The Northwest case is irrelevant. If you break a law and have a supoena served against you, your computer will get searched whether you or your employer bought it. Period.
"Big Brother Inside?", "Trojan Horse"... ah, the natterings of a disturbed mind somehow so caught up in its anti-corporate hate that it can't see what a wonderful gift this is to the employees.
Prehaps some therapy can help you work through whatever issues you are having that are making you so angry and irrational.
Instead of just throwing this out here for a bunch of people who really don't have a clue about what they are talking about to argue about? All I can see is this article generating more heat than light.
What, so now if I'm a private company do I have to get permission from the FTC every time I want to sell or give away a piece of information I've collected?
Their (collective) hearts are in the right place on this one maybe, but the ever increasing government control over private enterprise bothers the hell out of me.
Well if you don't need one, I suggest not buying one... you know, that's how the market works. Plus, you will keep demand down that way, which should help bring the price down.
Oh really? Go to a public college? They are paid for by taxpayers... Got any federally guaranteed student loans? Low rates on those are subsudized by taxpayers. Most private colleges take some government money too....
Boy, there is nothing better than people who are getting a subsidized education complaining about what they can't do with their subsudized internet access...
So are you saying that copyright holders don't have the right to say what is done with their property?
If iCrave is allowed to operate, and I am say, a local FOX affiliate, what is to stop me from "borrowing" NBC's feed, and showing "ER" instead of "Who wants to Marry My Dog" or whatever?
The software doesn't control your account, it merely downloads statements from your financial institution and reconciles these statements against the transactions you have entered into your computer...
But your just here to bash Microsoft rather than have a real conversation, so back away from the keyboard and get back to class kid-o.
>>>Complete trash. The only hope is that Gibson *had* written an excellent story and it was torn apart by the show's writers. Shades of 'Johnny Mnemonic'.
Um, didn't Gibson write the screenplay to Johnny Mnemonic?
I think the guy just can't write for the screen (small or otherwise)... he should stick to books.
...interface with my bank and brokerages systems and automatically update my accounts and balances. This is one of the nicest features of Microsoft Money.
Anyone know if this sort of functionality is even planned?
So what? These people knew what kind of contract they were under when they started working, now they want a bigger piece of the pie. I have zero sympathy.
Wow, its amazing someone can be sooooo wrong on so many levels...
<I>Tell ex-President Carter. Castigated and shredded for the crime of being an honest politician and an acknowledged falliable human being. Truth didn't mean a whole lot to Americans, on voting day.</i>
Hmm.. that couldn't have had anything to do with the hostage situation or the horrible economy, could it? Everyone I knew was saying "Let vote out ol' lust in his heart!"
<I>Then, there's the mysterious case of a well-known TV chat-show host, who dared to suggest the American meat industry might have a non-zero level of BSE. A $60 million dollar lawsuit followed, for "damaging" the reputation of the industry.</I>
Which the industry lost. I suppose people like you would prefer to take away the people's right to sue.
<I>Technological heretics - anyone hear from Sir Clive Sinclair, lately? Or the guy who invented the clockwork radio? The Osborne was the first laptop - they don't seem to have an up-to-date product list, though. Seems to me that there's a fairly long list of latter-day heretics being burned at the financial stake</I>
Clive and Osborne failed to keep up with the times. Granted both did good work in the beginning, but that doesn't entitle them to continued and indefinite success does it? (I guess you think it does)
Anyway, you are so off your rocker, I'm bored with shooting down your silly arguments....
Thanks for the defence, I think. No, I know perfectly well that Linux runs on the same computers as windows does (and a bunch of others), I even have a nice Linux/Windows box sitting at home right now.
My point was just that it is a little disingenuous to complain about the file format. CmdrTaco is prefectly capable of watching the clip if he wants to badly enough (what, worst case he's out some cash for the windows license... I think he can afford it).
I mean, wouldn't you feel the same way if someone went "What iz zis? It iz not eeen French?"
<i>And CD-RW?. Well, you know, the disks can't be played in a normal CD player. Not enough contrast in the media. Funny how that little technical problem couldn't be solved, eh?. Ah, yes, this is the world the studio execs want!. </i>
If they guy who wrote this is too ignorent to know why this is not possible, why should I belive the rest of the tripe in this article? Maybe they'll pull this one like the Windows / Linux DDoS article.
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Wow, what a stupid knee jerk reaction.
The Northwest case is irrelevant. If you break a law and have a supoena served against you, your computer will get searched whether you or your employer bought it. Period.
"Big Brother Inside?", "Trojan Horse"... ah, the natterings of a disturbed mind somehow so caught up in its anti-corporate hate that it can't see what a wonderful gift this is to the employees.
Prehaps some therapy can help you work through whatever issues you are having that are making you so angry and irrational.
Windows is horribly unitutive and relies on so many just plain stupid techniques.
You mean like dragging a floppy disk to the trashcan to eject it?
1) Well, I mean they've only been developing this thing for what, 2 years now? What do you expect :)
2) At least the bugs will be worked out presumedly before it launches here in the States.
Instead of just throwing this out here for a bunch of people who really don't have a clue about what they are talking about to argue about? All I can see is this article generating more heat than light.
I mean, I think you all could afford it.
What, so now if I'm a private company do I have to get permission from the FTC every time I want to sell or give away a piece of information I've collected?
Their (collective) hearts are in the right place on this one maybe, but the ever increasing government control over private enterprise bothers the hell out of me.
Well if you don't need one, I suggest not buying one... you know, that's how the market works. Plus, you will keep demand down that way, which should help bring the price down.
taxpayers like me asshole, that's where... all this so I can fucking subsudize your fucking mp3 habit.
go fuck yourself.
Oh really? Go to a public college? They are paid for by taxpayers... Got any federally guaranteed student loans? Low rates on those are subsudized by taxpayers. Most private colleges take some government money too....
this is not only irresponsible, but sensationalistic on the part of cmdrtaco.
Hey have you seen the prices of VALinux and Andover stock lately? They've got to get the add impressions up...
Boy, there is nothing better than people who are getting a subsidized education complaining about what they can't do with their subsudized internet access...
Who are you to judge what is art and what isn't?
So are you saying that copyright holders don't have the right to say what is done with their property?
If iCrave is allowed to operate, and I am say, a local FOX affiliate, what is to stop me from "borrowing" NBC's feed, and showing "ER" instead of "Who wants to Marry My Dog" or whatever?
AOL is the third largest internet provider in Europe, idiot.
The software doesn't control your account, it merely downloads statements from your financial institution and reconciles these statements against the transactions you have entered into your computer...
But your just here to bash Microsoft rather than have a real conversation, so back away from the keyboard and get back to class kid-o.
>>>Complete trash. The only hope is that Gibson *had* written an excellent story and it was torn apart by the show's writers. Shades of 'Johnny Mnemonic'.
Um, didn't Gibson write the screenplay to Johnny Mnemonic?
I think the guy just can't write for the screen (small or otherwise)... he should stick to books.
...interface with my bank and brokerages systems and automatically update my accounts and balances. This is one of the nicest features of Microsoft Money.
Anyone know if this sort of functionality is even planned?
I am a Linux zealot because I've been required to pay $150 for Win95 (these are European prices), $300 for Office 97 and $150 for for Win98,
No one forced you to buy anything, there are computers out there without windows and there are certainly other office suites.
<I>my accountant uses Office and needs an Excel spreadsheet of my accounts, </I>
I'm sorry to hear there is only one accountant in your country... what? There is more than one? Maybe you could change accountants then?
Unless someone put a gun to your head, I don't see how you were forced to do anything... whine, whine, whine...
So what? These people knew what kind of contract they were under when they started working, now they want a bigger piece of the pie. I have zero sympathy.
Do you think they might actually start making, gasp, products with the muppets on them? No say it isn't so.... I always thought JHP was a charity...
</sarcasm>
Now using XML we can automate the semi-weekly Gnome vs KDE flamefest....
<?xml version = "1.0">
<!DOCTYPE = GnomeversusKDE [
<!ELEMENT Flame (KDESucks | GNOMESucks)>
<!ENTITY KDESucks "KDE Sucks!, GNOME Rules">
<!ENTITY GNOMESucks "GNOME Sucks!, KDE Rules">
]>
Wow, its amazing someone can be sooooo wrong on so many levels...
<I>Tell ex-President Carter. Castigated and shredded for the crime of being an honest politician and an acknowledged falliable human being. Truth didn't mean a whole lot to Americans, on voting day.</i>
Hmm.. that couldn't have had anything to do with the hostage situation or the horrible economy, could it? Everyone I knew was saying "Let vote out ol' lust in his heart!"
<I>Then, there's the mysterious case of a well-known TV chat-show host, who dared to suggest the American meat industry might have a non-zero level of BSE. A $60 million dollar lawsuit followed, for "damaging" the reputation of the industry.</I>
Which the industry lost. I suppose people like you would prefer to take away the people's right to sue.
<I>Technological heretics - anyone hear from Sir Clive Sinclair, lately? Or the guy who invented the clockwork radio? The Osborne was the first laptop - they don't seem to have an up-to-date product list, though. Seems to me that there's a fairly long list of latter-day heretics being burned at the financial stake</I>
Clive and Osborne failed to keep up with the times. Granted both did good work in the beginning, but that doesn't entitle them to continued and indefinite success does it? (I guess you think it does)
Anyway, you are so off your rocker, I'm bored with shooting down your silly arguments....
It is the author's belief that the time is ripe to start working on a universal source package system.
I can see why it took a PhD to write this article.
Thanks for the defence, I think. No, I know perfectly well that Linux runs on the same computers as windows does (and a bunch of others), I even have a nice Linux/Windows box sitting at home right now.
My point was just that it is a little disingenuous to complain about the file format. CmdrTaco is prefectly capable of watching the clip if he wants to badly enough (what, worst case he's out some cash for the windows license... I think he can afford it).
I mean, wouldn't you feel the same way if someone went "What iz zis? It iz not eeen French?"
For some reason, it's only availible in Media Player format - which means I'll never hear/see it again, of course.
Why not? If you have an x86 compatable chip you are prefectly capable of watching it. You just are choosing not to for whatever reason. Your loss.
From the article..
<i>And CD-RW?. Well, you know, the disks can't be played in a normal CD player. Not enough contrast in the media. Funny how that little technical problem couldn't be solved, eh?. Ah, yes, this is the world the studio execs want!. </i>
If they guy who wrote this is too ignorent to know why this is not possible, why should I belive the rest of the tripe in this article? Maybe they'll pull this one like the Windows / Linux DDoS article.