Remember when M$ bought Hotmail and switched from BSD to Windows and all the problems that have happened since then? Google runs on Linux, and if Microsoft buys Google and switches to Windows, Google will be slow and unreliable. Not to mention pay-for-placement will be introduced and totally ruin the only honest search engine out there today.
Microsoft is not releasing this widely until SP2 because they want to use it to get you to download SP2. Along with SP2 comes a brand new licensing agreement that nobody knows about yet.
I really don't think that breaking up Microsoft is the answer. It won't do anything.
Microsoft needs to be criminally punished. A company break up into an applications and windows division is pointless, not to mention that it won't work.
I used to support Microsoft in the trial, but ever since the other guy took over for Bill Gates, they have just gone too far.
Microsoft needs to be criminally punished with fines, not break-ups.
That gives us the right to tape shows whenever we want. But according the DMCA if they encrypt the shows you're violating the law trying to tape it. That's just wrong. The DMCA nullifies every fair use law out there.
Why don't we make the one and only Columbine lawsuit that will resolve everything. Rather than blame everything Klebold and Harris did in their spare time, why don't we sue their parents, teachers, and guidance counselors for not noticing that the kids needed help. That should solve everything.
A bit over a year ago, something similar happened to me. After being home-schooled for a year and a half, I decided to go back to school. I went to public school, since kids seem to be exactly the same in Catholic and public schools. One kid was bullying me, and I used the phrase "I'm gonna kill you!" Now I've said that all my life to people when I got pissed. The next day, I was unexpectedly called to the principals office, and learned about "death threats". "With all the violence in schools, you can't talk like that anymore". Talk about free speech.
True. With such laws/grey areas of law such as the DMCA and school violence, people would much rather not be held liable in court. ISPs will pull the plug on OpenNap servers, and schools will expell kids with little or no evidence. Sounds like being guilty until proven innocent, which is exactly what our Constitution forbids.
This is the lamest thing I have seen. Maybe he is just trying to get you to send money to his former company. Until human life depends entirely on technology, which will never happen, the ICANN will not be a world government.
No matter what we do, the government/corporations/lobbies/authority/etc always seem to find a way around it. And then we find a way around that. It's a cycle that repeats itself until they win.
I've been waiting for a very long time for someone to say this. It's the busy soccer moms and the straight-outta-college teachers that talk to chalkboards who cause this. And as a constantly bullied high school junior, I can say that video games and hard music actually help relieve anger and stress, not cause you to take it out on others.
I don't know, but I've always found AOL a bigger anti-trust than Microsoft. They own the (censored) Internet, they own Instant Messaging (and the phrase "Instant Messaging" until a recent court decision), and hell, I'd much rather use Yahoo, but all my friends are on AOL, and they won't allow it.
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Anyone see the Man Show with Oprah and the "Handheld Shoulder Massager"?
Remember when M$ bought Hotmail and switched from BSD to Windows and all the problems that have happened since then? Google runs on Linux, and if Microsoft buys Google and switches to Windows, Google will be slow and unreliable. Not to mention pay-for-placement will be introduced and totally ruin the only honest search engine out there today.
Microsoft is not releasing this widely until SP2 because they want to use it to get you to download SP2. Along with SP2 comes a brand new licensing agreement that nobody knows about yet.
I really don't think that breaking up Microsoft is the answer. It won't do anything.
Microsoft needs to be criminally punished. A company break up into an applications and windows division is pointless, not to mention that it won't work.
I used to support Microsoft in the trial, but ever since the other guy took over for Bill Gates, they have just gone too far.
Microsoft needs to be criminally punished with fines, not break-ups.
Subliminal messages in books? Never heard of that.
Maybe the RIAA cloned the fungus so we buy more CDs.
That gives us the right to tape shows whenever we want. But according the DMCA if they encrypt the shows you're violating the law trying to tape it. That's just wrong. The DMCA nullifies every fair use law out there.
Why don't we make the one and only Columbine lawsuit that will resolve everything. Rather than blame everything Klebold and Harris did in their spare time, why don't we sue their parents, teachers, and guidance counselors for not noticing that the kids needed help. That should solve everything.
A bit over a year ago, something similar happened to me. After being home-schooled for a year and a half, I decided to go back to school. I went to public school, since kids seem to be exactly the same in Catholic and public schools. One kid was bullying me, and I used the phrase "I'm gonna kill you!" Now I've said that all my life to people when I got pissed. The next day, I was unexpectedly called to the principals office, and learned about "death threats". "With all the violence in schools, you can't talk like that anymore". Talk about free speech.
True. With such laws/grey areas of law such as the DMCA and school violence, people would much rather not be held liable in court. ISPs will pull the plug on OpenNap servers, and schools will expell kids with little or no evidence. Sounds like being guilty until proven innocent, which is exactly what our Constitution forbids.
This is the lamest thing I have seen. Maybe he is just trying to get you to send money to his former company. Until human life depends entirely on technology, which will never happen, the ICANN will not be a world government.
No matter what we do, the government/corporations/lobbies/authority/etc always seem to find a way around it. And then we find a way around that. It's a cycle that repeats itself until they win.
I've been waiting for a very long time for someone to say this. It's the busy soccer moms and the straight-outta-college teachers that talk to chalkboards who cause this. And as a constantly bullied high school junior, I can say that video games and hard music actually help relieve anger and stress, not cause you to take it out on others.
I don't know, but I've always found AOL a bigger anti-trust than Microsoft. They own the (censored) Internet, they own Instant Messaging (and the phrase "Instant Messaging" until a recent court decision), and hell, I'd much rather use Yahoo, but all my friends are on AOL, and they won't allow it.