I've met a few people who view Microsoft like that, but most people I've met are more cynical of MS.
They see the constant deadlines being pushed back, MS not delivering on promises, MS getting caught astroturfing in the past, new MS technologies not working as they should, and lately very hyped MS only viri, etc.
MS IS looked at as a safe choice only because we know that they will not be going out of business tommorow (hence: "You can't go wrong buying MS")
MS is going down a slippery slope, W2K(NT5) will make or break the company, if past performance is any indication, NT5 will not live up to its hype.
They want either a stake in the company, or a percent of revenues. If your company does really well, you may end up paying HP more than the value of the hardware.
This may appeal to startups, who don't have the cash on hand for a mainframe, but I don't think it's as revolutionary as it sounds.
Should read *ALMOST* no shootings in Canada
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Don't forget that the US has 260+ million people compared to Canada's 28 million people, so you should expect to see much more in the US.
Not Guns, Not Drugs, Not TV...
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You certainly can't point to any one factor for this. I believe many factors are to blame.
As for Japan and Switzerland, both are more homogenious than the US. Diversity in the US has surely lead to some tension. But that's only one factor.
Japan was heavily involved in WWII, and they've gone to war with China before that. The UK gets into virtually every war that the US does, even if they are the only ones. Switzerland has never gone to war as far as I know. As for Canada, pacifists from the US all the way back to the Revolutionary War have fled to Canada, could it possibly be that Canada has a higher pacifist population in part due to this?
One thing that I think is surely different is the way Americans view freedom. Nowadays everyone seems to demand freedom without the corresponding responsibilities. "That's my right, this is my right. I can do what I want, and you can't stop me!" I see more and more kids, even the "good ones", stand up and challange their parents this way. I'm only 20-something, and we never did that to the extent that I see today's kids doing it.
I think it would be interesting to compare the American culture with other cultures. The results could be interesting.
I believe that many health departments require food to be served in the 180 degree range. I'm not sure if this applies to coffee, but it may not just be that "customers like it hot".
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I have a friend who I noticed became very "wired" and had a desire to break things after extended Doom sessions. I think these things affect different people in different ways.
Yeah, just take away the guns. And if we want to stop our kids from using drugs, we just have to ban drugs too.
HELLOOOO!!
These kids had bombs too, which I'm sure that they didn't have a permit to carry. They apparantly built the bombs themselves. If someone wants guns and bombs bad enough, they will find a way to get them.
Guns are a symptom of the problem, not the problem itself. You treat the disease, not the symptoms. I could pick up a gun, and I would have no desire to shoot someone. Most people are the same way. The problem here is that these kids DID want to shoot people. That's the problem, we are creating kids who want to kill.
Like I said, this was 1996. I've never used Unixware, so I can't speak for it.
As for SCO hardware support. We always had to carefully spec out our systems in accordance to what SCO supported, and even in 1995/1996, Linux supported a wider range of hardware than SCO did.
I know it's tough in th x86 market, with the wide variety of hardware available.
If they built SCO & Xenix compatibility into it, maybe building on what iBCS already offers, and adding the libs needed to make it work, and made a more SysV-type setup, there would be a market for it. But they wouldn't be able to get away with the license fees that they charge.
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I've met a few people who view Microsoft like that, but most people I've met are more cynical of MS.
They see the constant deadlines being pushed back, MS not delivering on promises, MS getting caught astroturfing in the past, new MS technologies not working as they should, and lately very hyped MS only viri, etc.
MS IS looked at as a safe choice only because we know that they will not be going out of business tommorow (hence: "You can't go wrong buying MS")
MS is going down a slippery slope, W2K(NT5) will make or break the company, if past performance is any indication, NT5 will not live up to its hype.
I forget the name of the security certification, but it's one the US Federal government requires systems that it buys to meet.
Anyway, NT 3.51 met this certification only when NOT CONNECTTED TO A NETWORK. Only NT 3.51 meets it.
Yet MS continues to sell NT 4.0 as meeting the security certification whose name I forget.
They are one of, if not the, most blatently dishonest companies around.
Sure Linux doesn't have an official roadmap, but when I look at SCO's "Roadmap" I see that I have to wait several years to get the features I want.
And just how did they "beat" the minicomputers? SCO is pretty much considered bottom of the barrel as far as commercial Unicies go.
Also they don't own "Unix". The Open Group does. They bought Unix system labs from Novell, but they didn't get the Unix trademark
There are a few, look in:
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/
All the easier!
/dev/[h,s]d?
for a in
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dd if=/dev/zero of=$a bs=1k count=512
done
Don't try this at home!
look in metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/speech
There are a couple of speech recognition-type things there
...That 640K is enough memory for everybody, in 1981?
I had only one experience with ViaVoice, and it got virtually nothing correct:
:)
Me: "Hello, testing, does this thing work?"
ViaVoice transcript: "The up north Perot gawking sprawl"
I'm sure this can be blamed on a configuration error. (I didn't install or configure)
They want either a stake in the company, or a percent of revenues. If your company does really well, you may end up paying HP more than the value of the hardware.
This may appeal to startups, who don't have the cash on hand for a mainframe, but I don't think it's as revolutionary as it sounds.
Don't forget that the US has 260+ million people compared to Canada's 28 million people, so you should expect to see much more in the US.
You certainly can't point to any one factor for this. I believe many factors are to blame.
As for Japan and Switzerland, both are more homogenious than the US. Diversity in the US has surely lead to some tension. But that's only one factor.
Japan was heavily involved in WWII, and they've gone to war with China before that. The UK gets into virtually every war that the US does, even if they are the only ones. Switzerland has never gone to war as far as I know. As for Canada, pacifists from the US all the way back to the Revolutionary War have fled to Canada, could it possibly be that Canada has a higher pacifist population in part due to this?
One thing that I think is surely different is the way Americans view freedom. Nowadays everyone seems to demand freedom without the corresponding responsibilities. "That's my right, this is my right. I can do what I want, and you can't stop me!" I see more and more kids, even the "good ones", stand up and challange their parents this way. I'm only 20-something, and we never did that to the extent that I see today's kids doing it.
I think it would be interesting to compare the American culture with other cultures. The results could be interesting.
Sure the kooks in Japan won't kill you on a shooting rampage, but they have been known to kill people by gassing the subways.
I don't think any country is totally immune to this sort of thing.
I believe that many health departments require food to be served in the 180 degree range. I'm not sure if this applies to coffee, but it may not just be that "customers like it hot".
I have a friend who I noticed became very "wired" and had a desire to break things after extended Doom sessions. I think these things affect different people in different ways.
Yeah, just take away the guns. And if we want to stop our kids from using drugs, we just have to ban drugs too.
HELLOOOO!!
These kids had bombs too, which I'm sure that they didn't have a permit to carry. They apparantly built the bombs themselves. If someone wants guns and bombs bad enough, they will find a way to get them.
Guns are a symptom of the problem, not the problem itself. You treat the disease, not the symptoms. I could pick up a gun, and I would have no desire to shoot someone. Most people are the same way. The problem here is that these kids DID want to shoot people. That's the problem, we are creating kids who want to kill.
Or GEM is 796x faster than W2K since it has that much less code. ;-)
I use to play civilization on my fathers old ST ;-). And it only had 2 megabytes of ram. It always worked.
I still from time to time play ST Civ on my Linux box, running STonX, the ST emulator. Civ runs perfectly.
Like I said, this was 1996. I've never used Unixware, so I can't speak for it.
As for SCO hardware support. We always had to carefully spec out our systems in accordance to what SCO supported, and even in 1995/1996, Linux supported a wider range of hardware than SCO did.
I know it's tough in th x86 market, with the wide variety of hardware available.
SCSI's great for a multiuser system, but its need is questionable for a personal Linux system, that never sees more than one user at a time.
Sure I'd like to have it, but I'm not bottlenecked by disk performance now, so I can't justify paying hundreds of dollars to switch.
SCSI's great for a multiuser system, but its need is questionable for a personal Linux system, that never sees more than one user at a time.
Sure I'd like to have it, but I'm not bottlenecked by disk performance now, so I can't justify paying hundreds of dollars to switch.
Who holds the copyright to TOS these days? JTS, Hasbro? It would be great if that was freed too.
I've not ever seen a GEMwm nor GEM theme. As far as I can tell, it's one of the few popular GUI environments that have never been cloned under a wm.
My understanding is that MS contracted SCO to write Xenix, which was originall sold as an MS product.
I don't think MS or Bill every exclusivly owned SCO, but MS was (is?) heavily invested in them.
I lost interest in mine when I found out during the install, that I'd have to go download patches from SCO to be able to use my IDE devices.
If they built SCO & Xenix compatibility into it, maybe building on what iBCS already offers, and adding the libs needed to make it work, and made a more SysV-type setup, there would be a market for it. But they wouldn't be able to get away with the license fees that they charge.