I'd bet they'd be willing to make a pretty reasonable offer just to keester Microsoft and maybe leverage a better volume deal on windows OEM licenses. This is a very dangerous time for Microsoft right now. With Longhorn so far off, there is a lot of space for MS' legion of rivals to wiggle free of Redmond's giant tit.
It's possible that the control you're talking about is actually an illegal trust. Similar to the way that movie studios were found in violation of the Sherman act for owning the theatres that ran their movies exclusively.
Would your FIL buy a 500 dollar club if there was one golf course a year worth playing on? Especially if he could buy a whole set of clubs and a cart for 300 that somehow enabled him to get onto more and different courses.
The price of PC gaming isn't arguable if there are good fun games. In the last year, everything has pretty much sucked. I go to EB with cash in hand LOOKING for something to play, practically begging. Nada.
I have not, historically, enjoyed console gaming. I'm more of a private gamer than a social one. The PC is where I want to be, but when Quake 4 comes out I'm probably not going to upgrade my video card again because for the same price I can put an xb360 on the 50inch and send my wife to her mother's for the weekend.
No because it's not a big deal to anybody who doesn't read slashdot. Welcome to life in a niche. It's just like how it would be awesome to some people if some racecar driver who was sponsored by pepsi drank a coke or something. While it may mean next to nothing in the grand scheme, it's funny to us, let's just enjoy it.
I believe it was BitTorrent on the Grassy Knoll. BitTorrent also touched those boys at Michael Jackson's pad. This is like blaming Boeing for destroying the World Trade Center.
A lot of folks (to use a Bushism to cover being too lazy to research exactly who) refer to the twentieth century as one long world war that just cooled off in a few places. The injustices of Versailles led two WW2 when led to the splitting of Europe between Western and Soviet influences.
Back on topic, this is a fucking retarded move. Another in a series of steps toward the end of America's golden age. Fellow Americans, our government is failing us in every conceivable way. Very few of our problems have their roots in the evils of furriners. Isolation serves only to cut us out of the equation. It's a bad play any way you slice it, and to see the ridiculous way it's being weilded WRT Indians vs. Saudis... ugh.
Is the continued damned upgrade cycle for nothing anybody needs.
Let's reverse the metric a little bit, and talk about the value of some of these products versus the cost. What in the new version of photoshop or word is really worth paying the full price of the upgrade. I don't think that the consumer really finds most of this stuff worth it. People are pirating this software because it's the new version and it doesn't cost anything. In other words, the value of Office 2003 over Office 97 to regular customers is way below the cost.
Go ahead BSA combat piracy. I think you'll find that, at the end of the day, the same sales you're claiming to lose to piracy would have been lost at the cash register anyway.
He's never going to sign this... right? Not Bush... Right. That guy is a conservative who hates spending our tax money on pie in the sky ideas, and loves life... right? He believes we've already got the best weapons in the world, and couldn't imagine us needing more...right? Besides, at his heart, Bush is a diplomat who understands that the US can't go it alone in the world and far be it for him to swing his cock around... right? Right?
The guild actually has a legit point. Their job is protecting the job and credit of directors. If they didn't do this, the credit would rapidly become meaningless as movie stars, money-men and managers all demanded 'directing credit' for coming aboard on a particular film.
If you ask me, the rule was misapplied RE Rodriquez and Miller, but I think that the guild's point is that a rule is a rule, and if they gave on Sin City they'd wind up on a slippery slope. Before damning the guild, I'd like to know what the adjudication proceedure is. Does the guild put someone onset to see how much weight Miller is pulling? I don't know. The writer's guild has a whole process for determining who gets what credit, and for how much work, but I don't know what the DGA does.
The government is involved for the same reason my gardner trims the hedges; that's what they're paid for.
Because religious nuts started modding movies, the DGA and MPAA said you can't do it and they both ran crying to their pet lawmakers.
What I want to know is whether or not this can all be undone by a shrinkwrap license. If I were to make and distribute a movie do I have the right to explicitly forbid it from being viewed in any way other than the way I intend if that is so stated on the outside of the packaging.
Yes, I have Longhorn installed on my 5tb/sqare inch pixie dust drive, and it's damned tightly integrated with my bitboys video card. I use CherryOS on it to emulate the mac at faster than native speed!
The magic of this system is that it also works in reverse: "Your honor, my client hates p2p filesharing. All those songs he downloaded, he thought they were phonies with duplicate hashes and deliberately shared them in order to poison the network."
Brings the mac into this, but come on. Every argument he makes against linux being a platform applies to BSD as well, yet there's OSX. Somebody could do the same thing on a linux kernel, no problem.
Sounds like loaded questions to me. Chalk me down with the 80% of people who don't want my name and address randomly published by bloggers... or anybody else. (And I'm talking to you phone book!) I don't think this means I hate the free press. Seems to me like a stupid non story. To sum up:
Many Merkins don't know what bloggers are, but feel that they should have the same rights as mainstream journos. Many 'Merkins are also less likely to trust bloggers than other journos.
What's the problem? Why am I wasting time writing and thinking about it?
The point is, you NEVER EVER tell tech support what you think might be wrong. You only tell them symptoms. Otherwise they'll tell you you're right, it's your fault and there's no fixing it. Their business plan is to get you off the phone as soon as possible. That's where the profit is. It's an adversarial relationship, and it's up to you to MAKE them help you.
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I'd bet they'd be willing to make a pretty reasonable offer just to keester Microsoft and maybe leverage a better volume deal on windows OEM licenses. This is a very dangerous time for Microsoft right now. With Longhorn so far off, there is a lot of space for MS' legion of rivals to wiggle free of Redmond's giant tit.
It's possible that the control you're talking about is actually an illegal trust. Similar to the way that movie studios were found in violation of the Sherman act for owning the theatres that ran their movies exclusively.
Try this similie on for size, OS's are like socks. They're all fine at first, but after a while they all start to stink.
The price of PC gaming isn't arguable if there are good fun games. In the last year, everything has pretty much sucked. I go to EB with cash in hand LOOKING for something to play, practically begging. Nada.
I have not, historically, enjoyed console gaming. I'm more of a private gamer than a social one. The PC is where I want to be, but when Quake 4 comes out I'm probably not going to upgrade my video card again because for the same price I can put an xb360 on the 50inch and send my wife to her mother's for the weekend.
Let me be the first to point out that they clearly HATE OUR FREEDOM.
This is like going on a porn site and complaining that they show a lot of chicks making out and no dudes. It's not what we're here for.
No because it's not a big deal to anybody who doesn't read slashdot. Welcome to life in a niche. It's just like how it would be awesome to some people if some racecar driver who was sponsored by pepsi drank a coke or something. While it may mean next to nothing in the grand scheme, it's funny to us, let's just enjoy it.
I would hope all of them, but if this story leads to more slashdotters changing their shorts from time to time, I'm all for it.
It becomes close to equal if the theater is being fumigated or... I guess... napalmed.
I believe it was BitTorrent on the Grassy Knoll. BitTorrent also touched those boys at Michael Jackson's pad. This is like blaming Boeing for destroying the World Trade Center.
Back on topic, this is a fucking retarded move. Another in a series of steps toward the end of America's golden age. Fellow Americans, our government is failing us in every conceivable way. Very few of our problems have their roots in the evils of furriners. Isolation serves only to cut us out of the equation. It's a bad play any way you slice it, and to see the ridiculous way it's being weilded WRT Indians vs. Saudis... ugh.
Let's reverse the metric a little bit, and talk about the value of some of these products versus the cost. What in the new version of photoshop or word is really worth paying the full price of the upgrade. I don't think that the consumer really finds most of this stuff worth it. People are pirating this software because it's the new version and it doesn't cost anything. In other words, the value of Office 2003 over Office 97 to regular customers is way below the cost.
Go ahead BSA combat piracy. I think you'll find that, at the end of the day, the same sales you're claiming to lose to piracy would have been lost at the cash register anyway.
He's never going to sign this... right? Not Bush... Right. That guy is a conservative who hates spending our tax money on pie in the sky ideas, and loves life... right? He believes we've already got the best weapons in the world, and couldn't imagine us needing more...right? Besides, at his heart, Bush is a diplomat who understands that the US can't go it alone in the world and far be it for him to swing his cock around... right? Right?
Somebody at MS got caught surfing porn/warez and cooked up this 'honeymonkey' nonsense to cover his dirty buttocks.
If you ask me, the rule was misapplied RE Rodriquez and Miller, but I think that the guild's point is that a rule is a rule, and if they gave on Sin City they'd wind up on a slippery slope. Before damning the guild, I'd like to know what the adjudication proceedure is. Does the guild put someone onset to see how much weight Miller is pulling? I don't know. The writer's guild has a whole process for determining who gets what credit, and for how much work, but I don't know what the DGA does.
In other words, We're not amused.
Also when he refused to come out of retirement to serve in a military with Republican officers.
Because religious nuts started modding movies, the DGA and MPAA said you can't do it and they both ran crying to their pet lawmakers.
What I want to know is whether or not this can all be undone by a shrinkwrap license. If I were to make and distribute a movie do I have the right to explicitly forbid it from being viewed in any way other than the way I intend if that is so stated on the outside of the packaging.
Yes, I have Longhorn installed on my 5tb/sqare inch pixie dust drive, and it's damned tightly integrated with my bitboys video card. I use CherryOS on it to emulate the mac at faster than native speed!
The magic of this system is that it also works in reverse: "Your honor, my client hates p2p filesharing. All those songs he downloaded, he thought they were phonies with duplicate hashes and deliberately shared them in order to poison the network."
There was only confusion because slashdot ran the story without the disclaimer and nobody RTFA'd before they freaked out.
Brings the mac into this, but come on. Every argument he makes against linux being a platform applies to BSD as well, yet there's OSX. Somebody could do the same thing on a linux kernel, no problem.
Many Merkins don't know what bloggers are, but feel that they should have the same rights as mainstream journos. Many 'Merkins are also less likely to trust bloggers than other journos.
What's the problem? Why am I wasting time writing and thinking about it?
Maybe they can turn it around, point it at earth and use it to film new episodes of Star Trek Enterprise!
The point is, you NEVER EVER tell tech support what you think might be wrong. You only tell them symptoms. Otherwise they'll tell you you're right, it's your fault and there's no fixing it. Their business plan is to get you off the phone as soon as possible. That's where the profit is. It's an adversarial relationship, and it's up to you to MAKE them help you.