Not with HP/Compaq. I purchased a HP/Compaq laptop because I was told they are committed to Linux and will protect any HP/Compaq customer from any SCO lawsuit.
So I bought a Pressario 2500 laptop from them. I installed various distros of Linux, but none of them supported my wireless LAN device on the laptop or other hardware like the modem. I called HP/Compaq, and they told me that they do not support Linux for that laptop (apparently the salesperson I talked to that told me it did, had lied) and that installing Linux could void my warranty and that I need to reformat and put XP back on it.
if by Broadband you mean High Speed Internet Connections with peer to peer file sharing networks, then I would say yes. It seems movies these days are released to P2P file sharing networks before they are released to the DVD format. Usually by someone with a video camera, and a video capture device on their computer.
Of course the Internet Pirate versions of the movies are of a poorer quality than the movies, but most people do not care because it is free.
The MPAA needs to wake-up and start their own movie-sharing network and charge per month or per file for access to it. I know they are trying to use digital film to replace the celluloid reels, but why not go all the way and use a digital file format?
If people have DVD burners, give them a chance to burn the movie to a DVD with subtitles, menus, etc. Maybe limit this ability or something.
Of course you know that the Cable and Satelite TV services are going to lose a lot of business to Broadband file sharing networks, as TV shows, etc are being shared as well. Why not offer a service for their Broadband users to download TV shows, movies, etc to their broadband computers for customers who own both a Broadband connection and a subscription to Cable or Satelite TV?
It depends on the license and what the developers who wrote the OSS code have to say about releasing it into a Non-OSS project.
Take a look at Apple, they took *BSD Unix and turned it into Darwin and MacOSX. While not all of MacOSX is BSD or GPL licensed, Apple does contribute some code back to the OSS community for the OSS parts of it. I doubt Apple will make Aqua, Quartz, Carbon, etc code available as OSS.
The thing is you have to read the license that comes with the OSS code, and then talk to the developers to see if they will allow you to make a commercial product on it.
Of course the subject matter of Maddox's page is not for the weak of heart or mind. So if you are easily offended, please do not read his web pages. He is, like me, a fellow pirate.
I have problems associating with reality, see my profile (Space Pirate from 4096 AD).:)
I played D&D, AD&D, Traveller, Marvel Super Heros, and a few others.
I scored high on the ASVAB tests well within the top 8% of the scores. I went into US Army ROTC classes and almost enlisted in 1986-1987. College was too stressful for me, and my mental illness took over, and I withdrew. If it hadn't, I'd be in the Gulf War as an Officer.
I held US Army Top Secret clearance when I worked as a Federal Contractor. I was able to do the job, though I did still suffer from the mental illnesses, I was not prone to violence or anything like that.
I lost track of most of the people I played Role Playing Games with. A few are still my friends, and one was my best friend and the Game Master of many games we had. He killed himself in 1999, not over the game, but over real life situations he faced. He was deep in debt, divorced, his mother was dying of cancer, he lost his job, unemployment ran out, he couldn't find work, he became an alchaholic, etc. The only thing that kept him sane at times was playing RPGs.
A hint, you won't make the money by giving it away. The free software will be a marketing ploy to gain publicity. You need to sell a product or service that the OSS is somehow tied to.
For example, Red Hat has Fedora as a free Linux OS. If someone wants tech support for Fedroa, they can pay Red Hat for it. If they want a more advanced server version, they can pay for it.
Some projects are based on OSS, but sold commercially, like Linspire, WineX, Crossover Office, etc. The OSS license can be released into a commercial license, in that the OSS developers make their money in selling licenses to release their OSS code into commercial products.
they discovered what happened to the Oompa Loompas after Willy Wonka was done with them and Charlie took over the Chocolate Factory. Apparently Charlie tried to hide the bodies, but they were eventually found.
Charley Bucket was quoted as saying "I got tired of hearing the same songs sung day after day, so I got rid of them." Apparently Charley was still taking advice from his Grampa Joe who is known as a very shady character.
when was the last time Steve Jobs or Bill Gates actually wrote some programming code?
They stopped being computer geeks, and became business managers. What they know about technology is outdated, and the ideas they have are not based on modern technology, but the way they want modern technology to work. Engineers, developers, etc all try to make their vision of technology a reality.
Gates and Jobs stopped being Dilberts and turned into PHBs.
When Sculley and Amelio ran Apple, Apple was in for hard times by the very competitive PC industry. Apple got to the way it was, because of the way the Macintosh was designed and marketed. It was not designed right, and was marketed towards the creative content crowd, which was too small of a marketshare. Later on the Macintosh was redesigned as the PowerMac, which was a step in the right direction. Yet still, it needed to change and evolve with the times. The PowerMac clones gave customers what they wanted, but hurt Apple's sales. So when Jobs came back the clones went away, any product that was unprofitable went away (Laser Printers, Scanners, Newtons, etc), and the Macintosh was redesigned yet again with the G3 processor, the iMac, the iBook, B&W G3 Mac, etc. After that, the Macintosh had the right design and cntinued with the G4 and G5 Macs, with blunders along the way like the G4 Cube. Anyway Apple needed more income and based on the popularity of the MP3 players and Napster, and File Sharing, the iPod and iTunes were invented to generate more income. These ideas did not come from technological advances, but from listening to what customers wanted. Something the previous Apple management refused to do. The previous Apple management rather made the product and then told the public to buy it, ignoring their needs.
A good marketing strategy is to listen to the customer's needs, and then develop products around them. Customers wanted a cheaper Macintosh, so the Macintosh Mini was developed, for example. Apple had never done this before, and the cheapest Macintosh was the iMac series, but still not cheap enough for the die hard PC zealots who refused to switch and kept buying those $500USD boxes.
Only by catering to the customer's needs, can a company survive. There is nothing to do with technology, unless it is designing that technology to suit the customers' needs.
on my Amiga 1000 from a BBS. It was in 4096 color HAM mode, at a time when EGA was standard on PCs and the Mac only did Black and White.
Yes it was of a woman.
I showed it to a friend of mine, and all he could say was "yeah but it doesn't move", and went back to using his Hercules based AT clone with the monocrome monitor and downloading MacPaint images in black and white using some DOS reader to view them, having to scroll up and down to look at dithered women.
I think after that, someone got the idea to create animated files of women and post them to BBSes or the Internet.
It was unusual, there it was, magazine quality image of a woman, and all he could say was that it didn't move. Something his computer could not display, ah well.
The woman in the Amiga picture was in her underware, IIRC, but had good skin tones.
That is the only logical conclusion I can come up with.
First Lokitorrent is created to host links to BitTorrents and not the files themselves. While sharing the files may be a crime, one has to reason is sharing the BitTorrent files that link/track to files on someone else's hard drive (Not on LokiTorrent) does not fall under piracy directly. Lokitorrent is technically not sharing files, or even having them stored on their server, they are simply providing links to other people's hard drives. Sort of like having a list of links to Movie or Music downloads on your web site, but not really having the files on your web site.
Now then we have the MPAA contacting (not suing, issuing a warning letter from lawyers) telling Lokitorrent to cease and disist from hosting Bit Torrents, and threatening a lawsuit.
So Lokitorrent asks for more donations to fight off a lawsuit that has not yet happened, and they don't know how much it will cost to defend, but they have a ballpark figure.
Lokitorrent panics, offers the domain for sale. Makes up a story as to why it is for sale.
A judge hears the case, decides if there is any merit to it. Preliminary hearing or whatever. Not the trial itself, Lokitorrent panics and then settles out of court.
As agreed, the Lokitorrent site is taken down and replaced with a warning by the MPAA. An undisclosed sum of the donations made to Lokitorrent get paid to the MPAA for damages. The web site does not change hands yet, but the BitTorrent tracker and BT web portal are now offline.
Some angry fan of BitTorrent, gets upset that LokiTorrent got so much money in donations and still "Sold out" to the MPAA, that they make a hoax story.
While not exactly giving the MPAA the Lokitorrent web site, maybe the IP logs, the domain name, and hosting is still owned by LokiTorrent, but the hoax is we are to believe that the MPAA owns the site and is tracking all visitors to it.
Meanwhile millions of BitTorrent users are freaking out that the MPAA might actually have their IP addresses and downloading habits and filing a suit against them right now.
Yet another story is posted to Slashdot without the facts being checked first.
HP should label these things to say "Cartridge Expires 30 days after use" or "Cartridge Expires after 11/25/05" to meet the truth in advertising ethic. If not, they are being unethical.
For one, Norton AV is a big resource hog. For another, AVG seems to scan files faster than Norton AV. Now AVG can scan RAR files, while Norton AV ignores them. Also the Free version of AVG has free virus definition updates, but Norton AV only gives you a year of virus definition updates and then asks you for a code to unlock that feature. I know of a lot of people still using a Norton AV that had the subscription run out, and I tried to tell them to upgrade it, but they don't know how, and get overun by the latest viruses. So I usually switch them to the Free version of AVG because it is free for personal use. Organizations usually have an IT department that can upgrade subscriptions for them.
that blocks web servers like IIS from working. I usually have to disable the Windows Firewall and then use Sysgate Personal edition or something instead.
I advised people using older software not to upgrade to SP2 yet, it looks like they haven't taken my advice as programs are breaking.
Oh well, back to using GNU/Linux for a while until Microsoft gets their sh*t together on Windows.;)
Yes and apparently older versions of PGP for abandoned platforms may not be updated. Which means those OS/2, MacOS 7.X (and earlier), BeOS, MS-DOS, and AmigaDOS ports may not have an update to deal with the new SHA methods.
I use an Amiga 500 using AmigaDOS 2.0, I want my PGP for it updated! I'll give up my Amiga when they pry my cold dead fingers off the Amiga 500 keyboard and Amiga mouse. I've already written nasty letters to OSS developers who refuse to support my platform of choice. I mean they should be able to release that GCC compiler for AmigaDOS and then port Mozilla Firefox, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Thunderbird, and others to the AmigaDOS platform. I currently have PGP 4.0 for AmigaDOS, and I want it updated, please! I am also stuck using the Wordperfect 4.0 for the Amiga to write my letters with. There were over 3 million Amigas sold, and many more Amiga users via Amiga emulators, we currently number as many Amiga users as the same number of MacOSX and Linux users due to all of us using emulator on different platforms. We want our new generation of software, please! Don't ignore us, or you'll find people in Amiga checkmark t-shirts picketing your workplace!
So when the USA outsources to India, they turn around and speak Hindi back to us? Is that what you are trying to say?
It makes about as much sense as all employees of a McDondald's speaking Hindi to customers who only speak English. If you cannot communicate with your customers, you are not going to do very well. This is a common business issue when globalising one's business. Speak the language of your customers well, or else you will fail.
in order to have a knowledge superpower, you need the best communication and language skills you can get. If the Help Desks in India are any indication of their communication skills, they are not going to do too well. If they speak broken English with a thick accent that hardly any other English speaking person can understand, how can they communicate knowledge in the same way?
The only way they can do this is to do extensive English and other language training to speak those languages properly.
Written skills are a must as well, and in some cases, they actually have good writing skills.
I am sure that the crackers will have an updated version of the latest Windows ISO image on the file sharing networks that removes the MS-Spyware and replaces it with their own Spyware within at least a month of the next Windows release.
Either that or use a software firewall to block access to whatever system program that uses MS-Spyware.
I think the remake. They had apes on the space station that they did experiments on. I think it was some sort of genetics research. The apes became intelligent as a result, IIRC.
It explains how the ape lead revolt in the 21st century in one of the sequels had talking apes that walked upright.
Apparently Apes are not capable of human speech on their own, only sign language. It may be their vocal chords. Genetic hybirds of apes and humans might give them vocal chords for speech, and allow them to walk upright.
Remember Disney, who saw that Mickey Mouse was about to go public domain, so they used loopholes in copyright and trademark laws to renew the rights to Mickey Mouse. This provies that rights are no longer finite, but may even last virtually forever. Walt Disney may be dead, but his creation outlives him and is still owned by the company he formed.
Yes, most likely the Chinese, who don't obey patents and copyrights anyway, because they think everything is owned by the public. I heard they are very big into genetic research on humans.
No by getting rid of patents nobody would be able to make a profit off of it due to all the competition.
Why develop something you cannot profit from? It goes against business plans. The main reason why people are trying to make human hybirds, are to make a profit from them. If the patent is denied, maybe they will stop their research, as when they finish the research, someone else can come along and use their hybird without paying them a penny for it.
they would buy the rights to Mozilla or Firefox code, and then add in ActiveX and VBScript support and modify it after it was released from the OSS license. This would be cheaper than paying thousands of developers' salaries to develop the new IE 7.0 to compete with Mozilla or Firefox.
Sort of like what WINEX or Crossover Office was based on WINE.
Of course this would only happen if Microsoft stopped being an OSS-Bigot and learned how to use OSS projects to their advantage.
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Not with HP/Compaq. I purchased a HP/Compaq laptop because I was told they are committed to Linux and will protect any HP/Compaq customer from any SCO lawsuit.
So I bought a Pressario 2500 laptop from them. I installed various distros of Linux, but none of them supported my wireless LAN device on the laptop or other hardware like the modem. I called HP/Compaq, and they told me that they do not support Linux for that laptop (apparently the salesperson I talked to that told me it did, had lied) and that installing Linux could void my warranty and that I need to reformat and put XP back on it.
So much for promoting Linux, I feel cheated.
if by Broadband you mean High Speed Internet Connections with peer to peer file sharing networks, then I would say yes. It seems movies these days are released to P2P file sharing networks before they are released to the DVD format. Usually by someone with a video camera, and a video capture device on their computer.
Of course the Internet Pirate versions of the movies are of a poorer quality than the movies, but most people do not care because it is free.
The MPAA needs to wake-up and start their own movie-sharing network and charge per month or per file for access to it. I know they are trying to use digital film to replace the celluloid reels, but why not go all the way and use a digital file format?
If people have DVD burners, give them a chance to burn the movie to a DVD with subtitles, menus, etc. Maybe limit this ability or something.
Of course you know that the Cable and Satelite TV services are going to lose a lot of business to Broadband file sharing networks, as TV shows, etc are being shared as well. Why not offer a service for their Broadband users to download TV shows, movies, etc to their broadband computers for customers who own both a Broadband connection and a subscription to Cable or Satelite TV?
It depends on the license and what the developers who wrote the OSS code have to say about releasing it into a Non-OSS project.
Take a look at Apple, they took *BSD Unix and turned it into Darwin and MacOSX. While not all of MacOSX is BSD or GPL licensed, Apple does contribute some code back to the OSS community for the OSS parts of it. I doubt Apple will make Aqua, Quartz, Carbon, etc code available as OSS.
The thing is you have to read the license that comes with the OSS code, and then talk to the developers to see if they will allow you to make a commercial product on it.
Of course the subject matter of Maddox's page is not for the weak of heart or mind. So if you are easily offended, please do not read his web pages. He is, like me, a fellow pirate.
Maddox a man with an opinion on everything.
Read how he says that Orbitz blows.
Read how he trashes Websense.
Read his suggestions for CompUSA.
Read his review on a Fox News Network show.
His review of a McDonald's ad campaign.
Read how he is more popular than Pepsi!
His advice on dealing with pesky credit card companies.
Read his review of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy movies.
I have problems associating with reality, see my profile (Space Pirate from 4096 AD). :)
I played D&D, AD&D, Traveller, Marvel Super Heros, and a few others.
I scored high on the ASVAB tests well within the top 8% of the scores. I went into US Army ROTC classes and almost enlisted in 1986-1987. College was too stressful for me, and my mental illness took over, and I withdrew. If it hadn't, I'd be in the Gulf War as an Officer.
I held US Army Top Secret clearance when I worked as a Federal Contractor. I was able to do the job, though I did still suffer from the mental illnesses, I was not prone to violence or anything like that.
I lost track of most of the people I played Role Playing Games with. A few are still my friends, and one was my best friend and the Game Master of many games we had. He killed himself in 1999, not over the game, but over real life situations he faced. He was deep in debt, divorced, his mother was dying of cancer, he lost his job, unemployment ran out, he couldn't find work, he became an alchaholic, etc. The only thing that kept him sane at times was playing RPGs.
A hint, you won't make the money by giving it away. The free software will be a marketing ploy to gain publicity. You need to sell a product or service that the OSS is somehow tied to.
For example, Red Hat has Fedora as a free Linux OS. If someone wants tech support for Fedroa, they can pay Red Hat for it. If they want a more advanced server version, they can pay for it.
Some projects are based on OSS, but sold commercially, like Linspire, WineX, Crossover Office, etc. The OSS license can be released into a commercial license, in that the OSS developers make their money in selling licenses to release their OSS code into commercial products.
they discovered what happened to the Oompa Loompas after Willy Wonka was done with them and Charlie took over the Chocolate Factory. Apparently Charlie tried to hide the bodies, but they were eventually found.
Charley Bucket was quoted as saying "I got tired of hearing the same songs sung day after day, so I got rid of them." Apparently Charley was still taking advice from his Grampa Joe who is known as a very shady character.
The one all hyper and jumping with a toy lightsaber, wanting to be in the movie?
;)
What if Lucas cast him as a young Jedi in Episode III that Anakin slaughters after he turns to the Dark Side?
The SWK jumps around, all hyper, waving his lightsaber. Anakin just looks bored, yawns, and then strikes him down with force lightning.
when was the last time Steve Jobs or Bill Gates actually wrote some programming code?
They stopped being computer geeks, and became business managers. What they know about technology is outdated, and the ideas they have are not based on modern technology, but the way they want modern technology to work. Engineers, developers, etc all try to make their vision of technology a reality.
Gates and Jobs stopped being Dilberts and turned into PHBs.
When Sculley and Amelio ran Apple, Apple was in for hard times by the very competitive PC industry. Apple got to the way it was, because of the way the Macintosh was designed and marketed. It was not designed right, and was marketed towards the creative content crowd, which was too small of a marketshare. Later on the Macintosh was redesigned as the PowerMac, which was a step in the right direction. Yet still, it needed to change and evolve with the times. The PowerMac clones gave customers what they wanted, but hurt Apple's sales. So when Jobs came back the clones went away, any product that was unprofitable went away (Laser Printers, Scanners, Newtons, etc), and the Macintosh was redesigned yet again with the G3 processor, the iMac, the iBook, B&W G3 Mac, etc. After that, the Macintosh had the right design and cntinued with the G4 and G5 Macs, with blunders along the way like the G4 Cube. Anyway Apple needed more income and based on the popularity of the MP3 players and Napster, and File Sharing, the iPod and iTunes were invented to generate more income. These ideas did not come from technological advances, but from listening to what customers wanted. Something the previous Apple management refused to do. The previous Apple management rather made the product and then told the public to buy it, ignoring their needs.
A good marketing strategy is to listen to the customer's needs, and then develop products around them. Customers wanted a cheaper Macintosh, so the Macintosh Mini was developed, for example. Apple had never done this before, and the cheapest Macintosh was the iMac series, but still not cheap enough for the die hard PC zealots who refused to switch and kept buying those $500USD boxes.
Only by catering to the customer's needs, can a company survive. There is nothing to do with technology, unless it is designing that technology to suit the customers' needs.
on my Amiga 1000 from a BBS. It was in 4096 color HAM mode, at a time when EGA was standard on PCs and the Mac only did Black and White.
Yes it was of a woman.
I showed it to a friend of mine, and all he could say was "yeah but it doesn't move", and went back to using his Hercules based AT clone with the monocrome monitor and downloading MacPaint images in black and white using some DOS reader to view them, having to scroll up and down to look at dithered women.
I think after that, someone got the idea to create animated files of women and post them to BBSes or the Internet.
It was unusual, there it was, magazine quality image of a woman, and all he could say was that it didn't move. Something his computer could not display, ah well.
The woman in the Amiga picture was in her underware, IIRC, but had good skin tones.
That is the only logical conclusion I can come up with.
First Lokitorrent is created to host links to BitTorrents and not the files themselves. While sharing the files may be a crime, one has to reason is sharing the BitTorrent files that link/track to files on someone else's hard drive (Not on LokiTorrent) does not fall under piracy directly. Lokitorrent is technically not sharing files, or even having them stored on their server, they are simply providing links to other people's hard drives. Sort of like having a list of links to Movie or Music downloads on your web site, but not really having the files on your web site.
Now then we have the MPAA contacting (not suing, issuing a warning letter from lawyers) telling Lokitorrent to cease and disist from hosting Bit Torrents, and threatening a lawsuit.
So Lokitorrent asks for more donations to fight off a lawsuit that has not yet happened, and they don't know how much it will cost to defend, but they have a ballpark figure.
Lokitorrent panics, offers the domain for sale. Makes up a story as to why it is for sale.
A judge hears the case, decides if there is any merit to it. Preliminary hearing or whatever. Not the trial itself, Lokitorrent panics and then settles out of court.
As agreed, the Lokitorrent site is taken down and replaced with a warning by the MPAA. An undisclosed sum of the donations made to Lokitorrent get paid to the MPAA for damages. The web site does not change hands yet, but the BitTorrent tracker and BT web portal are now offline.
Some angry fan of BitTorrent, gets upset that LokiTorrent got so much money in donations and still "Sold out" to the MPAA, that they make a hoax story.
While not exactly giving the MPAA the Lokitorrent web site, maybe the IP logs, the domain name, and hosting is still owned by LokiTorrent, but the hoax is we are to believe that the MPAA owns the site and is tracking all visitors to it.
Meanwhile millions of BitTorrent users are freaking out that the MPAA might actually have their IP addresses and downloading habits and filing a suit against them right now.
Yet another story is posted to Slashdot without the facts being checked first.
They cannot even run an oil for food program without being bribed.
Spammers will bribe the UN to look the other way as they steal domain names, and continue to Spam despite anti-Spam laws.
This makes as much sense as putting Boss Hogg in charge of Social Security reform, and then hope he doesn't take money out of accounts.
HP should label these things to say "Cartridge Expires 30 days after use" or "Cartridge Expires after 11/25/05" to meet the truth in advertising ethic. If not, they are being unethical.
For one, Norton AV is a big resource hog. For another, AVG seems to scan files faster than Norton AV. Now AVG can scan RAR files, while Norton AV ignores them. Also the Free version of AVG has free virus definition updates, but Norton AV only gives you a year of virus definition updates and then asks you for a code to unlock that feature. I know of a lot of people still using a Norton AV that had the subscription run out, and I tried to tell them to upgrade it, but they don't know how, and get overun by the latest viruses. So I usually switch them to the Free version of AVG because it is free for personal use. Organizations usually have an IT department that can upgrade subscriptions for them.
So the company that outsources to the India Tech Shop owns the IP, and not the consultants, right?
that blocks web servers like IIS from working. I usually have to disable the Windows Firewall and then use Sysgate Personal edition or something instead.
;)
I advised people using older software not to upgrade to SP2 yet, it looks like they haven't taken my advice as programs are breaking.
Oh well, back to using GNU/Linux for a while until Microsoft gets their sh*t together on Windows.
Yes and apparently older versions of PGP for abandoned platforms may not be updated. Which means those OS/2, MacOS 7.X (and earlier), BeOS, MS-DOS, and AmigaDOS ports may not have an update to deal with the new SHA methods.
I use an Amiga 500 using AmigaDOS 2.0, I want my PGP for it updated! I'll give up my Amiga when they pry my cold dead fingers off the Amiga 500 keyboard and Amiga mouse. I've already written nasty letters to OSS developers who refuse to support my platform of choice. I mean they should be able to release that GCC compiler for AmigaDOS and then port Mozilla Firefox, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Thunderbird, and others to the AmigaDOS platform. I currently have PGP 4.0 for AmigaDOS, and I want it updated, please! I am also stuck using the Wordperfect 4.0 for the Amiga to write my letters with. There were over 3 million Amigas sold, and many more Amiga users via Amiga emulators, we currently number as many Amiga users as the same number of MacOSX and Linux users due to all of us using emulator on different platforms. We want our new generation of software, please! Don't ignore us, or you'll find people in Amiga checkmark t-shirts picketing your workplace!
So when the USA outsources to India, they turn around and speak Hindi back to us? Is that what you are trying to say?
It makes about as much sense as all employees of a McDondald's speaking Hindi to customers who only speak English. If you cannot communicate with your customers, you are not going to do very well. This is a common business issue when globalising one's business. Speak the language of your customers well, or else you will fail.
in order to have a knowledge superpower, you need the best communication and language skills you can get. If the Help Desks in India are any indication of their communication skills, they are not going to do too well. If they speak broken English with a thick accent that hardly any other English speaking person can understand, how can they communicate knowledge in the same way?
The only way they can do this is to do extensive English and other language training to speak those languages properly.
Written skills are a must as well, and in some cases, they actually have good writing skills.
I am sure that the crackers will have an updated version of the latest Windows ISO image on the file sharing networks that removes the MS-Spyware and replaces it with their own Spyware within at least a month of the next Windows release.
Either that or use a software firewall to block access to whatever system program that uses MS-Spyware.
now if they can just extend that to employers, we finally can get some privacy back.
Spyware should be against the law anyway. It just is a legal virus anyway and it should be made illegal.
I think the remake. They had apes on the space station that they did experiments on. I think it was some sort of genetics research. The apes became intelligent as a result, IIRC.
It explains how the ape lead revolt in the 21st century in one of the sequels had talking apes that walked upright.
Apparently Apes are not capable of human speech on their own, only sign language. It may be their vocal chords. Genetic hybirds of apes and humans might give them vocal chords for speech, and allow them to walk upright.
Remember Disney, who saw that Mickey Mouse was about to go public domain, so they used loopholes in copyright and trademark laws to renew the rights to Mickey Mouse. This provies that rights are no longer finite, but may even last virtually forever. Walt Disney may be dead, but his creation outlives him and is still owned by the company he formed.
Yes, most likely the Chinese, who don't obey patents and copyrights anyway, because they think everything is owned by the public. I heard they are very big into genetic research on humans.
No by getting rid of patents nobody would be able to make a profit off of it due to all the competition.
Why develop something you cannot profit from? It goes against business plans. The main reason why people are trying to make human hybirds, are to make a profit from them. If the patent is denied, maybe they will stop their research, as when they finish the research, someone else can come along and use their hybird without paying them a penny for it.
they would buy the rights to Mozilla or Firefox code, and then add in ActiveX and VBScript support and modify it after it was released from the OSS license. This would be cheaper than paying thousands of developers' salaries to develop the new IE 7.0 to compete with Mozilla or Firefox.
Sort of like what WINEX or Crossover Office was based on WINE.
Of course this would only happen if Microsoft stopped being an OSS-Bigot and learned how to use OSS projects to their advantage.