Hold on there, skippy. There's a big difference between having the right to say what you want, and spending everyone else's money to shove unwanted advertising down unwilling recipients' throats.
Freedom of speech means you can voice your opinion, not waste other people's resources to pretend teach people how to "make $5000 a week working from home!"
That being true, North Carolina would have to ban every piece of software capable of generating text, as well as sendmail, pine, outlook, etc. All those programs contribute to the yellow-brick-road of spam.
Any Spam shit I get from AOL, I just forward the entire message to abuse@aol.com. Yeah, I know they're temporary accounts, but if the abuse addy gets annoyed with the messages I send them, they might take action.
Great. I agree, this is just what we need to punch another hole in the spammer's wall. But it's North Carolina. JUST North Carolina. Yes, this is a step in the right direction. Yes, it'll help tremendously. But we need this enacted in lots more places. (I know they have no control on what other states do, but this needs to be a kick in the ass for other states to jump on the bus.)
And let's get the penalties a little stiffer. Fines? Bah. They can pay off the fines with the income from their pyramid schemes. We need something like Jail time. BIG prisons. With same-sex inmates. Same sex inmates that have been there a LONG time.
Seeing how Linus originally developed Linux for the x86 (namely, 386) I would assume he wants to support that platform First, and worry about the less important platforms later.
. Is your hard drive IDE or SCSI? What COM port is your modem using? What is the IP address of your Internet service provider? More stomach acid.
Honestly, if you don't know those basic bits of information, what the hell are you doing installing a *nix OS? Of all possible basic things you should know about your computer, that phrase pretty much sums it up.
To My knowledge, Office 95 was never released on the Mac, and Office 98 wasn't released on PC. was it 97 you were talking about? If not, Office 98 was slow because it was running on a different OS, and running on an OS that the API happened to be Totally incompatible.
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I think this company is full of shit. Mainly because of the "HINT HINT, It's ALIEN TECHNOLOGY" crap they threw around in the article:
"We have no idea where the drawings from which we derived our TCAP came from."
Obviously, very deep studies were performed, and IBM and Western Electric (Bell Labs) were involved in the 1947-1955 analysis of this technology, but from WHERE did it come?'
Average Humanity must be, on the intelligence scale, the equivalent of a "low grade moron" compared with wherever this device's design came from.
Gimme a break. These people are probably starving for attention, and rightfully so. Their webpage/dedign looks like it's for a back woods computer store, not some highly advanced lab mucking around with alien technology. If you think about it, these are probably the same people who camp out in lawn chairs looking for UFO's, and say "the God Damn Twister sounded like a Freight Train!"
P.S.: They probably got a cheap thrill from seeing their (shitty) logo on a PII cartridge. God, they're lame.
Seems like a classic case of vaporware to me. I'll DEFINITELY have to see this to believe it. And by see it, I mean I want to actually see one in use personally, or hear lots of testimonials to it's existance. I don't buy this yet.
In response to the first poster, the idea of a 3D GUI dates back to the first concepts of the GUI (Mid 1950s), back when it was referred to as a "Fully explorable manipulation system." Unfortunately, neither the GUI, or the 3D system ever got off paper.
Big Difference. The applications running on that GGI system are still 2D apps, just "mapped" to a side of a cube. The system featured in the article actually uses 3D for the interface.
One tends to wonder how the mouse would be handled in a 3D environment. The mouse was designed for, and used as a 2D interface. Using a standard pointer in 3D space would seem awkward. (How would you use the full range of every axis?)
The only way I can see this as being overcome would be to have the mouse pointer constrained to 2D, while a second controller (keyboard maybe?) actually spins the 3D space to come to the mouse. This would seem to be very time consuming and awkward. I'm curious to see how they solve this problem.
His talk of Windows not improving because of no competition is just plain stupid.
Why? What kind of REAL competition has Windows seen before Linux? And Windows 98 is certainly not an improvement over 95.
He confuses Microsoft's marketing division with Microsoft's development division.
It's not exactly breaking news that Microsoft marketing has a heavy hand in development, and vice versa.
Windows has consistently been improved, while getting cheaper and cheaper.
The current MSRP on Windows 3.1 is $179.99
Windows 2000 has been in the works for quite some time, and will be released later on this year.
Estimated release date is mid 2001
And the amount of features it has will blow Linux away (for a while).
Doubtful. From what I have seen, it's a monster bloatware machine.
All these praises from people for Joe's article is blind. Look at his email to mindcraft and tell me if you think this guy is worth listening too - regardless of what camp you're in.
I haven't seen his E-Mail, but this point I do agree on. Slamming Mindcraft with immature e-mail will not get good press, or valued attention. And it certainly won't help our standpoint.
I read this article, and I have to say it is very well-written. The author brings up some valid points, and argues greatly on Linux's behalf. And while it's an article originally from Linux World, it's great to see it on a website like CNN.
If you hang around Linux people for very long, you're going to hear some bickering about whose widget has the best kung fu: "My distribution will always be superior to yours!"
Why, that one's easy to answer. Slackware is the best of course.;) (It's a JOKE folks, let's not start a distro debate over this comment.:P)
Linux people have opinions of their own and they aren't known for being shy about expressing themselves.
Which is one of the reasons Linux has become such a success. It's not necessarily a matter of "This is better than That", but the point is that the competition is there. And it's friendly competition, which only drives both sides to make their product better. In the end, we all win.
The only competition Microsoft has seen in recent years has been the trivial feuding between the Windows 9x and Windows NT development groups.
I can't see this as competition, mainly because Microsoft touts NT as "The SERVER OS of choice." Home users don't necessarily want to run NT, because it's not really designed for home use. So, where's the competition? Windows 9x would choke as a server, and NT isn't really a sensational multimedia platform.
If you want to do some kernel hacking to add a fix or improvement or polish to the Linux kernel, fine. But your code won't be automatically accepted and made a part of the next kernel release.
Not necessarily a bad thing. So if your feature isn't implemented in the next kernel, you still have it for yourself. And you have the freedom to distribute it to those out there who would like similar functionality.
Quality of the code isn't important. Instead, the holy grail -- marketshare and money -- is reached by embracing competitive innovations, thereby extending the Microsoft monopoly and eventually annihilating the competition.
*Cough*Cough*Windows Media Player*Cough*Cough*
I think most users, like me, would buy Linux applications[...]even if they weren't available under the terms of a free or open source license.
Absolutely. The point of Linux as an alternative doesn't have to mean that you go broke supporting it.
I have Office2000 Premium, and believe it or not, it's actually pretty nice.
It would seem that while it is in fact backward compatible with Office 97, it also has HTML integration. I attended an Office 2000 "Road Show" prior to it's release, and I saw the features of the new suite. It uses HTML as a saved file format, so any of the programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) can actually save out their files as an HTML document. (PowerPoint can even save an entire presentation as a web site.)
I also noticed that it marks WordPad files as "Microsoft Word Document(s)"
Nobody is forcing you to read the articles. You want perfect spelling, grab a dictionary. If you don't like someone's spelling, keep it to yourself, and stop bitching. Nobody else wants to hear about it.
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Freedom of speech means you can voice your opinion, not waste other people's resources to pretend teach people how to "make $5000 a week working from home!"
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If pico is outlawed, only outlaws will have pico.
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Doubtful, but a guy can dream, right?
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And let's get the penalties a little stiffer. Fines? Bah. They can pay off the fines with the income from their pyramid schemes. We need something like Jail time. BIG prisons. With same-sex inmates. Same sex inmates that have been there a LONG time.
Yeah.
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Honestly, if you don't know those basic bits of information, what the hell are you doing installing a *nix OS? Of all possible basic things you should know about your computer, that phrase pretty much sums it up.
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Now for the first time these machines are being hyped. The earth market will grow to thousands of machines within the next 12-18 months according to industry experts. We are seeking qualified individuals who are looking
to take advantage of a virtually untapped market opportunity in their area. There are retail locations across the country waiting !
Timing is Everything !! We should have had this crap out decades ago!
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"We have no idea where the drawings from which we derived our TCAP came from."
Obviously, very deep studies were performed, and IBM and Western Electric (Bell Labs) were involved in the 1947-1955 analysis of this technology, but from WHERE did it come?'
Average Humanity must be, on the intelligence scale, the equivalent of a "low grade moron" compared with wherever this device's design came from.
Gimme a break. These people are probably starving for attention, and rightfully so. Their webpage/dedign looks like it's for a back woods computer store, not some highly advanced lab mucking around with alien technology. If you think about it, these are probably the same people who camp out in lawn chairs looking for UFO's, and say "the God Damn Twister sounded like a Freight Train!"
P.S.: They probably got a cheap thrill from seeing their (shitty) logo on a PII cartridge. God, they're lame.
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In response to the first poster, the idea of a 3D GUI dates back to the first concepts of the GUI (Mid 1950s), back when it was referred to as a "Fully explorable manipulation system." Unfortunately, neither the GUI, or the 3D system ever got off paper.
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The only way I can see this as being overcome would be to have the mouse pointer constrained to 2D, while a second controller (keyboard maybe?) actually spins the 3D space to come to the mouse. This would seem to be very time consuming and awkward. I'm curious to see how they solve this problem.
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OS/2 was never a threat to Windows. While it was a good OS, it wasn't about to topple Microsoft.
Uh, Windows 31 is an old product. New windows products have are cheaper and have more features.
Windows 3.1 = $179.99
Windows 95 Full = $179.99
Windows 98 Full = $179.99
Windows 98 2nd Ed. Full = $199.99
How do you figure the new ones are cheaper?
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His talk of Windows not improving because of no competition is just plain stupid.
Why? What kind of REAL competition has Windows seen before Linux? And Windows 98 is certainly not an improvement over 95.
He confuses Microsoft's marketing division with Microsoft's development division.
It's not exactly breaking news that Microsoft marketing has a heavy hand in development, and vice versa.
Windows has consistently been improved, while getting cheaper and cheaper.
The current MSRP on Windows 3.1 is $179.99
Windows 2000 has been in the works for quite some time, and will be released later on this year.
Estimated release date is mid 2001
And the amount of features it has will blow Linux away (for a while).
Doubtful. From what I have seen, it's a monster bloatware machine.
All these praises from people for Joe's article is blind. Look at his email to mindcraft and tell me if you think this guy is worth listening too - regardless of what camp you're in.
I haven't seen his E-Mail, but this point I do agree on. Slamming Mindcraft with immature e-mail will not get good press, or valued attention. And it certainly won't help our standpoint.
-- Give him Head? Be a Beacon?
If you hang around Linux people for very long, you're going to hear some bickering about whose widget has the best kung fu: "My distribution will always be superior to yours!"
Why, that one's easy to answer. Slackware is the best of course.
(It's a JOKE folks, let's not start a distro debate over this comment.
Linux people have opinions of their own and they aren't known for being shy about expressing themselves.
Which is one of the reasons Linux has become such a success. It's not necessarily a matter of "This is better than That", but the point is that the competition is there. And it's friendly competition, which only drives both sides to make their product better. In the end, we all win.
The only competition Microsoft has seen in recent years has been the trivial feuding between the Windows 9x and Windows NT development groups.
I can't see this as competition, mainly because Microsoft touts NT as "The SERVER OS of choice." Home users don't necessarily want to run NT, because it's not really designed for home use. So, where's the competition? Windows 9x would choke as a server, and NT isn't really a sensational multimedia platform.
If you want to do some kernel hacking to add a fix or improvement or polish to the Linux kernel, fine. But your code won't be automatically accepted and made a part of the next kernel release.
Not necessarily a bad thing. So if your feature isn't implemented in the next kernel, you still have it for yourself. And you have the freedom to distribute it to those out there who would like similar functionality.
Quality of the code isn't important. Instead, the holy grail -- marketshare and money -- is reached by embracing competitive innovations, thereby extending the Microsoft monopoly and eventually annihilating the competition.
*Cough*Cough*Windows Media Player*Cough*Cough*
I think most users, like me, would buy Linux applications[...]even if they weren't available under the terms of a free or open source license.
Absolutely. The point of Linux as an alternative doesn't have to mean that you go broke supporting it.
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It would seem that while it is in fact backward compatible with Office 97, it also has HTML integration. I attended an Office 2000 "Road Show" prior to it's release, and I saw the features of the new suite. It uses HTML as a saved file format, so any of the programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) can actually save out their files as an HTML document. (PowerPoint can even save an entire presentation as a web site.)
I also noticed that it marks WordPad files as "Microsoft Word Document(s)"
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No. DoS is NEVER in order. It's lame, it's childish, and it's ILLEGAL.
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