Also, why is this under "Your Rights Online?" Nobody has a right to illegally download copyrighted materials.
Speaking of illegal downloads what's so illegal about it anyway? In my mind, it is (or is it 'it should have been'?) illegal for a person to use software he didn't acquire legally.
I can't think of a good car analogy, but I'm pretty sure labeling a download as 'illegal' is stupid. It series of 0s and 1s. How can I predict their sequence and how am I supposed to know that a particular sequence of 0s and 1s is someone else's work before using (ie installing / viewing / printing etc) those bytes?
What's wrong with IBM recommending people switch to Linux? It was IBM who recommended Microsoft DOS originally..... now they are simply recommending a different product to run on the PC platform
Because the mantra will become "KDE ought to be enough for anybody" which isn't fun anymore.
Now Vista Business, on the other hand, I have no idea where the hell that came from. Professional is the best name you could give that product for what it's aimed at.
Presumably because it kills your PC, but that's just business, not personal.
First of all, according to the article linked it's about 2000-3000. Second, why Microsoft's decision to cut some thousand jobs is related to piracy? And finally, since when pirated copies equal lost sales?
To Leonard Boyarsky, lead world designer on Diablo III
I believe one of the most exciting features of Diablo III, which made the distinctive difference between D3 and WoW is that there are no character stereotypes. The same class can be developped in so many different ways. Although there are cookie-cutter builds, there are several more which are viable and fun. How do you cope with the balancing?
There aren't two different types of people: "criminals" and "non-criminals". Someone being a criminal doesn't make them morally corrupt and somehow more able to commit murder/suicide.
Maybe you mean "mentally ill" instead of "morally corrupt"? To me a criminal is morally corrupt (or there's something very wrong with the laws that gouvern us), but he's not necessarily a schizo.
I had the privilege of attending one of his lectures back in 1998 and I can almost remember his entire speech.
He admitted that there aren't enough IP addresses for everyone and his vision included a world where every single device would be connected to the Internet.
He had a great sense of humour as well. I remember him saying: "Imagine a world where everything is connecting to the Internet. You get up in the morning, go to the bathroom, step on the scale and the results are transmitted to your dietist. You take a shower and go to the kitchen to have some breakfast, only to find your fridge being locked up by order of your doctor".
He also pondered how we should cope with the URLs when other plannets enter the game. "Shouldn't we change our emails? Is xxx@yyy.com enough? Or maybe we should add something like.earth or.mars at the end?". That guy is way ahead of his time.
The original poster obviously missed the most extraordinary animal on the planet: the slashdotter. Without it, the world is obsolete.
By the way, how would this creature look like? Any takers?
On top of that and given how quickly hardware manufacturers decide to change the way parts connect to eachother, what's the point of having 100 years old flash memory archives and no way (at least for the everyday user) to use it?
Probably the best action from Wikipedia contributors would be to post an animated lolcat on Britannica's entry with neon blinking lights surrounding the text 'owned', but I have a tingling feeling this would deviate slightly from Wikipedia's NPOV principle.
Excluding the productivity part, since in my opinion this is clearly anti-productive, if anyone comes near my screen and starts touching it, I'll go bananas.
Slashdot Mirror
Also, why is this under "Your Rights Online?" Nobody has a right to illegally download copyrighted materials.
Speaking of illegal downloads what's so illegal about it anyway? In my mind, it is (or is it 'it should have been'?) illegal for a person to use software he didn't acquire legally.
I can't think of a good car analogy, but I'm pretty sure labeling a download as 'illegal' is stupid. It series of 0s and 1s. How can I predict their sequence and how am I supposed to know that a particular sequence of 0s and 1s is someone else's work before using (ie installing / viewing / printing etc) those bytes?
What's wrong with IBM recommending people switch to Linux? It was IBM who recommended Microsoft DOS originally..... now they are simply recommending a different product to run on the PC platform
Because the mantra will become "KDE ought to be enough for anybody" which isn't fun anymore.
First they ignore you..
Then they laugh at you...
Then you make plugins for their browser.
20 minutes later, the kids got bored and moved on to something else.
Actually, 20 minutes later the kids think they can fly as well and try it by jumping out of the balkony.
Now Vista Business, on the other hand, I have no idea where the hell that came from. Professional is the best name you could give that product for what it's aimed at.
Presumably because it kills your PC, but that's just business, not personal.
I can give you 5000
First of all, according to the article linked it's about 2000-3000. Second, why Microsoft's decision to cut some thousand jobs is related to piracy? And finally, since when pirated copies equal lost sales?
To Leonard Boyarsky, lead world designer on Diablo III
I believe one of the most exciting features of Diablo III, which made the distinctive difference between D3 and WoW is that there are no character stereotypes. The same class can be developped in so many different ways. Although there are cookie-cutter builds, there are several more which are viable and fun. How do you cope with the balancing?
...for users with an itch or a hiccup.
There aren't two different types of people: "criminals" and "non-criminals". Someone being a criminal doesn't make them morally corrupt and somehow more able to commit murder/suicide.
Maybe you mean "mentally ill" instead of "morally corrupt"? To me a criminal is morally corrupt (or there's something very wrong with the laws that gouvern us), but he's not necessarily a schizo.
I had the privilege of attending one of his lectures back in 1998 and I can almost remember his entire speech.
He admitted that there aren't enough IP addresses for everyone and his vision included a world where every single device would be connected to the Internet.
He had a great sense of humour as well. I remember him saying: "Imagine a world where everything is connecting to the Internet. You get up in the morning, go to the bathroom, step on the scale and the results are transmitted to your dietist. You take a shower and go to the kitchen to have some breakfast, only to find your fridge being locked up by order of your doctor".
He also pondered how we should cope with the URLs when other plannets enter the game. "Shouldn't we change our emails? Is xxx@yyy.com enough? Or maybe we should add something like .earth or .mars at the end?". That guy is way ahead of his time.
Kill Bill
The original poster obviously missed the most extraordinary animal on the planet: the slashdotter. Without it, the world is obsolete. By the way, how would this creature look like? Any takers?
On top of that and given how quickly hardware manufacturers decide to change the way parts connect to eachother, what's the point of having 100 years old flash memory archives and no way (at least for the everyday user) to use it?
Probably the best action from Wikipedia contributors would be to post an animated lolcat on Britannica's entry with neon blinking lights surrounding the text 'owned', but I have a tingling feeling this would deviate slightly from Wikipedia's NPOV principle.
Pacman and Tetris certainly fit in that description.
Excluding the productivity part, since in my opinion this is clearly anti-productive, if anyone comes near my screen and starts touching it, I'll go bananas.
This guy could be the next Thomas Watson.
Someone erase Wikipedia, I think I reverted a vandalism on a potentially copyright infringing article.