Ubuntu may not make your hardware break; however, Dell is worried that Linux support may break their profit margins. This doesn't even take into account efforts in development and training of staff.
If the program succeeds, they break even. If it fails then they aren't stuck with supporting it for any longer than necessary.
To be honest guys, the acid test takes browsers way past the point of being practical.
Certainly the tests are interesting, but how many 3-column websites with links and graphics actually benefit from being able to draw a CSS smiley face?
The "debt" is what you owe if you wish your subscription to continue, not what you have past due.
Thank you. I was wondering how far down I'd have to read until someone got that point right.
Many publishers use marketing companies to increase their subscription sales. They've employed every tactic known to date including selling consecutive or even simultaneous subscriptions to the same magazine.
One company kept sending mail to a dead relative: "We keep sending you [this magazine] but still you refuse to pay!". It's all tactic.
The company's staff lawyers probably recommended a pre-emptive strike after receiving Chris's threats of a lawsuit. By filing first, they control much of the initial investigation and proceedings.
This allows the company to bankrupt and discredit the smaller guy while strengthening their defenses.
A better option would have been to consult with a lawyer up-front. He may have recommended different communications, a change of job, or other strategy to protect Chris from the onset. A retainer fee is much less expensive than a full-blown lawsuit.
Cursing out a young adult and calling him a moron isn't insightful -- it's disgraceful.
Educate whenever possible and treat others the way you wish to be treated. I'm sure the guy that gave you all those mod points was trying to be very very nice.
Most companies take back old machines as "trade-in" or "trade-up" offers just to prevent the resale or reuse of older systems thus boosting sales. They'll even give you discounts or other incentives.
People don't take advantage of these things; maybe they want to give the old computer to their nephew or they like a competitor's offer better, or are simply too busy to send the old system back. It's just easier to set the old machine on the curb for most, which is why this system fails.
Before Red Hat 6.0, I thought it was a mess. When 6.2 was released, I migrated all of my systems to it. By the time Red Hat 9 was released, I had all of my systems under Red Hat Network contracts.
I felt alienated by their decisions; stability is important to me, but as our customers demand more features we need the updates to the kernels, the newer software packages, the newest hardware support. I was willing to pay to stay on the cutting edge, but unwilling to pay for stagnation.
I'm currently happy with Fedora Core 3 and am glad that Red Hat is supporting that project. They originally had to earn my support and respect and I hope I can trust them with that again in the future.
Not only does this violate the ACM code of ethics, but it also counts as "intentional and willful destruction" and can also carry criminal charges as well.
As others have pointed out, this mode of "copy protection" was widely employed in the 80's and was removed rather quickly after purchased software destroyed itself due to limitations of older 5.25" floppy drives being unable to read past the 32nd track (which was generally unused in the old ~120K floppies)
I've been donating 3-5 year old equipment for years. Usually it all has come with OEM copies of Microsoft software so licensing isn't an issue, and even if we may not consider software to be "educational" (such as word processors, spreadsheets, etc.) any software is helpful.
My parents are currently in Ethiopia where they run a library for students to study for their high school graduation exams. The tests are required to pass high school and get into college, and the books are in such short supply that they can't even let them out of the library. Just having computers with basic software could dramatically change things in that part of Africa.
Nearly every inch of the Georgia Tech campus has wireless accessibility. Even the busses and shuttles update their positions wirelessly on the transportation website in real-time.
Add to this fact the number of students listening to their iPods on the bus, walking to classes, even in class. Wireless? Talk about an all-time high of in-class absenteeism. Add a powerpoint viewer to it and it's be the most complete accessory on campus:)
I had a problem with a customer who wanted all of his email to be forwarded to his AOL account and then repeatedly marked it all as spam without notifying us that there was a problem.
The result: our server was blocked as a spam relay.
AOL helped correct this quickly, but when I emailed the customer to let him know what happened he flagged my emails as spam and our servers were blocked again!
Our customer wasn't returning calls so I disabled his account. After that he was very willing to contact me to speak about things:)
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Ubuntu may not make your hardware break; however, Dell is worried that Linux support may break their profit margins. This doesn't even take into account efforts in development and training of staff.
If the program succeeds, they break even. If it fails then they aren't stuck with supporting it for any longer than necessary.
To be honest guys, the acid test takes browsers way past the point of being practical.
Certainly the tests are interesting, but how many 3-column websites with links and graphics actually benefit from being able to draw a CSS smiley face?
If internet addresses are numbers and phones are excellent at dialing numbers, why not just use the IP address as a decimal number?
Dialing 429-496-7295 (4,294,967,295) certainly wouldn't be difficult. That number translates to the IP address 255.255.255.255.
I dial numbers like that all the time. Just assign it a prefix (like *9 or #9 or something).
The "debt" is what you owe if you wish your subscription to continue, not what you have past due.
Thank you. I was wondering how far down I'd have to read until someone got that point right.
Many publishers use marketing companies to increase their subscription sales. They've employed every tactic known to date including selling consecutive or even simultaneous subscriptions to the same magazine.
One company kept sending mail to a dead relative: "We keep sending you [this magazine] but still you refuse to pay!". It's all tactic.
The company's staff lawyers probably recommended a pre-emptive strike after receiving Chris's threats of a lawsuit. By filing first, they control much of the initial investigation and proceedings.
This allows the company to bankrupt and discredit the smaller guy while strengthening their defenses.
A better option would have been to consult with a lawyer up-front. He may have recommended different communications, a change of job, or other strategy to protect Chris from the onset. A retainer fee is much less expensive than a full-blown lawsuit.
Cursing out a young adult and calling him a moron isn't insightful -- it's disgraceful.
Educate whenever possible and treat others the way you wish to be treated. I'm sure the guy that gave you all those mod points was trying to be very very nice.
Most companies take back old machines as "trade-in" or "trade-up" offers just to prevent the resale or reuse of older systems thus boosting sales. They'll even give you discounts or other incentives.
People don't take advantage of these things; maybe they want to give the old computer to their nephew or they like a competitor's offer better, or are simply too busy to send the old system back. It's just easier to set the old machine on the curb for most, which is why this system fails.
Before Red Hat 6.0, I thought it was a mess. When 6.2 was released, I migrated all of my systems to it. By the time Red Hat 9 was released, I had all of my systems under Red Hat Network contracts.
I felt alienated by their decisions; stability is important to me, but as our customers demand more features we need the updates to the kernels, the newer software packages, the newest hardware support. I was willing to pay to stay on the cutting edge, but unwilling to pay for stagnation.
I'm currently happy with Fedora Core 3 and am glad that Red Hat is supporting that project. They originally had to earn my support and respect and I hope I can trust them with that again in the future.
Not only does this violate the ACM code of ethics, but it also counts as "intentional and willful destruction" and can also carry criminal charges as well.
As others have pointed out, this mode of "copy protection" was widely employed in the 80's and was removed rather quickly after purchased software destroyed itself due to limitations of older 5.25" floppy drives being unable to read past the 32nd track (which was generally unused in the old ~120K floppies)
I've been donating 3-5 year old equipment for years. Usually it all has come with OEM copies of Microsoft software so licensing isn't an issue, and even if we may not consider software to be "educational" (such as word processors, spreadsheets, etc.) any software is helpful.
My parents are currently in Ethiopia where they run a library for students to study for their high school graduation exams. The tests are required to pass high school and get into college, and the books are in such short supply that they can't even let them out of the library. Just having computers with basic software could dramatically change things in that part of Africa.
The ability to run Emacs is not a feature. I'd rather be using edlin on MS-DOS 2.11 than install emacs on my machine.
:wq! to agree, ^C-M-TV-VH-1-S-A_Q to disagree with the current buffer and open a new videoconference.
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Nearly every inch of the Georgia Tech campus has wireless accessibility. Even the busses and shuttles update their positions wirelessly on the transportation website in real-time.
:)
Add to this fact the number of students listening to their iPods on the bus, walking to classes, even in class. Wireless? Talk about an all-time high of in-class absenteeism. Add a powerpoint viewer to it and it's be the most complete accessory on campus
I had a problem with a customer who wanted all of his email to be forwarded to his AOL account and then repeatedly marked it all as spam without notifying us that there was a problem.
:)
The result: our server was blocked as a spam relay.
AOL helped correct this quickly, but when I emailed the customer to let him know what happened he flagged my emails as spam and our servers were blocked again!
Our customer wasn't returning calls so I disabled his account. After that he was very willing to contact me to speak about things