Actually, while some of Microsoft's business practices doesn't seem so nice to us "normal" people, they've just been doing what every company would do (and does).
The sad thing about this trial ( and it's outcome), is that we, the comsumers are going to pay. A split of Microsoft would probably make prices even higher.
While most of the/. visitors seems to be kids who likes to kick at the big companies/establishment (I did so too in the 70'ies), you have to realize that without Microsoft, you probably wouldn't be reading this on a computer.
Just imagine of the risk of being surprised by an evil hijacker (read: teenage kid), while working on the entry form (read: f****** your wife/husband) for the (virtual) Mile High Club. Nahh - bad idea.
A flightsim - that would be the thing to have there.
In the beginning, you could be voted out by your own team - one was - and later killed himself. Whether this was due to the show, I don't know, but there was all kind of complaints, and the show was called mobbing-tv e.t.c. They have now changed the rules so it's the other teams which can vote out one from "your" team. This completely spoiled the show, because the other teams will obviously try to vote out the "best" on a competitive team. That means that if you try to help your teammates, be a nice guy and all that, you're asking for a ticket home.
It was obvious that this story would cause all this comments. While the MS story have a few things that are quite exaggerated, it points out some very serious problems with Linux.
But it only uses the main Linux problem word once - Immature - THAT's the real Linux (community) problem.
I couldn't help laugh at Mandrakes comments - who's he trying to convince ? The corporations ? HA haha ! They'll sure be impressed with his (lack of) language. (If they'll ever read it.)
And most of the comments here seems to do the same. Trying to convince (or keep the faith within) the Linux community that Linux is great.
Pissing contest - except there's nobody around to see how far you can go.
What the article does not mention very clearly, and what most people here seem to have missed, is that the Fresnel lens parallelizes the light beams from the screen, thereby giving "depth" to the picture.
For this reason, Fresnel lenses have been used for ages amongst the flight simulator fans, as it greatly enhances the feeling of immersion. Instead of focusing 1 feet away on your screen, you can focus somewhere around 3-10 feet away. The size of the picture is secondary. It does get a bit blurry, but that's just a bonus in some cases.
You wouldn't like to use this thing for editing text on a 1600*1200 resolution screen !
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>> >> for Firewire. (except the iMac junk).
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>>Why is the iMac firewire i/f junk in
>>your opinion?
Sorry, I should have been clearer.
I wasn't just referring to the interface.
Problems is, I've yet to see motherboards with support for Firewire. (except the iMac junk).
And as long as it's only video cams that uses Firewire, we won't see any either.
The sad thing about this trial ( and it's outcome), is that we, the comsumers are going to pay. A split of Microsoft would probably make prices even higher.
While most of the /. visitors seems to be kids who likes to kick at the big companies/establishment (I did so too in the 70'ies), you have to realize that without Microsoft, you probably wouldn't be reading this on a computer.
Bedroom in the cockpit ???
Just imagine of the risk of being surprised by an evil hijacker (read: teenage kid), while working on the entry form (read: f****** your wife/husband) for the (virtual) Mile High Club.
Nahh - bad idea.
A flightsim - that would be the thing to have there.
Just the thought of having to clean all those windows !
Now, if the thing could actually fly, it would be cool.
Netscape ?
Wouldn't that be a problematic combination, as Linux (Unix) Netscape normally crashes every few mintes ?
Soon we can connect our camera to the cell-phone, and just download some pics into the camera.
Saves a lot of work, and give us more time to play Pac-Man.
In the beginning, you could be voted out by your own team - one was - and later killed himself.
Whether this was due to the show, I don't know, but there was all kind of complaints, and the show was called mobbing-tv e.t.c.
They have now changed the rules so it's the other teams which can vote out one from "your" team.
This completely spoiled the show, because the other teams will obviously try to vote out the "best" on a competitive team.
That means that if you try to help your teammates, be a nice guy and all that, you're asking for a ticket home.
So from mobbing-tv, it went to be sissy-tv.
There's no requirements for people to be parents and "create" life, everybody have the "right".
However they don't have the right to take that life.
The rules of our society prohibits the latter, but for some of the people who becomes parents, even the former should be forbidden.
Who's most poor ?
The handicapped child with the almost non-functional brain.
The starving Ethiopian, or
the (black?) American born in a gang-ruled LA ghetto ?
Clearly, killing off handicapped children seems to be more a matter of saving the parents, (than the child,) from suffering.
They invented spam, remember ?
While the MS story have a few things that are quite exaggerated, it points out some very serious problems with Linux.
But it only uses the main Linux problem word once - Immature - THAT's the real Linux (community) problem.
I couldn't help laugh at Mandrakes comments - who's he trying to convince ? The corporations ? HA haha ! They'll sure be impressed with his (lack of) language. (If they'll ever read it.)
And most of the comments here seems to do the same. Trying to convince (or keep the faith within) the Linux community that Linux is great.
Pissing contest - except there's nobody around to see how far you can go.
What a waste of energy.
Grow up !
For this reason, Fresnel lenses have been used for ages amongst the flight simulator fans, as it greatly enhances the feeling of immersion. Instead of focusing 1 feet away on your screen, you can focus somewhere around 3-10 feet away. The size of the picture is secondary.
It does get a bit blurry, but that's just a bonus in some cases.
You wouldn't like to use this thing for editing text on a 1600*1200 resolution screen !
When these things catches on, then how will it look when madmen are playing Carmageddon (or similar) while cruising downtown ?
Or Multiplayer Midtown Madness ?
Is that a HERF gun in your pocket or
Surely nothing you run around with under the jacket.