They and Intel used their OS "lever" and a slew of lawsuits to destroy Palm and other competitors in that space.
No. Bullshit. Fact is, Palm devices were terrible compared to Windows Mobile devices from the same period. Utterly pisspoor.
What's left over in the US is a bunch of Windoze only crap that has yet to live up to the Sharp Zaurus or even the Handspring Visor. No one's buying it because it does not work right.
Even more bullshit. The Handspring Visor, compared to most of today's Windows Mobile devices, looks primitive and terrible.
They will try to do the same thing to iPod by sabotaging iTunes and Windoze will be worth that much less.
You think so? You don't think people would jump up and down and SCREAM THEIR FUCKING HEADS OFF if Microsoft stopped people using iTunes? Microsoft would last about 5 minutes in the press, their share price would drop because of all the negative publicity...
This, more than anything else will kill Microsoft. The only thing that made Windoze worth while was that other people's gadgets would work with it.
And that it runs lots of software, both productivity and gaming. And that it has a sane, reasonably consistent user interface etc etc etc ad infinitum. If working with other peoples' gadgets is the only thing that makes Windows worthwhile, Linux must be worth far less than that.
You talk so much bollocks I'm not even going to dignify that with a proper response. You might as well say the Jews, the Freemasons, Tesco and Microsoft are all teaming up to spam the world into oblivion.
If Microsoft started giving every child in the world a lollypop and a cuddly toy, twitter would be right here claiming it is intended to suppress open source.
Sane post regarding Windows spyware on Slashdot shocker!
You're completely correct, Windows should not be blamed for the programs that run on it or the people that made them. I could bet you that if there were spyware for Linux then it wouldn't be the KDE/Gnome/kernel teams who would get blamed:)
I will, considering I'm going out in just a few minutes with my girlfriend, who I met over MySpace and is most definitely not a 30+ male living in her parents' basement.
Getting a little closer to home, Taco, how would you like it if the clown made fun of Slashdot next and advised his audience that they should join this small group of losers ? Yeah, that's what I thought. Fuck the haters.
I doubt he'd care to be honest. No offence to Anti-Slash (they do make a lot of good points on that there website) but they've hardly brought Slashdot to their knees, have they? Having a paid satirist on board (leading to funnies, which leads to ad revenues) would just lead to more people coming to Slashdot.
Yeah it has fuck all to do with open relays, poorly configured mail servers, peoples' own damn stupidity in downloading trojans...it's all Windows' fault.
His point is if someone requests support from a dev who uses whitelisting, that dev most likely won't get it if they've had no prior contact. You won't hear me say this often, but twitter's example was a good one.
It's a case of do what you like best. I prefer the single screen thing, and abhor virtual desktops. You prefer virtual desktops. Now that four major OS' support it in some fashion (XP, OSX, FreeBSD/Linux and Win2K (yes, I have used it using a freeware program I forget the name of now)) at least people get the choice.
It's easier for me to cite other people's opinions than it is to dig through M$'s obnoxious EULAs
NO. I did not ask for other peoples' studies (and those two bullet points, especially the last ones, seem more like provisions given for features so that people don't try and cry foul when Automatic Updates downloads something). I asked for a citation from Microsoft's EULA where it says that they are allowed to monitor or read what is on your computer. I don't care how obnoxious a EULA is, it can't be any more obnoxious than you making shit up to scare people.
DVD Jon, you see, actually did break a law. An unfair and unjust law, I might add, but a law nonetheless. DVD Jon is not however one of the people I specified in my comment.
And no, saying that your opinion is "common knowledge" doesn't make it so. WMP has nothing to do with the subject at hand, and at any rate even if WMP is shit it has very little to do with DRM.
Just a thought by the way...media PCs exist. We have had Windows MCE for ages now, preinstalled on numerous computers available from a wide range of hardware vendors. It's not because of lack of availability or any other factor that they're not more widespread, it's that there just isn't that much demand outside of the Slashdot crowd.
What's left over is a painful buoyancy, an unbearable absence of feeling; you mourn not just your lost PS2 games or your Xbox controllers but also the fact that these once precious things have been proven completely meaningless. Even if they do remain intact after the storm (like the Samus poster), the only entity that really survives is you.
I dunno why, but I get this same sort of feeling thinking about nuclear war, or just any war really...thinking that the auto shops, the supermarket offers, the little gadgets etc...all completely useless to anyone in the absence of cars, crops and electricity. Just a weird thought I have sometimes...depressing, maybe, but that's just me:)
If they were to get the "get a real browser" answer from anyone, they would probably join the hoards of people defying M$'s lock in by downloading Firefox or installing a whole free OS. As Mozilla and free software adoption pass 20%, IE sites and even IIS served sites will sink like lead turds.
Firefox, perhaps, but what normal person would replace their entire operating system because of single websites? And what does IIS have to do with anything?
People are talking, but you can't do it with free software. Just telling people how will get you tossed in jail, thanks to the DMCA and greedy big media.
That of course is why mirror operators, packagers and developers of Xine, Mplayer and libdvdcss are all in jail.
The problem is CSS. I can't watch or archive DVD movies with my software. It's against the law to distribute software that would let me in the US or even tell people what sites in countries with sane laws have it.
See above. There's no goddamn reason why you can't watch or archive DVDs on your PC. If it's for your own private purposes, I doubt the MPAA et al would give a fuck.
Did they name the article "Myth" for kicks or what? So many people talk about Mythtv, it's hard to believe a Slate Editor has not heard of it. It even made it into the EFF's "Corruptables" video.
Because EVERYONE'S seen that.
He must have missed this Washington Post review where the damn thing did not work at all because of all the DRM nonsense
The review doesn't mention DRM. How it does mention that the media centre software sucks, as does the selection. Nice try though.
Big Media is the root cause. They do not want their media on computers they don't have complete control over. They want it to act like a cable box, to shove adds down your throat, tell you what you can watch and when and how much you will pay for it all. Given that most media buffs already have a cable box and all the gear, the computer version that does not work looks really lame and big media is happy. There will be no video Napster, they think.The customer is not happy, too bad.
You see, I've never seen any evidence of "Big Media" wanting to do any of the above. And people aren't stupid, they would revolt if they did try it; big time. See twitter, this is why people think you're a fucknut; you're just making shit up to justify your religion^Wchoice of software, like the thing where you said Windows' EULA allows Microsoft to spy on you. What a crock.
Already, artists can get great viewings on youtube, google video and other sites.
I don't see any art on there. I see bored teenagers cracking unfunny jokes while drinking heavily, and other peoples' work. Might be art to some...but it's not going to replace Hollywood.
The potential of the media are better seen with stuff like Star Wreck, a free, full length movie. It's a big file and independent productions are going to stay that way due to patents on video streaming and more advanced compression routines.
Again, a lie. XVid anyone? Maybe it's a big file because FULL LENGTH MOVIES TEND TO BE MORE THAN A FEW MEG.
As usual, all the rotten players are forcing you to chose between freedom and popular culture. Not just enjoying it, but being able to participate, change and profit from it. Government likes this because they don't want a real free press. You are locked out by a bunch of greedy control freaks. Welcome to the continuation of the Media Empires founded on broadcast 100 years ago. If you give up your freedom, you don't really get back popular culture. What you get in return is the pale, government approved echo big media gives you now.
I really cannot work out what any of this means. It's like word salad.
One more thing. Computer makers don't like free media either. You can play Star Wreck on a 233 MHz PII with 200 MB of RAM. Without DRM eating up processor, normal media plays just fine. Who needs a noisy dual processor monster, when a used laptop will do the job? Save it for gaming.
Erm, considering that Apple's DRM can be decoded on a device the size of about half a deck of cards without any noticeable loss in battery life...what the fuck are you talking about when you say "DRM eats up processor time"?
Most spyware, like Microsoft Windows, comes with an EULA that grants the supplier complete ability to monitor what you do and sell the results to the highest bidder.
Please point me to a specific clause in the Windows EULA that proves that this isn't a complete fabrication. Please. Prove me wrong.
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They and Intel used their OS "lever" and a slew of lawsuits to destroy Palm and other competitors in that space.
No. Bullshit. Fact is, Palm devices were terrible compared to Windows Mobile devices from the same period. Utterly pisspoor.
What's left over in the US is a bunch of Windoze only crap that has yet to live up to the Sharp Zaurus or even the Handspring Visor. No one's buying it because it does not work right.
Even more bullshit. The Handspring Visor, compared to most of today's Windows Mobile devices, looks primitive and terrible.
They will try to do the same thing to iPod by sabotaging iTunes and Windoze will be worth that much less.
You think so? You don't think people would jump up and down and SCREAM THEIR FUCKING HEADS OFF if Microsoft stopped people using iTunes? Microsoft would last about 5 minutes in the press, their share price would drop because of all the negative publicity...
This, more than anything else will kill Microsoft. The only thing that made Windoze worth while was that other people's gadgets would work with it.
And that it runs lots of software, both productivity and gaming. And that it has a sane, reasonably consistent user interface etc etc etc ad infinitum. If working with other peoples' gadgets is the only thing that makes Windows worthwhile, Linux must be worth far less than that.
You talk so much bollocks I'm not even going to dignify that with a proper response. You might as well say the Jews, the Freemasons, Tesco and Microsoft are all teaming up to spam the world into oblivion.
Even saying that over software is very very over the top. It's just bits and bytes, dude.
If Microsoft started giving every child in the world a lollypop and a cuddly toy, twitter would be right here claiming it is intended to suppress open source.
Sane post regarding Windows spyware on Slashdot shocker!
:)
You're completely correct, Windows should not be blamed for the programs that run on it or the people that made them. I could bet you that if there were spyware for Linux then it wouldn't be the KDE/Gnome/kernel teams who would get blamed
I will, considering I'm going out in just a few minutes with my girlfriend, who I met over MySpace and is most definitely not a 30+ male living in her parents' basement.
:)
Right back atcha
Windows 2000 is in extended support until 2010. So....no.
go to wall mart and see if any of the gun cases
Because bringing a CASE FOR A GUN on an aeroplane will not arouse suspicion AT ALL.
Why would gay rapists want virgin daughters?
It says that you use the Internet.
Getting a little closer to home, Taco, how would you like it if the clown made fun of Slashdot next and advised his audience that they should join this small group of losers ? Yeah, that's what I thought. Fuck the haters.
I doubt he'd care to be honest. No offence to Anti-Slash (they do make a lot of good points on that there website) but they've hardly brought Slashdot to their knees, have they? Having a paid satirist on board (leading to funnies, which leads to ad revenues) would just lead to more people coming to Slashdot.
Just a thought.
Yeah it has fuck all to do with open relays, poorly configured mail servers, peoples' own damn stupidity in downloading trojans...it's all Windows' fault.
Heh, you've swayed me...that form idea is quite a good one.
His point is if someone requests support from a dev who uses whitelisting, that dev most likely won't get it if they've had no prior contact. You won't hear me say this often, but twitter's example was a good one.
It's a case of do what you like best. I prefer the single screen thing, and abhor virtual desktops. You prefer virtual desktops. Now that four major OS' support it in some fashion (XP, OSX, FreeBSD/Linux and Win2K (yes, I have used it using a freeware program I forget the name of now)) at least people get the choice.
I'll go one further; I found a partner through MySpace. Probably more than any of these people criticising it have ever done.
It's easier for me to cite other people's opinions than it is to dig through M$'s obnoxious EULAs
NO. I did not ask for other peoples' studies (and those two bullet points, especially the last ones, seem more like provisions given for features so that people don't try and cry foul when Automatic Updates downloads something). I asked for a citation from Microsoft's EULA where it says that they are allowed to monitor or read what is on your computer. I don't care how obnoxious a EULA is, it can't be any more obnoxious than you making shit up to scare people.
DVD Jon, you see, actually did break a law. An unfair and unjust law, I might add, but a law nonetheless. DVD Jon is not however one of the people I specified in my comment.
And no, saying that your opinion is "common knowledge" doesn't make it so. WMP has nothing to do with the subject at hand, and at any rate even if WMP is shit it has very little to do with DRM.
Just a thought by the way...media PCs exist. We have had Windows MCE for ages now, preinstalled on numerous computers available from a wide range of hardware vendors. It's not because of lack of availability or any other factor that they're not more widespread, it's that there just isn't that much demand outside of the Slashdot crowd.
What's left over is a painful buoyancy, an unbearable absence of feeling; you mourn not just your lost PS2 games or your Xbox controllers but also the fact that these once precious things have been proven completely meaningless. Even if they do remain intact after the storm (like the Samus poster), the only entity that really survives is you.
:)
I dunno why, but I get this same sort of feeling thinking about nuclear war, or just any war really...thinking that the auto shops, the supermarket offers, the little gadgets etc...all completely useless to anyone in the absence of cars, crops and electricity. Just a weird thought I have sometimes...depressing, maybe, but that's just me
...he was joking. Idiot.
If they were to get the "get a real browser" answer from anyone, they would probably join the hoards of people defying M$'s lock in by downloading Firefox or installing a whole free OS. As Mozilla and free software adoption pass 20%, IE sites and even IIS served sites will sink like lead turds.
Firefox, perhaps, but what normal person would replace their entire operating system because of single websites? And what does IIS have to do with anything?
People are talking, but you can't do it with free software. Just telling people how will get you tossed in jail, thanks to the DMCA and greedy big media.
That of course is why mirror operators, packagers and developers of Xine, Mplayer and libdvdcss are all in jail.
The problem is CSS. I can't watch or archive DVD movies with my software. It's against the law to distribute software that would let me in the US or even tell people what sites in countries with sane laws have it.
See above. There's no goddamn reason why you can't watch or archive DVDs on your PC. If it's for your own private purposes, I doubt the MPAA et al would give a fuck.
Did they name the article "Myth" for kicks or what? So many people talk about Mythtv, it's hard to believe a Slate Editor has not heard of it. It even made it into the EFF's "Corruptables" video.
Because EVERYONE'S seen that.
He must have missed this Washington Post review where the damn thing did not work at all because of all the DRM nonsense
The review doesn't mention DRM. How it does mention that the media centre software sucks, as does the selection. Nice try though.
Big Media is the root cause. They do not want their media on computers they don't have complete control over. They want it to act like a cable box, to shove adds down your throat, tell you what you can watch and when and how much you will pay for it all. Given that most media buffs already have a cable box and all the gear, the computer version that does not work looks really lame and big media is happy. There will be no video Napster, they think.The customer is not happy, too bad.
You see, I've never seen any evidence of "Big Media" wanting to do any of the above. And people aren't stupid, they would revolt if they did try it; big time. See twitter, this is why people think you're a fucknut; you're just making shit up to justify your religion^Wchoice of software, like the thing where you said Windows' EULA allows Microsoft to spy on you. What a crock.
Already, artists can get great viewings on youtube, google video and other sites.
I don't see any art on there. I see bored teenagers cracking unfunny jokes while drinking heavily, and other peoples' work. Might be art to some...but it's not going to replace Hollywood.
The potential of the media are better seen with stuff like Star Wreck, a free, full length movie. It's a big file and independent productions are going to stay that way due to patents on video streaming and more advanced compression routines.
Again, a lie. XVid anyone? Maybe it's a big file because FULL LENGTH MOVIES TEND TO BE MORE THAN A FEW MEG.
As usual, all the rotten players are forcing you to chose between freedom and popular culture. Not just enjoying it, but being able to participate, change and profit from it. Government likes this because they don't want a real free press. You are locked out by a bunch of greedy control freaks. Welcome to the continuation of the Media Empires founded on broadcast 100 years ago. If you give up your freedom, you don't really get back popular culture. What you get in return is the pale, government approved echo big media gives you now.
I really cannot work out what any of this means. It's like word salad.
One more thing. Computer makers don't like free media either. You can play Star Wreck on a 233 MHz PII with 200 MB of RAM. Without DRM eating up processor, normal media plays just fine. Who needs a noisy dual processor monster, when a used laptop will do the job? Save it for gaming.
Erm, considering that Apple's DRM can be decoded on a device the size of about half a deck of cards without any noticeable loss in battery life...what the fuck are you talking about when you say "DRM eats up processor time"?
Most spyware, like Microsoft Windows, comes with an EULA that grants the supplier complete ability to monitor what you do and sell the results to the highest bidder.
Please point me to a specific clause in the Windows EULA that proves that this isn't a complete fabrication. Please. Prove me wrong.
Most people who avoid myspace are either old farts who criticize anyone under 30, or slashdotters living in their parents basement.
:)
Stolen for sig.
As to his wife... well, that's another story =)
:)
A horror story, most likely...