Here's a copy of the email that I sent to our AG last Friday.
Did you take the time to write it out and snail mail it, too? Otherwise you can be almost certain that it won't recieve more than a glance to make sure it's not a death threat. Expect a form letter reply, or email, at the very most if that's the case.
(Want to really get noticed? Sprinkle some powdered sugar into the envelope. Of course, you may not like the kind of attention they give you...)
Thats it. Breakup is out. Its not going to happen. The appealate court said in pretty much plain english that it would never happen. That only leaves two options. A fine is useless. What else do you expect to be done short of a breakup?
Not even a two-way breakup would really help. The companies still have the same leadership and thus the same tactics. What needs to be done in cases like this is throw the leadership out and replace them with people at the bottom. Or even offer the positions to leadership from other companies deemed non-competitive that Microsoft squeezed out of the OS market. If Bill Gates were to find out that he could lose ownership of his own company and indeed even be barred from entering Microsoft headquarters and owning Microsoft stock he'd unbundle software from Windows so fast you could see the bits fly.
Sound harsh? That's exactly what the leadership at Microsoft did to owners of other companies with their tactics. They kicked the competition out market. In turn, the court should kick them out of their own company.
at a resolution of 1600 x 1200, the taskbar will group all these folders together in one button so that the taskbar doesn't get overly crouded.
Huh. I thought it was that "Group related icons" checkbox in the start menu settings. Anyway, speaking of resolution, it hasn't been very well publicized that XP strips out the 640 x 480 resolution. It's 800 x 600 and up or nothing.
Well I for one found the MHz Myth to be a myth in itself. I agree that MHz are NOT an accurate representation of what a processor can do, but what Apple did was mislead it's target audience by using only Photoshop for all of it's benchmarks and only comparing them to Intel chips.
Personally I think Apple failed because people just don't like one-button mice.
(Uh-oh, I ragged on the almighty Apple. Metamoderators, avenge my Karma!)
"The courts should order changes like this." Correction: The market should order changes like this.
*shakes head*
I don't believe that the free-market works fairly on such a large scale. Microsoft and numerous other companies have already shown that Government controls are needed to protect the consumers from the very companies they support. This is a clear cut case of when the market *didn't* "order changes" like this to benefit the consumer. If the average consumer isn't bright enough to use anything but the defaults, companies that use tactics like the ones we are talking about will come to dominate as they have, and that hurts competition.
Of course, you could just run RegEdit and set up all of this yourself in a few minutes. But heaven forbid someone should learn how to use their computer instead of whining about how it can't read their minds.
But remember, the article was about making program elements easier for the average user.
Short of a complete re-write of the entire FAT-32 filesystem there is no solution to this, aside from teaching new users that "Hold down shift, right click, then hit Open With..." will solve this problem.
Nonsense. The author gave a simpler way to change file types right in the paper: put a link to it under "control panel". Didn't you read the article? And it can get even simpler than what you suggest: How about a change where "Open With" does not require that the shift button be held? And turning Open With into a drop-down menu with primary, secondary (etc) and "other" options? Or even letting the user have an option to prevent software from setting itself to the primary open type?
It can very easily be made far more user-friendly. The courts should order changes like this.
The problem with this is that they would still eventually run out of data (at the current rate) because they would be just postponing the date until later. They need to collect the data faster or they will just run out in another year (or so).
So SETI@home only needs to add even more data crunching to it's current software. The incoming data will take longer to run. Seems like a simple enough solution.
Assuming we can create a containter that is strong enough to withstand the air pressure outside, wouldn't a blimp with a vaccuum inside instead of helium/hydrogen work even better? After all, isn't it true we use the first two elements because they are so light? Make it even lighter by removing all the gas and the air pressure around it will push it up, right?
Apple has a really bad taste in their mouth from the last time their "look and feel" was blatantly copied [microsoft.com].
*sigh*
Here we go again...
As far as thievery goes, Steve Jobs has no right to be bitter. To create the very first Macintosh, he and a few companions took a tour of Xerox and copied anything that was decent. Just as Microsoft later copied Apple.
Sheesh. This has been repeated countless times here on Slashdot and the Apple-fans always seem to conveniently forget it and can only see red whenever the term "Microsoft" comes up. (The Bill-Gates-Borg icon doesn't help any.) I'm not saying that what Microsoft did was right, it was very wrong, but they stole no less than Apple did to get their (kick)start. And perhaps they have changed over time while M$ has not, but the constant pattern of malicious attacks such as this one keeps leading me back to the same conclusion: Apple is still full of worms.
I won't financially support any software company that throws lawyers left and right whenever it can.
In other news 87% of Slashdot readers were taken into custody and questioned. It seems that they all fit the profile of terrorists. Who knew?
Are you kidding me? Of course they're terrorists, and extremely organized ones at that. Do you have any idea how many D.O.S. attacks they've launched against innocent websites within the past year?!
I suspect that commercial Airports will be moved farther away from important government and economic sites. Any plane that goes out into the restricted areas will be shot down.
And I expect this whole event will gain Bush support for his Missle Defense plan.
*shudders*
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We don't need a trial, a hearing, or anything like that. We're the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. We shouldn't be fucked with like this.
In other words, your country has the biggest penis, so it's far worse for anyone to fuck with the U.S. than any other country. And of course, it's not really significant when the little podunk states get hurt. You think we should just bomb them all to be sure there's no way whoever attacked us will go unpunished.
This kind of attitude is the main reason I'm ashamed to be an American.
"Just find whoever did this and kill them." -- said very casually by a civilian interviewed on television.
But I don't really want a P4, the Itanium definitely isn't for what I do, and I have never really been an AMD fan, I just don't know their stuff. So where is Intels next chip for ME?
You seem quite adamant that your next chip should come from Intel, and one of the reasons you give is that you don't know much about AMD. So why don't you look into AMD, and learn their stuff? They really are a great company and right now their 1.4 GHz Athon runs just as fast (or faster) than a 1.7 Ghz P4. The Sledgehammer chip will have a mode for backwards compatibility with x86, use 64-bit instructions and you can be sure that it will run cooler and faster than anything Intel will put out at the same time.
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Here's a copy of the email that I sent to our AG last Friday.
Did you take the time to write it out and snail mail it, too? Otherwise you can be almost certain that it won't recieve more than a glance to make sure it's not a death threat. Expect a form letter reply, or email, at the very most if that's the case.
(Want to really get noticed? Sprinkle some powdered sugar into the envelope. Of course, you may not like the kind of attention they give you...)
Thats it. Breakup is out. Its not going to happen. The appealate court said in pretty much plain english that it would never happen. That only leaves two options. A fine is useless. What else do you expect to be done short of a breakup?
Not even a two-way breakup would really help. The companies still have the same leadership and thus the same tactics. What needs to be done in cases like this is throw the leadership out and replace them with people at the bottom. Or even offer the positions to leadership from other companies deemed non-competitive that Microsoft squeezed out of the OS market. If Bill Gates were to find out that he could lose ownership of his own company and indeed even be barred from entering Microsoft headquarters and owning Microsoft stock he'd unbundle software from Windows so fast you could see the bits fly.
Sound harsh? That's exactly what the leadership at Microsoft did to owners of other companies with their tactics. They kicked the competition out market. In turn, the court should kick them out of their own company.
Of course, they won't. But they should.
I haven't played a fun strategy game since Zelda for my nintendo.
But The Legend Of Zelda isn't a strategy game. It has adventure and intrigue, but no more strategy than explore-here slay-this-and-that.
God I love that game.
at a resolution of 1600 x 1200, the taskbar will group all these folders together in one button so that the taskbar doesn't get overly crouded.
Huh. I thought it was that "Group related icons" checkbox in the start menu settings. Anyway, speaking of resolution, it hasn't been very well publicized that XP strips out the 640 x 480 resolution. It's 800 x 600 and up or nothing.
They're called Clik! disks. Tiny CDs that have a square edge, which holds the disk.
Well I for one found the MHz Myth to be a myth in itself. I agree that MHz are NOT an accurate representation of what a processor can do, but what Apple did was mislead it's target audience by using only Photoshop for all of it's benchmarks and only comparing them to Intel chips.
Personally I think Apple failed because people just don't like one-button mice.
(Uh-oh, I ragged on the almighty Apple. Metamoderators, avenge my Karma!)
"The courts should order changes like this." Correction: The market should order changes like this.
*shakes head*
I don't believe that the free-market works fairly on such a large scale. Microsoft and numerous other companies have already shown that Government controls are needed to protect the consumers from the very companies they support. This is a clear cut case of when the market *didn't* "order changes" like this to benefit the consumer. If the average consumer isn't bright enough to use anything but the defaults, companies that use tactics like the ones we are talking about will come to dominate as they have, and that hurts competition.
Except that clock speed is becoming a useless benchmark.
Isn't FLOPS a bit better of an indicator of performanace?
Of course, you could just run RegEdit and set up all of this yourself in a few minutes. But heaven forbid someone should learn how to use their computer instead of whining about how it can't read their minds.
But remember, the article was about making program elements easier for the average user.
Short of a complete re-write of the entire FAT-32 filesystem there is no solution to this, aside from teaching new users that "Hold down shift, right click, then hit Open With..." will solve this problem.
Nonsense. The author gave a simpler way to change file types right in the paper: put a link to it under "control panel". Didn't you read the article? And it can get even simpler than what you suggest: How about a change where "Open With" does not require that the shift button be held? And turning Open With into a drop-down menu with primary, secondary (etc) and "other" options? Or even letting the user have an option to prevent software from setting itself to the primary open type?
It can very easily be made far more user-friendly. The courts should order changes like this.
The problem with this is that they would still eventually run out of data (at the current rate) because they would be just postponing the date until later. They need to collect the data faster or they will just run out in another year (or so).
So SETI@home only needs to add even more data crunching to it's current software. The incoming data will take longer to run. Seems like a simple enough solution.
Yahoo! will win against Yahoo Serious for the Yahoo trademark in court. Yahoo! has much larger visibility, and I'd bet they have *far* more money.
Assuming we can create a containter that is strong enough to withstand the air pressure outside, wouldn't a blimp with a vaccuum inside instead of helium/hydrogen work even better? After all, isn't it true we use the first two elements because they are so light? Make it even lighter by removing all the gas and the air pressure around it will push it up, right?
Apple has a really bad taste in their mouth from the last time their "look and feel" was blatantly copied [microsoft.com].
*sigh*
Here we go again...
As far as thievery goes, Steve Jobs has no right to be bitter. To create the very first Macintosh, he and a few companions took a tour of Xerox and copied anything that was decent. Just as Microsoft later copied Apple.
Sheesh. This has been repeated countless times here on Slashdot and the Apple-fans always seem to conveniently forget it and can only see red whenever the term "Microsoft" comes up. (The Bill-Gates-Borg icon doesn't help any.) I'm not saying that what Microsoft did was right, it was very wrong, but they stole no less than Apple did to get their (kick)start. And perhaps they have changed over time while M$ has not, but the constant pattern of malicious attacks such as this one keeps leading me back to the same conclusion: Apple is still full of worms.
I won't financially support any software company that throws lawyers left and right whenever it can.
Beer must be considered very precious on the ISS.
"Alright, who drank the sample?!"
It's gotta be a hoax. "Assimilated"? "One Microsoft Way"?
1) I wonder what a distributed blue screen looks like?
It's where your monitor displays blue briefly, then explodes leaving little bits all over the room.
In other news 87% of Slashdot readers were taken into custody and questioned. It seems that they all fit the profile of terrorists. Who knew?
Are you kidding me? Of course they're terrorists, and extremely organized ones at that. Do you have any idea how many D.O.S. attacks they've launched against innocent websites within the past year?!
I suspect that commercial Airports will be moved farther away from important government and economic sites. Any plane that goes out into the restricted areas will be shot down.
And I expect this whole event will gain Bush support for his Missle Defense plan.
*shudders*
We don't need a trial, a hearing, or anything like that. We're the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. We shouldn't be fucked with like this.
In other words, your country has the biggest penis, so it's far worse for anyone to fuck with the U.S. than any other country. And of course, it's not really significant when the little podunk states get hurt. You think we should just bomb them all to be sure there's no way whoever attacked us will go unpunished.
This kind of attitude is the main reason I'm ashamed to be an American.
"Just find whoever did this and kill them." -- said very casually by a civilian interviewed on television.
bush has made it clear that he has the interests of corporations at the forefront of his agenda. I still think he is better then Gore though...
I see a lot of posts saying this. Better in what aspect -- pro-life, pro-immigration, against gay marriage, just what do you agree with him more on?
Um, more than half of us Americans didn't vote for him.
Isn't it also true that a good half of Americans didn't vote at all?
Wouldn't this decision have been a little more helpful 11 months ago?
But I don't really want a P4, the Itanium definitely isn't for what I do, and I have never really been an AMD fan, I just don't know their stuff. So where is Intels next chip for ME?
You seem quite adamant that your next chip should come from Intel, and one of the reasons you give is that you don't know much about AMD. So why don't you look into AMD, and learn their stuff? They really are a great company and right now their 1.4 GHz Athon runs just as fast (or faster) than a 1.7 Ghz P4. The Sledgehammer chip will have a mode for backwards compatibility with x86, use 64-bit instructions and you can be sure that it will run cooler and faster than anything Intel will put out at the same time.
Freenet has no such problems. No Freenet site can own a single name.ext domain name.
http://freenet.sourceforge.net