Anyways, the government can license their code under the GPL and also put it in the public domain (or some other license).
The exception to that is when the code is tied to other GPL'ed code. But there it works the same way w/ closed code. MS won't just give the gov't access to source and allow them to share improvements w/ the public. Neither will GPL.
Dual-band usually refers to phones that work on US analog and digital networks. I think Hemos misspoke when he called the phone dual-band... he probably meant GSM.
That sounds a lot like reselling CPU time and bandwidth. I don't think ISPs will like this. They may declare that if you wanna do this you need a bussiness account. I know that Road Runner charges a lot more to businesses than consumers and I bet they aren't the only ones. Be careful...
Actually, you're slightly off. He does consider that if the price of Windows increases purchasing will decrease. The flaw is that he makes this assumption based on the idea that Windows has a monopoloy. He is able to make that assumption w/o explanation because that is what his opposition bases its case on. What he fails to take into account, however, are the following:
the eventual goal of the breakup is to eliminate the monopoly
once Microsoft loses the ability to leverage its dual monopoly in operating systems and productivity suites there will be a reduction of Microsofts market pricing power
Together, these will throw his whole scheme out of whack.
Personally, I believe that a divided Microsoft would likely charge more for Windows... for a while. They'd be able to get away with charging $400+ per license just as they could now. But this would only serve to speed up their losing of the monopoly which enables them to do so.
Software is different than manufactured goods as far as controlling the market. The difficulty in breaking a traditional monopoly is in development, production and lock-in. The difficulty in breaking a software monopoly is in development and lock-in only. The biggest hurdle is lock-in... which will be difficult to work out. The development isn't going to be as tough. I don't want to get into an argument about whether or not Linux or BeOS or whatever are as good or better than Microsoft, but I think we can all agree that if they are behind Microsoft the aren't too much behind them.
The key is lock-in. An increased price of Windows would open a lot of eyes to the liability of being locked into a MS solution and I believe there will be a lot of work done to break out. It will be tough for a while, but that is the way the cookie crumbles.
Referendums are not permitted at the federal level.
For those of you who don't know, a referendum is when the voters vote directly for a law as opposed to electing representatives/leaders/idiots.
America is not a pure democracy. A pure democracy would be rule by majority and the minority's rights would always be at risk. The founding fathers valued individual rights before majority rule.
Would you want to live in a country where the majority dictated law? Where they censor our libraries? Where they supress minorities?
I forgot to pay NSI to renew my registration. I stopped getting email for two days and quickly realized the problem. I just went to NSI, paid the bill, and was back in business. I didn't have to worry about re-registering and nobody could steal it in the few days that my payment was late.
It was nice to have that grace period, but after 30 days or so I think that the names should be released. If the owner hasn't realized that it has been 'repossesed' in 30 days then the really don't want it that much.
dotTV has the right to terminate your email address at its sole discretion. If your email address is terminated, you will be refunded the $1.00 annual maintenance fee.
As soon as somebody buys those domain names you will lose your email address there.
If it's a simple and standard task I don't want to have to devote a lot of brain power to it and a GUI helps there.
I agree completely.
If I'm doing something complex or unique I want the freedom to go behind the GUI to a CLI (which is where Apple, until Mac OS X, fell down on the job).
Again, I agree completely. But here, my issue is that I don't think most IT people are willing to tackle these tasks. That is my point. The flexibility to go both ways should be there but I think a lot of IT people are unwilling to learn how to do things GUI-less.
A well designed UI helps. User hostile UI is just offensive.
So true!
The point of my post is that Linux currently is lacking the GUI tools to make many of the easy tasks easy (GUI) and that until they are easy a lot people are unwilling to learn the hard (non-GUI) way of doing it.
It has been said that Apple is throwing out years of usability research in favor of glitz and coolness in designing Aqua. Do you agree with this assesment? How does one effectively compromise between coolness and ease of use?
The average IT person can not efficiently run a Linux system. Linux isn't amazingly complex, but the average IT person is a bafoon. I'm continually amazed how many IT people are command-line phobic.
The "rise of Windows" hasn't increased computer literacy... it has only lowered the standard.
I was talking to the sysadmin who installed it last night and she said it was actually fairly simple to do. She installed it mostly because she preferred it over CDE but it has become rather popular in the CS labs. I think she said she only installed it about two weeks ago. FYI, one (or more) of the CS/SE classes at RIT uses kdevelop and it is also installed in the CS labs.
We all know that those lame-o Hollywood types will never award South Park with an Oscar. So, I think this calls for the Ultimate Hollywood Hack.
If anybody is able to ensure that the cards that they read on Oscar night say South Park's Blame Canada wins the award, they will go down in history as having done one of the greatest hacks of all time.
So, instead of thinking up the next Amendment to the Slashdot Trolls Constitution or whatever you do when you're bored, plan the ultimate hack... hack the Oscars!
(This is not an actual solicitation for Oscar-hacking services... don't sue me.)
VA's stuff is general marketing fluff. Typical stuff.
MS` stuff is presented as news and they are making specific statements like "Windows... offers better reliability [than Sun]." A statement that is pretty obviously false.
You can say what you want about either Windows or Linux having better reliability, but neither of them are in Sun's league. Not Linux and definitely not Windows.
I've decided not to go to the movie theater or rent any movies until this issue is resolved. I'm not giving those MPAA jerks any of my money.
And I let people know about it. If I'm watching TV and a movie preview comes on I'll say something like "there's another movie I won't watch." Or if I'm talking with coworkers and somebody is talking about a movie I'll remark "I haven't seen it, I'm boycotting the movie industry."
The government can't just assume you're doing something bad. They have the burden of guilt. Kevin the right to his own property. Unless the government can overcome the burden of guilt they have no reason to restrict him from getting his personal property returned to him.
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The exception to that is when the code is tied to other GPL'ed code. But there it works the same way w/ closed code. MS won't just give the gov't access to source and allow them to share improvements w/ the public. Neither will GPL.
There is nothing special about anti-white discrimination that justifies a special term.
In fact, the term "reverse discrimination" is discriminatory itself and using it inappropriate.
It doesn't look like VA was accused of any wrongdoing... just the investment banks. Not really news for nerds... IMHO.
Dual-band usually refers to phones that work on US analog and digital networks. I think Hemos misspoke when he called the phone dual-band... he probably meant GSM.
Ah... you must be new to Slashdot...
That sounds a lot like reselling CPU time and bandwidth. I don't think ISPs will like this. They may declare that if you wanna do this you need a bussiness account. I know that Road Runner charges a lot more to businesses than consumers and I bet they aren't the only ones. Be careful...
Also, could you imagine a national recount. Ouch.
Thank you!
IANAE (I am not an economist)
Actually, you're slightly off. He does consider that if the price of Windows increases purchasing will decrease. The flaw is that he makes this assumption based on the idea that Windows has a monopoloy. He is able to make that assumption w/o explanation because that is what his opposition bases its case on. What he fails to take into account, however, are the following:
Together, these will throw his whole scheme out of whack.
Personally, I believe that a divided Microsoft would likely charge more for Windows... for a while. They'd be able to get away with charging $400+ per license just as they could now. But this would only serve to speed up their losing of the monopoly which enables them to do so.
Software is different than manufactured goods as far as controlling the market. The difficulty in breaking a traditional monopoly is in development, production and lock-in. The difficulty in breaking a software monopoly is in development and lock-in only. The biggest hurdle is lock-in... which will be difficult to work out. The development isn't going to be as tough. I don't want to get into an argument about whether or not Linux or BeOS or whatever are as good or better than Microsoft, but I think we can all agree that if they are behind Microsoft the aren't too much behind them.
The key is lock-in. An increased price of Windows would open a lot of eyes to the liability of being locked into a MS solution and I believe there will be a lot of work done to break out. It will be tough for a while, but that is the way the cookie crumbles.
For those of you who don't know, a referendum is when the voters vote directly for a law as opposed to electing representatives/leaders/idiots.
America is not a pure democracy. A pure democracy would be rule by majority and the minority's rights would always be at risk. The founding fathers valued individual rights before majority rule.
Would you want to live in a country where the majority dictated law? Where they censor our libraries? Where they supress minorities?
I sure wouldn't.
Your comment, on the other hand, was somewhat biased and stupid.
Especially that scanner and printer.... dangerous mp3 sharing devices...
So many late nights because I put off papers to play Civ 2...
It was nice to have that grace period, but after 30 days or so I think that the names should be released. If the owner hasn't realized that it has been 'repossesed' in 30 days then the really don't want it that much.
dotTV has the right to terminate your email address at its sole discretion. If your email address is terminated, you will be refunded the $1.00 annual maintenance fee.
As soon as somebody buys those domain names you will lose your email address there.
I agree completely.
If I'm doing something complex or unique I want the freedom to go behind the GUI to a CLI (which is where Apple, until Mac OS X, fell down on the job).
Again, I agree completely. But here, my issue is that I don't think most IT people are willing to tackle these tasks. That is my point. The flexibility to go both ways should be there but I think a lot of IT people are unwilling to learn how to do things GUI-less.
A well designed UI helps. User hostile UI is just offensive.
So true!
The point of my post is that Linux currently is lacking the GUI tools to make many of the easy tasks easy (GUI) and that until they are easy a lot people are unwilling to learn the hard (non-GUI) way of doing it.
(You 'da man!)
The "rise of Windows" hasn't increased computer literacy... it has only lowered the standard.
I was talking to the sysadmin who installed it last night and she said it was actually fairly simple to do. She installed it mostly because she preferred it over CDE but it has become rather popular in the CS labs. I think she said she only installed it about two weeks ago. FYI, one (or more) of the CS/SE classes at RIT uses kdevelop and it is also installed in the CS labs.
If anybody is able to ensure that the cards that they read on Oscar night say South Park's Blame Canada wins the award, they will go down in history as having done one of the greatest hacks of all time.
So, instead of thinking up the next Amendment to the Slashdot Trolls Constitution or whatever you do when you're bored, plan the ultimate hack... hack the Oscars!
(This is not an actual solicitation for Oscar-hacking services... don't sue me.)
MS` stuff is presented as news and they are making specific statements like "Windows... offers better reliability [than Sun]." A statement that is pretty obviously false.
You can say what you want about either Windows or Linux having better reliability, but neither of them are in Sun's league. Not Linux and definitely not Windows.
And I let people know about it. If I'm watching TV and a movie preview comes on I'll say something like "there's another movie I won't watch." Or if I'm talking with coworkers and somebody is talking about a movie I'll remark "I haven't seen it, I'm boycotting the movie industry."
Give your money to the EFF, not the MPAA.
Well, some people seem to believe that....
In case you're still wondering why they took his cell phone, check out some info on his phone, the Nokia 9110. That is one helluva phone.
The government can't just assume you're doing something bad. They have the burden of guilt. Kevin the right to his own property. Unless the government can overcome the burden of guilt they have no reason to restrict him from getting his personal property returned to him.