Clear and simple,iPod users are behaving as the typical snob that imagines that everybody should accept as the god given word that their pet snobish likes are the only truth out there.
No wonder, since they are paying by the nose for a device that does not much else than many others, the snob has to justify the mindless spending in something that is more form than substance.
SCO is issuing threats to bill you for a good that:
a) They can't probe they own, neither can probe they have the right to charge you for it. b) They did not sell to you.
this surely breaks trading laws, advertisment regulations or normal good faith exchange of goods and services.
Your place of residence surely has govrmental organization that check that nobody can issue threats that are not substantiated.
Contact your consumer right bureau, trading authoriy or anybody in a position to take a look at this, now that SCO has commited the great mistake of widening their nonsense to a global audience we can strike back and help bring this to an end.
Guys, lets do our bit to bring this to an end, SCO have issued a challenge, it should not go unanswered.
You can try complaining to the Advertisement Standards Authority, specially if you have received one of the now infamous SCO emails.
Even if you have not I am sure they are your best bet to find out what to do about this.
To other people in Europe: don't be lazy, there are similar institutions in your country to which you can complain.
SCO is most probably doing false advertisment, untruthful or unproved ststements (most likely all of the above), if they insinuate they want money from you please, don't just let it pass knowing is all hot air, do something about it.
It is the guys that are actually being contacted that have the most power to do something about this...
I AM Not An USian but if I remember correctly only about 50% of people vote in the US, perhaps the 50% that do not vote is the cleverest one (since in any case there are no credible options to the two main parties).
You have to do exactly the opposite if you have ant ethics at all:
-Consider your colleagues your enablers and facilitators, not your competition.
-Ditto for management.
-Anything business critical should be shared with other people in pposition to keep things runnning and the respective manager.
-You should spread your knowledge as widely as possible.
In other words show your worth in a frame of ethical professionalism.
Only companies in which you don't want to be working this could possibly back fire in your detriment.
In the other hand, the alternative you suggest sooner or later will catch with you and you'll begin to build a reputation that will follow you elsewhere, rightly making more difficult to make a living in the small world of IT where reputation may be the only difference between having a job and flipping burgers.
Yahoo became irrelevant as a search engine (to the point that they subcontracted that capability to Google) when they forgot about it and began to cram stuff on their originally innovative search engine.
That is a lesson that Google should not ignore: they can diversify in whatever they want, having all your eggs in one baskt , specially in the IT business, is sheer madness, but they should make sure that the breadwinner (the search engine) is improved and kept clean and apart from any other ventures.
1 GB is enough to store 16 CDs at moderate bit rate quality, perhaps half of that at top rate.
That is 8 to 16 hours of music.
I don't know others, but I don't hook up to a music player for more than 20 minutes or half an hour a day, mostly during my commute to work.
If you have the damn player glued to your ears 4 or 5 hours a day, so in your mind you create the "need" to carry around your 200 CD collection at all time, I would suggest that it sounds horribly like a manic behaviour.
I recognize that there are people that may actually need to carry 200 or 300 CDs on their music player, but for normal people that only want to listen to a few CDs every couple of weeks, 1 GB is perfectly appropriate.
The barbarities and savagery that occurs in many Muslims countries, but specially in Saudia Arabia do not leave space to the relativism you are trying to play here. Where the holly prophet Muhhamed, peace uppon him, calls for understanding and compassion, the clerics in Saudia Arabai and many other places institue a regime of fanatical terror in which a text like the one I write will land you in jail or worst.
I may not be part of the Muslim culture, but the way people are executed, women are treated (including virutal abuse of uncountable young girls sold in marriage as what amounts of virtual slavery) and in general people's freedoms are disrespected (you claim Saudi Arabs support their goverment, well, they are wise, because the people that do otherwise are on exile or dead) does not leave any space to cultural relativism in which we, non Muslims, are missing the point somehow.
Great to know there are people in Saudi Arabia that at least in regards to technology are at the cutting edge, but frankly that is small fry compared with the almost unsurmountable backwardeness of Saudia Arabia and many other Muslim countries.
This backwardness is refelcted in the economy, the arts, culture and political influence. GPB in most muslim countries has been falling for the last decades, educaton is in shambles (save a few places like Malaysia and perhaps Indonesia, unsuprisingly some of the less fanatical Muslim countries), bar a few writers like Nahib Mafuzz or cinematographers (often banned in their own counries of origin) the Muslim world offers little today to the continuum of world culture, this as a result of strict censorship that is common place all around the Muslim world (perhaps the only Muslim country with free press is Turkey, and that is big if).
I am sorry for the Muslim world, it could have so much to teach us and offer us, there are few things so peaceful as the call to prayer when the sun rises or sets, the friendship and human warmth is always forthcomming, unfortunatley they live in a different planet of which I don't want any part and that will self destruct unless Muslims wake up and listen to the message of their prophets.
... just for your information exists also in Malaysia, which is not even fully Islamic (big percenteage of the population of Chinese and Indian origin).
I had the indignity to be requested my passport in restaurants in ocassions during Rammadan to ensure I was not a local violating the law of the land.
Tax more the US companies that take work off-shore? Then they may grant you your wise wish and move elsewhere, thus losing any jobs left and stopping contributing any revenue to the US tax chest.
In any case many of those companies are multinationals, they choose the US as their head quarters, but there is no rule anywhere that they shoudl do do, there are countless companies based elsewhere that ar successful.
OK, then they should sell only to Americans as well.
You want it that way then shut down the outside world and let us know when you want back from the dark ages.
There are examples of that, like China that just when it was in the brink of becoming the most powerful sea faring country in world retracted to their borders and became a feudalist society.
To a great extent, China is still trying to recover from such monumental historical short-sightedness.
It would be ironic that China would re-claim a place in history that was almost theirs after the US commiting exactly the same mistake.
But alas, that will not happen, but that only means people like you can't have it both ways.
As long as they don't do the baseless claims about Linux in Germany they can join whatever idiots that care to get close to them.
If there is any agroupation in Germany that takes the advice of these litigious bastards about intellectual property seriously, they deserver wahtever happens to their IP.
.. is that we remember his expedition as a noble failure (in spite of some people trying to paint him as a fool recently. A daring fool with vision that would be).
.... how will we ever go out of the Solar system if it is not assuming that people will be born, live an die in space for many generations just to spread our species around the Galaxy?
Heck,we live and die in space, we are just too dumb to realize how fragile is our home. In stellar terms we here on Earth are just marginally better than the guys in the ISS or in a hypotetical trip to Mars.
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Clear and simple,iPod users are behaving as the typical snob that imagines that everybody should accept as the god given word that their pet snobish likes are the only truth out there.
No wonder, since they are paying by the nose for a device that does not much else than many others, the snob has to justify the mindless spending in something that is more form than substance.
SCO is issuing threats to bill you for a good that:
a) They can't probe they own, neither can probe they have the right to charge you for it.
b) They did not sell to you.
this surely breaks trading laws, advertisment regulations or normal good faith exchange of goods and services.
Your place of residence surely has govrmental organization that check that nobody can issue threats that are not substantiated.
Contact your consumer right bureau, trading authoriy or anybody in a position to take a look at this, now that SCO has commited the great mistake of widening their nonsense to a global audience we can strike back and help bring this to an end.
Lets give them enough rope, gravity shall do the rest for them.
Guys, lets do our bit to bring this to an end, SCO have issued a challenge, it should not go unanswered.
You can try complaining to the Advertisement Standards Authority, specially if you have received one of the now infamous SCO emails.
Even if you have not I am sure they are your best bet to find out what to do about this.
To other people in Europe: don't be lazy, there are similar institutions in your country to which you can complain.
SCO is most probably doing false advertisment, untruthful or unproved ststements (most likely all of the above), if they insinuate they want money from you please, don't just let it pass knowing is all hot air, do something about it.
It is the guys that are actually being contacted that have the most power to do something about this...
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I AM Not An USian but if I remember correctly only about 50% of people vote in the US, perhaps the 50% that do not vote is the cleverest one (since in any case there are no credible options to the two main parties).
Worm feeling when one sees Mexican soap operas in Manila, Beijing, Cape Town or Moscow :-)
Eggs, goose, kill, golden.
Or something like that.
Arrange them as you see fit.
Guy swinging on his pajamas in NY. Never brakes a bone when falls on solid concrete.
Fscking believeable.
You have to do exactly the opposite if you have ant ethics at all:
-Consider your colleagues your enablers and facilitators, not your competition.
-Ditto for management.
-Anything business critical should be shared with other people in pposition to keep things runnning and the respective manager.
-You should spread your knowledge as widely as possible.
In other words show your worth in a frame of ethical professionalism.
Only companies in which you don't want to be working this could possibly back fire in your detriment.
In the other hand, the alternative you suggest sooner or later will catch with you and you'll begin to build a reputation that will follow you elsewhere, rightly making more difficult to make a living in the small world of IT where reputation may be the only difference between having a job and flipping burgers.
The big chains (Dixons, Comet, Currys) will not sell you a region free DVD player.
You can get them in other reputable shops like RicherSounds, but is by no means a generalized given.
I have still to work on a machine with email without a web browser.
Yahoo became irrelevant as a search engine (to the point that they subcontracted that capability to Google) when they forgot about it and began to cram stuff on their originally innovative search engine.
That is a lesson that Google should not ignore: they can diversify in whatever they want, having all your eggs in one baskt , specially in the IT business, is sheer madness, but they should make sure that the breadwinner (the search engine) is improved and kept clean and apart from any other ventures.
Sorry to rain in your parade, but WTF?
1 GB is enough to store 16 CDs at moderate bit rate quality, perhaps half of that at top rate.
That is 8 to 16 hours of music.
I don't know others, but I don't hook up to a music player for more than 20 minutes or half an hour a day, mostly during my commute to work.
If you have the damn player glued to your ears 4 or 5 hours a day, so in your mind you create the "need" to carry around your 200 CD collection at all time, I would suggest that it sounds horribly like a manic behaviour.
I recognize that there are people that may actually need to carry 200 or 300 CDs on their music player, but for normal people that only want to listen to a few CDs every couple of weeks, 1 GB is perfectly appropriate.
The barbarities and savagery that occurs in many Muslims countries, but specially in Saudia Arabia do not leave space to the relativism you are trying to play here. Where the holly prophet Muhhamed, peace uppon him, calls for understanding and compassion, the clerics in Saudia Arabai and many other places institue a regime of fanatical terror in which a text like the one I write will land you in jail or worst.
I may not be part of the Muslim culture, but the way people are executed, women are treated (including virutal abuse of uncountable young girls sold in marriage as what amounts of virtual slavery) and in general people's freedoms are disrespected (you claim Saudi Arabs support their goverment, well, they are wise, because the people that do otherwise are on exile or dead) does not leave any space to cultural relativism in which we, non Muslims, are missing the point somehow.
Great to know there are people in Saudi Arabia that at least in regards to technology are at the cutting edge, but frankly that is small fry compared with the almost unsurmountable backwardeness of Saudia Arabia and many other Muslim countries.
This backwardness is refelcted in the economy, the arts, culture and political influence. GPB in most muslim countries has been falling for the last decades, educaton is in shambles (save a few places like Malaysia and perhaps Indonesia, unsuprisingly some of the less fanatical Muslim countries), bar a few writers like Nahib Mafuzz or cinematographers (often banned in their own counries of origin) the Muslim world offers little today to the continuum of world culture, this as a result of strict censorship that is common place all around the Muslim world (perhaps the only Muslim country with free press is Turkey, and that is big if).
I am sorry for the Muslim world, it could have so much to teach us and offer us, there are few things so peaceful as the call to prayer when the sun rises or sets, the friendship and human warmth is always forthcomming, unfortunatley they live in a different planet of which I don't want any part and that will self destruct unless Muslims wake up and listen to the message of their prophets.
I lived several years in a mainly muslim country, my Muslim friends did not drink alcohol, I did. We had fun all the same.
The sad thing is how people in Western societies are so conditioned to believe that without alcohol you can't have fun.
... just for your information exists also in Malaysia, which is not even fully Islamic (big percenteage of the population of Chinese and Indian origin).
I had the indignity to be requested my passport in restaurants in ocassions during Rammadan to ensure I was not a local violating the law of the land.
.... don't deserve the adjective of human.
Filth suits you perfectly and in spite of that I don't wish you are ever exterminated in any lunatic war of civilizations.
You are condemned to your own hate, that is punishment enough.
Tax more the US companies that take work off-shore? Then they may grant you your wise wish and move elsewhere, thus losing any jobs left and stopping contributing any revenue to the US tax chest.
In any case many of those companies are multinationals, they choose the US as their head quarters, but there is no rule anywhere that they shoudl do do, there are countless companies based elsewhere that ar successful.
OK, then they should sell only to Americans as well.
You want it that way then shut down the outside world and let us know when you want back from the dark ages.
There are examples of that, like China that just when it was in the brink of becoming the most powerful sea faring country in world retracted to their borders and became a feudalist society.
To a great extent, China is still trying to recover from such monumental historical short-sightedness.
It would be ironic that China would re-claim a place in history that was almost theirs after the US commiting exactly the same mistake.
But alas, that will not happen, but that only means people like you can't have it both ways.
As long as they don't do the baseless claims about Linux in Germany they can join whatever idiots that care to get close to them.
If there is any agroupation in Germany that takes the advice of these litigious bastards about intellectual property seriously, they deserver wahtever happens to their IP.
If you are going to write about a world and environment your audience is familiar with, you can't go against the common sense of your readership.
In the example you have provided, we know from the start we should suspend all common sense since the author is going to make all up.
.. is that we remember his expedition as a noble failure (in spite of some people trying to paint him as a fool recently. A daring fool with vision that would be).
.... one is tangetially connected to the topic and the others are a dissertation about the moderation system.
Dude, you (and I) are off topic.
Somehow the words "high" "horse" "come" "down" are tickling my cerebelum.
.... how will we ever go out of the Solar system if it is not assuming that people will be born, live an die in space for many generations just to spread our species around the Galaxy?
Heck,we live and die in space, we are just too dumb to realize how fragile is our home. In stellar terms we here on Earth are just marginally better than the guys in the ISS or in a hypotetical trip to Mars.