Everyone (with the exception of a handful of posters) seems to be forgetting here:
Microsoft is listening to its customers.
You are not Microsoft's customer, no matter how many Windows boxen you have around your house, office, etc. You are the product.
The entertainment industry is the primary customer. Microsoft is selling your eardrums and eyeballs. The entertainment industry wants you to pay for every instance of audio or video, be it a song or a movie or a video game or someone's lame stand-up comedy routine, on each version of every media going. That is why Vista is infested with resource-consuming DRM. And that DRM is why Microsoft is so anxious to see Vista successfully replace XP.
1) Declare the last Friday in January to be National Guacamole Appreciation Day. We all need a winter holiday.
2) To combat concealed weapons in schools, declare all schools nudist. "Where will you hide the shiv NOW, punk?" ^_^
3) "Lose Weight with the President" virtual reality show. That will help the national obesity epidemic, mostly by people laughing so hard they're burning calories at a prodigious rate.
4) Declare Professor Pat Paulson as Vice-President. OK, he's been dead for a few years, but the Vice President isn't expected to do much anyway.
"Apparently the value of Vista is not readily apparent"
Vista has a value that is all too readily apparent. That's why the uptake has been, ahem, less than enthusiastic.
Vista DVD's have a much higher value - they make dandy drink coasters!!
Well, there's another $513 that the RIAA has wasted and will never get back.
Let's hope they get hit with an order to pay the defendant's legal fees, too. A lot of decisions against them forcing them to pay their victims' legal fees may be just the cluestick beating they so desperately need.
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1) There's a link on the site to report typos. I submitted the 14 vs. 16 issue there.
2) On http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080221.whacker21/BNStory/National/home, they're saying it's 17, and being consistent throughout the article.
I don't know which is correct at this point in time.
Everyone (with the exception of a handful of posters) seems to be forgetting here:
Microsoft is listening to its customers.
You are not Microsoft's customer, no matter how many Windows boxen you have around your house, office, etc. You are the product.
The entertainment industry is the primary customer. Microsoft is selling your eardrums and eyeballs. The entertainment industry wants you to pay for every instance of audio or video, be it a song or a movie or a video game or someone's lame stand-up comedy routine, on each version of every media going. That is why Vista is infested with resource-consuming DRM. And that DRM is why Microsoft is so anxious to see Vista successfully replace XP.
1) Declare the last Friday in January to be National Guacamole Appreciation Day. We all need a winter holiday. 2) To combat concealed weapons in schools, declare all schools nudist. "Where will you hide the shiv NOW, punk?" ^_^ 3) "Lose Weight with the President" virtual reality show. That will help the national obesity epidemic, mostly by people laughing so hard they're burning calories at a prodigious rate. 4) Declare Professor Pat Paulson as Vice-President. OK, he's been dead for a few years, but the Vice President isn't expected to do much anyway.
"Apparently the value of Vista is not readily apparent" Vista has a value that is all too readily apparent. That's why the uptake has been, ahem, less than enthusiastic. Vista DVD's have a much higher value - they make dandy drink coasters!!
So why does a consumer group want to victimize the consumer a second time - they've already been victimized by Vista, now by DRM'ed XP?
You broke it, you bought it!! (I hope they had insurance!)
Well, there's another $513 that the RIAA has wasted and will never get back. Let's hope they get hit with an order to pay the defendant's legal fees, too. A lot of decisions against them forcing them to pay their victims' legal fees may be just the cluestick beating they so desperately need.
Pizzum Pizzum works just fine with Linux/FireFox for me, I've used it to order more pizza than my doctor would approve.