Is RIM crooked? Or are the RIM founders decent people?
It interesting you say that because I've always thought of RIM as being "crooked by design".
They set up a proprietary product, with proprietary communications protocols and infrastructure (Can anyone name a third-party/competing product that is "compatible with a BB"), market it like crazy and work hard to keep competitors out of their space, building a monopoly on this technology.
None of this is criminal behaviour imnsho. It's just MS-like behaviour. Not nice, and I'll avoid the technology with a 1000000ft pole, especially since if something goes wrong it seems unlikely that there would be sufficient data available to diagnose the problem internally. You'd most likely need a support contract to keeo the thing running.
I must admit I find it odd that "RIM" is a Canadian company. I expect companies with a self-centered "single-child syndrome" to be borne of the US system.
I mean, seriously, what's to stop someone from patenting a 'Star Trek' style starship drive? Transporter?
Well, if I was going to try to patent a "Warp Drive" I'd be expected to explain how it works, in detail. "It uses trilithium crystals" probably wouldn't cut it.
You don't patent general concepts but rather specific methods. A lot of patents can be overcome by doing everything similarly but changing one or two things.
There's still plenty of work in this area but the situation *is* gradually improving.
Besides, obviously we don't need every single PeeCee game to work on Linux for a successful gaming platform: most people will only care about the games they personally run.
Why on Earth is this moderated down as a Troll? It is true. Unless people show their email address and/or personal web site with their/. username, they are all AC's.
Wrong. With accounts you can see the person's posting history, how they've been moderated, friends, responses to their posts, journal...
If more people owned copyrighted material then more people would care... but most people are just not talented enough to produce quality work worhty of being copyrighted and so the majority of people don't care and are willing to break the law!!! ~Jack ~Jack
True. We can't all be as talented as Britney Spears and SCO.
The original saying is " you cock smoking tea baggers"
Frock rhymes with cock. The UK has a reputation of men dressing up as women both in entertainment (The Two Ronnies, Monty Python, etc) and in real life (conservative ministers found dead in women's underwear, etc).
I didn't think it was a troll either, just a joke that fell a bit flat.
The problem is that there are *not* more Victoria's Secret model type women out there
Wrong. Women who look as flawless as Victoria's Secret models don't exist in the first place.
Sorry to burst your fantasy bubbles dudes but my girlfriend is a designer in the advertising industry. Do you have any notion of how much airbrushing goes on? They spend countless hours on an area of skin about 5cm^2. ALL flaws (no matter how small... 1 hair off is not acceptable) are airbrushed out. Women are given hour-glass figures and perfect skin, etc by artists/designers.
Probably about 40% of what you see is just artwork, not real. You'd be shocked to see the before and after pics.
My mum is a psychologist and is dealing with some young women with eating disorders influenced partly by this bs. It's frightening how people think that these women are actually real. I got my girlfriend to provide my mum with a folio of evidence (don't worry she asked the company first: to their credit they were very accomodating).
and if they were running windows they would be bitching that it was "windows screwing up again".
Indeed. Or "The computer" or "Maybe a virus?" or "Bill Gates" or the freaking Internet.
Non-experts will often inappropriately lay blame on something. It's the same with cars. Can you imagine how annoyed mechanics get with the sort of reports they receive?
Customer: "Yeah it just stopped... I think it's the fuel pump"
Mechanic: "Right..." *thinking to himself* "Whatever ya reckon buddy"
For the sake of argument, what would you consider Windows software? The kernel, the graphics server, the programs that come with every "distribution" of Windows?
Ahh, this is such stuff that pointless flamewars are made on.
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Do australian sites also count against the bandwidth limit?
Depends on the ISP/plan but usually content stored on Aussie servers won't count against the user's allowance.
I'm sure it happens though: some ISPs in Australia will squeeze as much cash out of their users as possible.
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Ahh, you must be a student.
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Survivor rules biatch!!!!
If you are brain dead.
Clue: it's all fake.
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Wow you must either be admining wrong or got a bad batch
Hehehe... bad batch of blackberries
"They went off, sir!"
"Went off?"
"Yes, during shipping, the blackberries were spoiled... all 200 of them!"
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I work for Research In Motion, and this whole lawsuit is a joke
News Flash: so is RIM.
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Is RIM crooked? Or are the RIM founders decent people?
It interesting you say that because I've always thought of RIM as being "crooked by design".
They set up a proprietary product, with proprietary communications protocols and infrastructure (Can anyone name a third-party/competing product that is "compatible with a BB"), market it like crazy and work hard to keep competitors out of their space, building a monopoly on this technology.
None of this is criminal behaviour imnsho. It's just MS-like behaviour. Not nice, and I'll avoid the technology with a 1000000ft pole, especially since if something goes wrong it seems unlikely that there would be sufficient data available to diagnose the problem internally. You'd most likely need a support contract to keeo the thing running.
I must admit I find it odd that "RIM" is a Canadian company. I expect companies with a self-centered "single-child syndrome" to be borne of the US system.
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I mean, seriously, what's to stop someone from patenting a 'Star Trek' style starship drive? Transporter?
Well, if I was going to try to patent a "Warp Drive" I'd be expected to explain how it works, in detail. "It uses trilithium crystals" probably wouldn't cut it.
You don't patent general concepts but rather specific methods. A lot of patents can be overcome by doing everything similarly but changing one or two things.
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the most important thing to make linux a successful gaming platform is to make sure the most popular PC games work to cover the most users
Cool, I can't argue with that.
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If it's from MS, isn't it fissure price?
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Yes, it does look much better than the previous release, but it still doesn't look as snazzy or as futuristic as XP
That's subjective dude.
My Linux Desktop looks *much* nicer than my XP one. I think XP is butt-fugly. Really, really horrible.
I'm not saying you're wrong, just that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder".
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Two down. Several thousand more to go.
There's still plenty of work in this area but the situation *is* gradually improving.
Besides, obviously we don't need every single PeeCee game to work on Linux for a successful gaming platform: most people will only care about the games they personally run.
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that's ok, we've got tux racer! what more could anyone want???
Tux Racer 2? Tux Racer Forever?
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p.s. Yeah I'm in a bloody stupid mood today
Obviously the article poster is not as hip and happening as us two, Daddy-O.
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Why on Earth is this moderated down as a Troll? It is true. Unless people show their email address and/or personal web site with their /. username, they are all AC's.
Wrong. With accounts you can see the person's posting history, how they've been moderated, friends, responses to their posts, journal...
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I dunno man, spamming a network with not only useless but destructive data/programs seems:
1. Amoral
2. Assinine
3. Waste of Bandwidth/Resources/Time
4. Illegal
Am *I* legally entitled to penetrate Overpeer and destroy their network if I find an employee littering or jaywalking?
These guys are bottom-feeders.
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If more people owned copyrighted material then more people would care... but most people are just not talented enough to produce quality work worhty of being copyrighted and so the majority of people don't care and are willing to break the law!!! ~Jack ~Jack
True. We can't all be as talented as Britney Spears and SCO.
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...but here on /. we still have the Trollfest.
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My head asplode
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...but Slashdot has the original
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Yes.
And if you get a Mac, the promise of free Ipods will suddenly come true.
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Spyware-infested women surfing the net distributing v1agr_a is no basis for a system of spam government.
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The original saying is " you cock smoking tea baggers"
Frock rhymes with cock. The UK has a reputation of men dressing up as women both in entertainment (The Two Ronnies, Monty Python, etc) and in real life (conservative ministers found dead in women's underwear, etc).
I didn't think it was a troll either, just a joke that fell a bit flat.
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The problem is that there are *not* more Victoria's Secret model type women out there
Wrong. Women who look as flawless as Victoria's Secret models don't exist in the first place.
Sorry to burst your fantasy bubbles dudes but my girlfriend is a designer in the advertising industry. Do you have any notion of how much airbrushing goes on? They spend countless hours on an area of skin about 5cm^2. ALL flaws (no matter how small... 1 hair off is not acceptable) are airbrushed out. Women are given hour-glass figures and perfect skin, etc by artists/designers.
Probably about 40% of what you see is just artwork, not real. You'd be shocked to see the before and after pics.
My mum is a psychologist and is dealing with some young women with eating disorders influenced partly by this bs. It's frightening how people think that these women are actually real. I got my girlfriend to provide my mum with a folio of evidence (don't worry she asked the company first: to their credit they were very accomodating).
Suckers.
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and if they were running windows they would be bitching that it was "windows screwing up again".
Indeed. Or "The computer" or "Maybe a virus?" or "Bill Gates" or the freaking Internet.
Non-experts will often inappropriately lay blame on something. It's the same with cars. Can you imagine how annoyed mechanics get with the sort of reports they receive?
Customer: "Yeah it just stopped... I think it's the fuel pump"
Mechanic: "Right..." *thinking to himself* "Whatever ya reckon buddy"
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For the sake of argument, what would you consider Windows software? The kernel, the graphics server, the programs that come with every "distribution" of Windows?
Ahh, this is such stuff that pointless flamewars are made on.
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