Really, that's how "M$" works? It's interesting, because the guy that got fired penned this blog entry, where he says:
Yes -- I made a mistake
This has been pointed out many times, sometimes more politely than others. My posting of a photo taken at the Microsoft campus was (most likely) a breach of contract.
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Who's to blame?
In the end -- me. I really don't blame Microsoft for their actions. By my best guess, they saw me as breaking the rules -- whether those rules were a "no cameras" clause, an NDA, or something entirely different -- and decided that rather than give me a second chance and run the risk of me doing something similar in the future, it would be better to just cut me loose before I could do any more damage.
This is from the guy's blog, who unlike you doesn't see fit to use what any other large company in the planet would have done to further their puerile "M$ is teh evilz LOLOL" agenda.
So the next time you feel the need to use this as a standard "I hate M$ let me tell you why" bullet point, perhaps you'd like to stop and think for a second about how "big dumb companies" work. You know, in the real world. Anyone with half a brain can probably see through that misrepresentation of the facts, like most of your other "arguments".
People who release software under BSD- or MIT-type licenses are mostly grownups who know exactly what they're doing and generally don't mind the TERRIBLE side effect of using a truly free license that's supposed to give you all the freedom in the world except under certain cases. We don't need to hear the "zOMFG SOMEONE IS GOING TO TAKE YOUR SOFTWARES AND MAKE THEM NON FREE" argument again. We get it. No one can make my code "unfree". It's mine, and everyone else's to do whatever they want with it as long as they don't blame me if they fuck something up. Short of the public domain, that's the definition of "free" as far as I'm concerned. The GPL is a social agenda instrument, not a software license.
Developers who use the BSD licenses believe in true freedom, even if someone claims it comes at the expense of theirs. They don't want you to join a club or learn a secret handshake or pray to a little idol. They want you to have the code and get on with it. You can even give back if you want, but that's your choice.
Some people claim that the GPL is much more effective at creating and fostering community. I disagree. It's just that the communities that form around BSD code bases are far less radical, divisive and paranoid. We just want to write some possibly useful code and give it away to anyone that might find it so. We don't want to spend half our time trying to figure out who is "infringing" some endless, obscure legal minefield most educated people wouldn't understand after reading three times.
None of this really matters because M$ is failing. Vista is a flop. No one wants it.
Why yes, just yesterday you were telling us how everyone is going broke because of "M$". You never did get back to dedazo on that one, did you? I wonder why not.
To the OP, all you need to do is look in twitter's posting history. Right now there's a jewel there where he explains how "Windoze is teh shit". Powerful stuff. There's lots of reference materialout there. My personal favorite is this one, by far. Captures his je ne sais quoi very well.
is that hugo chavez's socialist policies are supported by oil revenue... oil revenue mostly from the great capitalist satan to the north
The amount of oil the US imports from Venezuela, while not negligible, can be replaced by imports from other countries, like Mexico and Nigeria. Why don't you try blaming your problems on yourself instead?
and via global warming it brings you hurricane katrina
Yes, and hurricanes have gotten worse since then. Oh, wait. They haven't.
Your post reads like a preschool translation of a "viva la revolucion komandante" talking points memo from the bad days of the USSR. Grow the fuck up.
That's nice, but not everyone shares your hysteria. How did you get wind of Apple doing this if no one has access to the iTunes source code? How did we find out about the RealPlayer crapware phone home issue? The Sony rootkit? Since I very much doubt you audit every single piece of code you write, what you're doing is placing your trust in people who know more than you do. Whether they have access to the source or not is irrelevant, especially when we're talking about output from an application, be it over the wire or persisted to storage. Someone will figure it out one way or another. I'd rather not give up quality for perceived "freedom", especially when I rely on other people to do my checks and balances for me.
You might claim that you are suspicious of deals between a software company and a media conglomerate and act accordingly to verify you're not getting screwed, but that has nothing to do with whether the software is "non free" or whatever.
So tell us flocktard, why is it that when Linsux doesn't support some piece of hardware it's the manufacturer's fault, but when a hardware company is incapable or unwilling to make a driver for a Microsoft OS, then it's Microsoft's fault?
Of course, I can also not buy my devices from Palm, right?
I believe from comments in another forum that the information can be seen through the normal iTunes interface, so I wouldn't call them "hidden". Of course you need to know that they're there to begin with, which I guess won't be true for a large portion of the iTunes user base.
Lame offtopic fanboy "jokes" aside, that is precisely why Apple won't be using this information to track anything.
On the other hand, the files might be watermarked in other ways, obviously more difficult to detect.
Of course it's entirely possible that Apple has actually decided to use this information in some way, which will affect mostly non-technically inclined people who are unaware of the tagging. And would be supremely stupid.
Imagine if they managed to trace back all those Bruce Wayne Campbell tracks in your collection? Oh the humanity.
First of all, its Goonswarm is the alliance and Goonfleet is the corp.
Do you guys realize how ridiculous this all is? This is from the incredibly exhaustive Wikipedia entry for this game, which I had not heard of before today:
CCP's largely hands-off approach to managing the in-game economy has also come under fire for encouraging in-game "criminal" activity. Piracy (in the ship-to-ship sense) is a fact of life, as is protection racketeering and theft. The two most spectacular examples were even reported in wider media:
The first was a corporate heist perpetrated by the in-game assassin's guild Guiding Hand Social Club. The GHSC infiltrated a target corporation over the course of nearly a year before performing a virtual assassination on the target's CEO and stealing or destroying billions of credits' worth of property.
The second was the Eve Intergalactic Bank scam, in which one player encouraged others to invest in-game currency in a banking scheme before disappearing with, allegedly, 700 billion Interstellar Kredits. However, the picture the player posted to prove his claim was proved to be photoshopped. Estimates as to the real amount vary in between 50 to 100 billion.
Seriously, protection racketeering? The GSH infiltrated a target corporation and assassinated the "CEO"? 700 billion "kredits" were stolen?
With all due respect, who gives a fuck about all this and why is it on the/. front page?
Yep, people don't understand that there is no expectation whatsoever of privacy in public. But it isn't until you actually spell it out like that that it sinks in and they go oooohhh, I see what you're saying...
Translation: "I was completely wrong and I admit I'm FUDing and trolling, but I don't care because Ricky Stallman told me that redemption is nigh, so take that M$ LOLOZORZ"
twitter, please reply to this. Some nice people have the patience to counter your bullshit with actual facts, and I'd love to see your response. Along the lines of "yeah well M$ is teh sux" I suppose?
For someone who has spent the last year screaming to the wind that the Zune is a "failure", I guess this is just unacceptable.
Would you like to share with us how "M$" is lying? I don't see this as a big deal in any way. Apple has sold 100 million iPods. In your mind, what's Microsoft's rationale for lying about having sold 1/100th of that?
Why is everyone making a big deal that the CG looks crap? BFD! It's about the stories, not the CG. I couldn't care less if it's done with bits of paper on a glass sheet background so long as the stories are written and voiced reasonably well.
I disagree. Why must it be impossible to tell a good story and look good while you're at it? That CG looks like the Proud Family or something. They're terrible.
I'd take the crappy ca. 1987 GI Joe/Transformers animation over this type of CG any day. At least I'm not spending half the time chuckling at those stylized oversized heads and wispy limbs.
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Really, that's how "M$" works? It's interesting, because the guy that got fired penned this blog entry, where he says:
This is from the guy's blog, who unlike you doesn't see fit to use what any other large company in the planet would have done to further their puerile "M$ is teh evilz LOLOL" agenda.
So the next time you feel the need to use this as a standard "I hate M$ let me tell you why" bullet point, perhaps you'd like to stop and think for a second about how "big dumb companies" work. You know, in the real world. Anyone with half a brain can probably see through that misrepresentation of the facts, like most of your other "arguments".
I don't, but I wasn't referring to quantity.
Oh god, that thread just absolutely rocks. Too bad it's the sockpuppet though.
Developers who use the BSD licenses believe in true freedom, even if someone claims it comes at the expense of theirs. They don't want you to join a club or learn a secret handshake or pray to a little idol. They want you to have the code and get on with it. You can even give back if you want, but that's your choice.
Some people claim that the GPL is much more effective at creating and fostering community. I disagree. It's just that the communities that form around BSD code bases are far less radical, divisive and paranoid. We just want to write some possibly useful code and give it away to anyone that might find it so. We don't want to spend half our time trying to figure out who is "infringing" some endless, obscure legal minefield most educated people wouldn't understand after reading three times.
Only one of those "freedoms" applies to users (the first one). The others apply only to developers.
Believe me, that depends entirely on what part of the world you happen to be at. Scientific research doesn't take place only in the US.
Are you saying you have a PhD? Really? In what?
Why yes, just yesterday you were telling us how everyone is going broke because of "M$". You never did get back to dedazo on that one, did you? I wonder why not.
To the OP, all you need to do is look in twitter's posting history. Right now there's a jewel there where he explains how "Windoze is teh shit". Powerful stuff. There's lots of reference material out there. My personal favorite is this one, by far. Captures his je ne sais quoi very well.
No, it's the answer to stupidity. Well, sometimes.
The amount of oil the US imports from Venezuela, while not negligible, can be replaced by imports from other countries, like Mexico and Nigeria. Why don't you try blaming your problems on yourself instead?
and via global warming it brings you hurricane katrina
Yes, and hurricanes have gotten worse since then. Oh, wait. They haven't.
Your post reads like a preschool translation of a "viva la revolucion komandante" talking points memo from the bad days of the USSR. Grow the fuck up.
This whole line of "reasoning" is stupid, even for you. Why don't you go back to waxing poetic about the RIAA? You're much better at that.
You might claim that you are suspicious of deals between a software company and a media conglomerate and act accordingly to verify you're not getting screwed, but that has nothing to do with whether the software is "non free" or whatever.
Of course, I can also not buy my devices from Palm, right?
So the people who "shared" copyrighted material on P2P networks with a couple of million "friends" were "right" as well?
I believe from comments in another forum that the information can be seen through the normal iTunes interface, so I wouldn't call them "hidden". Of course you need to know that they're there to begin with, which I guess won't be true for a large portion of the iTunes user base.
On the other hand, the files might be watermarked in other ways, obviously more difficult to detect.
Of course it's entirely possible that Apple has actually decided to use this information in some way, which will affect mostly non-technically inclined people who are unaware of the tagging. And would be supremely stupid.
Imagine if they managed to trace back all those Bruce Wayne Campbell tracks in your collection? Oh the humanity.
OK, this changes things a bit. So the game is a scam? Surely someone would have wised up to that earlier?
Do you guys realize how ridiculous this all is? This is from the incredibly exhaustive Wikipedia entry for this game, which I had not heard of before today:
Seriously, protection racketeering? The GSH infiltrated a target corporation and assassinated the "CEO"? 700 billion "kredits" were stolen?
With all due respect, who gives a fuck about all this and why is it on the /. front page?
Yep, people don't understand that there is no expectation whatsoever of privacy in public. But it isn't until you actually spell it out like that that it sinks in and they go oooohhh, I see what you're saying...
Translation: "I was completely wrong and I admit I'm FUDing and trolling, but I don't care because Ricky Stallman told me that redemption is nigh, so take that M$ LOLOZORZ"
Looking forward to that, as always.
So I guess your daily predictions of how "M$" is doomed can also be taken at face value?
For every 100 iPods you see, you might see a single Zune if people were really walking around with them
That's the point. They've sold almost exactly 1/100th of the number of iPods Apple has sold. Is there a particular reason you repeat the obvious?
it's doubtful that 1 million people have and use a Zune. That one million Zune sales is pathetic anyway does not mean they are telling the truth.
This faux outrage of yours is really funny.
Would you like to share with us how "M$" is lying? I don't see this as a big deal in any way. Apple has sold 100 million iPods. In your mind, what's Microsoft's rationale for lying about having sold 1/100th of that?
Kinda like Apple with the iPhone?
I disagree. Why must it be impossible to tell a good story and look good while you're at it? That CG looks like the Proud Family or something. They're terrible.
I'd take the crappy ca. 1987 GI Joe/Transformers animation over this type of CG any day. At least I'm not spending half the time chuckling at those stylized oversized heads and wispy limbs.