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Whatever happened to Munich 3459
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 10:51:38 -0600, Linønut Good point, but the zealot Linux community would be on...
on the directive on the patentability of computer implemented inventions
Software Patent Legislation Benchmarking Conference Recent developments in granting and use of software patents, Lisbon...
Help me....please.... somebody help me... 3461
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Edwin wrote on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:54:41 GMT Would you prefer I...
Help me....please.... somebody help me... 3462
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Edwin wrote on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 22:27:53 GMT We have ways of doing that. :-) One method: slap a cygwin installation (with X) on it, configure X to take up the whole screen...
Help me....please.... somebody help me... 3463
On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:32:37 +0000, Edwin Well actually...no, I'm not. Can't say I much agree with anything...
OSS more "closed" than CSS 3464
Only if the other companies are structured in the same way. The whole idea of modifying the application is so...
OSS more "closed" than CSS 3465
It also depends on the situation in their industry as a whole. Take movies, for example. Right now, the movie market as a whole has some serious compebreastion for entertainment...
OSS more "closed" than CSS 3466
Jamie"posted the following on 2006-04-04: Nonsense. If you have added functional enhancements which help you in a certain professional arena, then they will help others. In fact : its...
OSS more "closed" than CSS 3467
John Bailo Then they can pbutt that Word document to me on OO and I can edit it and pbutt it back for them to continue editing it. How ever...
OSS more "closed" than CSS 3468
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Tue, 4 Apr 2006 08:23:00 -0400 Indeed. The innovations at Microsoft are thick and...
Microsoft Gets U.S. Government Backing in EU Anbreastrust Dispute 3468 plus 1
Dear Paul, My own bias (I don't have any particular facts) is to discount the idea of collusion between the US government and Microsoft on thngs like backdoors for security purposes. Well...
Microsoft Gets U.S. Government Backing in EU Anbreastrust Dispute 3470
Dear Mark, You may be right, but my own inclination is not to go too far overboard on conspiracy theories. As I say, I don't have the facts (if it were true...
Microsoft Gets U.S. Government Backing in EU Anbreastrust Dispute 3471
begin oeprotect.scr I would never wish to underestimate the activities of the secret services. In particular, if anything, since the cold-war, budgets for the spions have risen, not fallen. I agree. To be honest...
I'm about to become a 12 millionaire
Hey guys, looks like I'll be dumping Linux and switching to Windows shortly. After I beomce a 1-2 millionaire I'll then be able to afford a copy of Windows Vista, the hardware...
I'm about to become a 12 millionaire
While dancing and signing to Enya's Carribean Blue, BearItAll exclaimed: See, that's just plain wrong. You can't extend the length...
MS confesses: "Malware Reinstalling often the only remedy
We've all known it for years, and most Redmond vict^H^H^H^H average Windows home users go...
Novell: =UTF8BaXTigJlz= the Linux desktop user stupid
John Bailo I didn't like that writer very much. I wanted to smack him in the nose after the first paragraph. RedHat, the...
Apple Is Now Dell, Jr. ! 3476
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-04-05, John Bailo spake thusly: Says who? Microsoft? Apple moved...
Apple Is Now Dell, Jr. ! 3478
Rick Lets see. You admit that no one is going to buy Macs just to run windows...
Apple Is Now Dell, Jr. ! 3479
I'm going to explain this once more and that's it: Apple's press release on Boot Camp reads like this, right off the top. "Apple Introduces Boot Camp Public...
Apple Is Now Dell, Jr. ! 3480
Alan Baker You mean you're finally going to end your sick crusade to tear me down for making...
Apple Is Now Dell, Jr. ! 3481
Edwin I disagree. MAC is sitting on a UNIX like system which is more akin to Linux than MS Win. Had the *shell* of MS Win been put on top of the...
Apple Is Now Dell, Jr. ! 3484
Mitch Yet another misuse of the phrase "straw man." You did, when you declared "there is no uncertainty on the part of people...
100 laptop is run by scam artists
100 laptop is run by scam artists Please please please steer clear of these dum dums The...
100 laptop is run by scam artists 3486
On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 14:27:09 -0500, Linonut I agree. Something about this whole thing appears very suspicious. Like how they stated they plan to go with Linux...
100 laptop is run by scam artists 3487
snips On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:43:38 +0000, 7 Hate to break it to you, but that's simply wrong. There are two major failings with such notions. The first is...
100 laptop is run by scam artists 3488
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 09:05:12 -0700, Kelsey Bjarnason Trade is required. No community can supply all it's needs and must trade for things it cannot produce. I grow bananas and coffee and sugar...
100 laptop is run by scam artists 3489
No it's not. How much would you charge if *you* were growing bananas. Or sugar. Or coffee...
100 laptop is run by scam artists 3490
snips On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:04:25 +0000, Lobo Or nothing. You fail to grasp a very basic point: if these people...
100 laptop is run by scam artists 3491
begin oeprotect.scr They haven't been, in the main. For many of these people, the 'brink...
100 laptop is run by scam artists 3492
snips On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 05:59:53 +0000, Lobo The land they're on, the lack of everything from reliable water to usable fertilizers. Might be nice if you stopped to realize the entire...
100 laptop is run by scam artists 3494
snips On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 16:48:40 +0000, Lobo On the contrary; I have addressed it. Here, I'll point it out to you *again*. Poverty does lead to hunger...
100 laptop is run by scam artists 3495
On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 19:07:53 GMT, Kelsey Bjarnason I have repeatedly posted links that deal with the root causes of *both* global and local hunger. A...
100 laptop is run by scam artists 3496
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:23:52 -0700, Jim Richardson The US (and other Western powers) have been meddling in Central and South America's affairs in the service...
100 laptop is run by scam artists 3497
A study of the history of international trade between the first world and the third world countries would show how trade has...
100 laptop is run by scam artists 3498
begin oeprotect.scr I don't confuse it at all... The concern I have is balancing the needs of the...
100 laptop is run by scam artists 3499
I was playing "devil's advocate" in an attempt to get a less simplistic answer. ;-) One of the reasons many of the poor...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3500
Jim Well, Jack, the law states that you only need a licence "installed or used for the purpose or receiving (whether by means of wireless telegraphy or otherwise) any television programme service, whether or not...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3501
That too. I've had TVLA Bristol throw all sorts of bullpoo at me, on four different occasions; first time was because I had a computer plugged into a black & white portable in the...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3502
Roy Culley Anual Television costs in the UK. BBC = (compulsory) £131 ITV = £0 Sky = (mid range package...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! Machine: #3, Drive #1 OS: SuSE 10.1
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 12:05:44 +0200, Roy Culley Yes, they do make *some* good programs. The problem I have with the BBC is that when they *do* make...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3504
begin oeprotect.scr You need to consider that for the vast majority of the audience out there, Only Fools & Horses is the height of entertainment, indeed, they'd probably be quite upset if it...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3505
PBS. Supposedly the same with PBS. They run ads and call them something else. PBS has little quality programming. They get a little, and some of it comes from the BBC and other places, but...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3506
M well, yes it did. A long time ago. Long before PCs, in fact. A PC is capable (when so equipped) of receiving and rendering broadcast TV signals, hence is liable for a...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3507
Jim ... Where the TV licence question for PCs arose is not the inclusion of a TV card (for which a licence would be required *IF* installed and used for the purpose of receiving...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3508
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Edwin wrote on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:02:52 GMT Errrrruuuhhhmmmm......how, exactly, does that forestall piracy?? Ah. Yes. That might work, provided the key is...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3509
Well you are half right, goat, it won't fly. But it won't fly because it is a lame way for you wizards to try to compete. A company works diligently to gain...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3510
Cry me a river, ed! They made deals with other, much larger, companies that worked in their favor. That is being clever and is as above board as anything in business...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3511
billwg The deals they made were to sell at reduced prices to OEMs that agreed not to sell competing OS. That's neither clever nor above board. Losing? The market isn't...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3512
They bought it, according to all accounts, for some $50K. There are other legends, of course, feel free to try to advance your own favorite. Here's a reference to mine...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3513
I am sure your anecdote suits your emotions, bobo, but do you really think that it is an unbiased accounting? "IhateMS.htm"? Says it all. You might just...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3514
Now you are just being downright mendacious, bobo! LOL!!! People say that Peterson cloned CP-M's look and feel and may have done some reverse engineering, but how would he get...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3515
Totally bogus, bobo, it never happened. They are making all that up apparently. Find any reference anywhere but in the MS-haters sites. As to...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3516
The absence of any WMD in Iraq has been widely reported by totally unbiased news agencies, bobo. Even Bush...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3517
Oh it is not such a secret. Read the papers published by the analysts on the Naval War College site. Bush has...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3518
So long as you completely ignore all the following political complications. Essentially no one voiced any serious objection to our invasion of Afghanistan, and if we'd stayed there, and spent...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3519
While performing an interpretive dance to Enya's Carribean Blue, Ray Ingles exclaimed: Everbody seems to underestimate the Mosad and the I.D.F...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3520
There is a lot of truth to this. I often think that Bush doesn't actually want to...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3521
Of course, the actual code's been a distant second to the brand in terms of priorities. They've been running into...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3522
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Rick wrote on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:26:42 GMT At best, the above is simplistic. The market leader at one point, for instance, was in fact...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3523
The Ghost In The Machine ... Depends how you define "debts" - doesn't MS have a Debt Consolidation of fines to pay the EU for failure to provide proper specs? ... Winmodems...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3524
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Robert Newson wrote on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 10:33:46 GMT An interesting subpoint...I have no idea how that will look in their Yahoo! financial statements. Actually, the...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3525
The Ghost In The Machine ... ... ... I never actually stated what kind it was...except that it connected via serial and used AT commands; it came as a footnote in part of the sentence...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3526
The Ghost In The Machine ... Probably more a case of Sinclair demonstrated the technology (like the ZX Printer was raster scanned by the Z80 processor of the ZX81 (aka Timex 1000); IIRC, even the screen...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3527
Bobbie As you pleed guilty to your crime you only face a sentence of hung and drawn, quartering is reserved for those who mention Ballmer's name in derogoratory fashion. Oh, sorry, just...
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