... I forget the name... there were two of them. 1 tall one, 1 really small. They held up their pinky to their mouth and said '100 billion dollars' a lot...
"I am betting 1% of the readers come back and think the new protocol is a good thing before realizing its a hoax;)"
Course the thing is, they could come back here, post a reply thinking this was for real, then we'd all laugh at them, and they could just as easily turn around and say "Ha ha, had you going!" to get out of looking like a fool.
Let's see: if firewalls wouldn't be legal (as per an article on that site), and Microsoft tells you to use a firewall, then they're telling you to do something illegal. Can't you sue for that? (assuming this bone-head idea even gets passed)
You weren't "mislead"; it's true that the shuttles don't have 'black boxes'.
However Columbia did have extra monitoring recorders (to supplement the ground feed) because it was the first shuttle built and flown in space. They later removed some of that equipment, but did leave some of it, including this piece (fortunetly)
I don't believe it would help the perception of Open source; 'Microsoft' is pretty synonymous with 'flawed' or 'insecure'. There's already been some of this associated with OpenSource in the past (unwarranted, mind you), especially with Linux, and we're just getting out of that now.
This could help MS in the long run, but not without some of these old perceptions coming back because of MS's bad software reputation.
And like I've always said: I simply don't trust Microsoft
And nobody ever said OS was the property of 'the geek populace, [or] Slashdot, or anything else associated with open source'. A lot of business have roots or embeded themselves in OS too already (IBM, MySQL AB, and many more)
One thing I realized after using it for a short time is that I wasn't "missing" the icon I wanted to click, like I do on Windows.
The fact that the icons magnify as you get closer help you to accurately click it, instead of clicking-ever-so-close-but-not-on-it like I end up doing often in Window's taskbar.
According to the analysis article, SearchKing is requesting $20 (basically a donation) for you to get access to view the filed documents of the suit on their site (same ones as hosted in the article). These are documents that are freely available to the public. By law.
Simply not buying stuff from the RIAA (I'll stick to them for this argument) will only give fuel to their argument; "Look, they're not buying our products, so they *must* be pirating it!"
What needs to be done IMO is to buy their 'Crippled Discs' and return them at the retailer. Sure this isn't fair to the retailer given that it's RIAA's fault of providing crippled products, but the RIAA would soon realize that pissing off their primary means of distribution, as well as their own consumers, is not a good business practice.
They would certainly notice the anger from their distributers more than that of what they consider 'a few disgruntled pirates' consumers.
Actually, no, that's the whole problem. The entire application just locks up until there's a timeout. Of course, if they'd update the thing more than just once every 4 years (beside their 'we screwed up again' security fixes), they might have gotten it cocoa-ized by now, and the whole thing might actually become usable.
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Maybe bandwidth costs would be an issue for them, maybe?
Course the thing is, they could come back here, post a reply thinking this was for real, then we'd all laugh at them, and they could just as easily turn around and say "Ha ha, had you going!" to get out of looking like a fool.
Took me about 2 paragraphs before I finally did conclude it *was* an april fools joke.
However Columbia did have extra monitoring recorders (to supplement the ground feed) because it was the first shuttle built and flown in space. They later removed some of that equipment, but did leave some of it, including this piece (fortunetly)
This could help MS in the long run, but not without some of these old perceptions coming back because of MS's bad software reputation.
And like I've always said: I simply don't trust Microsoft
And nobody ever said OS was the property of 'the geek populace, [or] Slashdot, or anything else associated with open source'. A lot of business have roots or embeded themselves in OS too already (IBM, MySQL AB, and many more)
so go submit it to the USPTO as such
The fact that the icons magnify as you get closer help you to accurately click it, instead of clicking-ever-so-close-but-not-on-it like I end up doing often in Window's taskbar.
That should help to offset the "I've already paid for it with this tax" against the "I need to survive off my work" arguments
'innovative' 1-click fraud^H^H^H^H^Hpurchase thingy only, no other way to purchase songs
And I believe it's only morons that read the National Post.
my bad
... but I still don't trust Microsoft.
I think the solution to spam should be an open, non-proprietary solution, which means it will likely be open-source or IEEE/W3C approved.
lol
I'd mod this up too if I could!
And with all the dupes, we might start seeing more of these too!
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"The ironing is delicious" - Bart Simpson
Helloooooo?!?!??!! McFly!!!!!
I'll just stick with a quote from Bart Simpson:
" The ironing is delicious! "
What needs to be done IMO is to buy their 'Crippled Discs' and return them at the retailer. Sure this isn't fair to the retailer given that it's RIAA's fault of providing crippled products, but the RIAA would soon realize that pissing off their primary means of distribution, as well as their own consumers, is not a good business practice.
They would certainly notice the anger from their distributers more than that of what they consider 'a few disgruntled pirates' consumers.
Actually, no, that's the whole problem. The entire application just locks up until there's a timeout. Of course, if they'd update the thing more than just once every 4 years (beside their 'we screwed up again' security fixes), they might have gotten it cocoa-ized by now, and the whole thing might actually become usable.