Microsoft crippled competition and the Internet for years
Oh, give me a fucking break! MS didn't do any such thing. I've always been able to run whatever browser I damn well wanted to on Windows (can't say the same on iOS, BTW). I have been using Windows since 3.1 and have never once used IE (and I've been on the Web since the Mosaic/Cello days). If MS really wanted to cripple other browsers, they could just make a walled garden like Apple's, banning other browsers, and be done with it.
Maybe we should condemn microsoft because they actually are guilty as hell and DESERVE to suffer
What, for the "sin" of including a web browser built into their OS? Don't forget, that's what this is all about. Back in the 90's that was considered an actionable offense. Today, you would be laughed out of court with that shit.
The whole case is a relic from the 90's, back when Netscape was bitching about MS including their own browser in their OS (before including a browser in an OS was standard practice). It's no more relevant today than if the current owner of Wordperfect suddenly suing Apple and MS for including Wordpad and iWork in Windows and OS X. If it weren't for the money involved and the fact that MS is an American company, the whole case would have been tossed out a long time ago.
I would like to see them invalidate their copyrights and patents to put into the public domain. That would hurt more than anything, but unfortunately, it's a pipe dream.
It's a pipe dream because if the EU did that, the U.S. might turn around and do the same with EU companies in the U.S.
Change makes a LOT of people anxious. I've seen simple tech changes at work give people panic attacks (no, seriously). We geeks take tech changes for granted usually, and can roll with it. But a lot of common people freak out when you so much as move a familiar icon from one part of the screen to the other.
Good luck getting Ticketmaster out of the loop. They have close ties with the major studios and major venues. So, yeah, as long as the band in question isn't signed to a studio label, and you've got a field for them to play in. Otherwise, forget it.
No, it works just fine--providing the band or musician in question is already well-established and well-known. The more obscure the musician(s), the less likely this is to work.
This sort of thing works for performers like Louis CK because, of course, he's Louis CK. He already spent decades inside the existing system establishing himself and becoming pretty well-known through conventional means. Not so great if you're trying to start out this way.
Okay, everyone get it out of your system. Flash sucks, blah blah! Why couldn't they put it into HTML-5/Ogg/x264/whatever-the-fuck, blah blah? This won't work on my iThing and it makes Steve Jobs cry in heaven, blah blah. Everything should be DRM/proprietary-codec free, blah blah!
Okay, feel better?
Then, let's have at least a few posts to talk about the actual content (or, if need be, the lack thereof).
To me, the whole thing to me sounds really arrogant. "Our paper is so popular that we don't need Google!" Yeah, famous last words. If you're not on Google these days, you had may as well be invisible.
your accusations of bribery are completely without merit or citation
Oh, did I miss something? Has Minnesota banned lobbying and no-show jobs for its legislators? Because it sure looks like they have a lot of lobbyists for a legislature that doesn't accept any patronage.
I suspect there is a lot more to this story than anyone in the universities or legislature would ever admit publicly.
But I suspect the real impetus here is that the state legislators don't want anyone coming into their state without having to lobby (aka bribe) them first. Every state university has to come to them once a year with hat-in-hand, and they sure don't want anyone bypassing this system by coming in from out of state without paying their largesse. The patron expects his coin before you do business here, citizen.
And who gets to define "incitement to hatred"? Because I think the Republican Party here in the U.S. has a lot of speech like that too. Can I arrest them and still pretend to give a fuck about free speech, like you Germans?
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Great for alzheimer's patients, criminals, and little kids. Not great for free adults.
They're not prisoners, they're free to jump out a window any time they wish.
Microsoft crippled competition and the Internet for years
Oh, give me a fucking break! MS didn't do any such thing. I've always been able to run whatever browser I damn well wanted to on Windows (can't say the same on iOS, BTW). I have been using Windows since 3.1 and have never once used IE (and I've been on the Web since the Mosaic/Cello days). If MS really wanted to cripple other browsers, they could just make a walled garden like Apple's, banning other browsers, and be done with it.
They're already doing it on iOS (and getting away with it). The other browsers on iOS are just skins, using the Safari rendering engine.
Maybe we should condemn microsoft because they actually are guilty as hell and DESERVE to suffer
What, for the "sin" of including a web browser built into their OS? Don't forget, that's what this is all about. Back in the 90's that was considered an actionable offense. Today, you would be laughed out of court with that shit.
The whole case is a relic from the 90's, back when Netscape was bitching about MS including their own browser in their OS (before including a browser in an OS was standard practice). It's no more relevant today than if the current owner of Wordperfect suddenly suing Apple and MS for including Wordpad and iWork in Windows and OS X. If it weren't for the money involved and the fact that MS is an American company, the whole case would have been tossed out a long time ago.
Sir, don't you realize that this is Slashdot, where my favorite distro of Linux is by far the superior OS, forever and for all time?!?!?
I would like to see them invalidate their copyrights and patents to put into the public domain. That would hurt more than anything, but unfortunately, it's a pipe dream.
It's a pipe dream because if the EU did that, the U.S. might turn around and do the same with EU companies in the U.S.
Whenever you hear the new Microsoft Surface mentioned, say, "Oh, is that the one that's Linux-based?"
Well, at least when you say that with Apple's stuff, there is at least a kernel of truth to it.
Change makes a LOT of people anxious. I've seen simple tech changes at work give people panic attacks (no, seriously). We geeks take tech changes for granted usually, and can roll with it. But a lot of common people freak out when you so much as move a familiar icon from one part of the screen to the other.
Also you cannot use it in a business
They're going for the young consumer market, which has been not clamoring for a Windows tablet for years.
Good luck getting Ticketmaster out of the loop. They have close ties with the major studios and major venues. So, yeah, as long as the band in question isn't signed to a studio label, and you've got a field for them to play in. Otherwise, forget it.
No, it works just fine--providing the band or musician in question is already well-established and well-known. The more obscure the musician(s), the less likely this is to work.
This sort of thing works for performers like Louis CK because, of course, he's Louis CK. He already spent decades inside the existing system establishing himself and becoming pretty well-known through conventional means. Not so great if you're trying to start out this way.
Okay, everyone get it out of your system. Flash sucks, blah blah! Why couldn't they put it into HTML-5/Ogg/x264/whatever-the-fuck, blah blah? This won't work on my iThing and it makes Steve Jobs cry in heaven, blah blah. Everything should be DRM/proprietary-codec free, blah blah!
Okay, feel better?
Then, let's have at least a few posts to talk about the actual content (or, if need be, the lack thereof).
To me, the whole thing to me sounds really arrogant. "Our paper is so popular that we don't need Google!" Yeah, famous last words. If you're not on Google these days, you had may as well be invisible.
And how do you feel about that?
your accusations of bribery are completely without merit or citation
Oh, did I miss something? Has Minnesota banned lobbying and no-show jobs for its legislators? Because it sure looks like they have a lot of lobbyists for a legislature that doesn't accept any patronage.
I suspect there is a lot more to this story than anyone in the universities or legislature would ever admit publicly.
But I suspect the real impetus here is that the state legislators don't want anyone coming into their state without having to lobby (aka bribe) them first. Every state university has to come to them once a year with hat-in-hand, and they sure don't want anyone bypassing this system by coming in from out of state without paying their largesse. The patron expects his coin before you do business here, citizen.
Now that we've had the requisite 400 posts complaining about the video codec and the bad jokes, does anyone care to comment on what he said?
Anyone?
Why don't you just shut up
Sorry, this isn't Germany. I'm in the U.S., where we have free speech.
What about Nazi's who don't call for "specific genocide on undesirables"? Neo-Nazi's don't. Can they speak in Germany?
Come on, there is money to be made and this is America, son!
You forgot:
3) It's an uncomfortable reminder of an embarrassment that they want to erase from history.
their "speach" consists of incitement to hatred.
And who gets to define "incitement to hatred"? Because I think the Republican Party here in the U.S. has a lot of speech like that too. Can I arrest them and still pretend to give a fuck about free speech, like you Germans?
Article 5 of the German constitution
I guess they put in an asterisk:
* unless the government disagrees with your political speech.