I don't really understand why the response to this supposed "abuse of monopoly power" is to force them to default to a competitor. To me, that seems very silly, regardless of whether the company in question is a monopoly or not.
The correct response is that IE7 should have an easily changable search setting. And that users can put Google in there if they want. But Microsoft really shouldn't be forced to set it to Google if they don't want to.
You make the assumption that they are sneaking you to a specific search engine. I haven't used IE7 but I'm guessing that it's pretty obvious you are using MSN search when you use that feature.
Why would you have sympathy? He configured his keyboard to run repeatable tasks, then walked away from the game. In all the MMOGs I've played, that's botting and is an easy and clear way to get suspended or banned.
Maybe Blizzard could handle it with more tact, but the end result would still be the same. He botted, he got caught, he got banned.
There was no printing press before Gutenberg. Copying books was extremely time consuming prior to that, and even after the printing press I'm sure it was still tedious for some time. Wholescale copying was not feasible prior to this invention.
Every console manufacturer makes money from the sales of software, not the sales of hardware. Giving modders full blessing is actually a lose situation for Microsoft, as those people will buy hardware (which loses money) without buying much (if any?) software.
Somewhat related was that 800 accounts across all the servers in FFXI were banned last night, mainly for participating in currency selling along the lines of what IGE does. Some of said accounts were most definitely tied to IGE.
The OSS advocates that are against running open source software on Windows are hypocrites. They proclaim that it is all about freedom, but by trying to prevent you from using a given tool on a given platform, they are taking away the very freedom they claim OSS has.
I think that all the games listed are innovative and creative in some standout way (except Keen).
Doom had multiplayer which none of its forebears had.
Quake was the game that drove 3D hardware acceptance.
BF1942 and Counterstrike are only similar if you say they are FPS games. And BF1942 has vehicles. If you wanted to say "BF1942: *** meets WWII", use Tribes instead of Counterstrike.
GTA (yes, even the first 2) took different genres and made games that are greater than the sum of the parts.
If the guy's site was www.mysite.com and had the same content, Falwell would have no recourse. This ruling isn't about the pure content, but rather the site's use of the domain to trick people into going to it.
What does Windows 2000 have to do with your hospital's choice of database engine? I guess it's just convenient to blame the OS if the problem is Sybase or Oracle or SAP.
Does using Linux magically make bad software go away? If your answer is yes, you are living in a fantasy world.
I might agree to your "GNU is the operating system", except how much of the OS components (drivers, applications, tools) are really GNU software? 10%, 20%, more? There are so many pieces to the OS puzzle that giving the credit to one group seems silly to me.
I take issue with your "Trademark 101" statement. If generic names can't be trademarked, then it looks like Apple has 10 of them at least that should be invalidated.
I had gone to check to see if "Apple" was trademarked by them, but it isn't. It's a restricted mark. However, "Panther", "Develop", and "Techno" are all trademarked.
What is wrong with being self-interested? They are a business after all. It's their mission to get people to purchase their products. If they think that allowing people to update their pirated copy in the event that down the road they buy a legit copy is a good idea for the company, why is that a bad decision for them?
He also claimed that if they gave a statistic saying 10,000 people pirated a $5,000 piece of software, it wouldn't actually equate $50 million in losses because many of those people wouldn't have purchased the product in the first place. That's what I was arguing against. You just can't say that, because it actually legitimizes piracy. "Oh, I can't buy this anyway, so it's ok for me to steal it!"
It's pretty funny that the Playstation 2 has done as well as it has. Yes, you're right, the PSX was much easier to develop for than the Saturn. With the PS2 though, development was much more difficult than even the Saturn.
Regardless, there are 2 factors you didn't take into account: time to market, and cost of games. Since the PSP is essentially a mini-PS2, complete with large capacity discs, the overall development time and cost for PSP games will be substantially larger than for GBA games. Longer development time = less games. To offset the larger incurred costs, expect PSP games to be on-average more similar to it's console brethren than portable competitors. I think those 2 factors will determine whether the PSP (and DS possibly) succeeds. I wouldn't be surprised if at the end of the day, the GBA is still left standing as the winner, even against a system from the same company.
A better comparison would be that you own Stu's Shoes, and make a pair of sneakers called Beebok. Now is that an infringement of the Reebok mark? I dont't think so, if they only claim it as a company name and not a product name.
I could see possibly needing to fix something on an NTFS drive, but wouldn't the case of migrating files already be solved by the read-only NTFS driver?
Yes, the typical front end interface looks a lot like iTunes on the Mac, except they use more Windows-centric fonts. However, I give them kudos that the menus and configuration dialog boxes are all standard looking Windows dialog boxes rather than the crummy half Windows/half Mac dialog boxes from their Quicktime players.
ActiveX controls are really just DLLs with specific hooks for the container apps (like IE) to load them and create the classes from. They are not processes.
Also, what Task Manager are you using as an example that hides executables? Windows 98? I've never seen/noticed/etc a missing process in the 2000/XP Task Manager.
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I don't really understand why the response to this supposed "abuse of monopoly power" is to force them to default to a competitor. To me, that seems very silly, regardless of whether the company in question is a monopoly or not.
The correct response is that IE7 should have an easily changable search setting. And that users can put Google in there if they want. But Microsoft really shouldn't be forced to set it to Google if they don't want to.
You make the assumption that they are sneaking you to a specific search engine. I haven't used IE7 but I'm guessing that it's pretty obvious you are using MSN search when you use that feature.
Why would you have sympathy? He configured his keyboard to run repeatable tasks, then walked away from the game. In all the MMOGs I've played, that's botting and is an easy and clear way to get suspended or banned.
Maybe Blizzard could handle it with more tact, but the end result would still be the same. He botted, he got caught, he got banned.
There was no printing press before Gutenberg. Copying books was extremely time consuming prior to that, and even after the printing press I'm sure it was still tedious for some time. Wholescale copying was not feasible prior to this invention.
Seriously, do you tell yourself this every night in order to justify stealing?
Every console manufacturer makes money from the sales of software, not the sales of hardware. Giving modders full blessing is actually a lose situation for Microsoft, as those people will buy hardware (which loses money) without buying much (if any?) software.
Somewhat related was that 800 accounts across all the servers in FFXI were banned last night, mainly for participating in currency selling along the lines of what IGE does. Some of said accounts were most definitely tied to IGE.
The OSS advocates that are against running open source software on Windows are hypocrites. They proclaim that it is all about freedom, but by trying to prevent you from using a given tool on a given platform, they are taking away the very freedom they claim OSS has.
And of course, the irony of it is (as was said in previous posts), the SDL is basically just a wrapper for DirectX on Windows.
Innovative and creative doesn't mean 100% unique.
I think that all the games listed are innovative and creative in some standout way (except Keen).
Doom had multiplayer which none of its forebears had.
Quake was the game that drove 3D hardware acceptance.
BF1942 and Counterstrike are only similar if you say they are FPS games. And BF1942 has vehicles. If you wanted to say "BF1942: *** meets WWII", use Tribes instead of Counterstrike.
GTA (yes, even the first 2) took different genres and made games that are greater than the sum of the parts.
Wild Wild West is right next to Caesar's, I believe. Funny you bring up Vegas, because it reminds me of the strip-style casinos.
If the guy's site was www.mysite.com and had the same content, Falwell would have no recourse. This ruling isn't about the pure content, but rather the site's use of the domain to trick people into going to it.
Free speech isn't the issue here. Deception is.
What does Windows 2000 have to do with your hospital's choice of database engine? I guess it's just convenient to blame the OS if the problem is Sybase or Oracle or SAP.
Does using Linux magically make bad software go away? If your answer is yes, you are living in a fantasy world.
I might agree to your "GNU is the operating system", except how much of the OS components (drivers, applications, tools) are really GNU software? 10%, 20%, more? There are so many pieces to the OS puzzle that giving the credit to one group seems silly to me.
I take issue with your "Trademark 101" statement. If generic names can't be trademarked, then it looks like Apple has 10 of them at least that should be invalidated.
http://www.apple.com/legal/appletmlist.html
I had gone to check to see if "Apple" was trademarked by them, but it isn't. It's a restricted mark. However, "Panther", "Develop", and "Techno" are all trademarked.
What is wrong with being self-interested? They are a business after all. It's their mission to get people to purchase their products. If they think that allowing people to update their pirated copy in the event that down the road they buy a legit copy is a good idea for the company, why is that a bad decision for them?
He also claimed that if they gave a statistic saying 10,000 people pirated a $5,000 piece of software, it wouldn't actually equate $50 million in losses because many of those people wouldn't have purchased the product in the first place. That's what I was arguing against. You just can't say that, because it actually legitimizes piracy. "Oh, I can't buy this anyway, so it's ok for me to steal it!"
You can't legitimize piracy by saying the person who pirated the software wouldn't have bought the software anyway.
Look, I can't afford a Ferrari, but that doesn't make it OK for me to go out and steal one. (might be a bad example, but similar)
It's pretty funny that the Playstation 2 has done as well as it has. Yes, you're right, the PSX was much easier to develop for than the Saturn. With the PS2 though, development was much more difficult than even the Saturn.
Regardless, there are 2 factors you didn't take into account: time to market, and cost of games. Since the PSP is essentially a mini-PS2, complete with large capacity discs, the overall development time and cost for PSP games will be substantially larger than for GBA games. Longer development time = less games. To offset the larger incurred costs, expect PSP games to be on-average more similar to it's console brethren than portable competitors. I think those 2 factors will determine whether the PSP (and DS possibly) succeeds. I wouldn't be surprised if at the end of the day, the GBA is still left standing as the winner, even against a system from the same company.
Cross-licensing patents is a common occurrence between technology companies. There really isn't anything unusual there, I think.
Yeah, I understood how trademarks are applied to actual products, but I wasn't completely sure as to how the company name was related.
The very first "Reebok" trademark covers athletic shoes only, and there are many others that cover other sorts of products.
A better comparison would be that you own Stu's Shoes, and make a pair of sneakers called Beebok. Now is that an infringement of the Reebok mark? I dont't think so, if they only claim it as a company name and not a product name.
I could see possibly needing to fix something on an NTFS drive, but wouldn't the case of migrating files already be solved by the read-only NTFS driver?
Yes, the typical front end interface looks a lot like iTunes on the Mac, except they use more Windows-centric fonts. However, I give them kudos that the menus and configuration dialog boxes are all standard looking Windows dialog boxes rather than the crummy half Windows/half Mac dialog boxes from their Quicktime players.
If Windows came bundled with all the software that Linux did, you better believe everyone would be crying foul.
ActiveX controls are really just DLLs with specific hooks for the container apps (like IE) to load them and create the classes from. They are not processes.
Also, what Task Manager are you using as an example that hides executables? Windows 98? I've never seen/noticed/etc a missing process in the 2000/XP Task Manager.