I don't foresee MS being being put back on the anti-trust spotlight anytime soon, not until 1-2 years. While congress maybe dems now, that does not guarentee anything against MS, especially since other priorities like Iraq or Korea looming. However, once things calm down on the international front, I do hope they do drag MS back to the anti-trust court and hopefully wrap things up before another big business friendly administration comes in and ruins it again.
Mind you, I particularly don't care much for MS, however if anti-trust can break its monopoly, I do believe that it will bring about a great revolution in software quality that will be seen for many years to come. More competition = better choices for us. =)
Silly rabbit! This is slashdot. The editors don't check for accuracy nor do most posters. According to popular concensus, you don't have to be a nerd to be an editor at/. or very intelligent at all...
Mate, I'd give you mod points if I had any. You have made some good points. People criticise others but fail to see their own glaring faults. Foggy mirror?
I agree with the folks that posted about the whole "drop in the ocean" or "280 million euros is barely a dent" arguments. Until the EU hits them with even bigger fines or stiffer penalties, all MS is going to do is whine and moan and complain and stall stall stall and occasionally release whatever the EU demands.
It's not really hurting them financially, but maybe all these fines will a.) start adding up and b.) start making average people pay attention to how MS is screwing other companies up. But chances are, the average person doesn't care about MS's tactics, all they want is their damn computer to work, politics be damned. And that is why, at the end of the day, MS wins. (Mayhaps that made no sense, but it's late and I'm dead tired)
If I'm not mistaken, a while back a man paid a huge fine in 1 dollar increments. He thought it was pretty clever until the judge told him to count it to verify it all. Needless to say, he had to hire a few people to help him count the stash and got screwed even more. If anyone has the link or knows what I'm talking about, feel free to jump in. Memory is slowly fading.
I agree. The project manager took good initiative to stop everything to audit the code to cover their asses. We don't need tainted code in OSS, especially not when it is inside a very promising project. I do hope they achieve their goals, especially to show that it CAN be done WITHOUT copying. Let's just hope Ballmer and his thugs don't get trigger happy with their bs ip stuff.
Good luck to the ReactOS crew, I commend you for bearing this grueling audit and legal pratter that major companies like to threaten OSS community coders with.
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If I'm not mistaken, Go (Igo, weichi, paduk) is over 5,000 years old, probably making it the oldest board game in the world. How's that for time-tested?
I'm talking about the original HL1, not the rehashed one with fancier engine. That game had pretty badass AI that at times pissed me off because the marines appeared to work together and route me out. Also those fem-assassins were really good (maybe because their reaction timing was tweaked?). The rehashed version just showed how retarded the motions of the marines became compared to the original.
I also remember talking to one of my compsci teacher about this problem back in 2000. He and I were discussing the orders of magnitude of computing power, etc. it would take to achieve realistic AI into games. I think, with the way hardware and processing power is developing, this is only a matter of time. I hope within 10 years I can play a badass RPG and really feel like I'm part of the world, like the classic DnD meetings I had way back when.
Why is it that such stupidity comes from Texas lately? First Bush, now this...
Don't flame me, I lived in Texas for 20 years. Love the state, hate the politics.
Reminds me of an old song "Dem Dem Dry Bones" or whatever it was called. However, I can't seem to recall the "knucklebone" stanza, so hopefully the scientists won't mess up the rebuilding. =)
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Mind you, I particularly don't care much for MS, however if anti-trust can break its monopoly, I do believe that it will bring about a great revolution in software quality that will be seen for many years to come. More competition = better choices for us. =)
I tried this once, but I got vetoed by the Gaians, Spartans and Morganites. =(
Goodbye sweet karma!!!!!
For those who didn't get the reference, it's from Eddie Izzard's Dressed to Kill comedy. Brilliant he is.
So only one out of the two George's passed the Turing test? Why the hell can't this country have an aptitude test for presidency?!?!
Mate, I'd give you mod points if I had any. You have made some good points. People criticise others but fail to see their own glaring faults. Foggy mirror?
But what happens if the radiation forces a jump in evolution and they evolve into crabzilla or *shudder* politicians?
Lower the quotas, bring in a Red Lobster chain in Russia and Norway and problem solved. I hope.
It's not really hurting them financially, but maybe all these fines will a.) start adding up and b.) start making average people pay attention to how MS is screwing other companies up. But chances are, the average person doesn't care about MS's tactics, all they want is their damn computer to work, politics be damned. And that is why, at the end of the day, MS wins. (Mayhaps that made no sense, but it's late and I'm dead tired)
If I'm not mistaken, a while back a man paid a huge fine in 1 dollar increments. He thought it was pretty clever until the judge told him to count it to verify it all. Needless to say, he had to hire a few people to help him count the stash and got screwed even more. If anyone has the link or knows what I'm talking about, feel free to jump in. Memory is slowly fading.
I agree. The project manager took good initiative to stop everything to audit the code to cover their asses. We don't need tainted code in OSS, especially not when it is inside a very promising project. I do hope they achieve their goals, especially to show that it CAN be done WITHOUT copying. Let's just hope Ballmer and his thugs don't get trigger happy with their bs ip stuff. Good luck to the ReactOS crew, I commend you for bearing this grueling audit and legal pratter that major companies like to threaten OSS community coders with.
If I'm not mistaken, Go (Igo, weichi, paduk) is over 5,000 years old, probably making it the oldest board game in the world. How's that for time-tested?
I also remember talking to one of my compsci teacher about this problem back in 2000. He and I were discussing the orders of magnitude of computing power, etc. it would take to achieve realistic AI into games. I think, with the way hardware and processing power is developing, this is only a matter of time. I hope within 10 years I can play a badass RPG and really feel like I'm part of the world, like the classic DnD meetings I had way back when.
Got to dodge them all!
So the Vista version will be called MS V-GINA? Does this smell fishy or what...
Well, we would be using alien technology, but the thing always keeps being controlled by some egyptian god in the end...
Why is it that such stupidity comes from Texas lately? First Bush, now this...
Don't flame me, I lived in Texas for 20 years. Love the state, hate the politics.
I believe the shark coalition objects to that.
Congratulations, sir! I was wondering when the HL jokes were going to come...
Wow, that's a plethora of "El Guapo"'s in there, jefe!
It didn't crash as much =)
Well what do you know, no "oil rig" stanza either
Reminds me of an old song "Dem Dem Dry Bones" or whatever it was called. However, I can't seem to recall the "knucklebone" stanza, so hopefully the scientists won't mess up the rebuilding. =)
This happened to me in 15 minutes when reinstalling Windows for the umpteenth time. Love you MS!
Could this have any future implications on opening up Java to the OSS community, or would that be wishful thinking?