Are you buy chance a Linux user? It sounds like you are because your response sounds a bit biased.
I firmly believe ALL non-game software should be required if not by law then by custom to include the complete source code.
Why not game software also? If you want something as complex and necessary as an OS to be freely available, why not a simple game engine meant for nothing more then entertainment? If you want to make your code public, go for it. If you don't, then you don't need to.
As for Microsoft being a monopoly, I have mixed feelings. Their software is very popular to the point that it does in fact make up the majority of the market. Has all these lawsuits changed their popularity? I feel bad for the small software products that have vanished into history because of the products Microsoft produces, but what about Wal-Mart? When a Wal-Mart enters a small town, a lot of small business go out of business. Does this make Wal-Mart a monopoly?
I don't agree with any company having to give out its secrets. I mean, what if Europe demanded to know the secret ingredients to certain food products. That may be a bad comparison, but Microsoft or any other company shouldn't have to give out its top secret source code. That code is what makes them money. True, Microsoft has LOTS of money, but hey, uber powerful and rich or not, they still deserve their privacy to their source code.
Yes, but who decides if the laws are unjust? If America never had free speech, would we feel it is unjust? I highly doubt it. Now if America's right to free speech was suddenly taken away, everyone would feel it unjust. But China has never had Free Speech so why should Google impose our ability to have free speech on a country that has never had free speech. We americans are so damn nosey in other countries business. Hey, guess what, we are big 'ol America and think the world should be just like us so why don't we impose our laws and 'freedoms' on the rest of the world; and if they don't like it, we will use force and make it so.
I agree. I live in California and Illegal Immigration is a large issue here. One of the topics of that issue is the immigrants are taking jobs from Americans. I am not stating my side on this issue because both sides make excellent points and it is also not the issue at hand. But, if Google was to disobey the Chinese government and do as they wished, it would be the same as California turning its back on illegal immigration. Its the law and by Google complying with with Chinese Law, they are doing good. Their country has no constitutional right for free speech as the US does, so why should we feel that Google can do whatever it wants. Remember that kid in Singapore that got caned in the '90s for spitting on the street? There is no law in the US against that, but there is in Singapore. And he was punished for it according to thier law. Americans cried high and low about it, but the fact still remained that he broke their law while in their country. Now, if Google was censoring search results from Chinese people living in the US, that would be different.
I have noticed that when it comes to this topic, there are two types of people.
1) Atheist. Those who don't believe in God and that life somehow appeared, but wasn't by any God.
2) Religious people. This category puts everyone that believes in God in it. Whether or not you worship God as he laid out in the bible or not.
The difference with those two classes is that Atheists are hard nosed about God. They don't believe in God so they will flame you and try everything they can do to make their point known and shut their ears to everything else. Essentially they are right and you are wrong. Religious people on the other hand believe in God and that he created everything. As the bible teaches, Christians are supposed to spread the Word and try to bring everyone to faith to be saved after death. I am a Christian that does follow the bible in every aspect (at least I try, no human is perfect which is why Jesus came). Survival of the fittest, adaptation, very good points to evolution. Life forming from a "goo" over millions of years, no I don't believe in it. One thing non-believers ask about is Dinosaurs. We have their bones and carbon dating says they are x number of years old. But God can create not only new things, but old things. When Adam and Eve were created, they were adults. They didn't grow up from infants. This being stated, God could have made dinosaur bones, but not living dinosaurs. Now if anyone replies to this, it will probably say 'What's the point of having old bones if they never lived?'. Answer: I don't know. God is all knowing, not Me.
I guess I am saying to all the atheist out there on Slashdot, which seems to be a very large majority, if someone talks about God, who are you to tell them they are wrong when it may be you that is wrong? And Christians, if someone flames you because you brought up Christ or God or a reference to the bible, reply to him with more scripture. We are to teach the lost even if they don't want to listen. 2Timothy 3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
What is evil is the Chinese governments restrictions on free speech
Just because the US has free speach doesn't mean everyone needs free speech. In china, free speech is the thing Americans have. If they want it, fine, do like we did and have a revolution. Oh hey, George W, if they do have a revolution, keep your nose out of it.
I am not sure why it would have done it either, but it was on their support forums as well as several computer forums too. Swapped the battery and did the bios trick and worked great.
I used to work at kinkos. Does it affend me, hells no!!! If it wasn't for that job, I probably never would have lit that fire under my @$$ to get a real job. I almost want to play this game to see if it is true to life.
I wonder what the scientists would do if they found nothing in that "1,000,000" year old block of ice. Just pure water. No organisms frozen for eons. Wonder what kind of excuses they would make up to still deny the existance of God.
Not sure if you kid is a Harry Potter fan, but relating a great game like chess to Harry Potter might get her interested. Try to get her a game like Harry Potter's Wizrd Chess. Its chess, but has a Harry Potter theme and has the pieces like in the movie. I always liked the chessmaster games for the computer. You can play at any level and it teachers you how to play.
I did the same thing on my ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard. They shipped a bunch with their 3.3v batters running about 2.9v. Apparently this would corrupt your bios chip. Well, it did do that to mine and instead of ripping my machine apart and RMAing it, I took the bios chip from my brother-in-laws machine (I built his too and we pretty much had identical machiens) and did the swap trick. Here's a little trick for any of you wanting to try this. Before you boot up your good machine, take the bios chip out and put a piece of dental floss under it and put the chip back in. That way, when the machine is booted and you need to take it out to do the swap, just tug gently on the floss. I didn't wanna stick a metal screwdriver in there to pop it out when it was running. It worked great for me and spent $2 for two 3.3v batteries for the computers.
I would totally sign up for a VoiP phone service. The downside is that in California, none of the providers offer local phone numbers in the Valley. They are all in the bay area. Oh well, guess I will stick to my cell phone for the time being.
You could use it to track what your child does on the internet. Or a company can use it to see where it's employees are surfing to. There's lots of uses for it.
Not really. Bestbuy, CompUSA, Circuit City all have salemen working the floor. I was once a salesman for CompUSA and did rather good at it. 90% of people buy what the salesman tell them to buy. You get people uneducated in the field of computers and look to the salesmen as the "pros". I sold quite a few $4000 systems because I could read the customer. If that person had money, I could sell him on the high end machine no problem. The line "In computers, the old saying 'you get what you pay for' auctually applies". Talk about Hook Line and Sinker. But, you also made money there based on the service plans you sold and was based primarily on a percent of gross sold vs. gross service plan. People wanted to see big numbers on the front of the computer and a low price tag. AMD machines reigned. Espically since I set them up with the AMD machine right next to its Intel counterpart. Lower priced machines made me more money as it does every salesman. I think salesmen have figured this out and that is why AMD took that large market share. And guess what, when more AMD machines were pushed out, people started realizing that they were as good as the covited Intel machines. Word spread and customers started looking into AMD and not just saying that they only thing they wanted was Intel because its the only thing they know about computers. Gotta hand it to Intel for the A+ marketing strategy.
I used to work at CompUSA and was in charge of the desktop department so I saw every new machine come in and personally set up the demos and the price tags. I saw numerous HP, Gateway, Compaq and Emachine models come out with AMD64 processors around 3000+ to 3700+. The basically identical Intel model always cost at least $250 more. And since we, the salesman, had pretty much free reign as long as we sold computers put whatever we wanted on the computers. I loved doing benchmarks and the AMD always came out ahead. Only a couple times did intel beat out AMD and it was usually the new Prescott cores, though not new anymore, until AMD came out with their new cores. I don't consider myself a fanboy of one particular manufacturer, I am a fanboy of cost vs. performance. For the past four years, AMD has won me over.
Microsoft is just stupid. They have the means to produce so many more 360's than they have. I know they don't produce them themselves, but come on. Its a freaking computer for crying out loud. They are probably only making so many to wait for hackers to hack the 360 so they can impliment new security or DRM on their games to screw over previous owners that modded their box. I have an XBox now. I am not a fan on the play station. And I don't plan on buying a 360 either.
I like to play WoW with foreignors. Trust me, my typing in the game is horrible. But it's fun to meet people from other places. I really like talking to people from Australia. Its just fun. And if someone doesn't speak a word of english but knows the usual 'emotes'/lol/laugh/taunt/chicken then thats enough. As for Chinese Gold Farmers (CGF), everyone always says how certain areas in China are poor and need our help. Well guess what, if someone buys gold from a CGF website, then they are helping put 5 cents into someone's pocket. So, I get to play my game and support a Chinese family. The only bad thing is the inflation of the price if items in the game. But guess what, try playing the game for once. You can get the exact same items as the CGF's do, just do high lvl raids. If you are too lazy to do those, then you lose out.
I did not know FF updated itself. There is also the part of I work for a school district. These people may teach our kids the three R's but they barely use the machines as it is. And to make a change like that, oh my. I can see getting hundreds of e-mails asking me where the big blue 'E' is at. But it is nice to know FF updates itself.
You can't really compare Safari in this. I love safari, but its only Mac. Second, I work for a school district where we have over 10,000 workstations easy. Probably closer to 15,000+. When a major hole comes out in IE, guess what, our SUS server takes care of that. When a major hole comes out in FireFox or any other browser, guess what, updates aren't so easy. Re-ghosting is easier, but still takes WAY too much time. At home, updates are easy. Download the new version, install. I have nothing against FireFox or anything else. They just aren't for me. If Safari was available for PC, I would use it hands down, but I enjoy computer games and unfortunately, Macs just aren't gaming machines.
Yes, but did you know that after a webpage loads and has all those flashing or moving gifs, you can simply hit the Esc key and they all stop. Here is just one animated gif site that popped up on Google http://www.feebleminds-gifs.com/animated-gifs-7.ht ml. Try it.
You know, I have tried Firefox, Opera and many other different browsers. Even Netscape. But I still use IE. It has rather good pop-up blocking and it loads within what, a second. I personally don't like tabbed browsing. No matter what browser I try, I never stick with them. So if you are looking for IE fanboys, here is one.
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20 million is still a huge contribution. Yes, the percentages look a little bad, but its still 20 million.
Where is Chinese Gold Farming for Dummies? And I wanna see a translated version!
I firmly believe ALL non-game software should be required if not by law then by custom to include the complete source code.
Why not game software also? If you want something as complex and necessary as an OS to be freely available, why not a simple game engine meant for nothing more then entertainment? If you want to make your code public, go for it. If you don't, then you don't need to.
As for Microsoft being a monopoly, I have mixed feelings. Their software is very popular to the point that it does in fact make up the majority of the market. Has all these lawsuits changed their popularity? I feel bad for the small software products that have vanished into history because of the products Microsoft produces, but what about Wal-Mart? When a Wal-Mart enters a small town, a lot of small business go out of business. Does this make Wal-Mart a monopoly?
I don't agree with any company having to give out its secrets. I mean, what if Europe demanded to know the secret ingredients to certain food products. That may be a bad comparison, but Microsoft or any other company shouldn't have to give out its top secret source code. That code is what makes them money. True, Microsoft has LOTS of money, but hey, uber powerful and rich or not, they still deserve their privacy to their source code.
Yes, but who decides if the laws are unjust? If America never had free speech, would we feel it is unjust? I highly doubt it. Now if America's right to free speech was suddenly taken away, everyone would feel it unjust. But China has never had Free Speech so why should Google impose our ability to have free speech on a country that has never had free speech. We americans are so damn nosey in other countries business. Hey, guess what, we are big 'ol America and think the world should be just like us so why don't we impose our laws and 'freedoms' on the rest of the world; and if they don't like it, we will use force and make it so.
I agree. I live in California and Illegal Immigration is a large issue here. One of the topics of that issue is the immigrants are taking jobs from Americans. I am not stating my side on this issue because both sides make excellent points and it is also not the issue at hand. But, if Google was to disobey the Chinese government and do as they wished, it would be the same as California turning its back on illegal immigration. Its the law and by Google complying with with Chinese Law, they are doing good. Their country has no constitutional right for free speech as the US does, so why should we feel that Google can do whatever it wants. Remember that kid in Singapore that got caned in the '90s for spitting on the street? There is no law in the US against that, but there is in Singapore. And he was punished for it according to thier law. Americans cried high and low about it, but the fact still remained that he broke their law while in their country. Now, if Google was censoring search results from Chinese people living in the US, that would be different.
1) Atheist. Those who don't believe in God and that life somehow appeared, but wasn't by any God.
2) Religious people. This category puts everyone that believes in God in it. Whether or not you worship God as he laid out in the bible or not.
The difference with those two classes is that Atheists are hard nosed about God. They don't believe in God so they will flame you and try everything they can do to make their point known and shut their ears to everything else. Essentially they are right and you are wrong. Religious people on the other hand believe in God and that he created everything. As the bible teaches, Christians are supposed to spread the Word and try to bring everyone to faith to be saved after death. I am a Christian that does follow the bible in every aspect (at least I try, no human is perfect which is why Jesus came). Survival of the fittest, adaptation, very good points to evolution. Life forming from a "goo" over millions of years, no I don't believe in it. One thing non-believers ask about is Dinosaurs. We have their bones and carbon dating says they are x number of years old. But God can create not only new things, but old things. When Adam and Eve were created, they were adults. They didn't grow up from infants. This being stated, God could have made dinosaur bones, but not living dinosaurs. Now if anyone replies to this, it will probably say 'What's the point of having old bones if they never lived?'. Answer: I don't know. God is all knowing, not Me.
I guess I am saying to all the atheist out there on Slashdot, which seems to be a very large majority, if someone talks about God, who are you to tell them they are wrong when it may be you that is wrong? And Christians, if someone flames you because you brought up Christ or God or a reference to the bible, reply to him with more scripture. We are to teach the lost even if they don't want to listen. 2Timothy 3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
What is evil is the Chinese governments restrictions on free speech Just because the US has free speach doesn't mean everyone needs free speech. In china, free speech is the thing Americans have. If they want it, fine, do like we did and have a revolution. Oh hey, George W, if they do have a revolution, keep your nose out of it.
I am not sure why it would have done it either, but it was on their support forums as well as several computer forums too. Swapped the battery and did the bios trick and worked great.
I used to work at kinkos. Does it affend me, hells no!!! If it wasn't for that job, I probably never would have lit that fire under my @$$ to get a real job. I almost want to play this game to see if it is true to life.
I wonder what the scientists would do if they found nothing in that "1,000,000" year old block of ice. Just pure water. No organisms frozen for eons. Wonder what kind of excuses they would make up to still deny the existance of God.
Ya, I have one now, but I didn't then.
Not sure if you kid is a Harry Potter fan, but relating a great game like chess to Harry Potter might get her interested. Try to get her a game like Harry Potter's Wizrd Chess. Its chess, but has a Harry Potter theme and has the pieces like in the movie. I always liked the chessmaster games for the computer. You can play at any level and it teachers you how to play.
I did the same thing on my ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard. They shipped a bunch with their 3.3v batters running about 2.9v. Apparently this would corrupt your bios chip. Well, it did do that to mine and instead of ripping my machine apart and RMAing it, I took the bios chip from my brother-in-laws machine (I built his too and we pretty much had identical machiens) and did the swap trick. Here's a little trick for any of you wanting to try this. Before you boot up your good machine, take the bios chip out and put a piece of dental floss under it and put the chip back in. That way, when the machine is booted and you need to take it out to do the swap, just tug gently on the floss. I didn't wanna stick a metal screwdriver in there to pop it out when it was running. It worked great for me and spent $2 for two 3.3v batteries for the computers.
I would totally sign up for a VoiP phone service. The downside is that in California, none of the providers offer local phone numbers in the Valley. They are all in the bay area. Oh well, guess I will stick to my cell phone for the time being.
You could use it to track what your child does on the internet. Or a company can use it to see where it's employees are surfing to. There's lots of uses for it.
Not really. Bestbuy, CompUSA, Circuit City all have salemen working the floor. I was once a salesman for CompUSA and did rather good at it. 90% of people buy what the salesman tell them to buy. You get people uneducated in the field of computers and look to the salesmen as the "pros". I sold quite a few $4000 systems because I could read the customer. If that person had money, I could sell him on the high end machine no problem. The line "In computers, the old saying 'you get what you pay for' auctually applies". Talk about Hook Line and Sinker. But, you also made money there based on the service plans you sold and was based primarily on a percent of gross sold vs. gross service plan. People wanted to see big numbers on the front of the computer and a low price tag. AMD machines reigned. Espically since I set them up with the AMD machine right next to its Intel counterpart. Lower priced machines made me more money as it does every salesman. I think salesmen have figured this out and that is why AMD took that large market share. And guess what, when more AMD machines were pushed out, people started realizing that they were as good as the covited Intel machines. Word spread and customers started looking into AMD and not just saying that they only thing they wanted was Intel because its the only thing they know about computers. Gotta hand it to Intel for the A+ marketing strategy.
I used to work at CompUSA and was in charge of the desktop department so I saw every new machine come in and personally set up the demos and the price tags. I saw numerous HP, Gateway, Compaq and Emachine models come out with AMD64 processors around 3000+ to 3700+. The basically identical Intel model always cost at least $250 more. And since we, the salesman, had pretty much free reign as long as we sold computers put whatever we wanted on the computers. I loved doing benchmarks and the AMD always came out ahead. Only a couple times did intel beat out AMD and it was usually the new Prescott cores, though not new anymore, until AMD came out with their new cores. I don't consider myself a fanboy of one particular manufacturer, I am a fanboy of cost vs. performance. For the past four years, AMD has won me over.
I personally still have an AMD 1Ghz Thunderbird still ticking. I don't use it much because I have my AMD64 system, but it runs like the day I got it.
Microsoft is just stupid. They have the means to produce so many more 360's than they have. I know they don't produce them themselves, but come on. Its a freaking computer for crying out loud. They are probably only making so many to wait for hackers to hack the 360 so they can impliment new security or DRM on their games to screw over previous owners that modded their box. I have an XBox now. I am not a fan on the play station. And I don't plan on buying a 360 either.
I like to play WoW with foreignors. Trust me, my typing in the game is horrible. But it's fun to meet people from other places. I really like talking to people from Australia. Its just fun. And if someone doesn't speak a word of english but knows the usual 'emotes' /lol /laugh /taunt /chicken then thats enough. As for Chinese Gold Farmers (CGF), everyone always says how certain areas in China are poor and need our help. Well guess what, if someone buys gold from a CGF website, then they are helping put 5 cents into someone's pocket. So, I get to play my game and support a Chinese family. The only bad thing is the inflation of the price if items in the game. But guess what, try playing the game for once. You can get the exact same items as the CGF's do, just do high lvl raids. If you are too lazy to do those, then you lose out.
I did not know FF updated itself. There is also the part of I work for a school district. These people may teach our kids the three R's but they barely use the machines as it is. And to make a change like that, oh my. I can see getting hundreds of e-mails asking me where the big blue 'E' is at. But it is nice to know FF updates itself.
You can't really compare Safari in this. I love safari, but its only Mac. Second, I work for a school district where we have over 10,000 workstations easy. Probably closer to 15,000+. When a major hole comes out in IE, guess what, our SUS server takes care of that. When a major hole comes out in FireFox or any other browser, guess what, updates aren't so easy. Re-ghosting is easier, but still takes WAY too much time. At home, updates are easy. Download the new version, install. I have nothing against FireFox or anything else. They just aren't for me. If Safari was available for PC, I would use it hands down, but I enjoy computer games and unfortunately, Macs just aren't gaming machines.
Yes, but did you know that after a webpage loads and has all those flashing or moving gifs, you can simply hit the Esc key and they all stop. Here is just one animated gif site that popped up on Google http://www.feebleminds-gifs.com/animated-gifs-7.ht ml. Try it.
You know, I have tried Firefox, Opera and many other different browsers. Even Netscape. But I still use IE. It has rather good pop-up blocking and it loads within what, a second. I personally don't like tabbed browsing. No matter what browser I try, I never stick with them. So if you are looking for IE fanboys, here is one.