you can't use Ballmer and gentle in the same sentence. - Oops - guess I just did.
In my opinion Ballmer is an idiot - he is jerk - and people just pay him so he shuts up - that is why their cash balance tripled. - also they charge 200 bucks for their piece of crap OS.
Linux is still light years ahead of anything Ballmer comes up with. My company doesn't even allow windows on the extranet used as servers - that speaks volumes -
windows is okay for gaming - but for mission critical apps it just doesn't cut it.
G4 buying techtv was just bad - they trashed that station - I took it off of my tv station list - It is just crap -
It was kind of neat having a tech tv - I looked forward to seeing leo and patrick every night when I could - but now it is nothing but gaming - it sucks, it sucks, it sucks, it sucks.
yes gaming should of been part of the station but not ALL of it.
what the hell is g4 thinking - I am in the age group they are trying to get and I don't want any part of their crap. I barely have time for my personal life much less fricken gaming why the hell do I want to watch a station about pc gaming.
g4 - please sell techtv and let it go back to what it was - a informative useful station. not the crap you are showing.
waaa!! waaaa!! we don't want to respect the laws of the country that made us millionaires - we want to make our own laws - we don't care about the citizens we just want their money.
what a load of crap - I can't believe these greedy bastards are wasting our congressmen's time when they have already been told no.
they need to shut the hell up and respect the laws of our nation and get the proper legal documents together and file a lawsuit.
otherwise just shut up!!
I still haven't bought a dvd recorder because of the standards that are basically a mess and waiting to see if it gets ironed out - but now it looks like it is going to get worse.
I only want to put my home movies onto cd - I use the svcd standard - more cds but I don't care I just want the movies to last and be around for a while and share them with friends/family.
I just hope the new players will still play this standard still- if not I will be very very pissed off.
I don't record any movies or tv shows - heck I don't even watch tv except for sports (use to watch techtv - screensavers but now G4 has just destroyed that station and is nothing but crap now) - the movie/tv networks don't really put anything out these days that is worth pirating in my opinion. why don't they concentrate on that instead of being worried about stealing 24 hours of the day.
Also is it me or to be an actor these days you just have to have a voice - nobody does acting anymore because they all make these computer animated movies.
at least websphere is cross platform - I am so sick of seeing internal sites use IE only because it is the standard.
what really is stupid is they are developing pages on websphere on unix boxes and then writing them so you can only access them through IE - that is a joke. Microsoft has SBC so locked down its like we almost are just a wing of microsoft and now with Lightspeed - IPTV - I would bet it will only work with Microsoft products - in fact I guarantee it.
I even quit using their SBC-yahoo portal as my home page because it just doesn't work with firefox but works great with IE and of course called their tech support about it and they said they don't support firefox/linux.
It may just be me but I just don't get it.
Maybe I'm simple minded and don't have a phd or anything - but I would never go through 14 interviews. I was interviewed 6 times for a job and taken an aptitude test and was offered the job but didn't take it because of the number of interviews.
I don't want to work for an interview that is that insecure about hiring people that they have to go through this number of interviews. I don't need to work for google to realize I am a "superstar".
I like google as a search engine and I am glad they use linux.
When I interview people I can tend to get a feel for their knowledge and personality and know if they would be good fit. And if I can't choose between two people I call them back for a second interview to help me decide.
My opinion is that this is just a way to weed the ones out that are intimidated and really don't want to do all the interviews.
Also - I am not sold on these aptitude tests either - I have seen people who got almost perfect scores and were hired because of that but were impossible to work with because they were always right (I wasn't the one who hired them).
so when I interview/hire people I usually go with my gut feeling and so far it hasn't backfired becasue I haven't had to fire anybody that I hired.
by the way does anybody know when gmail is going to get out of beta?
is this suprising - they just keep doing the same crap over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.
can't wait till longhorn so I can laugh at all the fricken CEO's , Marketers , and other managers that force Microsoft's crap software on companies just in the name of getting their job done and have to hire all those expert MCSE's to help clean it up - meanwhile I still be running my linux servers doing the real work like DNS, DHCP, and the applications that actually run the business. Maybe someday these ceo's will realize what a scam microsoft actually is.
Microsoft has its hand in many pockets - they may be playing dumb but they know exactly what they are doing.
anybody who uses wma format and writes their site for internet explorer only should be fired on the spot.
people have to realize that wma is not a standard it is a proprietary format that should be avoided at all costs.
I live in an open source world and I do not use any of Microsoft's proprietary standards and I have lived to tell about it. People just need to realize that they don't need Microsoft to have their computing needs fullfilled.
who would actually buy this - anybody who does this computing is strictly a unix shop -
but I guess Marketing needs to put together their latest powerpoint presentation and it can't be done on one computer anymore.
great - problems have just multilplied.
G4 is trash - they have just trashed techtv and it is about worthless - I mean everytime I skip by the channel it is showing a video game - sorry but I want the old screensavers back with Leo and Pat -along with Leo and call for help.
G4 is just slime - they are nothing but money grubbing slime I will never watch their piece of shit channel again.
Just another reason I am chalking up to get rid of cable.
it just makes me sick what the companies in the US put up with as far as software.
reading that document on Groklaw just makes me sick.
I feel like I gotta take a shower now - I guess I could never be a lawyer.
it all comes clear now what the dutch were trying to do before the end of the year - what worms.
Why can't these corporations see that using open source gets away from all this lawyer crap - if microsoft's software fails do you really think they are going to accept damages - and I can't believe that corporations buy microsoft just for running office applications - it a sham.
in a land of counting your stocks and worrying about bottom line - this isn't surprising.
we are nothing but a bunch lawyers and marketers -
it's a joke - and I am embarrassed
merry christmas everyone - this is great
I can't wait till sco is completely gone.
love the bit from yankee group saying this might force sco to settle.
looks to me IBM isn't settling anything - they are going for the throat looks like to me. unless of course they mean settle as in drop the case.
merry christmas and happy new year daryl - hopefully this time next year you will be nothing but a distant unpleasant memory.
get a clue - all the other linux distros have choices - I can have numerous browsers on my box because they came with the distro -
microsoft would not put any browser on their machine except theirs - now they are doing the same with media player -
that is what's all about - not pacakaging - and as far as apple - they sell their own hardware so it isn't the same - they are not forcing the dells and gateways to put their stupid os on their machines they sell.
this is great news - they were worms for trying to sneak it in on the holiday season when the people who don't want patents would not be paying attention because we all have lives and family and money isn't that important to us in that we wouldn't be trying to do backhanded politics during the holiday season.
that's the way politics works in the states - if a special interest group/corporations can't get what they want passed by itself they try to sneak stuff in with another bill or when they know people won't be paying attention.
again - what slimey disgusting worms - I hope they have really happy holidays.
you can use checksums to verify you binary when you download it.
by the way my distro packages it and all my packages are signed on my Linux os. can we say the same for windows?
this article is nothing but twisted fud.
let's not fix the source of the problem but lets just sell more stuff so we can line our pockets.
who cares about the consumer and giving them a better product just make them buy more and give us their money.
and active X should be outlawed. it is nothing but a piece of shit.
So I guess all the video recordings I made with my vcr and let freinds view it because they didn't see the show was against the law. - the only difference is I didn't put them on the internet to share with other folks that didn't see it.
what difference does it make if I shared a video tape recording with one friend or a thousand on the internet - you are still breaking the law.
this is nothing but a joke - lawyers seeing an opportunity to sue more people than ever and just to get rich. I can't believe the governments that are suppose to be for the people let them get away with this crap.
"Aharonian said in his complaint he does not know whether he personally has run afoul of copyright laws because he has set up a database of thousands of computer programs to help software companies figure out if their products infringe on existing material."
why would just a listing of programs infringe on copyrights. I list programs all the time in inventory programs at work to keep track of what we got - maybe I am missing something.
anyway - he is an ip consultant - the new profession of the 21st century invented by microsoft and sco.
we should be getting rid of patents and not copyrights - at least I can understand a copyright when I read it but when you read a patent you still don't know if you infringe or not - it's like you need an IP attorney - oh wait.
"The Dutch Presidency has been using diplomatic pressure to bully Poland. Although everyone knows that neither the Polish government nor the Polish industry supports the directive text, the Dutch Presidency insists that, due to some formal reasons, Poland must vote "Yes" or agree to a formal adoption without a vote"
and the purpose of voting was??
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Talk softly and carry a big stick - Let the idiot Ballmer do all the talking.
you can't use Ballmer and gentle in the same sentence. - Oops - guess I just did. In my opinion Ballmer is an idiot - he is jerk - and people just pay him so he shuts up - that is why their cash balance tripled. - also they charge 200 bucks for their piece of crap OS. Linux is still light years ahead of anything Ballmer comes up with. My company doesn't even allow windows on the extranet used as servers - that speaks volumes - windows is okay for gaming - but for mission critical apps it just doesn't cut it.
G4 buying techtv was just bad - they trashed that station - I took it off of my tv station list - It is just crap - It was kind of neat having a tech tv - I looked forward to seeing leo and patrick every night when I could - but now it is nothing but gaming - it sucks, it sucks, it sucks, it sucks. yes gaming should of been part of the station but not ALL of it. what the hell is g4 thinking - I am in the age group they are trying to get and I don't want any part of their crap. I barely have time for my personal life much less fricken gaming why the hell do I want to watch a station about pc gaming. g4 - please sell techtv and let it go back to what it was - a informative useful station. not the crap you are showing.
i will remember this when I buy my next laptop
waaa!! waaaa!! we don't want to respect the laws of the country that made us millionaires - we want to make our own laws - we don't care about the citizens we just want their money. what a load of crap - I can't believe these greedy bastards are wasting our congressmen's time when they have already been told no. they need to shut the hell up and respect the laws of our nation and get the proper legal documents together and file a lawsuit. otherwise just shut up!!
I still haven't bought a dvd recorder because of the standards that are basically a mess and waiting to see if it gets ironed out - but now it looks like it is going to get worse. I only want to put my home movies onto cd - I use the svcd standard - more cds but I don't care I just want the movies to last and be around for a while and share them with friends/family. I just hope the new players will still play this standard still- if not I will be very very pissed off. I don't record any movies or tv shows - heck I don't even watch tv except for sports (use to watch techtv - screensavers but now G4 has just destroyed that station and is nothing but crap now) - the movie/tv networks don't really put anything out these days that is worth pirating in my opinion. why don't they concentrate on that instead of being worried about stealing 24 hours of the day. Also is it me or to be an actor these days you just have to have a voice - nobody does acting anymore because they all make these computer animated movies.
at least websphere is cross platform - I am so sick of seeing internal sites use IE only because it is the standard. what really is stupid is they are developing pages on websphere on unix boxes and then writing them so you can only access them through IE - that is a joke. Microsoft has SBC so locked down its like we almost are just a wing of microsoft and now with Lightspeed - IPTV - I would bet it will only work with Microsoft products - in fact I guarantee it. I even quit using their SBC-yahoo portal as my home page because it just doesn't work with firefox but works great with IE and of course called their tech support about it and they said they don't support firefox/linux.
I work at sbc and we might as well be call MS-SBC because everything we do internally is centered around microsoft.
good old microsoft getting rich from it's own piece of crap software. now that's innovation. ballmer is a genious.
It may just be me but I just don't get it. Maybe I'm simple minded and don't have a phd or anything - but I would never go through 14 interviews. I was interviewed 6 times for a job and taken an aptitude test and was offered the job but didn't take it because of the number of interviews. I don't want to work for an interview that is that insecure about hiring people that they have to go through this number of interviews. I don't need to work for google to realize I am a "superstar". I like google as a search engine and I am glad they use linux. When I interview people I can tend to get a feel for their knowledge and personality and know if they would be good fit. And if I can't choose between two people I call them back for a second interview to help me decide. My opinion is that this is just a way to weed the ones out that are intimidated and really don't want to do all the interviews. Also - I am not sold on these aptitude tests either - I have seen people who got almost perfect scores and were hired because of that but were impossible to work with because they were always right (I wasn't the one who hired them). so when I interview/hire people I usually go with my gut feeling and so far it hasn't backfired becasue I haven't had to fire anybody that I hired. by the way does anybody know when gmail is going to get out of beta?
is this suprising - they just keep doing the same crap over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. can't wait till longhorn so I can laugh at all the fricken CEO's , Marketers , and other managers that force Microsoft's crap software on companies just in the name of getting their job done and have to hire all those expert MCSE's to help clean it up - meanwhile I still be running my linux servers doing the real work like DNS, DHCP, and the applications that actually run the business. Maybe someday these ceo's will realize what a scam microsoft actually is.
Microsoft has its hand in many pockets - they may be playing dumb but they know exactly what they are doing. anybody who uses wma format and writes their site for internet explorer only should be fired on the spot. people have to realize that wma is not a standard it is a proprietary format that should be avoided at all costs. I live in an open source world and I do not use any of Microsoft's proprietary standards and I have lived to tell about it. People just need to realize that they don't need Microsoft to have their computing needs fullfilled.
who would actually buy this - anybody who does this computing is strictly a unix shop - but I guess Marketing needs to put together their latest powerpoint presentation and it can't be done on one computer anymore. great - problems have just multilplied.
G4 is trash - they have just trashed techtv and it is about worthless - I mean everytime I skip by the channel it is showing a video game - sorry but I want the old screensavers back with Leo and Pat -along with Leo and call for help. G4 is just slime - they are nothing but money grubbing slime I will never watch their piece of shit channel again. Just another reason I am chalking up to get rid of cable.
gee your so intelligent - perfect example of where america is heading - hope you don't forget health care too when your retired.
it just makes me sick what the companies in the US put up with as far as software. reading that document on Groklaw just makes me sick. I feel like I gotta take a shower now - I guess I could never be a lawyer. it all comes clear now what the dutch were trying to do before the end of the year - what worms. Why can't these corporations see that using open source gets away from all this lawyer crap - if microsoft's software fails do you really think they are going to accept damages - and I can't believe that corporations buy microsoft just for running office applications - it a sham.
in a land of counting your stocks and worrying about bottom line - this isn't surprising. we are nothing but a bunch lawyers and marketers - it's a joke - and I am embarrassed
merry christmas everyone - this is great I can't wait till sco is completely gone. love the bit from yankee group saying this might force sco to settle. looks to me IBM isn't settling anything - they are going for the throat looks like to me. unless of course they mean settle as in drop the case. merry christmas and happy new year daryl - hopefully this time next year you will be nothing but a distant unpleasant memory.
get a clue - all the other linux distros have choices - I can have numerous browsers on my box because they came with the distro - microsoft would not put any browser on their machine except theirs - now they are doing the same with media player - that is what's all about - not pacakaging - and as far as apple - they sell their own hardware so it isn't the same - they are not forcing the dells and gateways to put their stupid os on their machines they sell.
this is great news - they were worms for trying to sneak it in on the holiday season when the people who don't want patents would not be paying attention because we all have lives and family and money isn't that important to us in that we wouldn't be trying to do backhanded politics during the holiday season. that's the way politics works in the states - if a special interest group/corporations can't get what they want passed by itself they try to sneak stuff in with another bill or when they know people won't be paying attention. again - what slimey disgusting worms - I hope they have really happy holidays.
you can use checksums to verify you binary when you download it. by the way my distro packages it and all my packages are signed on my Linux os. can we say the same for windows? this article is nothing but twisted fud.
let's not fix the source of the problem but lets just sell more stuff so we can line our pockets. who cares about the consumer and giving them a better product just make them buy more and give us their money. and active X should be outlawed. it is nothing but a piece of shit.
So I guess all the video recordings I made with my vcr and let freinds view it because they didn't see the show was against the law. - the only difference is I didn't put them on the internet to share with other folks that didn't see it. what difference does it make if I shared a video tape recording with one friend or a thousand on the internet - you are still breaking the law. this is nothing but a joke - lawyers seeing an opportunity to sue more people than ever and just to get rich. I can't believe the governments that are suppose to be for the people let them get away with this crap.
"Aharonian said in his complaint he does not know whether he personally has run afoul of copyright laws because he has set up a database of thousands of computer programs to help software companies figure out if their products infringe on existing material." why would just a listing of programs infringe on copyrights. I list programs all the time in inventory programs at work to keep track of what we got - maybe I am missing something. anyway - he is an ip consultant - the new profession of the 21st century invented by microsoft and sco. we should be getting rid of patents and not copyrights - at least I can understand a copyright when I read it but when you read a patent you still don't know if you infringe or not - it's like you need an IP attorney - oh wait.
"The Dutch Presidency has been using diplomatic pressure to bully Poland. Although everyone knows that neither the Polish government nor the Polish industry supports the directive text, the Dutch Presidency insists that, due to some formal reasons, Poland must vote "Yes" or agree to a formal adoption without a vote" and the purpose of voting was??