Then again, if my I look back on my previous expereiences witn Notes (starting vith R3), it doesn't surprise me. Lotus/ IBM have had a way all along of making strange programming decisions in relation to Notes. (e.g. ignoring NT API guidelines to implement proprietary features.) It certainly is an application programmer's prerogative to do whatever they want. However, it's no secret that unless you do everything by Microsoft's API guidelines, you're asking for it when they release a Service Pack. Hell, Service Packs even break Microsoft's own applications! OF course, I personally think Notes is a wretched virus, if not a straight-up plague. I pray nightly for the health and sanity of Notes administrators.... besides, IBM wants you to run it on S/390 or AIX. (The NT version is just a lousy port...)
That it's just standard Microsoft incompetency, and not a conspiracy? I think it more likely that there's some bug in SP6 that breaks Lotus Notes, unintentionally. Some poor idiot just got a promotion, because his.dll patch breaks Notes. Anyway I think the one QA tester employed by Microsoft is probably really overworked.:-)
1) Cracking DVD encryption key: Not Immoral. (c'mon folks, it's computer science, not crime)
2) Copying DVD movies for personal use, trading with friends, etc.: a Little Immoral (Immoral but still within my personal comfort zone.:)
3) Sale of pirated material for personal gain: Damnably Immoral!
Furthermore, the motion picture industry should not worry about me, nor others like me, because:
My home theater setup is better-sounding than my computer speakers. My television is larger than my computer monitor. My sofa is more comfortable than my office chair, and does not require mastery of yoga to fit me and my wife on. I enjoy the DVD format for it's sound quality and for the picture quality. I also always buy movies that I really like. I have tons of movies on VHS that I've copied, but i never watch them. The ones I watch most often are ones I've bought, because I can't afford a professional dubbing deck, and the quality of the recording is better on the store-bought ones. When a kick-ass new movie comes out, I want to see it on a huge screen in a movie theater. When something I REALLY want to see comes out, like The Matrix (huzzah!) or Episode I (Argh!), I ESPECAILLY want to see it in a theater FIRST. Besides, since I don't have numerous spare 9 GB drives lying around, and I don't have a T3 to my house, acquiring these pirated movies would be a pain in the ass. So I can pay $24.95 at retail for a movie I really like, and watch it on my home theater, or I can pay, what, 10 buck less for a pirated one, and watch it on my computer. Er, I think I'll take the $24.95, and the self-rightoeous moral superiority.:)
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Then again, if my I look back on my previous expereiences witn Notes (starting vith R3), it doesn't surprise me. Lotus/ IBM have had a way all along of making strange programming decisions in relation to Notes. (e.g. ignoring NT API guidelines to implement proprietary features.) It certainly is an application programmer's prerogative to do whatever they want. However, it's no secret that unless you do everything by Microsoft's API guidelines, you're asking for it when they release a Service Pack. Hell, Service Packs even break Microsoft's own applications! OF course, I personally think Notes is a wretched virus, if not a straight-up plague. I pray nightly for the health and sanity of Notes administrators.... besides, IBM wants you to run it on S/390 or AIX. (The NT version is just a lousy port...)
That it's just standard Microsoft incompetency, and not a conspiracy? I think it more likely that there's some bug in SP6 that breaks Lotus Notes, unintentionally. Some poor idiot just got a promotion, because his .dll patch breaks Notes. Anyway I think the one QA tester employed by Microsoft is probably really overworked. :-)
I pronounce my judgments thus:
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1) Cracking DVD encryption key: Not Immoral. (c'mon folks, it's computer science, not crime)
2) Copying DVD movies for personal use, trading with friends, etc.: a Little Immoral (Immoral but still within my personal comfort zone.
3) Sale of pirated material for personal gain: Damnably Immoral!
Furthermore, the motion picture industry should not worry about me, nor others like me, because:
My home theater setup is better-sounding than my computer speakers. My television is larger than my computer monitor. My sofa is more comfortable than my office chair, and does not require mastery of yoga to fit me and my wife on. I enjoy the DVD format for it's sound quality and for the picture quality. I also always buy movies that I really like. I have tons of movies on VHS that I've copied, but i never watch them. The ones I watch most often are ones I've bought, because I can't afford a professional dubbing deck, and the quality of the recording is better on the store-bought ones. When a kick-ass new movie comes out, I want to see it on a huge screen in a movie theater. When something I REALLY want to see comes out, like The Matrix (huzzah!) or Episode I (Argh!), I ESPECAILLY want to see it in a theater FIRST. Besides, since I don't have numerous spare 9 GB drives lying around, and I don't have a T3 to my house, acquiring these pirated movies would be a pain in the ass. So I can pay $24.95 at retail for a movie I really like, and watch it on my home theater, or I can pay, what, 10 buck less for a pirated one, and watch it on my computer. Er, I think I'll take the $24.95, and the self-rightoeous moral superiority.