Come on now. Does he honestly believe that anyone here at/. could give a rats ass about answering his "probing" questions.
Microsoft never ceases to amaze me.
So much money and power and an absolutely VACANT moral barrel!
Way to go Josh - You Fuckin' TROLL!
I'm sure Microsoft will find another "honourable" research partner that would be happy to give you the answers you need! Wink, Wink, Nudge, Nudge, No What I Mean, No What I Mean.
Fuckin' TROLL!
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Its funny reading through these threads and realizing that this is the same educational system that gave us our "fine" examples of business leadership we've been watching fall. One by rotten, dishonest one.
The leaders of Microsoft, HP, Enron and Tyco and lets not forget about WorldCom were noted for their resourcefulness during their student years!
This is unlikely to change while our economy and culture is measuredbe accumulated wealth - whatever the cost!
You know I think what's really being lost here in all this blathering about MS and IBM and software patents is Xerox's original (prior art) for many if not ALL the foundational technologies that appear to have been "borrowed" by some many of the big patent holders of today.
It seems to me that these same big players are doing all they can to position themselves to extract potentially HUGE sums of money from whomever they can when their monopolistic business models are in danger of falling.
Just a humble thought from the fringe!
Oh and what colour are the terrorists today? Yellow? Blue? Whatever!
Get real folks... MS is spending million$ trying to convince anyone not on life support that Linux is a worthless, part time hobby yet they feel compelled to offer support for some of its functionality in a sooooooooooooon to be released OS that is going to revolutionize how monopolies rule!
What a minute... I thought Apple and Pepsi were going to give away 100 million songs by now! When did give-away become sold... did I miss something.
BTW... Canadians still can not enjoy iTunes. It appears that Apple has decided to chicken out of the "tough" Canadian market... oh well... at least Canadians can still legally (wink, wink, nudge, nudge, known what I mean, known what I mean) download our music from friends and relatives!
I have always felt that publically funded schools at all levels should be using as much Open Source software as possible.
As a parent I'm always concerned when I see course desciptions like "Cisco Networking" and "Microsoft Business Applications". In fact we should be insisting on similar courses for Open Source software like Linux and Open Office.
Public information should never be tied to any sort of proprietary software be it an OS and especially not a particular application like MS Word.
And BTW... The Calgary Flames won the Stanley Cup on Saturday but appartently the Americans officials were too stupid to operate the "sophistamacated" video who jiggies! Then came up with some bullshit rule that seemed to be dreamed up on the fly to explain their obvious bias! Its our game and our cup and by god will have them back... send in Terrance and Philip:-)
Sure, the largest bank in Canada didn't test a system upgrade long enogh to find that this type of massive failure would happen.
BULLSHIT!
Something is going on and my gut tells me it has nothing to do will a failed upgrade!
But you know... maybe a failure of this size is a good thing, especially if RBC suffers significant losses and decides to lay blame else where!
Maybe businesses will realize that any software company LIKE MICROSOFT - that doesn't offer any type of performance insurance isn't one to be trusted or do business with.
Last I heard... and I'm Canadian, no dumby, a person not a beer, most RBC debit cards were being refused by merchants who have been told all accounts are currently frozen!
Okay, I just finished reading most of the posts regarding RedHat's return to the desktop and this post just f@#$'n kills me.
MS spurts and spouts about ROI and "real" costs yet nobody seems to be able to add up the real dollar impact of these almost daily security issues and breaches that are bring businesses to a screeching halt!
Its almost like the current US administration. You know... if we say it often and loud enough they're bound to start believing us...unfortunately I think up until now MS has been successful at convincing most that its security woes are the falt of script kiddies, terrorists and the like and is probably reassuring the big ones that once their "Trusted Computing" solutions are implemented all will be right in the "free" world again.
If Linux has a real chance it will be in the next 2 or so years so the "community" better get its ass in gear and start making a demonstrated effort to capture the hearts and minds of the desktop users who were one of the biggest reasons Windows 3.0 was adopted by the business mainstream... remember!
So what will happen when millions of XP users unknowingly install the DRM required for the grand evil plan when they install XP'x soon to be rolled out "Our Focus is on Security" Service Pack?
Instantly half the market has now accepted the new terms of abuse for the world's biggest convicted monopolist and the consumer pillaging continues!
No amount of geek tweaking is going to stop the inevitable. This is not the fuckin' Matrix kids. Big biz, convicted monopolists and corrupt politicans rule the day so bend over and stop bitchin' or try and vote the bastards out of office!
Ok, I think its time for the software business to take the next big baby step to adulthood and once and for all abolish licenses.
I mean come on... does that GM or Ford car come with a licence. NO. Does that Magtag washer come with a license. Of course NOT.
So why then should a computer OS come with a license? What is the need for a ELUA with any software other then to set out VERY SIMPLE TERMS OF USE.
Simple. Its a monopolists way to control the market. PERIOD.
Fuck MS, Fuck Bill Gates and that fat fuckin' prick Steve Ballmer. I'm going to donate my PCs and software to whom ever I choose and if they want to take me to court for donating my stuff to charity then fine... see you in the headlines!
We've got to do something about this fuckin' company before they completely cover the planet with their corporate bile! Please. A revenue stream from charities...how fuckin' sick is that!
The more you see what advertisers and corporations are trying to do to all forms of media one wonders how long it will be before even main stream consumers will just start tuning out of everything.
Advertising on everything, broadcasting flags to protect playback, single use devices, three or four corps controlling 90% of the North American market. So much for fair-use and free markets!?
Zombie's 2 Worth... Did I mention terrorists... I just did... good ok!
Hey, wait... If MS and/or the computer companies are not shipping a fully user installable version of the OS then what is the consumer paying for?
Essentially, MS and the computer resellers are lying to consumers when they say your computer purchase includes the OS when it really does not.
So this leads to the question if you don't get a fully operational OS CD-ROM with your purchase who owns the "copy" that is on your shipped system? And is this covered under the EULA that EVERY HOME USER clicks through when they first start up their "new - OS included" PC>
This would make for some interesting situations if MS every tried to accuse a home user of pirating software when in fact the home user never really owned a full version of the OS in the first place!
I've been using PopUp Cop for some time now when I have to use IE and the first time this story was unleashed claiming then to be unblockable I dropped a line to my friends at PopUp Cop.
The fine folks at PopUp Cop assured me that UniCast was NOT using any new and they would definitely be able to block any ads, especially those requiring a download. So there!
Besides their is always Mozilla, Opera and Netscape. Besides if this "new" advertising method requires a client-side download how are they going to force users to download it if they don't want it? And it better not have any SpyWare included.
Boy, these sites... ahh large greeding corps, have a lot of nerve trying to claim they are "losing" money of their websites?
Release the source... or what appears to be source...
Then tell businesses and users that the only way to be "safe" from possible exploits is to upgrade to the "tighter then a drum" Windows 2003 version.
Sad...I hope someone can trace the release to MS and someone there has the courage to speak up. Of course it may be "terrorists"... oh wait are we still fighting them or are we looking for WMD...
I mean how obvious does MS have to get before the world sees what they are up to.
Hey man, I am Canadian and I pay for my capped bandwidth. So much per month. If I am going to start getting pop-under, silent downloads of f*#@'n tv style ads on the web then I'm going to have to ask my ISP to deduct the advertising total from my bandwidth before they bill be every month.
ESPN and sites like them should have more then enough revenue from their tv operations and if they don't then CHARGE people to visit your website and watch how quickly the rednecks ditch INteractive TV and the online in-car camera.
Please if you think its really that valuable then charge for it! Don't think you can steal my bandwidth to make money by playing ads. Maybe I should start billing these websites for using MY bandwidth.
Here we go again with what will prove to be another failed attempt to bring TV style, interuptive advertising to the web. It will fail!
Sure I'm all for anyone who wants to "use" these technologies but those who choose NOT to use these technologies should have alternatives that don't cost any MORE then the current "popular" offering. then its a real choice and not a choice driven by cost and/or user fees.
A good example is the rapidly disappearing acceptance of personal cheques in Canada. In fact most big chains like WALMART don't accept cheques anymore.
So if I chose NOT to use a debit card and I can't write a cheque, I guess I should start carrying my bag of loonie and toonies around with my bag of coal! (:-
If technology is all about choice then lets be fair about the types of choices offered and how they are being offered.
Hey, I've got an old RaQ2 MIPS that I've been looking for updates or more importnatly I new kernel but finding LINUX MIPS for the RaQ2 is next to impossible.
I agree with most. These boxes were unbeatable back in the day. Truly plug and play and an unbelievably straight-forward user interface. Many companies today could learn from Cobalt's interface approach.
Listen... the editors have to stay on top of these stories.
If you listened to the Beagle2 webcast you would know that first contact expectations for this morning were very low and the team leader stated repeatedly that this was expected so...
Once again/. editors have allowed a BOGUS story to make it to the frontpage... pretty sad boys (:-
Oh wait it looks like another SCO story is breaking on the frontpage... Gotta go!
So what if this organization trys to target "uploaders"... the law, yes we still have laws, in this land doesn't allow for self-serve search warrants and while the details of P2P being legal in Canada are inaccurate the fact still remains that sharing music in Canada, even copying a friends CD is NOT ILLEGAL... so if I "connect" to a friends computer and "copy" a song for my use...technically this is NOT ILLEGAL! It all depends on your perspective as to whether or not you "uploading", "downloading" or "copying"... this will be a very interesting argument for a judge to hear. Yes we still have lucid judges in Canada too!
These types of provisions are well known to the Canadian music industry because they allowed them into the relatively new laws that they hope to use against "file uploaders". You know the same ones who already pay a copying tax on their media and players.
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Ok all the stupid people in the world raise your patent glasses!
Just how flippin' stupid does MS like we are.
Royalty free MS licence... now theres a nice oxy-moron for you.
Embrace, Extend... Embrace, Extend... Embrace, Extend... Embrace, Extend... ANY QUESTIONS?!
Come on now. Does he honestly believe that anyone here at /. could give a rats ass about answering his "probing" questions.
Microsoft never ceases to amaze me.
So much money and power and an absolutely VACANT moral barrel!
Way to go Josh - You Fuckin' TROLL!
I'm sure Microsoft will find another "honourable" research partner that would be happy to give you the answers you need! Wink, Wink, Nudge, Nudge, No What I Mean, No What I Mean.
Fuckin' TROLL!
Its funny reading through these threads and realizing that this is the same educational system that gave us our "fine" examples of business leadership we've been watching fall. One by rotten, dishonest one.
The leaders of Microsoft, HP, Enron and Tyco and lets not forget about WorldCom were noted for their resourcefulness during their student years!
This is unlikely to change while our economy and culture is measuredbe accumulated wealth - whatever the cost!
Just another view from the fringe.
You know I think what's really being lost here in all this blathering about MS and IBM and software patents is Xerox's original (prior art) for many if not ALL the foundational technologies that appear to have been "borrowed" by some many of the big patent holders of today.
It seems to me that these same big players are doing all they can to position themselves to extract potentially HUGE sums of money from whomever they can when their monopolistic business models are in danger of falling.
Just a humble thought from the fringe!
Oh and what colour are the terrorists today? Yellow? Blue? Whatever!
Boy gives new meaning to the term: Blue Screen of Death doesn't it! :-)
Ouch!
Boy this story sures gives new meaning to the dreaded BLUE SCREEN of DEATH!
Ouch!
Who fuckin' cares!
Get real folks... MS is spending million$ trying to convince anyone not on life support that Linux is a worthless, part time hobby yet they feel compelled to offer support for some of its functionality in a sooooooooooooon to be released OS that is going to revolutionize how monopolies rule!
Thank the coding gods for that!
What a minute... I thought Apple and Pepsi were going to give away 100 million songs by now! When did give-away become sold... did I miss something.
BTW... Canadians still can not enjoy iTunes. It appears that Apple has decided to chicken out of the "tough" Canadian market... oh well... at least Canadians can still legally (wink, wink, nudge, nudge, known what I mean, known what I mean) download our music from friends and relatives!
God Bless America!
I have always felt that publically funded schools at all levels should be using as much Open Source software as possible.
:-)
As a parent I'm always concerned when I see course desciptions like "Cisco Networking" and "Microsoft Business Applications". In fact we should be insisting on similar courses for Open Source software like Linux and Open Office.
Public information should never be tied to any sort of proprietary software be it an OS and especially not a particular application like MS Word.
And BTW... The Calgary Flames won the Stanley Cup on Saturday but appartently the Americans officials were too stupid to operate the "sophistamacated" video who jiggies! Then came up with some bullshit rule that seemed to be dreamed up on the fly to explain their obvious bias! Its our game and our cup and by god will have them back... send in Terrance and Philip
Sure, the largest bank in Canada didn't test a system upgrade long enogh to find that this type of massive failure would happen.
BULLSHIT!
Something is going on and my gut tells me it has nothing to do will a failed upgrade!
But you know... maybe a failure of this size is a good thing, especially if RBC suffers significant losses and decides to lay blame else where!
Maybe businesses will realize that any software company LIKE MICROSOFT - that doesn't offer any type of performance insurance isn't one to be trusted or do business with.
Last I heard... and I'm Canadian, no dumby, a person not a beer, most RBC debit cards were being refused by merchants who have been told all accounts are currently frozen!
Dum dum dum dum!
Everyone knows the M$ is now seeking to using genetically manufacturing to "grow" the code base for the next generate OS!
One can only imagine what is being built into LongHorn to ensure this kind of business model continues.
So, everyone just blocks MSN and HotMail period! So long "marketeers" and their funny little noses and tails.
Okay, I just finished reading most of the posts regarding RedHat's return to the desktop and this post just f@#$'n kills me.
MS spurts and spouts about ROI and "real" costs yet nobody seems to be able to add up the real dollar impact of these almost daily security issues and breaches that are bring businesses to a screeching halt!
Its almost like the current US administration. You know... if we say it often and loud enough they're bound to start believing us...unfortunately I think up until now MS has been successful at convincing most that its security woes are the falt of script kiddies, terrorists and the like and is probably reassuring the big ones that once their "Trusted Computing" solutions are implemented all will be right in the "free" world again.
If Linux has a real chance it will be in the next 2 or so years so the "community" better get its ass in gear and start making a demonstrated effort to capture the hearts and minds of the desktop users who were one of the biggest reasons Windows 3.0 was adopted by the business mainstream... remember!
So what will happen when millions of XP users unknowingly install the DRM required for the grand evil plan when they install XP'x soon to be rolled out "Our Focus is on Security" Service Pack?
Instantly half the market has now accepted the new terms of abuse for the world's biggest convicted monopolist and the consumer pillaging continues!
No amount of geek tweaking is going to stop the inevitable. This is not the fuckin' Matrix kids. Big biz, convicted monopolists and corrupt politicans rule the day so bend over and stop bitchin' or try and vote the bastards out of office!
Ok, I think its time for the software business to take the next big baby step to adulthood and once and for all abolish licenses.
I mean come on... does that GM or Ford car come with a licence. NO. Does that Magtag washer come with a license. Of course NOT.
So why then should a computer OS come with a license? What is the need for a ELUA with any software other then to set out VERY SIMPLE TERMS OF USE.
Simple. Its a monopolists way to control the market. PERIOD.
Fuck MS, Fuck Bill Gates and that fat fuckin' prick Steve Ballmer. I'm going to donate my PCs and software to whom ever I choose and if they want to take me to court for donating my stuff to charity then fine... see you in the headlines!
We've got to do something about this fuckin' company before they completely cover the planet with their corporate bile! Please. A revenue stream from charities...how fuckin' sick is that!
The more you see what advertisers and corporations are trying to do to all forms of media one wonders how long it will be before even main stream consumers will just start tuning out of everything.
Advertising on everything, broadcasting flags to protect playback, single use devices, three or four corps controlling 90% of the North American market. So much for fair-use and free markets!?
Zombie's 2 Worth... Did I mention terrorists... I just did... good ok!
Hey, wait... If MS and/or the computer companies are not shipping a fully user installable version of the OS then what is the consumer paying for?
Essentially, MS and the computer resellers are lying to consumers when they say your computer purchase includes the OS when it really does not.
So this leads to the question if you don't get a fully operational OS CD-ROM with your purchase who owns the "copy" that is on your shipped system? And is this covered under the EULA that EVERY HOME USER clicks through when they first start up their "new - OS included" PC>
This would make for some interesting situations if MS every tried to accuse a home user of pirating software when in fact the home user never really owned a full version of the OS in the first place!
I've been using PopUp Cop for some time now when I have to use IE and the first time this story was unleashed claiming then to be unblockable I dropped a line to my friends at PopUp Cop.
The fine folks at PopUp Cop assured me that UniCast was NOT using any new and they would definitely be able to block any ads, especially those requiring a download. So there!
Besides their is always Mozilla, Opera and Netscape. Besides if this "new" advertising method requires a client-side download how are they going to force users to download it if they don't want it? And it better not have any SpyWare included.
Boy, these sites... ahh large greeding corps, have a lot of nerve trying to claim they are "losing" money of their websites?
WTH!
Release the source... or what appears to be source...
Then tell businesses and users that the only way to be "safe" from possible exploits is to upgrade to the "tighter then a drum" Windows 2003 version.
Sad...I hope someone can trace the release to MS and someone there has the courage to speak up. Of course it may be "terrorists"... oh wait are we still fighting them or are we looking for WMD...
I mean how obvious does MS have to get before the world sees what they are up to.
Hey man, I am Canadian and I pay for my capped bandwidth. So much per month. If I am going to start getting pop-under, silent downloads of f*#@'n tv style ads on the web then I'm going to have to ask my ISP to deduct the advertising total from my bandwidth before they bill be every month.
ESPN and sites like them should have more then enough revenue from their tv operations and if they don't then CHARGE people to visit your website and watch how quickly the rednecks ditch INteractive TV and the online in-car camera.
Please if you think its really that valuable then charge for it! Don't think you can steal my bandwidth to make money by playing ads. Maybe I should start billing these websites for using MY bandwidth.
Here we go again with what will prove to be another failed attempt to bring TV style, interuptive advertising to the web. It will fail!
Sure I'm all for anyone who wants to "use" these technologies but those who choose NOT to use these technologies should have alternatives that don't cost any MORE then the current "popular" offering. then its a real choice and not a choice driven by cost and/or user fees.
A good example is the rapidly disappearing acceptance of personal cheques in Canada. In fact most big chains like WALMART don't accept cheques anymore.
So if I chose NOT to use a debit card and I can't write a cheque, I guess I should start carrying my bag of loonie and toonies around with my bag of coal! (:-
If technology is all about choice then lets be fair about the types of choices offered and how they are being offered.
Hey, I've got an old RaQ2 MIPS that I've been looking for updates or more importnatly I new kernel but finding LINUX MIPS for the RaQ2 is next to impossible.
I agree with most. These boxes were unbeatable back in the day. Truly plug and play and an unbelievably straight-forward user interface. Many companies today could learn from Cobalt's interface approach.
Listen... the editors have to stay on top of these stories.
/. editors have allowed a BOGUS story to make it to the frontpage... pretty sad boys (:-
If you listened to the Beagle2 webcast you would know that first contact expectations for this morning were very low and the team leader stated repeatedly that this was expected so...
Once again
Oh wait it looks like another SCO story is breaking on the frontpage... Gotta go!
taxed, user fee'd and surcharged to death!!!
/.sig Did I Say Terrorist yet... yes.. good!
So what if this organization trys to target "uploaders"... the law, yes we still have laws, in this land doesn't allow for self-serve search warrants and while the details of P2P being legal in Canada are inaccurate the fact still remains that sharing music in Canada, even copying a friends CD is NOT ILLEGAL... so if I "connect" to a friends computer and "copy" a song for my use...technically this is NOT ILLEGAL! It all depends on your perspective as to whether or not you "uploading", "downloading" or "copying"... this will be a very interesting argument for a judge to hear. Yes we still have lucid judges in Canada too!
These types of provisions are well known to the Canadian music industry because they allowed them into the relatively new laws that they hope to use against "file uploaders". You know the same ones who already pay a copying tax on their media and players.