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Dave U. Random wrote: Quote: People want to be free and therefore Microsoft has to DIE. It's really that simple. People don't give a spit about software "freedom". And MS isn't going anywhere - why so deluded? Quote: Linux is all about freedom. Freedom from oppression. Freedom from quality. Freedom from professional apps. Freedom from good games. Quote: All we want is freedom. Nothing more. To decide our own...

RayLopez99 <raylopez88@gmail.com> writes: Quote: Visual Studio for Linux? Are they serious? I am so excited by this news I just might switch to a Linux OS to develop programs for it. But, I have a sneaky suspicion this is not a "real" version of Visual Studio and perhaps not all the libraries are supported by it. Anybody can confirm my suspicion? Is this the complete library as found in VS for Windows or are...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Myka’s New Media Player Now Available ,----[ Quote ] | Creators of the Magic Box, Myka has announced | the availability of their new set top box | that they’re calling the ION. | | The ION is based on Ubuntu 9.10 and carries | a full software feature set. The system | supports the much beloved Boxee, which acts | as a web video aggregator. Boxee on the ION | can be synced with other...

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:08:00 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: Quote: ceed pulled this Usenet boner: On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:16:40 -0600, John Fuhrer fuhrer_spam_no_joh@yahoo.com > wrote: Why do people pay good money to go to a carnival sideshow? I'm talking about a place where two headed people, pygmies, and other supposed freaks of nature misrepresent what they really are for entertainment purposes. Why John, you shouldn't talk...

"Gregory Shearman" <ZekeGregory@netscape.net> schreef in bericht news:slrnhf6rvc.c36.ZekeGregory@netscape.net... Quote: On 2009-11-06, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote: snipped flatfish ravings Hi Gary, New nym, eh? You must be feeling like a crowd. Flatfish is more like a smashed chamber pot than a crowd. Piss coated fragments lying around everywhere.... That's not nice, my...

On Nov 8, 3:57 pm, Richard Rasker <spamt...@linetec.nl> wrote: Quote: Are you aware of the definition of "trolling"? I'm afraid that you seriously have things backward here ... I specifically defined "SERIOUS" in a way that MSFT would win. ... because you ask a question, and then tell us you don't accept any answers except the one you prefer. This is reality Richard. In a perfect...

On 2009-11-06, Vaughn Bode <unionpenny@gmail.com> wrote: Quote: On Nov 5, 11:14 pm, the piece of shit known as "Hadron" wrote: I bet And the troll loses. Quote: There's that "IF" again. Don't you trust me? Aren't I just as good as Moshe, when he claimed to have kids (what a staggering time sink they are), and claimed to fly "A Lot", and have a busy...

No wrote: Quote: Was *plonk* -- Regards, Don Zeigler Owner/proprietor, Trollus Amongus, LLC ....... The trouble with apathy these days is nobody cares.

<Quote> Microsoft has long ripped off free software. The canonical case is that when Microsoft needed to create its own TCP/IP stack, the company instead swiped one from the BSD-licensed Unixes. Years later, it seems Microsoft still can't resist stealing from open-source software. Rafael Rivera, a Microsoft fan, reports in his "Within Windows" blog that Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, a program to help...

On Nov 12, 10:50 am, RayLopez99 <raylope...@gmail.com> wrote: Quote: Until they work out a way to parallelize instructions at the instruction set, via the compiler, 99% of serious programmers stick, when at all possible, to single thread, unless for trivial stuff like waiting for the database to respond for select methods, etc. I can't tell whether that is serious or sarcasm. If you're serious, you're a moron.