The impact however, which Sony has on culture, society and laws is certainly no laughing matter.
*) Don't bother if you are not using IE; I quote from the link:
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They might do that eventually, but right now they will just give the software away to the state for free.....IT managers like free, and it avoids TCO arguments.
Actually the city of Munich will be paying more to switch their 14000 desktops from NT 4 to Linux and OpenOffice then they would have payed to upgrade to XP and the appropriate Microsoft software.
Think of it as investing into a heroin withdrawel program. It may be expensive and quite painful in the short term. But after that they won't have to regularely pay their dealer and find out after each payement that the stuff they just bought is cut contaminated with crushed up bugs.
but in the real business world people who base their business decisions on some kind of moral philosophy they subscribe to don't do very well
You are certainly right with that comment. But if - as is mostly the case with a database engine - real business world translates to reliability of transactions and reasonable support of business rules within the database then MySQL and real business world are an oxymoron.
Why should a new customer get a person on the phone right away, and someone who wants to cancel service must wait a long time?
That's one of the dirty secrets of call center queue management. Even though your airline/phone company/bank/crappy internet provider will probably deny this they do prioritize customer calls.
For a phone company this is pretty simple, provided that you call from a number, which they can identify. Airlines usually have specific numbers for their SuperPlatinumSpaceZoomFlyer class of customers and how seedy internet purveyors do it, well, you found out the hard way.
Microsoft's participation in standards bodies such as IETF, W3C and OASIS, and our royalty-free contributions of technology to Web Services standards supports this commitment.
You don't really wanna tell the/. croud that your answers didn't run through Microsofts PR department; now would you?
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Personally I still use my Palm Vx... I would say that's the classic model if it's useful to you. It does enough for me.
I actually liked it very much, but had to give up on it over a year ago. The touch screen calibration tended to go apeshit after a couple days up to the point where you needed to hard reset the device. This of course is not tolerable.
I really liked the simplicity and the battery life, but now switched to a smartphone (Nokia 9300), which does all what the Vx did and then a bunch more. Its approach is also very simple and the quality is awesome (I don't work for Nokia, but was always a sucker for their phones, specifically their user interface).
I guess you meant not untracable, but alas it's wrong and was for a long time.
There are no anonymous Swiss bank acoounts, period. The infamous numbered accounts so much loved by bad American thriller authors exist, but are not anonymous. The idea is that the actual account owner is codified by a number, bank internally. Only very few people (likely on VP level) know the true identiy of the account owner. If a judge however rightfully (there are obstacles in Swiss banking laws, but never for a criminal offense) demands the bank to turn over that data, the bank will.
Up to roughly 20 years ago there was a loophole: By utilizing an attourney, who only had to certify that he knew the real owner (but didn't have to mention him) you could in effect, for a hefty fee, bank anonymously. As mentioned before this loophole is closed long since and banks (must) demand the name (and official identification) of the real owner of the account; intermediary or not. You can also be damn sure that they will have a closer look and ask uncomfortable questions when you turn up with a Columbian passport and a large suitcase containing used 10$ and 20$ bills.
There might be certain shady financial institutions that violate the law, but you will certainly not find a major (or even minor) Swiss bank violating those laws.
If you want to park and launder your money anonymously, try Austira (no more for long) or open an anonymous trust in the UK. Even though the Limeys wail loudest about Swiss bank secrecy they offer far better devices if you're in the industry of shady business.
The people who are for pattents wont care what Stallman says because he is just too Wacked out on the issue to be useful.
Have you actually read the FA? I suspect not. Mr. Stallman argues very convincibly in a major UK newspaper for our case. That in itself can be put down as a major success for the free software movement.
I don't know if Mr. Stallman is an unwashed, fanatic, commie, terrorist, GNU/Linux hippie as a lot of people imply, but what I do know - from reading some of his essays and articles - that this guy is brilliantly smart and has a lot to say. From what I read he is convinced of his mission, but he usually doesn't come over as an unwashed, fanatic, commie, terrorist, GNU/Linux hippie. So why do you consider him whacked-out? because he has convictions, stands by them and fights for them?
As far the the Pro-Pattent People are conserned they are protecting their own rights and IP.
Hell! That's exactly the fucking point, which the FSF and a whole bunch of activists and even (shudder!) some profit minded companies try to fight. Software patents are about patenting algorithms, or more generally about patenting mathematics. This is just plain, pure, undiluted bullshit!
I give you the benefit of the doubt, since English doesn't seem to be your native language, so it's very well possible that you couldn't bring your point over. Otherwise I'd declare you an idiot and a troll
A problem Freenet faces is highlighted by the Scientology debate -- and I don't mean if Tom Cruise is right for Katie Holmes.
Well, you don't really need Mr. Hubbards painfully verbose verbs. There's that little thing in copyright law called fair use. A few paragraphs from Hubbards writings should absolutely do the trick to show the gullible that they're about to pay a shitload of bucks in order to be excorcided from space cooties, implemented in us some 75M years ago. You certainly don't need to do a wholesale copyright infringement in order to achieve that.
In order to accurately discuss Scientology you need access to documents they claim are copyrighted and sell only at extornist prices.
The documents in question are widely splattered over the net, most specifically OT III, which is part of the Fishman Declaration.
Even though [in my not at all humble opinion, of course] Scientology is a (partially badly dressed) congregation of loonies, with some very bizarre believes I'd wager that they have every right to their believes as they have every right to the copyrights of their sekrit scipures.
If you want to inform the gullible about Scientology and their very strange ways (including massive harrassement of "supressive persons") I don't think that whole sale copyright infringement is the ticket. Unless of course you want to be sued by the kookie kult.
And why the fuck should I purchase anything which might or might not work from a company, which sues its customers as a business model, because it looks cool on press releases, but else then that consists of thin air?
That is why Internet download are dangerious because it makes people aware of different music.
I don't think that this is the primary reason, why the cartelists so much hate the internet. The reason is control or loss thereof. Prior to the internet you had virtually no chance in hell to get your music published, unless you agreed to a contract, which makes slavery actually look like the prefered choice. The Internet can change all that. Everybody with a [insert favorite instrument], a cheap microphone and a recording device can be a publisher now and circumvent the established distribution channels.
If anybody listens to such music is a whole other question, of course.
If the music industry doesn't change their business model from a mere media distribution model (media in my book include DRMd files) to a value adder (promotion, marketing, infrastructure, artist scouts, etc) and continues their rather odd "criminalize-thy-customer" business model my prediction is that 10 years from now they are deader then Jimmy Hoffa.
Let's just say that I have someone very close to me, that works in the Nokia business unit that makes Symbian (apps, drivers, protocol stack...).
Sorry if this is offtopic, but couldn't you tell your mate that there are 9300 users out there, who would appreciate (and pay for) a halfway decent selection of games.
Bounce is getting old and else then that (and that stoopid Golf game) there really doesn't seem to be a lot around for Series 80 phones.
U.S. universities attract very smart people from all over the world even today. It is true that many of the greatest inventions credited to the U.S. were made by immigrants, but the U.S. is a country of immigrants.
Yep, and that's exactly the reason, why the "new and improved" visa policies are a shot into both feet with a pump action.
Smart students and leading scientists are avoiding the US in droves, due to the innane visa requirements and the risk that they may not be able to re-enter the US if they visit their home countries. This used to be very, very different not even four years ago.
This is a dangerous trend and it will hurt the US big time in a couple of decades at the very latest.
It's kind of like someone stealing a car from the lot of a dealership, then taking it back a few months later for it's customary 3,000 mile oil change.
This would only be the case if your car starts to indiscriminately shoot people if you refrain to do the 3'000 mile oil change.
Windows can do that after 12 minutes on the net, if the mighty Microsoft update computer decides that your copy is not legit.
Most Christians tend to be conservative though, because we believe in the right to life.
OK, then mind to explain why so many USian Chrisitians who are so vehemently against the right to chose are so fundamentally supporting the death penalty?
Corporate America feels like a childish game of "You go home.... no you go home..... No you go home.... No"
Actually it reminds me more of the small, obnoxious kid at the sandbox, which sticks his fingers into his ears and yells I CAN'T HEAR YOU! I CAN'T HEAR YOU! on the top of his lungs.
Aha... It's instructed to turn around once it reached the edge, right ?
And how, sir, woukd you know that? Did you dare to install spyware on my 'puter while I was visiting barelylegalteensinsailersuitsdoingsummersaults.com ?
Some of us refuse to get hooked into a cellphone world.
I agree. But as a business owner, for which my cell serves as the switchboard there's not really a choice, is there?
Then again it might surprise you to learn that I don't use the email and browser functionality. I also reserve the right not to hear my phone ringing when Led Zeppelin is blasting in my earphones and that fucker doesn't even have vibro.
And the grand thing is: I actually appreciate this.
"Did IBM out innovate us? I don't think so. I don't think they've done much interesting at all. What about Oracle? I don't think they've done much innovative at all. What about the open source guys? Ah, the business model is interesting but we haven't seen much in the way of technical innovation."
That may be all well and even true. But why does Mr. Ballmer remind me so much of glass houses, stones, pots, kettles and the color black?
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The Washington Post thinks that "This service is an embarrassment to the company that gave the world the Walkman.".
The impact however, which Sony has on culture, society and laws is certainly no laughing matter.
*) Don't bother if you are not using IE; I quote from the link:
We appreciate your interest in the Connect music store, but our store currently only works with Internet Explorer 5.5 and above. You don't seem to be using that particular browser at the moment, so, unfortunately, we'll have to part ways until we support the browser you're currently using or you upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer. Please click the Download link below if you'd like to upgrade now.
Actually the city of Munich will be paying more to switch their 14000 desktops from NT 4 to Linux and OpenOffice then they would have payed to upgrade to XP and the appropriate Microsoft software.
Think of it as investing into a heroin withdrawel program. It may be expensive and quite painful in the short term. But after that they won't have to regularely pay their dealer and find out after each payement that the stuff they just bought is cut contaminated with crushed up bugs.
You are certainly right with that comment. But if - as is mostly the case with a database engine - real business world translates to reliability of transactions and reasonable support of business rules within the database then MySQL and real business world are an oxymoron.
That's one of the dirty secrets of call center queue management. Even though your airline/phone company/bank/crappy internet provider will probably deny this they do prioritize customer calls.
For a phone company this is pretty simple, provided that you call from a number, which they can identify. Airlines usually have specific numbers for their SuperPlatinumSpaceZoomFlyer class of customers and how seedy internet purveyors do it, well, you found out the hard way.
Microsoft's participation in standards bodies such as IETF, W3C and OASIS, and our royalty-free contributions of technology to Web Services standards supports this commitment.
You don't really wanna tell the /. croud that your answers didn't run through Microsofts PR department; now would you?
I actually liked it very much, but had to give up on it over a year ago. The touch screen calibration tended to go apeshit after a couple days up to the point where you needed to hard reset the device. This of course is not tolerable.
I really liked the simplicity and the battery life, but now switched to a smartphone (Nokia 9300), which does all what the Vx did and then a bunch more. Its approach is also very simple and the quality is awesome (I don't work for Nokia, but was always a sucker for their phones, specifically their user interface).
After wanking myself and jerking off yesterday, I submit a proposal now to promote it for everyone in the USA.
What a creep...
You aren't an avid Harry Potter reader, huh?
Because actually it's quite simple, you just pull your wand and... er, well! nevermind...
I guess you meant not untracable, but alas it's wrong and was for a long time.
There are no anonymous Swiss bank acoounts, period. The infamous numbered accounts so much loved by bad American thriller authors exist, but are not anonymous. The idea is that the actual account owner is codified by a number, bank internally. Only very few people (likely on VP level) know the true identiy of the account owner. If a judge however rightfully (there are obstacles in Swiss banking laws, but never for a criminal offense) demands the bank to turn over that data, the bank will.
Up to roughly 20 years ago there was a loophole: By utilizing an attourney, who only had to certify that he knew the real owner (but didn't have to mention him) you could in effect, for a hefty fee, bank anonymously. As mentioned before this loophole is closed long since and banks (must) demand the name (and official identification) of the real owner of the account; intermediary or not. You can also be damn sure that they will have a closer look and ask uncomfortable questions when you turn up with a Columbian passport and a large suitcase containing used 10$ and 20$ bills.
There might be certain shady financial institutions that violate the law, but you will certainly not find a major (or even minor) Swiss bank violating those laws.
If you want to park and launder your money anonymously, try Austira (no more for long) or open an anonymous trust in the UK. Even though the Limeys wail loudest about Swiss bank secrecy they offer far better devices if you're in the industry of shady business.
Have you actually read the FA? I suspect not. Mr. Stallman argues very convincibly in a major UK newspaper for our case. That in itself can be put down as a major success for the free software movement.
I don't know if Mr. Stallman is an unwashed, fanatic, commie, terrorist, GNU/Linux hippie as a lot of people imply, but what I do know - from reading some of his essays and articles - that this guy is brilliantly smart and has a lot to say. From what I read he is convinced of his mission, but he usually doesn't come over as an unwashed, fanatic, commie, terrorist, GNU/Linux hippie. So why do you consider him whacked-out? because he has convictions, stands by them and fights for them?
As far the the Pro-Pattent People are conserned they are protecting their own rights and IP.
Hell! That's exactly the fucking point, which the FSF and a whole bunch of activists and even (shudder!) some profit minded companies try to fight. Software patents are about patenting algorithms, or more generally about patenting mathematics. This is just plain, pure, undiluted bullshit!
I give you the benefit of the doubt, since English doesn't seem to be your native language, so it's very well possible that you couldn't bring your point over. Otherwise I'd declare you an idiot and a troll
Well, you don't really need Mr. Hubbards painfully verbose verbs. There's that little thing in copyright law called fair use. A few paragraphs from Hubbards writings should absolutely do the trick to show the gullible that they're about to pay a shitload of bucks in order to be excorcided from space cooties, implemented in us some 75M years ago. You certainly don't need to do a wholesale copyright infringement in order to achieve that.
In order to accurately discuss Scientology you need access to documents they claim are copyrighted and sell only at extornist prices.
The documents in question are widely splattered over the net, most specifically OT III, which is part of the Fishman Declaration.
Even though [in my not at all humble opinion, of course] Scientology is a (partially badly dressed) congregation of loonies, with some very bizarre believes I'd wager that they have every right to their believes as they have every right to the copyrights of their sekrit scipures.
If you want to inform the gullible about Scientology and their very strange ways (including massive harrassement of "supressive persons") I don't think that whole sale copyright infringement is the ticket. Unless of course you want to be sued by the kookie kult.
I don't think so...
I don't think that this is the primary reason, why the cartelists so much hate the internet. The reason is control or loss thereof. Prior to the internet you had virtually no chance in hell to get your music published, unless you agreed to a contract, which makes slavery actually look like the prefered choice. The Internet can change all that. Everybody with a [insert favorite instrument], a cheap microphone and a recording device can be a publisher now and circumvent the established distribution channels. If anybody listens to such music is a whole other question, of course.
If the music industry doesn't change their business model from a mere media distribution model (media in my book include DRMd files) to a value adder (promotion, marketing, infrastructure, artist scouts, etc) and continues their rather odd "criminalize-thy-customer" business model my prediction is that 10 years from now they are deader then Jimmy Hoffa.
Sorry if this is offtopic, but couldn't you tell your mate that there are 9300 users out there, who would appreciate (and pay for) a halfway decent selection of games.
Bounce is getting old and else then that (and that stoopid Golf game) there really doesn't seem to be a lot around for Series 80 phones.
Else then that it's the best phone I ever had.
Yep, and that's exactly the reason, why the "new and improved" visa policies are a shot into both feet with a pump action.
Smart students and leading scientists are avoiding the US in droves, due to the innane visa requirements and the risk that they may not be able to re-enter the US if they visit their home countries. This used to be very, very different not even four years ago.
This is a dangerous trend and it will hurt the US big time in a couple of decades at the very latest.
This would only be the case if your car starts to indiscriminately shoot people if you refrain to do the 3'000 mile oil change.
Windows can do that after 12 minutes on the net, if the mighty Microsoft update computer decides that your copy is not legit.
Methinks I rather stay with Debian, since their social contract proghibits shooting people.
OK, then mind to explain why so many USian Chrisitians who are so vehemently against the right to chose are so fundamentally supporting the death penalty?
Bunch of fucking hypocrites, I dare say.
And given that he's a top producer (i.e. Nirvana) I'd wager that his word has more weight in this matter.
Actually it reminds me more of the small, obnoxious kid at the sandbox, which sticks his fingers into his ears and yells I CAN'T HEAR YOU! I CAN'T HEAR YOU! on the top of his lungs.
What a sorry bunch of wankers...
And how, sir, woukd you know that? Did you dare to install spyware on my 'puter while I was visiting barelylegalteensinsailersuitsdoingsummersaults.com ?
Hmm, I'm sure they wouldn't lie and I shall read the statement as soon my flying pig is back.
It's on a mission, surveying the earth in order to prove that it's flat.
I agree. But as a business owner, for which my cell serves as the switchboard there's not really a choice, is there?
Then again it might surprise you to learn that I don't use the email and browser functionality. I also reserve the right not to hear my phone ringing when Led Zeppelin is blasting in my earphones and that fucker doesn't even have vibro.
And the grand thing is: I actually appreciate this.
Pretty good organizer/phone with the added benefit of not getting into religious bullshit.
That may be all well and even true. But why does Mr. Ballmer remind me so much of glass houses, stones, pots, kettles and the color black?
I think that the Debian folks may have an issue with this statement.