Most of the crimes are covered by local laws. Are murder and rape a Federal crimes? (no, the states have their own laws). Also, the states have cooperated with each other for decades and it is becoming even easier with modern communication and databases.
The only thing Federal law enforcement does is increasingly trample our constitutional rights. There are too many examples to go into: The "War on Drugs", civil seizures, Waco, Ruby Ridge, BATF and so on....
Although I don't agree with everything Parish says about Cisco and MS, he does make some good points. Using stock options as a deduction without charging them against earnings is a disaster waiting to happen. It inflates the upside on the stock but it also inflates the downside if the stock starts to go south.
How many people go through the trouble to change the default browser? And what about those "nasty surprises" Microsoft inflicts on Netscape users?
Microsoft doesn't give away money even if it is a paltry (for MS) $150 million. For their money, MS got Apple dropped the "look and feel" lawsuits for good and got IE as the default browser on another platform.
just like Apple dropped Netscape after the MS "investment". I just can't wait to see the Bill's big mug on a video screen at the Corel shareholders meeting.
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>But wouldn't people say the same thing about Lou >Gershner (sp?), who had never done anything with >computers before he came to IBM and completely >turned the place around?
None of the managers since Tom jr. understood technology either - they were marketing droids. The main advantage Gerstner (the correct spelling of his name) brought to IBM was that he was the first outsider to run IBM. While Asskisser (Akers is the real spelling of his name) was runing the show, it took a week to decide to use the John (the shitter, that is, although John Akers often got confused with one). Getting people to make decisions instead of kissing ass help IBM more than anything else done there in the last 15 years.
I got out of IBM while it was on the decline and I'm glad I did.
>And I remember the days when the cheapest way to >run Unix was to use Xenix, and that cost $3000 >for >a single user system.
That's funny you mention Xenix since it was a Microsoft product.
You are right about software prices. MS didn't make them come down, cheaper hardware made software cheaper. In fact, MS two most popular products - the Operating System and Office - are getting MORE expensive now that there is no longer any real competition for those products.
The only two innovations are "Bob" and "Clippy". Even these two are suspect since cartoon help was use by "Patton vs Rommel" in 1986 and "Chuck Yeager's Air Combat" in the early '90s. Inner Workings trademark infringement suit for "Lemon Dog" a.k.a. "Rocky the Dog" also lend doubt to these "innovations".
I couldn't see all those M$ millionaires forking over most of their money in Canadian taxes. Also, M$ itself would pay corporate taxes. Thanks to generous US tax loopholes, M$ is no longer paying federal income taxes.
Besides, the US could still make them pay for their crimes (abusing monopoly power is a felony) by imposing fines on the US distribution of M$ products or simply hold M$ executives in contempt of court. I don't think Pearly Gates and Steve Embalmer would do to well as Bubba's bitch in jail.
I admit that the "the Mac interface hasn't changed much since 1984" was a gross oversimplification. My point was that the current interface isn't the giant leap that the original Mac UI was. Most of the changes in OSX are in the internals.
I personally am glad that the former Mac team are working on Linux. The original Mac set the UI standard for all future GUIs.
Just because the Mac has a good GUI and Linux doesn't (yet) doesn't mean it will continue to be so. Linux has been used primarily as a server and a UNIX workstation. Only in the last two years has it made any headway as a desktop.
This could change very easily. The Mac interface hasn't really changed much since 1984. In the mean time, the Linux interface has made huge strides. Two years ago, KDE and GNOME were unusable but today they are stable and improved versions are in the works. Also, don't forget that several members of the original Mac team are working to improve Linux's interface and ease (or is that eaze) of use. http://www.eazel.com
The Wild Wild West, Adam Sandler, Pauly Shore, Sly Stallone, Heather Donahue (from the Blair Witch project), Jar Jar and Denise Richards (from the new 007)... There is a lot of bad to go around!
when the Oscar for short subject documentary "King Gimp" was announced. The guy they made the film about was sitting in his wheelchair clapping and just fell out and was trashing around on the floor. The film makers just walked up on stage and left him! Really weird.
I know Bill Joy is a brilliant guy but he seems to miss a few key points in his article.
First of all, he assumes that all new technologies are going to be used for bad purposes. History has shown that will be used for good and bad purposes and technology is never used the way it was originally intended. One of the best examples is the Internet. It was originally designed to let our military computers run during the advent of a nuclear war. It turned out that this same decentralization also made it a good tool to subvert government censorship.
The second thing that bothers me is that he says that if he is working on a technology that could be put to bad use (which is any technology), he would stop working on it and destroy his work. History has also shown that you can't put a genie (or is that jini) back in the bottle. Just ask the music and motion picture industry how hard it is to stop MP3s and DeCSS.
Technology is going to happen. The best thing we can do is make sure it is in the hands of the people and not just large corporations and governments.
Maybe the US Government should do like the old English common law and deny MS protection under the law unless they make restitution. That would be a worse penalty than any of the current proposed penalties.
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Most of the crimes are covered by local laws. Are murder and rape a Federal crimes? (no, the states have their own laws). Also, the states have cooperated with each other for decades and it is becoming even easier with modern communication and databases.
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The only thing Federal law enforcement does is increasingly trample our constitutional rights. There are too many examples to go into: The "War on Drugs", civil seizures, Waco, Ruby Ridge, BATF and so on
It was called "Dumb and Dumber".
http://www.reelwavs.com/msdb/dumb.html
Although I don't agree with everything Parish says about Cisco and MS, he does make some good points. Using stock options as a deduction without charging them against earnings is a disaster waiting to happen. It inflates the upside on the stock but it also inflates the downside if the stock starts to go south.
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http://slashdot.org/articles/99/10/30/0936212.s
http://www.billparish.com/
How many people go through the trouble to change the default browser? And what about those "nasty surprises" Microsoft inflicts on Netscape users? Microsoft doesn't give away money even if it is a paltry (for MS) $150 million. For their money, MS got Apple dropped the "look and feel" lawsuits for good and got IE as the default browser on another platform.
just like Apple dropped Netscape after the MS "investment". I just can't wait to see the Bill's big mug on a video screen at the Corel shareholders meeting.
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How about Bruce Perens and RMS hunting down and killing "Software Horders".
>But wouldn't people say the same thing about Lou >Gershner (sp?), who had never done anything with >computers before he came to IBM and completely >turned the place around?
None of the managers since Tom jr. understood technology either - they were marketing droids. The main advantage Gerstner (the correct spelling of his name) brought to IBM was that he was the first outsider to run IBM. While Asskisser (Akers is the real spelling of his name) was runing the show, it took a week to decide to use the John (the shitter, that is, although John Akers often got confused with one). Getting people to make decisions instead of kissing ass help IBM more than anything else done there in the last 15 years.
I got out of IBM while it was on the decline and I'm glad I did.
That's funny you mention Xenix since it was a Microsoft product.
You are right about software prices. MS didn't make them come down, cheaper hardware made software cheaper. In fact, MS two most popular products - the Operating System and Office - are getting MORE expensive now that there is no longer any real competition for those products.
http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/innovation.sh tml
The only two innovations are "Bob" and "Clippy". Even these two are suspect since cartoon help was use by "Patton vs Rommel" in 1986 and "Chuck Yeager's Air Combat" in the early '90s. Inner Workings trademark infringement suit for "Lemon Dog" a.k.a. "Rocky the Dog" also lend doubt to these "innovations".
Besides, the US could still make them pay for their crimes (abusing monopoly power is a felony) by imposing fines on the US distribution of M$ products or simply hold M$ executives in contempt of court. I don't think Pearly Gates and Steve Embalmer would do to well as Bubba's bitch in jail.
In other words IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!
I personally am glad that the former Mac team are working on Linux. The original Mac set the UI standard for all future GUIs.
This could change very easily. The Mac interface hasn't really changed much since 1984. In the mean time, the Linux interface has made huge strides. Two years ago, KDE and GNOME were unusable but today they are stable and improved versions are in the works. Also, don't forget that several members of the original Mac team are working to improve Linux's interface and ease (or is that eaze) of use. http://www.eazel.com
that the politicians, while espousing the values of a public education, send their kids to private schools where they actually get and education!
The Wild Wild West, Adam Sandler, Pauly Shore, Sly Stallone, Heather Donahue (from the Blair Witch project), Jar Jar and Denise Richards (from the new 007)... There is a lot of bad to go around!
when the Oscar for short subject documentary "King Gimp" was announced. The guy they made the film about was sitting in his wheelchair clapping and just fell out and was trashing around on the floor. The film makers just walked up on stage and left him! Really weird.
If not there is always asp2php http://asp2php.naken.cc/ .
It was originally intended as a communication system. Robustness and redundancy were two of its primary goals.
First of all, he assumes that all new technologies are going to be used for bad purposes. History has shown that will be used for good and bad purposes and technology is never used the way it was originally intended. One of the best examples is the Internet. It was originally designed to let our military computers run during the advent of a nuclear war. It turned out that this same decentralization also made it a good tool to subvert government censorship.
The second thing that bothers me is that he says that if he is working on a technology that could be put to bad use (which is any technology), he would stop working on it and destroy his work. History has also shown that you can't put a genie (or is that jini) back in the bottle. Just ask the music and motion picture industry how hard it is to stop MP3s and DeCSS.
Technology is going to happen. The best thing we can do is make sure it is in the hands of the people and not just large corporations and governments.
I guess he took his own advice.
It is only available for Intel, but it works fine. It has a few annoying bugs but it is less annoying than the gaudy Windows version!
Maybe the US Government should do like the old English common law and deny MS protection under the law unless they make restitution. That would be a worse penalty than any of the current proposed penalties.
It's good to see that it has changing. It used to be that you had to get written permission to use anything OTHER than a M$ product on a PC.