They could institute that in order to register a domain name, you'd have to sign on through AOL. shudder - Well... I guess I won't be needing this computer anymore!
What about MP3.com's CD toy that would make CDs you own available online anywhere? Why isn't this a target the way Napster is? I'll be the first to admit that Napster is a tool used in the trading of illegal MP3s but MP3.com's tool offers the same type of "roadway" if you will. How difficult is it to trade account login information for accessing someone's huge library of CDs?
My point is... Why shutdown the entire freeway when you have a few bad drivers on the road? Give them tickets instead and be on your way. You make money giving tickets too, ya know.;)
I've been using SCSI for about 5 years now, when I bought all these external hard drives for my Macintosh. Over time, I eventually moved to a PC and could take these drives with me. Since then, I've been using SCSI religously.
I get better performance out of the drives, and they're 95% quieter than any of the IDE drives I've purchased.
As a digital audio fanatic, I swear by these Seagate 50gig SCSI drives and would shoot myself if I ever had to use IDE for what I do.
Why would anyone ever consider allowing a patent on somethin we're made of? So a company gets a patent on a gene that we're all comprised of... Does that company therefore own a little piece of each of us?
So Microsoft has pulled the plug on the program. A lot of people (including a few that I know) scored big on the program with new monitors, video cards, hard drives, memory, etc., etc.
If Microsoft puts out a press release tomorrow stating all who signed one of these MSN Instant Rebate deals must take their "purchases" back, who is really going to do it? They had a -valid legal agreement- with Microsoft. (Yes, I have seen this contract for myself and read the one page form that is signed and returned.) They agreed that for $400 instant credit at these retailers, they would -try- MSN for three years. It also explicitly said that there was no charge or damages incurred for canceling early. So, legally, I would say that Microsoft would end up with a big class action lawsuit on their hands for violating all these contracts.
The other question I have is, if you saw this come to your state, why wouldn't you take advantage of this deal? Is it a "loophole" that places moral beliefs in question? Of course not. It's legal from beginning to end and wasn't even a loophole. It was clearly stated what everyone was receiving on both sides of the fence. Just because Microsoft didn't think this through, does that mean you should be looking out for their best intrest? I myself would say, "Hell no. Gimme that TV."
While I agree choice is good, does it really add to the community to keep taking steps backwards in the programs we use? If we already have something that works, and works well, why not join the community and work to make that better? If you want the program to do something different, why do you have to write it from the ground up and sacrifice your time and energy in what others have already done?
It's like installing a 1.x kernel and saying, "I want it to do this so I'm gonna code that" when it's already in a later release, -and- you lose everything that's been added since then and have to write it all over. Does that sound like progress?
My fault for not seeing it was a Desktop, not a Server - However, I guess my eyebrows are still raised; With GNOME and KDE being as strong as they are, do we really need yet another one that will take the next year+ to catch up with what we already have? Why not build off the CVS of one of the previously existing Desktops and make improvements to them?
Is it me, or are all these GUI servers popping up making the focus on the movement in the XFree86 Project less and less important?
If all the attention were focused there, we'd probably have v4 by now, instead of projects like Berlin and now this one that do nice pretty graphics, but don't give us what we really want/need in the end.
What kind of moron votes the electric handdryer as one of the top ten gadgets of all times? What about a swiss army knife? A wrench or hammer or some other too that helped build the damn handdryer this moron is so fond of?! I swear, this is probably the guy who thought that scene in "Bean" was funny when he jumped up and got a hummer from the damn handdryer.
It's even more of a shame that the guy has that much public attention to do some good and wastes it being a twit.
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Good job on part of the /. team for following up on this and respecting your reader's opinions on the matter.
Takes guts to admit to something when you're wrong. You guys deserve resepect for stepping up on this one.
They could institute that in order to register a domain name, you'd have to sign on through AOL. shudder - Well... I guess I won't be needing this computer anymore!
What about MP3.com's CD toy that would make CDs you own available online anywhere? Why isn't this a target the way Napster is? I'll be the first to admit that Napster is a tool used in the trading of illegal MP3s but MP3.com's tool offers the same type of "roadway" if you will. How difficult is it to trade account login information for accessing someone's huge library of CDs?
;)
My point is... Why shutdown the entire freeway when you have a few bad drivers on the road? Give them tickets instead and be on your way. You make money giving tickets too, ya know.
Looks like someone saw themselves linked on /. and pulled their pictures.
Naughty-naughty. We know they were there!
I've been using SCSI for about 5 years now, when I bought all these external hard drives for my Macintosh. Over time, I eventually moved to a PC and could take these drives with me. Since then, I've been using SCSI religously.
I get better performance out of the drives, and they're 95% quieter than any of the IDE drives I've purchased.
As a digital audio fanatic, I swear by these Seagate 50gig SCSI drives and would shoot myself if I ever had to use IDE for what I do.
Why would anyone ever consider allowing a patent on somethin we're made of? So a company gets a patent on a gene that we're all comprised of... Does that company therefore own a little piece of each of us?
God no; someone get my lawyer on the phone...
Shouldn't we form some sort of movement that goes around and registers trademarks for Linux to Linus in every country in the world?
So Microsoft has pulled the plug on the program. A lot of people (including a few that I know) scored big on the program with new monitors, video cards, hard drives, memory, etc., etc.
;)
If Microsoft puts out a press release tomorrow stating all who signed one of these MSN Instant Rebate deals must take their "purchases" back, who is really going to do it? They had a -valid legal agreement- with Microsoft. (Yes, I have seen this contract for myself and read the one page form that is signed and returned.) They agreed that for $400 instant credit at these retailers, they would -try- MSN for three years. It also explicitly said that there was no charge or damages incurred for canceling early. So, legally, I would say that Microsoft would end up with a big class action lawsuit on their hands for violating all these contracts.
The other question I have is, if you saw this come to your state, why wouldn't you take advantage of this deal? Is it a "loophole" that places moral beliefs in question? Of course not. It's legal from beginning to end and wasn't even a loophole. It was clearly stated what everyone was receiving on both sides of the fence. Just because Microsoft didn't think this through, does that mean you should be looking out for their best intrest? I myself would say, "Hell no. Gimme that TV."
It's legal high tech looting
While I agree choice is good, does it really add to the community to keep taking steps backwards in the programs we use? If we already have something that works, and works well, why not join the community and work to make that better? If you want the program to do something different, why do you have to write it from the ground up and sacrifice your time and energy in what others have already done?
It's like installing a 1.x kernel and saying, "I want it to do this so I'm gonna code that" when it's already in a later release, -and- you lose everything that's been added since then and have to write it all over. Does that sound like progress?
My fault for not seeing it was a Desktop, not a Server - However, I guess my eyebrows are still raised; With GNOME and KDE being as strong as they are, do we really need yet another one that will take the next year+ to catch up with what we already have? Why not build off the CVS of one of the previously existing Desktops and make improvements to them?
Is it me, or are all these GUI servers popping up making the focus on the movement in the XFree86 Project less and less important?
If all the attention were focused there, we'd probably have v4 by now, instead of projects like Berlin and now this one that do nice pretty graphics, but don't give us what we really want/need in the end.
What kind of moron votes the electric handdryer as one of the top ten gadgets of all times? What about a swiss army knife? A wrench or hammer or some other too that helped build the damn handdryer this moron is so fond of?! I swear, this is probably the guy who thought that scene in "Bean" was funny when he jumped up and got a hummer from the damn handdryer.
It's even more of a shame that the guy has that much public attention to do some good and wastes it being a twit.