Comment Re:Havok (Score 5, Funny) 393
That's a new record for a Microsoft product. Lesser of two evils? Okay, occasionally. But a lesser of three!? There's hope for them yet!
Microsoft <3
you mean like this?
That's a new record for a Microsoft product. Lesser of two evils? Okay, occasionally. But a lesser of three!? There's hope for them yet!
Microsoft <3
you mean like this?
There is a growing problem in the UK from truck drivers using domestic GPS units and not units meant for the haulage industry, which are more expensive. The industry specific units avoid small lanes and villages, as well as height clearances, but the domestic ones do not. I shall leave the thought of what occurs up to your imaginations.
My imagination? Just a parallelized system of autonomic vehicles, with OpenGPS knowing where everybody is, information about your vehicle, OpenLR to know what routes are available for your vehicle, smart distributed anti-congestion technology to avoid traffic jams, and ssh to monitor and control your vehicle...
For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.
RMS, 2007
Why bother with useless junk like browsers?
But does it run on Linux?
It runs on these OSs:
You can also see specialized versions for your distro of choice on their site
At a distance of 330 light years from Earth... an error of only a few millions km isn't impossible...
Perhaps the light got dis
...what?
distorted?
disrupted?
disarmed?
disturbed?
disambiguated?
disapointed?
disassemble?
distilled?
dismissed?
dissed?
I think you accidentally the whole
"That's theft."
I'd like a shirt of that...
the ladies will love you for it, if you know what i'm saying...
in short:
google uses open standards for their services, so you can still use the service if you don't use google
microsoft uses their own protocols, so you cannot go completely without their technology
Using the google service via a standard protocol isn't abandoning google in any meaningful way.
Especially because google is a services company that doesn't derive revenue from the actual software any way. If you want to stop feeding google you have to stop using their services. Using their services with different software is meaningless.
what i meant to add to my google argument is the following:
if you want to stop with gtalk or gmail BUT still want to chat and mail with your friends, it's possible to do that without any software or protocols by google. you can open another jabber account or other pop3/imap account anywhere and use them to chat or mail your friends...
my comparison with moving houses: you can live in another house (or basement) and you can still send and receive snailmail, because that protocol is still available (even in remote areas)
if you use an msn account to chat and you want to move away from microsoft, it's NOT possible to chat with your msn-friends without the use of microsoft-protocols.
GTalk uses Jabber, a stardard protocol NOT developed by them, and has a pagee dedicated to other clients that can use Jabber and talk to GTalk users.
-facepalm-
Hint: If you are talking to other gtalk users, you are connecting to googles server with your google username and password. How does that constitute 'abandoning google'?
abandoning your current email address or im name is like moving house or changing phone number... you can leave the google service, get a jabber account from somewhere else and connect to the same friends you had before... you don't need google, and that was the point that the gp was making
As for GMail, I would say... IMAP! Again, a stardard protocol.
Sure you access your gmail via IMAP. So what? You lose out on a lot of the nifty gmail features that make people like gmail in the first place. And you again haven't abandoned google if you are still connecting to their services, whether its via IMAP or something else.
this same applies to gmail and all other email... we now have a standard protocol of sending and receiving email which isn't tied to someones platform or else require you to use someones
By your logic abandoning microsoft is just as easy. Download linux and setup pidgin with your msn account... and yee haw... no more microsoft. Oh... your on exchange too? No problem, just fire up firefox and connect to exchange's outlook web access. Or you could fool around with imap (exchange supports imap too) or you could fool around with evolution's mapi/rpc support too. But at the end of the day you still haven't meaningfully abandoned microsoft. You still depend on them.
your examples are poorly chosen because they don't use standard protocols... windows live messenger uses a microsoft made protocol and exchange is a microsoft product
in short:
google uses open standards for their services, so you can still use the service if you don't use google
microsoft uses their own protocols, so you cannot go completely without their technology
slashdot focuses mainly on the us, but i'd like to see statistics of their userbase... i wouldn't be surprised that alot of users are from other countries, as google would seem to indicate: http://www.google.com/trends?q=slashdot.org
worldpeace comes to mind
Those poor morons...
"Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like `Psychic Wins Lottery.'" -- Comedian Jay Leno
