"How many people do YOU know, who totally understand IP and Copyright laws?"
It'd be fun to see that argument made to a judge. Ignorance is not an excuse of the law - period.
"Can anyone consider the possibility that someone who made up that Flash Presentation used the material and didn't happen to mention they lifted it?"
The thing is this; good companies define a clear set of corporate values for their employees. If clearly stolen content can make it on to the front page of their web site, it reflects heavily on the values and mentality that are occurring within the workspace.
I understand their limitations are at the label side, and if they managed to filter in a lot more content *GREAT*. I actually was impressed with the usability of the service.
If I wanted a new CD, I'd buy it on plastic, for SQ reasons. This is why I was really hoping for the more one-off items.
When the content is there, I'm sure I'll love the service. In the mean time, it doesn't add a lot of value to me.
I also prefer my books on paper; I know, silly me.
The biggest limitation that *I* ran into was their selection of music.
It sucked. I spent a couple of hours searching for shit that I really wanted, and didn't find ANYTHING. I was really hoping that iTunes would be a great place to find one-off items, things from lesser known CDs, just the "one song" that I wanted on a full CD, but their content seemed to be pretty much specific to the "radio" crowd. All their featured content either sucked, or was many months old.
Although, I did try sending a file to my cell phone today over both IR and Bluetooth. Suprisingly, it was faster over IR. I believe however, that most of these devices don't utilize the full speed allowed in the standard.
At any rate, IR is just plain annoying. I bumped the phone, and OOOOPS, that's the end of my file transfer. Or, sitting in a meeting somebody elses laptop gets a perfect line of sight for once ever and my computer starts making stupid sounds and me 8|
I agree. This guy is jumping to conclusions that Bluetooth is dead because... he doesn't use it.
He also rants on about new and better technologies on the horizon. Hello, there are ALWAYS new and better technologies on the horizon! At some point, you have to stick with something good enough, and we have it.
Personally, I just purchased my first round of Bluetooth devices, and it's REALLY cool. Soon, I'll be able to hop in my car and start talking without taking my phone out of my pocket. The software side of things is still a bit rough, but it'll get there.
Also, what's all this crap about Wi-Fi replacing Bluetooth? It's all about device convergence man!:)
I wanna be a journalist so that I can my lame-ass opinion gets front page on Slashdot:)
Actually, what is it that people change out regularly these days?
VIDEO CARD
I can assure you that you can swap video cards all day long without a problem. Heck, I've upgraded most of my machine, short of replacing the motherboard, without any complaints from the product activation.
Okay, what is it that you don't understand about the definition of BLACKMAIL??
"2 a : extortion or coercion by threats especially of public exposure"
Either result is a negative hit to Microsofts bottom line (on a product that isn't making significant revenue to start with.) Really, my bleeding heart goes out to the college kiddies who feel victimized because they can't run Linux on their Xbox. Wait until they get real development jobs and people start hacking their work which brings home the bread.
You have clearly never been to Redmond, Washington. All the major product and support groups are located there. Microsoft rents the entire Safeco Field stadium (home of the Mariners) for their company meetings (of Puget Sound based employees). There is something to the tune of 30,000 Microsoft employees in Western Washington.
Of course Microsoft has some operations overseas, but any company would be stupid not to in todays global economy.
If you install Netwscape, you can use Netscape mail. Eudora might be inflicted with the problem though since I beleive that it hosts IE.
As far as the MS help system goes, it doesn't really matter if IE is used there. The help system isn't public and therefor it couldn't be used to expose a security flaw on the system.
I sort of see your point, but I don't really agree.
It doesn't matter that it is really part of the OS, you don't have to use it. Nothing is stopping you from using Netscape to browse the web.
All Linux systems I've set up have sendmail installed, and sendmail is known for security issues. It doesn't matter that it's not part of the OS, it's still part of the distribution, which is very much like the same thing. You could with enough tweaking replace sendmail with qmail on your average Red Hat install and that would very much be the analog to using Netscape in place of IE.
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"How many people do YOU know, who totally understand IP and Copyright laws?"
It'd be fun to see that argument made to a judge. Ignorance is not an excuse of the law - period.
"Can anyone consider the possibility that someone who made up that Flash Presentation used the material and didn't happen to mention they lifted it?"
The thing is this; good companies define a clear set of corporate values for their employees. If clearly stolen content can make it on to the front page of their web site, it reflects heavily on the values and mentality that are occurring within the workspace.
I motion to vote this as the most silly Slashdot posting of 2004 :p
Uh, really? I don't remember that in Diamond Age. Which character was this?
I understand their limitations are at the label side, and if they managed to filter in a lot more content *GREAT*. I actually was impressed with the usability of the service.
If I wanted a new CD, I'd buy it on plastic, for SQ reasons. This is why I was really hoping for the more one-off items.
When the content is there, I'm sure I'll love the service. In the mean time, it doesn't add a lot of value to me.
I also prefer my books on paper; I know, silly me.
Yes, it was hard to miss the one exclusive Coldplay track being that it's pasted all over everything ;)
I like Coldplay... but I've had all their stuff for a long time.
The majority of stuff I was looking for was imports, electronica, and some old school hip-hop.
Specifically, I was sync'ing my Sony Ericsson T616 phone. It seemed approx 4x faster than my Bluetooth times.
The biggest limitation that *I* ran into was their selection of music.
It sucked. I spent a couple of hours searching for shit that I really wanted, and didn't find ANYTHING. I was really hoping that iTunes would be a great place to find one-off items, things from lesser known CDs, just the "one song" that I wanted on a full CD, but their content seemed to be pretty much specific to the "radio" crowd. All their featured content either sucked, or was many months old.
I guess I'll still be buying plastic discs.
Why not, race cars do :)
http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=264
Although, I did try sending a file to my cell phone today over both IR and Bluetooth. Suprisingly, it was faster over IR. I believe however, that most of these devices don't utilize the full speed allowed in the standard.
At any rate, IR is just plain annoying. I bumped the phone, and OOOOPS, that's the end of my file transfer. Or, sitting in a meeting somebody elses laptop gets a perfect line of sight for once ever and my computer starts making stupid sounds and me 8|
What? The logo is so cool man!
I agree. This guy is jumping to conclusions that Bluetooth is dead because... he doesn't use it.
:)
:)
He also rants on about new and better technologies on the horizon. Hello, there are ALWAYS new and better technologies on the horizon! At some point, you have to stick with something good enough, and we have it.
Personally, I just purchased my first round of Bluetooth devices, and it's REALLY cool. Soon, I'll be able to hop in my car and start talking without taking my phone out of my pocket. The software side of things is still a bit rough, but it'll get there.
Also, what's all this crap about Wi-Fi replacing Bluetooth? It's all about device convergence man!
I wanna be a journalist so that I can my lame-ass opinion gets front page on Slashdot
Unfortunately, they don't have it anymore.
On a side note, I'd heard that the effect made a small percentage of viewers sick and some of them lost their lunches.
Yeah, dude, welcome to why the metric system is better than the standard system.
I suppose they still aren't teaching that in school though.
Actually, what is it that people change out regularly these days?
VIDEO CARD
I can assure you that you can swap video cards all day long without a problem. Heck, I've upgraded most of my machine, short of replacing the motherboard, without any complaints from the product activation.
"make clean bzImage modules modules_install && mount /boot && cp /boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage.backup && cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage && umount /boot && reboot"
:p
Uhm.... yeah, that's why I'll tell my mom to do next time she needs to add support for hardware
Okay, what is it that you don't understand about the definition of BLACKMAIL??
"2 a : extortion or coercion by threats especially of public exposure"
Either result is a negative hit to Microsofts bottom line (on a product that isn't making significant revenue to start with.) Really, my bleeding heart goes out to the college kiddies who feel victimized because they can't run Linux on their Xbox. Wait until they get real development jobs and people start hacking their work which brings home the bread.
WTF?
Correct. You don't replace the catalytic converter in your car every 5 tanks of gas do you? It's the same catalyst - platinum.
You have clearly never been to Redmond, Washington. All the major product and support groups are located there. Microsoft rents the entire Safeco Field stadium (home of the Mariners) for their company meetings (of Puget Sound based employees). There is something to the tune of 30,000 Microsoft employees in Western Washington.
Of course Microsoft has some operations overseas, but any company would be stupid not to in todays global economy.
But you also don't have to use MS email clients.
If you install Netwscape, you can use Netscape mail. Eudora might be inflicted with the problem though since I beleive that it hosts IE.
As far as the MS help system goes, it doesn't really matter if IE is used there. The help system isn't public and therefor it couldn't be used to expose a security flaw on the system.
You somehow managed to prove here that it is *okay* for a Red Hat product to have default security holes, but not okay for Microsoft products.
Interesting.
I sort of see your point, but I don't really agree. It doesn't matter that it is really part of the OS, you don't have to use it. Nothing is stopping you from using Netscape to browse the web. All Linux systems I've set up have sendmail installed, and sendmail is known for security issues. It doesn't matter that it's not part of the OS, it's still part of the distribution, which is very much like the same thing. You could with enough tweaking replace sendmail with qmail on your average Red Hat install and that would very much be the analog to using Netscape in place of IE.