Although Windows as come a long way in terms of stability and speed, the reason people are turning away from it nowadays is because of the marketing politics and the abuse of power.
This has nothing to do with it being a big company which has a monopoly, it has everything to do with the marketing politics and the abuse of power.
I had a copy of XP that came with my machine, but after three updates it stopped working and MS failed to give me a new key. So I've switched to a much nicer pirated copy of w2k. I don't consider it theft, even if I didn't have a legal copy of XP to begin with.
By law it would be, but with more and more morally questionable laws entering society (such as the patriot act package), the rift between my morals and what the law dictates gets bigger. So for me it's not a question of what the law says what's wrong or right, but what my morals and reasoning say.
So, for those who could understand my point of view, I would feel worse about myself paying for a legal copy of Windows than I would using a pirated copy.
I do agree with bbobjoe, but it's only a small step to move the chip from the arm to the hand (or forehead), perhaps because those chips will be removable and therefore easier to fix/update as I'm sure they won't last a lifetime. These chips could then be used instead of a credit card to purchase stuff directly from your bank account. Perhaps you could even swipe your hand across your iPod to buy a song you just heard on the subway.
And I personally believe this is a sign of the second coming of Jesus; if you add the number of the beast to the chip and start using it as a means to buy stuff, that's another sign fulfilled. Many people will think that's ridiculous, but even if you do, I would advise you to still educate yourself on why so many Christians think the end-time is nearing; it will be more and more discussed all over the world in the not so distant future.
No they didn't, Lindows won the court cases and were allowed to keep the name, but then MS started suing them in so many countries that Lindows couldn't afford to fight them all and just decided to stop fighting and change the name to Linspire. In Holland and the UK, for instance, they've won and are allowed to keep the name Lindows.
it might not change the outcome directly, I would like to believe this will cause other members of the EU to wonder why they changed their vote; perhaps they will wonder if what their patent lobbyists are saying might not be the total truth?
I would assume they were counting TFlops, not processors. 25 TFlops might have needed 1566 processors by calculation, so they would go for 1566 processors.
It's nothing more than a day's work. There is nothing to speak of, the passwords aren't stored encrypted and no intelligent thought seems to have been put into it. As someone else already mentioned, anyone can take the entire user database with personal information from the site (everything except the password). If I were to run a site using the MyUID, I could obtain users' MyUID passwords as they tried to log in on my site, giving full access to any user's account who logs in via my site. Outrageous!
Interestingly, it does say in the ToS:
MyUID will not give or sell your private account information or your password to anyone,
which seems a lie. But it goes on!
MyUID will supply any information we have about you to law enforcement officials if neccessary.
They'll rat on you even if not required by law. Yay!
In order to use MyUID, you must be a human over 13 Earth years old, living in a state where internet usage is legal.
... Wow..
The FAQ has two questions, one of which is 'Can penguins fly?'. I wouldn't hold my breath for this service to become very big.
Registered user #1 is mastergoon, so this is just blatent self-advertising on slashdot.
Actually, as The Netherlands' borders are 50% coastal borders, most of our major radio stations started out as pirate radio stations which operated from ships in the North Sea.
Slashdot just put up the news. People are downloading and starting LLuna. Our operational server is hoplessly overloaded, because most users use our internal backup server as their primary jabber server.
If you try out LLuna then please do NOT use the quick start wizard. Please use other jabber servers to log in to LLuna to distribute the load.
Even if you have 60 billion dollars, losing over 1% of your 'stash' is likely to leave a sting. But even if it didn't, the thing that Microsoft would be most worried about is opening up their source code and not being able to ship windows with the windows media player as standard.
Although I'm betting that if this does get enforced, every time you click a media file on a fresh install you'll automatically be linked straight through to the 'Download WMP 10 Here! Now with extra DRM! Here! 100% Free!' page.
Pascal was originally designed to teach people how to program, but eventually it grew out much larger and popular. I learned to program in Pascal, and later went on to C++ and Perl, but I still do a lot of projects projects in Delphi (which uses Pascal) because it's as powerful as any other language, but a lot easier to learn and harder to 'break'. The code itself is a lot cleaner as well, which keeps it neat and organized.
You can download a free Personal Edition of Delphi for Windows (or Kylix for Linux) from www.borland.com, but you might want to start teaching in freepascal (because Delphi can look a little intimidating when you first use it). You can get a (free) copy from www.freepascal.org .
Counterpane's Schneier said PayPal doesn't have to be "100 percent bullet proof" to be of value to online merchants.
"I'm sure there are lots of ways to muck with it. The question is, does it work well most of the time? I mean, how badly do people want to steal Pez dispensers?" he said.
I know for a fact if I would make a statement as that I would get sacked on the spot; or at the very least get a major bullying from my boss.
What he also fails to address is that those two groups are not exlusive to open source programmers, but are just as apparent in closed-source programming.
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Although Windows as come a long way in terms of stability and speed, the reason people are turning away from it nowadays is because of the marketing politics and the abuse of power.
This has nothing to do with it being a big company which has a monopoly, it has everything to do with the marketing politics and the abuse of power.
I had a copy of XP that came with my machine, but after three updates it stopped working and MS failed to give me a new key. So I've switched to a much nicer pirated copy of w2k. I don't consider it theft, even if I didn't have a legal copy of XP to begin with.
By law it would be, but with more and more morally questionable laws entering society (such as the patriot act package), the rift between my morals and what the law dictates gets bigger. So for me it's not a question of what the law says what's wrong or right, but what my morals and reasoning say.
So, for those who could understand my point of view, I would feel worse about myself paying for a legal copy of Windows than I would using a pirated copy.
And I personally believe this is a sign of the second coming of Jesus; if you add the number of the beast to the chip and start using it as a means to buy stuff, that's another sign fulfilled. Many people will think that's ridiculous, but even if you do, I would advise you to still educate yourself on why so many Christians think the end-time is nearing; it will be more and more discussed all over the world in the not so distant future.
Could I request one at all?
m.goulding
at
staff.covcollege.ac.uk
No they didn't, Lindows won the court cases and were allowed to keep the name, but then MS started suing them in so many countries that Lindows couldn't afford to fight them all and just decided to stop fighting and change the name to Linspire. In Holland and the UK, for instance, they've won and are allowed to keep the name Lindows.
it might not change the outcome directly, I would like to believe this will cause other members of the EU to wonder why they changed their vote; perhaps they will wonder if what their patent lobbyists are saying might not be the total truth?
I bet it's windows media player and internet explorer, if only to piss the EC off.
I would assume they were counting TFlops, not processors. 25 TFlops might have needed 1566 processors by calculation, so they would go for 1566 processors.
Interestingly, it does say in the ToS:
MyUID will not give or sell your private account information or your password to anyone,
which seems a lie. But it goes on!
MyUID will supply any information we have about you to law enforcement officials if neccessary.
They'll rat on you even if not required by law. Yay!
In order to use MyUID, you must be a human over 13 Earth years old, living in a state where internet usage is legal.
The FAQ has two questions, one of which is 'Can penguins fly?'. I wouldn't hold my breath for this service to become very big.
Registered user #1 is mastergoon, so this is just blatent self-advertising on slashdot.
Did you read the article? This isn't about taking thirty minute naps, it's about a thirty minute preparation for falling asleep.
Actually, as The Netherlands' borders are 50% coastal borders, most of our major radio stations started out as pirate radio stations which operated from ships in the North Sea.
Slashdot just put up the news. People are downloading and starting LLuna. Our operational server is hoplessly overloaded, because most users use our internal backup server as their primary jabber server.
If you try out LLuna then please do NOT use the quick start wizard. Please use other jabber servers to log in to LLuna to distribute the load.
Although I'm betting that if this does get enforced, every time you click a media file on a fresh install you'll automatically be linked straight through to the 'Download WMP 10 Here! Now with extra DRM! Here! 100% Free!' page.
If Opera and Mozilla come up with a new standard with new useful capabilities that IE won't support, this is the way to increase their marketshare.
1000/30 = 33 texts a day. For personal use, is it enough? Most people I know don't come near that many.
I'm sending my copy in. It might not make a difference, but I'd rather try and fail instead of bending over and taking it.
You can download a free Personal Edition of Delphi for Windows (or Kylix for Linux) from www.borland.com, but you might want to start teaching in freepascal (because Delphi can look a little intimidating when you first use it). You can get a (free) copy from www.freepascal.org .
doesn't the big BOOM give away there's a hidden TNT stash where the bullet lands?
"We see a promising new heart drug." I think they misspelled 'hard'
Counterpane's Schneier said PayPal doesn't have to be "100 percent bullet proof" to be of value to online merchants. "I'm sure there are lots of ways to muck with it. The question is, does it work well most of the time? I mean, how badly do people want to steal Pez dispensers?" he said. I know for a fact if I would make a statement as that I would get sacked on the spot; or at the very least get a major bullying from my boss.
What he also fails to address is that those two groups are not exlusive to open source programmers, but are just as apparent in closed-source programming.