I'm surprised there was no mention the Smart package manager or YaST. I understand that Linspire has a Click 'N' Run download service. Personally I don't find installing under Linux any more difficult than Windows.
I hate to even sound like SCO might be right (Score:2, Insightful)
Everything posted on Groklaw is already in the public domain. The only reason to subpoena her is to cause harassment. Is this insightful enough for you trolls.
"you still had to kill yourself in the disintegration chamber"
Only if you don't posess the cheat codes, dude. I wonder will his first virtual town hall meeting be interrupted by flying penii or be attended by this constituent.
Wouldn't it be great if they moved wars to Second Life also. Wait isn't that an episode of Startrek.
penned by a team of IBM lawyers ..
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I personally have penned some text for Groklaw and can categorically state that I ain't no lawyer and don't work for IBM. I guess being a latter day saint don't inhibit you from telling porkies. Before you condemn me for introducing someones religous affiliation, there is a precedent. A while back a hatchet job was done on Pamela Jones in which her religous affiliation was considered fair game.
Seeing as it's being totally abused don't you think it's time to disable it.
In this year 2007, why are we still talking about viruses, spam and malware. Why don't they make a desktop OS that don't get 'malware' merely by opening an email attachment or clicking on a web link.
"(Jail) for (contempt of court) by (refusing a court order) to turn over (evidence of a crime) that (is in his possession) that (he witnessed)"
(rest of bs deleted)..
He posted the clips of an anti-G8 protest on his blog where anyone including the investigators could see it. He also offered to show the judge all the raw footage. If this is anything to go by it was the police who did the rioting.
Is the subpoenae retaliation for Wolf for posting the video. The so called investigation and incarcaration of Wolf sends a message to anyone else who thinks they live in a democracy. You've got freedom of expression but only until you try and use it.
I've seen elsewhere videos of anti-G8 protests being brutally suppressed. One I personally witnessed was when the cops basically laid into the protestors and beat the crap out of them. Curiously enough they all had their badges removed, always a bad sign. The message must have gone out from on high, as the cops aren't normally as zealous.
"They are probably the only company with the cash and skills to "fix" everything that is wrong with Linux on the desktop. But they don't do it"
'The product.. pulls together software IBM has developed in-house and with partners Novell Inc and Red Hat Inc.. We worked with the open source community and found a way to write software once that will work regardless of operating system'
"I stay in India and out here a Microsoft employee would be looked up to, a Google employee would be recognized and a RedHat employee would be given condescending looks"
How does one go about spotting RedHat employees in the street. What are the significent telltale markings ?
"was Re:How Microsoft Kills Competitors (Score:5, Interesting)
"I can go down the block to my local market and find almost any software program,.. for somewhere around $2 per disc.. let alone spending hundreds of dollars on software, or even $4 on pirated software"
Which is it, $2 per disc or $4 per disc ?
"Before you can get consumers to use licensed software, it has to be affordable"
What's not affordable about OpenOffice at $2 per disc ?
"For one thing, knowing OpenOffice doesn't give one much of a leg up in the job market, where knowing Microsoft Office certainly does, and computer skills are one of the few things that show promise at getting people out of poverty around here."
I can't for the life of me figure out how basic proficiency in OpenOffice doesn't equate to the same in Microsoft Office. OpenOffice provides WYSIWYG word processing same as msOffice and the menu icons are virtually the same. I have personally seen msOffice users using OpenOffice, and they don't know the difference.
And presumably since these local employers are using msOffice at $2 per disc thay can't be offering much in the way of salary.
"The other thing is a distribution problem. OpenOffice at the local market costs the same as Microsoft Office"
Since they can buy a fully licensed OpenOffice at the local market at $2.00 a go, how is it in any way not affordable. Also it must be the only local market on the planet that offers OpenOffice on CD. Can we see some pictures please.
If I was on Usenet I would assume the OP was doing the meaning of the word shuffle. Pretending to misunderstand what the other fella meant and addressing a made up meaning instead.
"while it makes sense to claim, based on empirical evidence, that protected music does not sell, it remains to be demonstrated that managed music does not"
What's the difference between 'managed' and 'protected' in relation to Jobs meaning of DRM and your version of DRM.
'That would be like saying that the Creative Commons movement is a hollow shell'
False analogy and strawman..:)
"Curiously Steve Jobs restricts his analysis to just one option: how can Apple safely license its DRM technology to other manufacturers and be able to keep its obligations vis-à vis the record companies"
'reduced to trolling the Internet by making up terms like "Open Sores Movement"'
It sure is, a bad taste pun that does nothing for his reputation. I wonder how his other prediction is coming along. It is 2007 after all. Maybe Bob is suffering from the halo effect, wherein both he and others assume he is authoritative on all things.
was Re:Kinda spoilt (Score:4, Insightful)
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Windows, the OS that made email and browsing dangerous..
"We called it the FUD campaign," he says. "There were all kinds of complaints sent to the CMVP including one about 'Commie code.'"
'While OSSI was not able to review each complaint the CMVP received, the ones they did see often contained redacted, or blacked-out, data about who had filed the complaint. Some documents, however, did reveal the complainant information, and Weathersby says that is how the OSSI became aware that, in some cases, proprietary software vendors were lodging the complaints'
"Arthur Andersen was aquitted on appeal. The consensus of all the accountants I know is that they were basically blameless"
Why did AA instruct its employees to erase documents relating to Enron after discovering there would soon be investigated by the SEC. What was in all the documents they shreaded. It's odd for any auditing company to go about erasing records. They were aquitted because of a flawed jury instruction, not because anyone considered them innocent. The opinions of accountants you know don't count.
"That story along with the study is a little misleading. If you look past the sensationalism and to the meat of it, you will quickly find that the intercultural Development Research Association is only concerned with students"
What has a Bill requiring state agencies conduct its work in an open document format got to do with school dropout rates. How would using an ODF format influence drop out rates. Would it go up or down.
'A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to an open document format for electronic state documents. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:.
'Each electronic document created, exchanged, or maintained by a state agency must be created, exchanged, or maintained in an open, Extensible Markup Language based file format"
Re:Is this that big of a deal? (Score:4, Misdirection)
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I'm surprised there was no mention the Smart package manager or YaST. I understand that Linspire has a Click 'N' Run download service. Personally I don't find installing under Linux any more difficult than Windows.
Send a gigantic Ark full of robots instead ..
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CmdrTaco: my posts are stuck in pending for days now.
'the eagerness with which the Cuban communists adopted the rhetoric of "proprietary software" is comical'
What rhetoric ?, where does it say that. Where did the Cubans adopt the 'rhetoric'?
was: An Old Canard . . . (Score:1)
'I hate MS as much as anyone ..'
Try and persuade your company to use this award winning collaboration suite from Zimbra.
'was Re:Sharepoint (Score:99 Free Advert)
Okay, some guy says he's seen her.
I hate to even sound like SCO might be right (Score:2, Insightful)
Everything posted on Groklaw is already in the public domain. The only reason to subpoena her is to cause harassment. Is this insightful enough for you trolls.
"you still had to kill yourself in the disintegration chamber"
Only if you don't posess the cheat codes, dude. I wonder will his first virtual town hall meeting be interrupted by flying penii or be attended by this constituent.
Wouldn't it be great if they moved wars to Second Life also. Wait isn't that an episode of Startrek.
I personally have penned some text for Groklaw and can categorically state that I ain't no lawyer and don't work for IBM. I guess being a latter day saint don't inhibit you from telling porkies. Before you condemn me for introducing someones religous affiliation, there is a precedent. A while back a hatchet job was done on Pamela Jones in which her religous affiliation was considered fair game.
Seeing as it's being totally abused don't you think it's time to disable it.
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In this year 2007, why are we still talking about viruses, spam and malware. Why don't they make a desktop OS that don't get 'malware' merely by opening an email attachment or clicking on a web link.
IM programs and malware
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=222234&cid=18
Why don't they make an IM program that don't get malware. No need to guess on what platform this 'IM malware' spreads.
'There is some anecdotal evidence from prior pandemic outbreaks that masks may have helped, but no firm data'
"He has video .. which he refuses to turn over"
No and NO again. The video is on his blog and he offered to show the judge all the raw footage.
was Maybe I'm missing something... (Score:5, Republican)
"(Jail) for (contempt of court) by (refusing a court order) to turn over (evidence of a crime) that (is in his possession) that (he witnessed)"
..
(rest of bs deleted)
He posted the clips of an anti-G8 protest on his blog where anyone including the investigators could see it. He also offered to show the judge all the raw footage. If this is anything to go by it was the police who did the rioting. Is the subpoenae retaliation for Wolf for posting the video. The so called investigation and incarcaration of Wolf sends a message to anyone else who thinks they live in a democracy. You've got freedom of expression but only until you try and use it.
I've seen elsewhere videos of anti-G8 protests being brutally suppressed. One I personally witnessed was when the cops basically laid into the protestors and beat the crap out of them. Curiously enough they all had their badges removed, always a bad sign. The message must have gone out from on high, as the cops aren't normally as zealous.
was Re:Simple.....
"They are probably the only company with the cash and skills to "fix" everything that is wrong with Linux on the desktop. But they don't do it"
.. pulls together software IBM has developed in-house and with partners Novell Inc and Red Hat Inc .. We worked with the open source community and found a way to write software once that will work regardless of operating system'
'The product
was Re:IBM *could* make Linux the standard
ordinary Joe is disadvantaged by using Open Office in a world where even rudimentary computer office skills are highly prized.
'At its worst, OOo Writer is an adequate alternative for Microsoft Word. Most of the time, it is a superior one', June 2005
"I stay in India and out here a Microsoft employee would be looked up to, a Google employee would be recognized and a RedHat employee would be given condescending looks"
How does one go about spotting RedHat employees in the street. What are the significent telltale markings ?
"was Re:How Microsoft Kills Competitors (Score:5, Interesting)
"I can go down the block to my local market and find almost any software program, .. for somewhere around $2 per disc .. let alone spending hundreds of dollars on software, or even $4 on pirated software"
Which is it, $2 per disc or $4 per disc ?
"Before you can get consumers to use licensed software, it has to be affordable"
What's not affordable about OpenOffice at $2 per disc ?
"For one thing, knowing OpenOffice doesn't give one much of a leg up in the job market, where knowing Microsoft Office certainly does, and computer skills are one of the few things that show promise at getting people out of poverty around here."
I can't for the life of me figure out how basic proficiency in OpenOffice doesn't equate to the same in Microsoft Office. OpenOffice provides WYSIWYG word processing same as msOffice and the menu icons are virtually the same. I have personally seen msOffice users using OpenOffice, and they don't know the difference.
And presumably since these local employers are using msOffice at $2 per disc thay can't be offering much in the way of salary.
"The other thing is a distribution problem. OpenOffice at the local market costs the same as Microsoft Office"
Since they can buy a fully licensed OpenOffice at the local market at $2.00 a go, how is it in any way not affordable. Also it must be the only local market on the planet that offers OpenOffice on CD. Can we see some pictures please.
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"he uses the term DRM without defining it"
.. :)
If I was on Usenet I would assume the OP was doing the meaning of the word shuffle. Pretending to misunderstand what the other fella meant and addressing a made up meaning instead.
"while it makes sense to claim, based on empirical evidence, that protected music does not sell, it remains to be demonstrated that managed music does not"
What's the difference between 'managed' and 'protected' in relation to Jobs meaning of DRM and your version of DRM.
'That would be like saying that the Creative Commons movement is a hollow shell'
False analogy and strawman
"Curiously Steve Jobs restricts his analysis to just one option: how can Apple safely license its DRM technology to other manufacturers and be able to keep its obligations vis-à vis the record companies"
Well he can only speak for Apple after all.
'reduced to trolling the Internet by making up terms like "Open Sores Movement"'
..
It sure is, a bad taste pun that does nothing for his reputation. I wonder how his other prediction is coming along. It is 2007 after all. Maybe Bob is suffering from the halo effect, wherein both he and others assume he is authoritative on all things.
was Re:Kinda spoilt (Score:4, Insightful)
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Windows, the OS that made email and browsing dangerous
"We called it the FUD campaign," he says. "There were all kinds of complaints sent to the CMVP including one about 'Commie code.'"
'While OSSI was not able to review each complaint the CMVP received, the ones they did see often contained redacted, or blacked-out, data about who had filed the complaint. Some documents, however, did reveal the complainant information, and Weathersby says that is how the OSSI became aware that, in some cases, proprietary software vendors were lodging the complaints'
"Arthur Andersen was aquitted on appeal. The consensus of all the accountants I know is that they were basically blameless"
Why did AA instruct its employees to erase documents relating to Enron after discovering there would soon be investigated by the SEC. What was in all the documents they shreaded. It's odd for any auditing company to go about erasing records. They were aquitted because of a flawed jury instruction, not because anyone considered them innocent. The opinions of accountants you know don't count.
"I'd suggest that you start from the basis that your IT staff are the biggest risk to your organization's security"
Actually the people you should really watch out for are your own executive officers and your auditing company.
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"sumdumass was replying specifically to the link the parent to his post referenced"
Yea, sumdumass replied and agreed with the linked to post and my point still applies. What do ODF and dropout rates have in common.
was Re:reading comprehension for the win?
Wha' ??? ..
"That story along with the study is a little misleading. If you look past the sensationalism and to the meat of it, you will quickly find that the intercultural Development Research Association is only concerned with students"
What has a Bill requiring state agencies conduct its work in an open document format got to do with school dropout rates. How would using an ODF format influence drop out rates. Would it go up or down.
'A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to an open document format for electronic state documents. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:.
'Each electronic document created, exchanged, or maintained by a state agency must be created, exchanged, or maintained in an open, Extensible Markup Language based file format"
Re:Is this that big of a deal? (Score:4, Misdirection)