"A wicked thought passed through my mind: could some major Google shareholders have put him up to this? Google could be the only winner in this, shirley?"
No Bill, that's what you would have done if the situations were reversed..:)
A question I would like to put to Mr. Negroponte, What technalogical advantage does putting XP confer on the OLPC? Before you say it, and no, I'm not talking about 'feetures'. What functionality doesn't the XO provode that the third world would need? Web Browser, Word Processor, Email, Instant Messenging, VoIP Programs, Media Player..
'Couples may be married in a temple "for time only" if all the following requirements are met:'
'1. The woman is already sealed to a previous husband who is deceased or from whom
she is divorced'
"Many Mormons assume that all these marriages will be valid in the eternities and the husband will live together in the afterlife as a polygamous family with all wives to whom he was sealed"
I guess this provided the ecclesiastical justification for polygamy. An examply of working backwards from first principles. Want to have sex with lots of women, Elohim makes it OK..:)
"Don't get me wrong, I'm a Linux-ite through and through, but.."
Is there ever anyone who posts here who isn't a 'Linux-ite':)
"if bundling is wrong for one, how can it be right for another? Just because you don't have the majority of the consumer market, doesn't make the practice any more justifiable"
Because Asus doesn't hold a virtual monopoly on the OS, the Applications and the server protocols. And it isn't as if they are forcing you to use it.
"Within seconds of turning on the P5E3 Deluxe motherboard, you can boot into this Linux environment"
And unlike MS and BeOS, they won't force you to boot from a floppy to access Windows.
"How is this any different than what GPL did to BSD?"
"Why does it appear that so many of the new and most actively developed open-source projects these days are being done under the GNU license, rather than the BSD one which proponents say is more business-friendly?"
"the real reason they are exposing source is so that developers of products that compete with MS products like Word or Excel aren't at a competitive disadvantage that could result in expensive lawsuits"
Microsoft was scared of 'Open Source' a long time before the EU ruling. And it's 'shared source' but only under the Microsoft platform.
"OSS projects have been able to gain a foothold in many server applications because of the wide utility of highly commoditized, simple protocols. By extending these protocols and developing new protocols, we can deny OSS projects entry into the market"
"Microsoft today announced a partnership with open source solution vendor SpikeSource to eventually certify all of SpikeSource's SpikeIgnited solutions on the Microsoft Windows platform"
"what Microsoft really wants is to prevent defections--customers replacing some of their software with open-source alternatives"
"Intellectual Ventures company, whose business model is to nurture ideas, write patents, and sell them"
No, that should be buy up old, out of date and defunct patents, reregister them, wait for a real company to make something (like Blackberry) and then extort revenue from them under threat of litigation.
"the New Yorker focuses more on how incredible it is to have a group of very intelligent people sitting around a table developing ideas"
Are you s******g me, I'm sorry but since when did SlashDot become a conduit for self serving corporate bunf.. Malda are you listening...
"the FBI served a.. National Security Letter.. asking for the user's name, address and activity on the site"
Assuming the user did do something, he's hardly going to host the evidence on an archive now would he. Did he upset some powerfull people. If so what's the FBI doing in harassing dissidents, that's the KGBs job.
Of course the FBI is to defend us from all things evil and nasty, unless we're in some kind of a parallel universe where it isn't.
Is Skype trying to pull an SCO, in other words trying to commit economic suicide. Assuming their argument is upheld (which is very unlikly) what would be the effects on the rest of the Open Source universe. Someone already tried to play the anti-trust card and failed, way back in Nov 2006.
Pulling an SCO: proverb
Definition: sueing the people you rely to do business with.
"After the initial GPL violation, a flier with the URL for the source was added to the package. The GPL wasn't provided and the court found this insufficient for fulfilling the requirements of the GPL"
I went to the SMC site and it includes the GPL in the firmware section. What exactly is the violation?
Black.Hat, White.Hat, Red.Hat, Blue.Hat, Open Office, Office.Open, Mind.Share.. or do I mean Brain.Share.... I'm confused....:)
Someone recently asked me to show him the 'Microsoft Internet', he meant 'Interent Explorer'... aaahhhh !!!
I didn't know software developeers relied on 'virus signatures', I thought they used MD5 hashes. And of course you don't download from any old site. Have sound security practices changed in the meanwhile?
What is Asus paying for each copy of Linux and Windows. What applications are included in each desktop. Are they full versions or time limited demos. What are the costs when these are factored in?
Well, yea, MS was genuinely trying to eat Yahoo whole.
"I suspect they.. never anticipated Jerry Yang really being able to get so much of the board to think it was a bad idea"
Going behind the board and talking directly to the stockholders wasn't going to create much love in Sunnyvale.
"Without an alternate reality time machine, we'll never know if it was really bad or good."
As a Google killer, I don't think so. As with so much else that Microsoft buys-in, I suspect it was the Yahoo staff that they were really after.
"MS.. With their new "Live!" stuff being integrated into Windows and Office, they finally have a decently compelling online product to try and spin off of"
Well, it worked with Iexplorer, why not with Live Search. I wonder if removing integrated Live will break something, or even if it is possible.
"don't have anywhere to spin people *to*, in a way that would keep them in an all-MS ecosystem. Yahoo could give them all that in one deal"
What Yahoo should do next is partner with a content owner and start delivering rich content to the consumers. Yea I know, Time-Warner-AOL tried something similar, but maybe this time Yahoo will actually know what they are doing.
Of course no one is going to make real money out of delivering content to the Desktop unless their name begins with M. What Yahoo need to do is own the entire stack. From the technology running the servers, the content and the devices running on end users desktops. A MultiMedia device similar to the TiVO.
"The general consensus on the street seemed to be that Microsoft was offering *too much* money... which is why Microsoft stock dropped when the offer was first announced..."
If it was such a good idea, shouldn't the stock have gone up, before Yahoo rejected it. The decision as what was *too much* or too little was for the officers of Yahoo to make and not some consensus. Do you have citations for such a consensus.
Similarly, another plausable explanation for the MS stock dropping was it was Microsoft admiting that Live Search was going nowhere in their war with Google Search. Now that the Yahoo bid is defunct, will the MS stock go up?
"My mom was learning Cobol and Fortran, in 1983 when I was 13, and I definitely remember Fortran not being easy. Nor was Pascal, Cobol, etc"
Pascal was recommended as a teaching language precicely because of it's structure. Some people said that learning to program with BASIC caused untold amount of damage on the psyche, something that some people never recovered from..:)
Slashdot Mirror
"A wicked thought passed through my mind: could some major Google shareholders have put him up to this? Google could be the only winner in this, shirley?"
.. :)
No Bill, that's what you would have done if the situations were reversed
A question I would like to put to Mr. Negroponte, What technalogical advantage does putting XP confer on the OLPC? Before you say it, and no, I'm not talking about 'feetures'. What functionality doesn't the XO provode that the third world would need? Web Browser, Word Processor, Email, Instant Messenging, VoIP Programs, Media Player ..
'to put together hardware and software tools for 'Dominant Cyber Offensive Engagement'
.. :)
Just put Windows on all the machines
"things taken out of context are the main reason that people think the LDS church is so weird"
Look, somethings are just plain weird, either in context or out of context. As Nietzsche once put it:
'Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast'
"Marriage in a Temple for Time Only"
.. :)
'Couples may be married in a temple "for time only" if all the following requirements are met:'
'1. The woman is already sealed to a previous husband who is deceased or from whom she is divorced'
"Many Mormons assume that all these marriages will be valid in the eternities and the husband will live together in the afterlife as a polygamous family with all wives to whom he was sealed"
I guess this provided the ecclesiastical justification for polygamy. An examply of working backwards from first principles. Want to have sex with lots of women, Elohim makes it OK
"Don't get me wrong, I'm a Linux-ite through and through, but .."
:)
Is there ever anyone who posts here who isn't a 'Linux-ite'
"if bundling is wrong for one, how can it be right for another? Just because you don't have the majority of the consumer market, doesn't make the practice any more justifiable"
Because Asus doesn't hold a virtual monopoly on the OS, the Applications and the server protocols. And it isn't as if they are forcing you to use it.
"Within seconds of turning on the P5E3 Deluxe motherboard, you can boot into this Linux environment"
And unlike MS and BeOS, they won't force you to boot from a floppy to access Windows.
"If the round shining objects that appear in the sky be regarded as visions, we can hardly avoid interpreting them as archetypal images"
"How is this any different than what GPL did to BSD?"
"Why does it appear that so many of the new and most actively developed open-source projects these days are being done under the GNU license, rather than the BSD one which proponents say is more business-friendly?"
"the real reason they are exposing source is so that developers of products that compete with MS products like Word or Excel aren't at a competitive disadvantage that could result in expensive lawsuits"
Microsoft was scared of 'Open Source' a long time before the EU ruling. And it's 'shared source' but only under the Microsoft platform.
"OSS projects have been able to gain a foothold in many server applications because of the wide utility of highly commoditized, simple protocols. By extending these protocols and developing new protocols, we can deny OSS projects entry into the market"
"Microsoft today announced a partnership with open source solution vendor SpikeSource to eventually certify all of SpikeSource's SpikeIgnited solutions on the Microsoft Windows platform"
"what Microsoft really wants is to prevent defections--customers replacing some of their software with open-source alternatives"
"Intellectual Ventures company, whose business model is to nurture ideas, write patents, and sell them"
.. Malda are you listening ...
No, that should be buy up old, out of date and defunct patents, reregister them, wait for a real company to make something (like Blackberry) and then extort revenue from them under threat of litigation.
"the New Yorker focuses more on how incredible it is to have a group of very intelligent people sitting around a table developing ideas"
Are you s******g me, I'm sorry but since when did SlashDot become a conduit for self serving corporate bunf
"the FBI served a .. National Security Letter .. asking for the user's name, address and activity on the site"
Assuming the user did do something, he's hardly going to host the evidence on an archive now would he. Did he upset some powerfull people. If so what's the FBI doing in harassing dissidents, that's the KGBs job.
Of course the FBI is to defend us from all things evil and nasty, unless we're in some kind of a parallel universe where it isn't.
"virus's signature was unknown .. (Score:1, Redundant)"
Pray tell all, produce any citation or historical practice of using virus signatures to validate software.
Is Skype trying to pull an SCO, in other words trying to commit economic suicide. Assuming their argument is upheld (which is very unlikly) what would be the effects on the rest of the Open Source universe. Someone already tried to play the anti-trust card and failed, way back in Nov 2006.
Pulling an SCO: proverb
Definition: sueing the people you rely to do business with.
"After the initial GPL violation, a flier with the URL for the source was added to the package. The GPL wasn't provided and the court found this insufficient for fulfilling the requirements of the GPL"
I went to the SMC site and it includes the GPL in the firmware section. What exactly is the violation?
Black.Hat, White.Hat, Red.Hat, Blue.Hat, Open Office, Office.Open, Mind.Share .. or do I mean Brain.Share .... I'm confused .... :)
Someone recently asked me to show him the 'Microsoft Internet', he meant 'Interent Explorer' ... aaahhhh !!!
"Alex .. discussed the need for more transparency from vendors on the standards that the browsers depend upon"
.. we all know the reason for that and keeping the conference closed is hardly the way to go about being transparency.
.. discovered that phishing was just one means of supply to fill the demand for identities in the identity theft ecosystem""
.. cross-site scripting attack frameworks"
.. :)
..
Well, doh
"Billy and Nitesh
Make an email transport system that don't suffer from phishing and identity theft attacks."
"Manuel Caballero discussed
Make a Web server/browser that don't suffer from 'cross-site scripting attacks'
Just love the white on black text and 'courier wew' type font
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I didn't know software developeers relied on 'virus signatures', I thought they used MD5 hashes. And of course you don't download from any old site. Have sound security practices changed in the meanwhile?
What is Asus paying for each copy of Linux and Windows. What applications are included in each desktop. Are they full versions or time limited demos. What are the costs when these are factored in?
Well, Microsoft thinks Yahoo is worth something, $47.5 billion to be precise. What an endorsement ...
"Yahoo because they effectively loaded themselves with a poison pill to keep Microsoft from taking them over"
...
What poison pill, Yahoo asked for more money, like good executive officers should do. Yahoo wanted $37 and Ballmer wanted $33 a share
"It is bad news for Yahoo employees and shareholders though."
"Shares of Yahoo closed Friday at $28.67, almost 50 percent higher than their pre-bid price"
"I think the deal was sincere"
.. never anticipated Jerry Yang really being able to get so much of the board to think it was a bad idea"
.. With their new "Live!" stuff being integrated into Windows and Office, they finally have a decently compelling online product to try and spin off of"
.. :)
Well, yea, MS was genuinely trying to eat Yahoo whole.
"I suspect they
Going behind the board and talking directly to the stockholders wasn't going to create much love in Sunnyvale.
"Without an alternate reality time machine, we'll never know if it was really bad or good."
As a Google killer, I don't think so. As with so much else that Microsoft buys-in, I suspect it was the Yahoo staff that they were really after.
"MS
Well, it worked with Iexplorer, why not with Live Search. I wonder if removing integrated Live will break something, or even if it is possible.
"don't have anywhere to spin people *to*, in a way that would keep them in an all-MS ecosystem. Yahoo could give them all that in one deal"
Have you been getting a peek at Steves notes
What Yahoo should do next is partner with a content owner and start delivering rich content to the consumers. Yea I know, Time-Warner-AOL tried something similar, but maybe this time Yahoo will actually know what they are doing.
Of course no one is going to make real money out of delivering content to the Desktop unless their name begins with M. What Yahoo need to do is own the entire stack. From the technology running the servers, the content and the devices running on end users desktops. A MultiMedia device similar to the TiVO.
What killed the deal was Sweatys hardball tactics. I guess they're too used to 'making on offer they can't refuse' .. IMHO ...
"The general consensus on the street seemed to be that Microsoft was offering *too much* money... which is why Microsoft stock dropped when the offer was first announced..."
If it was such a good idea, shouldn't the stock have gone up, before Yahoo rejected it. The decision as what was *too much* or too little was for the officers of Yahoo to make and not some consensus. Do you have citations for such a consensus.
Similarly, another plausable explanation for the MS stock dropping was it was Microsoft admiting that Live Search was going nowhere in their war with Google Search. Now that the Yahoo bid is defunct, will the MS stock go up?
"My mom was learning Cobol and Fortran, in 1983 when I was 13, and I definitely remember Fortran not being easy. Nor was Pascal, Cobol, etc"
.. :)
Pascal was recommended as a teaching language precicely because of it's structure. Some people said that learning to program with BASIC caused untold amount of damage on the psyche, something that some people never recovered from