OK, if you're going to make fun of someone's English, don't turn the Latin word sic into an acronym. Super Intelligent Comment? Sick Internet Creep? Silly Immature Cretin? Sadly Impoverished Credibility?
heh. and here I was thinking that (sic) meant 'Spelling InCorrect'.
Wrong! No matter how you try to spin it, trading copyrighted material over the internet is against the law. Don't like it? Change the LAW.
No it's not. Almost everything is 'copyrighted'. The Linux kernel, gnome, kde, Windows, Solaris, BeOS, the lot. Are we not allowed to trade the GNU utilities?
Oh, you meant 'trading unlicenced material', didn't you? hmmm?
It also goes straight into a reporting database where Microsoft can track trends like which resellers are selling large amounts of counterfeit copies of Windows.
So what's to stop people (who know they have illegitimate copies of Windows) from colluding and falsely reporting innocent vendors?
Waht if the Gartner data really does prove that a lot of people who buy PCs with pre-installed linux wipe out the linux installation and install pirated windows.
And this is relevant how?
It is illegal if even one user is forced to purchase Windows, that he or she did not want.
Was it the sysadmin's job to ensure productivity of individuals? No, only of the computer system over which he had responsibility.
He raised the issue with higher management, and it was their perogitive to not respond in the method expected by the sysadmin. But who's to say there was _nothing_ done? Reprimands are normally private, and certainly not publicised to the 'rank and file'.
Yes it'd piss me off too seeing my boss wasting away the company's time, while I'm busting a nut keeping the system in order. But so what?
Some will think this is flamebait, or a troll (is there any difference?), but why on earth would anyone want to pirate this film? It's not worth the AU$11.50 to see it, let alone the the risk of getting caught pirating it.
I mean, any film that plays 'Rain drops keep falling on my head' in full has problems.
You've got to ask what the incentive is for Adobe (and Jasc, et al) to go through all the R&D to develop this feature.
Unless the application developer actualy increases sales of their product through this feature then why bother?
At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy nut (where's my tinfoil hat anyway?), if this is of benefit only to the reserve bank then how was Adobe/Jasc/Xerox/etc convinced to implement this?
This just struck me as hillarious. Imagine a newbie to Slashdot reading that line and being like WTF?! because he'd never struggled through any previous articles where NYT registration fubar'd things.
More likely; a Slashdot reader thinking 'WTF!?, I'll never be able to register with NYT while sex is a prerequisite for actualy having a first-born!'
The bounty is offered for information that leads to the arrest of the people who released the MSBlast worm and the SoBig virus.
Or maybe the virus writers will have a field-day deploying the virus' via innocent third-party trojaned PCs, and then point the finger at the owner of said PC. A quick way to make a quarter mil.
If I buy a CD, and so does Fred 2000 miles away, and we both rip it with audiograbber (or any other common Windows ripper) using default options (incl *ddb), why would they not have the same MD5 hash?
Maybe I'm way off mark here, but I figure most people use the one O/S (even slashdot readers, no?), the same ripper, and default options on both.
Having recently become a father (again) I still go by my pet theory that 42 could be the number of days between the birth of the child and when the doc gives the all clear for hanky-panky again.;-)
Anyone who is a parent knows that the first thing you do when your baby is born is to book the grandparents (as baby-sitters) six weeks in advance (42 days/nights) so you can have the house to yourselves.
It could be beneficial or harmful--only time will tell. Ximian was once a good example of a successful free software company, but that changed in 2002 when Ximian introduced a non-free product. (I won't say what it does, because I don't want to promote a non-free program.)
Whoops, maybe he shouldn't have previously mentioned both Windows and StarOffice in the same interview. I'm now vaguely motivated to go and purchase both. Thanks Richard.
Slashdot Mirror
http://members.iinet.net.au/~cybersrc/linux_vs_win dows_tco_comparison.pdf
And would you believe it, we didn't feel the slashdot effect. We were already at meltdown from all the news sites that published it *on time*.
cheers!
heh. and here I was thinking that (sic) meant 'Spelling InCorrect'.
*sigh*
No it's not. Almost everything is 'copyrighted'. The Linux kernel, gnome, kde, Windows, Solaris, BeOS, the lot. Are we not allowed to trade the GNU utilities?
Oh, you meant 'trading unlicenced material', didn't you? hmmm?
So what's to stop people (who know they have illegitimate copies of Windows) from colluding and falsely reporting innocent vendors?
And this is relevant how?
It is illegal if even one user is forced to purchase Windows, that he or she did not want.
Was it the sysadmin's job to ensure productivity of individuals? No, only of the computer system over which he had responsibility.
He raised the issue with higher management, and it was their perogitive to not respond in the method expected by the sysadmin. But who's to say there was _nothing_ done? Reprimands are normally private, and certainly not publicised to the 'rank and file'.
Yes it'd piss me off too seeing my boss wasting away the company's time, while I'm busting a nut keeping the system in order. But so what?
I mean, any film that plays 'Rain drops keep falling on my head' in full has problems.
*sigh*
/me sighs
It's X-Window, not X-Windows!!
sheesh
Oh dear, I'm sorry, I must have nodded off and missed what you said.
$4.2 billion is what, three mainframes? Not impressed yet.
;-)
You know the ones, a few lagers and you generally have a better appreciation of the fairer sex.
;-)
they used about 60 meters of steel wire
The last thing I'd call that case is 'wireless'!
Yes they would, they just wouldn't be able to distribute binary versions.
Unless the application developer actualy increases sales of their product through this feature then why bother?
At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy nut (where's my tinfoil hat anyway?), if this is of benefit only to the reserve bank then how was Adobe/Jasc/Xerox/etc convinced to implement this?
This just struck me as hillarious. Imagine a newbie to Slashdot reading that line and being like WTF?! because he'd never struggled through any previous articles where NYT registration fubar'd things.
More likely; a Slashdot reader thinking 'WTF!?, I'll never be able to register with NYT while sex is a prerequisite for actualy having a first-born!'
Or maybe the virus writers will have a field-day deploying the virus' via innocent third-party trojaned PCs, and then point the finger at the owner of said PC. A quick way to make a quarter mil.
Rediculous, but possible I guess. *sigh*
What more can be said?
What could I say? When you're right, you're right!
;-)
You obviously haven't noticed how long the editors take to accept a story, have you? ;-)
If I buy a CD, and so does Fred 2000 miles away, and we both rip it with audiograbber (or any other common Windows ripper) using default options (incl *ddb), why would they not have the same MD5 hash?
Maybe I'm way off mark here, but I figure most people use the one O/S (even slashdot readers, no?), the same ripper, and default options on both.
From memory, it has more features than the original (IE version) had. Absolutely mandatory for anyone moving from IE to Moz.
cheers!
Anyone who is a parent knows that the first thing you do when your baby is born is to book the grandparents (as baby-sitters) six weeks in advance (42 days/nights) so you can have the house to yourselves.
heh. Works for me.
Whoops, maybe he shouldn't have previously mentioned both Windows and StarOffice in the same interview. I'm now vaguely motivated to go and purchase both. Thanks Richard.