I'm sorry.. the "sharing up to 10" 'feature' is just as bad.
My family doesn't use the vaginas of the females like clown cars and I would never hit the limit, but this is total bullshit. If I buy a game the family should be able to play it, whether it is 2 or 2 dozen. It's just as bad as the other DRM 'features.'
Yeah, Microsoft doesn't care about one missed sale, but if anyone that knows what DRM is refuses to buy it then it has to hurt sometime.
This would be true in the US and the UK, and India doesn't even match up to those "high" standards. He'll be in jail because someone with power will be embarrassed by this.
The way I read it this problem is just the latest edition of a stupid-user problem. They don't understand how things on a computer works so it's magic, and therefore since it's magic (and not mechanical) it should be right 100% of the time. Putting a label on the clock isn't going to help because they don't know what local computer time is. It could actually make it worse as then they have an association that somehow the BBC is involved in their local computer time. If you've ever had to do support you should know what I mean...
I'm trying to understand why setting up a script to echo a clock synced to an international time server (using timed) is an unacceptable fix. I'm a shitty programmer myself but I could implement that in a couple of hours.
Does the BBC think they have reinvent the wheel and buy some Microsoft-blessed solution or something?
Quite frankly the beef(s) *I* have is that is with suing farmers whose crops show the "patented" gene through cross pollination (because that's how nature works) and forcing GM farmers to strict contracts that don't allow them to keep seed for next years crop.
There are a lot of STINKY business practices going on here. It isn't just about the fact that they've bribed officials to write laws outlawing GM labeling or bribed officials to pass a law that makes sure they have no liability for *anything*.
Take a non-creative office drone. These days a huge percentage of their job will just be putting some information in some web-based application. The rest of the time will be doing something involving Microsoft office.
Now, assuming that it's not a shitty web ap that need IE 5 to run (big assumption, mind you) all you need is Microsoft Office and then the Android desktop becomes viable for your employees that aren't actually doing heavy work.
If Microsoft ports Office to Android they slit their own throats.
> I don't know if you've been paying attention for the past 8 or so years or not, but liberals are now all about giving control of their lives (and, as usual, income) to the government.
Bullshit. I am very liberal for these times and I don't believe that at all, and neither does anyone I know who feels they are a "liberal."
You might be confusing the fact that as a group we think corporations ought to be regulated. We tend to draw a distinction between corporate rights and individual rights where a great number of so-called "conservatives" want to blur that line every change they get.
Monsanto has a history of suing small farmers out of existence, including farmers that wanted nothing to do with Monsanto and wanted nothing to do with them but happened to have seeds or pollen of GMO plants accidentally make it onto their land. They are a predatory company that have arranged the "Intellectual Property" so that they can have a constant revenue from locked-in farmers. They could be considered a foreshadowing of how all corporate structures will work 20 years from now. I care *a lot* about that.
and that's what is going on here... right now we have a new robber barron economy and these entities are for "free markets* ONLY when the outcome is in their favor. When the outcome is not in the favor their the first to go to Congress to get a new law.
oh, more "we're so over-regulated" bullshit. It's hard to take it seriously when U.S. corporations have bulldozed the entire political structure and they're getting their way about EVERYTHING in congress. It's only the honest people following regulations at the moment and there aren't a lot of those in corporate america right now.
Can we have a month hiatus on Kim Dotcom stories? Please??
Never mind, make it a permanent hiatus. He's now just a grandstanding figure and I think he is beyond the "news for nerds" scope that/. was supposed to have. Do we really need any more info about this attention whore?
"I don't understand how businesses work!" Please note that the CEO of Circuit City (or any corporation, typically) has vested interest. This is so that they don't get rewarded for destroying the company. You point out a person who ran a business, made mistakes running this business, and destroyed it. Please note that Circuit City went out of business, and no longer has a CEO position (he's fired!). Please note that the CEO in question is James Marcum, who now makes $50K/year, according to Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/profile/james-marcum/). Your point of a single technology company which bankrupted itself is not supportive evidence of the point that "CEOs make too much money!". It is especially invalid when your example CEO now makes 10% higher than the national average salary (http://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/AWI.html).
This is either an extremely naive CEO apology or you've drunk the kool-aid. A CEO losing a job is no where NEAR equivalent to a regular worker losing a job. Sure he went to $50 a year, but read the previous post... just the bonus they paid themselves is $5 million! JUST THE BONUS. Anybody with a little sense can invest that and live of that bonus itself! And I have no idea what he was paid previously, but I am guessing millions. Also not listed is what golden parachute he got at then end of his job... another advantage a CEO has over your regular joe worker. Do you really think that's a bad consequence for him personal? It's not like he's starting from ground zero and has to LIVE on $50k a year. If Marcum is not rich now then he WAS truly an idiot. This is really a high-order false equivalency.
Newegg might be smaller than Lucent, but they are still not a Mon 'n' Pop. I know that in the corporate mind anything under a thousand employees is "small business" but, face it, Newegg is not small business.
The real tragedy with patent trolls is that the *real* small business can not fight them. They can shut down a business writing innovative software with 2-3 employees just like that.
Good for Newegg, but treating it like a David vs. Goliath win is not too smart.
I actually do think there is a major difference here, that being that it's a part of the original ap and not an add on. When ad blocking is an add on (like adblocker) it is quite obviously the user's choice and it isn't a corporate decision.
It also guarantees that a certain percentage of people will see the ads. For instance I deal with people who in my line of work that get amazed when you show them their O.S. has a built in calculator program. They don't have enough smarts or knowledge to put in an ad blocker or, god forbid, edit a hosts file!
It's funny that most of the time MS could give a rat's about feedback. The only feedback that ultimately means anything is when people stop buying their products (ala Windows 8) and they're absolutely FORCED to get out of their bubble or the product completely dies.
It seems like fragmentation is an old argument to be regularly trotted out. It's not that it isn't a problem (it is in some cases where developers rely on package managers) but when it's been used so much then the argument starts with two of three strikes. If you're going to whine about fragmentation then at least have an example to site. The examples with Linux are starting to get thin, and with Android the examples are even thinner.
The fragmentation problems that I have seen have to do with apps like Hulu mostly, and that is a TOTALLY self-caused situation.
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I'm sorry.. the "sharing up to 10" 'feature' is just as bad.
My family doesn't use the vaginas of the females like clown cars and I would never hit the limit, but this is total bullshit. If I buy a game the family should be able to play it, whether it is 2 or 2 dozen. It's just as bad as the other DRM 'features.'
Yeah, Microsoft doesn't care about one missed sale, but if anyone that knows what DRM is refuses to buy it then it has to hurt sometime.
This would be true in the US and the UK, and India doesn't even match up to those "high" standards. He'll be in jail because someone with power will be embarrassed by this.
The way I read it this problem is just the latest edition of a stupid-user problem. They don't understand how things on a computer works so it's magic, and therefore since it's magic (and not mechanical) it should be right 100% of the time. Putting a label on the clock isn't going to help because they don't know what local computer time is. It could actually make it worse as then they have an association that somehow the BBC is involved in their local computer time. If you've ever had to do support you should know what I mean...
GMT for fark's sake.
I'm trying to understand why setting up a script to echo a clock synced to an international time server (using timed) is an unacceptable fix. I'm a shitty programmer myself but I could implement that in a couple of hours.
Does the BBC think they have reinvent the wheel and buy some Microsoft-blessed solution or something?
Quite frankly the beef(s) *I* have is that is with suing farmers whose crops show the "patented" gene through cross pollination (because that's how nature works) and forcing GM farmers to strict contracts that don't allow them to keep seed for next years crop.
There are a lot of STINKY business practices going on here. It isn't just about the fact that they've bribed officials to write laws outlawing GM labeling or bribed officials to pass a law that makes sure they have no liability for *anything*.
Take a non-creative office drone. These days a huge percentage of their job will just be putting some information in some web-based application. The rest of the time will be doing something involving Microsoft office.
Now, assuming that it's not a shitty web ap that need IE 5 to run (big assumption, mind you) all you need is Microsoft Office and then the Android desktop becomes viable for your employees that aren't actually doing heavy work.
If Microsoft ports Office to Android they slit their own throats.
> I don't know if you've been paying attention for the past 8 or so years or not, but liberals are now all about giving control of their lives (and, as usual, income) to the government.
Bullshit. I am very liberal for these times and I don't believe that at all, and neither does anyone I know who feels they are a "liberal."
You might be confusing the fact that as a group we think corporations ought to be regulated. We tend to draw a distinction between corporate rights and individual rights where a great number of so-called "conservatives" want to blur that line every change they get.
The corporate interest isn't clear, causing confusion in the ranks of the most corrupt jurists...
Monsanto has a history of suing small farmers out of existence, including farmers that wanted nothing to do with Monsanto and wanted nothing to do with them but happened to have seeds or pollen of GMO plants accidentally make it onto their land. They are a predatory company that have arranged the "Intellectual Property" so that they can have a constant revenue from locked-in farmers. They could be considered a foreshadowing of how all corporate structures will work 20 years from now. I care *a lot* about that.
You really need to read some history on Monsanto. They clearly don't give a rats ass about this fact.
and that's what is going on here... right now we have a new robber barron economy and these entities are for "free markets* ONLY when the outcome is in their favor. When the outcome is not in the favor their the first to go to Congress to get a new law.
oh, more "we're so over-regulated" bullshit. It's hard to take it seriously when U.S. corporations have bulldozed the entire political structure and they're getting their way about EVERYTHING in congress. It's only the honest people following regulations at the moment and there aren't a lot of those in corporate america right now.
obviously whoever owns the land where the wild wheat is growing should be sued. It makes perfect corporate sense.
Can we have a month hiatus on Kim Dotcom stories? Please??
Never mind, make it a permanent hiatus. He's now just a grandstanding figure and I think he is beyond the "news for nerds" scope that /. was supposed to have. Do we really need any more info about this attention whore?
where da 8 track go??
Ray Manzarek dies and this shit gets posted?
Have some PRIORITIES, man!
"I don't understand how businesses work!"
Please note that the CEO of Circuit City (or any corporation, typically) has vested interest. This is so that they don't get rewarded for destroying the company. You point out a person who ran a business, made mistakes running this business, and destroyed it. Please note that Circuit City went out of business, and no longer has a CEO position (he's fired!). Please note that the CEO in question is James Marcum, who now makes $50K/year, according to Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/profile/james-marcum/). Your point of a single technology company which bankrupted itself is not supportive evidence of the point that "CEOs make too much money!". It is especially invalid when your example CEO now makes 10% higher than the national average salary (http://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/AWI.html).
This is either an extremely naive CEO apology or you've drunk the kool-aid. A CEO losing a job is no where NEAR equivalent to a regular worker losing a job. Sure he went to $50 a year, but read the previous post... just the bonus they paid themselves is $5 million! JUST THE BONUS. Anybody with a little sense can invest that and live of that bonus itself! And I have no idea what he was paid previously, but I am guessing millions. Also not listed is what golden parachute he got at then end of his job... another advantage a CEO has over your regular joe worker. Do you really think that's a bad consequence for him personal? It's not like he's starting from ground zero and has to LIVE on $50k a year. If Marcum is not rich now then he WAS truly an idiot. This is really a high-order false equivalency.
Newegg might be smaller than Lucent, but they are still not a Mon 'n' Pop. I know that in the corporate mind anything under a thousand employees is "small business" but, face it, Newegg is not small business.
The real tragedy with patent trolls is that the *real* small business can not fight them. They can shut down a business writing innovative software with 2-3 employees just like that.
Good for Newegg, but treating it like a David vs. Goliath win is not too smart.
I actually do think there is a major difference here, that being that it's a part of the original ap and not an add on. When ad blocking is an add on (like adblocker) it is quite obviously the user's choice and it isn't a corporate decision.
It also guarantees that a certain percentage of people will see the ads. For instance I deal with people who in my line of work that get amazed when you show them their O.S. has a built in calculator program. They don't have enough smarts or knowledge to put in an ad blocker or, god forbid, edit a hosts file!
It's funny that most of the time MS could give a rat's about feedback. The only feedback that ultimately means anything is when people stop buying their products (ala Windows 8) and they're absolutely FORCED to get out of their bubble or the product completely dies.
Doesn't Google get it? Microsoft is ABOVE all rules and standards.
What a joke. If Google wasn't living up to a Microsoft EULA the whining from Redmond would be unbearable where I am at from Indiana.
While there is cross-corporation wank going on here it does seem that Microsoft arrogance is coming out here again.
No one here screaming about private property??
Who cares unless you live in Utah or in a monastery?
However the Utah thing is relevant as they watch more porn per capita than anywhere else in the U.S....
It seems like fragmentation is an old argument to be regularly trotted out. It's not that it isn't a problem (it is in some cases where developers rely on package managers) but when it's been used so much then the argument starts with two of three strikes. If you're going to whine about fragmentation then at least have an example to site. The examples with Linux are starting to get thin, and with Android the examples are even thinner.
The fragmentation problems that I have seen have to do with apps like Hulu mostly, and that is a TOTALLY self-caused situation.