That's because there isn't a difference. Code that you can't change, modify, or improve is evil.
Haha, thanks for confirming it. I guess you only buy also open source houses, cars, food and so on (so that you can for example buy a tomato and "change it" into chicken meat if you believe that's better for the humanity);
Even the OSS advocate/comic writer Illiad admitted to not using GIMP and he had an amusing little comic last week or so explaining some of his reasons. Commercial software isn't necessarily evil
You don't get it, many (of course not all) *nix geeks can't differentiate the meaning of commercial and evil, even if they try real hard for real long.
It's part of a culture, the sign of something becoming a part of a culture is that you just follow it, you don't question it. Noone wants to argue for example if Microsoft is "evil" or not. They'll bring a bunch of cliche examples where they acted bad as a 'monopoly', call you ignorant or suspect you in flamebaiting, and cheat themself into ignoring that this huge company is under the hood just a bunch of mostly honest coders trying to make a living and deliver a good working product to the market.
If you look especially how much a lot of stuff like phones and computers have shrunk in the last 20 years while increasing capacity, it's enough to make you believe that powerful, wearable and unobtrusive computers etc will be common within say 15 years.
You can buy such today, however being small isn't always good, and that'a a huge obstacle to small wearing gadgets. Now if we put direct nerve interface into the picture...
Virtual 24 inch flat screen and a virtual keyboard you can type on (or even just "think" about the letters if you will) will open the way to making the computers as small as technologicallypossible while retaining usability and universal use.
BTW something we lost from the early days of computing and gadgets is that I could hammer my Apple and monitor and it'll work just fine, while my modern TFT may pop a dead pixel just if I look it in a strange way.
Modern technology is somewhat less reliable, you really gotta go to the higher end to see reliable modern products.
Of course, someone might argue that 5 1/4 floppies weren't that reliable either (especially compared to modenr Flash memory cards).
If we all had access to Free Energy, no one would have to "Earn a Living", we would just live (imagine that)
That's a nonsense and you know it. There will definitely be shocks around the industry if a new "free" energy sourse was discovered but it wouldn't mean that you don't have to earn a living at all.
If gas was free would you not need to work so you can buy a house and a car where to use that free energy? Would you not need to eat or pay for insurances, education or entertainment? Would you not need TV, phone or Internet connection?
Those are products that need far more than "free energy" to be created and operating.
The only people who can wish that alternative energy sources are not discoevered and used are those that hold the current supplies of energy in the world (oil, electrical plants?).
But I don't want to go into yet more conspiracy theories.
Why should MySpace care to protect children from "sexual predators", let the government do it, isn't this why the whole Internet in USA will be reorganised to allow snooping.
sounds like someone is gunning for a Bush cabinet position...
I thought I'm replying to an article about spammers, but of course just come here, take my statement and apply it to your political views, it should make enough sense so you can say your thing, right?
Or maybe not.
There's times when you gotta keep quiet or try diplomacy, or try legislation and arguing with words. There's also times when you gotta fight back.
But maybe you think the world is black and white and everything falls in one category.
I've some inside info and let me tell you how it works: write the best code, check for holes, make sure there are no bugs and so on and so on, but if you miss the deadline you're definitely fired.
And since the deadline is always unrealistic, all checks get down in priority as you try to keep your job hammeric code that barely works with the speed of light.
They need more people so that it becomes non-viable to attack the community.
I've not heard of BlueSecurity before, but after those stories, I'm signing up with them. I urge anyone who wants to help fight against spam and vandalism on the Internet do the same.
After all, when noone can take care of a problem for you, it's time to step up and solve it yourself.
U.S. movie studios are losing about $6.1 billion annually in global wholesale revenue to piracy, about 75% more than previous estimated losses of $3.5 billion in hard goods.
Shit, those numbers really made me think people. I really feel bad about MPAA and it's about time we start to take this seriously, and no more inane jokes.
I suggest we organize some kind of charity or something where we can donate and help MPAA recover at least a small part of the losses they endure due to the plague that piracy is. It's all our fault, and we should collectively take the blame for it as users of those products.
Also we should insist before your local politicians to lobby for a complete ban of any recordable media, and making the act of creating a backup copy a federal crime punishable jailtime and hefty fines. If you want backups, just support the studios who invested millions in creating those movies to entertain us and educate us and buy several copies of the DVD or CD.
There are some even worse offences, like recording TV shows and radio stations and repeatedly watching them with other people, in other time, and even fast forwarding the ads. This has to stop if we want to preserve the media as it is.
I know people will come and talk about "fair rights" and "recordable media is used for backup of data and personal content" but we know that's just the regular excuses of the pirates, no any CD-R or DVD-R can be used fairly, since it will in one way or another be used for copying existing data, and we know copying is a serious crime.
Maybe this will bring on an influx of new hardware enthusiasts, along with plenty of horror stories about attempted computer assembly....Will Wal-Mart shoppers migrate to Linux in order to save a hundred bucks or more, or will they even have the chance?
Yea, yea! And maybe they will all be nympomaniac blondes with huge bimbos that will be ready to do anything if you show them how to properly install a SLI video card setup on their home-made PC-s?
And they will be easily impressed when you show them your mad Perl skills?
----
Or maybe it'll create a small niche market for the already existing geeks and not change much of anything.
We can always dream though, that's what Slashdot is for.
The big difference here in any and all of your arguments that Google is doing the same thing is Microsoft is convicted of abuse of monopolistic practices and therefor has a different level of responsibility in its business practices.
The problem with this conviction is that it's true because it's true. It just happened in the past and since the inertia is to hate Microsoft and we know it's convicted we don't question it, just repeat it like a broken record.
It's a Catch 22. Sort of like Google's slogan. Do not evil. What is evil? What Sergey says is evil. Go figure.
Ok do you know those nerds that apparently have too much free time on their hands and like to make uberlong posts that refute parent posts sentence by sentence? They're pathetic, aren't they?
Well I'll do just that right now, and I don't care what you think, CUZ I'M PISSED OFF.
1. Vista OS. It's now so delayed that its consumer version will miss the 2006 Christmas season. It's now supposed to arrive in early 2007. Even when it does, all of its promised cool features have been removed and it appears to be little more than a gussied-up version of Windows XP. It appears as if it is going to be a great disappointment. This should have been the company's number one priority.
For the developers and consumers, the coolest features are Aero Glass, Indigo, Avalon, Net 2.0 and the rest of the WinFX framework. They were ultra cool but now they are just "gussied-up" XP upgrade? Get your facts straight.
Almost anything in Vista was rebuilt/enhanced: the framework, the interface, the IP stack, the color profiles, there's actually a new advanced printing standard, the audio system, EVERYTHING.
So they dropped WinFS and a few other features for a later update, and suddenly the rest is "boring"? Gimme a break!
2. Office 2007. There is nothing in this new suite that is going to do much more than sustain the product as a dominant office suite. Unfortunately seven different versions are going to be released which will just confuse things. A new enterprise version has been added which appears to have a Lotus Notes-like element called Microsoft Groove. This is being sold as some sort of solution for online collaboration. If it is anything like Notes it will create a lot of anguish with users.
"If it is anything like Notes it will create a lot of anguish with users"? what kind of a nonsense argument is that?! Is this what you have as a sign MS is dead in the water. Have you used Office 2007, what would you do better than Microsoft if you were in their place? Just flamebaiting as always.
3. MSN. Microsoft should have abandoned MSN a decade ago. There is a lot of talk about Microsoft becoming more of a publisher and selling advertising. Microsoft should be buying advertising not selling it. This is not a media publishing company; it's a software publishing company. Why people keep encouraging Microsoft to go in this direction is baffling.
Maybe they should've stuck to making Basic compilers for 8-bit computers? Grow up, companies evolve and adapt to a changing market. You were whining when Microsoft was slow to discover the Internet, now whining they are discovering it.
4. MSN Search Engine. Again more of the same and pointless. Selling ads
Yea shit, selling ads and pocketing the money. Totally pointless, why would anyone care about this thing called uhmm, revenew... uhmm reveneu, revenue, what was it anyway? Totally pointless.
5. Xbox360. The potential to become the dominant game platform and an eventual and enviable profit center. Unfortunately the company did not foresee the Sony delays and failed to manufacture enough units to satisfy the demand. This was an exhibition of poor planning and bad business intelligence gathering.
That's total nonsense again. The initial shortage of units happened because of simultaneous world wide release. It had nothing to do with "foreseeing" the Sony delays.
And right now Microsoft is making and selling enough units to meet the demand. So where is the damn issue?
6. Pad-based computing. According to Gates just a few years back this was to become the dominant form of computing by now. What happened?
You said Apple is buying Adobe, Adobe buying Microsoft buying RedHat buying the Moon and blah blah.
What happened? What happened is you had no idea what you're talking most of the time, while Microsoft knows what it's doing most of the time. Noone is protected from errors, neither is Microsoft.
Slashdot Mirror
Once the inspection team gets in, they try to get the customer to buy more products.
Can you please let me know how the heck do they convince the customer to buy more if he's totally legit?
And if he's not, buying the products he needs seems like the least evil that can happen to him (compared to legal prosecution).
They deserve a break
No I think they like it
That's because there isn't a difference. Code that you can't change, modify, or improve is evil.
Haha, thanks for confirming it. I guess you only buy also open source houses, cars, food and so on (so that you can for example buy a tomato and "change it" into chicken meat if you believe that's better for the humanity);
Even the OSS advocate/comic writer Illiad admitted to not using GIMP and he had an amusing little comic last week or so explaining some of his reasons. Commercial software isn't necessarily evil
You don't get it, many (of course not all) *nix geeks can't differentiate the meaning of commercial and evil, even if they try real hard for real long.
It's part of a culture, the sign of something becoming a part of a culture is that you just follow it, you don't question it. Noone wants to argue for example if Microsoft is "evil" or not. They'll bring a bunch of cliche examples where they acted bad as a 'monopoly', call you ignorant or suspect you in flamebaiting, and cheat themself into ignoring that this huge company is under the hood just a bunch of mostly honest coders trying to make a living and deliver a good working product to the market.
If you look especially how much a lot of stuff like phones and computers have shrunk in the last 20 years while increasing capacity, it's enough to make you believe that powerful, wearable and unobtrusive computers etc will be common within say 15 years.
You can buy such today, however being small isn't always good, and that'a a huge obstacle to small wearing gadgets. Now if we put direct nerve interface into the picture...
Virtual 24 inch flat screen and a virtual keyboard you can type on (or even just "think" about the letters if you will) will open the way to making the computers as small as technologicallypossible while retaining usability and universal use.
BTW something we lost from the early days of computing and gadgets is that I could hammer my Apple and monitor and it'll work just fine, while my modern TFT may pop a dead pixel just if I look it in a strange way.
Modern technology is somewhat less reliable, you really gotta go to the higher end to see reliable modern products.
Of course, someone might argue that 5 1/4 floppies weren't that reliable either (especially compared to modenr Flash memory cards).
If we all had access to Free Energy, no one would have to "Earn a Living", we would just live (imagine that)
That's a nonsense and you know it. There will definitely be shocks around the industry if a new "free" energy sourse was discovered but it wouldn't mean that you don't have to earn a living at all.
If gas was free would you not need to work so you can buy a house and a car where to use that free energy?
Would you not need to eat or pay for insurances, education or entertainment? Would you not need TV, phone or Internet connection?
Those are products that need far more than "free energy" to be created and operating.
The only people who can wish that alternative energy sources are not discoevered and used are those that hold the current supplies of energy in the world (oil, electrical plants?).
But I don't want to go into yet more conspiracy theories.
Why should MySpace care to protect children from "sexual predators", let the government do it, isn't this why the whole Internet in USA will be reorganised to allow snooping.
the FTC has sued five different background investigation firms for selling confidential phone records.
Good, the competition is eliminated...
sounds like someone is gunning for a Bush cabinet position...
I thought I'm replying to an article about spammers, but of course just come here, take my statement and apply it to your political views, it should make enough sense so you can say your thing, right?
Or maybe not.
There's times when you gotta keep quiet or try diplomacy, or try legislation and arguing with words. There's also times when you gotta fight back.
But maybe you think the world is black and white and everything falls in one category.
I've some inside info and let me tell you how it works: write the best code, check for holes, make sure there are no bugs and so on and so on, but if you miss the deadline you're definitely fired.
And since the deadline is always unrealistic, all checks get down in priority as you try to keep your job hammeric code that barely works with the speed of light.
They need more people so that it becomes non-viable to attack the community.
I've not heard of BlueSecurity before, but after those stories, I'm signing up with them. I urge anyone who wants to help fight against spam and vandalism on the Internet do the same.
After all, when noone can take care of a problem for you, it's time to step up and solve it yourself.
Fighting abuse with abuse is bad.
Agreed, it's bad. Also when someone kicks you or hits you or whatever, if you beat him up, that's really bad.
But you know what? It works. And in the end of the way, that's all that matters.
Microsoft will make sure this plugin won't work well for a long time ;)
This September: Original Unaltered Trilogy on DVD
See Han Solo shoot first
Rated M for extreme violence with a laser gun towards alien species.
you keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means
I used it just once, I don't think you know what "keep using it" means.
U.S. movie studios are losing about $6.1 billion annually in global wholesale revenue to piracy, about 75% more than previous estimated losses of $3.5 billion in hard goods.
Shit, those numbers really made me think people. I really feel bad about MPAA and it's about time we start to take this seriously, and no more inane jokes.
I suggest we organize some kind of charity or something where we can donate and help MPAA recover at least a small part of the losses they endure due to the plague that piracy is. It's all our fault, and we should collectively take the blame for it as users of those products.
Also we should insist before your local politicians to lobby for a complete ban of any recordable media, and making the act of creating a backup copy a federal crime punishable jailtime and hefty fines. If you want backups, just support the studios who invested millions in creating those movies to entertain us and educate us and buy several copies of the DVD or CD.
There are some even worse offences, like recording TV shows and radio stations and repeatedly watching them with other people, in other time, and even fast forwarding the ads. This has to stop if we want to preserve the media as it is.
I know people will come and talk about "fair rights" and "recordable media is used for backup of data and personal content" but we know that's just the regular excuses of the pirates, no any CD-R or DVD-R can be used fairly, since it will in one way or another be used for copying existing data, and we know copying is a serious crime.
Maybe this will bring on an influx of new hardware enthusiasts, along with plenty of horror stories about attempted computer assembly. ...Will Wal-Mart shoppers migrate to Linux in order to save a hundred bucks or more, or will they even have the chance?
Yea, yea! And maybe they will all be nympomaniac blondes with huge bimbos that will be ready to do anything if you show them how to properly install a SLI video card setup on their home-made PC-s?
And they will be easily impressed when you show them your mad Perl skills?
----
Or maybe it'll create a small niche market for the already existing geeks and not change much of anything.
We can always dream though, that's what Slashdot is for.
VLC or MPlayer
I use Windows Media Player with the pink Britney Spears skin!
Oh shit that's a Linux geeks gathering isn't it... please have mercy on my poor soul, it was a mistake!
*runs away*
I guess if he makes more than one prediction at once, there's more of a chance that he'll be right with at least one of them!
:( ...
His article titles will suck, so the editors were against that:
"Microsoft: 0%, 1%, 2%, 3%, 4%, 5%, 6%, 7%, 8%, 9%, 10%, 11%, 12%, 13%, 14%, 15%, 16%, 17%, 18%, 19%, 20%, 21%, 22%, 23%, 24%, 25%, 26%, 27%, 28%, 29%, 30%, 31%, 32%, 33%, 34%, 35%, 36%, 37%, 38%, 39%, 40%, 41%, 42%, 43%, 44%, 45%, 46%, 47%, 48%, 49%, 50%, 51%, 52%, 53%, 54%, 55%, 56%, 57%, 58%, 59%, 60%, 61%, 62%, 63%, 64%, 65%, 66%, 67%, 68%, 69%, 70%, 71%, 72%, 73%, 74%, 75%, 76%, 77%, 78%, 79%, 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99% or 100% dead in the water?"
BTW, no I didn't type that by hand... I wonder if making a script about it will make me look better though
If Dvorak is right... ...and he almost never is.
;)
That pretty much sums up my mad 10 page comment slight down here... Ok now I feel bad for the wasted time
The big difference here in any and all of your arguments that Google is doing the same thing is Microsoft is convicted of abuse of monopolistic practices and therefor has a different level of responsibility in its business practices.
The problem with this conviction is that it's true because it's true. It just happened in the past and since the inertia is to hate Microsoft and we know it's convicted we don't question it, just repeat it like a broken record.
It's a Catch 22. Sort of like Google's slogan. Do not evil. What is evil? What Sergey says is evil. Go figure.
If you think you could do better, find it and submit it.
Actually that's precisely what I think, and maybe this is why I'm releasing a news blog in roughly 10 days...
Ok do you know those nerds that apparently have too much free time on their hands and like to make uberlong posts that refute parent posts sentence by sentence? They're pathetic, aren't they?
.Net fra
Well I'll do just that right now, and I don't care what you think, CUZ I'M PISSED OFF.
1. Vista OS. It's now so delayed that its consumer version will miss the 2006 Christmas season. It's now supposed to arrive in early 2007. Even when it does, all of its promised cool features have been removed and it appears to be little more than a gussied-up version of Windows XP. It appears as if it is going to be a great disappointment. This should have been the company's number one priority.
For the developers and consumers, the coolest features are Aero Glass, Indigo, Avalon, Net 2.0 and the rest of the WinFX framework. They were ultra cool but now they are just "gussied-up" XP upgrade? Get your facts straight.
Almost anything in Vista was rebuilt/enhanced: the framework, the interface, the IP stack, the color profiles, there's actually a new advanced printing standard, the audio system, EVERYTHING.
So they dropped WinFS and a few other features for a later update, and suddenly the rest is "boring"? Gimme a break!
2. Office 2007. There is nothing in this new suite that is going to do much more than sustain the product as a dominant office suite. Unfortunately seven different versions are going to be released which will just confuse things. A new enterprise version has been added which appears to have a Lotus Notes-like element called Microsoft Groove. This is being sold as some sort of solution for online collaboration. If it is anything like Notes it will create a lot of anguish with users.
"If it is anything like Notes it will create a lot of anguish with users"? what kind of a nonsense argument is that?! Is this what you have as a sign MS is dead in the water. Have you used Office 2007, what would you do better than Microsoft if you were in their place? Just flamebaiting as always.
3. MSN. Microsoft should have abandoned MSN a decade ago. There is a lot of talk about Microsoft becoming more of a publisher and selling advertising. Microsoft should be buying advertising not selling it. This is not a media publishing company; it's a software publishing company. Why people keep encouraging Microsoft to go in this direction is baffling.
Maybe they should've stuck to making Basic compilers for 8-bit computers? Grow up, companies evolve and adapt to a changing market. You were whining when Microsoft was slow to discover the Internet, now whining they are discovering it.
4. MSN Search Engine. Again more of the same and pointless. Selling ads
Yea shit, selling ads and pocketing the money. Totally pointless, why would anyone care about this thing called uhmm, revenew... uhmm reveneu, revenue, what was it anyway? Totally pointless.
5. Xbox360. The potential to become the dominant game platform and an eventual and enviable profit center. Unfortunately the company did not foresee the Sony delays and failed to manufacture enough units to satisfy the demand. This was an exhibition of poor planning and bad business intelligence gathering.
That's total nonsense again. The initial shortage of units happened because of simultaneous world wide release. It had nothing to do with "foreseeing" the Sony delays.
And right now Microsoft is making and selling enough units to meet the demand. So where is the damn issue?
6. Pad-based computing. According to Gates just a few years back this was to become the dominant form of computing by now. What happened?
You said Apple is buying Adobe, Adobe buying Microsoft buying RedHat buying the Moon and blah blah.
What happened? What happened is you had no idea what you're talking most of the time, while Microsoft knows what it's doing most of the time. Noone is protected from errors, neither is Microsoft.
7. Dot Net initiative. The
Why the HELL you waste our time with Dvorak's nonsensical jabber?
Since when is over 70% less than 50%?