The world never stops changing, and the only way to deal with change is to maintain flexibility. If we refuse to be flexible, we are in effect opting out of the game of life. The world moves on without us. If they cant addapt to their customers habits, sales will continue to decline. But to me, the reasons they are citing are totaly off. The reason they are using just looks too easy. Like they are afraid to take a long hard look at themselves and find the issue. Through a slight change in perspective, they can turn their business into something fresh, interesting. Instead the are just complaining...
They are taking a slow economy and making into another reason for to attack the use of MP3's any thing related.
5% ba
As in everything, there are always ups and downs, such is life. If it were 25%-50%, i can see that there was an issues but 5%, maybe they need to make better music, lower prices, or stop their complaining. Not get up on their soapbox and scream-"they did it"
There is nothing i can think of to make me feel better about our goverment sometimes. I understand safety. But I also feel like i am loosing my freedom. Like if i fart wrong someone will read my email.
I know i must sound paranoid. I just feel that the goverment is going to eventually fuck me and all the peolple like me and the only thing i would be able to do, if i wanted to be a "computer savy" person, Is to move to another county.
There is nothing i did. I am just affraid of a Hackor witch hunt one day. Stupid people who understand nothing about the net, computers, selling you out to get on the news for 15 minutes of fames. Innocnet newbies sniifing aroung the wrong area getting arrested for innocent crimes.
The net society might get crazy in the next 10 years. We as techies/geeks help build the current economy but as soon as we are deemed a threat, we will be elliminated...
So they are not just happy with the money they get from their regular customers. And what about the bugs THE BUGS, there are so many variables to take account of in this and the biggest one is
DRUMROLLL
do linux users even care>?
Will they even consider that service when they have been against ms all this time???
Was it a forgettable stunt? No, It was funny event.
A much-needed wake-up call for insecure e -commerce sites? Yeah If a young kid with very little skill could do that, to a big huge company. I magine what a really skilled vetran of the scene could do if that person really got pissed off.
Lame script kiddies giving hackers a bad name?The only things those attacks was to KEEP THE FOCUS on the Geek Community. Much un needed focus. Things are hard enough. We got things like -- "The mind boggles. Police have apparently raided a student's dorm room due to his participation in a heavy metal music inspired Starcraft clan, 'Bled For Days.'" Posted by jamie on Tuesday February 06, @03:15PM
from the darkened-hearts dept. -- Just because a person thought a file was a threat. Not thatstudent meant any harm.
There a real fear out there when it comes to computers(thatnks to the media) and its only gonna get worst if Lame script kiddies keep F*$#ing around....
Maybe it would work. All it takes is one person to have a stroke a geinus and boom.We have a chip on par with the AMD and Intel, its just a thought though.
Imaginethe u.s. government doing something to help poor people get access to the internet. I hear about this and wonder why the US can not do this for the Less fortunate of this country. Eh but bush is in office what is the chane of that happining.
yes gore did try to cheat but, he lost, also we got the greater of two evils. Bush being the person he is, is going to be against our community. and we have to face that... Hopefully we will survive the next four years. First he wants to limit speech, whats next.
And I quote
"there's Dubya, the self-proclaimed "Great Uniter," who's not even inaugurated yet, making the surprisingly underreported statement before a collection of rights groups, "You people have to understand we're the ones in power now and we're going to do what we want." (Apparently Dubya thinks "president" is synonymous with "king.") Who wants to be known as "the law and order president" in an era when crime is way down from the heights it was at during the last Republican administration. Who has stated, in the face of parodies, that there ought to be limits to freedom. Who wants to turn the foreign aid budget entirely over to private groups like Worldvision to dispense, unanswerable, per their own agenda. Whose candidate for secretary of the interior favors the far right (and misnamed) "property rights" movement, at the expense of our national parks. Who's pushing an extremist attorney general who has proclaimed the king of America is Jesus (I'm sure the Jews, Moslems, Buddhists and Hindus will be happy to hear about that), who cut the legs out from under the appointment of a black judge because the man questioned one death penalty conviction in his entire bench career, who has consistently promoted the most devisive form of states rights against the power of the federal government yet wants to use federal power to universally banish abortion in the country, whose favors for political cronies have been a consistent argument for campaign finances reform, and who, the President-Elect insists is "a model of integrity." While we get this little song and dance about unity, you can hardly miss the background scritching of power broker knives being sharpened to carve up the government in a frenzy unheard of... well, since the Reagan-Bush era, because, like Reagan, Jr. is going to be perfectly happy to let his amok advisors do his thinking for him, the exact same way he ran his campaign. (And, hanging chads aside, anyone who doesn't get a considerable jolt of suspicion from the fact that his brother runs the state that squeaked him in just hasn't been living in this country since 1963.) "
Master Of The Obvious [Commentary] - 1-17-01 by Steven Grant
With this current administration there are going to be so many limits we will be crying for clinton, sure he may have had some 'isssues'
but she did not want to silence people.
I mean the whole jessie jackson thing, why before the ignauguration.???
I thinks that a great product for linux newbies. GIve them a chance to use linux, let them learn how to configure later. The sucess of linux depends on the people who use the product. If more people use it because they do not have to worry about the set up, is that not a good thing?
Spend it
and what a way to spend it I must say. Hey soon (10 years or so) it might only cost a mere million to reach the stars. WOW i cant wait.
Doh
on my salary if I am lucky I might just be able to afford a trip to the space center.
The U S, by it laws alone have been limiting freedoms as long as I have been alive for the sake of corparate intrest among other things. What can we do about it I have no clue since voting does not seem to work that well a the moment. In this country its all about the bottom line at the moment. MONEY. Money is the dominating force in this country. NOT morals, safety, rights of the people. I obvious that you can buy your position in the goverment now. The more money you have this country the more power you have. If a person with little or no money come around and hints at a threat of taking away some money from the large companies. The large companies try to crush the smaller ones (Napster vs Record Labels and Microsoft vs Anybody who steps in their way)
Freedom is a right, but with all the laws there are these days I dont know. When things like this exist
-- Copy-protected hard drives. When I first read about this, I almost fell out of my chair. If this doesn't bring your geek blood to a boil, nothing will.
Plans are in the works by a standards committee to place unique identifying numbers on all new PC hard drives. This would be part of what's known as the ATA specification, the current design on which personal-computer hard drives are based.
The implications for this are immense. It would be easy to tie either software or data to that number. Here's an example:
Suppose you order a piece of shareware over the Web. You pay for the software in a secure transaction, and the Web site from which you're buying the program grabs the identifying number from your hard drive. You then install the software and go about your merry way.
Six months later, you buy a new computer. You find your copy of the software and try to install it on the new machine - and it either won't install or won't run. You'd need to get another installation from the originating Web site, which may or may not charge you for it.
Or how about this? Let's say you download a song from a respectable music-industry Web site. You pay for it like a good citizen. Then you decide you want to listen to it on your laptop, or burn it onto a CD for personal use, or drop it into your digital music player.
Uh uh. Sorry, Charlie. The song is encoded in such a way that it can be played only on the original hard drive.
Not surprisingly, the entertainment industry is a big proponent of copy protection for hard drives. Stung as it has been by technologies such as Napster and low-priced CD burners, it sees this as the ultimate defense against music and movie piracy.
But the scheme has implications for business users as well. Drives that comply with the standard would not be willing to share data with drives that don't use the system. That means businesses would have to convert all their drives to these new copy-protected drives.
And, of course, there are privacy issues, just as there were when Intel introduced unique identifiers in its Pentium III chips. That caused enough of an uproar that almost all PCs now are shipped with the identifier, while in place, disabled.
For more information on this alarming development, read an excellent article about it at the Register Web site at www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/15620.html. ---
I really start to have mental issues. Ok I have vented enough
some people do not like to give up the old games. They really enjoyed them. So you know the are people out there who still have their sega CD and if DC is able to ply the games then there is a market. Even if the games become more of a hobby then its still all goods
So who's God? We know already know bill gates is the devil... Anyhoo Sometimes I think people have tooo much time on their hands, I well I see it as this Silicon alley is not mecca its just a place where a lot of tech stuff happens, Religon is a bit much. As soon as some other area becomes cheap to build companies. Look if Newark NJ (a city much Like hell where I work) lowered taxes by a huge percent then by some work of magic brought a lot of tech companies there woul they call it an technological mecca after about ten years , I doubt they would call it a mecca, eh but what do i know
In the end the end they are just selling "product" like every other company in the world trying to make a profit etc. SO what if some one complaines or does not want to buy it or has bad reveiw, Make a better product, in the software sence, write better code. There are too many laws and "acts" as it is, TOO MUCH RED TAPE and the only thing this will do (except in poland) is make free software look that much better. Open source everything could benifit from this, (as long as the free software was easy to get/).
If we refuse to be flexible, we are in effect opting out of the game of life. The world moves on without us.
This reeks of microsoft trying to gain more power yet again. Think about it, The want to regulate how software is bought, oh come on now thats almost as bad as taxing free software. In the end the end they are just selling "product" like every other company in the world trying to make a profit etc. SO what if some one complaines or does not want to buy it or has bad reveiw, Make a better product, in the software sence, write better code. There are too many laws and "acts" as it is, TOO MUCH RED TAPE and the only thing this will do (except in poland) is make free software look that much better. Open source everything could benifit from this, (as long as the free software was easy to get/).
my question is there is no pie to take a piece of if its free, so why tax? I dont understand it really? Why are they so worried about free software??? Are they loosing that much taxable income from people not buying MS product ????or is MS complaining about people not buying software in the Country>? I dont think a goverment has a right to tax free anything, if they feel they should then they will just piss of their own people and if the country is a democracy the people should just vote them out. Its ashame not thinks about the good of the people anymore... just the good of their pockets.
my question is there is no pie to take a piece of if its free, so why tax? I dont understand it really? Why are they so worried about free software??? Are they loosing that much taxable income from people not buying MS product ????or is MS complaining about people not buying software in the Country>?
How can you tax something that is Free? Using the tax you would pay on another product just aint right... If there is no money being made why tax? And how do you Tax a free product anyhoo if no one buys it how do u track its usage. Stuff like this makes me angry
We just buy a buch of Licences, we dont have to buy the entire program all the time at my ofice,The upgrades are painless and not as expensive as you think for companies I hope MS comes up with a decent model for buisiness or they will loose buisness
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The world never stops changing, and the only way to deal with change is to maintain flexibility. If we refuse to be flexible, we are in effect opting out of the game of life. The world moves on without us.
If they cant addapt to their customers habits, sales will continue to decline. But to me, the reasons they are citing are totaly off. The reason they are using just looks too easy. Like they are afraid to take a long hard look at themselves and find the issue.
Through a slight change in perspective, they can turn their business into something fresh, interesting.
Instead the are just complaining...
They are taking a slow economy and making into another reason for to attack the use of MP3's any thing related.
5% ba
As in everything, there are always ups and downs, such is life. If it were 25%-50%, i can see that there was an issues but 5%, maybe they need to make better music, lower prices, or stop their complaining. Not get up on their soapbox and scream-"they did it"
There is nothing i can think of to make me feel better about our goverment sometimes. I understand safety. But I also feel like i am loosing my freedom. Like if i fart wrong someone will read my email.
I know i must sound paranoid. I just feel that the goverment is going to eventually fuck me and all the peolple like me and the only thing i would be able to do, if i wanted to be a "computer savy" person, Is to move to another county.
There is nothing i did. I am just affraid of a Hackor witch hunt one day. Stupid people who understand nothing about the net, computers, selling you out to get on the news for 15 minutes of fames. Innocnet newbies sniifing aroung the wrong area getting arrested for innocent crimes.
The net society might get crazy in the next 10 years. We as techies/geeks help build the current economy but as soon as we are deemed a threat, we will be elliminated...
So they are not just happy with the money they get from their regular customers. And what about the bugs THE BUGS, there are so many variables to take account of in this and the biggest one is DRUMROLLL do linux users even care>? Will they even consider that service when they have been against ms all this time???
I'm with you i cant wait till I get one
Was it a forgettable stunt? No, It was funny event. A much-needed wake-up call for insecure e -commerce sites? Yeah If a young kid with very little skill could do that, to a big huge company. I magine what a really skilled vetran of the scene could do if that person really got pissed off. Lame script kiddies giving hackers a bad name?The only things those attacks was to KEEP THE FOCUS on the Geek Community. Much un needed focus. Things are hard enough. We got things like -- "The mind boggles. Police have apparently raided a student's dorm room due to his participation in a heavy metal music inspired Starcraft clan, 'Bled For Days.'" Posted by jamie on Tuesday February 06, @03:15PM from the darkened-hearts dept. -- Just because a person thought a file was a threat. Not thatstudent meant any harm. There a real fear out there when it comes to computers(thatnks to the media) and its only gonna get worst if Lame script kiddies keep F*$#ing around....
Maybe it would work. All it takes is one person to have a stroke a geinus and boom.We have a chip on par with the AMD and Intel, its just a thought though.
Imaginethe u.s. government doing something to help poor people get access to the internet. I hear about this and wonder why the US can not do this for the Less fortunate of this country. Eh but bush is in office what is the chane of that happining.
yes gore did try to cheat but, he lost, also we got the greater of two evils. Bush being the person he is, is going to be against our community. and we have to face that... Hopefully we will survive the next four years. First he wants to limit speech, whats next.
And I quote "there's Dubya, the self-proclaimed "Great Uniter," who's not even inaugurated yet, making the surprisingly underreported statement before a collection of rights groups, "You people have to understand we're the ones in power now and we're going to do what we want." (Apparently Dubya thinks "president" is synonymous with "king.") Who wants to be known as "the law and order president" in an era when crime is way down from the heights it was at during the last Republican administration. Who has stated, in the face of parodies, that there ought to be limits to freedom. Who wants to turn the foreign aid budget entirely over to private groups like Worldvision to dispense, unanswerable, per their own agenda. Whose candidate for secretary of the interior favors the far right (and misnamed) "property rights" movement, at the expense of our national parks. Who's pushing an extremist attorney general who has proclaimed the king of America is Jesus (I'm sure the Jews, Moslems, Buddhists and Hindus will be happy to hear about that), who cut the legs out from under the appointment of a black judge because the man questioned one death penalty conviction in his entire bench career, who has consistently promoted the most devisive form of states rights against the power of the federal government yet wants to use federal power to universally banish abortion in the country, whose favors for political cronies have been a consistent argument for campaign finances reform, and who, the President-Elect insists is "a model of integrity." While we get this little song and dance about unity, you can hardly miss the background scritching of power broker knives being sharpened to carve up the government in a frenzy unheard of... well, since the Reagan-Bush era, because, like Reagan, Jr. is going to be perfectly happy to let his amok advisors do his thinking for him, the exact same way he ran his campaign. (And, hanging chads aside, anyone who doesn't get a considerable jolt of suspicion from the fact that his brother runs the state that squeaked him in just hasn't been living in this country since 1963.) " Master Of The Obvious [Commentary] - 1-17-01 by Steven Grant With this current administration there are going to be so many limits we will be crying for clinton, sure he may have had some 'isssues' but she did not want to silence people. I mean the whole jessie jackson thing, why before the ignauguration.???
I thinks that a great product for linux newbies. GIve them a chance to use linux, let them learn how to configure later. The sucess of linux depends on the people who use the product. If more people use it because they do not have to worry about the set up, is that not a good thing?
i am da king of bad grammar baby
Spend it and what a way to spend it I must say. Hey soon (10 years or so) it might only cost a mere million to reach the stars. WOW i cant wait. Doh on my salary if I am lucky I might just be able to afford a trip to the space center.
The U S, by it laws alone have been limiting freedoms as long as I have been alive for the sake of corparate intrest among other things. What can we do about it I have no clue since voting does not seem to work that well a the moment. In this country its all about the bottom line at the moment. MONEY. Money is the dominating force in this country. NOT morals, safety, rights of the people. I obvious that you can buy your position in the goverment now. The more money you have this country the more power you have. If a person with little or no money come around and hints at a threat of taking away some money from the large companies. The large companies try to crush the smaller ones (Napster vs Record Labels and Microsoft vs Anybody who steps in their way) Freedom is a right, but with all the laws there are these days I dont know. When things like this exist -- Copy-protected hard drives. When I first read about this, I almost fell out of my chair. If this doesn't bring your geek blood to a boil, nothing will. Plans are in the works by a standards committee to place unique identifying numbers on all new PC hard drives. This would be part of what's known as the ATA specification, the current design on which personal-computer hard drives are based. The implications for this are immense. It would be easy to tie either software or data to that number. Here's an example: Suppose you order a piece of shareware over the Web. You pay for the software in a secure transaction, and the Web site from which you're buying the program grabs the identifying number from your hard drive. You then install the software and go about your merry way. Six months later, you buy a new computer. You find your copy of the software and try to install it on the new machine - and it either won't install or won't run. You'd need to get another installation from the originating Web site, which may or may not charge you for it. Or how about this? Let's say you download a song from a respectable music-industry Web site. You pay for it like a good citizen. Then you decide you want to listen to it on your laptop, or burn it onto a CD for personal use, or drop it into your digital music player. Uh uh. Sorry, Charlie. The song is encoded in such a way that it can be played only on the original hard drive. Not surprisingly, the entertainment industry is a big proponent of copy protection for hard drives. Stung as it has been by technologies such as Napster and low-priced CD burners, it sees this as the ultimate defense against music and movie piracy. But the scheme has implications for business users as well. Drives that comply with the standard would not be willing to share data with drives that don't use the system. That means businesses would have to convert all their drives to these new copy-protected drives. And, of course, there are privacy issues, just as there were when Intel introduced unique identifiers in its Pentium III chips. That caused enough of an uproar that almost all PCs now are shipped with the identifier, while in place, disabled. For more information on this alarming development, read an excellent article about it at the Register Web site at www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/15620.html. --- I really start to have mental issues. Ok I have vented enough
I would like a small grant for my education, metions of a website so that possible employers could veiw it as a refrence. Thats all
some people do not like to give up the old games. They really enjoyed them. So you know the are people out there who still have their sega CD and if DC is able to ply the games then there is a market. Even if the games become more of a hobby then its still all goods
I remeber seeing this on a show called beyond 2000 years ago...
What about the guy who built the anylitical engine? I forget his name?
So who's God? We know already know bill gates is the devil... Anyhoo Sometimes I think people have tooo much time on their hands, I well I see it as this Silicon alley is not mecca its just a place where a lot of tech stuff happens, Religon is a bit much. As soon as some other area becomes cheap to build companies. Look if Newark NJ (a city much Like hell where I work) lowered taxes by a huge percent then by some work of magic brought a lot of tech companies there woul they call it an technological mecca after about ten years , I doubt they would call it a mecca, eh but what do i know
In the end the end they are just selling "product" like every other company in the world trying to make a profit etc. SO what if some one complaines or does not want to buy it or has bad reveiw, Make a better product, in the software sence, write better code. There are too many laws and "acts" as it is, TOO MUCH RED TAPE and the only thing this will do (except in poland) is make free software look that much better. Open source everything could benifit from this, (as long as the free software was easy to get/). If we refuse to be flexible, we are in effect opting out of the game of life. The world moves on without us.
This reeks of microsoft trying to gain more power yet again. Think about it, The want to regulate how software is bought, oh come on now thats almost as bad as taxing free software. In the end the end they are just selling "product" like every other company in the world trying to make a profit etc. SO what if some one complaines or does not want to buy it or has bad reveiw, Make a better product, in the software sence, write better code. There are too many laws and "acts" as it is, TOO MUCH RED TAPE and the only thing this will do (except in poland) is make free software look that much better. Open source everything could benifit from this, (as long as the free software was easy to get/).
my question is there is no pie to take a piece of if its free, so why tax? I dont understand it really? Why are they so worried about free software??? Are they loosing that much taxable income from people not buying MS product ????or is MS complaining about people not buying software in the Country>? I dont think a goverment has a right to tax free anything, if they feel they should then they will just piss of their own people and if the country is a democracy the people should just vote them out. Its ashame not thinks about the good of the people anymore... just the good of their pockets.
my question is there is no pie to take a piece of if its free, so why tax? I dont understand it really? Why are they so worried about free software??? Are they loosing that much taxable income from people not buying MS product ????or is MS complaining about people not buying software in the Country>?
How can you tax something that is Free? Using the tax you would pay on another product just aint right... If there is no money being made why tax? And how do you Tax a free product anyhoo if no one buys it how do u track its usage. Stuff like this makes me angry
We just buy a buch of Licences, we dont have to buy the entire program all the time at my ofice,The upgrades are painless and not as expensive as you think for companies I hope MS comes up with a decent model for buisiness or they will loose buisness