...for a website to be a terrorist organization, it would have to destroy random targets, and instill fear in the masses. So, umm, don't they mean a site like this?
The person who's potentially getting hurt the worst is Anthony Hamilton. This guy and his career are being used as a guinea pig (read: sacrificial lamb) by the RIAA for their "technical exercises", as you put it.
Suppose the CD does malfunction in a lot of standard CD players - how much effort do you really think that the RIAA would go to in order to correct the situation? Probably not much. After all, it's not like it's [Britney | j-lo | insert other crappy mega-star of your choice] or anything, so who cares?
Meanwhile, this guy's career is in the tank before it even got started. Thanks a bunch, RIAA!
You're obviously new to/., and as such, are unfamiliar with the double standard that is in place around here. Here are a couple of guidelines to get you started:
1) Microsoft has questionable business practices, so of course that means all of their code, no matter where it came from or how well it was designed or implemented, is automatically the worst buggy garbage on the face of the planet.
2) Any and all research, statistics, or benchmarks that are favorable to Microsoft can be dismissed out of hand, without prior examination, as FUD, because it is obviously biased towards the Evil Microsoft Marketing Machine (TM), no matter where it came from.
3) Any or all research, statistics, or benchmarks that are unfavorable to any Microsoft product can be, without prior examination, taken as the God's honest truth, no matter where it came from.
4) Making money off of the sale of software is OK, unless you are Microsoft. Then it is, y'know, "Evil Capitalism" and all that.
5) Proprietary systems and product lock-in are inherently evil, and should be stopped at all costs. Unless it's done by Apple. Then it's OK, because Apple is like, cool and stuff, and they're not Evil (TM) like Microsoft.
6) Any comment that defends anything that has even the slightest connection to Microsoft whatsoever, regardless of its interest, factual correctness, or insightfulness, is obviously just astroturfing from a member of the Evil Empire and, as such, should be instantly modded down as either "flamebait" or "troll".
7) Any comment that disparages any aspect of Microsoft, regardless of factual correctness, stupidity, or childishness, is automatically "funny".
The AWD is simply *killer*. I took my CR-V up the sides of mountains when I lived in AZ...no problem. When the freakish ice storm hit Austin this past winter, I took it out on the ice and had to try really hard to get it to break traction (yeah, that was me on the 183/MoPac flyover driving with no problem). I was even able to push a guy in a pickup who had gotten stuck on an overpass.
The only thing that sucks about it is the front power windows. It might be just mine, but the mounts on the inner door frame are stripped on both sides, which causes the regulators to get loose and the windows to not close properly. It's a pain in the ass to fix, and Honda swears that there is no recall on 'em.
Successfully riding a bike makes you a safer driver.
Probably. Unfortunately, riding a bike doesn't make the drunken asshole who blindsides you in the middle of an intersection a safer driver. And at that moment, you're remarkably protection-free. You could be Evel Knievel and it wouldn't make a difference.
That alone is incentive enough for me to get pretty narrow-minded about riding a bike (motorized or human-powered) on a busy street. If I could be assured without a doubt that all drivers on the road didn't suffer from Recto-Cranial Inverticulitis, well, it'd be a different story, then.
Mod parent up! I have a Honda CR-V, which I consider to be a perfect compromise between small-car efficiency and big SUV carrying capacity. And I do use it for carrying stuff a lot. It's *great* for schlepping gear to gigs, etc, but does pretty well on the highway as far as gas mileage. I've gotten ~28MPG before.
Contrary to what the common stereotype (which is gleefully parroted by more than a few/.ers) would have you believe, some of us who own these vehicles are not suburban housewives, and actually *do* own them for a "real" purpose.
NO: I don't believe (you|your recruiting firm) are actually (interested in my resume|shopping my resume to "prospective employers").
NO: I don't know all of the following: AIX/Assembler/GIS/Java Server Pages/Win32/C#/PeopleSoft/Ancient Swahili Healing Techniques/SuSe/Coal Mining/PowerBuilder/Rational Rose/Embedded Software/Web Design/Windows 3.1/95/98/2000/XP/Every Known Linux Distro/Did I mention AIX?/HIPAA/C/C++/Shit No One's Ever Heard Of/Tantra/Other Shit I Can't Think of Right Now Because I'm Too Drunk/ADA/Smalltalk/Networking/Your Proprietary System
NO: I can't build a system for you using all the above technologies for $15/hr.
I don't disagree with you on the "Microsoft Tax" issue. If you don't want something, you shouldn't have to pay for it. I'm just of the belief that the writer didn't bother to investigate all of his options before starting this. I find it hard to believe that there is not one single new laptop out there that doesn't come with Windows preinstalled. He seems to indicate that anything besides a Microsoft OS would be ok. If so, how about an iBook? Last I heard, a new one was pretty easy to come by (if, of course, you don't mind paying twice the price for a system in order to finance Steve Jobs' "vision"...err...cough...ego, but that's another story altogether).
Long story short-if he was so adamant about not having any MS software on his machine, why did he purchase it in the first place? He should have made it specifically clear to the manufacturer at the time of purchase that either he got a "blank" machine, or he was taking his business elsewhere. Unfortunately, however, you don't get to tie up the court system, and you probably won't get your name broadcast all over/. and elevated to "hero" status by taking that route.
OK, fine. Maybe building one is, but buying a late-model used one certainly isn't. The point is, machine type aside, the guy seems to have gone out of his way to make sure he got to take an OEM to court for his little crusade. It has little to do with common sense and everything to do with a jihad.
Instead of getting a box with a preinstalled copy of Windows on it and going through the Stupid Small Claims Court Tricks, you could, oh, I dunno, maybe build a machine yourself or get one that didn't have an OS.
Of course, if you do that, you can't very well get your crusade posted on LinuxJournal and/bot, can you, and start yet another public jihad against MS was the sole point of this exercise in stupidity in the first place, right?
The lengths some people will go to for their 15 minutes of fame amaze me. Build a machine, install your favorite GPL'ed OS, and STFU, already.
...how can we find a way to blame this on the Windows OS that's installed on the thing? C'mon/., I'm disappointed! This many posts, and not one person blaming Windows yet? What's this place coming to?
Her mistake was that she forgot to blame the hydrogen hydroxide problem on SUVs and "Evil Corporations". Then she could have had a whole classroom full of freshly minted "activists"...oh shit, wait, she's teaching at the 7-8th grade level? Nevermind, she'd have to be teaching at the University level for this to work.
If you want to talk about horrible ripoffs of 'Childhood's End', how about "Independence Day"? When I first saw the previews, I got excited because the beginning looked like such an analogue to the book...needless to say, after the first 15 minutes or so of the movie, I was *quite* disappointed.
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Someone should just come out with SoonerLinux, which will kick Longhorn's ass every year.
...for a website to be a terrorist organization, it would have to destroy random targets, and instill fear in the masses. So, umm, don't they mean a site like this?
Politicians with a modicum of common sense? Sounds like an oxymoron if I've ever heard one...
"Our team"? Since when do you decide what "team" the members of the /. community belong to?
The person who's potentially getting hurt the worst is Anthony Hamilton. This guy and his career are being used as a guinea pig (read: sacrificial lamb) by the RIAA for their "technical exercises", as you put it.
Suppose the CD does malfunction in a lot of standard CD players - how much effort do you really think that the RIAA would go to in order to correct the situation? Probably not much. After all, it's not like it's [Britney | j-lo | insert other crappy mega-star of your choice] or anything, so who cares?
Meanwhile, this guy's career is in the tank before it even got started. Thanks a bunch, RIAA!
You're obviously new to /., and as such, are unfamiliar with the double standard that is in place around here. Here are a couple of guidelines to get you started:
1) Microsoft has questionable business practices, so of course that means all of their code, no matter where it came from or how well it was designed or implemented, is automatically the worst buggy garbage on the face of the planet.
2) Any and all research, statistics, or benchmarks that are favorable to Microsoft can be dismissed out of hand, without prior examination, as FUD, because it is obviously biased towards the Evil Microsoft Marketing Machine (TM), no matter where it came from.
3) Any or all research, statistics, or benchmarks that are unfavorable to any Microsoft product can be, without prior examination, taken as the God's honest truth, no matter where it came from.
4) Making money off of the sale of software is OK, unless you are Microsoft. Then it is, y'know, "Evil Capitalism" and all that.
5) Proprietary systems and product lock-in are inherently evil, and should be stopped at all costs. Unless it's done by Apple. Then it's OK, because Apple is like, cool and stuff, and they're not Evil (TM) like Microsoft.
6) Any comment that defends anything that has even the slightest connection to Microsoft whatsoever, regardless of its interest, factual correctness, or insightfulness, is obviously just astroturfing from a member of the Evil Empire and, as such, should be instantly modded down as either "flamebait" or "troll".
7) Any comment that disparages any aspect of Microsoft, regardless of factual correctness, stupidity, or childishness, is automatically "funny".
Hope this helps to get you started.
The AWD is simply *killer*. I took my CR-V up the sides of mountains when I lived in AZ...no problem. When the freakish ice storm hit Austin this past winter, I took it out on the ice and had to try really hard to get it to break traction (yeah, that was me on the 183/MoPac flyover driving with no problem). I was even able to push a guy in a pickup who had gotten stuck on an overpass.
The only thing that sucks about it is the front power windows. It might be just mine, but the mounts on the inner door frame are stripped on both sides, which causes the regulators to get loose and the windows to not close properly. It's a pain in the ass to fix, and Honda swears that there is no recall on 'em.
Successfully riding a bike makes you a safer driver.
Probably. Unfortunately, riding a bike doesn't make the drunken asshole who blindsides you in the middle of an intersection a safer driver. And at that moment, you're remarkably protection-free. You could be Evel Knievel and it wouldn't make a difference.
That alone is incentive enough for me to get pretty narrow-minded about riding a bike (motorized or human-powered) on a busy street. If I could be assured without a doubt that all drivers on the road didn't suffer from Recto-Cranial Inverticulitis, well, it'd be a different story, then.
..and if you ride that bike like that long enough, everyone will get to watch the EMTs scrape what little is left of you off of the freeway, as well.
Mod parent up! I have a Honda CR-V, which I consider to be a perfect compromise between small-car efficiency and big SUV carrying capacity. And I do use it for carrying stuff a lot. It's *great* for schlepping gear to gigs, etc, but does pretty well on the highway as far as gas mileage. I've gotten ~28MPG before.
/.ers) would have you believe, some of us who own these vehicles are not suburban housewives, and actually *do* own them for a "real" purpose.
Contrary to what the common stereotype (which is gleefully parroted by more than a few
...NO: I don't have an H1-B
and NO: The guy who replaced me at 1/10th the salary can't speak the friggin' Queen's English.
Fuck it...stick 'em in there somewhere. Is this funny or pathetic? I don't care, mod it as you will.
...as an "IT Professional" in this economy:
NO: I don't believe (you|your recruiting firm) are actually (interested in my resume|shopping my resume to "prospective employers").
NO: I don't know all of the following: AIX/Assembler/GIS/Java Server Pages/Win32/C#/PeopleSoft/Ancient Swahili Healing Techniques/SuSe/Coal Mining/PowerBuilder/Rational Rose/Embedded Software/Web Design/Windows 3.1/95/98/2000/XP/Every Known Linux Distro/Did I mention AIX?/HIPAA/C/C++/Shit No One's Ever Heard Of/Tantra/Other Shit I Can't Think of Right Now Because I'm Too Drunk/ADA/Smalltalk/Networking/Your Proprietary System
NO: I can't build a system for you using all the above technologies for $15/hr.
NO: On a 10 hour fixed bid.
NO: Fries don't come with that.
NO: You can't speak to the manager.
..."Candidate Deathmatch."
OK, so it was two words. Consider me a candidate, and consider that to be my first broken campaign promise.
Yeah, really, don't they know that these toyish GUIs are only cool when Apple does 'em?
I don't disagree with you on the "Microsoft Tax" issue. If you don't want something, you shouldn't have to pay for it. I'm just of the belief that the writer didn't bother to investigate all of his options before starting this. I find it hard to believe that there is not one single new laptop out there that doesn't come with Windows preinstalled. He seems to indicate that anything besides a Microsoft OS would be ok. If so, how about an iBook? Last I heard, a new one was pretty easy to come by (if, of course, you don't mind paying twice the price for a system in order to finance Steve Jobs' "vision"...err...cough...ego, but that's another story altogether).
/. and elevated to "hero" status by taking that route.
Long story short-if he was so adamant about not having any MS software on his machine, why did he purchase it in the first place? He should have made it specifically clear to the manufacturer at the time of purchase that either he got a "blank" machine, or he was taking his business elsewhere. Unfortunately, however, you don't get to tie up the court system, and you probably won't get your name broadcast all over
My first post gets modded as a troll, and parent as flamebait. Gee, what a surprise. How about some metamoderation? I won't hold my breath.
OK, fine. Maybe building one is, but buying a late-model used one certainly isn't. The point is, machine type aside, the guy seems to have gone out of his way to make sure he got to take an OEM to court for his little crusade. It has little to do with common sense and everything to do with a jihad.
Instead of getting a box with a preinstalled copy of Windows on it and going through the Stupid Small Claims Court Tricks, you could, oh, I dunno, maybe build a machine yourself or get one that didn't have an OS.
/bot, can you, and start yet another public jihad against MS was the sole point of this exercise in stupidity in the first place, right?
Of course, if you do that, you can't very well get your crusade posted on LinuxJournal and
The lengths some people will go to for their 15 minutes of fame amaze me. Build a machine, install your favorite GPL'ed OS, and STFU, already.
...another /. "Bash Microsoft" feeding frenzy. Sure, they have their faults, but the zealotry and bias here really is starting to get old.
...how can we find a way to blame this on the Windows OS that's installed on the thing? C'mon /., I'm disappointed! This many posts, and not one person blaming Windows yet? What's this place coming to?
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We actually had a "SPAM Acronym" contest one day. The winner, hands down, was:
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Her mistake was that she forgot to blame the hydrogen hydroxide problem on SUVs and "Evil Corporations". Then she could have had a whole classroom full of freshly minted "activists"...oh shit, wait, she's teaching at the 7-8th grade level? Nevermind, she'd have to be teaching at the University level for this to work.
Quit playing Monopoly with Bill. Switch to one of many non-Microsoft products today.
Like, uhh, not using Hotmail for your email account, f'rinstance?
Reminds me of my favorite bathroom wall quote ever:
"Swearing is the literary crutch of the linguistically challenged motherfucker."
If you want to talk about horrible ripoffs of 'Childhood's End', how about "Independence Day"? When I first saw the previews, I got excited because the beginning looked like such an analogue to the book...needless to say, after the first 15 minutes or so of the movie, I was *quite* disappointed.