sadly, only one person, two thirds down the list of slashbot comments noticed the key point of this letter. It's not about improving homeland security, it's about trying to land a large, government contract. Simple as that.
I haven't been keeping up with the goings on in the industry, but Sony probably acquired a music or some other media company (or made a deal with one), and is using this as some sort of feeble way to discourage bootlegging.
I believe by phenomenon, he's referring to the fact that Microsoft's competitors aren't really "selling" anything. Normally, a company's competitor sellins the same thing, but either slightly different or at a different price. The fact that many people are developing open-source software essentially for free is a phenomenon considering how human nature tends to be individualistic 'screw-the-rest-of-you-gimme-my-$199.95'. The thing that bothers me about this article is that an article about something as obvious as linux/unix being the biggest threat to Windows would appear on slashdot.
Apparently I'm the only one in the world who has neither received the email nor had any email notification settings changed (not yet, at least). Either there actually was a bug, or ebay just feels like toying with a few users at a time, so that the outroar doesn't all occur at once.
Who cares about the rabbits? If they've got so much time it prolly means they're not getting enough of it from their husbands, and the eyeliner will solve their sex problems. Talk about two birds, I mean rabbits, with one stone, eh?
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sadly, only one person, two thirds down the list of slashbot comments noticed the key point of this letter. It's not about improving homeland security, it's about trying to land a large, government contract. Simple as that.
I haven't been keeping up with the goings on in the industry, but Sony probably acquired a music or some other media company (or made a deal with one), and is using this as some sort of feeble way to discourage bootlegging.
I believe by phenomenon, he's referring to the fact that Microsoft's competitors aren't really "selling" anything. Normally, a company's competitor sellins the same thing, but either slightly different or at a different price. The fact that many people are developing open-source software essentially for free is a phenomenon considering how human nature tends to be individualistic 'screw-the-rest-of-you-gimme-my-$199.95'. The thing that bothers me about this article is that an article about something as obvious as linux/unix being the biggest threat to Windows would appear on slashdot.
Apparently I'm the only one in the world who has neither received the email nor had any email notification settings changed (not yet, at least). Either there actually was a bug, or ebay just feels like toying with a few users at a time, so that the outroar doesn't all occur at once.
Who cares about the rabbits? If they've got so much time it prolly means they're not getting enough of it from their husbands, and the eyeliner will solve their sex problems. Talk about two birds, I mean rabbits, with one stone, eh?