What difference does it make if your guilty and pay $100,000 in fines and $100,000 in legal fees or if you are innocent and pay $200,000 in legal fees? The RIAA's point is still made.
You're absolutely right about this. The RIAA gets what they want, which is to scare the bejezus out of these people and you the viewer. They got their soundbyte when this poor girl said "This scares me so bad I never want to download anything again."
The ends should never be used to justify the means in a question of law.
Never say never... Of course the ends justify the means sometimes... The Law isn't some magical code of conduct that was handed to us by super-intelligent aliens. It's a system of rules made by mankind to govern mankind. The people who wrote those rules did their best to put in a place a sytem that kept us behaving without making it so burdensome as to piss us off on the enforcement side of the equation... We have a history of changing our enforcement of the law when the situation dictates it. IE suspending writ of habeus corpus during the Civil War. Why? Not because the law must always be rigid, but because sometimes it makes sense to have stricter rules when the very system we hold dear is in jeopardy.
Every single person on this board would be clamoring for this kind of DNA enforcement if someone close to them was the victim of a severe crime and the evidence was available. Don't get all high and mighty because someday 20 years from now, people will have the theoretical ability to adjust your insurance premiums through DNA testing. Let your kids fight that battle.
What's tough to swallow after reading all these posts is the amazing dichtomy of opinions regarding violation of copyright vs. violation of copyleft. Break copyright by downloading gigs of copyrighted songs, and you're a hero for the common man. Break copyleft by incorporating code into a "for-profit" product and you're the reincarnation of Satan come to barbeque every newborn on the planet with some green peppers and steak sauce.
Every time you get pissed the RIAA is going after some college student, imagine Bill Gates is personally inserting your code into the next version of Windows, and you have to think of a way to counter it... Would you just let it slide? Probably not...
And yet 75% of slashdot posters seem think that that RIAA shouldn't enforce their copyrights. Why is that?
Look at how identical twins raised in different environments exhibit similar behavioral patterns, down to the occupations they choose.
The huge difference between twins and clones is that a set of twins experience mostly identical conditions during the gestation period. The same temperature, the same bath of hormones, oxygen levels, etc. It's not a huge surprise then that they end up looking the same, acting the same (within limits). A clone on the other hand is going to experience a completely different set of conditions, even if it is placed in the womb of the original mother (surely she has aged some).
In reptiles, the gender of an animal can be changed simply by incubating at a different temperatures. Sea Turtle's genders are determined by location/temperature in the nest. It shouldn't be surprising that these cats and thus humans would turn out to be radically different then based on their gestation environments. In fact, I'd be willing to wager this is precisely why the cloned calico turned out to be gray...
(over 800 resumes submitted in the last year or so)
This is basically Resume Spam, and you shouldn't expect to get decent responses from these kinds of tactics.
IF IT guys whine all day about spam overrunning their system, then HR guys whine all day about getting overrun with resumes that are clearly being shotgunned. To be fair, it takes time and money to set up interviews with people (especially in an area that many managers consider the staff to be commodities). Why should I waste my time with someone who might not even still be in the job market. Put a little effort into hitting the streets and generating some leads. No matter what anyone claims (Monster.com), job hunting doesn't work by pressing buttons on some control panel.
To be honest, I'm not sure there's much injustice in this decision by the Supreme Court. Our government's role is to protect the People's interest at home and abroad, and I'm fairly certain this decision reinforces this.
By letting Copyrights/Trademarks expire, Americans would probably damage themselves more than they help themselves.
We are in a global economy, folks, and it's becoming evident that the American economy as a whole is moving away from manufacturing efforts and towards IP-producing efforts. If you want to maintain your status of living, then you'd better be doing all you can to ensure that the product of your labor is valued as high as it can be for the purposes of export. Letting valueable American Copyrights complacently slip away is the economic equivalent of Walmart setting fire to its inventory. Whether you believe it or not, Disney extracting profits abroad via the Mickey Mouse logo is a good thing for the US as a whole, not just for Disney shareholders.
In the past, the US legislature has recognized this and sanctioned Export Cartels (several firms that cooperate to act as a monopoly together) for industries that tend to have a high ratio of international sales to domestic sales. The Webb-Pomerene Act of 1918 essentially allowed the executives of Exporting firms to call up each other and fix prices abroad. Although this Supreme Court decision isn't as clear cut in favor of export monopoly profit extraction, I'm positive the influencing factors had similar motives in mind.
I might not convince many of you, but trust me there are rational reasons for the US Government to behave the way they do in protection of US firms, especially with regards to Copyright protection. The legislatures out there aren't interested in protecting people's abilities to pirate copyrighted works, they're interested in protecting JOBS. You have to decide which is more important to you...
Likewise, the obvious way to keep your PC cool, adding case fans, makes your PC louder.
Possibly. But this article is about keeping your server room cool which has zero to do with keeping your pc cool. If anything, putting more case fans in your computer is going to make the server room even hotter. It's thermodynamically analogous to running a fridge with the door open-- a net increase in heat generated.
a PC generates excess energy, and it is going to manifest itself either as heat or as sound. The heat generated by electrical resistance in the PC is going to manifest itself as heat, not sound. Unless you have some sort of device that converts heat into sound in your PC, those fans aren't doing anything but pushing the heat outside the case.
There's no Devil's Deal (Heat or Sound), you basically have to live with the fact that your chipset is producing a certain quanity of heat every second, and somehow that heat has to be ventilated outside of the PC (to keep it functioning) and then outside of the building (to keep you functioning).
"Microsoft has serious problems because they have a dichotomy in their strategy and thinking!" or so says the slashdotter...
Listen folks, if this is a problem, then the Open Source movement might as well quit while the quitting is good. If you can get N OSS developers in a room, you're guaranteed to have N completely different opinions on what should be done in terms of any software strategy: technical, marketing, or other. And why should it be any different? After all, projects are done ostensibly for fun and self-improvement. No one should be allowed to tell me what to do with my code! Multiply this logic by a million and you have a good handle on the swarming behavior of the Open Source community.
Besides, if I am to read the article correctly, the main problem with Microsoft is that they are making better products while they still haven't cleaned their act up in terms of being a "good corporate citizen."
This isn't really grounds for celebration. If anything, it should be a wake up call that Linux on the desktop is becoming less competetive by the day in terms of functionality and 'meeting the consumers needs.'
It sounds like Microsoft is running scared now. They realise that India is a powerhose because it has way more people (population) than the United States.
Yes, they're running scared, but not because of the population. Microsoft's huge push these days is in terms of Total Cost of Ownership. In terms of TCO calculations, the most important variable is the wages of the IT guys. With a country where wages are, what, one tenth of those in the US/Europe, the TCO argument swings drastically and massively in favor of a less expensive/free (Open Source) software package, even if it does cost more in terms of IT worker time to maintain.
Doing back of the napkin calculations, wouldn't it seem that Microsoft would have to reduce their products' sticker prices by about 90% (see above) just to make a compelling TCO argument? Indian purchasers thus have significantly more leverage in making their purchases and it's not suprising that MS is willing to bend over backwards.
Now I'm not glorifying RMS here, but surely history thought us that people with odd ideas on how things work/look like should be listened to and not disregarded.
You're right that society judges people differently in hindsight, but what you're hinting at is not necessarily true. ie RMS (or anyone with an idea) is a saint because he's a weirdo. More often than not, people who piss people off with their ideas have bad ideas.
RMS has probably taken the movement about as far as he can because his philosophy/demeanor is not acceptable to the next group that the Open Source movement needs to penetrate-- business leaders. RMS is/was convincing to the group of zealots that got the movement off the ground, but he's probably doing more harm that good now.
There's a reason we have Martin Luther King Day and not Malcolm X day.
If Raytheon, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and so forth are producing good software products (as they claim), let's see the code.
Is it possible to have good products without "good code?" Depending on the product, I think yes. Do great videogames necessarily have "good code" or whatever the author decides is good code? Maybe, maybe not. For games, the distinguishing factor is not as much the coding (ie fulfilling the designer's vision) as it is establishing a good vision.
YES, maybe it makes sense for security related products, but don't get greedy and claim that EVERY product needs to release its code.
I've read a lot of very incorrect views on what dumping is and how supposedly Microsoft is dumping in US Domestic Markets.
Dumping is discriminatory pricing based on what marketing you are selling in. For example, the Xbox sells for $200 in the US, and $200 (candian) in Canada. Since the Exchange rate is roughly $.63 (?) US dollars to Canadian dollars, Microsoft would effectively be selling for cheaper abroad (Canada) than domestically. The Association of Canadian Console Manufacturers gets upset that Microsoft is "dumping" in Canada because they are charging less in one market that in another. IT HAS ZERO TO DO WITH COSTS OF MANUFACTURING!
Why does dumping occur? It happens much more often in the United States because the US is the hub of the world economy. The US buyer (business or consumer) or has a better selection of goods than any other in the world. This results in more competition and LOWER PRICES. On the other hand, the importer's home country may have much less competition. Correct price setting theory for this importer should state then that they charges less money in the market with more competition (US) than the one with less competition (their home country). Thus, countries that have a higher degree of imports tend to see higher degrees of dumping.
Predatory Pricing is carried out by a company with monopolistic power to maintain or grow its monopolistic powers. Essentially a pricing strategy that reduces price below the manufacturing prices of its smaller competitors. Usually it applies in a case where a large, national firm is going in to drive a smaller, local firm out of business. The presumption is that the monopoly has lower costs than the smaller competitor. This really doesn't apply to Microsoft in this case. A) We know that Xbox has higher manufacturing costs than Sony or Nintendo. B) Microsoft is not a monopoly in the Console industry. If anything, Sony is.
Microsoft has one thing going for them-- a big war chest. This allows them to invest massive amounts of money ($2 billion) into growing their business. But, wait a minute, didn't Sony spend $2 Billion in Research and Development on Playstation 2 chip production?
How is this any different? I'll tell you... Microsoft has sold fewer units. Of course they're going to lose money per unit. They simply chose to account for R&D in a different way-- by paying chip (mobo and graphics card) manufacturers to take care of it for them. From a business perspective, not a conspiracy theory perspective, what they're doing is fairly normal for strategists who intend to get their product into every home in the US that has a television.
With Razor2, I've found that legit newslists were being reported as spam. Still, the "grading" system should solve that.
If they don't get the grading system in check, this "community watch" methodology will be worthless. I've had my airline itineraries tossed in the spam bin. And, as you mentioned, just about any trigger happy admin can report legit newsletters and ruin the party for everyone on the razor network.
It's a great concept, but at the end of the day ask yourself if you want a complete stranger sorting your email for you? Probably the biggest problem is the auto-reporters out there-using Spam Assassin to find Spam, then report it to the Razor Network. Razor's a plugin for SA, so there's a feedback loop.
Read the forums on Razor's site and there's a lot of complaints going on. In my experience, Razor/Cloudmark catch spam about 75% of the time, and junk about 50% of legitimate newletters. Add to this about maybe 2% of legit emails from friends, and you've got a liability on your hands.
Second you need to look at the fact it costs far more to make a computer to different specs. That means a computer with no OS costs MORE to make, that means that you actually get a discount for ordering your computer the same way that a billion other users ordered it.
When Dell or Gateway or whoever sells a computer with their brand on it, they are promising the consumer a certain level of implied support, quality, etc. It's much less likely that the cost is seen in the manufacturing process than in the increased support and maintenance costs. Maybe I'm misreading that you implied the cost occurred at the assembly line.
It's simply not worth it financially for these guys to set up a department infrastructure, create the documentation, and hire the expertise necessary to properly support Linux. At least that's what I'm guessing they're thinking.
Remember, after enough support calls, the sale ceases to become profitable for the vendor. Might as well let others "pave the way" and then adopt Linux on the desktop if/when it ever becomes profitable for them.
The exchange rate between Canada and the US has been.64 for at least five years now.
I don't know how you figure this considering it was at.75 in 1997,.70 in 1998,.68 in 2000, and.64 this year. Thats pretty terrible for people trying to pay off US college loans but fantastic for companies exporting from Canada into the US.
The fact that the Canadian dollar is completely and utterly in the toilet SHOULD be helping them out. Apparently it's not. Things really must be bad...
The irony of this article is that no one seems to understand what's actually going on here. Do you really think a non-profit manager would actually write such an insulting letter to a potential benefactor in response to getting turned down? OF Course not... He's simply trying to make MS look bad to increase their offer, pure and simple. Microsoft will quietly donate EVERYTHING he asks for to make this go away. And no more linux in the schools, while everyone on slashdot snorts at their own clever MS bashing comments. Bravo...
I'm fascinated that the demo was realeased at exactly this time. Just happens to be the same weekend that Battlefield 1942 is out. A lot of the discussions on the UT2k3 boards went "while I was waiting for the demo I fell in love with this great new game, Battlefield 1942." I wonder if the publishers were running a little scared?
Hmm... GeForce 4 MX with a TV Tuner? You may like it, but you're probably one of about 10 people out there. For the most part, the GeForce 4 MX is aimed to be a crap OEM card sooner or later.
Who gets OEM cards? Joe-Sixpack or Joe-Corporate-Procurement-Drone.
Who wants TV tuners in their cards? Enthusiasts.
There's probably little overlap between the two. Don't be terribly surprised if the 4MX doesn't come out with a TV tuner any time soon.
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What difference does it make if your guilty and pay $100,000 in fines and $100,000 in legal fees or if you are innocent and pay $200,000 in legal fees? The RIAA's point is still made.
You're absolutely right about this. The RIAA gets what they want, which is to scare the bejezus out of these people and you the viewer. They got their soundbyte when this poor girl said "This scares me so bad I never want to download anything again."
Never say never... Of course the ends justify the means sometimes... The Law isn't some magical code of conduct that was handed to us by super-intelligent aliens. It's a system of rules made by mankind to govern mankind. The people who wrote those rules did their best to put in a place a sytem that kept us behaving without making it so burdensome as to piss us off on the enforcement side of the equation... We have a history of changing our enforcement of the law when the situation dictates it. IE suspending writ of habeus corpus during the Civil War. Why? Not because the law must always be rigid, but because sometimes it makes sense to have stricter rules when the very system we hold dear is in jeopardy.
Every single person on this board would be clamoring for this kind of DNA enforcement if someone close to them was the victim of a severe crime and the evidence was available. Don't get all high and mighty because someday 20 years from now, people will have the theoretical ability to adjust your insurance premiums through DNA testing. Let your kids fight that battle.
What's tough to swallow after reading all these posts is the amazing dichtomy of opinions regarding violation of copyright vs. violation of copyleft. Break copyright by downloading gigs of copyrighted songs, and you're a hero for the common man. Break copyleft by incorporating code into a "for-profit" product and you're the reincarnation of Satan come to barbeque every newborn on the planet with some green peppers and steak sauce.
Every time you get pissed the RIAA is going after some college student, imagine Bill Gates is personally inserting your code into the next version of Windows, and you have to think of a way to counter it... Would you just let it slide? Probably not...
And yet 75% of slashdot posters seem think that that RIAA shouldn't enforce their copyrights. Why is that?
Look at how identical twins raised in different environments exhibit similar behavioral patterns, down to the occupations they choose.
The huge difference between twins and clones is that a set of twins experience mostly identical conditions during the gestation period. The same temperature, the same bath of hormones, oxygen levels, etc. It's not a huge surprise then that they end up looking the same, acting the same (within limits). A clone on the other hand is going to experience a completely different set of conditions, even if it is placed in the womb of the original mother (surely she has aged some).
In reptiles, the gender of an animal can be changed simply by incubating at a different temperatures. Sea Turtle's genders are determined by location/temperature in the nest. It shouldn't be surprising that these cats and thus humans would turn out to be radically different then based on their gestation environments. In fact, I'd be willing to wager this is precisely why the cloned calico turned out to be gray...
(over 800 resumes submitted in the last year or so)
This is basically Resume Spam, and you shouldn't expect to get decent responses from these kinds of tactics.
IF IT guys whine all day about spam overrunning their system, then HR guys whine all day about getting overrun with resumes that are clearly being shotgunned. To be fair, it takes time and money to set up interviews with people (especially in an area that many managers consider the staff to be commodities). Why should I waste my time with someone who might not even still be in the job market. Put a little effort into hitting the streets and generating some leads. No matter what anyone claims (Monster.com), job hunting doesn't work by pressing buttons on some control panel.
To be honest, I'm not sure there's much injustice in this decision by the Supreme Court. Our government's role is to protect the People's interest at home and abroad, and I'm fairly certain this decision reinforces this.
By letting Copyrights/Trademarks expire, Americans would probably damage themselves more than they help themselves.
We are in a global economy, folks, and it's becoming evident that the American economy as a whole is moving away from manufacturing efforts and towards IP-producing efforts. If you want to maintain your status of living, then you'd better be doing all you can to ensure that the product of your labor is valued as high as it can be for the purposes of export. Letting valueable American Copyrights complacently slip away is the economic equivalent of Walmart setting fire to its inventory. Whether you believe it or not, Disney extracting profits abroad via the Mickey Mouse logo is a good thing for the US as a whole, not just for Disney shareholders.
In the past, the US legislature has recognized this and sanctioned Export Cartels (several firms that cooperate to act as a monopoly together) for industries that tend to have a high ratio of international sales to domestic sales. The Webb-Pomerene Act of 1918 essentially allowed the executives of Exporting firms to call up each other and fix prices abroad. Although this Supreme Court decision isn't as clear cut in favor of export monopoly profit extraction, I'm positive the influencing factors had similar motives in mind.
I might not convince many of you, but trust me there are rational reasons for the US Government to behave the way they do in protection of US firms, especially with regards to Copyright protection. The legislatures out there aren't interested in protecting people's abilities to pirate copyrighted works, they're interested in protecting JOBS. You have to decide which is more important to you...
Likewise, the obvious way to keep your PC cool, adding case fans, makes your PC louder.
Possibly. But this article is about keeping your server room cool which has zero to do with keeping your pc cool. If anything, putting more case fans in your computer is going to make the server room even hotter. It's thermodynamically analogous to running a fridge with the door open-- a net increase in heat generated.
a PC generates excess energy, and it is going to manifest itself either as heat or as sound. The heat generated by electrical resistance in the PC is going to manifest itself as heat, not sound. Unless you have some sort of device that converts heat into sound in your PC, those fans aren't doing anything but pushing the heat outside the case.
There's no Devil's Deal (Heat or Sound), you basically have to live with the fact that your chipset is producing a certain quanity of heat every second, and somehow that heat has to be ventilated outside of the PC (to keep it functioning) and then outside of the building (to keep you functioning).
Um, not quite. The point of recommendations is to be honest.
Clearly it's not. Otherwise it would be called an assessment, not a recommendation...
"Microsoft has serious problems because they have a dichotomy in their strategy and thinking!" or so says the slashdotter...
Listen folks, if this is a problem, then the Open Source movement might as well quit while the quitting is good. If you can get N OSS developers in a room, you're guaranteed to have N completely different opinions on what should be done in terms of any software strategy: technical, marketing, or other. And why should it be any different? After all, projects are done ostensibly for fun and self-improvement. No one should be allowed to tell me what to do with my code! Multiply this logic by a million and you have a good handle on the swarming behavior of the Open Source community.
Besides, if I am to read the article correctly, the main problem with Microsoft is that they are making better products while they still haven't cleaned their act up in terms of being a "good corporate citizen."
This isn't really grounds for celebration. If anything, it should be a wake up call that Linux on the desktop is becoming less competetive by the day in terms of functionality and 'meeting the consumers needs.'
Not to push celebrity gossip too much on Slashdot, but it probably has more to do with their divorce after he cheated on her than the script...
Yes, they're running scared, but not because of the population. Microsoft's huge push these days is in terms of Total Cost of Ownership. In terms of TCO calculations, the most important variable is the wages of the IT guys. With a country where wages are, what, one tenth of those in the US/Europe, the TCO argument swings drastically and massively in favor of a less expensive/free (Open Source) software package, even if it does cost more in terms of IT worker time to maintain.
Doing back of the napkin calculations, wouldn't it seem that Microsoft would have to reduce their products' sticker prices by about 90% (see above) just to make a compelling TCO argument? Indian purchasers thus have significantly more leverage in making their purchases and it's not suprising that MS is willing to bend over backwards.
You're right that society judges people differently in hindsight, but what you're hinting at is not necessarily true. ie RMS (or anyone with an idea) is a saint because he's a weirdo. More often than not, people who piss people off with their ideas have bad ideas.
RMS has probably taken the movement about as far as he can because his philosophy/demeanor is not acceptable to the next group that the Open Source movement needs to penetrate-- business leaders. RMS is/was convincing to the group of zealots that got the movement off the ground, but he's probably doing more harm that good now.
There's a reason we have Martin Luther King Day and not Malcolm X day.
Is it possible to have good products without "good code?" Depending on the product, I think yes. Do great videogames necessarily have "good code" or whatever the author decides is good code? Maybe, maybe not. For games, the distinguishing factor is not as much the coding (ie fulfilling the designer's vision) as it is establishing a good vision.
YES, maybe it makes sense for security related products, but don't get greedy and claim that EVERY product needs to release its code.
Dumping is discriminatory pricing based on what marketing you are selling in. For example, the Xbox sells for $200 in the US, and $200 (candian) in Canada. Since the Exchange rate is roughly $.63 (?) US dollars to Canadian dollars, Microsoft would effectively be selling for cheaper abroad (Canada) than domestically. The Association of Canadian Console Manufacturers gets upset that Microsoft is "dumping" in Canada because they are charging less in one market that in another. IT HAS ZERO TO DO WITH COSTS OF MANUFACTURING!
Why does dumping occur? It happens much more often in the United States because the US is the hub of the world economy. The US buyer (business or consumer) or has a better selection of goods than any other in the world. This results in more competition and LOWER PRICES. On the other hand, the importer's home country may have much less competition. Correct price setting theory for this importer should state then that they charges less money in the market with more competition (US) than the one with less competition (their home country). Thus, countries that have a higher degree of imports tend to see higher degrees of dumping.
Predatory Pricing is carried out by a company with monopolistic power to maintain or grow its monopolistic powers. Essentially a pricing strategy that reduces price below the manufacturing prices of its smaller competitors. Usually it applies in a case where a large, national firm is going in to drive a smaller, local firm out of business. The presumption is that the monopoly has lower costs than the smaller competitor. This really doesn't apply to Microsoft in this case.
A) We know that Xbox has higher manufacturing costs than Sony or Nintendo.
B) Microsoft is not a monopoly in the Console industry. If anything, Sony is.
Microsoft has one thing going for them-- a big war chest. This allows them to invest massive amounts of money ($2 billion) into growing their business. But, wait a minute, didn't Sony spend $2 Billion in Research and Development on Playstation 2 chip production?
How is this any different? I'll tell you... Microsoft has sold fewer units. Of course they're going to lose money per unit. They simply chose to account for R&D in a different way-- by paying chip (mobo and graphics card) manufacturers to take care of it for them. From a business perspective, not a conspiracy theory perspective, what they're doing is fairly normal for strategists who intend to get their product into every home in the US that has a television.
If they don't get the grading system in check, this "community watch" methodology will be worthless. I've had my airline itineraries tossed in the spam bin. And, as you mentioned, just about any trigger happy admin can report legit newsletters and ruin the party for everyone on the razor network.
It's a great concept, but at the end of the day ask yourself if you want a complete stranger sorting your email for you? Probably the biggest problem is the auto-reporters out there-using Spam Assassin to find Spam, then report it to the Razor Network. Razor's a plugin for SA, so there's a feedback loop.
Read the forums on Razor's site and there's a lot of complaints going on. In my experience, Razor/Cloudmark catch spam about 75% of the time, and junk about 50% of legitimate newletters. Add to this about maybe 2% of legit emails from friends, and you've got a liability on your hands.
When Dell or Gateway or whoever sells a computer with their brand on it, they are promising the consumer a certain level of implied support, quality, etc. It's much less likely that the cost is seen in the manufacturing process than in the increased support and maintenance costs. Maybe I'm misreading that you implied the cost occurred at the assembly line.
It's simply not worth it financially for these guys to set up a department infrastructure, create the documentation, and hire the expertise necessary to properly support Linux. At least that's what I'm guessing they're thinking.
Remember, after enough support calls, the sale ceases to become profitable for the vendor. Might as well let others "pave the way" and then adopt Linux on the desktop if/when it ever becomes profitable for them.
Can find an acorn sometimes...
I don't know how you figure this considering it was at .75 in 1997, .70 in 1998, .68 in 2000, and .64 this year. Thats pretty terrible for people trying to pay off US college loans but fantastic for companies exporting from Canada into the US.
The fact that the Canadian dollar is completely and utterly in the toilet SHOULD be helping them out. Apparently it's not. Things really must be bad...
The irony of this article is that no one seems to understand what's actually going on here. Do you really think a non-profit manager would actually write such an insulting letter to a potential benefactor in response to getting turned down? OF Course not... He's simply trying to make MS look bad to increase their offer, pure and simple. Microsoft will quietly donate EVERYTHING he asks for to make this go away. And no more linux in the schools, while everyone on slashdot snorts at their own clever MS bashing comments. Bravo...
I'm fascinated that the demo was realeased at exactly this time. Just happens to be the same weekend that Battlefield 1942 is out. A lot of the discussions on the UT2k3 boards went "while I was waiting for the demo I fell in love with this great new game, Battlefield 1942." I wonder if the publishers were running a little scared?
As we all know, Snow is a great noise dampener and a perfect way to keep your box cool...
And slightly cheaper than a diamond mesh.
Not your's, obviously.
Hahaha. Sad that this comment got -1 flamebait! I guess grammar jokes don't get the respect they deserve on slashdot...
Like P2P Hasselhoff.
Who gets OEM cards? Joe-Sixpack or Joe-Corporate-Procurement-Drone.
Who wants TV tuners in their cards? Enthusiasts.
There's probably little overlap between the two. Don't be terribly surprised if the 4MX doesn't come out with a TV tuner any time soon.