I hate ot say this, but look at it form Xerox's perspective. They've invented so many cool technologies (Two obvious ones are the mouse and GUI), and they never made much money one them. Now they have something that's worth money, and considering what's happened to them in the past I don't think you can blame them for trying to make some money.
This looks great, but there is deffinetly a bad side to it. Imagine the advertisements if they made video capable e-paper. It would be flashing and glitzing all over the place.
Don't be so quick to judge -- in such a short article I wouldn't expect them to go into an indepth discussion, so we really can't know what they did and didn't take into consideration.
I would consider it a bit of a shame if we simply replaced paper or books with e-Whatevers. Books/paper have been around for centuries and are as useful as ever, if we threw them out we would be throwing a little bit of our heritage.
Just register. The New York Time provides us with extremly high quality reporting, and all they ask is to take a couple seconds to register. That's not that much for free access to one of, if not the, finest newspapers in the country.
This is obviously only intended for things like games and software pirating. If you don't do that you're safe. Now calm down. And no, it's not a breach of piracy if you agree to it in the liscence agreement (and, of course, you read it, right? when you clicked "I Agree")
I'm pretty sure this will get modded down as Flaimbait or whatever, but I don't care.
It's stupid that people think they can break copyright laws and be set free by the open source fairy. That's not how it works. The law is there and it is there for you to respect. Copyright laws protect people who need to make a living. You have no right to steal their property or circumvent protection of intellectual property so you can get free stuff. No matter what you package it under, 99% of all so-called "free speech" trials against prominent open sources are about people who want free stuff.
Here's an idea: If you want information/whatever to be free go make something and give it away for free. You can put a Public liscence on whatever you make, and give it away however your heart desires. You cannot give away things that are not your own intellectual property. You are damaging people who need to make a living and those of us who pay for the software.
So in conclusion, if you want information to be free, go make some and make it free. Don't steal others'.
Good, the more the better
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If Hotmail and passport sites are constantly hacked/cracked, people will have less and less trust in Microsoft.
And besides, I don't have anything but spam in my mailbox:).
A intervention that delays the release of Windows XP is the only way to get Microsoft to care. Now they can just stall until XP is on the shelves, and after that the horses are out of the barn and there's no point in closing the door.
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I hate ot say this, but look at it form Xerox's perspective. They've invented so many cool technologies (Two obvious ones are the mouse and GUI), and they never made much money one them. Now they have something that's worth money, and considering what's happened to them in the past I don't think you can blame them for trying to make some money.
This looks great, but there is deffinetly a bad side to it. Imagine the advertisements if they made video capable e-paper. It would be flashing and glitzing all over the place.
This is horrible. What's next... auction off the Constitution?
It might not be too smart as much as too arrogant...
Look out for Microsofts response: Windows XP no longer support Road Runner, or any AOL/TW products.
If they did all that Slashdot would be mighty bloated.
And besides, I don't think the Slashdot folks are in it for the money.
This article is certainly fascinating, if by fascinating you mean repulsive & disgusting...
Don't be so quick to judge -- in such a short article I wouldn't expect them to go into an indepth discussion, so we really can't know what they did and didn't take into consideration.
I would consider it a bit of a shame if we simply replaced paper or books with e-Whatevers. Books/paper have been around for centuries and are as useful as ever, if we threw them out we would be throwing a little bit of our heritage.
Thank you for saying something logical. I also hate it when people who don't read studies mock them or think they are smarter than scientists.
Just register. The New York Time provides us with extremly high quality reporting, and all they ask is to take a couple seconds to register. That's not that much for free access to one of, if not the, finest newspapers in the country.
This is obviously only intended for things like games and software pirating. If you don't do that you're safe. Now calm down. And no, it's not a breach of piracy if you agree to it in the liscence agreement (and, of course, you read it, right? when you clicked "I Agree")
You, sir, are an idiot. Your argument starts out with "Music is a drug like cocaine." Stupid.
I'm pretty sure this will get modded down as Flaimbait or whatever, but I don't care.
It's stupid that people think they can break copyright laws and be set free by the open source fairy. That's not how it works. The law is there and it is there for you to respect. Copyright laws protect people who need to make a living. You have no right to steal their property or circumvent protection of intellectual property so you can get free stuff. No matter what you package it under, 99% of all so-called "free speech" trials against prominent open sources are about people who want free stuff.
Here's an idea: If you want information/whatever to be free go make something and give it away for free. You can put a Public liscence on whatever you make, and give it away however your heart desires. You cannot give away things that are not your own intellectual property. You are damaging people who need to make a living and those of us who pay for the software.
So in conclusion, if you want information to be free, go make some and make it free. Don't steal others'.
If Hotmail and passport sites are constantly hacked/cracked, people will have less and less trust in Microsoft.
:).
And besides, I don't have anything but spam in my mailbox
Here is a better article on the New York Times.
They teamed with Nerve company in anticipation of people demanding to know why they have the nerve to milk their cash cow some more.
Yea that's all great, and a lot of them use the web for porn too!
Release of Netscape 6.1 was based on the readiness of the product and had nothing to do with the IE6 release schedule
This is a good thing; we will finally see an end to it if it makes it to the Supreme Court.
I'll bet my honor this is a joke pulled by some lame hacker. Wait for a few days and it will be pulled off probably. Lucas is not this stupid.
Well, Blizzards next on the chopping block: Their Unique Elegant Blade from Diablo IIis named "Lightsabre." D'oh!
A intervention that delays the release of Windows XP is the only way to get Microsoft to care. Now they can just stall until XP is on the shelves, and after that the horses are out of the barn and there's no point in closing the door.
Well, this reminds me of Hitler's 1936 Olympics; put on a nice show for the public to hide the autrocities of Windows XP and .NET
That's a small price to pay for free content. I gladly look at larger banner ads when I read The New York Times for free!