I think you're delusional if you think the average computer user feels locked into MS products. My experience is the average computer user believes MS products are the only ones available.
Microsoft's lock on their own file formats and protocols is what keeps everyone captive to Microsoft applications, not the other way around. They've demonstrated time and time again that inviting interoperation with their proprietary formats leads to the destruction of competing software products. Everything Microsoft ever destroyed began with "partnering". That lead to modifying their partners' file formats/languages/tools to be MS specific until the original technology became irrelevant. I have few doubts that this their Linux roadmap.
Why not? How's that Microsoft deal going for Novell? In fact, how has almost any deal with Microsoft gone? Before you know it, you've got puppet strings on you.
How far would we have to move out in orbit to fix the leap year thing - as in add three more days every four years to the orbit? Or would we have to add a whole new month to get out of the way? And at what point do we start running into asteroids? Listen to me... "we"... heh.
You do realize that a single server with a single IP can host thousands of those websites? Yes, but do they actually? There are millions of those sites and I'm also interested in getting rid of those... and free up some domain names while we're at it.
True natural selection for humans (overcoming the elements and savage beasts) quit working right around the onset of the Industrial Revolution. Now all we have are Darwin Awards nominees. Let's just don't wipe out the planet, eh?
If I recall correctly, Sony had one of the better portable dubbing boom-boxes, that led to mass audio cassette copying... Sony buying Columbia Records in 1988 and Columbia Pictures in 1989 influenced their attitudes about that, I'm sure.
Under the DMCA (despite the Sabre Rattling Lawyers of the **AA) recognizes and excepts "Fair Use Rights" relating to personal use of media. The spotlight is usually pointed at anyone circumventing encryption but the DMCA apparently allows fair use copying except for "willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain".
"The DMCA recognizes consumers' "fair use rights," which allow limited reproduction of copyrighted works for specific purposes, as long as the consumer does not infringe copyrights (by distributing unauthorized digital copies to friends, for example)."
This creates a quandary which the **AA activists are attempting to warp toward their own favor - circumventing encryption is illegal but sometimes required to exercise "fair use". Indeed, there has been talk about encryption and the "right of fair breach". The links are a few years old but they're good background into why we're still asking these questions.
If you let the **AA define these answers in Court and rewrite/purchase their own custom laws through Congress, everyone becomes a criminal and our rights go out the window. That's what needs to be stopped cold. Anyone out there a voter? We allowed ourselves to get into this mess and we need to get ourselves out.
Introduce people to something other than Microsoft and they tend to like it for a number of reasons. We've deployed a good number of Macs on desktops and most of those people eventually bought their own Macs for home. When you really examine the glowing comments from these new Mac users, the reasons all boil down to removing the problems and annoyances of Windows. Even our lonely Vista user (his own machine) is so frustrated after three weeks, he's going to buy a Mac himself.
Mac, Linux... whatever works for you - it's more important to not choose Microsoft.
This is kind of a silly contest. Fun but silly. It might be more fun to see which OS annoys the user enough to launch the CPU across the room.
If you really want to know what happens from a security standpoint, just connect them all to the Internet and wait. That's real world for you. Even if Linux or OS X does get hacked first, there's a lot of catching up to do before anyone can say "see, it's just as insecure as windows".
I'm paying $800/month for 100Mbit (both ways) through Cogent in a lit building with 32 fixed IP addresses. It measures about 40Mbit outbound and 92Mbit inbound. Not really as advertised but not real shabby either.
Interestingly, since Windows Vista became generally available one year ago, Microsoft's client business has grown more than 20% and sales of Windows Vista have now surpassed 100 million licenses. Fishy math, there. Apple has jumped several percentage points in that same year, and some Major PC vendors are now shipping Linux machines in broad daylight. I know more people running Leopard than Vista and they only sold a few million of those so far. Where's the Vista? Are they counting all the machines returned to the vendor or reverted to XP? Something funny going on here.
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Microsoft's lock on their own file formats and protocols is what keeps everyone captive to Microsoft applications, not the other way around. They've demonstrated time and time again that inviting interoperation with their proprietary formats leads to the destruction of competing software products. Everything Microsoft ever destroyed began with "partnering". That lead to modifying their partners' file formats/languages/tools to be MS specific until the original technology became irrelevant. I have few doubts that this their Linux roadmap.
Why not? How's that Microsoft deal going for Novell? In fact, how has almost any deal with Microsoft gone? Before you know it, you've got puppet strings on you.
How far would we have to move out in orbit to fix the leap year thing - as in add three more days every four years to the orbit? Or would we have to add a whole new month to get out of the way? And at what point do we start running into asteroids? Listen to me... "we"... heh.
First, pull the plug on all those AdSense garbage and "Domain Parking" sites. That'll free up a bunch.
I think he was trying to be funny... weren't you, Bill?
True natural selection for humans (overcoming the elements and savage beasts) quit working right around the onset of the Industrial Revolution. Now all we have are Darwin Awards nominees. Let's just don't wipe out the planet, eh?
That's one down. Now we just need to decommission the VC-1 codec that snuck in the back door of Blu-ray. Don't need it.
Oh. It's just a way to seed Silverlight. Nevermind.
I'm glad they're not running an airline. They'd be in the side of a mountain by now.
This creates a quandary which the **AA activists are attempting to warp toward their own favor - circumventing encryption is illegal but sometimes required to exercise "fair use". Indeed, there has been talk about encryption and the "right of fair breach". The links are a few years old but they're good background into why we're still asking these questions.
If you let the **AA define these answers in Court and rewrite/purchase their own custom laws through Congress, everyone becomes a criminal and our rights go out the window. That's what needs to be stopped cold. Anyone out there a voter? We allowed ourselves to get into this mess and we need to get ourselves out.
MSCopyright Rule #1: Everything belongs to us. By reading this, you are bound to the terms of the EULA. Sign here.
Introduce people to something other than Microsoft and they tend to like it for a number of reasons. We've deployed a good number of Macs on desktops and most of those people eventually bought their own Macs for home. When you really examine the glowing comments from these new Mac users, the reasons all boil down to removing the problems and annoyances of Windows. Even our lonely Vista user (his own machine) is so frustrated after three weeks, he's going to buy a Mac himself.
Mac, Linux... whatever works for you - it's more important to not choose Microsoft.
Most Windows uses I know are quite revolting, actually. (someone had to say it, if it hasn't already)
Of course! How else would you order a double shot half-caf skinny almond latte with your iPhone before you get there?
This is kind of a silly contest. Fun but silly. It might be more fun to see which OS annoys the user enough to launch the CPU across the room.
If you really want to know what happens from a security standpoint, just connect them all to the Internet and wait. That's real world for you. Even if Linux or OS X does get hacked first, there's a lot of catching up to do before anyone can say "see, it's just as insecure as windows".
It's the CIA's cable chomping sharks! With friggin' lasers on their heads!
I'm paying $800/month for 100Mbit (both ways) through Cogent in a lit building with 32 fixed IP addresses. It measures about 40Mbit outbound and 92Mbit inbound. Not really as advertised but not real shabby either.
Iran wants to limit Internet access to its citizens anyway. Well, there you go.
Governor Sio Bibble: "A communications disruption could mean only one thing: invasion."
Yeah. IBM should just buy the votes like everyone else.