do you really think that without the litigation it would now be possible to install firefox on a windows computer?
your comparison is ludicrous. where are the tens of thousands of developers of software for tv remotes being forced to support ie6 or ie7 or w3c or do a lot more work? where are the tens of thousands of tv channels which can only be switched to if you're using a certain brand of remote?
i'd say it would have stopped before then and you're trolling.
i imagine you know what the problems with bundling a non-standards-compliant webbrowser with the system are. as far as i can tell, there would be no problem with microsoft implementing a package manager as long as the oems would be allowed and encouraged to configure their own lists of software for the package manager.
That's also when the comments - many of them angry, rude, and hateful - started pouring in.
Some Ubuntu users accused 27 News of "unscrupulous reporting," hitting a "new low for local news," and writing an "atrocious article."
Many Ubuntu users also wrote very personal attacks about the young lady who was having trouble using the operating system. They called her "lazy," "a dumb girl," and "not worthy of a college degree."
The young woman also contacted 27 News to report she's being harassed on her Facebook account by Ubuntu users.
boy, does this ever stink of astroturfing by you-know-who.
and yet word 2003 docx files look better in ooo3.0 than in word 2007. in fact one of our customers is now moving to odf because they've just got too pissed off about having to spend so much money having their software customized to support export to various word versions which then can't be reliably shared anyway.
i don't know any browser with out of the box flash. i thought you always had to install flash. does anybody know if vista comes with flash installed on ie7?
as a friend of mine said to a jewish person living in new york who supported the state of israel "when you give up your house to the first native american who comes along claiming that his ancestors once lived there you can claim that a jewish state has a right to exist where it does".
as it is, it may be even worse. if i recall correctly, genetic testing has shown that palestinians are the semites of the old testament. they simply stayed in the area and converted to islam.
Pragmatically, is there a really important reason why you want the Flash Player to be entirely open? Would an open source Flash Player really be a better working piece of software than what we've got now?
it would allow me to do everything a wanted with a non-intel architecture. flash is the last bastion of hardware (and operating system) lock-in for me.
cs as a subject started back when algorithms were all most people had. now we have computers and large amounts of software. the subject in a school shouldn't just be about algorithms, just as english lessons at school shouldn't just be about grammar.
provided you distribute closed-source software, you can get a sort of drm working under linux. an expert will tell you how difficult it is to crack this though.
one of the main problems is horizontal gene transfer. an example of this would be camels and llamas which due to a freak of nature can reproduce and their offspring may well be fertile. if these two populations of quite disparate animals did come together due to geographic changes and interbreed (which is unlikely for a number of reasons), the resulting dna would be quite confusing.
in fact the basic idea of a 'tree of life' is quite untidy. what happens for example if a virus infects a host and splices its own dna into the host's? in some cases it's best to discard the idea of a tree altogether and regard taxonomy as a network.
call me a conspiracy theorist, but i'd like to see the benchmarks on *bsd and gnu/linux systems as well. i've often wondered if microsoft has a deal with intel to slow amd processors.
Slashdot Mirror
unfortunately it needs to support flash and that means i86.
i do not disagree with any word you wrote above. you did not however address my post. please go back and read it.
because microsoft has a monopoly. next question.
what a load of crap.
do you really think that without the litigation it would now be possible to install firefox on a windows computer?
your comparison is ludicrous. where are the tens of thousands of developers of software for tv remotes being forced to support ie6 or ie7 or w3c or do a lot more work? where are the tens of thousands of tv channels which can only be switched to if you're using a certain brand of remote?
i'd say it would have stopped before then and you're trolling.
i imagine you know what the problems with bundling a non-standards-compliant webbrowser with the system are. as far as i can tell, there would be no problem with microsoft implementing a package manager as long as the oems would be allowed and encouraged to configure their own lists of software for the package manager.
well basically it's because microsoft is an american company and if you don't support it by undermining all competition, that's bad for america.
that's what it's like in germany.
boy, does this ever stink of astroturfing by you-know-who.
and yet word 2003 docx files look better in ooo3.0 than in word 2007. in fact one of our customers is now moving to odf because they've just got too pissed off about having to spend so much money having their software customized to support export to various word versions which then can't be reliably shared anyway.
i don't know any browser with out of the box flash. i thought you always had to install flash. does anybody know if vista comes with flash installed on ie7?
after it got its land [back].
as a friend of mine said to a jewish person living in new york who supported the state of israel "when you give up your house to the first native american who comes along claiming that his ancestors once lived there you can claim that a jewish state has a right to exist where it does".
as it is, it may be even worse. if i recall correctly, genetic testing has shown that palestinians are the semites of the old testament. they simply stayed in the area and converted to islam.
no, you can't argue like that. knowing what the words in ancient greek mean does not allow you to dogmatically impose this meaning on modern english.
this is a great post, can i quote it with attribution?
SWF is open
every time someone repeats this lie i end up posting a link to this film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoNvsiBTQDE
Pragmatically, is there a really important reason why you want the Flash Player to be entirely open? Would an open source Flash Player really be a better working piece of software than what we've got now?
it would allow me to do everything a wanted with a non-intel architecture. flash is the last bastion of hardware (and operating system) lock-in for me.
cs as a subject started back when algorithms were all most people had. now we have computers and large amounts of software. the subject in a school shouldn't just be about algorithms, just as english lessons at school shouldn't just be about grammar.
saying cs is about developing algorithms is like saying that the study of english literature should stop with shakespeare.
what new users? windows already has a 90+% market share.
provided you distribute closed-source software, you can get a sort of drm working under linux. an expert will tell you how difficult it is to crack this though.
one of the main problems is horizontal gene transfer. an example of this would be camels and llamas which due to a freak of nature can reproduce and their offspring may well be fertile. if these two populations of quite disparate animals did come together due to geographic changes and interbreed (which is unlikely for a number of reasons), the resulting dna would be quite confusing.
in fact the basic idea of a 'tree of life' is quite untidy. what happens for example if a virus infects a host and splices its own dna into the host's? in some cases it's best to discard the idea of a tree altogether and regard taxonomy as a network.
state of the art 3D rendering? my oh my, we do have a short memory: http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/american_beheaded_in_islamic_online_video/
ah, a perfect example of cloud computing. ladies and gentlemen, i give you the future
ctrl-f5?
yeah. it's annoying that they didn't introduce better support for lambda in python 3.0 :(
(setq yoda 'scheme) (defun designed (maker product) (if (equal maker product) "designed it was")) ;; proud emacs nerd :)
scheme and lisp both use (operator arg1 arg2 ... argn) notation.
call me a conspiracy theorist, but i'd like to see the benchmarks on *bsd and gnu/linux systems as well. i've often wondered if microsoft has a deal with intel to slow amd processors.
if a manufacturer wants to write their own drivers for linux, they should be aware of the fact, that the kernel binary interface is not constant.