You spoke like a true marketing man! Amen brother! I think a glance at the stock for the previous 10 years for IBM, Oracle, HP, SUN, SGI will show you the pattern -> it goes down to China. Wake up. Get a cold shower. SUN made almost all the bad moves in the book the last few years. They are playing they last cards now and if there was a bet I'd put my money on "The DEC and now SGI" spot for SUN. Look at the bright side of the SUN, Oracle and IBM are making money by _smartly_ using SUN's inventions. They're in for The Eclipse, in a few years the only picture left will be an ear-to-ear smiling Ballmer on their webpage.
ESR totally sucks. He thinks he inveted open source. What an asshole. He is not a m1rk contributor, OE user, yahooudible, IE6 smart, educated, good person like we are.
"If I were him I would [insert total RIGHT bullshit from frustratred nonames]." Give me a breake. You are not ESR and I think there aren't 10 people in the position to tell ESR what would be best for Linux in his actions.
When he will piss on M$'s grave I will be right there handing him as many beers as necessary.
Ignore them [MS], this is the only proper thing to do. Also, have the balls to launch a campaign agaist "Get the Farts". Fight back! Microsoft is the enemy, like it or not. We don't need to treat them without respect, even fear, still it is our duty to act as in a war.
PS: I'm not sorry for all the peace loving hippies I might of offended.
I would of put on the 1st page the news about Google giving away free blowjobs [I read it on Slashdot] instead of this article.
Apple is nice, but is faaaar from being a threat to Microsoft, they had their chance and blew it, I'm sure they will never get to be 1/10 of Microsoft.
Google still has the revolution in thier ballpark, if they will be able to offer grid applications to terminals [pc/pda/phone/whatnot] over a smart communication protocol [nomachine.com like]. I strongly believe that this will be the born of the new online based society, also it will the killer of Windows.
Finally, the writer becomes self aware. Wait and see!
Please provide me with some serious examples that back up your considerations, since I have a strong belief that the reason for _not_ using OSS has mostly to do with the UI/design issues so common in these type of products. I don't like, since I'm also working on various OSS products, but this is what I got out people after some big faliures in deployments of OSS software (Linux desktops, or just OSS apps. under Win).
By excellency, in OSS, the Inmates are running the Asylum. Usability is by far the biggest problem OSS software has right now. Not security, since security does not matter that much. Yeah, it does not matter. Microsoft gets away with the biggest security stunts in history of modem society, but this only because their products are a lot more USABLE by the end user. And the user will obey and put up with the mistreating, just to be able to use the darn COMPUTER.
Gimp is the epitome of wrong UI in OSS, I can barely use it without online howtos, and I'm experienced. Now, imagine Av. Joe... Learn how to develop USABLE stuff, not USEFUL stuff, since there are hundreds of applications for almost every darn task out there.
Next: an integrated force feedback joystick controller, dual 10gbps FO board, redundant 600W power supplies and quad CPU support.
Writing this from a Centrino laptop I think that Intel would better try to find a way of delivering LOW consumption architectures, because the 2 hours authonomy that these pieces of crap usually pull is shamefull.
Also, I would like some God damned standards and out of the box support for Linux, because I'm so tierd of patching kernels and using experimental software to get the laptop to work decently. (But this is quite another story).
I was preparing to write SPERM (it took me a while since i was having some yogurt:) and wehn i scrolled down i saw your... sperm. It's disgustful (the post, i mean)! every time I want to post this kind of a reply on slashdot another premature poster beats me to it.
25$ an hour, but it pays up with the "networking" you get to do. The occasional chance not to have sex by yourself (with XXs not XYs) could also be seen as a major benefit (and be deducted entirely from the fee:).
Dude, this is a Chinese Robot! Based on my previous experience with rare chinese hardware it does not have any documentation and it will take you days before finding out how the darn thing is supposed to work.
So, I'm still waiting for the violent iron made german robot that plays Rammstein, kicks ass and from time to time wants to take over the world. It's fun, expensive, and well documended (german engineering at it's best!).
History will prove me right;-)
I really don't see the point in this article. I've read it, and then re-read it. They are comparing a "new" codec with MP3, Windows Media 8 and Real Media 8. The document in which they present the "clear winner" is dated June 2003. In my time that's more than a year and a half ago. Meanwhile we have OGG and even newer MS/Real codecs. I don't see them comparing with the ogg codec wich is considered now the open industry standard.
I have made the migration for a really big radio station from Windows Media to ogg, BUT based on a demonstration of the clear qualities of this open codec. You can listen a 22khz, 16 bit, mono stream at 20kbps (more than dial-up friendly). You have CD quality at 64kbps VBR (insignifiant for any broadband connection). All this using ogg. You have support for it in most of the music players around. Why don't I see a relevant competitive analasys between this and aacPlus? Why should I care about it being better than codecs that are mostly irellevant at this moment?
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You spoke like a true marketing man! Amen brother! I think a glance at the stock for the previous 10 years for IBM, Oracle, HP, SUN, SGI will show you the pattern -> it goes down to China. Wake up. Get a cold shower. SUN made almost all the bad moves in the book the last few years. They are playing they last cards now and if there was a bet I'd put my money on "The DEC and now SGI" spot for SUN. Look at the bright side of the SUN, Oracle and IBM are making money by _smartly_ using SUN's inventions. They're in for The Eclipse, in a few years the only picture left will be an ear-to-ear smiling Ballmer on their webpage.
The grammar rules have been modified in such a way that everything that precedes Google must be replaced by again.
ESR totally sucks. He thinks he inveted open source. What an asshole. He is not a m1rk contributor, OE user, yahooudible, IE6 smart, educated, good person like we are.
"If I were him I would [insert total RIGHT bullshit from frustratred nonames]." Give me a breake. You are not ESR and I think there aren't 10 people in the position to tell ESR what would be best for Linux in his actions.
When he will piss on M$'s grave I will be right there handing him as many beers as necessary.
Ignore them [MS], this is the only proper thing to do. Also, have the balls to launch a campaign agaist "Get the Farts". Fight back! Microsoft is the enemy, like it or not. We don't need to treat them without respect, even fear, still it is our duty to act as in a war.
PS: I'm not sorry for all the peace loving hippies I might of offended.
I would of put on the 1st page the news about Google giving away free blowjobs [I read it on Slashdot] instead of this article.
Apple is nice, but is faaaar from being a threat to Microsoft, they had their chance and blew it, I'm sure they will never get to be 1/10 of Microsoft.
Google still has the revolution in thier ballpark, if they will be able to offer grid applications to terminals [pc/pda/phone/whatnot] over a smart communication protocol [nomachine.com like]. I strongly believe that this will be the born of the new online based society, also it will the killer of Windows.
Finally, the writer becomes self aware. Wait and see!
Please provide me with some serious examples that back up your considerations, since I have a strong belief that the reason for _not_ using OSS has mostly to do with the UI/design issues so common in these type of products. I don't like, since I'm also working on various OSS products, but this is what I got out people after some big faliures in deployments of OSS software (Linux desktops, or just OSS apps. under Win).
Are they bringing in consultants? ;-)
By excellency, in OSS, the Inmates are running the Asylum. Usability is by far the biggest problem OSS software has right now. Not security, since security does not matter that much. Yeah, it does not matter. Microsoft gets away with the biggest security stunts in history of modem society, but this only because their products are a lot more USABLE by the end user. And the user will obey and put up with the mistreating, just to be able to use the darn COMPUTER.
... Learn how to develop USABLE stuff, not USEFUL stuff, since there are hundreds of applications for almost every darn task out there.
Gimp is the epitome of wrong UI in OSS, I can barely use it without online howtos, and I'm experienced. Now, imagine Av. Joe
Still, you did not got a chance for some decent grammar crash course.
Next: an integrated force feedback joystick controller, dual 10gbps FO board, redundant 600W power supplies and quad CPU support.
Writing this from a Centrino laptop I think that Intel would better try to find a way of delivering LOW consumption architectures, because the 2 hours authonomy that these pieces of crap usually pull is shamefull.
Also, I would like some God damned standards and out of the box support for Linux, because I'm so tierd of patching kernels and using experimental software to get the laptop to work decently. (But this is quite another story).
I bet this was right after you saw Dracula killing virgins with some 3m wireless patchord. How come your comment did not get a +5 Insightful?
I was preparing to write SPERM (it took me a while since i was having some yogurt:) and wehn i scrolled down i saw your ... sperm. It's disgustful (the post, i mean)! every time I want to post this kind of a reply on slashdot another premature poster beats me to it.
25$ an hour, but it pays up with the "networking" you get to do. The occasional chance not to have sex by yourself (with XXs not XYs) could also be seen as a major benefit (and be deducted entirely from the fee:).
Dude, this is a Chinese Robot! Based on my previous experience with rare chinese hardware it does not have any documentation and it will take you days before finding out how the darn thing is supposed to work. So, I'm still waiting for the violent iron made german robot that plays Rammstein, kicks ass and from time to time wants to take over the world. It's fun, expensive, and well documended (german engineering at it's best!). History will prove me right ;-)
I really don't see the point in this article. I've read it, and then re-read it. They are comparing a "new" codec with MP3, Windows Media 8 and Real Media 8. The document in which they present the "clear winner" is dated June 2003. In my time that's more than a year and a half ago. Meanwhile we have OGG and even newer MS/Real codecs. I don't see them comparing with the ogg codec wich is considered now the open industry standard. I have made the migration for a really big radio station from Windows Media to ogg, BUT based on a demonstration of the clear qualities of this open codec. You can listen a 22khz, 16 bit, mono stream at 20kbps (more than dial-up friendly). You have CD quality at 64kbps VBR (insignifiant for any broadband connection). All this using ogg. You have support for it in most of the music players around. Why don't I see a relevant competitive analasys between this and aacPlus? Why should I care about it being better than codecs that are mostly irellevant at this moment?