I think claims of not buying the first generation are pretty valid, but saying "this product isn't very good right now, because of other products the company is also selling at the same time" is the lamest excuse for now being the "worst time to buy" I've ever heard What about say, Vista versus XP? Its a valid consideration that this may not be a big enough upgrade to justify buying it right now as older models are a) less expensive and b) may do the exact same job that you want of it.
Other products already offered by a company are ALWAYS a consideration as to whether to get the latest and greatest. In my opinion at least.
The only reason this HAS any meaning is because so many "silly twats" as you say take what he has to say seriously. Some guy rambling on the street corners is one thing, someone that millions around the world take as an icon of their spiritual livs is another thing entirely. Even those of us who are non-christians know that when he speaks, people listen regardless of why.
Kinda like the GWB, as the AC who responded to you said heh.
Influence is influence, whether we're talking a pope or other dude who manages to get enough of a following.
1: MS is up to old tricks (which isn't flat MS bashing, MS does have a reputation for illicit practices)
2: MS made a legitimate mistake, and this is just a bug. It wouldn't be the first time, and all programmers make mistakes. That said, that it still just so happens to work with MS servers but not Linux servers seems to point away from this option, but I can't say for sure, as light on the details as this story is. I still don't know if i'd leap onto that bandwagon quite yet. We have enough trouble keeping windows systems interoperating with different versions of windows at times to assume this inability to interoperate with linux is targeted heh.
Course, it could be, but you know yadda yadda malice yadda stupidity.
why has file sharing traffic, as a proportion of total internet traffic gone up consistently In a better world, it would have been because of the massive increase in linux distro iso's being sent via torrents.
The real question would be has illegal file sharing traffic gone up consistently since then, although you're probably still exactly correct. I sure do not have any sources to cite though that differentiate between illegal and legal file sharing.
heh, FTA
Walter Block, a professor of economics at Loyola University in New Orleans, pointed to similarities between employees who slacked off before the computer age and those who waste time in cyberspace. Your latter two points however are exactly correct. I hear meetings involving the words "Employee Morale" quite often, and yet no one seems to truely understand what that entails. Having the ability to "Waste" such time at work makes for a much happier workforce, who see their efforts much less like work due to such "Slacking". Such employees tend to deliver much higher quality results and care a lot more about actually HELPING the company and actually BEING creative. When we add to that your points of keeping the employees minds fresh and the fact that such employees can work MORE because of internet usage, this really does seem to be a seriously overblown concern.
Course it would depend entirely on the type of work ones site is doing as to whether such morale boosts would actually add value, but it doesnt change the fact that in many situations this can be a very good thing.
anxiously awaiting the arrival of its cousin: The Pay-Phone At the same time as the new Communications and Multimedia Pay-Per-Usage Access Points are brought in!
I doubt we'll ever see a complete removal of pay-per-use communications points, especially in captive audience type areas.
Traditionally, publishing was something done via a newspaper, book, or some other "official" work. a cursory glance at dictionary.reference.com...
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law - Cite This Source Main Entry: publish Function: transitive verb 1 : to make known to another or to the public generally NOTE: For purposes of defamation, a defamatory communication made to only one third party may be considered published. 2 a : to proclaim officially b : to declare (a will) to be a true and valid expression of one's last will c : to reproduce (an opinion) in a reporter 3 a : to disseminate to the public or provide notice of to the public or to an individual (as through a mass medium) --see also notice by publication at NOTICE b : to distribute or offer for distribution to the public copies of (a copyrightable work) by some transfer of ownership, rental, lease, or loan.
i see very few requirements for recognized forms of traditional media.
acting like ticking time-bombs. i really despise this term.
i'd say more "actually performing needlessly violent or stupid acts", "acting like a ticking time bomb" seems to be a label that gets attached to acting in any way deviates from the norm these days.
yes yes, tis ramblely, but i think you know what i mean heh.
Slashdot Mirror
so 3.5$?
heh.
Oh they will, it'll just be included in the Microsoft(TM) Fuck-You-To-Your-Consumers Package 3.11
Or pur a whole bunch of other countries flags on it. Confuse the hell out of the issue.
being factually wrong in a statement immediately negates the value of their questions?
You Plick?
No no, it's just Sirius.
And which of your counter-examples has been convicted of being illegal monopolies?
Theres a difference between unethically leveraging a product and illegally leveraging a product.
Both suck, but both are completely different beasts.
Other products already offered by a company are ALWAYS a consideration as to whether to get the latest and greatest. In my opinion at least.
Shouldn't that be Spamwurst, Spamwurst, Ei und Spamwurst, mit Kraut?
Also, I hear that doesn't have much Spamwurst in it.
Yes, but it was delivered orally in the key of A, so the discrepancy was not noticed.
Hell, I'd pitch 3 figures just to watch that.
Come on guy, he obviously only used the line given the guaranteed reaction.
The only reason this HAS any meaning is because so many "silly twats" as you say take what he has to say seriously. Some guy rambling on the street corners is one thing, someone that millions around the world take as an icon of their spiritual livs is another thing entirely. Even those of us who are non-christians know that when he speaks, people listen regardless of why.
Kinda like the GWB, as the AC who responded to you said heh.
Influence is influence, whether we're talking a pope or other dude who manages to get enough of a following.
2: MS made a legitimate mistake, and this is just a bug. It wouldn't be the first time, and all programmers make mistakes. That said, that it still just so happens to work with MS servers but not Linux servers seems to point away from this option, but I can't say for sure, as light on the details as this story is. I still don't know if i'd leap onto that bandwagon quite yet. We have enough trouble keeping windows systems interoperating with different versions of windows at times to assume this inability to interoperate with linux is targeted heh.
Course, it could be, but you know yadda yadda malice yadda stupidity.
and is it First or Final?
1. Make list.
2. Check list.
3. Check list.
4. Find out who is naughty or nice.
Please take note that all of them are indeed belong to us, monsieur.
The real question would be has illegal file sharing traffic gone up consistently since then, although you're probably still exactly correct. I sure do not have any sources to cite though that differentiate between illegal and legal file sharing.
Are you sure? What has more eye-blinding potential, an epileptic-unfriendly room full of coked up disco dancers, or the average blog?
Tough Call.
yes. A mass medium.
Are you saying the internet is not a mass medium for distribution of information?
Course it would depend entirely on the type of work ones site is doing as to whether such morale boosts would actually add value, but it doesnt change the fact that in many situations this can be a very good thing.
I doubt we'll ever see a complete removal of pay-per-use communications points, especially in captive audience type areas.
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law - Cite This Source
Main Entry: publish
Function: transitive verb
1 : to make known to another or to the public generally
NOTE: For purposes of defamation, a defamatory communication made to only one third party may be considered published.
2 a : to proclaim officially b : to declare (a will) to be a true and valid expression of one's last will c : to reproduce (an opinion) in a reporter
3 a : to disseminate to the public or provide notice of to the public or to an individual (as through a mass medium) --see also notice by publication at NOTICE b : to distribute or offer for distribution to the public copies of (a copyrightable work) by some transfer of ownership, rental, lease, or loan.
i see very few requirements for recognized forms of traditional media.
I wish more people preferred the finger reference to the lights though.
i'd say more "actually performing needlessly violent or stupid acts", "acting like a ticking time bomb" seems to be a label that gets attached to acting in any way deviates from the norm these days.
yes yes, tis ramblely, but i think you know what i mean heh.