They could have reported the image and had it removed if they really cared. Instead they have advertised to the world their street view images because they got greedy and wanted to exploit the situation for cash.
Now they'll probably lose the case and a lot more people would have seen their house when before almost no one would have seen it.
That's pretty much everything in a nutshell you can huff and puff all you want but it's not going to change facts.
It would never work on my field of games programming. Gamers are already stingy enough, giving away games for free wouldn't be viable.
Perhaps giving them the source code on a special edition might work though keeping the rights on the content, but then someone would so obviously just take the source and bundle it with their own content. Not to make something new, just to clone my game and be able to legally play it for free.
I don't think rollouts happen like that anymore, at most a major migration happens over a set amount of years, first starting with all your backend servers, etc which your employees don't touch.
I'd be shocked to find any company doing a turnkey migration from any system.
I wish you were wrong, I think this blame attitude in computers has gone on far enough. Everyone would be far more productive if we could all just admit that we make mistakes and focus our energy on fixing them. If you're reading this I hope you'll make a mental note to help change things.
In fact I would like the code to be open source, BUT I wouldn't want it to be developed in the traditional open source method. Doing so would let a lot third world countries that are rolling their own solutions benefit from being able to pick a first world software program to use instead.
Developing mission critical software is hard enough, we should defiantly be passing the code around for everyone to inspect, as the inspection process on that software can never be too critical.
I was thinking of more of the long term implications.
Sure they make money now but that doesn't mean that they will later on with this move and supporting XP could come back to bite them in the ass.
Why move to Vista if they're going to keep supporting XP? In fact I think most people who haven't switched to Vista will just miss it for the next release completely or switch to a Mac / Linux solution.
Since most people upgrade via a new PC that means either a Macbook, Dell Ubuntu or a low end Vista computer. I wouldn't see any sales person (who's telling the truth) recommending a Vista computer on a low spec computer.
Who said I was making an argument for foss? I'm seeing this from a Microsoft perspective, compete with all.
They want everyone to move to Vista but it's not realistically going to happen because if they ignore the low end laptop market they'll just get replaced rather then forcing users to upgrade.
By extending XP, its old product it doesn't push anyone to upgrade, which is what they want people to do.
The reason for this campaign was from start to finish to attempt to force governments to use ODF in place of OOXML and thus force the use of Open Office.
No, I completely disagree with this. There is no reason that Microsoft Office can not support ODF, infact it already does with a plugin so why would this block or change governments from using Microsoft Office if they want to use it?
OOXML was really crap when it was first submitted and we all don't really know if that has changed much as the fixes haven't really been looked at in any detail. Hence why use a subpar format which is heavily based on Microsoft Office simply because Microsoft feels that it's a competition between Closed vs Open Source?
It's not a competition, this has nothing to do with Open Source, it's about a file format being implementable or not and about being realistic. The OOXML format ISO is never going to be used, even by Microsoft, that's just realistic expectation based on their past. What's going to happen is this... How Microsoft Office renders your exported files is going to determine the ISO format and thus nothing will actually be changed from today, where Microsoft gets to make the standard that everyone follows.
So, why is it such a bad thing to use ODF which isn't going to be heavily influenced like OOXML is by a single vendor? Although ODF was originally in Open Office implementations of ODF are so widespread in other office suites and Open Office's popularity is so small that there is no chance that Open Office could ever control the ODF spec like Microsoft could with OOXML.
I disagree, although communication with other people in a 3d environment would be a must if the technology was ever going to go anywhere, I think anyone would be convinced by a room full of interact-able static objects.
I get your point but I doubt it'd happen. These are the days when society arrests 17 year olds for having normal sexual relations and they both get charged as being sex offenders.
Virtual worlds are defiantly going to be restricted in the future to what you can and can't do. In fact that am I talking about, they are today. Games like GTA are getting a bad rep for their evil situations.
They have to keep XP going for the low cost laptop market otherwise Linux will dominate that market, but if they keep XP they're not making any money from Vista.
Sounds like their chess pieces are going to get taken whatever move they make.
The fact is the open-source community is competing with Microsoft over which format will become the most widely used.
THIS IS WRONG!. Open source has nothing to do with ODF. This Microsoft competitive crap that some how ODF == Open Source is BS.
It isn't ISO's job to decide which format should win. It's merely their job to outline exactly what the standards are.
Exactly, we already have a standard ODF. So now we have two standards for the exact same thing, hence we don't really have a standard at all.
If I have to damn well pick which one to support in my app how the hell does that help me? Now I have to support two standards. I wish the ISO would just roll a dice and pick one already.
uh, ok now this has gone too far, just because twitter / whoever is posting doesn't make it trolling. Stop acting like a twelve year old with all these "OMG TWITTER!!!" posts, it's getting old.
If you can explain how the above GP is trolling rather then a mild jab, be my guest; but I'd rather have this then the "I eat shit" posts, or the random links to some dudes ass, oh and the most pointless posts on them all, the "OMG TWITTER!" posts.
You see your post says nothing about why he should be modded troll, it's just a hate post, hence you are in fact the troll. Yes you've come what you hate most, congratulations.
Next time instead of writing "OMG TWITTER" why don't you write something of value? Then I'll have something interesting to read that rebukes whatever twitter says instead of having to read these stupid one liners of no value which wastes everyone's time.
Well maybe if you pulled your head out of your ass and stopped seeing the world as "Microsoft" and "Microsoft Hating open source zealots" then you'd realise what this is all really about, other comments summed it up nicely. I'm just here to insult you.
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Photos of the street isn't personal data.
They could have reported the image and had it removed if they really cared. Instead they have advertised to the world their street view images because they got greedy and wanted to exploit the situation for cash.
Now they'll probably lose the case and a lot more people would have seen their house when before almost no one would have seen it.
That's pretty much everything in a nutshell you can huff and puff all you want but it's not going to change facts.
Why would a mosque need internet access? Isn't it suppose to be a place of worship, not an internet cafe?
Except it would just lead to more false prosecutions, "The ID tags were in the same room at the time of the incident, THE SYSTEM NEVER LIES! Guilty!"
You mean the "open source" game with the non-free artwork and server logic code.. yeah truly the inspiration of all open source games.
It would never work on my field of games programming. Gamers are already stingy enough, giving away games for free wouldn't be viable.
Perhaps giving them the source code on a special edition might work though keeping the rights on the content, but then someone would so obviously just take the source and bundle it with their own content. Not to make something new, just to clone my game and be able to legally play it for free.
That doesn't sound very profitable to me.
I don't think rollouts happen like that anymore, at most a major migration happens over a set amount of years, first starting with all your backend servers, etc which your employees don't touch.
I'd be shocked to find any company doing a turnkey migration from any system.
I wish you were wrong, I think this blame attitude in computers has gone on far enough. Everyone would be far more productive if we could all just admit that we make mistakes and focus our energy on fixing them. If you're reading this I hope you'll make a mental note to help change things.
In fact I would like the code to be open source, BUT I wouldn't want it to be developed in the traditional open source method. Doing so would let a lot third world countries that are rolling their own solutions benefit from being able to pick a first world software program to use instead.
Developing mission critical software is hard enough, we should defiantly be passing the code around for everyone to inspect, as the inspection process on that software can never be too critical.
Are these "OMG it's twitter" posts some kind of new slashdot troll?
I mean this story is so littered with this anon posted crap that I can't read anything anymore.
I was thinking of more of the long term implications.
Sure they make money now but that doesn't mean that they will later on with this move and supporting XP could come back to bite them in the ass.
Why move to Vista if they're going to keep supporting XP? In fact I think most people who haven't switched to Vista will just miss it for the next release completely or switch to a Mac / Linux solution.
Since most people upgrade via a new PC that means either a Macbook, Dell Ubuntu or a low end Vista computer. I wouldn't see any sales person (who's telling the truth) recommending a Vista computer on a low spec computer.
Who said I was making an argument for foss? I'm seeing this from a Microsoft perspective, compete with all.
They want everyone to move to Vista but it's not realistically going to happen because if they ignore the low end laptop market they'll just get replaced rather then forcing users to upgrade.
By extending XP, its old product it doesn't push anyone to upgrade, which is what they want people to do.
Yeah, seems to me that a lot of governments purposefully approved OOXML because they didn't want to change they MS office apps.
All I can say to that is why didn't Microsoft add ODF support already? Problem solved.
Please don't play dumb, you already know it's not what they did but, how they did it which everyone is complaining about.
OOXML was really crap when it was first submitted and we all don't really know if that has changed much as the fixes haven't really been looked at in any detail. Hence why use a subpar format which is heavily based on Microsoft Office simply because Microsoft feels that it's a competition between Closed vs Open Source?
It's not a competition, this has nothing to do with Open Source, it's about a file format being implementable or not and about being realistic. The OOXML format ISO is never going to be used, even by Microsoft, that's just realistic expectation based on their past. What's going to happen is this... How Microsoft Office renders your exported files is going to determine the ISO format and thus nothing will actually be changed from today, where Microsoft gets to make the standard that everyone follows.
So, why is it such a bad thing to use ODF which isn't going to be heavily influenced like OOXML is by a single vendor? Although ODF was originally in Open Office implementations of ODF are so widespread in other office suites and Open Office's popularity is so small that there is no chance that Open Office could ever control the ODF spec like Microsoft could with OOXML.
I disagree, although communication with other people in a 3d environment would be a must if the technology was ever going to go anywhere, I think anyone would be convinced by a room full of interact-able static objects.
I get your point but I doubt it'd happen. These are the days when society arrests 17 year olds for having normal sexual relations and they both get charged as being sex offenders.
Virtual worlds are defiantly going to be restricted in the future to what you can and can't do. In fact that am I talking about, they are today. Games like GTA are getting a bad rep for their evil situations.
.. Oh wait, I do have something to fear after all..
This is a typical poster child to that crap defense on privacy violations.
They have to keep XP going for the low cost laptop market otherwise Linux will dominate that market, but if they keep XP they're not making any money from Vista.
Sounds like their chess pieces are going to get taken whatever move they make.
If I have to damn well pick which one to support in my app how the hell does that help me? Now I have to support two standards. I wish the ISO would just roll a dice and pick one already.
Old Format:
0101010101011010101010101
Shiny New XML format:
0101010101011010101010101
No one voted against it. Now we have a standard for word documents, yay. So why do we need two standards on the same damn thing?
So now if you're writing your app you have to support both ODF and OOXML. Great, waste more people's time on useless crap.
uh, ok now this has gone too far, just because twitter / whoever is posting doesn't make it trolling. Stop acting like a twelve year old with all these "OMG TWITTER!!!" posts, it's getting old.
If you can explain how the above GP is trolling rather then a mild jab, be my guest; but I'd rather have this then the "I eat shit" posts, or the random links to some dudes ass, oh and the most pointless posts on them all, the "OMG TWITTER!" posts.
You see your post says nothing about why he should be modded troll, it's just a hate post, hence you are in fact the troll. Yes you've come what you hate most, congratulations.
Next time instead of writing "OMG TWITTER" why don't you write something of value? Then I'll have something interesting to read that rebukes whatever twitter says instead of having to read these stupid one liners of no value which wastes everyone's time.
Well maybe if you pulled your head out of your ass and stopped seeing the world as "Microsoft" and "Microsoft Hating open source zealots" then you'd realise what this is all really about, other comments summed it up nicely. I'm just here to insult you.
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