% of the nerve endings in the penis)."
:)
And your reference for this material is???
"Of course the guy can't acheive orgasm, he claims she's barren, and that's a stoning right there. Mmm Hmm."
Now you are a complete moron. Yeah that's it millions of males all over the world can't achieve ejaculation because of circumision. What a load of bull-shit. There isn't one reputable study that clearly shows a drop in sensation because of circumision.
Put another way - it hasn't stop me from masturbating
Thank you and good night.
Dammit can't the put a light on the outside of the Fridge to let you know the light on the inside of the Fridge turned off. I hate crawling into the Fridge and closing the door to verify this!
The poster is absolutely correct. The foundation of Christianity is the Bible anything else is here-say. Why do you think the Protestants split from the Catholic church? It was over the intepretation of the Bible. The notion that the Catholic Church says stem cell research is wrong, is irrelevant. There are many practiicng Catholics who disagree with Church law but still consider themselves Catholic. To boil it down to a simple point, there's God's law and then there's the Church's Law. Church law is man made and obviously fallable. God's law says nothing about stem cell research.
In so much that we can tie the destruction of a stem cell violates the 6th commandment - thou shall not kill, stem research is fair game.
Apperantly you did not read AMD's announcement about it's 4x4 architecture which provides EXACTLY what Apple is looking for, Quad computing - 2 dual-core processors.
Again, Intel lags behind. It was a mistake not to have Conroe not be multi socket capable.