"They seem satisfied to try to attack it in the press rather than trying to make it work," said Sen. Hollings spokesman Andy Davis.
What did they expect?
Hollings: I'd like to pass a bill that will take away all your rights to using digital media. Consumers: Hmm how about just some of our rights? Hollings: Will taking a way 2/3 of your civil rights be good? Consumers: Ok that works for us.
3.) This was X-Box's first release. Lets determine a winner after either a.) MS (or Sony) drop out of the console market or b.) The 2nd or 3rd generation X-Box.
Something tells me MS's next generation X-Box isn't going to be much different than the first one. I mean just think of the win95->98->2000->XP product line. What really improved with each of those versions? My theory is they will just add a few more features, maybe slap in a faster processor for marketing benefits and rename it to the XP-Box.
Funny how MS constantly says Linux and Open Source Software is bad and horrible and how no one should ever need to use it. Then MS comes out with license agreements like this to try and force people to not use OSS. If OSS is really as bad a solution to a problem as MS says then why must MS attack it? Hmmmm.. makes you wonder just how scared MS really is of OSS and how they are trying not to show it.
...alleging libel and defamation and seeking $1 million in damages. He also claimed that he had suffered "$5 million, plus interest" in damages to his "good name and reputation and to his business interests."
What the heck does that mean? So I guess everyone on the mailing list was about to buy $6 million worth of plants from this store until someone else on the mailing list complained about the store?
Ok but seriously. If they were running Linux VNC and SSH come to mind. Then the tech support person will never had to talk to a person on the phone and deal with things like "Ok press the button on the screen." "Ok I'm pressing my finger against the monitor screen.."
If the tech could do the work directly himself rather than relaying what needs to be done through an inexperienced, incompetent human, things will get done much faster. The user only needs to give the person a username/password to log in.
As far as I know for windows, VNC is the only thing that would help a situation like stated above.
MS Marketer 1: Hmm we need to come up with lots of ideas that make UNIX look bad. MS Marketer 2: I know, lets take all the customer complaints about Windows and replace any mention of Windows with UNIX. MS Marketer 1: Brilliant! No wonder why we get 6 figure salaries.
TV/Movies/Music is only #4 on the list of people who are funding his campaign. That's about 1/12 of his funding. The three groups above #4 have little to nothing to do with the TV/Movies/Music group. If you want to draw conclusions from this chart I would say that the senator is doing this more because he believes in it rather than people paying him to do it.
I can just imagine companies that sit there all day mass mailing anyone with a trademark remotely similar to their own and threatening them with legal action. Or how about the RIAA mass mailing threats of legal action against every mp3 using person they can find on the net?
I work on contracts for commercial software and it is amazing how much code people can write and not comment it. I had to change the functionality of some program once and it took me 5 days to write 3 lines of source. Why? Because I had to wade through code with variable names like "int32 data[7];". As a bonus there were hardcoded numbers to the variable. I had to do hex dumps at one point to see where the data was being used and how.
As I shouldn't even have to say... commmenting your code improves productivity A LOT. Some people say you shouldn't comment code in a commercial product because then you can easily be replaced. My response to that is, why don't you do good work then you won't have to worry about being fired?
If I had an employee who's not commenting his code, that means the next coder that tries to change something is going to spend a bunch of completely unproductive days just trying to figure out what's going on. I think I'd fire the employee because of his incompetence and the amount of time/money he going to make me waste.
Let's say MS buys some code from a small competeing company. MS runs the code and it crashes one of their servers and causes some minor damage. MS then, using these new laws about accountability, sends it's massive legal department after the small competing company. The small company, having no finances to put up against MS, will cease to exist.
Sure the new laws of accountability sound nice but it takes money to enforce them.
The new technology will cause practically all Microsoft products to be rewritten to take advantage of it.
I don't get it, why rewrite the applications if they are running on a new filesystem? fopen/fclose/etc they should all work the same on any filesystem. Heck, with linux I have multiple file systems on different partitions. I've copied entire partitions from one filesystem to another with no problems. Am I missing something here?
Oh wait a sec...
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To The Pain
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· Score: 3, Funny
At first I thought it was Microsoft changing the name of their X-Box to compete with the Playstation.
This reminds me of a caller that called into a radio show. She remortgaged her house and used the money to do day trading. All her money from the mortgage was lost to day trading. She then called up the radio show and asked how she could get her money back! The host just laughed at her and basically said she was an idiot for doing that.
The point is, too many people rely on the government to solve their financial problems. Most people think that if they lose all their money the government will step in and get it all back. Same with corporations. If the corp is losing profits they expect the goverment to step in and give them all their profits back. How about making a better product than trying to get the government to force money out of people for you?
Why in the world does XP need this feature disabled, and are there workarounds to get OSes like FreeBSD working properly with motherboards of this sort?
MS wanting a feature disabled that makes a board incompatible with other operating systems? My god, what a coincidence!
Wow, lets make laws for everything!
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Industry: We can't make anything to prevent copying of media. Politicians: Well then, we'll just make a law that says you have to make something to prevent copying. That will solve the problem.
Later on...
NASA: We can't make a spaceship that travels faster than the speed of light, it's against the laws of physics! Politicians: Well then, we'll just make a law that says you have to make a spaceship that travels faster than the speed of light. That will fix the laws of physics.
I get the spam as text messages on my phone. So far every message that comes in is from @yahoo.com. I've contacted yahoo and they say they have nothing to do with the problem. Luckily I don't have to pay for each text message but if I did I bet I could easily win a lawsuit against them.
They have to spend money to send out these legal demands that the emulated Bnet servers be shut down. And if they actually take the developers to court, thats even more money spent on closing down these servers. But after they do all that, what does Blizzard gain? Are people going to suddenly go out and buy all this software after their pirated versions stop working? Most pirates wouldn't buy software if it wasn't copyable. It's not worth the money, or they don't have the money which is why they don't buy it.
So after Blizzard spends all their money on their legal department shutting down these servers the end result is: 1. Pirates stop playing Blizzards games. 2. The people who would buy Blizzards games to run them on the emulated server will no longer buy them. 3. People angered by Blizzards actions stop buying their games. 4. A small percentage of the pirates may possibly buy the game.
This means that the loss of sales from 2. plus the loss of sales from 3. plus the gain of sales from 4. have to be greater than the total legal fees Blizzard has spent. That has to be a lot of sales to make up for Blizzards actions.
Jury: Bootloader? OS? Kernel? Linux? Microsoft? Oh I know Microsoft, I run their stuff on my computer. I'll just stay on Microsofts side then.
Juries are made up of random people and most people in the US know nothing about computers. Many don't even have a computer, and these people are suppose to make decisions about the computer industry? A scary thought if you ask me.
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...but you should assume that right now, in your wallet, there's a credit card number that has been stolen off the Net."
Opens up wallet.
OMG! He's right! Someone stole a CC number off the Internet and put it in my wallet! These hackers are good!
But IRC is largely unregulated -- a Wild West of chat...
YEEEHA!! I'm gonna rustle me up some trout to slap!
"They seem satisfied to try to attack it in the press rather than trying to make it work," said Sen. Hollings spokesman Andy Davis.
What did they expect?
Hollings: I'd like to pass a bill that will take away all your rights to using digital media.
Consumers: Hmm how about just some of our rights?
Hollings: Will taking a way 2/3 of your civil rights be good?
Consumers: Ok that works for us.
3.) This was X-Box's first release. Lets determine a winner after either a.) MS (or Sony) drop out of the console market or b.) The 2nd or 3rd generation X-Box.
Something tells me MS's next generation X-Box isn't going to be much different than the first one. I mean just think of the win95->98->2000->XP product line. What really improved with each of those versions? My theory is they will just add a few more features, maybe slap in a faster processor for marketing benefits and rename it to the XP-Box.
Funny how MS constantly says Linux and Open Source Software is bad and horrible and how no one should ever need to use it. Then MS comes out with license agreements like this to try and force people to not use OSS. If OSS is really as bad a solution to a problem as MS says then why must MS attack it? Hmmmm.. makes you wonder just how scared MS really is of OSS and how they are trying not to show it.
All Mammal clones possible so far are FEMALE!
Well if these scientists have the same problems with women that computer geeks have, then it's no wonder...
Looks like PetsWarehouse.com has a message board. Maybe all us slashdoters should go over there and post our opinions on the topic.
...alleging libel and defamation and seeking $1 million in damages. He also claimed that he had suffered "$5 million, plus interest" in damages to his "good name and reputation and to his business interests."
What the heck does that mean? So I guess everyone on the mailing list was about to buy $6 million worth of plants from this store until someone else on the mailing list complained about the store?
It's called "beer". If you have enough of it everyone sounds great at a karaoke party.
They should be required to install Linux.
Ok but seriously. If they were running Linux VNC and SSH come to mind. Then the tech support person will never had to talk to a person on the phone and deal with things like
"Ok press the button on the screen."
"Ok I'm pressing my finger against the monitor screen.."
If the tech could do the work directly himself rather than relaying what needs to be done through an inexperienced, incompetent human, things will get done much faster. The user only needs to give the person a username/password to log in.
As far as I know for windows, VNC is the only thing that would help a situation like stated above.
MS Marketer 1: Hmm we need to come up with lots of ideas that make UNIX look bad.
MS Marketer 2: I know, lets take all the customer complaints about Windows and replace any mention of Windows with UNIX.
MS Marketer 1: Brilliant! No wonder why we get 6 figure salaries.
TV/Movies/Music is only #4 on the list of people who are funding his campaign. That's about 1/12 of his funding. The three groups above #4 have little to nothing to do with the TV/Movies/Music group. If you want to draw conclusions from this chart I would say that the senator is doing this more because he believes in it rather than people paying him to do it.
#include "stdio.h"
int main()
{
printf("Hello, Microsoft EULA.\n");
return 1;
}
I can just imagine companies that sit there all day mass mailing anyone with a trademark remotely similar to their own and threatening them with legal action. Or how about the RIAA mass mailing threats of legal action against every mp3 using person they can find on the net?
I work on contracts for commercial software and it is amazing how much code people can write and not comment it. I had to change the functionality of some program once and it took me 5 days to write 3 lines of source. Why? Because I had to wade through code with variable names like "int32 data[7];". As a bonus there were hardcoded numbers to the variable. I had to do hex dumps at one point to see where the data was being used and how.
As I shouldn't even have to say... commmenting your code improves productivity A LOT. Some people say you shouldn't comment code in a commercial product because then you can easily be replaced. My response to that is, why don't you do good work then you won't have to worry about being fired?
If I had an employee who's not commenting his code, that means the next coder that tries to change something is going to spend a bunch of completely unproductive days just trying to figure out what's going on. I think I'd fire the employee because of his incompetence and the amount of time/money he going to make me waste.
While driving along some roads...
Take a picture of that sign and see what it says.
-15 seconds later-
"STOP"
Let's say MS buys some code from a small competeing company. MS runs the code and it crashes one of their servers and causes some minor damage. MS then, using these new laws about accountability, sends it's massive legal department after the small competing company. The small company, having no finances to put up against MS, will cease to exist.
Sure the new laws of accountability sound nice but it takes money to enforce them.
The new technology will cause practically all Microsoft products to be rewritten to take advantage of it.
I don't get it, why rewrite the applications if they are running on a new filesystem? fopen/fclose/etc they should all work the same on any filesystem. Heck, with linux I have multiple file systems on different partitions. I've copied entire partitions from one filesystem to another with no problems. Am I missing something here?
At first I thought it was Microsoft changing the name of their X-Box to compete with the Playstation.
This reminds me of a caller that called into a radio show. She remortgaged her house and used the money to do day trading. All her money from the mortgage was lost to day trading. She then called up the radio show and asked how she could get her money back! The host just laughed at her and basically said she was an idiot for doing that.
The point is, too many people rely on the government to solve their financial problems. Most people think that if they lose all their money the government will step in and get it all back. Same with corporations. If the corp is losing profits they expect the goverment to step in and give them all their profits back. How about making a better product than trying to get the government to force money out of people for you?
Why in the world does XP need this feature disabled, and are there workarounds to get OSes like FreeBSD working properly with motherboards of this sort?
MS wanting a feature disabled that makes a board incompatible with other operating systems? My god, what a coincidence!
Industry: We can't make anything to prevent copying of media.
Politicians: Well then, we'll just make a law that says you have to make something to prevent copying. That will solve the problem.
Later on...
NASA: We can't make a spaceship that travels faster than the speed of light, it's against the laws of physics!
Politicians: Well then, we'll just make a law that says you have to make a spaceship that travels faster than the speed of light. That will fix the laws of physics.
I get the spam as text messages on my phone. So far every message that comes in is from @yahoo.com. I've contacted yahoo and they say they have nothing to do with the problem. Luckily I don't have to pay for each text message but if I did I bet I could easily win a lawsuit against them.
They have to spend money to send out these legal demands that the emulated Bnet servers be shut down. And if they actually take the developers to court, thats even more money spent on closing down these servers. But after they do all that, what does Blizzard gain? Are people going to suddenly go out and buy all this software after their pirated versions stop working? Most pirates wouldn't buy software if it wasn't copyable. It's not worth the money, or they don't have the money which is why they don't buy it.
So after Blizzard spends all their money on their legal department shutting down these servers the end result is:
1. Pirates stop playing Blizzards games.
2. The people who would buy Blizzards games to run them on the emulated server will no longer buy them.
3. People angered by Blizzards actions stop buying their games.
4. A small percentage of the pirates may possibly buy the game.
This means that the loss of sales from 2. plus the loss of sales from 3. plus the gain of sales from 4. have to be greater than the total legal fees Blizzard has spent. That has to be a lot of sales to make up for Blizzards actions.
Think from the jury's point of view.
Jury:
Bootloader? OS? Kernel? Linux? Microsoft? Oh I know Microsoft, I run their stuff on my computer. I'll just stay on Microsofts side then.
Juries are made up of random people and most people in the US know nothing about computers. Many don't even have a computer, and these people are suppose to make decisions about the computer industry? A scary thought if you ask me.