Unless you need more than 256 columns for excel, why on earth would anybody pay for such a worthless "upgrade" ? I suppose, eventually, you will get office-2007 docs that you need to open, but that will not happen for time yet.
Nobody is proposing that the sites are banned, that is just a sensationalist, and misleading, headline. The bill on proposes that the sites be blocked in libraries, why is that a problem?
Should libraries also carry hard-core pornography? How about child porn?
Every company wants the public to believe the same thing: "in the near future profits will be awsome!" Anticipation is always greater than reality. This is why you buy on the rumor, and sell on the news.
Msft's stock price went way up in anticipation of Vista. Now that Vista is out, the stock price is on the way back down. What good are msft exec stock options, if msft can't spin up some hype, and drive the share price up?
When was the last time that a msft product was delivered on time, or lived up to it's pre-release hype? Does anybody familiar with msft actually believe that some awsome new msft OS will be out in two years?
But, I would not be surprised to see msft stock to spike a little early next week. Might be a good time for execs to exercise their options.
Business is business. They should sell for as much as they can get. It will be a cold day in hell before I'd pay that much for the cr@p "music" that comes out today, but that's just me.
Or, is the RIAA just whining that they *could* get $33+ if it weren't for the pirates?
The scox scam has gone on for nearly four years. This Henson guy has already been on the run for six years - and for what?
"the law can be used very easily to harass... The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage, rather than to win - if possible, of course, ruin [the target] utterly" --- L. Ron Hubbard
>there is nothing about Vista that is truly innovative or compelling
Correct. Same was true of XP vs W2K, so what?
> Microsoft has stopped focusing on end users. They 'now seemingly make many decisions based on these two things: 1. Avoiding negative publicity (especially about security and software quality) 2. Making sure the largest enterprise customers are happy.'"
1) Msft has never focused on end users. Msft focuses on controlling the standard. Msft is not even shy about this. Bill Gates has said as much.
2) Msft doesn't give a damn about bad publicity. Msft is not even shy about changing formats just for the sake of forcing sales. Practically everybody hates msft, and msft could not care less. Msft wants your money, not your love.
3) Msft doesn't want anybody to be "happy" with their products. With msft it's all about vendor lock-in, network effect, and controlling the standard. Msft makes sales by twisting arms, not by making anybody happy.
- Lying to the US-DoJ in Video taped testomony? - Letters from dead people campaign? - Caught dead-to-rights in outright theft of IP from competitors? - Abusing the US legal system by funding scam lawsuits to FUD the competitions? - Filing about 40 bogus patents every week for week for years? - Secretly rigging supposedly independant benchmarks, and TOC studies? - Payola to bloggers, and wikipedia contributors? - Payola to "journalists" like Enderle? - Payola to fake think-tanks like AdTI? - Threatening to sue all Linux users and contributors over fake IP issues?
Should I go on? Msft really is organized crime. As a libertarian, I can assue you is not just anti-capitalists who have low regard for msft.
So what? Scox was heading towards bankruptcy anyway. Scox would have been bankrupt 2 - 3 years ago if not for this scam. Scox never made a profit in it's entire history - except for the quarter that scox got the msft FUD money.
The scox scammers don't give a damn about the future of scox. These guys are nothing but small-time Lindon scam artists. The scox scammers are just out to loot what they can. The only difference between this, and the typical Utah MLM scam is that this scam has msft behind it.
I'm sorry, but those who say "on man! scox really screwed up!" just don't get it.
When Darl was hired as CEO, just before the scam began, about four years ago. Scox's market cap dropped below $6M. Scox was on the brink of delisting and bankruptcy. Now scox's market cap is over $20M.
Kevin McBrid pulled in $885K in the last two years. Darl probably made about $2M since the scam began. Not bad for small time scammers. Scox's law firm, BSF, has made over $30M. And the company that financed the entire scam, MSFT, is getting five years of top quality FUD for a meager $50M.
Scox never expected a victory in court, scox expected either a quick settlement, or scox would just loot as much msft FUD money as possible.
Scox was just given more delay - yet another scox victory.
More and more, it seems like you have to be some sort of highly experienced expert to buy on ebay, and not get ripped off.
It takes forever to carefully check for all the tricks, check the shipping costs, reject the reserve not met, bidding against bots, being at your PC the instant the auction ends, watching out for *serious* scammers, protecting your ID. And on, and on, and on. New scams start all the time.
Are the final prices, including s/h and all, really *that* great? I mean, what is your time worth? And what about all the risks?
I kinda like the craigslist system. Local people just trying to get some money for stuff they want to get rid off. I don't have to be a total pro to find bargins that way.
Basicly, a "web-master" is a type of programmer. We still have programmers who develop web-sites and web-based applications. We just don't use that prepostorus title anymore. Thank god.
Any candidate who isn't a scammer or retarded?
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The feds just piss away your tax dollars, no matter how much you give them.
Don't believe me? Quick: what do the feds do with your tax dollars? Schools? No schools are 95% paid for by local taxes. Roads? No, even interstates are paid for state taxes.
Even with Iraq going on, only about 18% of tax dollars go down that rat hole.
What happens to the rest? Can you say "special interestes?" I knew that you could.
The numbers do not seem impossibly high. In fact the numbers could be much higher. But: how did the "study" determine these numbers? Did they ask people if they pirated movies? Did they just make the numbers up? Is it a WAG based on the numbers of movies sold this year, as opposed to last year? These sorts of "studies" are never specific about that sort of thing.
I don't speak Chiness, or bureaucratess. I can not make sense out this statement:
> He proposes to do this by maintaining "the initiative in opinion" on the internet and to "'raise the level guidance on the internet," thus civilizing and purifying the internet environment.
Does this mean WDS, and EDS, up the wahzoo? Are they looking to filter porn, or subversive ideas, or both?
There were ways to nearly prevent software theft years and years ago. Dongles, long registration number that you had to call in to get new numbers . . .
My guess is: msft does not want to totally stop piracy. To msft, the most important thing is to control the standard. The more people who use msft, pirated or otherwise, the more msft is entrenched as the standard.
Since there is no money involved, it's all about the satisfaction you get. And it's much more satifying to have your own project, rather than contributing to somebody else's project.
So every snot-nosed kid does some somthing like: throw every multi-media app they can find on an established linux distro, then they have their own new "multi-media" distro. Or throw every security related app they can find on another distro, and then they have a special "security" distro. And here on slashdot, everybody makes a big fuss over it, like it's something revolutionary.
IMHO: throwing apps on another distro does not justify yet another linux distro. Also, IMHO, apps that work on any version of linux, are not special features. But, in the insane linux distro land, that is what most distros are all about. Look at the "feature" list of most distros to find "OpenOffice" or whatever.
That is why I use debian. 180mb network download, then only download what you want. Make it a super-stable server, or a bleeding edge desktop, or a multi-media whatever. And you need only download and install it once. Use whatever WM/DE you want, or don't use any, debian doesn't case. You don't have a different *buntu distro for a different distro.
"Since Vista sucks, XP users will all move to Ubuntu. Since Office-2007 sucks, Office users will all move to OpenOffice." And the non-sense goes on and on: "msft missed a release cycle!" or "msft stopped supporting x product!"
First, lets not overlook the obvious: it if far easier for XP and Office user to just stay with what they have. Why do they have to change to F/OSS, even if msft's latest upgrades suck?
And so what if msft stops support? I never use msft "support" anyway. I still use windows 2000, and office 2000, they both work fine. A lot of people even use older stuff.
So please stop jumping to the absurd conclusion that a msft upgrade glitch will for everybody to F/OSS - it doesn't.
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Unless you need more than 256 columns for excel, why on earth would anybody pay for such a worthless "upgrade" ? I suppose, eventually, you will get office-2007 docs that you need to open, but that will not happen for time yet.
What about future microsoft products?
Or, were you being sarcastic?
Nobody is proposing that the sites are banned, that is just a sensationalist, and misleading, headline. The bill on proposes that the sites be blocked in libraries, why is that a problem?
Should libraries also carry hard-core pornography? How about child porn?
No references to that episode of south park where britney spears had to downgrade from a gulfstream 5 to a gulfstream 4, due to music downloading?
Slashdoters must be slacking.
Every company wants the public to believe the same thing: "in the near future profits will be awsome!" Anticipation is always greater than reality. This is why you buy on the rumor, and sell on the news.
Msft's stock price went way up in anticipation of Vista. Now that Vista is out, the stock price is on the way back down. What good are msft exec stock options, if msft can't spin up some hype, and drive the share price up?
When was the last time that a msft product was delivered on time, or lived up to it's pre-release hype? Does anybody familiar with msft actually believe that some awsome new msft OS will be out in two years?
But, I would not be surprised to see msft stock to spike a little early next week. Might be a good time for execs to exercise their options.
>>Yes, you really are allowed to do damn near anything you want to with it. You bought it, it's your property.
Sure, you can do anything you want with it. But, if msft choses not to activate, you've bought a whole lot of nothing.
Business is business. They should sell for as much as they can get. It will be a cold day in hell before I'd pay that much for the cr@p "music" that comes out today, but that's just me.
Or, is the RIAA just whining that they *could* get $33+ if it weren't for the pirates?
The scox scam has gone on for nearly four years. This Henson guy has already been on the run for six years - and for what?
... The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage, rather than to win - if possible, of course, ruin [the target] utterly"
"the law can be used very easily to harass
--- L. Ron Hubbard
>there is nothing about Vista that is truly innovative or compelling
Correct. Same was true of XP vs W2K, so what?
> Microsoft has stopped focusing on end users. They 'now seemingly make many decisions based on these two things: 1. Avoiding negative publicity (especially about security and software quality) 2. Making sure the largest enterprise customers are happy.'"
1) Msft has never focused on end users. Msft focuses on controlling the standard. Msft is not even shy about this. Bill Gates has said as much.
2) Msft doesn't give a damn about bad publicity. Msft is not even shy about changing formats just for the sake of forcing sales. Practically everybody hates msft, and msft could not care less. Msft wants your money, not your love.
3) Msft doesn't want anybody to be "happy" with their products. With msft it's all about vendor lock-in, network effect, and controlling the standard. Msft makes sales by twisting arms, not by making anybody happy.
organized crime of the 1930s - 1970s.
Today it's more about political contributions than knee-cap breaking.
So McBride influence is not out of the question.
- Lying to the US-DoJ in Video taped testomony?
- Letters from dead people campaign?
- Caught dead-to-rights in outright theft of IP from competitors?
- Abusing the US legal system by funding scam lawsuits to FUD the competitions?
- Filing about 40 bogus patents every week for week for years?
- Secretly rigging supposedly independant benchmarks, and TOC studies?
- Payola to bloggers, and wikipedia contributors?
- Payola to "journalists" like Enderle?
- Payola to fake think-tanks like AdTI?
- Threatening to sue all Linux users and contributors over fake IP issues?
Should I go on? Msft really is organized crime. As a libertarian, I can assue you is not just anti-capitalists who have low regard for msft.
>SCO is heading toward bankruptcy
So what? Scox was heading towards bankruptcy anyway. Scox would have been bankrupt 2 - 3 years ago if not for this scam. Scox never made a profit in it's entire history - except for the quarter that scox got the msft FUD money.
The scox scammers don't give a damn about the future of scox. These guys are nothing but small-time Lindon scam artists. The scox scammers are just out to loot what they can. The only difference between this, and the typical Utah MLM scam is that this scam has msft behind it.
I'm sorry, but those who say "on man! scox really screwed up!" just don't get it.
When Darl was hired as CEO, just before the scam began, about four years ago. Scox's market cap dropped below $6M. Scox was on the brink of delisting and bankruptcy. Now scox's market cap is over $20M.
Kevin McBrid pulled in $885K in the last two years. Darl probably made about $2M since the scam began. Not bad for small time scammers. Scox's law firm, BSF, has made over $30M. And the company that financed the entire scam, MSFT, is getting five years of top quality FUD for a meager $50M.
Scox never expected a victory in court, scox expected either a quick settlement, or scox would just loot as much msft FUD money as possible.
Scox was just given more delay - yet another scox victory.
More and more, it seems like you have to be some sort of highly experienced expert to buy on ebay, and not get ripped off.
It takes forever to carefully check for all the tricks, check the shipping costs, reject the reserve not met, bidding against bots, being at your PC the instant the auction ends, watching out for *serious* scammers, protecting your ID. And on, and on, and on. New scams start all the time.
Are the final prices, including s/h and all, really *that* great? I mean, what is your time worth? And what about all the risks?
I kinda like the craigslist system. Local people just trying to get some money for stuff they want to get rid off. I don't have to be a total pro to find bargins that way.
web developers.
Basicly, a "web-master" is a type of programmer. We still have programmers who develop web-sites and web-based applications. We just don't use that prepostorus title anymore. Thank god.
Or both?
Bueller?....... Anybody?
The feds just piss away your tax dollars, no matter how much you give them.
Don't believe me? Quick: what do the feds do with your tax dollars? Schools? No schools are 95% paid for by local taxes. Roads? No, even interstates are paid for state taxes.
Even with Iraq going on, only about 18% of tax dollars go down that rat hole.
What happens to the rest? Can you say "special interestes?" I knew that you could.
Easier than images.yahoo.com? As it is, people are accidently hitting on porn all the time.
I think it makes much more sense to make porn easier to block, then it's no problem for people who don't want it.
The numbers do not seem impossibly high. In fact the numbers could be much higher. But: how did the "study" determine these numbers? Did they ask people if they pirated movies? Did they just make the numbers up? Is it a WAG based on the numbers of movies sold this year, as opposed to last year? These sorts of "studies" are never specific about that sort of thing.
I know msft controls a few of them.
Aren't think tanks just a cover for corporate PR, or political agenda?
I don't speak Chiness, or bureaucratess. I can not make sense out this statement:
> He proposes to do this by maintaining "the initiative in opinion" on the internet and to "'raise the level guidance on the internet," thus civilizing and purifying the internet environment.
Does this mean WDS, and EDS, up the wahzoo? Are they looking to filter porn, or subversive ideas, or both?
There were ways to nearly prevent software theft years and years ago. Dongles, long registration number that you had to call in to get new numbers . . .
My guess is: msft does not want to totally stop piracy. To msft, the most important thing is to control the standard. The more people who use msft, pirated or otherwise, the more msft is entrenched as the standard.
That is why there are hundreds of linux distros.
Since there is no money involved, it's all about the satisfaction you get. And it's much more satifying to have your own project, rather than contributing to somebody else's project.
So every snot-nosed kid does some somthing like: throw every multi-media app they can find on an established linux distro, then they have their own new "multi-media" distro. Or throw every security related app they can find on another distro, and then they have a special "security" distro. And here on slashdot, everybody makes a big fuss over it, like it's something revolutionary.
IMHO: throwing apps on another distro does not justify yet another linux distro. Also, IMHO, apps that work on any version of linux, are not special features. But, in the insane linux distro land, that is what most distros are all about. Look at the "feature" list of most distros to find "OpenOffice" or whatever.
That is why I use debian. 180mb network download, then only download what you want. Make it a super-stable server, or a bleeding edge desktop, or a multi-media whatever. And you need only download and install it once. Use whatever WM/DE you want, or don't use any, debian doesn't case. You don't have a different *buntu distro for a different distro.
All JMHO.
"Since Vista sucks, XP users will all move to Ubuntu. Since Office-2007 sucks, Office users will all move to OpenOffice." And the non-sense goes on and on: "msft missed a release cycle!" or "msft stopped supporting x product!"
First, lets not overlook the obvious: it if far easier for XP and Office user to just stay with what they have. Why do they have to change to F/OSS, even if msft's latest upgrades suck?
And so what if msft stops support? I never use msft "support" anyway. I still use windows 2000, and office 2000, they both work fine. A lot of people even use older stuff.
So please stop jumping to the absurd conclusion that a msft upgrade glitch will for everybody to F/OSS - it doesn't.