Xhtml and CSS are supposed to be implemented in a wysiwyg manner. The only thing that has stagnated this is M$ Internet Exploder. Microsoft has no reason to support these standards at all simply because it is not profitable. As it is microsoft has spent so much time sitting on it's ass on the subject they would effectively break the internet for most users if they suddenly went fully standards complient. What we are looking at is truly the problems caused by a monopoly, microsoft quit innovating in this area and the development of the internet has been arrested as far as anything related to the browser goes.
Internet Explorer is the most detrimental piece of trash the internet has ever seen. Unfortunately, the only option people have is to exclude the larger market share. Or, take back the Internet use firefox.
Good work! Why not have Red Hat Certified Engineers vs. Microsoft Certified Engineers maintain two systems granted normal control over their environment and an equal server load. For realism both servers could be linked from slashdot (mirroring latest results) from time to time. Also, he already said M$ would get the results if they were unfavorable. We need someone to pony up some dough, so, they own the results. I think if he were a shill he wouldn't be here, it seems to me his candidness about ownership of research data speaks for itself.
I compiled Linux From Scratch after taking a one term intro to Linux at a community college. Otherwise one needs the configuration options used by Suse.
"BSA members include Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Avid, Bentley Systems, Borland, Cadence, Cisco Systems, CNC Software/Mastercam, Dell, Entrust, HP, IBM, Intel, Internet Security Systems, Macromedia, McAfee, Inc., Microsoft, PTC, RSA Security, SAP, SolidWorks, Sybase, Symantec, Synopsys, and UGS Corp."-http://www.bsa.org/
Then there's this:
Ernie Ball went to court and paid a fine; but that didn't end the matter:
"The worst thing was when Microsoft printed a four-color reproduction of that newspaper article on an executive's desk, sent it to every registered Microsoft user, and said "Don't get caught like Ernie Ball -- a fine company that found out just how hard it is to stay compliant. Call us. We'll give you a free audit and sell you software at 20% off." Keep in mind that we had already downloaded the BSA self-auditing software and it didn't work. This was fear-based marketing, with government help."-http://www.searls.com/feb04-lfs-diyit.html/
And this:
Here's how Sterling Ball put it when I interviewed him at Linux World last August:
"A disgruntled ex-employee saw a nail-your-butt opportunity, so he called the BSA. I was sued under federal seal. There was no warning. We were raided at ten o'clock on a Friday. We were shut down and ordered not to touch our computers. There were armed marshals. Our employees were sitting there going 'What's the matter? Is our company criminal? Are we crooks?' Then they sent out press releases... It's coincidental that they always send these out after business is closed."-http://www.searls.com/feb04-lfs-diyit.htm l/
Asside from releasing Microsoft of accountability I agree with your statements. Also I have been unable to discover what exactly the license infringements were; if anyone is so inclined.
OK, I agree that senseless lawsuits are ridiculous. But, then again you have to define senseless. It seems to me that these people are suing because Microsoft was negligent and ripped off A LOT of people. I personally, think this is a very valid thing to do. I do not want everything I buy from Microsoft to be a total piece of crap that can burn my house down. Not to mention the fact that this is really the result of Microsoft rushing greedily, to the market in time for Christmas regardless of the fact that the piece of crap catches on fire. Personally, I'd get pissed if people showed up on christmas morning stealing from me and setting things on fire. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft doesn't have a certain amount of money allocated for this, considering the amount of problems with the system.
OK I'll give on support cause I just don't know. But, I will go on to discredit this website.
First in the title "Linux is Doomed thanks to Microsoft"; "Linux" links to Information Week which has a whole section dedicated to Windows and calls itself a "Microsite". "Microsoft" links to an ad mentioned in the story (Live Meeting). The Link found in the story is "Server Software" which links to an HP Printer?
Google linux site:Gartner.com oh boy, this website is a flamethrower, fud factory, or whatever you want to call it. I would also like to add that CoolTechZone did not link directly, to this wonderful store of unbiased software evaluations.
I almost decided not to label gartner.com as biased then it hit me, why doesn't Gartner.com have a hype cycle for Windows report? Or, a single depiction of an effective deployment of Linux? Further research shows, there are one or two accurate assesments of Linux. Try IBM site:gartner.com and there you go. Don't do linux site:gartner.com cause it doesn't work very well. Confused?
Actually the office software is very viable for business converts. My accounting instructor for instance teaches MS Excel to the accounting majors (they know Excel far better than I really want to), why doesn't he like OpenOffice.org? Cause, they don't have an accounting format for the spreadsheets. OOo has a currency format but, this is different than the accounting format that displays $0.00 dollars as a - and $1.00 as $ 1.00 now I can put in my own input mask and save it to get by in his class but, this is more than he wants to mess with. User guides are important but, until the software has the functionality people are going to look for, people will assume the guides and the software are crap. P.S. Accountanting would be a great proffessional sector to market OpenOffice.org (so long as it meets all of their needs).
Frankly, when you are in charge of a project you live and die by the software and hardware decisions you make. When you choose good software and hardware you are indispensible and loved. If you choose really bad hardware and software for your application you are slowly tortured in a chaotic development cycle where you have wedged the project into a hacked system by buying something that does not suit your needs, you were not the right person for the job. It seems to me like servers just got smart, the decision is now a no-brainer so long as cost is appropriate, your application requires this system, the system can be trusted to configure everything properly, etc... You will not lose your job, your job will change into taskmaster of binary slaves. Now if the servers start asking why they do all the work and you get all the credit, then I would be complaining about them taking my job.
Hey, I don't know about the rest of you but Google's just about got all my info pegged down. Gmail stores my records, I'm always logged in so my search history is right there. With google home page they have the weather of the town I live in, my favorite news feeds and they know I like the vocabulary word of the day front and center. My bookmarks section is minimalist, but most telling are links to other free email accounts. They know who my contacts are, they know who I invite to gmail.
Has it ever occured to anyone that gmail is the most comprehensive (I think "pay for" MSN gives you three total addresses) email account that by nature gathers statistical relationship information on the users at SIGNUP. Gmail's signup record is a complete model of that whole six degrees of seperation theory. As it is, when I google Pr0n I Log the f*ck out; I have to; my search history is used for my search results. I use my Google home page at school (college) I do not want to get kicked out of a lab for Googling fsck. Most importantly I do not want pr0n based ads showing up everywhere. I have kids remember.
With free internet service provided by Google I would be totally on record no ifs, ands, or buts about it; they would be able to say "hey this guy doesn't like Pr0n showing up on his search history, lives in (insert town, state, and address here), must have had a divorce last year, oh there it is his lawyer's email is xxxx@gmail.com, is a student, has kids, frequently uses google for spelling help (determined by a misspelled word searched and no results clicked, common search pattern -posts online a bit maybe), and many other things I can't even fathom,etc...".
I love google they do a great job but it's a corporation, corporations are notorious for screwing people when they can, a corporation is a business entity that is held accountable for people's actions, that business entity is by nature psychopathic. I find this service wraps up google's statistical sources and Google seems intent on KEEPING their information FOREVER, so long as they can legally get away with it. I know the terms of gmail when I signed up, and I know how to avoid what I don't want. I like it that way.
Couldn't agree more Linux is already successful. If people want a desktop then they should write the code for it. Meaning why don't the hardware companies that want an ABI get together and write one, that way it can be included in desktop systems and leave the kernel alone. It has already been said that nVidia uses something like this.
I use Linux as a desktop, but I use it because of the server software not the pretty GUI, I use it for development. It is quite obvious that the Linux Desktop is a by-product of the Linux Server. I do not want Linux to be jaded by a million users asking for feature "x" and forcing the people who want feature "x" to develop feature "x" is the only way of keeping Linux at a higher quality.
If a parent could be modded as flamebait why not mod the resulting thread as flameWar give the mess an icon with flames tux vs. msn butterfly or whatever so I don't have to read it.
This question was about the Linux driver model. Not the Windows driver model.
Good point, but, the question is "should you be arrested for ninety days for being evaluated as suspicious". Should you go to jail for ninety days for no reason other than the fact that you crossed the median line? No, they have the right to stop you and determine to what extent you are breaking the law. The politics behind this topic revolve around guilt and innocence in the eyes of the law. The question is how "guilty" should an innocent person be treated when only presumed guilty.
The difference between a system where you are "innocent until proven guilty" and a system where you are "guilty until proven innocent" rests with the treatment of "presumption of guilt", and yes the more any society moves in favour of punishing people presumed guilty the closer that society is to a police state. A person can be presumed a terrorist for any number of reasons and held for twenty eight days simply for owning a computer that uses encryption.
This is not right by any means. If any police officer might hold a personal grudge against someone (cops are people right?). Thirty days of jail under the presumption of guilt is enough to totally destroy many innocent people's lives. Parents for instance might have their children placed in foster care and have a tremendously difficult time getting their children back. Carreers are often ruined when missing simply a critical two hour meeting, much less a month. If Tony Blair had been arrested under the presumption of guilt and held for the appropriate thirty days, would this bill have been passed at all? Where would he be politically after spending thirty days in jail? The tabloids would have a field day with him in jail, he would be ruined; but, this won't happen because he belongs to a privileged class.
Finally, I think everyone here knows there is a difference betweeen spending thirty days in jail with no recourse and having your children tortured to death in front of you with no recourse. I really, believe "police state" is being used here for lack of a better term, maybe "bureaucratic police state" is more appropriate. A state where people are generally abused by a psychopathic government rather than pyschopathic individuals hired by the government.
This entire thread has completely missed the mark.
Mac's decision to switch to x86/intel chips will not effect anything. On the contrary it is a result of motorola's inability to adapt, coupled with intel's truely innovative chip designs that encouraged the switch. Yes, linux has difficulties as a desktop machine. Mac is an excellent desktop (aged refined and spendy). Microsoft is great for introducing people to computers (cheap and mostly intuitive). Linux offers power, with power comes responsibility (work). That's all. The kids I see (16-20yrs) that are power users typically use Microsoft for gaming and set up old linux boxes as game servers (Quake, Unreal, etc). Mac's tend to be used by people who are generally more professional with a little vested interest in computing (My Lawyer, Writing instructer, My Friend in a band). Maybe, one day someone will back linux on the desktop to the point where it is competitive. I don't care. I use Linux From Scratch and configure things myself with blackbox ( no desktop/lots of work ), Fedora Core 3 ( configure less/less work ) , and Windows XP ( wished I could configure more/virus scan runs on its own-all else fails reinstall ) all on the same box. Each system has things I love and things I don't. Should I have the means in the future I most certainly will purchase a Mac. I love them all and I am excited about what Intel is doing with their microprocessors, because, as the tide rises, so do all the ships on the sea.
The story has little to do with this guy's sexuality, autism, the movie rainman, the bible, political correctness, or how many people with aspergers work in an IT department. This story is about a savant, who CAN describe how he comes up with his solutions. Imagine cavemen: one learns to count, dies. one learns to count, dies. one learns to count and teaches another caveman how to count.
The point of this story is that modern medicine may develop a basis for understanding savantism and then maybe autism. The real goal with this guy is to get him to write a diary, so shrinks can pick his brain. This guy may be the greatest discovery made by psychology ever. And it seems to have been completely missed by everyone here on/.
Now your judging me on the same basis you were whining about being judged. I never said anything about compilers only programmers, and sarcasm does not translate well on the internet... if that's what you meant by saying "I've never written any program and payed(paid btw) attention to syntax,etc....". Besides that, sarcasm is really an inflamatory, condescending, form of verbal abuse.
Finally, I too, am bad at both grammer and spelling, but, this is a respectable website and needs to maintain a certain amount of professionalism. If people want maintain the credibility of this site by commenting on people's poor use of the english language then good for them, they are proud of this site and the work people put into it. But, then maybe you confused posting to slashdot with writing an e-mail to your mom who would surely uderstand what you were trying to say, and would love to hear your sarcasm.
I think it has more to do with the fact that alot of us have written software or sites and such; where, typos aren't allowed. I know I have a tendancy towards perfectionism when I'm thinking in if-else statements. I don't really think of anyone on slashdot as dumb, except, well the dummies.
This plan is not a whole lot more than a finalized buy out. With the average american holding around $8,000.00
in high interest credit debt(15%+). Federal interest rates lying at 2.5% and bond rates at 4.5% there just isn't any money left in the pockets of the working class. While, the money we use to eat with when we need it is going to be handed to corporate america.
The money that Bush is planning on putting into our retirement would be much better spent on personal credit card debt, and even then it would take at least a year to get out of the water there. Giving us another year's worth of retirees and one less years worth of income. That's assuming people won't accumulate more debt in the interum.
Beyond this redirecting cash from social security into the stock market will make the markets largely unpredictable for at least ten years. We're talking about inflating the markets with billions of dollars, which will provide growth, but how much of that growth will be real? and how much of the U.S. will wind up failling with the inflated section of the market? If this doesn't seem right The simple fact here is people are living longer and making less (real) money.
Destroy credit debt that is not tied into the fed rate (closely not >= 5%). Then we might have a starting point, but with high interest credit Greenspan doesn't have any control over our money supply and the whole damn thing is unstable (stock market, bonds, social security, etc.), credit card companies decide what the fed rate should be every time they issue a card with a different rate.
Credit cards have allowed us to buy up the national debt even though we wouldn't have paid.
P.S. How many of us would argue against microsoft if our retirement counted on M$ windows stock?
Your exactly right this is a messed up world.
Microsoft is proof of that. My point is the if it weren't for the liscenses there wouldn't be OSS. SCO and every other corporate entity with a collective I.Q. of 30 would see the profit potential in taking free code and selling it. Then there is the software you buy, I own my computer hardware, paid $100.00 for win XP which isn't much more than an O.S. and I do not own it.
It's code that was written once, is barely updated and was copied millions of times and sold on what is basically a rental agreement.(WTF)
Beyond that I think OSS is about human rights we have a right to understand our computers and adjust them to our needs. Buying windows is like buying a car that had it's hood welded shut, you can't fix it, your not allowed to fix it, your not even supposed to know what the parts of the engine do. As far as the money that individual programmers make, great, good for them, I'm glad they didn't work for Bill.
If there is anything that will ever be considered revolutionary it's the GPL. This liscense is the sort of thing our grandchildren will read about. I would also assert that this is still innovative, as most people who use computers don't know what it's about. It is our declaration of freedom and it deserves more attention from the media than it has gotten (none). I personally beleive the most innovative thing in OSS right now is the liscences and the people who are reading them for the first time.
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Xhtml and CSS are supposed to be implemented in a wysiwyg manner. The only thing that has stagnated this is M$ Internet Exploder. Microsoft has no reason to support these standards at all simply because it is not profitable. As it is microsoft has spent so much time sitting on it's ass on the subject they would effectively break the internet for most users if they suddenly went fully standards complient. What we are looking at is truly the problems caused by a monopoly, microsoft quit innovating in this area and the development of the internet has been arrested as far as anything related to the browser goes.
Internet Explorer is the most detrimental piece of trash the internet has ever seen. Unfortunately, the only option people have is to exclude the larger market share. Or, take back the Internet use firefox.
Uh, you mean like Larry Wall? Who had a declared major of Natural and Artificial languages.
OMG Bill's moderating
Good work! Why not have Red Hat Certified Engineers vs. Microsoft Certified Engineers maintain two systems granted normal control over their environment and an equal server load. For realism both servers could be linked from slashdot (mirroring latest results) from time to time. Also, he already said M$ would get the results if they were unfavorable. We need someone to pony up some dough, so, they own the results. I think if he were a shill he wouldn't be here, it seems to me his candidness about ownership of research data speaks for itself.
I compiled Linux From Scratch after taking a one term intro to Linux at a community college. Otherwise one needs the configuration options used by Suse.
Microsoft is part of the BSA.
"BSA members include Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Avid, Bentley Systems, Borland, Cadence, Cisco Systems, CNC Software/Mastercam, Dell, Entrust, HP, IBM, Intel, Internet Security Systems, Macromedia, McAfee, Inc., Microsoft, PTC, RSA Security, SAP, SolidWorks, Sybase, Symantec, Synopsys, and UGS Corp."-http://www.bsa.org/
Then there's this:
Ernie Ball went to court and paid a fine; but that didn't end the matter:
"The worst thing was when Microsoft printed a four-color reproduction of that newspaper article on an executive's desk, sent it to every registered Microsoft user, and said "Don't get caught like Ernie Ball -- a fine company that found out just how hard it is to stay compliant. Call us. We'll give you a free audit and sell you software at 20% off." Keep in mind that we had already downloaded the BSA self-auditing software and it didn't work. This was fear-based marketing, with government help."-http://www.searls.com/feb04-lfs-diyit.html/
And this:
Here's how Sterling Ball put it when I interviewed him at Linux World last August:
"A disgruntled ex-employee saw a nail-your-butt opportunity, so he called the BSA. I was sued under federal seal. There was no warning. We were raided at ten o'clock on a Friday. We were shut down and ordered not to touch our computers. There were armed marshals. Our employees were sitting there going 'What's the matter? Is our company criminal? Are we crooks?' Then they sent out press releases... It's coincidental that they always send these out after business is closed."-http://www.searls.com/feb04-lfs-diyit.htm l/
Asside from releasing Microsoft of accountability I agree with your statements. Also I have been unable to discover what exactly the license infringements were; if anyone is so inclined.
OK, I agree that senseless lawsuits are ridiculous. But, then again you have to define senseless. It seems to me that these people are suing because Microsoft was negligent and ripped off A LOT of people. I personally, think this is a very valid thing to do. I do not want everything I buy from Microsoft to be a total piece of crap that can burn my house down. Not to mention the fact that this is really the result of Microsoft rushing greedily, to the market in time for Christmas regardless of the fact that the piece of crap catches on fire. Personally, I'd get pissed if people showed up on christmas morning stealing from me and setting things on fire. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft doesn't have a certain amount of money allocated for this, considering the amount of problems with the system.
OK I'll give on support cause I just don't know. But, I will go on to discredit this website.
First in the title "Linux is Doomed thanks to Microsoft"; "Linux" links to Information Week which has a whole section dedicated to Windows and calls itself a "Microsite". "Microsoft" links to an ad mentioned in the story (Live Meeting). The Link found in the story is "Server Software" which links to an HP Printer?
Google linux site:Gartner.com oh boy, this website is a flamethrower, fud factory, or whatever you want to call it. I would also like to add that CoolTechZone did not link directly, to this wonderful store of unbiased software evaluations.
I almost decided not to label gartner.com as biased then it hit me, why doesn't Gartner.com have a hype cycle for Windows report? Or, a single depiction of an effective deployment of Linux? Further research shows, there are one or two accurate assesments of Linux. Try IBM site:gartner.com and there you go. Don't do linux site:gartner.com cause it doesn't work very well. Confused?
go Here: http://www.gartner.com/2_events/conferences/lsc23Actually the office software is very viable for business converts. My accounting instructor for instance teaches MS Excel to the accounting majors (they know Excel far better than I really want to), why doesn't he like OpenOffice.org? Cause, they don't have an accounting format for the spreadsheets. OOo has a currency format but, this is different than the accounting format that displays $0.00 dollars as a - and $1.00 as $ 1.00 now I can put in my own input mask and save it to get by in his class but, this is more than he wants to mess with. User guides are important but, until the software has the functionality people are going to look for, people will assume the guides and the software are crap. P.S. Accountanting would be a great proffessional sector to market OpenOffice.org (so long as it meets all of their needs).
Frankly, when you are in charge of a project you live and die by the software and hardware decisions you make. When you choose good software and hardware you are indispensible and loved. If you choose really bad hardware and software for your application you are slowly tortured in a chaotic development cycle where you have wedged the project into a hacked system by buying something that does not suit your needs, you were not the right person for the job. It seems to me like servers just got smart, the decision is now a no-brainer so long as cost is appropriate, your application requires this system, the system can be trusted to configure everything properly, etc... You will not lose your job, your job will change into taskmaster of binary slaves. Now if the servers start asking why they do all the work and you get all the credit, then I would be complaining about them taking my job.
It's simple really, stability comes from donning Window's brand new chainmail +5 vs. malware. http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/default.m spx?Ad=SAH.Abby.00044&id=A/
Hey, I don't know about the rest of you but Google's just about got all my info pegged down. Gmail stores my records, I'm always logged in so my search history is right there. With google home page they have the weather of the town I live in, my favorite news feeds and they know I like the vocabulary word of the day front and center. My bookmarks section is minimalist, but most telling are links to other free email accounts. They know who my contacts are, they know who I invite to gmail.
Has it ever occured to anyone that gmail is the most comprehensive (I think "pay for" MSN gives you three total addresses) email account that by nature gathers statistical relationship information on the users at SIGNUP. Gmail's signup record is a complete model of that whole six degrees of seperation theory. As it is, when I google Pr0n I Log the f*ck out; I have to; my search history is used for my search results. I use my Google home page at school (college) I do not want to get kicked out of a lab for Googling fsck. Most importantly I do not want pr0n based ads showing up everywhere. I have kids remember.
With free internet service provided by Google I would be totally on record no ifs, ands, or buts about it; they would be able to say "hey this guy doesn't like Pr0n showing up on his search history, lives in (insert town, state, and address here), must have had a divorce last year, oh there it is his lawyer's email is xxxx@gmail.com, is a student, has kids, frequently uses google for spelling help (determined by a misspelled word searched and no results clicked, common search pattern -posts online a bit maybe), and many other things I can't even fathom,etc...".
I love google they do a great job but it's a corporation, corporations are notorious for screwing people when they can, a corporation is a business entity that is held accountable for people's actions, that business entity is by nature psychopathic. I find this service wraps up google's statistical sources and Google seems intent on KEEPING their information FOREVER, so long as they can legally get away with it. I know the terms of gmail when I signed up, and I know how to avoid what I don't want. I like it that way.
Couldn't agree more Linux is already successful. If people want a desktop then they should write the code for it. Meaning why don't the hardware companies that want an ABI get together and write one, that way it can be included in desktop systems and leave the kernel alone. It has already been said that nVidia uses something like this.
I use Linux as a desktop, but I use it because of the server software not the pretty GUI, I use it for development. It is quite obvious that the Linux Desktop is a by-product of the Linux Server. I do not want Linux to be jaded by a million users asking for feature "x" and forcing the people who want feature "x" to develop feature "x" is the only way of keeping Linux at a higher quality.
If a parent could be modded as flamebait why not mod the resulting thread as flameWar give the mess an icon with flames tux vs. msn butterfly or whatever so I don't have to read it.
This question was about the Linux driver model. Not the Windows driver model.
Good point, but, the question is "should you be arrested for ninety days for being evaluated as suspicious". Should you go to jail for ninety days for no reason other than the fact that you crossed the median line? No, they have the right to stop you and determine to what extent you are breaking the law. The politics behind this topic revolve around guilt and innocence in the eyes of the law. The question is how "guilty" should an innocent person be treated when only presumed guilty.
The difference between a system where you are "innocent until proven guilty" and a system where you are "guilty until proven innocent" rests with the treatment of "presumption of guilt", and yes the more any society moves in favour of punishing people presumed guilty the closer that society is to a police state. A person can be presumed a terrorist for any number of reasons and held for twenty eight days simply for owning a computer that uses encryption.
This is not right by any means. If any police officer might hold a personal grudge against someone (cops are people right?). Thirty days of jail under the presumption of guilt is enough to totally destroy many innocent people's lives. Parents for instance might have their children placed in foster care and have a tremendously difficult time getting their children back. Carreers are often ruined when missing simply a critical two hour meeting, much less a month. If Tony Blair had been arrested under the presumption of guilt and held for the appropriate thirty days, would this bill have been passed at all? Where would he be politically after spending thirty days in jail? The tabloids would have a field day with him in jail, he would be ruined; but, this won't happen because he belongs to a privileged class.
Finally, I think everyone here knows there is a difference betweeen spending thirty days in jail with no recourse and having your children tortured to death in front of you with no recourse. I really, believe "police state" is being used here for lack of a better term, maybe "bureaucratic police state" is more appropriate. A state where people are generally abused by a psychopathic government rather than pyschopathic individuals hired by the government.
This entire thread has completely missed the mark. Mac's decision to switch to x86/intel chips will not effect anything. On the contrary it is a result of motorola's inability to adapt, coupled with intel's truely innovative chip designs that encouraged the switch. Yes, linux has difficulties as a desktop machine. Mac is an excellent desktop (aged refined and spendy). Microsoft is great for introducing people to computers (cheap and mostly intuitive). Linux offers power, with power comes responsibility (work). That's all. The kids I see (16-20yrs) that are power users typically use Microsoft for gaming and set up old linux boxes as game servers (Quake, Unreal, etc). Mac's tend to be used by people who are generally more professional with a little vested interest in computing (My Lawyer, Writing instructer, My Friend in a band). Maybe, one day someone will back linux on the desktop to the point where it is competitive. I don't care. I use Linux From Scratch and configure things myself with blackbox ( no desktop/lots of work ), Fedora Core 3 ( configure less/less work ) , and Windows XP ( wished I could configure more/virus scan runs on its own-all else fails reinstall ) all on the same box. Each system has things I love and things I don't. Should I have the means in the future I most certainly will purchase a Mac. I love them all and I am excited about what Intel is doing with their microprocessors, because, as the tide rises, so do all the ships on the sea.
The point of this story is that modern medicine may develop a basis for understanding savantism and then maybe autism. The real goal with this guy is to get him to write a diary, so shrinks can pick his brain. This guy may be the greatest discovery made by psychology ever. And it seems to have been completely missed by everyone here on /.
Finally, I too, am bad at both grammer and spelling, but, this is a respectable website and needs to maintain a certain amount of professionalism. If people want maintain the credibility of this site by commenting on people's poor use of the english language then good for them, they are proud of this site and the work people put into it. But, then maybe you confused posting to slashdot with writing an e-mail to your mom who would surely uderstand what you were trying to say, and would love to hear your sarcasm.
Maybe they released info about their new patent. So, they can google it for good Ideas. ie. they don't know yet.
I think it has more to do with the fact that alot of us have written software or sites and such; where, typos aren't allowed. I know I have a tendancy towards perfectionism when I'm thinking in if-else statements. I don't really think of anyone on slashdot as dumb, except, well the dummies.
The money that Bush is planning on putting into our retirement would be much better spent on personal credit card debt, and even then it would take at least a year to get out of the water there. Giving us another year's worth of retirees and one less years worth of income. That's assuming people won't accumulate more debt in the interum.
Beyond this redirecting cash from social security into the stock market will make the markets largely unpredictable for at least ten years. We're talking about inflating the markets with billions of dollars, which will provide growth, but how much of that growth will be real? and how much of the U.S. will wind up failling with the inflated section of the market? If this doesn't seem right The simple fact here is people are living longer and making less (real) money.
Destroy credit debt that is not tied into the fed rate (closely not >= 5%). Then we might have a starting point, but with high interest credit Greenspan doesn't have any control over our money supply and the whole damn thing is unstable (stock market, bonds, social security, etc.), credit card companies decide what the fed rate should be every time they issue a card with a different rate.
Credit cards have allowed us to buy up the national debt even though we wouldn't have paid.
P.S. How many of us would argue against microsoft if our retirement counted on M$ windows stock?
It's code that was written once, is barely updated and was copied millions of times and sold on what is basically a rental agreement.(WTF)
Beyond that I think OSS is about human rights we have a right to understand our computers and adjust them to our needs. Buying windows is like buying a car that had it's hood welded shut, you can't fix it, your not allowed to fix it, your not even supposed to know what the parts of the engine do. As far as the money that individual programmers make, great, good for them, I'm glad they didn't work for Bill.
If there is anything that will ever be considered revolutionary it's the GPL. This liscense is the sort of thing our grandchildren will read about. I would also assert that this is still innovative, as most people who use computers don't know what it's about. It is our declaration of freedom and it deserves more attention from the media than it has gotten (none). I personally beleive the most innovative thing in OSS right now is the liscences and the people who are reading them for the first time.