That is not insightful at all.
He never entered your house, never invaded your privacy, and nothing was missing afterward.
It's more like your neighbor running a radio station that you decided to listen to. It turns out later that he would like to be paid a subscription fee or something but never ever mentioned that.
If PHP had a framework where any moron could click through a few wizards and come out with something resembling a product (program/website/whatever) and call himself a programmer while those "applications" communicate with sophisticated (and usually half-documented) mechanisms you bet i would blame them for being part of the problem.
Microsoft has given the IT industry an alarming number of so called "programmers" that are actually nothing more than end users of their technology platforms.
That analogy does not work because in this situation there's an extra party positioned between consumers and producers that acts as a gateway between the 2 and this third party made most of the money and decided what artists would get access to the market, what the public would be allowed to buy and at what price.
The record companies saw digital music as a threat to their business model. They saw they could no longer control the supply and demand on the market and artists might even sell directly to customers. So they decided to try to put a stop to it.
If they had started selling digital music in a decent format and at a reasonable price from the start there would never have been the problem of illegal downloads.
There's no point in wondering what a coincidence it is that we are in the situation we are in. If we weren't, we wouldn't be able to wonder about it (or we'd be considering another unlikely situation)
I don't think those people would make themselves electable. They just need to keep politicians that can't be bought or blackmailed out of the system and this is yet another source of blackmail material. (this theory would explain the number of political scandals)
While feminists like to exaggerate the bad properties and general uselessness of men and the superior characteristics of women, they fail to realize that those properties have been genetically selected by their sexual counterpart. If men are really that useless, this must mean that women really suck at selecting a sexual partner. If womens "stupid useless macho" partner preference is left unchecked by a mitigating male preference, everybody in the future will pretty much be a man with different sexual organs.
Maybe the files were not downloaded at all. Maybe they were only downloaded by people who have legally bought a CD but for whom downloading is easier than ripping their own copy?
Script is not necessary to display ads.
If advertisers want access to visitors browsing history or search terms they should adapt or do without that information.
What if a song is downloaded by a user who owns the original CD and has a legal right to a backup copy. How could that have been copyright infringement?
No, the receipt should be the ballot, not the other way around. One machine is meant to help the voter produce a human and machine readable vote, the voter can check the produced ballot unassisted and decide whether or not to submit it.
Not really, all current windows systems would continue to "work". There just wont be any new licenses sold and the EU would make a nearly complete transition to other operating systems, document formats etc.
This would be the end of MSOffice and Direct-x and, eventually, Windows and Microsoft.
OS installation is pretty straightforward nowadays. If unbundling were to become a reality the procedure would rapidly become even simpler. Microsoft having trouble with their authentication servers can't be a reason not to allow fair access to their competitors. They will either get it fixed or lose business.
There is no reason to make people get their OS elsewhere, just offer a choice of (customized) OS installation CD's to be included at full retail price.
While browsing the computerworld articles i noticed an old "get the facts" commercial from microsoft. It lead to their new toned down FUD site but with the same old testimonials like this one by Kwak:
"We directly compared Windows Server with Linux. Windows Server 2003 provided not only reliability...but also development productivity in a 64-bit environment. It was an easy choice to make."
-- Kwak, Soon-wook, NCsoft Dir./Chief of Publishing Unit
I decided to check if they really were running IIS and it turns out they do 'cause their site is slow as hell (like 5 minutes)
To be fair, he didn't say speed was a factor in his decision, but maybe it should have been.
I suspect the mistake was writing something down when it should only have been hinted at in a conversation. We still don't know what prompted this "realization" or when. (maybe when one of those partners made references to fraud?) Was the SIS proactively notified before or after the vote?
any party wishing to take part in the national standards body is directly responsible for paying any related fees Looks like the employee did not violate that directive, maybe he just read between the lines. Why not show the entire document?
Both Red Hat and Google (as well as IBM and MS) have a legitimate interest in standardization of several formats, most of the new yes members clearly joined for the purpose of influencing just one decision.
It is very poor manners to try to accuse your competitors of similar behavior (how can they claim to know Red Hats motives ?) when caught with your hand in the cookie jar.
A very poor attempt at spin, dont they have experts for that?
The problem with that is that election fraud with paper votes is either reduced to a very small number of votes or needs a dangerously large group of conspirators. With computer voting a small number of people (less chance to be caught) can have a huge effect on an election.
Traditional voting has several safeguards built in which also enable a recount if foul play is suspected. I agree that a fictional well designed voting machines could be an option, but we need to get it right before they are deployed.
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That is not insightful at all. He never entered your house, never invaded your privacy, and nothing was missing afterward. It's more like your neighbor running a radio station that you decided to listen to. It turns out later that he would like to be paid a subscription fee or something but never ever mentioned that.
Could doctors have a vested interest in finding disease?
If PHP had a framework where any moron could click through a few wizards and come out with something resembling a product (program/website/whatever) and call himself a programmer while those "applications" communicate with sophisticated (and usually half-documented) mechanisms you bet i would blame them for being part of the problem. Microsoft has given the IT industry an alarming number of so called "programmers" that are actually nothing more than end users of their technology platforms.
That analogy does not work because in this situation there's an extra party positioned between consumers and producers that acts as a gateway between the 2 and this third party made most of the money and decided what artists would get access to the market, what the public would be allowed to buy and at what price. The record companies saw digital music as a threat to their business model. They saw they could no longer control the supply and demand on the market and artists might even sell directly to customers. So they decided to try to put a stop to it. If they had started selling digital music in a decent format and at a reasonable price from the start there would never have been the problem of illegal downloads.
it means these customers will be anxious to upgrade before the deadline which result in some more vista "sales"
There's no point in wondering what a coincidence it is that we are in the situation we are in. If we weren't, we wouldn't be able to wonder about it (or we'd be considering another unlikely situation)
If visitors don't have the decency to respect the law, i will have no problem cooperating with an investigation.
It will take a few weeks to match all the anonymous cards to their owners using cell phone roaming data.
You dont HAVE to use the options, MS's idea of a one fits all GUI just does not work for every one.
I don't think those people would make themselves electable. They just need to keep politicians that can't be bought or blackmailed out of the system and this is yet another source of blackmail material. (this theory would explain the number of political scandals)
While feminists like to exaggerate the bad properties and general uselessness of men and the superior characteristics of women, they fail to realize that those properties have been genetically selected by their sexual counterpart. If men are really that useless, this must mean that women really suck at selecting a sexual partner.
If womens "stupid useless macho" partner preference is left unchecked by a mitigating male preference, everybody in the future will pretty much be a man with different sexual organs.
apparently god also wanted the atheists here to mod you +5 insightfull
Maybe the files were not downloaded at all.
Maybe they were only downloaded by people who have legally bought a CD but for whom downloading is easier than ripping their own copy?
Script is not necessary to display ads. If advertisers want access to visitors browsing history or search terms they should adapt or do without that information.
Ballmers new password: dsdsdsdsds
What if a song is downloaded by a user who owns the original CD and has a legal right to a backup copy. How could that have been copyright infringement?
No, the receipt should be the ballot, not the other way around. One machine is meant to help the voter produce a human and machine readable vote, the voter can check the produced ballot unassisted and decide whether or not to submit it.
Not really, all current windows systems would continue to "work". There just wont be any new licenses sold and the EU would make a nearly complete transition to other operating systems, document formats etc.
This would be the end of MSOffice and Direct-x and, eventually, Windows and Microsoft.
Bring it on.
"Resellers who push the Get Genuine Windows Agreement to customers will get a cut of any new license fees they generate"
Sounds like they want to turn resellers into the windows police.
OS installation is pretty straightforward nowadays. If unbundling were to become a reality the procedure would rapidly become even simpler.
Microsoft having trouble with their authentication servers can't be a reason not to allow fair access to their competitors. They will either get it fixed or lose business.
There is no reason to make people get their OS elsewhere, just offer a choice of (customized) OS installation CD's to be included at full retail price.
ctrl-c, ctrl-v, ctrl-v etc?
Looks like an article that won't likely be published in Microsofts "Highly Reliable Times"
Get the facts!
While browsing the computerworld articles i noticed an old "get the facts" commercial from microsoft. It lead to their new toned down FUD site but with the same old testimonials like this one by Kwak:
I decided to check if they really were running IIS and it turns out they do 'cause their site is slow as hell (like 5 minutes) To be fair, he didn't say speed was a factor in his decision, but maybe it should have been.
I suspect the mistake was writing something down when it should only have been hinted at in a conversation.
We still don't know what prompted this "realization" or when. (maybe when one of those partners made references to fraud?)
Was the SIS proactively notified before or after the vote?
any party wishing to take part in the national standards body is directly responsible for paying any related fees
Looks like the employee did not violate that directive, maybe he just read between the lines. Why not show the entire document?
Both Red Hat and Google (as well as IBM and MS) have a legitimate interest in standardization of several formats, most of the new yes members clearly joined for the purpose of influencing just one decision.
It is very poor manners to try to accuse your competitors of similar behavior (how can they claim to know Red Hats motives ?) when caught with your hand in the cookie jar.
A very poor attempt at spin, dont they have experts for that?
The problem with that is that election fraud with paper votes is either reduced to a very small number of votes or needs a dangerously large group of conspirators. With computer voting a small number of people (less chance to be caught) can have a huge effect on an election. Traditional voting has several safeguards built in which also enable a recount if foul play is suspected. I agree that a fictional well designed voting machines could be an option, but we need to get it right before they are deployed.