For those of you who don't know, you can send Mr. Gore an email telling him just how much you like/dislike his corporate smoozing. If he likes your email enough, he might just come to your birthday party and do the macarana once his political career is in shambles! (For a small fee I'm sure)
So start churning out those emails fellow slashdotters.
Don't vote Democrat or Republican; vote intelligently!
I had a friend in high school who's parents bought him a brand new Ford Mustang. It outran my poor Honda Civic, which was about 8 years old, even though my car was regularly maintainance by certified Honda technicians. I'm absolutely positive that if I had been driving a new Honda of any model that I still would not be able to keep up with the Mustang as far as raw speed is concerned.
But as far as total cost of ownership, the Mustang loses by a long shot. My annalogy is a bit flawed however. Linux is becoming more of a Corvette at a Honda Civic price each and every day. Bah to those that think commercial software developes faster or more efficiently.
One other point, the white papers are dated June 30, 1999. That means that the test was run how long ago? All this means is that the latest version of NT outperforms old Linux technology. I'm happy that these tests are on the up and up, but I see absolutely no reason to be impressed by NT.
Yes, I've run Starcraft under WINE as well. WINE has a noticable slowing down effect on my K6200 w/32Mb system as compared to when I was running Starcraft on Windows 95b. IMHO, it is always more desirable to run games on their native platform.
I sent them an email asking for a Linux port of Blizzard's StarCraft and I recieved this reply within a couple of hours:
>Please port StarCraft by Blizzard to Linux.
Blizzard has taken a "wait and see" approach to Linux gaming. If the sales numbers are up there for our current releases, then they will be more willing to negotiate with us to port their great titles to Linux.
We hope you'll be happy with our upcoming announcements. We expect to port 16 titles next year alone.
Yes they could argue that the law is vague but the Judge can simply say "The law is NOT vague" and be done with it. Supreme Court, supreme court, yaaay supreme court!
I would like to see the court order that from now on the operating system and anything bundled with it must be open sourced. Let Microsoft bundle IE with Windows 2000 then!
As far as servers go, Apache and Netscape are neck and neck, usually running on Sun Solaris machines followed by Linux. IIS on NT doesn't even take home 10% of that market... unless you believe the Microsoft press releases.
most expensive chip available for a PC. AMD will continue to be the defacto price/performance chip manufacturer. As soon as their newer, faster Athlon chips come out they will again be the performance chip as well.
Wasn't it just a year ago that we were delighted to read this quote from an internal Microsoft document:
"Generally, Microsoft wins by attacking the core weaknesses of OSS projects.
De-commoditize protocols & applications
OSS projects have been able to gain a foothold in many server applications because of the wide utility of highly commoditized, simple protocols. By extending these protocols and developing new protocols, we can deny OSS projects entry into the market."
Sounds like this SOAP thing is just another Microsoft Trick; not a Treat...
I'm quoting this from the "hack this whatever its called" website: >>Finally, here's one last tidbit of information... pcweek is owned by Ziff-Davis publishing >>Excerpt from the ZD home page >>Ziff-Davis is a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange >>(NYSE). A majority interest is owned by SOFTBANK CORPORATION. >>SOFTBANK is Japan's largest distributor of computer software... >>Excerpt from Microsoft's home page >>REDMOND, Wash. - March 24, 1999 - Microsoft Corp. today announced it has >>signed a memorandum of understanding to enter a joint venture with Softbank >>Corp. and Yahoo! Japan to create the Japanese version of the MSN CarPoint >>online service...The initial capital of the new company will be $7 million, with 50 >>percent of its common stock owned by Softbank, 40 percent by Microsoft and 10 >>percent by Yahoo! Japan. Masayoshi Son will be CEO and president of the new >>company... >>Excerpt from the ZD home page-- >>ZIFF-DAVIS INC. >>DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS >>Masayoshi Son >> Director Draw your own conclusions, free thinkers....
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For those of you who don't know, you can send Mr. Gore an email telling him just how much you like/dislike his corporate smoozing. If he likes your email enough, he might just come to your birthday party and do the macarana once his political career is in shambles! (For a small fee I'm sure)
So start churning out those emails fellow slashdotters.
Don't vote Democrat or Republican; vote intelligently!
cool, care to expand on "lightly souped"?
I had a friend in high school who's parents bought him a brand new Ford Mustang. It outran my poor Honda Civic, which was about 8 years old, even though my car was regularly maintainance by certified Honda technicians. I'm absolutely positive that if I had been driving a new Honda of any model that I still would not be able to keep up with the Mustang as far as raw speed is concerned.
But as far as total cost of ownership, the Mustang loses by a long shot. My annalogy is a bit flawed however. Linux is becoming more of a Corvette at a Honda Civic price each and every day. Bah to those that think commercial software developes faster or more efficiently.
One other point, the white papers are dated June 30, 1999. That means that the test was run how long ago? All this means is that the latest version of NT outperforms old Linux technology. I'm happy that these tests are on the up and up, but I see absolutely no reason to be impressed by NT.
My $0.02 worth.
Yes, I've run Starcraft under WINE as well. WINE has a noticable slowing down effect on my K6200 w/32Mb system as compared to when I was running Starcraft on Windows 95b. IMHO, it is always more desirable to run games on their native platform.
More Linux games!
Cheers
Why not ask those classy fellows at Loki Entertainment Software to port it to Linux
I sent them an email asking for a Linux port of Blizzard's StarCraft and I recieved this reply within a couple of hours:
>Please port StarCraft by Blizzard to Linux.
Blizzard has taken a "wait and see" approach to Linux gaming. If the sales numbers are up there for our current releases, then they will be more willing to negotiate with us to port their great titles to Linux.
We hope you'll be happy with our upcoming announcements. We expect to port 16 titles next year alone.
Cheers,
Kayt Sorhaindoh
Loki Entertainment Software
So lets all buy up the current selection and lure more gaming companies to Linux!
And Wolfenstein was and still is awesome :)
Yes they could argue that the law is vague but the Judge can simply say "The law is NOT vague" and be done with it. Supreme Court, supreme court, yaaay supreme court!
I would like to see the court order that from now on the operating system and anything bundled with it must be open sourced. Let Microsoft bundle IE with Windows 2000 then!
My $0.02 worth.
As far as servers go, Apache and Netscape are neck and neck, usually running on Sun Solaris machines followed by Linux. IIS on NT doesn't even take home 10% of that market... unless you believe the Microsoft press releases.
most expensive chip available for a PC. AMD will continue to be the defacto price/performance chip manufacturer. As soon as their newer, faster Athlon chips come out they will again be the performance chip as well.
The site still seems to be down. Slashdot has struck again. Kinda makes you wonder how slashdot itself stays up and running...
Wasn't it just a year ago that we were delighted to read this quote from an internal Microsoft document:
"Generally, Microsoft wins by attacking the core weaknesses of OSS projects.
De-commoditize protocols & applications
OSS projects have been able to gain a foothold in many server applications because of the wide utility of highly commoditized, simple protocols. By extending these protocols and developing new protocols, we can deny OSS projects entry into the market."
Sounds like this SOAP thing is just another Microsoft Trick; not a Treat...
For a flame-baiter, you sure have a hard time detecting flame-bait...
I'm quoting this from the "hack this whatever its called" website: >>Finally, here's one last tidbit of information... pcweek is owned by Ziff-Davis publishing >>Excerpt from the ZD home page >>Ziff-Davis is a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange >>(NYSE). A majority interest is owned by SOFTBANK CORPORATION. >>SOFTBANK is Japan's largest distributor of computer software... >>Excerpt from Microsoft's home page >>REDMOND, Wash. - March 24, 1999 - Microsoft Corp. today announced it has >>signed a memorandum of understanding to enter a joint venture with Softbank >>Corp. and Yahoo! Japan to create the Japanese version of the MSN CarPoint >>online service...The initial capital of the new company will be $7 million, with 50 >>percent of its common stock owned by Softbank, 40 percent by Microsoft and 10 >>percent by Yahoo! Japan. Masayoshi Son will be CEO and president of the new >>company... >>Excerpt from the ZD home page-- >>ZIFF-DAVIS INC. >>DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS >>Masayoshi Son >> Director Draw your own conclusions, free thinkers....