You know the thing does more than call. It has to receive some kind of "go" signal to play. It may be well done or it may not be and that will be just one more hole for your non free platform. Consoles, like the Xbox, are connected to your wallet.
All of these gadgets are going to have network access. Big publishers dream of them being non free and pay per play. The last ten years of DRM and non free security dissasters prove better than anything else those dreams are impossibly flawed and that people hate it. Free software and free culture are going to overwhelm them.
There were more details of poor programming practices in the summary than there are in most other articles. Inconsistent interfaces are not such a big deal but memory management that does not work, bugs and broken APIs are a big deal. Ars provides good stuff like that.
Please follow the link and sign the ACLU petition and call your local representative. Domestic spying should be exposed and eradicated. The principle is more important than party politics.
Pleas return it to it's rightful owner as soon as you can. Vista alone can cost more than that. OEM pricing runs out of wiggle room at $200. "Loss leaders" and other monopoly rent schemes will get them another round of $1.5 billion anti-trust fines.
IT fails M$. Today, you can buy a laptop for $300 that works great for what you want or the same thing for $400 that runs XP poorly. The choice is obvious and it's going to become more obvious when it's $200 vrs $300 and the performance and feature gap widens. M$ only dominates because they have preloads and subscription or begware replacements won't work. No one is going to buy a $200 computer that's coin operated or advert crippled when they can have the same thing without those problems. Face it, it's over for the Soft.
Is that what Vista is really like? No, I did not click through eight single paragraph advert pages to read an article about tweaking an OS no one wants.
Funny how malware only exists on non free platforms, isn't it? It has something to do with poor system security and non free software not delivering what the user wants.
People in Brazil don't like M$. People in tech like free software. Get over it, the non free software model is doomed because it can't compete with free in any sense of the word.
You can make this into a story of wealth distribution because knowledge is a form of wealth but it's not "liberal" or even socialist. Free software lets you help your neighbor and yourself but it's not about property.
Everyone knows you are some kind of nutjob wasting 100% of your time harassing people you think are twitter and your home page proves it. All you talk about is twitter, then you whine and complain that he has too many sock puppets for you to keep up with as if you had something better to do with your time. Your posts under the willyhilly account span two and a half hours today. Every other day is more or less the same depending on when you think twitter is writting. Of course a troll like you has multiple other accounts to float your karma up to excellent and smash down people you don't like, so you must spend close to all of your time flaming people. That does not leave much time for a report no one cares about, but I'm looking forward to it anyway because it should be amusing.
I'd tell you to seek help but this is obviously a lost cause. If and when twitter gets something better to do than attract your abuse, you will still be at it because you are convinced that everyone is twitter and furious that anyone could break your trolly first post monopoly and crap flooding. Eventually, you might forget twitter and go back to abusing the editors. No matter what you do, you are chasing shadows and Slashdot continues to log the news.
Microsoft said this is not the first time it has sought help from the NSA. For about four years, Microsoft has tapped the spy agency for security expertise in reviewing its operating systems, including the Windows XP consumer version and the Windows Server 2003 for corporate customers.
We all know how well that turned out for XP and 2003 and how "security as job 1" cleaned up the botnets and eliminated spam. No? Well, at least they got input to their random number generator and everyone knows that a backdoored system is the one to use for great security. Go Team America!
A patent is for something where you want to make money off of the copies.
Is this why SAMBA had to reverse engineer everything? M$ advertises a lot. How did I miss the adverts about all those licensed OS and network stack alternatives? Oh yeah, the M$ way of making money of their patents is to keep everyone else out of the market. Forgot about that one.
The original opinion you are quoting boils down to this,
Making them conform to the TRANSITIONAL will require less of the same sort of surgery (since they're quite close to conformant as-is)
and that's a load of apologist nonsense. It's not a working standard even in the "transitional" sense and does not deserve ISO approval.
If M$ cared about playing nice, they would have devoted their effort to ODF translators for their legacy binary formats and continued along with those formats. Microsoft's "separate purpose" of OOXML is better suited by them continuing along legacy lines. The purpose of anywhere implementable formatting is best done with ODF. M$ moved along with OOXML because the rest of the world figured out their binary formats. They don't want to use ODF for the same reason their browsers consistently fail simple W3C format tests - they don't want to play nice, they want to continue their obscene late 80's format game.
ODF is the tip of a very big iceberg. It's an important and public facing tip but it is a small part of both government and business wasting money on the upgrade treadmill and all the intentional waste of M$ Office. It's all downhill from here.
Yeah, ODF is going to win this one. All M$ bought from the ISO was a black eye for themselves. None of it's going to magically make M$ Office less of a suck on IT budgets. If M$ was serious about being Open they would have used that other ISO standard, ODF and competed on a level playing field. This sort of proves they can't do that.
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You can imagine the mechanism will be hijacked right away and your credit card details will go to some server in Albania. Not that that's much worse than your Microsoft set of subscriptions is now.
Most of the services you are touting are already provided or are more generous for previous versions. Free updates? by most reasonable software vendors, yes. Install on more than one computer? Not the subscription model. Price? Well, if I was dumb enough to pay the full $400 for M$ Office and installed it on four computers, I would not feel as raped and I'd get to keep using it as long as the computers are bearable and I'm not sick of rebuilding them. Or... I could just use Open Office and get something with zero restrictions at no cost. The subscription model is going to fail them because they are competing with free by trying to chisel every last nickel out of their customers.
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You say sharing "pirated" coppies. I fear rogue servers emptying wallets. Non free games, music and movies are not worth that kind of risk.
You know the thing does more than call. It has to receive some kind of "go" signal to play. It may be well done or it may not be and that will be just one more hole for your non free platform. Consoles, like the Xbox, are connected to your wallet.
All of these gadgets are going to have network access. Big publishers dream of them being non free and pay per play. The last ten years of DRM and non free security dissasters prove better than anything else those dreams are impossibly flawed and that people hate it. Free software and free culture are going to overwhelm them.
There were more details of poor programming practices in the summary than there are in most other articles. Inconsistent interfaces are not such a big deal but memory management that does not work, bugs and broken APIs are a big deal. Ars provides good stuff like that.
Please follow the link and sign the ACLU petition and call your local representative. Domestic spying should be exposed and eradicated. The principle is more important than party politics.
Pleas return it to it's rightful owner as soon as you can. Vista alone can cost more than that. OEM pricing runs out of wiggle room at $200. "Loss leaders" and other monopoly rent schemes will get them another round of $1.5 billion anti-trust fines.
IT fails M$. Today, you can buy a laptop for $300 that works great for what you want or the same thing for $400 that runs XP poorly. The choice is obvious and it's going to become more obvious when it's $200 vrs $300 and the performance and feature gap widens. M$ only dominates because they have preloads and subscription or begware replacements won't work. No one is going to buy a $200 computer that's coin operated or advert crippled when they can have the same thing without those problems. Face it, it's over for the Soft.
Send in a bug and read their journal, Winston.
Is that what Vista is really like? No, I did not click through eight single paragraph advert pages to read an article about tweaking an OS no one wants.
Funny how malware only exists on non free platforms, isn't it? It has something to do with poor system security and non free software not delivering what the user wants.
People in Brazil don't like M$. People in tech like free software. Get over it, the non free software model is doomed because it can't compete with free in any sense of the word.
You can make this into a story of wealth distribution because knowledge is a form of wealth but it's not "liberal" or even socialist. Free software lets you help your neighbor and yourself but it's not about property.
Everyone knows you are some kind of nutjob wasting 100% of your time harassing people you think are twitter and your home page proves it. All you talk about is twitter, then you whine and complain that he has too many sock puppets for you to keep up with as if you had something better to do with your time. Your posts under the willyhilly account span two and a half hours today. Every other day is more or less the same depending on when you think twitter is writting. Of course a troll like you has multiple other accounts to float your karma up to excellent and smash down people you don't like, so you must spend close to all of your time flaming people. That does not leave much time for a report no one cares about, but I'm looking forward to it anyway because it should be amusing.
I'd tell you to seek help but this is obviously a lost cause. If and when twitter gets something better to do than attract your abuse, you will still be at it because you are convinced that everyone is twitter and furious that anyone could break your trolly first post monopoly and crap flooding. Eventually, you might forget twitter and go back to abusing the editors. No matter what you do, you are chasing shadows and Slashdot continues to log the news.
From the fine Washington Post article you referenced:
We all know how well that turned out for XP and 2003 and how "security as job 1" cleaned up the botnets and eliminated spam. No? Well, at least they got input to their random number generator and everyone knows that a backdoored system is the one to use for great security. Go Team America!
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Lars is an asshole. Harptallica are not. It's been fun to listen to them.
Metallica played on Harps by hot chicks, Harptallica. They pay for it but it shows what good can come from machups and free culture.
That seems obvious, how much money did the Soft lose on this one?
That's the truth.
A patent is for something where you want to make money off of the copies.
Is this why SAMBA had to reverse engineer everything? M$ advertises a lot. How did I miss the adverts about all those licensed OS and network stack alternatives? Oh yeah, the M$ way of making money of their patents is to keep everyone else out of the market. Forgot about that one.
The original opinion you are quoting boils down to this,
and that's a load of apologist nonsense. It's not a working standard even in the "transitional" sense and does not deserve ISO approval.
If M$ cared about playing nice, they would have devoted their effort to ODF translators for their legacy binary formats and continued along with those formats. Microsoft's "separate purpose" of OOXML is better suited by them continuing along legacy lines. The purpose of anywhere implementable formatting is best done with ODF. M$ moved along with OOXML because the rest of the world figured out their binary formats. They don't want to use ODF for the same reason their browsers consistently fail simple W3C format tests - they don't want to play nice, they want to continue their obscene late 80's format game.
ODF is the tip of a very big iceberg. It's an important and public facing tip but it is a small part of both government and business wasting money on the upgrade treadmill and all the intentional waste of M$ Office. It's all downhill from here.
The point of the article is that there are no conforming implementations. There never will be a conforming implementation and everyone knows it.
Yeah, ODF is going to win this one. All M$ bought from the ISO was a black eye for themselves. None of it's going to magically make M$ Office less of a suck on IT budgets. If M$ was serious about being Open they would have used that other ISO standard, ODF and competed on a level playing field. This sort of proves they can't do that.
Would you like to boot today? Your subscription has expired, please enter a valid credit card.
You can imagine the mechanism will be hijacked right away and your credit card details will go to some server in Albania. Not that that's much worse than your Microsoft set of subscriptions is now.
Most of the services you are touting are already provided or are more generous for previous versions. Free updates? by most reasonable software vendors, yes. Install on more than one computer? Not the subscription model. Price? Well, if I was dumb enough to pay the full $400 for M$ Office and installed it on four computers, I would not feel as raped and I'd get to keep using it as long as the computers are bearable and I'm not sick of rebuilding them. Or ... I could just use Open Office and get something with zero restrictions at no cost. The subscription model is going to fail them because they are competing with free by trying to chisel every last nickel out of their customers.
You have to turn it on for it to crash and be infested with malware.