come on...."longhorn" was used as a name to curry favor with the bush/texas crowd during the "penalty phase", now that they've utterly defeated the "justice" department, there is not need for a "longhorn" product. time to use decent, honorable, non-idiotic pacific northwest names again... </huh?>
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isn't it a bit odd that movie studios are aparently embracing linux to MAKE movies, but seem to desire it being illegal to VIEW the same movie on linux (via DVD) ?
"There is a backlash against Slashdot from many slashdoters and slashdotees, who fear it is increasingly becoming the AOL of the net world with respect to its dominance and attitude," said Fullakra P, Fudmeister of Cluster pucks, in Gomers, N.C.
guess I was sorta thinking of the ability to just change an EULA "after the fact" in general. consumers would not tolerate that from traditional retailers, and I suspect the courts wouldn't either.
seems the license change scheme in place at ms and others is not unlike bait and switch retail tactics. bring the customer in thinking they are going to get product a in a good deal and they end up with something similar but different, and the vender makes are larger profit due to the switch. I once long ago worked for a retailer that got busted for this, we advertised a product we would barely stock, the customer would come in, we would be out, and the saleman would sell them the private label "just like" product in which we had a large margin on. is changing a license "at will" so much different than this, and isn't the point of the change to devripe previous right, and force the purchase of a future product/service?
This will become DMCA hell for the administrators, all that pirating of books by the students, stealing an education from the mouths of the publishers.
will the thievery ever end? the horror!!!
"Students have required two things: They want mobile access to everything and, No. 2, they want media-rich content," Paustian said.
on #2, is this code for "embed Star Wars trailers into boring accounting 101 texts"?
ZD, who helped Microsoft kill OS/2 with extreme prejudice will SURELY get some assistance in staying afloat from their former hive member, right? I mean friends help friends in trouble, right?
I have about 75 burned disks in my possession, and many friends who tape live shows (legally with band permission, hell they let then jack into the soundboard) who have hundreds of discs. and not one single one of these thousands (in total) would fall under what RIAA is whining about.
yeah, all music is RIAA property... these people are pathetic swindlers who see their soulless house of cards falling down around them...
and somehow my legislators are supposed to ensure them a living?
I don't have an apple dev connection account, but I just signed up for an iTools account with a new iMac. it asked me if I was 18 or older.
Could it be that this kid was asked, and said yes?
Seems there isn't much that can be done, other than he will have to provide code to someone older to perhaps submit for him until he becomes legal age.
All these years later and netscape and ie still don't multithread their image downloads, the FIRST release of the OS/2 Web Explorer allowed you do specify how many separate download threads to use (up to 8), and you'd get a seperate counter for all the threads, and they would all MIRACULOUSLY be spinning CONCURRENTLY. Such feats of computing still appear to be beyond the software wizards of today.
But alas it didn't do the gotta-have javascript, and IBM decided that it would be better to drop the Web Explorer and port Netscape, which was so far behind it's non-os2 counterparts that it was discouraging to users.
Of course when Microsoft PROHIBITED the IBM PC Company from pre-installing OS/2 EVEN ON THEIR OWN PC's, OS/2's death was certain.
I don't see a single desktop system in use today that multithreaded like OS/2. (Amiga perhaps?). Personally I find that pretty pathetic. But not suprising in an industry that locked itself into the Operating System equivilent to the Ford Pinto, exploding gastank and all, when a Mercedes was available for the same damn price.
rant over...next one due at 20 year anniversary of OS/2...when I suspect I'll be able to just cut and paste this one and have it be relevent. Innovation my ass, ms.
go ahead and replace HTTP, just make sure it's not an open standard. there HAS to be a way for MS to turn the net into a tollway, using a dmca protected, closed protocol could help make that a reality.
can they make it so we can be arrested for using the standard for purposes that are competetive (or maybe disrespecting) to MS? that would be the way-coolest.
And even though Microsoft is working on the problem too, Box did say that Microsoft is unlikely to succeed alone.
oh, nevermind...it's a team effort. nothing to worry about;-)
Phones have been MUCH too reliable, all these years of picking one up and dialing and having it work has become boring. I welcome the challenge of having to press Y-E-S for the EULA, then again when it forgets, or after every battery charge, whichever comes first. and re-entering my most-used numbers over and over and over.
I most welcome the thought of being in restaurants and getting to hear microsoft-based ringtones from all corners when important people are doing important people business with their way cool new phones.
this also creates the opportunity for the linux community to provide alternate phone technology that will suck less.
my old bbs (and others) did this in the fidonet days of yore.
you could only download if you uploaded, usually the ratio was like for every 5 you download, you had to upload 1, and it would hold you to it. of course it didn't restrict you from uploading something useless, then again, there were never any guarantees that the 5 you got had any worth either.
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come on...."longhorn" was used as a name to curry favor with the bush/texas crowd during the "penalty phase", now that they've utterly defeated the "justice" department, there is not need for a "longhorn" product. time to use decent, honorable, non-idiotic pacific northwest names again...
</huh?>
isn't it a bit odd that movie studios are aparently embracing linux to MAKE movies, but seem to desire it being illegal to VIEW the same movie on linux (via DVD) ?
how can you put any value on anything said by someone responsible for the utter crap that is star wars, episode x?
Delaware lost it's Slashdot stripe long ago via a click-through EULA.
Once DB2 is installed it take no less time to "whip up" a database than it does with mySQL.
;-)
DB2's "robustness" just does not make this sort of task any more complex, just more "robust"
thought i'd scoop you on this story.
"There is a backlash against Slashdot from many slashdoters and slashdotees, who fear it is increasingly becoming the AOL of the net world with respect to its dominance and attitude," said Fullakra P, Fudmeister of Cluster pucks, in Gomers, N.C.
guess I was sorta thinking of the ability to just change an EULA "after the fact" in general. consumers would not tolerate that from traditional retailers, and I suspect the courts wouldn't either.
seems the license change scheme in place at ms and others is not unlike bait and switch retail tactics. bring the customer in thinking they are going to get product a in a good deal and they end up with something similar but different, and the vender makes are larger profit due to the switch. I once long ago worked for a retailer that got busted for this, we advertised a product we would barely stock, the customer would come in, we would be out, and the saleman would sell them the private label "just like" product in which we had a large margin on. is changing a license "at will" so much different than this, and isn't the point of the change to devripe previous right, and force the purchase of a future product/service?
will the thievery ever end? the horror!!!
"Students have required two things: They want mobile access to everything and, No. 2, they
want media-rich content," Paustian said.
on #2, is this code for "embed Star Wars trailers into boring accounting 101 texts"?
ZD, who helped Microsoft kill OS/2 with extreme prejudice will SURELY get some assistance in staying afloat from their former hive member, right? I mean friends help friends in trouble, right?
this is easy.....and not up for discussion ;-)
:-)
Gone but not forgotten...
1. Grateful Dead
2. Jimi Hendrix Experience
3. The Who
4. Stones
5. Nirvana
and currently:
1. Yonder Mountain String Band
2. too far back to identify
Is this the same Hollywod that sues to deny Linux & the open source community a DVD player?
What's up with that?
to comply with Consent Decrees, or to consider playing it's game on an even ballfield with it's opponents. very sad.
so did this guy speak his opinion on MSFT's 'copying' Stac's code/technology/IntellectualProperty, and if that was "piracy"? didn't think so.
yeah, all music is RIAA property... these people are pathetic swindlers who see their soulless house of cards falling down around them...
and somehow my legislators are supposed to ensure them a living?
good luck script kiddies
seems that those that are enfuriated by the once-a-year April fools postings could rather than complain, just take the day off from reading slashdot.
A local college in Kirkland, WA has a CS degree program, the entire program is a string of Microsoft Certification courses.
scary
I don't have an apple dev connection account, but I just signed up for an iTools account with a new iMac. it asked me if I was 18 or older.
Could it be that this kid was asked, and said yes?
Seems there isn't much that can be done, other than he will have to provide code to someone older to perhaps submit for him until he becomes legal age.
But alas it didn't do the gotta-have javascript, and IBM decided that it would be better to drop the Web Explorer and port Netscape, which was so far behind it's non-os2 counterparts that it was discouraging to users.
Of course when Microsoft PROHIBITED the IBM PC Company from pre-installing OS/2 EVEN ON THEIR OWN PC's, OS/2's death was certain.
I don't see a single desktop system in use today that multithreaded like OS/2. (Amiga perhaps?). Personally I find that pretty pathetic. But not suprising in an industry that locked itself into the Operating System equivilent to the Ford Pinto, exploding gastank and all, when a Mercedes was available for the same damn price.
rant over...next one due at 20 year anniversary of OS/2...when I suspect I'll be able to just cut and paste this one and have it be relevent. Innovation my ass, ms.
can they make it so we can be arrested for using the standard for purposes that are competetive (or maybe disrespecting) to MS? that would be the way-coolest.
And even though Microsoft is working on the problem too, Box did say that Microsoft is unlikely to succeed alone.
oh, nevermind...it's a team effort. nothing to worry about ;-)
Phones have been MUCH too reliable, all these years of picking one up and dialing and having it work has become boring. I welcome the challenge of having to press Y-E-S for the EULA, then again when it forgets, or after every battery charge, whichever comes first. and re-entering my most-used numbers over and over and over.
I most welcome the thought of being in restaurants and getting to hear microsoft-based ringtones from all corners when important people are doing important people business with their way cool new phones.
this also creates the opportunity for the linux community to provide alternate phone technology that will suck less.
does this mean linux can save a BILLION dollars next year running oracle?
you could only download if you uploaded, usually the ratio was like for every 5 you download, you had to upload 1, and it would hold you to it. of course it didn't restrict you from uploading something useless, then again, there were never any guarantees that the 5 you got had any worth either.
this is simply amazing, FreeBSD FINALLY on CD. Sure beats the 60+ floppy disk distribution I've been forced to use over the years.
</sarcasm>
Geez, who writes these bonehead headlines?