funny but you're saying microsoft is clean, apple is clean and efficient, and ibm is just plain nasty
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Simple. They are idiots. They are trying to sell thier player and also license their server. Sounds like a good strategy to make money but if their player is not free it will eventually be shunned and ignore by everyone. I'm not sure how much money they make selling the player but they would make a whole lot more if their player was free (and spyware free) and their server was expensive
give it up. The slashdot crowd didn't mind that people were hacking their xboxs. I don't see how different this is other than showing that fairplay wasn't more secure than any of it's competitors out there
but in canada it is not piracy, it is legal to download songs. You can argue all you want about ignorance etc but the judge's main beef was the copyright law didn't have anything in there to prosecute users who had files in their shared folder, files that were legal to download.
The ciaa or whatever it was called was trying to get people to pay tax on cds and it backfired on them. As a Canadian I would rather not have the cd tax and not download any music. The CD tax is stupid.
no it's a little different in canada. In canada you are allowed to download music. This is a by effect of the blank cd tax levy. This is why the government say it is going to fix the law because in their apparent greed to put a tax on cds they put in a pretty big loop hole.
What the judge said was, with software like kazaa when you download music it automatically goes into your shared folder (which is shared to the web). Since you are allowed to download music and the music happens to go into your shared folder you are not explicitly uploading anything. You did not activily distribute any songs. You did not go out an announce to anyone that the music was in your shared folder. It just happened to be there and someone came to get it.
The judge in effect was saying, your copyright law which taxes blank cds and allows downloading sucks and unless you fix it you won't be winning any cases.
yea isn't it funny, we used to laugh at those germans for putting up a wall and having checkpoints everywhere. They didn't know what is was to be free we thought. tear down that wall regan said. now we see israel building one. fingerprinting visitors? oh god no.. now we do the same.
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tough call. I can see a windows guy going with a linux solution but do you really think a linux guy going without screaming and moaning about implementing a windows solution? That's probably where all that negative emotion comes from
a good quote from nike says "we don't sell shoes". of course they don't, they sell an image. If you stay in marketing long enough you'll realize selling your image goes a long way to sell your product.
I think linux still has some ways to go to identify itself. sometimes it pretends to be unix and other times it pretends to be windows. Until it is just linux, and does what linux does (not what unix does or what windows does) it won't be prevalant in books
I fork over money in perpertuity for my cable, phone, internet, nntp, webserver and lots of other things. A subscription model is something that has been proven to work over time. I don't see why "it just won't fly"
I'm beginning to think microsoft's strategy to dominate the world is to create applications full of holes which allows the 3xpl0it3r gene in us use it. dos, windows, outlook, ie, iis all popular apps riddled with bugs.
Now they are taking on the media industry, with a format that sounds good to the suits but full of bugs to let mere mortals exploit. sounds like the winning move to kill the competition
how true. I used to watch tv all day and not work. Then the bills racked up and they cancelled the cable. Now that I have lots of money again, they always come knocking giving 2 months free and what not. I'm totally off tv now and probably won't get it ever again.
yep, a guide for sales partners making the sales pitch which allows them to make counter points to questions about OOo when it comes up. It's not that special
but you do get what you're paid for. Nobody is entitled to help you solve your problem. You have deployed your linux and you want X feature and they tell you to you should have deployed Y distribution.
When you pay for something usually everything gets easier not harder. When you get free stuff and you run into problems, then the hidden costs start showing up. Want some help? pay.
Many companies would rather have that peace of mind by paying and then expecting their problems to be solved because they paid for their software.
remember it's competitive guide for sales people who probably don't know everything about open office. It's supposed to guide them on how to respond to OOo questions when they go about trying to sell MS office.
I suspect more and more of their sales partners around the world are coming under increasing fire about open office that's why they put out the guide
That's debatable. I don't know anyone who fancies remembering a bunch of passwords for every site he signs up for. I even have a password manager on my usb flash drive because I can't keep up with password. I could use one password for everything but that's insecure too.
So far I've used the Passport on two sites, mcafees online antivirus subscription site and radioshack.ca whenever I order something
no it is not. Game prices won't not go down because prices need to be at a certain minimum anyways. Harddrive prices have remained the same for a long time (except the size of the hd increases) but the price does not drop. Good luck looking for a new 5gig hd to buy, they don't make em anymore. unprofitable.
With games they cut their costs but prices remain the same. The savings only go to line the pockets of the fat bastards
If russia is so great why don't they sell their games there.. of course not, no money. sell in america where everyone is rich.
A couple of years ago I saw on the news about some Canadian minster dude person asking why car companies never built any plants in Canada yet pegged the Canadian market as their #2 or #3 in sales or something. If you don't produce here you should be hit with the fat import tax. Money does not grow on trees you know.
Yep.. developing stinks.. spend hours on end writing free code, watch all your jobs leave for another country and finally pay to read a reporters rant on why your profession stinks. If you're developer you're probably wondering why you aren't a reporter instead
This project only proves that C is dead. When a language has to piggy back on another or come up with these weird combinations you know it is on it's way out. I recently used c# for something that would have caused me many headaches just debugging etc with plain C.
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funny but you're saying microsoft is clean, apple is clean and efficient, and ibm is just plain nasty
Simple. They are idiots. They are trying to sell thier player and also license their server. Sounds like a good strategy to make money but if their player is not free it will eventually be shunned and ignore by everyone. I'm not sure how much money they make selling the player but they would make a whole lot more if their player was free (and spyware free) and their server was expensive
give it up. The slashdot crowd didn't mind that people were hacking their xboxs. I don't see how different this is other than showing that fairplay wasn't more secure than any of it's competitors out there
but in canada it is not piracy, it is legal to download songs. You can argue all you want about ignorance etc but the judge's main beef was the copyright law didn't have anything in there to prosecute users who had files in their shared folder, files that were legal to download.
The ciaa or whatever it was called was trying to get people to pay tax on cds and it backfired on them. As a Canadian I would rather not have the cd tax and not download any music. The CD tax is stupid.
no it's a little different in canada. In canada you are allowed to download music. This is a by effect of the blank cd tax levy. This is why the government say it is going to fix the law because in their apparent greed to put a tax on cds they put in a pretty big loop hole.
What the judge said was, with software like kazaa when you download music it automatically goes into your shared folder (which is shared to the web). Since you are allowed to download music and the music happens to go into your shared folder you are not explicitly uploading anything. You did not activily distribute any songs. You did not go out an announce to anyone that the music was in your shared folder. It just happened to be there and someone came to get it.
The judge in effect was saying, your copyright law which taxes blank cds and allows downloading sucks and unless you fix it you won't be winning any cases.
yea isn't it funny, we used to laugh at those germans for putting up a wall and having checkpoints everywhere. They didn't know what is was to be free we thought. tear down that wall regan said. now we see israel building one. fingerprinting visitors? oh god no.. now we do the same.
tough call. I can see a windows guy going with a linux solution but do you really think a linux guy going without screaming and moaning about implementing a windows solution? That's probably where all that negative emotion comes from
I had a c++ instructor who thought default parameters were created by microsoft
a good quote from nike says "we don't sell shoes". of course they don't, they sell an image. If you stay in marketing long enough you'll realize selling your image goes a long way to sell your product.
I think linux still has some ways to go to identify itself. sometimes it pretends to be unix and other times it pretends to be windows. Until it is just linux, and does what linux does (not what unix does or what windows does) it won't be prevalant in books
it is brilliant! they took out "ur" and replaced it with "j"
I fork over money in perpertuity for my cable, phone, internet, nntp, webserver and lots of other things. A subscription model is something that has been proven to work over time. I don't see why "it just won't fly"
I'm beginning to think microsoft's strategy to dominate the world is to create applications full of holes which allows the 3xpl0it3r gene in us use it. dos, windows, outlook, ie, iis all popular apps riddled with bugs.
Now they are taking on the media industry, with a format that sounds good to the suits but full of bugs to let mere mortals exploit. sounds like the winning move to kill the competition
haha yea. you aren't safe if you wear blue headphones cause they are going to ask anyways and you trying to show off will tell them it IS an ipod
how true. I used to watch tv all day and not work. Then the bills racked up and they cancelled the cable. Now that I have lots of money again, they always come knocking giving 2 months free and what not. I'm totally off tv now and probably won't get it ever again.
yep, a guide for sales partners making the sales pitch which allows them to make counter points to questions about OOo when it comes up. It's not that special
on one of the pages she talks about a guide in the city.. you can try to find it yourself
but you do get what you're paid for. Nobody is entitled to help you solve your problem. You have deployed your linux and you want X feature and they tell you to you should have deployed Y distribution.
When you pay for something usually everything gets easier not harder. When you get free stuff and you run into problems, then the hidden costs start showing up. Want some help? pay.
Many companies would rather have that peace of mind by paying and then expecting their problems to be solved because they paid for their software.
remember it's competitive guide for sales people who probably don't know everything about open office. It's supposed to guide them on how to respond to OOo questions when they go about trying to sell MS office.
I suspect more and more of their sales partners around the world are coming under increasing fire about open office that's why they put out the guide
That's debatable. I don't know anyone who fancies remembering a bunch of passwords for every site he signs up for. I even have a password manager on my usb flash drive because I can't keep up with password. I could use one password for everything but that's insecure too.
So far I've used the Passport on two sites, mcafees online antivirus subscription site and radioshack.ca whenever I order something
no it is not. Game prices won't not go down because prices need to be at a certain minimum anyways. Harddrive prices have remained the same for a long time (except the size of the hd increases) but the price does not drop. Good luck looking for a new 5gig hd to buy, they don't make em anymore. unprofitable.
With games they cut their costs but prices remain the same. The savings only go to line the pockets of the fat bastards
If russia is so great why don't they sell their games there.. of course not, no money. sell in america where everyone is rich.
A couple of years ago I saw on the news about some Canadian minster dude person asking why car companies never built any plants in Canada yet pegged the Canadian market as their #2 or #3 in sales or something. If you don't produce here you should be hit with the fat import tax. Money does not grow on trees you know.
Yep.. developing stinks.. spend hours on end writing free code, watch all your jobs leave for another country and finally pay to read a reporters rant on why your profession stinks. If you're developer you're probably wondering why you aren't a reporter instead
dude needs a raise to upgrade his 2gig clunker
if you're gonna do a cash grab try to come up with a better excuse than windows media player
This project only proves that C is dead. When a language has to piggy back on another or come up with these weird combinations you know it is on it's way out. I recently used c# for something that would have caused me many headaches just debugging etc with plain C.