I have to agree with you here man. The LAST thing America needs right now is an all powerful police state.
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I disagree. Why does everyone assume that Microsoft investors are uncaring or unintelligent? Seriously, if Red Hat came up and offered you a chance in on the IPO, and you could do it, you bet your ass you would, regardless that they, more then once, have bent the open-source community to *their* needs, not the communities. Its simply business, and Microsoft did it better then anyone else. I am not a staunch defender, just playing devils advocate.
Not that I am defending Microsoft, but at the same time, they could very well suprise us all and release a *completely* different spec'd box by the time it hits, simply because of changes in the industry. Also you can't compare this to a computer, simply because that is not its final goal. Granted it seems not to far removed, but then again, neither is any other console, yet you don't compare a pIII 800 to a Nintendo 64.
People really need not to focus on the speed. Maybe its just me, but Microsoft Word only runs marginally faster (basic features obviously) on my pIII 667 then it does on the 486's strangling around campus. Same for Linux, but Pine runs no faster on my box then it does on a 386 dumb-term. Its really sad that these gigahertz boxs are only slightly faster in our day to days tasks then boxes with MUCH slower CPU's. The modern user base, especially the geeks, really need to check themselves and who they support and why. There is no reason to support AMD merely as a successful competitor to Intel. It should be based quality, and sorry, but the Athlons are by no means pIII killers.
Why is it everytime I turn my back on Slashdot, one of the posters have to make some stupid comment on other cultures. "can't wait for those bruce lee movies". Yeah, I forget, everything from Hong Kong is a Bruce Lee-esque action flick. Grow up.
And why is this listed as funny. I am sorry, but lets face the facts here, I would say the HUGE majority of computer users play games and look at porn, amungst other "non" productive things. This is a completely valid point and it WILL be the porn and game industries that take it to the next level. Seriously.
I can not believe that you said "a billion communists". I am not Chinese, nor have I ever been to China. However, I have *many* Chinese friends, and um, not a single one is Communist. In fact, part of the stigma is pinhead Americans/whites thinking that way. They are people just like you and me. You think they like their government any more then we like ours? I think not.
This is a brilliant solution, atleast for the ground zero/swell movement. I personally condone this move. Granted I am no ESR, but this man has vision. Power to the people!
Can we please take some of these Linux people off their collective high horses? I mean really, why is that every single move the community makes requires the pleasing of an acronym (ie ESR). Nothing against him, he has done a good job, but the release of the Quake source doesn't have a damn thing to do with him, and everything in the article has already been thought of or talked about for obvious reasons. Lets spend less time on beurocracy and more on coding!
Strangely enough I am doing something brutually similar. I have just recently recieved my box and well don't have a desk. So I lean up against my couch while I sit on the floor. My monitor sits on the monitor box and the machine sits next to it. Why not sit on the couch? Because its against the wall and the power cords are about 2 feet too short!
Whenever you find a way to exploit something, there will always be someone trying to make a buck off of it. That is the way a whole segment of society works, and as long as humans make laws, there always will be.
Look at what the other guy and I are saying. What is the purpose of any business? To feed itself. Period. Thats what they did. How they did it is not far flung from any other company. I honestly don't see any explicit laws being broke. The only problem I see is if they charge different licensing fees for different customers (ie IBM, DELL, etc.
I have to disagree with you. As previously stated, they only do as any other company does. No one forced you or anyone else to use Microsoft products, ever! There have always been alternatives. Always will be. The are being sued because there was a big enough uproar in the industry. IBM could have easily gone with another OS oh so many years ago. It was their choice.
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I have to agree with you here man. The LAST thing America needs right now is an all powerful police state.
I disagree. Why does everyone assume that Microsoft investors are uncaring or unintelligent? Seriously, if Red Hat came up and offered you a chance in on the IPO, and you could do it, you bet your ass you would, regardless that they, more then once, have bent the open-source community to *their* needs, not the communities. Its simply business, and Microsoft did it better then anyone else. I am not a staunch defender, just playing devils advocate.
Not that I am defending Microsoft, but at the same time, they could very well suprise us all and release a *completely* different spec'd box by the time it hits, simply because of changes in the industry. Also you can't compare this to a computer, simply because that is not its final goal. Granted it seems not to far removed, but then again, neither is any other console, yet you don't compare a pIII 800 to a Nintendo 64.
People really need not to focus on the speed. Maybe its just me, but Microsoft Word only runs marginally faster (basic features obviously) on my pIII 667 then it does on the 486's strangling around campus. Same for Linux, but Pine runs no faster on my box then it does on a 386 dumb-term. Its really sad that these gigahertz boxs are only slightly faster in our day to days tasks then boxes with MUCH slower CPU's. The modern user base, especially the geeks, really need to check themselves and who they support and why. There is no reason to support AMD merely as a successful competitor to Intel. It should be based quality, and sorry, but the Athlons are by no means pIII killers.
Why is it everytime I turn my back on Slashdot, one of the posters have to make some stupid comment on other cultures. "can't wait for those bruce lee movies". Yeah, I forget, everything from Hong Kong is a Bruce Lee-esque action flick. Grow up.
Um, if you ctrl-alt-delete and kill the pop up before it connects to the ad server, you can continue to use NetZero WITHOUT the adds....seriously.
And why is this listed as funny. I am sorry, but lets face the facts here, I would say the HUGE majority of computer users play games and look at porn, amungst other "non" productive things. This is a completely valid point and it WILL be the porn and game industries that take it to the next level. Seriously.
I can not believe that you said "a billion communists". I am not Chinese, nor have I ever been to China. However, I have *many* Chinese friends, and um, not a single one is Communist. In fact, part of the stigma is pinhead Americans/whites thinking that way. They are people just like you and me. You think they like their government any more then we like ours? I think not.
This is a brilliant solution, atleast for the ground zero/swell movement. I personally condone this move. Granted I am no ESR, but this man has vision. Power to the people!
I have seen that happen more then once. Many of the UK sysadm have gone from other unisys to FreeBSD when the dust settled.
Can we please take some of these Linux people off their collective high horses? I mean really, why is that every single move the community makes requires the pleasing of an acronym (ie ESR). Nothing against him, he has done a good job, but the release of the Quake source doesn't have a damn thing to do with him, and everything in the article has already been thought of or talked about for obvious reasons. Lets spend less time on beurocracy and more on coding!
Strangely enough I am doing something brutually similar. I have just recently recieved my box and well don't have a desk. So I lean up against my couch while I sit on the floor. My monitor sits on the monitor box and the machine sits next to it. Why not sit on the couch? Because its against the wall and the power cords are about 2 feet too short!
Whenever you find a way to exploit something, there will always be someone trying to make a buck off of it. That is the way a whole segment of society works, and as long as humans make laws, there always will be.
Look at what the other guy and I are saying. What is the purpose of any business? To feed itself. Period. Thats what they did. How they did it is not far flung from any other company. I honestly don't see any explicit laws being broke. The only problem I see is if they charge different licensing fees for different customers (ie IBM, DELL, etc.
I have to disagree with you. As previously stated, they only do as any other company does. No one forced you or anyone else to use Microsoft products, ever! There have always been alternatives. Always will be. The are being sued because there was a big enough uproar in the industry. IBM could have easily gone with another OS oh so many years ago. It was their choice.