I have a Sprint cell phone and If I want to use it, I must subscribe to Sprint cellular service, that does not imply Sprint has a monopoly on cell phones and cell service.
Apple does not have anything close to a monopoly with online music sales. Popularity is not directly related to monopoly. You are free to use any online music store you want and nothing currently prevents that. If Apple had exclusive rights with the RIAA and was the only provider of online music I might agree with you.
So, what should show up when you search for Windows? How about Ford or Apple, Stanley, Nissan, Fuji, Campbells, and the many many more then are trademarked but also have multiple meanings. The fact that a trademark is "famous" by your interpetation should have NO bearing on the law. I view this as a company taking what they think you are searching for and giving you alternatives. What if you walked into Staples and an employee asked what you were searching for. You reply with a Compaq computer. The man says take a look at this Sony machine we have on sale this week. Did he just violate the Compaq trademark? Why is this same concept put into the computer world any different?
Sorry to reply to my own. My plan was to offer a link to opposing views of why or why not MS should be considered a monopoly but I forgot the other view that shows why they should be considered a monoply.
With samba they gotta make sure that any new windows version can talk to samba.
I do not recall this ever being a problem before and I've used Samba since Win 3.11. Some of the PDC/BDC functions and AD stuff can be a little tricky but that is well above and beyond the realm of "file sharing" that native NFS would provide anyway.
I hope you do not really think that signing the back will help much. For one, many places take CC's without a live person seeing the card like the self check-out's and gas stations. Every one of my CC's has a signature of "See ID". One out of ten times, someone will ask for my ID.
There is CC protection with the SpeedPass, same as with the CC itself. Using the SpeedPass is no different then authorizing a business to charge a specific CC every month for a continued service.
Don't let your lack of information get in the way of making an informed decision.
From the SpeedPass web site:
Steps to take when you discover an unauthorized Speedpass purchase on your credit or check card linked to your Speedpass:
1. Contact your financial institution immediately to report any disputed purchase made with your Speedpass, and to request a credit. Be sure to follow your financial institution's instructions for disputing charges. This Agreement does not change the procedures or rights you have with your financial institution.
2. If you are unable to resolve the situation satisfactorily, contact Speedpass Customer Service (toll free 1-87-SPEEDPASS, 1-877-733-3727). We will process a credit to your financial account if the disputed purchase made with your Speedpass is unauthorized.
This does not condone vendor lock-in at all. If they were handing out free gas caps that only their nozzles would fit in then yes. You are still free to use that first cheap gas station if you desire and still use your existing CC. It does add a slight tickler in your mind to use an Exxon/Mobile but that is far from a lock-in. I just got my SpeedPass last month and have only used it once so far. The station I used it at was one I frequently use anyway. The SpeedPass is nice to have but I choose not to go out of my way to use it.
Great song from a very great album but, a little bit to the side of mainstream for some. These new whipplesnappers don't make music the the old dogs used too.
I was a reactor operator in the navy. I was taking a nub on his first tour of the engineering spaces. During the tour, we were standing directly above the reactor vessel looking into the reactor compartment through a leaded glass inspection window. He said, this is really odd, I remember my parents protesting against nuclear power and here I am standing here less then 20 feet away from one.
The less people know about nuclear power the more afraid they are of it. I've done refuelings, defuelings, ion exchanger replacements, nuclear instrument detector replacements within the primary shield tanks, and a lot of nuclear decons and cleanups and have never had a fear or recieved much exposure. I don't recall the exact amount but it was under 3 rem total lifetime. The navy was not really worried about money though, the civilian world may be different.
If they did that, they could not lock you in and would miss the next potential money maker. Right now, it is WAY to early in the game to make a long term decision.
Maybe you should research a bit before you buy. My RCA Lyra uses an SD card and it and the internal memory show up as a removable storage in Linux and Windows, I drag and drop. No software required.
The fact that there is no consistent DRM schema among different WMA-based music stores means you'll have a mish-mash of songs, some of which you can use on various devices, and some that you cannot.
View from outside the box, Apple is PART of that mish-mash, it is no more standard then any of the other ones. What makes their one choice of DRM right and everyone elses wrong?
How do you play them in your car? What if you go to a freinds house and you want to play your songs? What if you are in a friends car? What about your families house for xmas? What if you are in the office? A rent a car? How about a boom box on the beach? Your home stereo? Yes, you can hook up the iPod to most of these in some fashion but the common connection is YOUR iPod. You can burn them onto cd but your back to lugging around cd's which is probably what you bought the iPod to prevent.
If you were truely looking for compatibility, you would have stuck to plain old ripping software and a non DRM mp3 player which are extremely cheap and very common. My DVD player plays them, every one of my computers, my car stereo and even my portable cd player. I have nothing against the iPod but your excuse of having to juggle restrictions is lame as anyone can get music from one WMA source and play them on a sub $100 WMA enabled audio player (mp3 player also) just as you can get your AAC files from Apple and play them on the iPod.
I actually do not subscribe to any online music because I refuse to be locked in to something like I described above. The route the RIAA and online music stores are taking are not an acceptable solution, every single one of them plays on very limited hardware all are lock-ins. I'll stick buying (or not buying at all) and ripping to mp3.
I've had good luck with the business side of Compaq. We have hundreds of Compaq laptops and desktops. When they break, we get a decent turn around on replacement parts and a decent turn around time when we actually have to send the whole unit in. Maybe they stock the business side a little better then the consumer side?
I've found the paid advertisers section of Google (right side) to be a good resource for car parts. I got numerous parts including headlights for 2 of my cars from sites listed over there. I don't remember the companies I've ordered from but an example for a Cirrus is roughly $103 depending on the year. From the prices I've seen locally and at the dealers, the $210 you paid still looks like a good deal and a great deal if it was installed for that price.
Have a driver issue on Win98 or a problem with IE crashing. Call your vendor for support (OEM preinstall support comes from your vendor, not MS, check your EULA's). I'd bet they will help you but you will have to reload your computer from the restore disc because of all the extra software you've installed might be conflicting. If they can't help, call MS directly. Regardless of who you call, have that credit card handy because it is going to cost, no freebies here. Is this the support you speak of?
If that is what you got out of it so be it. I would not subscribe and pay money for any content that the restrictions set forth can change or be forced upgraded at any time, and forced to buy an "approved" compliant player or use a specific OS which will be obsolete and require a forced upgrade every few years. It was one thing to have have to buy 8 tracks, cassettes, vinyl, cd's etc.. but the rate of change and lock-in potential for WM9 and DRM seems to much of a gamble right now. I'll stick to my cheap non DRM mp3 player and my current ripping software.
Someone, quick, find out how this makes Microsoft... bad and Red Hat... good....?!
Someone quick, find out who has a copy of the Win98 source code so we fix it ourselves or contract with with someone that does. Oh wait.. One vendor and no source. Damn, locked in again.
The end result is the same but I don't think this had anything to do with the users input, if so, I think these additions would have been done many moons ago. MS is trying to manage the delicate balancing act of lock-in a customer or potentially lose a customer. The much smaller competition listens to users and gives the users what they want because they have to gain market share to survive. MS does the same changes but only after the competition starts gaining ground and the scale tips towards lose a customer. You can call the adopted changes a welcomed addition, others call it a very late addition, MS calls it innovation.
How about the EULA? I really did not want to post it here but I could not find a link to it. Portions of the license agreements for the SDK's are listed here.
The bold is mine. WM9 is more then a media player. It is an unreversable OS patch. Consider yourself OWNED. I'll stick with plain old MP3 for my encoding.
SUPPLEMENTAL END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
IMPORTANT: READ CAREFULLY - This Supplemental End User License Agreement ("Supplemental EULA") is a legal agreement between you (either an individual or a single entity) and Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft") for the Microsoft software that accompanies this Supplemental EULA, which includes computer software and may include associated media, printed materials, "online" or electronic documentation, and Internet-based services (the "OS Components"). The OS Components are provided to update, supplement, or replace existing functionality of the applicable Microsoft software for which the OS Components are designed (any such software referred to here as "OS Software"). An amendment or addendum to this Supplemental EULA may accompany the OS Components. YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THE APPLICABLE OS SOFTWARE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT ("OS SOFTWARE EULA") AND THIS SUPPLEMENTAL EULA BY INSTALLING, COPYING, OR OTHERWISE USING THE OS COMPONENTS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT INSTALL, COPY, OR USE THE OS COMPONENTS.
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VALIDLY-LICENSED COPY OF THE APPLICABLE OS SOFTWARE, YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO INSTALL, COPY OR OTHERWISE USE THE OS COMPONENTS AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS UNDER THIS SUPPLEMENTAL EULA.
General.
* Microsoft grants you a license to use the OS Components under the terms and conditions of the OS Software EULA (which are hereby incorporated by reference except as set forth below), the terms and conditions set forth in this Supplemental EULA, and the terms and conditions of any additional end user license agreement that may accompany the individual OS Components (each an "Individual EULA"), provided that you comply with all such terms and conditions. To the extent that there is a conflict among any of these terms and conditions applicable to the OS Components, the following hierarchy shall apply: 1) the terms and conditions of the Individual EULA; 2) the terms and conditions in this Supplemental EULA; and 3) the terms and conditions of the applicable OS Software EULA.
* The OS Components are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties. Microsoft or its suppliers own the title, copyright, and other intellectual property rights in the OS Components. Microsoft reserves all rights not expressly granted to you in this Supplemental EULA. The OS Components are licensed, not sold.
* Capitalized terms used in this Supplemental EULA and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the applicable OS Software EULA.
Additional Rights and Limitations.
* You may reproduce, install and use one copy of the OS Components on each of your computers that is running a validly licensed copy of the applicable OS Software, provided that you use each such additional copy of the OS Components in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Supplemental EULA.
* Solely for the purpose of preventing unlicensed use of the applicable OS Software, the OS Components may install on your computer technological measures that are designed to prevent unlicensed use, and Microsoft may use this technology to confirm that you have a licensed copy of the OS Software. The update of these technological measures only occurs through the installation of these OS Components. The OS Components will not install on unlicensed copies of the OS Software. If you are not using a licensed copy of the OS Software, you are not allowed to install the OS Components or future OS Software updates. Microsoft will
Nat is a horrible and evil thing. Ever tried to run 4 ftp servers behind nat?
NAT should not be used for running 4 ftp servers on one IP address. If your trying, you are the problem, not NAT. NAT works great when it is used in an environment it is designed for. Your problem is YOU do not have enough IP's for what you need to do, NAT is not an answer for that. You would run into the same exact problem with V6 if you did not have enough IP's.
and I don't feel Linux should get all the current press simply because Linux got all the past press.
The/.article does not mention or try to compare Linux or ANY OS at all, it is not an even an attempt to imply any specific OS. It is about Apache. FreeBSD's showing is impressive and always has been in the past Netcraft results, but you're blaming the article for leaving out something that the article is not about. Maybe they should break it down even further and describe the hardware and brand of network cables they are using too;)
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I have a Sprint cell phone and If I want to use it, I must subscribe to Sprint cellular service, that does not imply Sprint has a monopoly on cell phones and cell service.
Apple does not have anything close to a monopoly with online music sales. Popularity is not directly related to monopoly. You are free to use any online music store you want and nothing currently prevents that. If Apple had exclusive rights with the RIAA and was the only provider of online music I might agree with you.
So, what should show up when you search for Windows? How about Ford or Apple, Stanley, Nissan, Fuji, Campbells, and the many many more then are trademarked but also have multiple meanings. The fact that a trademark is "famous" by your interpetation should have NO bearing on the law. I view this as a company taking what they think you are searching for and giving you alternatives. What if you walked into Staples and an employee asked what you were searching for. You reply with a Compaq computer. The man says take a look at this Sony machine we have on sale this week. Did he just violate the Compaq trademark? Why is this same concept put into the computer world any different?
Sorry to reply to my own. My plan was to offer a link to opposing views of why or why not MS should be considered a monopoly but I forgot the other view that shows why they should be considered a monoply.
why shouldn't someone be able to force me to write a program in such away as to force me to generate charts
The rules are different when a court determines your business is a monopoly. This change would not have happened if that was not the case.
You are correct, I missed that detail from the original post.
With samba they gotta make sure that any new windows version can talk to samba.
I do not recall this ever being a problem before and I've used Samba since Win 3.11. Some of the PDC/BDC functions and AD stuff can be a little tricky but that is well above and beyond the realm of "file sharing" that native NFS would provide anyway.
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I hope you do not really think that signing the back will help much. For one, many places take CC's without a live person seeing the card like the self check-out's and gas stations. Every one of my CC's has a signature of "See ID". One out of ten times, someone will ask for my ID.
There is CC protection with the SpeedPass, same as with the CC itself. Using the SpeedPass is no different then authorizing a business to charge a specific CC every month for a continued service.
Don't let your lack of information get in the way of making an informed decision.
From the SpeedPass web site:
Steps to take when you discover an unauthorized Speedpass purchase on your credit or check card linked to your Speedpass:
1. Contact your financial institution immediately to report any disputed purchase made with your Speedpass, and to request a credit. Be sure to follow your financial institution's instructions for disputing charges. This Agreement does not change the procedures or rights you have with your financial institution.
2. If you are unable to resolve the situation satisfactorily, contact Speedpass Customer Service (toll free 1-87-SPEEDPASS, 1-877-733-3727). We will process a credit to your financial account if the disputed purchase made with your Speedpass is unauthorized.
This does not condone vendor lock-in at all. If they were handing out free gas caps that only their nozzles would fit in then yes. You are still free to use that first cheap gas station if you desire and still use your existing CC. It does add a slight tickler in your mind to use an Exxon/Mobile but that is far from a lock-in. I just got my SpeedPass last month and have only used it once so far. The station I used it at was one I frequently use anyway. The SpeedPass is nice to have but I choose not to go out of my way to use it.
So Sigmund, do you have any psychoanalysis or psychoanalytical theories that will cut down on my spam?
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Great song from a very great album but, a little bit to the side of mainstream for some. These new whipplesnappers don't make music the the old dogs used too.
I was a reactor operator in the navy. I was taking a nub on his first tour of the engineering spaces. During the tour, we were standing directly above the reactor vessel looking into the reactor compartment through a leaded glass inspection window. He said, this is really odd, I remember my parents protesting against nuclear power and here I am standing here less then 20 feet away from one.
The less people know about nuclear power the more afraid they are of it. I've done refuelings, defuelings, ion exchanger replacements, nuclear instrument detector replacements within the primary shield tanks, and a lot of nuclear decons and cleanups and have never had a fear or recieved much exposure. I don't recall the exact amount but it was under 3 rem total lifetime. The navy was not really worried about money though, the civilian world may be different.
If they did that, they could not lock you in and would miss the next potential money maker. Right now, it is WAY to early in the game to make a long term decision.
Maybe you should research a bit before you buy. My RCA Lyra uses an SD card and it and the internal memory show up as a removable storage in Linux and Windows, I drag and drop. No software required.
The fact that there is no consistent DRM schema among different WMA-based music stores means you'll have a mish-mash of songs, some of which you can use on various devices, and some that you cannot.
View from outside the box, Apple is PART of that mish-mash, it is no more standard then any of the other ones. What makes their one choice of DRM right and everyone elses wrong?
How do you play them in your car? What if you go to a freinds house and you want to play your songs? What if you are in a friends car? What about your families house for xmas? What if you are in the office? A rent a car? How about a boom box on the beach? Your home stereo? Yes, you can hook up the iPod to most of these in some fashion but the common connection is YOUR iPod. You can burn them onto cd but your back to lugging around cd's which is probably what you bought the iPod to prevent.
If you were truely looking for compatibility, you would have stuck to plain old ripping software and a non DRM mp3 player which are extremely cheap and very common. My DVD player plays them, every one of my computers, my car stereo and even my portable cd player. I have nothing against the iPod but your excuse of having to juggle restrictions is lame as anyone can get music from one WMA source and play them on a sub $100 WMA enabled audio player (mp3 player also) just as you can get your AAC files from Apple and play them on the iPod.
I actually do not subscribe to any online music because I refuse to be locked in to something like I described above. The route the RIAA and online music stores are taking are not an acceptable solution, every single one of them plays on very limited hardware all are lock-ins. I'll stick buying (or not buying at all) and ripping to mp3.
I've had good luck with the business side of Compaq. We have hundreds of Compaq laptops and desktops. When they break, we get a decent turn around on replacement parts and a decent turn around time when we actually have to send the whole unit in. Maybe they stock the business side a little better then the consumer side?
I've found the paid advertisers section of Google (right side) to be a good resource for car parts. I got numerous parts including headlights for 2 of my cars from sites listed over there. I don't remember the companies I've ordered from but an example for a Cirrus is roughly $103 depending on the year. From the prices I've seen locally and at the dealers, the $210 you paid still looks like a good deal and a great deal if it was installed for that price.
Have a driver issue on Win98 or a problem with IE crashing. Call your vendor for support (OEM preinstall support comes from your vendor, not MS, check your EULA's). I'd bet they will help you but you will have to reload your computer from the restore disc because of all the extra software you've installed might be conflicting. If they can't help, call MS directly. Regardless of who you call, have that credit card handy because it is going to cost, no freebies here. Is this the support you speak of?
If that is what you got out of it so be it. I would not subscribe and pay money for any content that the restrictions set forth can change or be forced upgraded at any time, and forced to buy an "approved" compliant player or use a specific OS which will be obsolete and require a forced upgrade every few years. It was one thing to have have to buy 8 tracks, cassettes, vinyl, cd's etc.. but the rate of change and lock-in potential for WM9 and DRM seems to much of a gamble right now. I'll stick to my cheap non DRM mp3 player and my current ripping software.
Someone, quick, find out how this makes Microsoft... bad and Red Hat... good....?!
Someone quick, find out who has a copy of the Win98 source code so we fix it ourselves or contract with with someone that does. Oh wait.. One vendor and no source. Damn, locked in again.
The end result is the same but I don't think this had anything to do with the users input, if so, I think these additions would have been done many moons ago. MS is trying to manage the delicate balancing act of lock-in a customer or potentially lose a customer. The much smaller competition listens to users and gives the users what they want because they have to gain market share to survive. MS does the same changes but only after the competition starts gaining ground and the scale tips towards lose a customer.
You can call the adopted changes a welcomed addition, others call it a very late addition, MS calls it innovation.
How about the EULA? I really did not want to post it here but I could not find a link to it. Portions of the license agreements for the SDK's are listed here .
The bold is mine. WM9 is more then a media player. It is an unreversable OS patch. Consider yourself OWNED. I'll stick with plain old MP3 for my encoding.
SUPPLEMENTAL END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
IMPORTANT: READ CAREFULLY - This Supplemental End User License Agreement ("Supplemental EULA") is a legal agreement between you (either an individual or a single entity) and Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft") for the Microsoft software that accompanies this Supplemental EULA, which includes computer software and may include associated media, printed materials, "online" or electronic documentation, and Internet-based services (the "OS Components"). The OS Components are provided to update, supplement, or replace existing functionality of the applicable Microsoft software for which the OS Components are designed (any such software referred to here as "OS Software"). An amendment or addendum to this Supplemental EULA may accompany the OS Components. YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THE APPLICABLE OS SOFTWARE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT ("OS SOFTWARE EULA") AND THIS SUPPLEMENTAL EULA BY INSTALLING, COPYING, OR OTHERWISE USING THE OS COMPONENTS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT INSTALL, COPY, OR USE THE OS COMPONENTS.
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VALIDLY-LICENSED COPY OF THE APPLICABLE OS SOFTWARE, YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO INSTALL, COPY OR OTHERWISE USE THE OS COMPONENTS AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS UNDER THIS SUPPLEMENTAL EULA.
General.
* Microsoft grants you a license to use the OS Components under the terms and conditions of the OS Software EULA (which are hereby incorporated by reference except as set forth below), the terms and conditions set forth in this Supplemental EULA, and the terms and conditions of any additional end user license agreement that may accompany the individual OS Components (each an "Individual EULA"), provided that you comply with all such terms and conditions. To the extent that there is a conflict among any of these terms and conditions applicable to the OS Components, the following hierarchy shall apply: 1) the terms and conditions of the Individual EULA; 2) the terms and conditions in this Supplemental EULA; and 3) the terms and conditions of the applicable OS Software EULA.
* The OS Components are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties. Microsoft or its suppliers own the title, copyright, and other intellectual property rights in the OS Components. Microsoft reserves all rights not expressly granted to you in this Supplemental EULA. The OS Components are licensed, not sold.
* Capitalized terms used in this Supplemental EULA and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the applicable OS Software EULA.
Additional Rights and Limitations.
* You may reproduce, install and use one copy of the OS Components on each of your computers that is running a validly licensed copy of the applicable OS Software, provided that you use each such additional copy of the OS Components in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Supplemental EULA.
* Solely for the purpose of preventing unlicensed use of the applicable OS Software, the OS Components may install on your computer technological measures that are designed to prevent unlicensed use, and Microsoft may use this technology to confirm that you have a licensed copy of the OS Software. The update of these technological measures only occurs through the installation of these OS Components. The OS Components will not install on unlicensed copies of the OS Software. If you are not using a licensed copy of the OS Software, you are not allowed to install the OS Components or future OS Software updates. Microsoft will
Nat is a horrible and evil thing. Ever tried to run 4 ftp servers behind nat?
NAT should not be used for running 4 ftp servers on one IP address. If your trying, you are the problem, not NAT. NAT works great when it is used in an environment it is designed for. Your problem is YOU do not have enough IP's for what you need to do, NAT is not an answer for that. You would run into the same exact problem with V6 if you did not have enough IP's.
and I don't feel Linux should get all the current press simply because Linux got all the past press.
/.article does not mention or try to compare Linux or ANY OS at all, it is not an even an attempt to imply any specific OS. It is about Apache. ;)
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FreeBSD's showing is impressive and always has been in the past Netcraft results, but you're blaming the article for leaving out something that the article is not about.
Maybe they should break it down even further and describe the hardware and brand of network cables they are using too