I wasn't aware that the NOAA owned the Earth, maybe that's why aliens aren't coming and checking us out, they can't get a currency exchange for their buckazoids to get the outrageous license.
It never ends, when the lobbyists want something they just keep poking and prodding with a new name and a some rephrasing. Eventually it's got enough pretty words that it gets passed, or a plane gets flown into a building or three and then it gets passed.
Maybe, I'm trying to not interpret it all with what little information there is.
I misstated myself, the article isn't my reference, it's my post as proof I had said something, and the almost officially kind of like was inference to the fact I don't have anything 'officially' stating before my prediction.
So, that post I made was meant to be that proof, like mailing a letter to yourself and relying on the postage date to prove it's contents as existing before something else like in a copyright battle.
I do see the protection this does offer Microsoft. Were they really to get mysteriously trounced as a proprietary king, they have a chance surviving with an open source or, dare I say it, they already have the saddle on for supporting free software (or maybe anything else) with their globs of money and their massive employment.
They might be making a straw man out of themselves, but this is very, very dangerous territory, and unless another massive company mysteriously sprouts out of nowhere to offer another proprietary operating system that looks an awful lot like a rebranded windows and Microsoft doesn't say anything about it while they 'go down with the open source ship', there's nothing so daring they could do that would give them the advantage in the money.
Maybe it's inevitable, maybe all software production is fated to being open source eventually. I mean, it's practically invincible save for a few legal hiccups that haven't really been tested yet.
Maybe... this is plan B in resort to software patents looking to get virtually abolished...
Yeah, I mean the desktop OS, but I'm just bullshitting.
Honestly, as much as I hate Microsoft, I could have just as well love them if the situation were a little different. I've had so many problems with any version of Windows but I've had many problems with any version of anything.
All anyone can really do is market it as the best they've got, I just wish Microsoft wouldn't be so... curt about it, just kind of pushing theirs as the ubiquity and that everything they have is made of gold and leather, but that's just how advertising works I guess.
Microsoft is just too big, too powerful, too much responsibility for an organization that is so irresponsible.
I don't want to see them dead, I just want to see them disenchanted.
I was bullshitting with my friends and said that I think Microsoft has two years left before it's no longer the leader of the operating system market. I said it with no real insight or evidence, I just claimed it and I bet 10 dollars against it.
218 days left... maybe I'll get to go on Oprah or something and show off my framed ten dollar bill. This slashdot entry is officially almost kind of like proof that I said what I did a little bit.
As big as this news is, assuming it's credible and lasting, I'm completely unsurprised.
Maybe just almost-rational paranoia to keep someone from breaking into the network at some location to get confidential information... even though if someone has physical access to the router they've already gotten close enough.
While more people should have had access to the network were it ever really needed, sometimes the only really efficient way to take care of a really intricate and dedicated task is to have one person do it all.
He certainly could have been more responsible about it though and prepared assistants to understand exactly how it worked, but who knows, maybe he really was trying to document his system for others but management got in the way of anything productive. That's what management's for, right?
"Childs, an employee working for San Francisco's IT department, used his privileged access to lock everyone out of a crucial network for days."
I wonder if it wasn't an intentional lockout, instead someone realized all of a sudden that Childs was numero uno and saying "GIVE ME THE CODES NOW!" and when he didn't someone had a hissy fit and took things very far very quickly instead of competently sitting down and talking with Childs fairly.
I'd get mad about this and take offense and all that, but I've never heard of Foxxcon anyways. They're insignificant and if they want to pour their own cement shoes then I'll be happy to let them.
This is obviously a copout and they're just making Microsoft the scapegoat because everyone knows Vista is the perfect example of modern software design that boosts performance and requires less demanding hardware than XP ever would have.
I'm sick of these companies trying to make Microsoft look bad, in their vulnerable state at the fringe of bankruptcy, Microsoft truly needs the support of big businesses.
I say we all write an email to these companies calling them monsters for putting the blame on Vista when if they really cared they would have submitted their own code to Vista before it was released.
And if it's such a big deal, they can just fork the project anyways!
Studies also conclude that lunixes is a big intellectual IP property ripoff doomed to failure, laptops will completely replace desktops in ten years, and piracy is a really big problem that's sending business after business into bankruptcy.
It's wonderful how you can release any anecdotal evidence from a limited perspective as a marketable 'study'.
I'm releasing a study on how interest groups posing as reputable and productive companies pass bullshit around like the flu.
I want this damn thing but for the price it's still out of my reach as a toy I don't know if I'll really have fun with. It's just so cool, and I like OCZ, but it might be better after some revisions. Software is important, but the hardware is bound to improve.
That's a great point considering web sites have only gotten more and more bloated and HTML programmers only seem to be getting lazier. Business has been spoiled by broadband, leaving the millions of not-quite-56k users rubbing their temples.
I like Firefox, but the only 'OMG' things I use with it is tabbed browsing and NoScript to keep flash advertisements from causing a leak.
It's not a bad article and it's interesting seeing how they see it. It's just remarkable to see someone who thinks so differently yet seeming so intelligent.
I admit I have a hard time getting around the idea that someone can think differently than me and not be an idiot (or that I am the idiot), it's weird having these seemingly incompatible beliefs share the same 'space' on the internet.
I see people cite definitions of piracy and stuff to try to disprove arguments, but that doesn't attack the basis, it just attacks the reckoning and gets nowhere.
It's a battle of the basics and it's not like we can start a new country or anything. I just think it's so dreadfully obvious that the 'law' is fated to be struck down and changed now that the internet is here.
It's not a legal battle between the pirates and the companies, it's a thick mud of consumers deciding (or just not caring) how they feel about it. This article is a perfect example of how pointless lobbying and lawmaking and enforcement is.
The only 'copy protection' that will ever really exist is the person at the end deciding if they want to pay for something or if they want to get it for free, sometimes at some other expense or risk, but often at the better of paying for it, like an MP3 versus a compact disk.
When I read this article, I exactly saw how they transformed such a confusing and intangible topic into the idea they wanted and they went with it, and it's fun to watch.
Ugh, I hate this 'browser wars' and 'DE wars' and 'os wars' and '... wars' built for a competition that doesn't really exist. A war is a contest for property or argument, but there's no argument in software because it's not the goal to assimilate as many users as possible.
These artificial EPIC BATTLES could only be if it were inevitable that all users would eventually use a single anything, one OS, one browser, one desktop environment, one everything. But that's not how it is or ever will be, there will always be different groups developing their own software and different people who use them. One day, Opera, Firefox, Safari and that one other guy will all be gone and there will be a whole different level of web access to replace them and make them forgotten, and there will still be idiots purporting a '... war' that doesn't exist.
Isn't it at all possible that maybe, just maybe, all these things can coincide and leave people to make their own decisions instead of always having to conflict?
Sure, Microsoft has forced itself on the computer market for decades, but it wasn't a conquest or an ideological reasoning. It was just business. When competitors came along, it wasn't a war, it was the big guy stepping on the little guy until the little guys got big. And occasionally on occasion eating the little guys.
That article reads like a young adult suddenly realizing how the world really works, but still stuck in the idea that everything they learned before must still be true.
Most house keys use 5 tumblers that I believe can be in 7 positions, that means there can be 5^7 in combinations, 78,125. That pretty much means that there is about a 1 in 78,125 chance that your key will open anyone's door handle or dead bolt if it uses the same kind of house key. I might actually be giving it too much, maybe it's only 5 positions.
I wouldn't be surprised if car keys aren't too far away from that estimate.
Every time I read 'BSA' I can't help but think of it as "BullShit Alliance", but it's too true, as it is with any business who's goal is inherit to their trade, that is, every business.
I'll assume the BSA was (at least mostly) founded on keeping tabs on 'piracy' and stuff, particularly in the business sector.
Restaurants make their money on selling food and service, they have to make themselves more appealing by putting that food and service in the best light they can.
Colleges make their money by selling education, they have to make their campuses and services look as appealing as possible.
The BSA is in the business of WTFPWNing 'software pirates' and disseminating information about it. They have to make their business appear worthwhile to their members.
Many fast-food chains are well known for making their greasepatties and other less than perfectly healthy options seem much more wonderful than they are.
Colleges are only getting more expensive and it's only getting easier to argue the need for such high tuition fees in a world where we need to focus on the quality of education yet so many people aren't learning anything new.
I'd, personally, pay quite a bit into taxes if I knew it was going somewhere, especially socialized services, that I liked. I'd pay far, far more for any socialized service than I would for a tax that was only meant for a small, specific group.
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I wasn't aware that the NOAA owned the Earth, maybe that's why aliens aren't coming and checking us out, they can't get a currency exchange for their buckazoids to get the outrageous license.
It never ends, when the lobbyists want something they just keep poking and prodding with a new name and a some rephrasing. Eventually it's got enough pretty words that it gets passed, or a plane gets flown into a building or three and then it gets passed.
Maybe, I'm trying to not interpret it all with what little information there is.
I misstated myself, the article isn't my reference, it's my post as proof I had said something, and the almost officially kind of like was inference to the fact I don't have anything 'officially' stating before my prediction.
So, that post I made was meant to be that proof, like mailing a letter to yourself and relying on the postage date to prove it's contents as existing before something else like in a copyright battle.
I do see the protection this does offer Microsoft. Were they really to get mysteriously trounced as a proprietary king, they have a chance surviving with an open source or, dare I say it, they already have the saddle on for supporting free software (or maybe anything else) with their globs of money and their massive employment.
They might be making a straw man out of themselves, but this is very, very dangerous territory, and unless another massive company mysteriously sprouts out of nowhere to offer another proprietary operating system that looks an awful lot like a rebranded windows and Microsoft doesn't say anything about it while they 'go down with the open source ship', there's nothing so daring they could do that would give them the advantage in the money.
Maybe it's inevitable, maybe all software production is fated to being open source eventually. I mean, it's practically invincible save for a few legal hiccups that haven't really been tested yet.
Maybe... this is plan B in resort to software patents looking to get virtually abolished...
Yeah, I mean the desktop OS, but I'm just bullshitting.
Honestly, as much as I hate Microsoft, I could have just as well love them if the situation were a little different. I've had so many problems with any version of Windows but I've had many problems with any version of anything.
All anyone can really do is market it as the best they've got, I just wish Microsoft wouldn't be so... curt about it, just kind of pushing theirs as the ubiquity and that everything they have is made of gold and leather, but that's just how advertising works I guess.
Microsoft is just too big, too powerful, too much responsibility for an organization that is so irresponsible.
I don't want to see them dead, I just want to see them disenchanted.
... which I suspect is either an overreaction or a further attempt to demonize Childs to make it seem like whatever actions taken are justified.
Huh, sounds like a politician to me.
I was bullshitting with my friends and said that I think Microsoft has two years left before it's no longer the leader of the operating system market. I said it with no real insight or evidence, I just claimed it and I bet 10 dollars against it.
218 days left... maybe I'll get to go on Oprah or something and show off my framed ten dollar bill. This slashdot entry is officially almost kind of like proof that I said what I did a little bit.
As big as this news is, assuming it's credible and lasting, I'm completely unsurprised.
Heheh... heh... it's kind of funny... you can't network people to work on a network.
Maybe just almost-rational paranoia to keep someone from breaking into the network at some location to get confidential information... even though if someone has physical access to the router they've already gotten close enough.
While more people should have had access to the network were it ever really needed, sometimes the only really efficient way to take care of a really intricate and dedicated task is to have one person do it all.
He certainly could have been more responsible about it though and prepared assistants to understand exactly how it worked, but who knows, maybe he really was trying to document his system for others but management got in the way of anything productive. That's what management's for, right?
"Childs, an employee working for San Francisco's IT department, used his privileged access to lock everyone out of a crucial network for days."
I wonder if it wasn't an intentional lockout, instead someone realized all of a sudden that Childs was numero uno and saying "GIVE ME THE CODES NOW!" and when he didn't someone had a hissy fit and took things very far very quickly instead of competently sitting down and talking with Childs fairly.
I'd get mad about this and take offense and all that, but I've never heard of Foxxcon anyways. They're insignificant and if they want to pour their own cement shoes then I'll be happy to let them.
Miniature? I personally don't see the problem with lugging around something like this...
http://teeksaphoto.org/Archive/DigitalTimeline/NewTimelineImages/osborne1.jpg
Hell, I might just get one of those for checking my email on the go.
This is obviously a copout and they're just making Microsoft the scapegoat because everyone knows Vista is the perfect example of modern software design that boosts performance and requires less demanding hardware than XP ever would have.
I'm sick of these companies trying to make Microsoft look bad, in their vulnerable state at the fringe of bankruptcy, Microsoft truly needs the support of big businesses.
I say we all write an email to these companies calling them monsters for putting the blame on Vista when if they really cared they would have submitted their own code to Vista before it was released.
And if it's such a big deal, they can just fork the project anyways!
It's not as exciting to be fair, and if all studies were fair and perfectly concluded there'd be a lot less news on the slashfront I think.
Studies also conclude that lunixes is a big intellectual IP property ripoff doomed to failure, laptops will completely replace desktops in ten years, and piracy is a really big problem that's sending business after business into bankruptcy.
It's wonderful how you can release any anecdotal evidence from a limited perspective as a marketable 'study'.
I'm releasing a study on how interest groups posing as reputable and productive companies pass bullshit around like the flu.
I want this damn thing but for the price it's still out of my reach as a toy I don't know if I'll really have fun with. It's just so cool, and I like OCZ, but it might be better after some revisions. Software is important, but the hardware is bound to improve.
That's a great point considering web sites have only gotten more and more bloated and HTML programmers only seem to be getting lazier. Business has been spoiled by broadband, leaving the millions of not-quite-56k users rubbing their temples.
I like Firefox, but the only 'OMG' things I use with it is tabbed browsing and NoScript to keep flash advertisements from causing a leak.
It's not a bad article and it's interesting seeing how they see it. It's just remarkable to see someone who thinks so differently yet seeming so intelligent.
I admit I have a hard time getting around the idea that someone can think differently than me and not be an idiot (or that I am the idiot), it's weird having these seemingly incompatible beliefs share the same 'space' on the internet.
I see people cite definitions of piracy and stuff to try to disprove arguments, but that doesn't attack the basis, it just attacks the reckoning and gets nowhere.
It's a battle of the basics and it's not like we can start a new country or anything. I just think it's so dreadfully obvious that the 'law' is fated to be struck down and changed now that the internet is here.
It's not a legal battle between the pirates and the companies, it's a thick mud of consumers deciding (or just not caring) how they feel about it. This article is a perfect example of how pointless lobbying and lawmaking and enforcement is.
The only 'copy protection' that will ever really exist is the person at the end deciding if they want to pay for something or if they want to get it for free, sometimes at some other expense or risk, but often at the better of paying for it, like an MP3 versus a compact disk.
When I read this article, I exactly saw how they transformed such a confusing and intangible topic into the idea they wanted and they went with it, and it's fun to watch.
Ugh, I hate this 'browser wars' and 'DE wars' and 'os wars' and '... wars' built for a competition that doesn't really exist. A war is a contest for property or argument, but there's no argument in software because it's not the goal to assimilate as many users as possible.
These artificial EPIC BATTLES could only be if it were inevitable that all users would eventually use a single anything, one OS, one browser, one desktop environment, one everything. But that's not how it is or ever will be, there will always be different groups developing their own software and different people who use them. One day, Opera, Firefox, Safari and that one other guy will all be gone and there will be a whole different level of web access to replace them and make them forgotten, and there will still be idiots purporting a '... war' that doesn't exist.
Isn't it at all possible that maybe, just maybe, all these things can coincide and leave people to make their own decisions instead of always having to conflict?
Sure, Microsoft has forced itself on the computer market for decades, but it wasn't a conquest or an ideological reasoning. It was just business. When competitors came along, it wasn't a war, it was the big guy stepping on the little guy until the little guys got big. And occasionally on occasion eating the little guys.
That article reads like a young adult suddenly realizing how the world really works, but still stuck in the idea that everything they learned before must still be true.
Most house keys use 5 tumblers that I believe can be in 7 positions, that means there can be 5^7 in combinations, 78,125. That pretty much means that there is about a 1 in 78,125 chance that your key will open anyone's door handle or dead bolt if it uses the same kind of house key. I might actually be giving it too much, maybe it's only 5 positions.
I wouldn't be surprised if car keys aren't too far away from that estimate.
Every time I read 'BSA' I can't help but think of it as "BullShit Alliance", but it's too true, as it is with any business who's goal is inherit to their trade, that is, every business.
I'll assume the BSA was (at least mostly) founded on keeping tabs on 'piracy' and stuff, particularly in the business sector.
Restaurants make their money on selling food and service, they have to make themselves more appealing by putting that food and service in the best light they can.
Colleges make their money by selling education, they have to make their campuses and services look as appealing as possible.
The BSA is in the business of WTFPWNing 'software pirates' and disseminating information about it. They have to make their business appear worthwhile to their members.
Many fast-food chains are well known for making their greasepatties and other less than perfectly healthy options seem much more wonderful than they are.
Colleges are only getting more expensive and it's only getting easier to argue the need for such high tuition fees in a world where we need to focus on the quality of education yet so many people aren't learning anything new.
Where does that leave the BSA?
What does it take to get a PC with XP?
TPB and Pricewatch. Doesn't everyone know that?
I'd, personally, pay quite a bit into taxes if I knew it was going somewhere, especially socialized services, that I liked. I'd pay far, far more for any socialized service than I would for a tax that was only meant for a small, specific group.
I always found in Sim City 6-8% to be perfect.