Nope. I just use email. There is no need to cry if my dopey little free beer client don't work. You can bake your cake and eat it.
Closed source software sucks now, huh? If they break it, you're screwed. It's funny to watch MicroShit cry foul. They've done their best to break everything else from everyone else.
AOL is changing their software to break Microsoft's and protect their severs. So what? Server protection is justified, software breaking is the Microsoft way.
Microsoft software broken by someone else, how can it be? I thought it was supposed to be one network, one computer, one program. Boo Hoo Hoo!
Plagerism is the lowest accademic dishonesty. When commited in ignornace, it's just rude. Erudition is what the University is for. When commited by someone who knows better it's a crime, and that is what lawsuits are for. These note farms are a screw for all involved.
I know proffessor who have spent years getting their notes right, and I can understand them being angry at plagerism. These folks are doing it for love and glory. There's not much money in text book writing, even less in publishing articles, and less than that in lectures. Proffessors deserve credit for and editorial control of their work. They don't get that from the copy machine monkey down the street, who's trying to make a living off this kind of thing. Who's notes are right? The monkey has no idea. A good lecture is a fine thing, have some respect for your proffesor.
Anyhow, who needs to buy notes? You can get good notes from the files of most proffesional societies for free if you need them. Mostly, my peers and texts have been much more helpful. Get together with your friends and enjoy learning and problem solving. This is much better than carefully formating your notes for a not so quick buck. Sharing really is better.
Sure, it applies to textbooks. Just try to sell your notes from a text book lecture. What, no takers? Duh! The text book, with indexes contents and neat pictures, is always a better reference.
Some have more to gripe about than others. Most of the proffesors that I know take great care to put their own insight into lectures, even when they follow a text. Their notes are origninal, and some are planning to write textbooks from those notes. Money is not the motivator there. It takes years of teaching to get it right and I've never heard of someone getting rich this way. I can understand them being offended by some third party copy machine monkey trying to make a living off their work. Even more irritating is the lack of editorial control and misrepresentation. How is the monkey going to know who's notes are right? No reffernces and no original content is plagerism. All publishers, no matter how small should be held to the same standards, and you should not settle for second best.
I've never bought a set of notes, and I never will. Good notes can be seen in the files of most proffesional societies, but their value is generally in the taking. My peers have usually been more help live than on dead trees. Get together with your friends and learn.
1. Licensing. Will I have to upgrade it every year to get good quality coffee at home while I'm at the office?
2. Y2K. Will the Y2k bug fry the embedded Processor? What about the embeded Perculator?
3. Viruses. Will some evil hacker be able to turn it into a tea machine by an email bomb? Suppose someone mails it a chain letter, will it make my washing machine puke?
4. Adverts/tie-ins. Would it refuse to process non Sun/Sony coffee?
5. Programing not Free. Would the auto-run be able to override my favorite methods?
6. Jabber. What if my Emotion Engine just can't get along with all the other appliances? Will Sun produce a virtual Opra talk show while I'm at work?
7. Cross-talk. Could Mario Brothers convince my coffee machine to jump off the counter? Could the washing machine convince the coffee maker to eat soap?
8. UPS. What happens if the battery dies, or lightening strikes?
9. Security/Privacy. Could this thing record my bank info and then spend all my money on a lifetime supply of coffee out of Y2k fears? Would it report my coffee drinking habits to Sun?
10. Slashdot. Would I have to fire the coffee machine because it got addicted to Slashdot and refused to make coffee?
Oh, my God! It's a pile of sticks, were all going to die! -Blair Witch Project
1. Licensing. Will I have to upgrade it every year to get good quality coffee at home while I'm at the office?
2. Y2K. Will the Y2k bug fry the embedded processor?
3. Viruses. Will some evil hacker be able to turn it into a tea machine by an email bomb? Suppose someone mails it a chain letter, will it make my washing machine puke?
4. Adverts/tie-ins. Would it refuse to process non Sun/Sony coffee?
5. Programing. Would the auto-run be able to override my favorite methods?
6. Jabber. What if my Emotion Engine just can't get along with all the other appliances? Will Sun produce a virtual Opra talk show while I'm at work?
7. Cross-talk. Could Mario Brothers convince my coffee machine to jump off the counter? Could the washing machine convince the coffee maker to eat soap?
8. UPS. What happens if the battery dies, or lightening strikes?
9. Security/Privacy. Could this thing record my bank info and then spend all my money on a lifetime supply of coffee out of Y2k fears? Would it report my coffee drinking habits to Sun?
10. Slashdot. Would I have to fire the coffee machine because it got addicted to Slashdot and refused to make coffee?
Does your law have a problem with printing presses or Xerox machines which can reproduce copywrited books? I'm I going to be sued for telling you that you could stand next to a copy machine and copy any book?
On the reverse side of page 35 (found by reversing the direction of the W2k CD) in Sanscrit we find:
The user agrees that Microsoft Corporation, TM, retains full use and ownership of all intelectual property enableled by Windows,TM, software, TM. Because of this property right overrides all others, we have made sure that nothing on your personal computer can be concealed from us, or anyone else. The term "Privacy", which sounds like piracy, as used by the popular press is a fiction and will not be found anywhere else in this user agreement.
There you have it surrender your creativity and consume! Microsoft and the RIAA, which sued the Girls Scouts of America for singing a copyrighted song around the capmfire, are birds of a feather.
Market adjustments depend on the free flow of information and freedom of choice.
The burn is a publicity stunt that seems to have worked to encourage flow of information. I now know that something stinks about gifs, and I'm going to act on it. Even more people will learn something if this gets picked up by the mainstream media.
Colmpacency leads to a lack of all choices eventually.
Slashdot Mirror
Closed source software sucks now, huh? If they break it, you're screwed. It's funny to watch MicroShit cry foul. They've done their best to break everything else from everyone else.
Microsoft software broken by someone else, how can it be? I thought it was supposed to be one network, one computer, one program. Boo Hoo Hoo!
It's never too late!
Yes, you should have a PhD granted by your peers.
Plagerism is the lowest accademic dishonesty. When commited in ignornace, it's just rude. Erudition is what the University is for. When commited by someone who knows better it's a crime, and that is what lawsuits are for. These note farms are a screw for all involved.
I know proffessor who have spent years getting their notes right, and I can understand them being angry at plagerism. These folks are doing it for love and glory. There's not much money in text book writing, even less in publishing articles, and less than that in lectures. Proffessors deserve credit for and editorial control of their work. They don't get that from the copy machine monkey down the street, who's trying to make a living off this kind of thing. Who's notes are right? The monkey has no idea. A good lecture is a fine thing, have some respect for your proffesor.
Anyhow, who needs to buy notes? You can get good notes from the files of most proffesional societies for free if you need them. Mostly, my peers and texts have been much more helpful. Get together with your friends and enjoy learning and problem solving. This is much better than carefully formating your notes for a not so quick buck. Sharing really is better.
Some have more to gripe about than others. Most of the proffesors that I know take great care to put their own insight into lectures, even when they follow a text. Their notes are origninal, and some are planning to write textbooks from those notes. Money is not the motivator there. It takes years of teaching to get it right and I've never heard of someone getting rich this way. I can understand them being offended by some third party copy machine monkey trying to make a living off their work. Even more irritating is the lack of editorial control and misrepresentation. How is the monkey going to know who's notes are right? No reffernces and no original content is plagerism. All publishers, no matter how small should be held to the same standards, and you should not settle for second best.
I've never bought a set of notes, and I never will. Good notes can be seen in the files of most proffesional societies, but their value is generally in the taking. My peers have usually been more help live than on dead trees. Get together with your friends and learn.
1. Licensing. Will I have to upgrade it every year to get good quality coffee at home while I'm at the office?
2. Y2K. Will the Y2k bug fry the embedded Processor? What about the embeded Perculator?
3. Viruses. Will some evil hacker be able to turn it into a tea machine by an email bomb? Suppose someone mails it a chain letter, will it make my washing machine puke?
4. Adverts/tie-ins. Would it refuse to process non Sun/Sony coffee?
5. Programing not Free. Would the auto-run be able to override my favorite methods?
6. Jabber. What if my Emotion Engine just can't get along with all the other appliances? Will Sun produce a virtual Opra talk show while I'm at work?
7. Cross-talk. Could Mario Brothers convince my coffee machine to jump off the counter? Could the washing machine convince the coffee maker to eat soap?
8. UPS. What happens if the battery dies, or lightening strikes?
9. Security/Privacy. Could this thing record my bank info and then spend all my money on a lifetime supply of coffee out of Y2k fears? Would it report my coffee drinking habits to Sun?
10. Slashdot. Would I have to fire the coffee machine because it got addicted to Slashdot and refused to make coffee?
Oh, my God! It's a pile of sticks, were all going to die! -Blair Witch Project
1. Licensing. Will I have to upgrade it every year to get good quality coffee at home while I'm at the office?
2. Y2K. Will the Y2k bug fry the embedded processor?
3. Viruses. Will some evil hacker be able to turn it into a tea machine by an email bomb? Suppose someone mails it a chain letter, will it make my washing machine puke?
4. Adverts/tie-ins. Would it refuse to process non Sun/Sony coffee?
5. Programing. Would the auto-run be able to override my favorite methods?
6. Jabber. What if my Emotion Engine just can't get along with all the other appliances? Will Sun produce a virtual Opra talk show while I'm at work?
7. Cross-talk. Could Mario Brothers convince my coffee machine to jump off the counter? Could the washing machine convince the coffee maker to eat soap?
8. UPS. What happens if the battery dies, or lightening strikes?
9. Security/Privacy. Could this thing record my bank info and then spend all my money on a lifetime supply of coffee out of Y2k fears? Would it report my coffee drinking habits to Sun?
10. Slashdot. Would I have to fire the coffee machine because it got addicted to Slashdot and refused to make coffee?
Does your law have a problem with printing presses or Xerox machines which can reproduce copywrited books? I'm I going to be sued for telling you that you could stand next to a copy machine and copy any book?
What if I Xerox my DVD?
Censorship always fails.
The user agrees that Microsoft Corporation, TM, retains full use and ownership of all intelectual property enableled by Windows,TM, software, TM. Because of this property right overrides all others, we have made sure that nothing on your personal computer can be concealed from us, or anyone else. The term "Privacy", which sounds like piracy, as used by the popular press is a fiction and will not be found anywhere else in this user agreement.
There you have it surrender your creativity and consume! Microsoft and the RIAA, which sued the Girls Scouts of America for singing a copyrighted song around the capmfire, are birds of a feather.
Market adjustments depend on the free flow of information and freedom of choice.
The burn is a publicity stunt that seems to have worked to encourage flow of information. I now know that something stinks about gifs, and I'm going to act on it. Even more people will learn something if this gets picked up by the mainstream media.
Colmpacency leads to a lack of all choices eventually.
fear.microsoft.com
doubt.microsoft.com
I live to serve my wife, and she lives to serve me. The sevices we have to offer are different, and both of us are grateful.
To each their own. Make yourself happy and be kind to others.