A very tried woman put me on hold. I held for 5-6 minutes the the call was dropped. I sent them an email through their web-form available here.
http://www.sunncomm.com/asktheprez/asktheprez.as p
There is an explanation of sorts at the bottom. Basically, you're bad because their locks are crappy. If GM sold cars that could driven with a butter knife, don't you think they would fix it rather than sue the guy who figured it out?
I meant, how does he know that Safari doesn't have the same hooks? Duh, I mean, what kind of Slashdot user would I be if I didn't keep track of all of MSFT's failings...
..a few months ago. After 2 months I had downloaded all the stuff I was interested in. After that, kept downloading but didn't like the music so I deleted it. After realizing they weren't offering new music very often, I demanded they terminate my account.
Not MSFT...I know when I was in highschool our administrators bought apples over PC despite the benefits the PC solution had (cost, existing student experience with PC, etc..)
"Researchers have successfully tested a system that can replace a cellular tower's room full of communications hardware with a single desk-top style computer, making the technology affordable for small, rural communities."
From http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/pr03117.htm which is the OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE.
A single desktop. Sounds incredibly stupid to me. I mean, you gotta cough up the cash for the antenna and transmission equipment, why cheap out on the hardware? Sometimes saving money doesn't make sense.
I mean, the commercial plugin developers are unlikely to maintain two different code streams. Since IE is the market leader, they'll make a plugin that works in IE and everyone else has to play catchup. Mozilla will have to accomodate new plugins coming out in that format, and still deal with the 'legacy' plugins.
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I was rooting for SOAP to be on their list of crap. I've had to work with it lately, and aside from the UDDI feature, I can't think of one goddamn use for it. I mean, unless your service is a commodity, each service is going to be different enough such that a UDDI search would be useless. Without the UDDI, there is no need for the common message format. I hope it dies soon. The upside is, that most SOAP toolkits expose a service bean...and you can expose that bean using other technologies...like oh...RPC.
While the computer is the user's private property, the way that computer works can affect everyone else on the network. Similarly, your house is private property, but if your septic tank is busted and dumping raw sewage into the ground water you are affecting others. The state reserves the right to check things like this when you buy/sell the house because of the potential impact on others. Of course, they don't do daily/random poop checks but that's because it's not feasible. If the technology was there I wouldn't mind having automated checks of my scumbag neighbors' sub-standard houses and systems....I don't want their feces in my well water!
School must protect it's systems from viruses and trojans. Also, must protect itself from lawsuits from the RIAA. I'm sure the contract these students signed when they enrolled spelled this all out.
I meant, produce enough prior art that the PO didn't find that shows that Microsoft's solution is not unique? Or if it is unique, ammend the patent such that it is less sweeping?
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The SunnComm guy can give up...he has other products to sell. If the RIAA gives up, their whole business fails.
I would call it..."Spoke to his lawyers AFTER he made the threat." hahaha..
A very tried woman put me on hold. I held for 5-6 minutes the the call was dropped. I sent them an email through their web-form available here.
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http://www.sunncomm.com/asktheprez/asktheprez.a
There is an explanation of sorts at the bottom. Basically, you're bad because their locks are crappy. If GM sold cars that could driven with a butter knife, don't you think they would fix it rather than sue the guy who figured it out?
They truely do suck.
If someone kep dumping crap I didn't want on my lawn, and the state of the law was such that I couldn't stop them legally...
I'd take it to them.
A physical beat down.
Flash mods are an idea...
I meant, how does he know that Safari doesn't have the same hooks? Duh, I mean, what kind of Slashdot user would I be if I didn't keep track of all of MSFT's failings...
Oh...cause Apple told you, right? Hahaha. Sucker.
..a few months ago. After 2 months I had downloaded all the stuff I was interested in. After that, kept downloading but didn't like the music so I deleted it. After realizing they weren't offering new music very often, I demanded they terminate my account.
Come on! What are they going to say "Linux makes our filesystem look bad because we won't tell the developers the most efficient way to interface!"
:)
Oh boo-hoo!
Not MSFT...I know when I was in highschool our administrators bought apples over PC despite the benefits the PC solution had (cost, existing student experience with PC, etc..)
Just a thought....
If they called this release OSX version 11 and people bought it and found, hey it's almost identical to what I already have, they'd be pissed.
Don't lie to protect your interests now...
Hell even IBM doesn't charge for point releases to AIX, an arguably superior *nix. I guess this is the price you pay to be 'Different'.
"Researchers have successfully tested a system that can replace a cellular tower's room full of communications hardware with a single desk-top style computer, making the technology affordable for small, rural communities."
From http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/pr03117.htm which is the OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE.
A single desktop. Sounds incredibly stupid to me. I mean, you gotta cough up the cash for the antenna and transmission equipment, why cheap out on the hardware? Sometimes saving money doesn't make sense.
Keep trying! Only 1452 more Troll-Points to unlock the next goatse.cx party game!
I mean, the commercial plugin developers are unlikely to maintain two different code streams. Since IE is the market leader, they'll make a plugin that works in IE and everyone else has to play catchup. Mozilla will have to accomodate new plugins coming out in that format, and still deal with the 'legacy' plugins.
I was rooting for SOAP to be on their list of crap. I've had to work with it lately, and aside from the UDDI feature, I can't think of one goddamn use for it. I mean, unless your service is a commodity, each service is going to be different enough such that a UDDI search would be useless. Without the UDDI, there is no need for the common message format. I hope it dies soon. The upside is, that most SOAP toolkits expose a service bean...and you can expose that bean using other technologies...like oh...RPC.
Damn! Oh well, I guess you have to limit yourself or the article would be a phone book.
Increase the size of my manhood and split her with my horse cock j6546@adelphia.net ????
I mean, really...
While the computer is the user's private property, the way that computer works can affect everyone else on the network. Similarly, your house is private property, but if your septic tank is busted and dumping raw sewage into the ground water you are affecting others. The state reserves the right to check things like this when you buy/sell the house because of the potential impact on others. Of course, they don't do daily/random poop checks but that's because it's not feasible. If the technology was there I wouldn't mind having automated checks of my scumbag neighbors' sub-standard houses and systems....I don't want their feces in my well water!
Not perfect but you get the point.
And this isn't even the government!
School must protect it's systems from viruses and trojans. Also, must protect itself from lawsuits from the RIAA. I'm sure the contract these students signed when they enrolled spelled this all out.
What the hell makes you think people are going to pay for you to write open source software? You're living in a dream world son.
Oh man no way would I plug this thing in.
Why do this?
I meant, produce enough prior art that the PO didn't find that shows that Microsoft's solution is not unique? Or if it is unique, ammend the patent such that it is less sweeping?