I don't think that Hollywood and the movie studios care so much about the outcome of the trial as long as the process is scaring the shit out of other potential code writers.
The goal of the process is not "justice" (Whatever that word means in the US of A) but to make an example out of John. "Hey, if you mess with us we will keep you tied up in legal problems for 10 years, guilty or not!"
Exactly the modus operandi of Co$ (Cult of $cientology), who carry out a policy of "fair game" to crush and silence critics through burying them in legal papers and draining their finances through the courts. They use coercion and/or blackmail to extract false affidavits and depositions from associates, they manufacture false and untrue accusations, and they doctor evidence against critics.
And interestingly enough, Co$ has a huge presence in Hollywood. A good majority of the people who work in the movie industry are members of Co$.
But copying Co$ tactics may not earn the MPAA any friends of the court in the future. Many judges worldwide, wise to their methods, have condemned Co$ tactics as barratrous and in bad faith of the courts.
I am not normally pro-union but I agree that a union would be a good defense against this move.
The problem is that the corporations have been using every tactic to keep unions out of the skilled engineering field. Employees are fed propoganda that unions are counter-productive and that employees already have the benefits that unions have historically fought for for decades (health insurance, disability insurance, vacation time, retirement funds, etc). Corporations screen applicants for any history of union activities (there is no law against discriminating against union activists). If a union drive is detected, corporations will move to stifle it swiftly, even to the point of using any reason to dismiss the offending organizers in their hire. Walmart (and Continental Airlines) are just two corporations who are (was) notorious for their union-busting tactics.
Unions have a place to fight against corporate exploitation of labor, which is exactly what is going on here. Unions prospered since the late 1800s when exploitation was rampant in transportation (railroad, trucking), mining, garment making, assembly line, telecommunication, machining, foundry, civil labor, arts & entertainment, airline pilots, etc etc.
The problem today is that the unions can't get their foot in the door and they face a brainwashed labor pool biased against them. The corporations have been using pre-emptive attacks to fend off unions.
While there is no argument that unions have been riddled with corruption and overextension of their power, the same can be said of corporations riddled with campaign financing, intensive lobbying, accounting corruption (Enron, Worldcom, Tyco), and other manipulation of government law and finances. If there was ever a place for unions, now is the time.
Like I said, I'm not normally pro-union but I sure come off sounding like it.
"We suffered a negative ROI from investments in the stock market and we seek to recover the loss by shifting human resources to cheaper skilled labor overseas who will accept fewer benefits and cheaper health insurance."
THIS IS CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY?
And just how do domestic makers expect US consumers to purchase domestic goods when they no longer have the disposable income because their jobs went overseas?
I use only NT, 2k, and XP because of work. I assume you're referring to 95, 98, and ME because the "workstation" Windows' won't boot to DOS. So they can not be removed from all versions of Windows
It works for Windows 2000 Prof and for Windows NT.
I don't waste my time with garbage OS like 95/98/Me.
IE and the Media Player, however, can not be uninstalled.
Yes they can.
1) Boot into DOS command line (not command prompt from Windows).
2) Find the directory containing IE/MP and use the command RD/s to remove them.
3) reboot into Windows
4) Run Regedit and manually remove all references to deleted applications
Windows won't let you remove these directories from Explorer, but it can be done under DOS. Note that it doesn't work in command prompt from Windows, you have to reboot into DOS.
I used this technique to remove IE, MP, and Outlook from my PC at home. Works fine.
I bought a line6 over a marshall about 3.2 seconds
Most amp models neglect the key - overdriving the tube power amp and driving the output transformer into saturation. Any tube amp designer worth their salt knows that you design an amp around the output transformer - that's where the sound comes from, not just the tubes.
I took my amp to a shop and wanted to buy a new set of tubes. I swapped out all their preamp tubes and wasn't happy. Then I swapped some power amp tubes - WOW did that make a difference. There was more flexibility in the tone with power amp tubes than with preamp tubes.
Many amp models only take the preamp stage distortion into account. They neglect the power amp stage distortion, which is where the key to the sound is. This is where the guitar becomes a living breathing thing.
The new Marshalls don't have near the same sound as the old 60s models. I heard a '69 plexi and can confirm that they have a unique bark that no new Marshall or amp modeler has yet to approximate.
IMO the acid test of amp modellers is the "Boogie" model, aka "California" to avoid trademark infringement. My 1979 Mesa Boogie MkIIa still kicks their digital ass, nothing comes close to the real thing. I'm primarily a keyboard player but I can still hear the difference. The one that does come close is Tech21.
An interesting note is all the traditional amp makers - Marshall, Vox, Fender - now offer a modelling amp. Mesa Boogie wisely chose to avoid this fad.
According to the EULA for the latest versions of the OS Microsoft has the right to read any data you have stored on a computer which runs the OS
I don't think so.
I have a relative who is a town judge who keeps legal files on their WIN2K machine. And it's online. I asked if that machine had a firewall - turns out that standard procedure is double firewall.
I have legal files on my PC that is nobody's business - that is why I bought a firewall and configured it to maximum protection.
Theoretically this EULA gives M$ license to scan government computers (DoJ, FTC, etc) for incriminating legal info and to delete them at will.
This kind of power is dangerous in their hands. It is power grabs like this which is why M$ should have been broken into separate OS and application companies at the antitrust trial. I had a premonition for years that M$ would sink this low.
When I get home, I am moving all of my sensitive data to my other PC that is not online.
Read how Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz
fscked over
Oberheim and Opcode, two very
recognized and respected brands in the music industry. Juszkiewicz's manipulation of the law combined with his takeover tactics are well known in the music industry and
Gibson's integrity in high technology is questionable. No one who has ever entered into a partnership with Juszkiewicz has profited and every single one of them have been sued by him.
>My soon-to-be-ex-wife ruined my credit history
>behind my back.
That opinion probably helps you cope, and that is wonderful. But, she didn't do it behind your back. She did it before your eyes. You chose to enter into a contract with the State, with your spouse as a party to the contract. You chose to allow continued access to finances, and you chose to allow bills to go unpaid. You waited until it was a disaster to correct the problem. Now you are paying the price for having bought into the lie that is Marriage in the USA, but you still are not taking responsibilty for your role in the situation.
You've never been the victim of a master manipulator, have you. A manipulator who has control of your mind and your actions.
Like I said, long story short. You don't know all the facts and you have grossly misjudged me.
My soon-to-be-ex-wife ruined my credit history behind my back. To make a long story short, I have $20,000 in credit card theft (marital debt and I'm stuck with it!), an identity theft alert when she was caught attempting to open another card in my name while they were trying to serve papers against her, and collection notices when she neglected the bills while she was flying around the country seeing boyfriends behind my back. This was not a happy experience and is not anything I would wish on my worst enemy. I even have to take the drastic step of applying for a new social security number because it is in her hands where she can do more damage with it.
Privacy issues aside, the danger is too great that interviewers reviewing my credit history would make the wrong assumption that I incurred all that debt and that I would lose the job offer without being given any chance to explain the report. I would simply tell the employer that my credit history has suffered severe damage from my spouse and that I have no choice but to vigorously protect that information. If they protest further I will simply state that I am not open to negotiations on that topic.
Our company uses M$ Outlook Webmail and IE is the distributed browser for desktops. I switched to Mozilla. The Webmail interface is totally different on a non-IE browser. It is harder to access folders, harder to delete messages (IE allows shift-click for multiple, non-IE must manually select each one), and message view/reply/forward isn't as easy. Instead of breaking it like the stylesheets, they made it harder to use with a rival browser and are deliberately trying to steer users to IE.
Webmail is an awful email client anyway. The minute we were put on Webmail, I got spammed and my work email is used next to nowhere so the suspicion is high that M$ sells Webmail addresses to spammers. No filters, crap folder management, just plain user hostile. Webmail is crap and M$ is using it to drive users to IE. It ain't working.
(1) combo DVD/VHS player. Less than four hours of use. Plays CD-audio, mp3 CDs, plus more. SVIDEO output, stereo audio outputs, front panel video input. Region 1 player, no known key combination for region-free coding found yet. Inquire by email. 27" console stereo TV included free of charge.
Hollywood just lost me for good. Much of their product offends me and they want to force it down my throat. Well you know what they are a depensible luxury, I don't depend on them like I do food and water so out the door they go. I have been enjoying life without cable TV for two years and now I'm chucking the player. And the TV.
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The numbers were "fudged" because the student was in possession of 42X CD writers.
...that M$ could bundle and tightly integrate an MSN browser^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsearch engine into their OS...?
The goal of the process is not "justice" (Whatever that word means in the US of A) but to make an example out of John. "Hey, if you mess with us we will keep you tied up in legal problems for 10 years, guilty or not!"
Exactly the modus operandi of Co$ (Cult of $cientology), who carry out a policy of "fair game" to crush and silence critics through burying them in legal papers and draining their finances through the courts. They use coercion and/or blackmail to extract false affidavits and depositions from associates, they manufacture false and untrue accusations, and they doctor evidence against critics.
And interestingly enough, Co$ has a huge presence in Hollywood. A good majority of the people who work in the movie industry are members of Co$.
But copying Co$ tactics may not earn the MPAA any friends of the court in the future. Many judges worldwide, wise to their methods, have condemned Co$ tactics as barratrous and in bad faith of the courts.
You haven't installed Turbotax 2002, have you?
The problem is that the corporations have been using every tactic to keep unions out of the skilled engineering field. Employees are fed propoganda that unions are counter-productive and that employees already have the benefits that unions have historically fought for for decades (health insurance, disability insurance, vacation time, retirement funds, etc). Corporations screen applicants for any history of union activities (there is no law against discriminating against union activists). If a union drive is detected, corporations will move to stifle it swiftly, even to the point of using any reason to dismiss the offending organizers in their hire. Walmart (and Continental Airlines) are just two corporations who are (was) notorious for their union-busting tactics.
Unions have a place to fight against corporate exploitation of labor, which is exactly what is going on here. Unions prospered since the late 1800s when exploitation was rampant in transportation (railroad, trucking), mining, garment making, assembly line, telecommunication, machining, foundry, civil labor, arts & entertainment, airline pilots, etc etc.
The problem today is that the unions can't get their foot in the door and they face a brainwashed labor pool biased against them. The corporations have been using pre-emptive attacks to fend off unions.
While there is no argument that unions have been riddled with corruption and overextension of their power, the same can be said of corporations riddled with campaign financing, intensive lobbying, accounting corruption (Enron, Worldcom, Tyco), and other manipulation of government law and finances. If there was ever a place for unions, now is the time.
Like I said, I'm not normally pro-union but I sure come off sounding like it.
THIS IS CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY?
And just how do domestic makers expect US consumers to purchase domestic goods when they no longer have the disposable income because their jobs went overseas?
The US Corporations can STUFF IT.
It works for Windows 2000 Prof and for Windows NT.
I don't waste my time with garbage OS like 95/98/Me.
Yes they can.
1) Boot into DOS command line (not command prompt from Windows).
2) Find the directory containing IE/MP and use the command RD/s to remove them.
3) reboot into Windows
4) Run Regedit and manually remove all references to deleted applications
Windows won't let you remove these directories from Explorer, but it can be done under DOS. Note that it doesn't work in command prompt from Windows, you have to reboot into DOS.
I used this technique to remove IE, MP, and Outlook from my PC at home. Works fine.
That's nothing. I'm waiting for jet propulsion systems powered by flatulence.
User Friendly did a hilarious Star Wars parody on the OS wars.
Most amp models neglect the key - overdriving the tube power amp and driving the output transformer into saturation. Any tube amp designer worth their salt knows that you design an amp around the output transformer - that's where the sound comes from, not just the tubes.
I took my amp to a shop and wanted to buy a new set of tubes. I swapped out all their preamp tubes and wasn't happy. Then I swapped some power amp tubes - WOW did that make a difference. There was more flexibility in the tone with power amp tubes than with preamp tubes.
Many amp models only take the preamp stage distortion into account. They neglect the power amp stage distortion, which is where the key to the sound is. This is where the guitar becomes a living breathing thing.
The new Marshalls don't have near the same sound as the old 60s models. I heard a '69 plexi and can confirm that they have a unique bark that no new Marshall or amp modeler has yet to approximate.
IMO the acid test of amp modellers is the "Boogie" model, aka "California" to avoid trademark infringement. My 1979 Mesa Boogie MkIIa still kicks their digital ass, nothing comes close to the real thing. I'm primarily a keyboard player but I can still hear the difference. The one that does come close is Tech21.
An interesting note is all the traditional amp makers - Marshall, Vox, Fender - now offer a modelling amp. Mesa Boogie wisely chose to avoid this fad.
I don't think so.
I have a relative who is a town judge who keeps legal files on their WIN2K machine. And it's online. I asked if that machine had a firewall - turns out that standard procedure is double firewall.
I have legal files on my PC that is nobody's business - that is why I bought a firewall and configured it to maximum protection.
Theoretically this EULA gives M$ license to scan government computers (DoJ, FTC, etc) for incriminating legal info and to delete them at will.
This kind of power is dangerous in their hands. It is power grabs like this which is why M$ should have been broken into separate OS and application companies at the antitrust trial. I had a premonition for years that M$ would sink this low.
When I get home, I am moving all of my sensitive data to my other PC that is not online.
Stay very far away from this serpent.
"Save As" and change the drop-down box to "Word 97 document"?
- I understood this sentence at the first "it".
Don't say the word!- It was a little vague by the second "it".
Ahhh!!! He said the word!!!- By the third "it" I was confused.
Please, I beg you, stop, STOP!!!- At the fourth "it" in it it was a little confusing what part of it "it" was referring to
AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!It's called the brain. Only a Vulcan can read it.
But, at ~$15 each and being limited by law to only working a max of 20 hours a week at minimum wage he can't afford too many CD's.
Thus enter Kazaa. He can leech all the songs he wants for free and burn his own mixes for his car that suits his taste.
Please explain how a 17-year-old who is limited by labor law from earning enough $$$ to buy CDs happens to have his own car.
>behind my back.
That opinion probably helps you cope, and that is wonderful. But, she didn't do it behind your back. She did it before your eyes. You chose to enter into a contract with the State, with your spouse as a party to the contract. You chose to allow continued access to finances, and you chose to allow bills to go unpaid. You waited until it was a disaster to correct the problem. Now you are paying the price for having bought into the lie that is Marriage in the USA, but you still are not taking responsibilty for your role in the situation.
You've never been the victim of a master manipulator, have you. A manipulator who has control of your mind and your actions.
Like I said, long story short. You don't know all the facts and you have grossly misjudged me.
Privacy issues aside, the danger is too great that interviewers reviewing my credit history would make the wrong assumption that I incurred all that debt and that I would lose the job offer without being given any chance to explain the report. I would simply tell the employer that my credit history has suffered severe damage from my spouse and that I have no choice but to vigorously protect that information. If they protest further I will simply state that I am not open to negotiations on that topic.
Webmail is an awful email client anyway. The minute we were put on Webmail, I got spammed and my work email is used next to nowhere so the suspicion is high that M$ sells Webmail addresses to spammers. No filters, crap folder management, just plain user hostile. Webmail is crap and M$ is using it to drive users to IE. It ain't working.
2) Plenty of device drivers that would fit on a floppy and would otherwise be a massive waste of a CDROM.
3) When the net servers go down... Sneakernet!
After years of scratching my head over that Monty Python sketch with the bloody vikings, the joke about spam makes much more sense to me.
AOL/TW is offering 10 kilowatt-hours of free AC power down their cable TV lines for 45 days.
What sysadmin in his right mind would give up control of their server(s) to the beast?
Small wonder that more patches aren't getting installed.
Hollywood just lost me for good. Much of their product offends me and they want to force it down my throat. Well you know what they are a depensible luxury, I don't depend on them like I do food and water so out the door they go. I have been enjoying life without cable TV for two years and now I'm chucking the player. And the TV.
Good-bye. And please stay away.