On Apprentice last year, Trump warned Sam, that as a crazy marketing genius if he wasn't careful he could run a company - even one the size of IBM - down to the ground.
Trump should know - after all he has done that lots of times himself.
All of the very hard-core Linux users I know (myself included) are strictly anti-piracy. It also helps that we have decent jobs; it's harder to justify "stealing" a $10 album when you can easily afford to buy it. That's not to say that Linux-using pirates don't exist. I simply have never met any. Windows users often seem to have stolen copies of games, movies, software, etc. They have a culture of piracy that we thankfully don't seem to have in Linux circles.
Nice attempt at painting with a broad brush there. Pity you're not accurate.
Windows XP supports all those silly buttons without any extra software having to run in the background.
No, it doesn't. Not on all keyboards, on all systems. And not for all buttons.
Don't forget; this isn't a question of changing the way existing things work so that they work the right way and do the right things - it's a matter of coming up with a solution which works even if there is plenty of software out there that does things wrong.
The name of the game is compatibility and robustness. Elegance and correctness are secondary.
Clearing out those keys may well ruin someone's system - remember, most people don't know how their system works enough to repair the damage.
As for your other suggestion... isn't that what most anti-Spyware software does?
Plug into a published (long before beta1) API, using WMI/WBEM. Even Symantec still haven't got it fixed for some versions of their pile of poo scanner.
They do have it working. The really scary thing is that they actually explicitly PREVENT it from reporting to Windows the status of the AV software. If you try to change that, it pops up a window which says (something along the lines of) that "Norton AV is monitoring your system", and there's a check box which says "Report status to other systems (recommend that you DO NOT do this)".
Kind of shitty of them really. Especially as you have to go through hoops to get their LiveUpdate system to automatically download AV signature file updates - it's not enabled by default.
The -key deletes the entire key and all its values, then the next line will re-create an empty key in its place. Your system will run fine with nothing starting up and nothing hooking the explorer process. I'm sure there are other keys but these 3 are big. ... and watch as people start complaining because their Gateway keyboard stops letting them play CDs using the "Play" button on it. Or check their email.
Well, since copying CDs from the library and downloading music is expressly permitted in Canada (and sharing has not been deemed illegal), I cannot very well be a criminal, dont'cha think?
Unless you uploaded too, which if you used Kazaa or Napster or any similar app, you did.
What bullshit. Guys like you claim that the majority of the human race consists of assholes simply because you yourself would do these things and can't stand the idea that you're in a morally deficient minority.
I'm one of the few people I know who doesn't pirate software, or copy music online. I buy all my CDs in stores. I buy all my DVDs and VHS tapes - I don't pirate them.
I don't do these things - but hey, keep projecting your own feelings of guilt onto me.
And no, I don't think that most people are assholes - or that they maliciously do this to hurt artists. I do, however, believe that they don't consider the consequences, see that it's so easy to break the law that they can't see why it's stealing, and so steal other peoples' property in this way.
Which is great, except that most people don't seem to have the slightest clue what that really means. Fair use does not, no matter how you paint it, mean that you can copy a CD as many times as you like and share it over Napster to the whole world.
However, the more people confuse "fair use" with "what I want to do", the less likely it is that the more egregious provisions of the DMCA will ever get struck down.
Your fiinger must have slipped; you mean the RIAA , no?
That is a contract issue - not a copyright law issue. Please don't try to mix them up. Even if the RIAA did not exist, the copyright problem from file sharing still would. Ask any garage software developer from the 80s or 90s - people still pirated their stuff, even though there wasn't a big bad corporation to rally against.
This whole RIAA argument is just a big white elephant designed to distract people from the real reason people copy other peoples' work - they want it for free, and they're freeloaders.
Stealing a song on a CD is not stealing. It's copyright infringement. You oughta get off your yankee property rights are paramount high-horse, the whole planet doesn't think like you do
Yup, it protects the tiny minority of RIAA members against the hordes of savage, uncircumsized file-sharers...
No, it protects the tiny minority of creative authors, software engineers, musicians, artists etc. from those who view their work as having ZERO value - namely, file sharers.
It's not ethical or moral to steal others work - regardless of whether or not you disagree with the RIAA.
If you thought this whole filesharing thing was a civil disobedience movement, then I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. It's not. A boycott would have EXACTLY the same if not more of an impact - because they wouldn't be able to say that you're just copying music because you're cheap and have loose enough morals that stealing doesn't bother you.
You are comparing fat cat CEO's lining their pockets by denying the masses the right to information with the plight of minorities? I think that a disingenuous line of reasoning.
No, I'm comparing the masses freeloading off the hard work of others (musicians, artists, software engineers, writers) by stealing their work and then trying to legitimize it by saying that information should be free with that of minorities who were treated as slaves.
It's the same thing. Just because a huge group of people think something should be that way - namely that artists are not people who deserve compensation, or that slaves are not people at all - doesn't mean it's right.
That's why we have judges. Because the majority viewpoint is not necessarily fair, right or good. In fact, most humans will take whatever's not nailed down if you let them.
Lets make a better deal, abolish copyright and then the GPL and all other licenses won't be necessary. I like that better, lets go for it all it takes is a simple majority vote to repeal the copyright bill and we are there.
Fortunately, the United States legal system is designed to work against mob rule like that. It's meant to protect minorities, even if the majority think that things should be otherwise.
Nothing too far out of the ordinary, but it's interesting that the site was totally quiet during the St Helens activity. Now that the Helens activity has decreased by about 10%, Rainer has acted up a little.
I don't know what webicorder readings you've been watching, but you're reading them wrong. As St. Helens webicorders reached saturation, the Rainier ones started registering the quakes from St. Helens.
It is interesting scientifically, and historically, but if I see one flashy graphic on fox or msnbc like "Fire in the hole", "Go with the flow", or "Magma-nificent" Im gonna go back to reading books.
Just wait until you see these then when it finally goes...
Red Hot Moneyshot! Ejaculation! Pyroclastic Diahrrea! Baking Soda + Vinegar!
Google news summary: News results for mount st. helens - View today's top stories Mount St. Helens Alert Status Increased - Slashdot - 9 minutes ago Experts Predict Mount St. Helens Eruption - ABC News - 10 minutes ago
Yes, that's right./. beat ABC news to the story. Take that!
Most of them are just echoes from Mt. St. Helens - you can tell by the secondary shape at the end of the burst (different waves travel at different speeds, and the further separated they are, the further away the epicenter is...)
Close all files and halt takes how long? It's doing something else. Even Microsoft isn't that bad.
If you're so allegedly smart, figure it out and let us know what it *is* doing. Don't just guess and talk bullshit the way you are now. Provide evidence for your position.
There is an arrogance that Microsoft knows best that is implicit in that statement. Whether or not it is actually safe to turn off the computer is very much outside of Microsoft's knowledge. In fact the safest thing to do when a system is acting bonkers is to hit reset or the power switch on old computers or pulling the power plug or removing the battery on new compouter where the power switch is no longer functional. The reasoning goes that when the system has its brains scrambled it desperately wants to write those scrambled brains to disk and thus perpetuate the scramble.
That message merely indicates that the OS has halted in a known state where all files have been closed, and the OS is no longer running.
It only appears on systems which cannot automatically turn their own power off.
Resetting due to a crash has nothing to do with turning the power off - which is the only time you'll get that message.
From a usability point of view, it was a pretty good improvement, especially the spam handling, but with a fairly large message store, it took at least an order of magnitude longer to access folders, etc, in O2k3 than OE.
The first time you open the folder, it takes time to index it. After it completes indexing, it's much faster. If you don't allow the system to complete indexing before navigating away from a folder, it'll need to do it again next time you open the folder.
If you don't want to take the time, instead of opening existing PST files in Outlook, create a new one and import the contents of the older one into it - which will do the indexing for you.
After it has finished indexing, it's as fast - or sometimes even faster - as previous versions.
If I recall, this was innovative when they first came up with the idea several years ago, in order to distance themselves from Outlook. Once again, it would be Microsoft that took the idea, not Evolution.
Outlook 95 - released in, unsurprisingly, 1995 - has the GUI that Evolution has today. Evolution wasn't even started until 1999. The first version copied the Outlook 98 GUI down to the letter.
Later versions include the Outlook 2000 Dashboard features.
Evolution 1.4.6 (the version before today's released version) still looks exactly like Outlook 2000. And not at all like the copy of Outlook 2003 that Evolution 2.0 looks like.
I'm not talking about people who would have bought it, but chose the free route only because its available.. that's different, and I DO agree they are freeloaders in that case. However you cannot ( honestly ) assume that just because someone got it for free, it cost you a sale. 95% of the time it has not. That is reality.. not a fallacy...
Yes, I honestly can. Again, if it had no value to them, they wouldn't copy it. Therefore, they're taking something of value without paying for it.
So yes, they're freeloaders, pure and simple. And yes, it cost a sale.
If you really want to convince me otherwise, address that central point - if it had no value, they wouldn't want to copy it.
The irony is even if everyone did buy the game. Your employer wouldn't give you a penny more in wages. But i'm sure your employer likes you fighting the capitalist fight anyways. Unless you are the Employer/Capitalist of course.
Hmm... last games company I worked for had this little thing called "profit sharing", where employees would get a considerable chunk of the profits on any game, scaled by performance, but with a base floor.
Even a poor performing division of the company would make $4k of bonuses per year for every employee, plus the merit amount.
( while that was a joke, i think you will find taht if you make a quality product that is worth buying, you really dont lose anything via 'piracy'. A person that was not going to buy your product anyway isnt a lost sale to you.. so you didnt lose anything. )
Which is a fallacy. If my quality product has no value to that person, why would they copy it at all? Obviously it has some value to them - just not the value I set (or the other option is that they want to steal it and get it for free).
It all comes down to them not wanting to pay for it, but wanting to take it anyway. Which is generally regarded as freeloading or stealing in most if not all societies on this planet.
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On Apprentice last year, Trump warned Sam, that as a crazy marketing genius if he wasn't careful he could run a company - even one the size of IBM - down to the ground.
Trump should know - after all he has done that lots of times himself.
All of the very hard-core Linux users I know (myself included) are strictly anti-piracy. It also helps that we have decent jobs; it's harder to justify "stealing" a $10 album when you can easily afford to buy it. That's not to say that Linux-using pirates don't exist. I simply have never met any. Windows users often seem to have stolen copies of games, movies, software, etc. They have a culture of piracy that we thankfully don't seem to have in Linux circles.
Nice attempt at painting with a broad brush there. Pity you're not accurate.
Windows XP supports all those silly buttons without any extra software having to run in the background.
No, it doesn't. Not on all keyboards, on all systems. And not for all buttons.
Don't forget; this isn't a question of changing the way existing things work so that they work the right way and do the right things - it's a matter of coming up with a solution which works even if there is plenty of software out there that does things wrong.
The name of the game is compatibility and robustness. Elegance and correctness are secondary.
Clearing out those keys may well ruin someone's system - remember, most people don't know how their system works enough to repair the damage.
As for your other suggestion... isn't that what most anti-Spyware software does?
Plug into a published (long before beta1) API, using WMI/WBEM. Even Symantec still haven't got it fixed for some versions of their pile of poo scanner.
They do have it working. The really scary thing is that they actually explicitly PREVENT it from reporting to Windows the status of the AV software. If you try to change that, it pops up a window which says (something along the lines of) that "Norton AV is monitoring your system", and there's a check box which says "Report status to other systems (recommend that you DO NOT do this)".
Kind of shitty of them really. Especially as you have to go through hoops to get their LiveUpdate system to automatically download AV signature file updates - it's not enabled by default.
Lame lame lame lame lame.
The -key deletes the entire key and all its values, then the next line will re-create an empty key in its place. Your system will run fine with nothing starting up and nothing hooking the explorer process. I'm sure there are other keys but these 3 are big.
... and watch as people start complaining because their Gateway keyboard stops letting them play CDs using the "Play" button on it. Or check their email.
Your solution needs to be more discriminatory.
Well, since copying CDs from the library and downloading music is expressly permitted in Canada (and sharing has not been deemed illegal), I cannot very well be a criminal, dont'cha think?
Unless you uploaded too, which if you used Kazaa or Napster or any similar app, you did.
But being a limey seemingly doesn't prevent you from being a tightass like those yankees
Hmm... I don't recall respecting others property and not stealing things making anyone a tightass, criminal.
What bullshit. Guys like you claim that the majority of the human race consists of assholes simply because you yourself would do these things and can't stand the idea that you're in a morally deficient minority.
I'm one of the few people I know who doesn't pirate software, or copy music online. I buy all my CDs in stores. I buy all my DVDs and VHS tapes - I don't pirate them.
I don't do these things - but hey, keep projecting your own feelings of guilt onto me.
And no, I don't think that most people are assholes - or that they maliciously do this to hurt artists. I do, however, believe that they don't consider the consequences, see that it's so easy to break the law that they can't see why it's stealing, and so steal other peoples' property in this way.
Except for fair use rights.
Which is great, except that most people don't seem to have the slightest clue what that really means. Fair use does not, no matter how you paint it, mean that you can copy a CD as many times as you like and share it over Napster to the whole world.
However, the more people confuse "fair use" with "what I want to do", the less likely it is that the more egregious provisions of the DMCA will ever get struck down.
Your fiinger must have slipped; you mean the RIAA , no?
That is a contract issue - not a copyright law issue. Please don't try to mix them up. Even if the RIAA did not exist, the copyright problem from file sharing still would. Ask any garage software developer from the 80s or 90s - people still pirated their stuff, even though there wasn't a big bad corporation to rally against.
This whole RIAA argument is just a big white elephant designed to distract people from the real reason people copy other peoples' work - they want it for free, and they're freeloaders.
Stealing a song on a CD is not stealing. It's copyright infringement. You oughta get off your yankee property rights are paramount high-horse, the whole planet doesn't think like you do
I'm British, dickwad.
Yup, it protects the tiny minority of RIAA members against the hordes of savage, uncircumsized file-sharers...
No, it protects the tiny minority of creative authors, software engineers, musicians, artists etc. from those who view their work as having ZERO value - namely, file sharers.
It's not ethical or moral to steal others work - regardless of whether or not you disagree with the RIAA.
If you thought this whole filesharing thing was a civil disobedience movement, then I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. It's not. A boycott would have EXACTLY the same if not more of an impact - because they wouldn't be able to say that you're just copying music because you're cheap and have loose enough morals that stealing doesn't bother you.
You are comparing fat cat CEO's lining their pockets by denying the masses the right to information with the plight of minorities? I think that a disingenuous line of reasoning.
No, I'm comparing the masses freeloading off the hard work of others (musicians, artists, software engineers, writers) by stealing their work and then trying to legitimize it by saying that information should be free with that of minorities who were treated as slaves.
It's the same thing. Just because a huge group of people think something should be that way - namely that artists are not people who deserve compensation, or that slaves are not people at all - doesn't mean it's right.
That's why we have judges. Because the majority viewpoint is not necessarily fair, right or good. In fact, most humans will take whatever's not nailed down if you let them.
Lets make a better deal, abolish copyright and then the GPL and all other licenses won't be necessary. I like that better, lets go for it all it takes is a simple majority vote to repeal the copyright bill and we are there.
Fortunately, the United States legal system is designed to work against mob rule like that. It's meant to protect minorities, even if the majority think that things should be otherwise.
This is why people of color are not slaves today.
Nothing too far out of the ordinary, but it's interesting that the site was totally quiet during the St Helens activity. Now that the Helens activity has decreased by about 10%, Rainer has acted up a little.
I don't know what webicorder readings you've been watching, but you're reading them wrong. As St. Helens webicorders reached saturation, the Rainier ones started registering the quakes from St. Helens.
It is interesting scientifically, and historically, but if I see one flashy graphic on fox or msnbc like "Fire in the hole", "Go with the flow", or "Magma-nificent" Im gonna go back to reading books.
Just wait until you see these then when it finally goes...
Red Hot Moneyshot!
Ejaculation!
Pyroclastic Diahrrea!
Baking Soda + Vinegar!
Google news summary:
/. beat ABC news to the story. Take that!
News results for mount st. helens - View today's top stories
Mount St. Helens Alert Status Increased - Slashdot - 9 minutes ago
Experts Predict Mount St. Helens Eruption - ABC News - 10 minutes ago
Yes, that's right.
MSNBC posted this story yesterday.
Most of them are just echoes from Mt. St. Helens - you can tell by the secondary shape at the end of the burst (different waves travel at different speeds, and the further separated they are, the further away the epicenter is...)
Close all files and halt takes how long?
It's doing something else. Even Microsoft isn't that bad.
If you're so allegedly smart, figure it out and let us know what it *is* doing. Don't just guess and talk bullshit the way you are now. Provide evidence for your position.
There is an arrogance that Microsoft knows best that is implicit in that statement. Whether or not it is actually safe to turn off the computer is very much outside of Microsoft's knowledge. In fact the safest thing to do when a system is acting bonkers is to hit reset or the power switch on old computers or pulling the power plug or removing the battery on new compouter where the power switch is no longer functional. The reasoning goes that when the system has its brains scrambled it desperately wants to write those scrambled brains to disk and thus perpetuate the scramble.
That message merely indicates that the OS has halted in a known state where all files have been closed, and the OS is no longer running.
It only appears on systems which cannot automatically turn their own power off.
Resetting due to a crash has nothing to do with turning the power off - which is the only time you'll get that message.
Please learn the difference.
From a usability point of view, it was a pretty good improvement, especially the spam handling, but with a fairly large message store, it took at least an order of magnitude longer to access folders, etc, in O2k3 than OE.
The first time you open the folder, it takes time to index it. After it completes indexing, it's much faster. If you don't allow the system to complete indexing before navigating away from a folder, it'll need to do it again next time you open the folder.
If you don't want to take the time, instead of opening existing PST files in Outlook, create a new one and import the contents of the older one into it - which will do the indexing for you.
After it has finished indexing, it's as fast - or sometimes even faster - as previous versions.
If I recall, this was innovative when they first came up with the idea several years ago, in order to distance themselves from Outlook. Once again, it would be Microsoft that took the idea, not Evolution.
Outlook 95 - released in, unsurprisingly, 1995 - has the GUI that Evolution has today. Evolution wasn't even started until 1999. The first version copied the Outlook 98 GUI down to the letter.
Later versions include the Outlook 2000 Dashboard features.
Evolution 1.4.6 (the version before today's released version) still looks exactly like Outlook 2000. And not at all like the copy of Outlook 2003 that Evolution 2.0 looks like.
1.4.6 screenshot
Outlook 2000 with Dashboard
Fair use and time limits are paramount to the point of IP laws.
Fair use, however, does not mean "I don't want to pay for it, so I can copy it whenever I want".
I'm not talking about people who would have bought it, but chose the free route only because its available.. that's different, and I DO agree they are freeloaders in that case. However you cannot ( honestly ) assume that just because someone got it for free, it cost you a sale. 95% of the time it has not. That is reality.. not a fallacy...
Yes, I honestly can. Again, if it had no value to them, they wouldn't copy it. Therefore, they're taking something of value without paying for it.
So yes, they're freeloaders, pure and simple. And yes, it cost a sale.
If you really want to convince me otherwise, address that central point - if it had no value, they wouldn't want to copy it.
The irony is even if everyone did buy the game. Your employer wouldn't give you a penny more in wages. But i'm sure your employer likes you fighting the capitalist fight anyways. Unless you are the Employer/Capitalist of course.
Hmm... last games company I worked for had this little thing called "profit sharing", where employees would get a considerable chunk of the profits on any game, scaled by performance, but with a base floor.
Even a poor performing division of the company would make $4k of bonuses per year for every employee, plus the merit amount.
( while that was a joke, i think you will find taht if you make a quality product that is worth buying, you really dont lose anything via 'piracy'. A person that was not going to buy your product anyway isnt a lost sale to you.. so you didnt lose anything. )
Which is a fallacy. If my quality product has no value to that person, why would they copy it at all? Obviously it has some value to them - just not the value I set (or the other option is that they want to steal it and get it for free).
It all comes down to them not wanting to pay for it, but wanting to take it anyway. Which is generally regarded as freeloading or stealing in most if not all societies on this planet.