!. Steal video camera (e.g., "use someone else's video camera without permission" 2. Film self doing something idiotic and potentially embarrassing 3. Wait for someone to post it on that newfangled interweb thingy 4. Sue people who posted your stupidity, counting on those people not countersuing for theft/illegal access/vandalism/whatever other potential charges and damages which may apply 4. PROFIT!!!
Radio Shack's case study [microsoft.com] mentions reducing "exposure to the risk of intellectual property infringement claims" as a reason to go with Windows over Linux.
Pardon me, but Mr. Microsoft, sir, I seem to recall Microsoft's having to change MSIE in order to conform with others' IP, and that web developers may have to institute changes in their sites. Is this true? If so, how are customers indemnified, really? How is your closed-source proprietary system superior to open source solutions such as (GNU/)Linux in that regard, Mr. Gates?
It's sad though. I just hope for the tech workers' sake (since they have no hand in the evildoings of SCO) that Novell or IBM (preferably Novell since SCO owes Novell a heap of money for UNIX licensing) acquires SCO's assets and keeps the employees on board.
Why?
- SCO Unix isn't that bad of a product. Perhaps a bit overrated, but. . .
- Caldera Linux (later SCO OpenLinux) was great when it came out and they contributed a lot back to the Linux kernel and various associated peripheral projects. Certainly at least some of those developers are still on board
Now for the exectutives, board of directors, and their legal staff? I'd love to see them rot in prison, and their assets siezed and sold off to pay for their prison stay (so we taxpayers don't have to pay).
How can that be a law when it is unproven? 1,000 failed experiments cannot prove that it cannot happen. You can prove statistically that the probability of it occuring during the next experiment will be low, but you can never prove that it cannot happen.
A bit, so here is what the solution can be: present both "theories" to students, along with the evidence, and teach the students to think logically. Instruct them to analyze the evidence (in all classes, not just biology) and arrived at their conclusion based on evidence, not preconceived notions.
. . . and half of all people are below-average in terms of physical size, physical strength, income, social stature, and life expectency. Shocking, isn't it?;)
Guess what, Intel doesn't make motherboards either. They contract with Asus or another company to sell their motherboards with the Intel brand on it.
To clarify: it's not Asus (thank GOD) but Foxconn. Were it Asus, specs would change at whim (and never be hinted at in the manual or on the web site) and half the BIOS features would not work, and when emailing for support the reply will invariably be "Upgrade your BIOS" despite your original support query mentioning you have already done this in effort to resolve the issue. Then the next BIOS release, which DOES happen to resolve the issues of the non-working BIOS features, will install just fine but when you reboot you'll get an "error updating microprocessor uCode" message every time you reboot from then on, unless you downgrade the BIOS back to one of the revisions without the much-needed bug fixes.
Thank (insert deity of choice) that Asus does not manufacture Intel boards.
SCO even has any cash left to continue this frivilous suit. Have they somehow bilked yet more investors out of cash with promises of beating IBM and then Novell in court?
I dislike RedHat - a lot, but I appreciate what RedHat has contributed - especially the rpm. It may not be a perfect management system but it's fairly good. Likewise, I abhor Caldora (now SCO, of course) and yet they have made very worthwhile contributions to Linux and open source in general. I don't think that should ever be forgotten even in the face of scummy moves some of these organizations pull.
Although I agree with the poor planning bit, I think an even worse move for RedHat was killing off their desktop distribution a few years back. Because they killed it off an alienated a huge segment of their userbase (I used to buy every RedHat release - retail boxed edition), I will never consider them for use in my office. They may have done it for support reasons as cited (uh, the support wasn't free support aside from cursory initial install support, it was otherwise billable) or maybe the board members figured that releasing desktop OSes was too downmarket for them, but in killing off a stable desktop OS offering, they cut off a tremendous resource - that is, feedback on bugs, feature requests, suggestions/recommendations, AND also cut off IT staff who may have become RedHat proponents in trying to get their companies to approve a migration from Windows to a server version of RedHat(tm)-branded Linux(tm) along with nice fat RedHat(tm) support and maintenance contracts.
When I started running Linux again after not having touched it for several years, I evaluated quite a few different distributions, eventually settling on SuSE and Mandriva (now SuSE and Ubuntu). I refused to give RedHat even a cursory glance. When I need RedHat for an application, I turn to CentOS.
As much as I've been disappointed with Fedora (it panics on i915 and i945 chipsets. Other distributions don't) I liked that RedHat was going to spin it off into an independent foundation and it was going to become a more stable distribution. Why? Because variety is good, and competition is important, even in, er, nay, ESPECIALLY in the open source "market"
I've disliked RedHat ever since they killed off the desktop distribution, but I'm sad to see their greed destroy what Fedora might have become, before it really had any chance to move forward.
So let me get this straight:
They were going to spin off Fedora and let it grow based on its technical merits, and actually come out with *gasp* stable versions like the OpenSuSE project and attract more developers. . . and now they want to kill off any progress they might have made?
Typical Redhat thinking. This reminds me of their being the dominant desktop distribution and then they cut the cord on the desktop product.
Actually, they're not; at least in Windows you can change the view from "List" to "Details" and see file attributes. Windows may have its bad points, but there are some things Microsoft really got right.
This brings me back to another post of mine in this thread and I'll say it again: In their quest to simplify the user experience, the Gnome developers have rendered the environment useless.
I humbly apologise. I didn't realize Slashdot was renown for its formal discussions.
I did not realize I was in a triage at work. I'll be sure to not drip any cynical remarks into future discussions about Gnome, okay? I now realize that sort of thing was previously unheard of on this site.
Thank you for setting me straight. I truly appreciate your feedback.;)
Maybe it will:
- give you buggy file/open dialogues
- change all verbose and understandable confirmations to read "foo?" [ok] [cancel]
- remove all of the configurability of kwin and add in all of the limitations of metacity
- remove styles and themes which have any hint of color, in favor of the "corporate 2:00pm eyestrain" look
All this and more will give the genuine Gnome experience to KDE users.
Sorry to be so negative, it's just that every time I fire up Glade or The Gimp, the dialog boxes annoy the hell out of me - and firefox's dialog boxes are not much better. Please stop trying to over-simplify Gnome. Glade's UI is so simplified that it is an absolute pain in the neck to use. It's a good app with decent functionality, but in the quest for simplification it's all hidden. If you want to see a good Audio editor, compared to Audacity or Cool Edit Pro (now Adobe Audition).
I used to really like gnome - I really did. Then, KDE (well, kwin in particular) went and growed up;), and became more usable out of the box than Windows' interface is, with none of the annoying drawbacks of Gnome. In addition, Konqueror is an incredible file manager. I wish I could say the same about Gnome's.
Not run a million applets and turn off all the eye candy so your 256MB 266Mhz Pentium II with ATI card can handle it.;)
Seriously though - turn off the features you don't need. KDE is plenty fast. If you enable eye candy like animations, translucency, applets, multiple bars, 23 different applications minimized to the notification area, have the pager configured to manage four desktops and preload an instance or three of Konqueror, then yes, the system will be somewhat slow on a Pentiun 3 or a slower Pentium 4. If you run a more reasonable load in your desktop environment it's plenty responsive even on the venerable old Celeron A.
Oh really? So you're telling me that if I were to go to the UK and visit Ozzy Osbourne's or David Gilmour's back yard I wouldn't end up getting arrested?
Actually, if those vendors drop the barebones (er, "naked") PC systems, they WILL be losing 5% of their market because those customers who do not intend to run Windows, or use corporate licenses and their prebuilt disk images, will buy elsewhere instead. The real issue is that Microsoft wants to effectively "double tax" PCs by forcing corporate customers to buy the OEM version AND the volume licenses. That's my take on it anyhow.
This is simply yet another reason to choose alternative operating systems.
Perhaps this "contest" is sponsored behind the scenes by Sony, in their search for more stealtht rootkit implementation methodologies in their next Anti-Fair-Use software release. They're counting on some smartass or two submitting really clever malicious code, I just know they are!
This has been the crackpot conspiracy theory of the day.
But, see, you DO back up your $home directory, which is where all of your important data is, right? Right? Right? And it will take what, all of 15 minutes to restore $home as opposed to 1-2 hours to reinstall plus many hours reconfiguring and tweaking to get everything running like it was.
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!. Steal video camera (e.g., "use someone else's video camera without permission"
2. Film self doing something idiotic and potentially embarrassing
3. Wait for someone to post it on that newfangled interweb thingy
4. Sue people who posted your stupidity, counting on those people not countersuing for theft/illegal access/vandalism/whatever other potential charges and damages which may apply
4. PROFIT!!!
AC says, as Ballmer gently penetrates his (unmentionableorifice). "Thanks Steve, the lube was a nice gesture," he said.
Uh, You were saying?
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-AspNet-Version: 1.1.4322
I was hoping it'd be running on LAMP. So much for embracing open source on their Linux-related site.
Pardon me, but Mr. Microsoft, sir, I seem to recall Microsoft's having to change MSIE in order to conform with others' IP, and that web developers may have to institute changes in their sites. Is this true? If so, how are customers indemnified, really? How is your closed-source proprietary system superior to open source solutions such as (GNU/)Linux in that regard, Mr. Gates?
It's sad though. I just hope for the tech workers' sake (since they have no hand in the evildoings of SCO) that Novell or IBM (preferably Novell since SCO owes Novell a heap of money for UNIX licensing) acquires SCO's assets and keeps the employees on board.
Why?
- SCO Unix isn't that bad of a product. Perhaps a bit overrated, but. . .
- Caldera Linux (later SCO OpenLinux) was great when it came out and they contributed a lot back to the Linux kernel and various associated peripheral projects. Certainly at least some of those developers are still on board
Now for the exectutives, board of directors, and their legal staff? I'd love to see them rot in prison, and their assets siezed and sold off to pay for their prison stay (so we taxpayers don't have to pay).
How can that be a law when it is unproven? 1,000 failed experiments cannot prove that it cannot happen. You can prove statistically that the probability of it occuring during the next experiment will be low, but you can never prove that it cannot happen.
A bit, so here is what the solution can be: present both "theories" to students, along with the evidence, and teach the students to think logically. Instruct them to analyze the evidence (in all classes, not just biology) and arrived at their conclusion based on evidence, not preconceived notions.
. . . and half of all people are below-average in terms of physical size, physical strength, income, social stature, and life expectency. Shocking, isn't it? ;)
Uh, how was that a troll? Let me guess: some RedHat suit has mod points today.
To clarify: it's not Asus (thank GOD) but Foxconn. Were it Asus, specs would change at whim (and never be hinted at in the manual or on the web site) and half the BIOS features would not work, and when emailing for support the reply will invariably be "Upgrade your BIOS" despite your original support query mentioning you have already done this in effort to resolve the issue. Then the next BIOS release, which DOES happen to resolve the issues of the non-working BIOS features, will install just fine but when you reboot you'll get an "error updating microprocessor uCode" message every time you reboot from then on, unless you downgrade the BIOS back to one of the revisions without the much-needed bug fixes.
Thank (insert deity of choice) that Asus does not manufacture Intel boards.
SCO even has any cash left to continue this frivilous suit. Have they somehow bilked yet more investors out of cash with promises of beating IBM and then Novell in court?
I dislike RedHat - a lot, but I appreciate what RedHat has contributed - especially the rpm. It may not be a perfect management system but it's fairly good. Likewise, I abhor Caldora (now SCO, of course) and yet they have made very worthwhile contributions to Linux and open source in general. I don't think that should ever be forgotten even in the face of scummy moves some of these organizations pull.
Although I agree with the poor planning bit, I think an even worse move for RedHat was killing off their desktop distribution a few years back. Because they killed it off an alienated a huge segment of their userbase (I used to buy every RedHat release - retail boxed edition), I will never consider them for use in my office. They may have done it for support reasons as cited (uh, the support wasn't free support aside from cursory initial install support, it was otherwise billable) or maybe the board members figured that releasing desktop OSes was too downmarket for them, but in killing off a stable desktop OS offering, they cut off a tremendous resource - that is, feedback on bugs, feature requests, suggestions/recommendations, AND also cut off IT staff who may have become RedHat proponents in trying to get their companies to approve a migration from Windows to a server version of RedHat(tm)-branded Linux(tm) along with nice fat RedHat(tm) support and maintenance contracts.
When I started running Linux again after not having touched it for several years, I evaluated quite a few different distributions, eventually settling on SuSE and Mandriva (now SuSE and Ubuntu). I refused to give RedHat even a cursory glance. When I need RedHat for an application, I turn to CentOS.
As much as I've been disappointed with Fedora (it panics on i915 and i945 chipsets. Other distributions don't) I liked that RedHat was going to spin it off into an independent foundation and it was going to become a more stable distribution. Why? Because variety is good, and competition is important, even in, er, nay, ESPECIALLY in the open source "market"
I've disliked RedHat ever since they killed off the desktop distribution, but I'm sad to see their greed destroy what Fedora might have become, before it really had any chance to move forward.
So let me get this straight:
They were going to spin off Fedora and let it grow based on its technical merits, and actually come out with *gasp* stable versions like the OpenSuSE project and attract more developers. . . and now they want to kill off any progress they might have made?
Typical Redhat thinking. This reminds me of their being the dominant desktop distribution and then they cut the cord on the desktop product.
Why waste paper and time with dot matrix printouts when you could use a slide rule?
Actually, they're not; at least in Windows you can change the view from "List" to "Details" and see file attributes. Windows may have its bad points, but there are some things Microsoft really got right.
This brings me back to another post of mine in this thread and I'll say it again: In their quest to simplify the user experience, the Gnome developers have rendered the environment useless.
I humbly apologise. I didn't realize Slashdot was renown for its formal discussions.
;)
I did not realize I was in a triage at work. I'll be sure to not drip any cynical remarks into future discussions about Gnome, okay? I now realize that sort of thing was previously unheard of on this site.
Thank you for setting me straight. I truly appreciate your feedback.
re: WTF does this do that isn't already possible?
;), and became more usable out of the box than Windows' interface is, with none of the annoying drawbacks of Gnome. In addition, Konqueror is an incredible file manager. I wish I could say the same about Gnome's.
Maybe it will:
- give you buggy file/open dialogues
- change all verbose and understandable confirmations to read "foo?" [ok] [cancel]
- remove all of the configurability of kwin and add in all of the limitations of metacity
- remove styles and themes which have any hint of color, in favor of the "corporate 2:00pm eyestrain" look
All this and more will give the genuine Gnome experience to KDE users.
Sorry to be so negative, it's just that every time I fire up Glade or The Gimp, the dialog boxes annoy the hell out of me - and firefox's dialog boxes are not much better. Please stop trying to over-simplify Gnome. Glade's UI is so simplified that it is an absolute pain in the neck to use. It's a good app with decent functionality, but in the quest for simplification it's all hidden. If you want to see a good Audio editor, compared to Audacity or Cool Edit Pro (now Adobe Audition).
I used to really like gnome - I really did. Then, KDE (well, kwin in particular) went and growed up
Not run a million applets and turn off all the eye candy so your 256MB 266Mhz Pentium II with ATI card can handle it. ;)
Seriously though - turn off the features you don't need. KDE is plenty fast. If you enable eye candy like animations, translucency, applets, multiple bars, 23 different applications minimized to the notification area, have the pager configured to manage four desktops and preload an instance or three of Konqueror, then yes, the system will be somewhat slow on a Pentiun 3 or a slower Pentium 4. If you run a more reasonable load in your desktop environment it's plenty responsive even on the venerable old Celeron A.
Oh really? So you're telling me that if I were to go to the UK and visit Ozzy Osbourne's or David Gilmour's back yard I wouldn't end up getting arrested?
Microsoft USED to have a 30-day unconditional money back guarantee but now they engage in fraud by claiming it is still in effect. See http://www.digg.com/software/College_Student_Beats _Microsoft_in_$143.50_Legal_Battle
Actually, if those vendors drop the barebones (er, "naked") PC systems, they WILL be losing 5% of their market because those customers who do not intend to run Windows, or use corporate licenses and their prebuilt disk images, will buy elsewhere instead. The real issue is that Microsoft wants to effectively "double tax" PCs by forcing corporate customers to buy the OEM version AND the volume licenses. That's my take on it anyhow.
This is simply yet another reason to choose alternative operating systems.
Perhaps this "contest" is sponsored behind the scenes by Sony, in their search for more stealtht rootkit implementation methodologies in their next Anti-Fair-Use software release. They're counting on some smartass or two submitting really clever malicious code, I just know they are!
This has been the crackpot conspiracy theory of the day.
(Why yes, I'm bored! Why do you ask?)
But, see, you DO back up your $home directory, which is where all of your important data is, right? Right? Right? And it will take what, all of 15 minutes to restore $home as opposed to 1-2 hours to reinstall plus many hours reconfiguring and tweaking to get everything running like it was.
That's not funny. I was looking at appliances the other day and saw a computerized toaster with a flourescent display.
Not a toaster oven, where a microprocessor controller makes sense, but a typical sliced-bread toaster with four slots.
WTF? How does the failure rate of that toaster compare to a conventional toaster with a mechanical thermostat or timer?