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Corporate America Wary of Subscription Software
medical_geek writes: "According to this
article
on cio.com,
MS's subscription service is failing in the business world. I guess
that personal users are not the only group that balks at paying a yearly
fee for software. My question is have you at your job bit the bullet
and signed up as an early adopter, or are you rolling the dice and seeing
if this experiment fails?" This article focuses only on Microsoft, but the same analysis probably explains why ASPs haven't taken off like they were supposed to, either.
I've got it to burn, but everyone needs to know the truth.
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Opera Breakable after all
To whet your appetite, consider the current moderation on the parent post of this thread:
Moderation Totals: Offtopic=94, Flamebait=2, Troll=4, Redundant=3, Insightful=18, Interesting=59, Informative=15, Funny=2, Overrated=2, Underrated=11, Total=210.
cos ive seen this linked to all over /.
ive seen it, everyones seen it. move on
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2000-06-28 17:44:39 Roblimo Went Down on RMS for $5!!! (articles,news) (rejected)
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who sailed the sea
and he told us of his life,
in yell-ow sub-marine!
According to this article on slashdot.org, Slashdot's moderation scheme is failing in the News For Nerds, Stuff that Matters world. I guess that trolls are not the only group that balks at editors having unlimited moderation capabilities. My question is have you at your job bit the bullet and signed up as an moderator, or are you rolling the dice and seeing if this experiment fails?"
United States special forces have stumbled across yet another hastily
abandoned building that housed the headquarters of the Al Qaeda International Network. Scattered all over the premises were documents that clearly indicated that Al Qaeda was planning more attacks around the world. Amongst the huge amount of highly incriminating evidence found was a training manual entitled "International Terrorism for Dummies". There was also a printed map entitled "London Hop-on Hop-off" showing prominent landmarks that could possibly be terrorist targets. Scribbled at the bottom of this map were some Arabic words which have been translated by State Department officials. The translation reads : "Meet granny at Waterloo station at 11". Security experts agree that the word waterloo means 'a final defeat' and could be a coded signal for terorrist action and the '11' could be a reference to September 11th. The most significant find was a video tape showing Ossama Bin Laden and his colleagues revelling in the unfortunate encounter of President George Bush with a pretzel. Bin Laden is heard saying that they had been planning for very long to develop a pretzel that had exactly the right shape to lodge in the throat and create some discomfort. Bin Laden said (while laughing gleefully) : "We never expected the infidel Bush to faint......this was far more than we planned.... we really (unintelligible) him up this time." Throughout the 30 minute video Bin Laden and his associates are seen grinning widely and munching pretzels close to the camera lens. In an act of defiance Bin Laden repeatedly shouts disparagingly at the camera: "We got you Mr Pretz, we got you Mr Pretz!"
Muslim organizations in the United States immediately condemned Bin Laden's statements saying that Islam expressedly forbids the sending of lethal pretzels to presidents. However many extremist Muslim organizations abroad have denounced the tape as a fraud, saying that Bin Laden and his colleagues would never think of eating a pretzel because it is a snack favoured by Jews. They would have considered the tape to be authentic if Bin Laden and his men were seen munching on something like 'jelebi' -- a sweet widely favoured by Afghans, Arabs and Pakistanis. But in an interview with Christiane Amanpour, Mr Peter Bergen, the fellow who became a 'terrorist expert' after one meeting with Bin Laden many years ago, said that while the jelebi is much larger, no one can deny that it is exactly the same shape as the pretzel."The link is very clear", he said. Interviewed on the Larry King Show today, Mr Richard Butler the UN weapons' inspector said : "While I was in Iraq I ate many suspicious looking pretzels
and I am convinced that Iraq has the potential to produce a pretzel capable of inflicting mass destruction. I therefore propose that we should without delay drop at least a dozen nuclear bombs on Iraq to stifle their potential to produce such horrific weapons."
It can be disclosed that President Bush in an hour long call to Prime
Minister Tony Blair informed him of the seriousness of the situation. Mr Blair acted immediately and in wide ranging action went much further than the Americans. He immediately cancelled an item on the menu for supper the same evening. It was an eastern delicacy called 'samoosa'. Terrorist experts concurred that the samoosa is perhaps far more dangerous than the pretzel because it has three very pointy ends that could do a great deal of damage if swallowed quickly. Scotland Yard is investigating reports that samoosas hurled from a distance could have the same destructive effect as the blade of an angle-grinder and because of its shape will, like a boomerang, return to the thrower of this weapon. At various locations throughout the country military experts have been seen flinging samoosas at cardboard targets to determine exactly how much of a danger they pose. Mr Blair has also
announced that Britain has been put on a Samoosa Watch. Extra undercover policeman have been rushed to Southall, Brixton and Bradford.
In a related development Mr Bush appeared on CNN earlier to ask the Pakistan leader, Pervez Mussharaf: "Are you for us or are you for samoosas?" However it would appear that Mr Mussharaf had prior knowledge of the situation as hundreds of pirate copies of the Bin Laden Pretzel Tape were already in the Karachi flea-markets long before the US soldiers found the original in Afghanistan.
A report that has just come in and which has yet to be confirmed states that a man was arrested on a plane in Boston for sneaking pretzels from his shoe and secretly eating them. While he was being taken away in shackles and a hood over his head he shouted to journalists : "I'm innocent! Help me! I only did it because I hate airline food. I can't take airline food....help meeeee!" He was dragged away and promptly sedated for speaking such terrible lies and put on the next flight to Cuba. In a White House press briefing Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld disclosed that the CIA has just received a report that Bin Laden is planning to release another video within a week. The tape is called "The OBL 10-days-to-a-perfect-body Exercise Workout".
Interviewed on CNN's 'Insight' today Jane Fonda, known as 'Hanoi Jane' for her in depth knowledge of the Vietcong terrorists, said, somewhat
cryptically: "Exercise is fine as long as it doesn't lead to military
exercise." Sources at the Pentagon disclosed that a further Bin Laden tape: "Cooking with Qaeda" is expected to be released soon. FBI agents stationed at bazaars in Peshawar have been put on high alert
We expect people who run a very popular weblog/discussion site who constantly preach openness and free speech and who also say that the site is self-moderated to actually live up to their word instead of moderating an entire thread of well over 100 posts down indiscrimantly instead of letting the users take care of it themselves.
"I can see this festering if there isnt a legitimate thread on it soon."
As seen on slashdot
Burning Karma to protect the rights of slashdot users everywhere since 16-01-2002
Why?
1... MS's WHOREing pricing policy... high prices for crappy software.
2... MS's insecure software... companies and corporations are not going to stand for viruses and worms hitting their systems every few weeks... data recovery is expensive.
3... MS's illegal business practices... as well as illegal tax and dividend practices.
4... Companies are increasingly wary that MS is looking over their shoulder... if viruses can send your email around... what's to keep MS from looking all over your hard drive for insider information, mail information etc... CONSIDER this as well, if you are a government... are YOU going to let your data be read by others outside the office (whether by virus, or by secret intent?). I think not!
Corporations are sick of being whored.... in our own corporation we are phasing out all MS products and computers. As each machine retires, it is being replaced by UNIX boxes (SUN, OSX etc).
So not only is MS's business practices going to kill itself... it will kill Intel, DELL, Compaq, and right down the line... as people are convinced that anything with MS on it is appaling insecure... overpriced... and not worth the gamble.
Say NO to microsoft... say NO to their forced pricing changes... say NO to SOFTWARE UPDATE (just how many new features do you need anyway)... and say NO to their proposed INCREASED SECURITY -- there are plenty of secure systems out there today... that don't require rewriting... and that don't crash... and that don't email your private data to the entire world.
The thing that I am worried about is that they will find that they CAN unite and fuck us worse than they are right now.
;-).
I'm an American, and I believe in small business's.. I have worked for a few major corps, and it isn't about selling toothpaste, it's about making your departement look better than the other persons.... Working with transvestites (I'm not against it, I just don't want to do it), shit like that...
They built their own shithouse, let them sit in it for a while.
Big corp money > Big corp money = TRUE
Big corp money > Little guy = FALSE
It's crap, but it's true.... and it sucks.
It's time the small business's do something about getting dumped on, us too.... Run linux, be happy, bitch about problems in websites that don't allow opensource browsers and force you to use insecure "plug-ins" and java, and run gnu....
I am still looking for a bank that has online banking without java. Also, I am still waiting on pater to get my account figured out
ThePlumber2 ~= ThePlumber
My karma sucks, how about you?