What if the confused people are too confused to understand how to download it?
I wouldn't be too concerned. How likely is it that people at that level will be reading Tom's Hardware Guide anyway? And I don't see a newbie going to their favorite Linux neighbor and being pointed to this guide: the Linux neighbor will most likely sit and help them out with it. Right?
Which begs the question: exactly who is this aimed at? Or am I wrong in thinking that neophytes are unlikely to be reading THG?
Next you`ll be griping about taxation without representation.
What, you mean like Washington D.C.? From the pages of the first site that popped up when I googled:
District of Columbia citizens have no representation of any kind in the US Senate and only a nonvoting delegate to the US House of Representatives. US citizens who live in Washington, DC, have no voting representation on the national issues considered by Congress. Furthermore, since Congress also acts as Washington's "state" legislature, local citizens are also denied voting representation in a state legislative body-something that all other Americans enjoy.
Maybe, maybe not -- it'll definitely be interesting to see what happens over the next two decades. I think the EU today is far stronger than one could have predicted in the 70s and even 80s, when the amount of infighting made it dubious that the EU would even survive. Now the Euro has overtaken the US Dollar and been widely adopted, and history, while supporting you, also indicates that any world superpower cannot maintain its status indefinitely.
Your forgetting nuclear weapons, no country is a superpower if I can turn it into a crater.
I realize this is flamebait, but...
(i) Remember Mutually Assured Destruction? The USSR used to be a superpower. They had a lot of weapons, and a hell of a lot of land to craterize. China's fairly big, too, I understand. And the EU.
(ii) How valuable and intimidating is a nuclear arsenal that you can't afford to maintain?
All of which works as long as you're #1 in perpetuity. Britain used to be #1. The USSR used to have some clout. The EU is now a very strong force to be reckoned with.
Anybody else have a weird feeling that Comcast is trying to buy out the entire world.... one step at a time they are acquiring important groups... then again i'm probably just paranoid. Any idea what their real intent is with all these purchuses?
Off-hand, it's probably either:
(i) They're hoping to find a company with such appalling customer service that it makes Comcast look good by comparison; or
(ii) They're hoping to find a company with such sterling customer service that they can point that way and say, "see? Comcast does do customer service!".
There again, it could just be that the Roberts family dictatorship are a bunch of greedy sods.
By the way, there's something very scummy about the way voting rights work in Comcast. I forget the details, but it boils down to something like the CEO having massive voting rights and being able to effectively control any vote he likes.
Wow...stories on SCO suing AutoZone, HP launching Linux-based PCs worldwide, GFI's Linux development plans, Novell and SuSE, more SCO, EV1 and SCO, etc., etc. Heck, I'm not entirely sure all of these stories were on/. Does this mean MSNBC is more Linux-oriented than/. now? Woo-hoo...umm...bugger.
Actually, that is an interesting concept, and Windows 2000 comes with built-in file encryption if you don't want to spend a lot of money. (I assume XP does as well.)
Works quite well, too -- it's tied to your logon account and is secured so that anyone who doesn't have your logon account gets an access denied error when they try to open the file. If you have services that need to access that file, you can secure it under the service account and the service will be able to access it transparently. Doesn't work on a cluster, however. (Although you're most likely not running a cluster at home, right?)
Being from down under (New Zealand, not Australia, you insensitive clod), I would have agreed with you until a few years ago, Then I moved to the U.S.
Within three months of living here, I started getting credit card offers. Within a year, half a dozen different companies knew what car I drove -- make, model, year, color -- and where I lived. Some of them knew how much I owed on the financing contract on that car. They know my wife's name. They know what country I'm from. They know my child's name. They know what I do for a job. They know the hotels I stay in when I go away on business.
This isn't about Amazon tracking what I've bought so they can try and sell me other books on the same topic. It's about the amazing sharing between companies of your financial and personal details.
That's intimidating. I'm used to living in a country where I was not constantly inundated with letters from complete strangers who already knew about me to such detail. And I don't like it now that it's happening to me. Say what you like about how it's an impersonal clerk at a desk job 500 miles away, but that impersonal clerk could just as easily be sitting at a desk 10 miles away from me and live up the road from me.
If I want to refinance my car, then I make the choice to submit financial information -- but it's my choice to give those details. I don't want someone else finding out all that information about me without me having any control or say in the matter. If a company can find out so much about me when they're only trying to get me to sign up for a credit card offer, then what can they find out if they're really trying?
Ultimately, I just like feeling like I have a certain amount of privacy, rather than feeling as if my life is an open book for anyone with a company name behind them to read. I don't want to be on display -- I want to choose what I share with the general public. I don't choose to share all my financial information with my best friend, because I simply don't want him knowing it. What on earth gives these arrogant bullying companies the right to get that information without me having a say in the matter?
Yes, financial institutions will send out non-disclosure type agreements, where you can ring a number and say you don't want your information being shared. But how do all the holes get filled? How did credit card companies get my details in three months of me entering the country? (Answer: probably when I applied for finance for my car.) And how do I put the curtain over the vast quantity of info that is now out there? (Answer: I can't.)
Bottom line: far more companies in the U.S. knew far more about me in the space of a year than companies in New Zealand knew about me in the space of 30 years. If you've never made the transition from one to the other, you can't possibly imagine just how truly intimidating and unsettling it is if you're used to your privacy.
Thanks for pointing this out. I've linked to this in my journal. Remarkably, Michael had this to say when he joined/.:
I do hope to avoid the worst excesses - the hatchet jobs, the total lies, the made-up stories. But I won't avoid those because I'm trying to be unbiased, I'll avoid those because they aren't fucking true. I'm a stickler for accuracy; it comes of being an INTP.
It's not illegal to sing "Happy Birthday," it's illegal to sing it publicly and not pay the requisite fee to ASCAP or whichever organization handles the collecting of fees and distribution of royalties to composers.
That would probably be the Harry Fox Agency. And, by the way, I would imagine a clown being hired professionally to sing "Happy Birthday" would come under this category (as distinct from the bunch of six year old friends singing around the lunch table).
Not to complain or anything, but now I wish/. had published this earlier story.
2004-03-10 13:24:55 Pennsylvania County to retest voting machines (yro,news) (rejected)
Unfortunately it's no longer on the Philadelphia Inquirer's web site as they only make stories available for free for seven days, and this was eight days ago. But the first few lines show this:
Source: Jeff Shields INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Montgomery County will retest its electronic voting machines at the insistence of a group of former candidates who have questioned whether the machines worked properly in November.Four months after the general election, Elections Supervisor Joseph Passarella said he would schedule a test on the machines in the next two weeks. The decision was made after the county received complaints from five unsuccessful North Penn school board candidates.The test will involve reprograming the Sequoia
Published on March 9, 2004, Page B01, Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA)
About all I remember other than this was that the outcome of the election was not being challenged; there was a sufficient gap between first and second that a few votes either way won't make any difference. Which, of course, is not the point. The Inquirer also published a story about electronic voting and the trust issue the day after this article appeared.
Yep, agreed. BTW, here's a newsflash -- it's not just MS SQL Server that ships with a default password. Sybase does, too (and, from memory, it's the same as MS -- user name sa, no password). Oracle installs with a few of them.
User -- Password
System -- manager
Sys -- change_on_install
Internal -- Oracle
Scott -- tiger
Is a default blank password any less secure than a well-known non-blank password? Marginally, but who's counting?
As a side point, later service packs for SQL Server 2000 (and, I believe, 7.0) detect a blank sa password and require you to explicitly check off a confirmation before allowing you to proceed if you don't set the password.
There you go; some sensible comments. If you want to see this idea (i.e. a product designed by women for women) in a slightly saner implementation, look at what Volvo did. (There are plenty of other sites if you Google a little.)
They made a design team comprised of women and said "design the car you want". They thought outside of traditional lines and asked themselves how they actually used the car. The result -- it's not some silly pink frilly thing, but a real car, with real horsepower, but loads of convenient attributes designed by women for women.
I won't go into all the details, but things like a race-style gas filler cap for ease of use, more thought on placement and design of storage compartments, and no bonnet at the front for maintenance, but instead having the whole front of the car lift up. By the way, not mentioned in the linked article -- they've drastically cut down on the amount of maintenance necessary, so it only needs an oil change every 31,000 miles.
Totally o/t, but back in the 70s a large number of New Zealanders were emigrating to Australia. The Prime Minister of New Zealand at the time, Rob Muldoon, commented that the New Zealanders who were participating in this migration pattern were effectively raising the average IQ levels of both countries.
I bet that by June 1, 2005, not a single U.S. citizen will have been drafted into the U.S. military by Selective Service conscription (i.e., National Guard call-up and the like doesn't count).
What about non-citizens? I am a legal resident alien. I hold a green card. I have not yet resided in the U.S. long enough to apply for citizenship. Unless restricted by age, I am subject to the draft. I'm curious if you left that bit out by design or not.
I'd go further than this. I didn't see mention of current living arrangements, but, whether or not you and your girlfriend are living together, it's probably safe to assume you spend a fair amount of time together outside of work (evenings and weekends). Being with someone a majority of your waking hours is hard. People are just different, and we rub each other up the wrong way. It happens, even if you are madly in love.
But most couples have some downtime when they're not around each other. Husbands and wives typically work at different companies. Forget about whether work sucks; it's time away from your beloved which can sometimes provide a much-needed break. Doesn't say anything about your relationship that a break for a few hours during the day is helpful; it's just part of being human. Plus you get to go home and bitch about Matt at work to someone who has no insight, no knowledge except for what she gets from you, so she's (almost) always taking your side by default. (Except if she can tell from how you're describing it that you were being unreasonable, in which case she can tell you and you know it's from an unbiased point of view.)
On the other side of the coin, if you've worked at a typical company before, you know how people's habits get on your wick. Over time, that builds up. But the reason most of us don't go ballistic on our work mates is because (i) we have self-control, and (ii) we don't have to live with them. See, it works the other way around, too! You spend a heck of a lot of time with people at work, and they also rub you up the wrong way. So going home at night gives you a break from them.
You, on the other hand, are immediately going to lose that enforced break time. Both ways. I seriously hope for the sake of all concerned that everyone is mature enough to deal with this. The potential is there to negatively impact your relationship with your girlfriend, your relationship with your family, and your business. (Quick question: what happens if your brother has to chastise your girlfriend at work and she comes crying to you?)
So, having just written a very depressing post (sorry), let me offer my best wishes for your success and encourage you to read every post in this article and think long and hard about all the comments offered.
In 2454, those blockbusters of Shakespeare would still be available, being discussed, argued about, and generally still in the public eye. Pick any film from the past decade and try to decide if there's the vaguest possibility of that film being discussed 450 years from now.
Come to that, think how many movies from 50 years ago are still in the popular eye (as opposed to just old film buffs). There are plenty of 50 year old films, but only a handful which would be recognized by a broad cross-section of the public. Casablanca would be one. Citizen Kane might be another, but I'm not sure. Breakfast at Tiffany's? Maybe. And some of the Marx Brothers, a few others. But that's a small section of the films from that era, and it'll be interesting to see how many of those are still widely recognized in another 50 years.
There's the rare genius of Shakespeare. Create something that can entertain the masses and stand the test of time.
A while back when I was an IT monkey, I seem to remember Office2000 would install Outlook even if you specified not to, in the custom install.
Perhaps -5 Speculative would have been a somewhat more appropriate mod. Let's clarify...the suggestion above is incorrect. You can most certainly take Outlook out of the install. You can continue to use previous versions of Outlook, if you wish, while running Word/Excel/etc. 2000.
Okay, now I think people are beginning to go overboard.
What price was paid for this "IP license"? A claim like "our small fee would not go very far defending an action such as this, much less prosecuting one" is totally unconvincing while the amount of the fee remains secret. Moreover, obviously customers will be indirectly footing the bill for this, so they need to be able to figure out just how much it's costing them.
Nonsense. Customers also foot the bill for EV1's servers, air-conditioning, security services, and so on. Should EV1 (or anyone else) be forced to disclose those costs? If not, why not? It's the same principle.
In fact, why not take this to the logical conclusion? Does your company have customers? If so, those customers are paying your salary. Do you see where I'm going here?
Please. I'd have Katz back in a second if it would get rid of Michael. Katz could be irritating, but Michael is just plain abusive/nasty/egomaniacal/powermad. I'd put him on ignore except...once in a blue moon he puts up something interesting.
Most of the time -- the vast majority of the time, in fact -- he puts up meaningless drivel and then expounds on it in the most asinine fashion, and I want to throttle the dreadful little man. But for those rare occasions when he's on duty, a halfway decent story comes through, and he is actually able to recognize it as such -- well, for those increasingly rare moments, I must suffer through the garbage, drat it all.
Something else for Comcast to make a complete and utter mess. Oh, yay.
Is there anyone out there who was with another company that got taken over by Comcast that doesn't have a complaint about how terrible they are? Or witness the recent discussion on cable vs satellite TV, and how many anti-Comcast diatribes came out there. Or do you want another view?
If Comcast takes over Disney, be prepared for Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck unavailability on a frequent basis. Mind you, at least they'll be able to put a spin on all the comments about their Mickey Mouse technical support, so maybe that's the reason they're going for this.
Microsoft has actually been selling it since June 2003. Andrew McBean (MS Thailand's managing director, if you didn't RTFA) was, er, inaccurate.
BTW, this also neatly allows them to get around the one-price policy -- it's still a single price world-wide for XP, but a restricted version, well, that's different.
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What if the confused people are too confused to understand how to download it?
I wouldn't be too concerned. How likely is it that people at that level will be reading Tom's Hardware Guide anyway? And I don't see a newbie going to their favorite Linux neighbor and being pointed to this guide: the Linux neighbor will most likely sit and help them out with it. Right?
Which begs the question: exactly who is this aimed at? Or am I wrong in thinking that neophytes are unlikely to be reading THG?
Next you`ll be griping about taxation without representation.
What, you mean like Washington D.C.? From the pages of the first site that popped up when I googled:
District of Columbia citizens have no representation of any kind in the US Senate and only a nonvoting delegate to the US House of Representatives. US citizens who live in Washington, DC, have no voting representation on the national issues considered by Congress. Furthermore, since Congress also acts as Washington's "state" legislature, local citizens are also denied voting representation in a state legislative body-something that all other Americans enjoy.
Maybe, maybe not -- it'll definitely be interesting to see what happens over the next two decades. I think the EU today is far stronger than one could have predicted in the 70s and even 80s, when the amount of infighting made it dubious that the EU would even survive. Now the Euro has overtaken the US Dollar and been widely adopted, and history, while supporting you, also indicates that any world superpower cannot maintain its status indefinitely.
Your forgetting nuclear weapons, no country is a superpower if I can turn it into a crater.
I realize this is flamebait, but...
(i) Remember Mutually Assured Destruction? The USSR used to be a superpower. They had a lot of weapons, and a hell of a lot of land to craterize. China's fairly big, too, I understand. And the EU.
(ii) How valuable and intimidating is a nuclear arsenal that you can't afford to maintain?
All of which works as long as you're #1 in perpetuity. Britain used to be #1. The USSR used to have some clout. The EU is now a very strong force to be reckoned with.
Anybody else have a weird feeling that Comcast is trying to buy out the entire world.... one step at a time they are acquiring important groups... then again i'm probably just paranoid. Any idea what their real intent is with all these purchuses?
Off-hand, it's probably either:
(i) They're hoping to find a company with such appalling customer service that it makes Comcast look good by comparison; or
(ii) They're hoping to find a company with such sterling customer service that they can point that way and say, "see? Comcast does do customer service!".
There again, it could just be that the Roberts family dictatorship are a bunch of greedy sods.
By the way, there's something very scummy about the way voting rights work in Comcast. I forget the details, but it boils down to something like the CEO having massive voting rights and being able to effectively control any vote he likes.
Right! Because heaven knows MSNBC never covers anything of interest to Slashdot readers.
/. Does this mean MSNBC is more Linux-oriented than /. now? Woo-hoo...umm...bugger.
Wow...stories on SCO suing AutoZone, HP launching Linux-based PCs worldwide, GFI's Linux development plans, Novell and SuSE, more SCO, EV1 and SCO, etc., etc. Heck, I'm not entirely sure all of these stories were on
Actually, that is an interesting concept, and Windows 2000 comes with built-in file encryption if you don't want to spend a lot of money. (I assume XP does as well.)
Works quite well, too -- it's tied to your logon account and is secured so that anyone who doesn't have your logon account gets an access denied error when they try to open the file. If you have services that need to access that file, you can secure it under the service account and the service will be able to access it transparently. Doesn't work on a cluster, however. (Although you're most likely not running a cluster at home, right?)
Being from down under (New Zealand, not Australia, you insensitive clod), I would have agreed with you until a few years ago, Then I moved to the U.S.
Within three months of living here, I started getting credit card offers. Within a year, half a dozen different companies knew what car I drove -- make, model, year, color -- and where I lived. Some of them knew how much I owed on the financing contract on that car. They know my wife's name. They know what country I'm from. They know my child's name. They know what I do for a job. They know the hotels I stay in when I go away on business.
This isn't about Amazon tracking what I've bought so they can try and sell me other books on the same topic. It's about the amazing sharing between companies of your financial and personal details.
That's intimidating. I'm used to living in a country where I was not constantly inundated with letters from complete strangers who already knew about me to such detail. And I don't like it now that it's happening to me. Say what you like about how it's an impersonal clerk at a desk job 500 miles away, but that impersonal clerk could just as easily be sitting at a desk 10 miles away from me and live up the road from me.
If I want to refinance my car, then I make the choice to submit financial information -- but it's my choice to give those details. I don't want someone else finding out all that information about me without me having any control or say in the matter. If a company can find out so much about me when they're only trying to get me to sign up for a credit card offer, then what can they find out if they're really trying?
Ultimately, I just like feeling like I have a certain amount of privacy, rather than feeling as if my life is an open book for anyone with a company name behind them to read. I don't want to be on display -- I want to choose what I share with the general public. I don't choose to share all my financial information with my best friend, because I simply don't want him knowing it. What on earth gives these arrogant bullying companies the right to get that information without me having a say in the matter?
Yes, financial institutions will send out non-disclosure type agreements, where you can ring a number and say you don't want your information being shared. But how do all the holes get filled? How did credit card companies get my details in three months of me entering the country? (Answer: probably when I applied for finance for my car.) And how do I put the curtain over the vast quantity of info that is now out there? (Answer: I can't.)
Bottom line: far more companies in the U.S. knew far more about me in the space of a year than companies in New Zealand knew about me in the space of 30 years. If you've never made the transition from one to the other, you can't possibly imagine just how truly intimidating and unsettling it is if you're used to your privacy.
Thanks for pointing this out. I've linked to this in my journal. Remarkably, Michael had this to say when he joined /.:
I do hope to avoid the worst excesses - the hatchet jobs, the total lies, the made-up stories. But I won't avoid those because I'm trying to be unbiased, I'll avoid those because they aren't fucking true. I'm a stickler for accuracy; it comes of being an INTP.
This 'un here talks about a county in Pennsylvania that is going to be retesting due to problems.
It's not illegal to sing "Happy Birthday," it's illegal to sing it publicly and not pay the requisite fee to ASCAP or whichever organization handles the collecting of fees and distribution of royalties to composers.
That would probably be the Harry Fox Agency. And, by the way, I would imagine a clown being hired professionally to sing "Happy Birthday" would come under this category (as distinct from the bunch of six year old friends singing around the lunch table).
Not to complain or anything, but now I wish /. had published this earlier story.
2004-03-10 13:24:55 Pennsylvania County to retest voting machines (yro,news) (rejected)
Unfortunately it's no longer on the Philadelphia Inquirer's web site as they only make stories available for free for seven days, and this was eight days ago. But the first few lines show this:
Source: Jeff Shields INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Montgomery County will retest its electronic voting machines at the insistence of a group of former candidates who have questioned whether the machines worked properly in November.Four months after the general election, Elections Supervisor Joseph Passarella said he would schedule a test on the machines in the next two weeks. The decision was made after the county received complaints from five unsuccessful North Penn school board candidates.The test will involve reprograming the Sequoia
Published on March 9, 2004, Page B01, Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA)
About all I remember other than this was that the outcome of the election was not being challenged; there was a sufficient gap between first and second that a few votes either way won't make any difference. Which, of course, is not the point. The Inquirer also published a story about electronic voting and the trust issue the day after this article appeared.
Yep, agreed. BTW, here's a newsflash -- it's not just MS SQL Server that ships with a default password. Sybase does, too (and, from memory, it's the same as MS -- user name sa, no password). Oracle installs with a few of them.
User -- Password
System -- manager
Sys -- change_on_install
Internal -- Oracle
Scott -- tiger
Is a default blank password any less secure than a well-known non-blank password? Marginally, but who's counting?
As a side point, later service packs for SQL Server 2000 (and, I believe, 7.0) detect a blank sa password and require you to explicitly check off a confirmation before allowing you to proceed if you don't set the password.
There you go; some sensible comments. If you want to see this idea (i.e. a product designed by women for women) in a slightly saner implementation, look at what Volvo did. (There are plenty of other sites if you Google a little.)
They made a design team comprised of women and said "design the car you want". They thought outside of traditional lines and asked themselves how they actually used the car. The result -- it's not some silly pink frilly thing, but a real car, with real horsepower, but loads of convenient attributes designed by women for women.
I won't go into all the details, but things like a race-style gas filler cap for ease of use, more thought on placement and design of storage compartments, and no bonnet at the front for maintenance, but instead having the whole front of the car lift up. By the way, not mentioned in the linked article -- they've drastically cut down on the amount of maintenance necessary, so it only needs an oil change every 31,000 miles.
Totally o/t, but back in the 70s a large number of New Zealanders were emigrating to Australia. The Prime Minister of New Zealand at the time, Rob Muldoon, commented that the New Zealanders who were participating in this migration pattern were effectively raising the average IQ levels of both countries.
I bet that by June 1, 2005, not a single U.S. citizen will have been drafted into the U.S. military by Selective Service conscription (i.e., National Guard call-up and the like doesn't count).
What about non-citizens? I am a legal resident alien. I hold a green card. I have not yet resided in the U.S. long enough to apply for citizenship. Unless restricted by age, I am subject to the draft. I'm curious if you left that bit out by design or not.
I'd go further than this. I didn't see mention of current living arrangements, but, whether or not you and your girlfriend are living together, it's probably safe to assume you spend a fair amount of time together outside of work (evenings and weekends). Being with someone a majority of your waking hours is hard. People are just different, and we rub each other up the wrong way. It happens, even if you are madly in love.
But most couples have some downtime when they're not around each other. Husbands and wives typically work at different companies. Forget about whether work sucks; it's time away from your beloved which can sometimes provide a much-needed break. Doesn't say anything about your relationship that a break for a few hours during the day is helpful; it's just part of being human. Plus you get to go home and bitch about Matt at work to someone who has no insight, no knowledge except for what she gets from you, so she's (almost) always taking your side by default. (Except if she can tell from how you're describing it that you were being unreasonable, in which case she can tell you and you know it's from an unbiased point of view.)
On the other side of the coin, if you've worked at a typical company before, you know how people's habits get on your wick. Over time, that builds up. But the reason most of us don't go ballistic on our work mates is because (i) we have self-control, and (ii) we don't have to live with them. See, it works the other way around, too! You spend a heck of a lot of time with people at work, and they also rub you up the wrong way. So going home at night gives you a break from them.
You, on the other hand, are immediately going to lose that enforced break time. Both ways. I seriously hope for the sake of all concerned that everyone is mature enough to deal with this. The potential is there to negatively impact your relationship with your girlfriend, your relationship with your family, and your business. (Quick question: what happens if your brother has to chastise your girlfriend at work and she comes crying to you?)
So, having just written a very depressing post (sorry), let me offer my best wishes for your success and encourage you to read every post in this article and think long and hard about all the comments offered.
You're right. Here's the thing, though...
In 2454, those blockbusters of Shakespeare would still be available, being discussed, argued about, and generally still in the public eye. Pick any film from the past decade and try to decide if there's the vaguest possibility of that film being discussed 450 years from now.
Come to that, think how many movies from 50 years ago are still in the popular eye (as opposed to just old film buffs). There are plenty of 50 year old films, but only a handful which would be recognized by a broad cross-section of the public. Casablanca would be one. Citizen Kane might be another, but I'm not sure. Breakfast at Tiffany's? Maybe. And some of the Marx Brothers, a few others. But that's a small section of the films from that era, and it'll be interesting to see how many of those are still widely recognized in another 50 years.
There's the rare genius of Shakespeare. Create something that can entertain the masses and stand the test of time.
A while back when I was an IT monkey, I seem to remember Office2000 would install Outlook even if you specified not to, in the custom install.
Perhaps -5 Speculative would have been a somewhat more appropriate mod. Let's clarify...the suggestion above is incorrect. You can most certainly take Outlook out of the install. You can continue to use previous versions of Outlook, if you wish, while running Word/Excel/etc. 2000.
Your humble servant, etc.
Where's the question?
Why did this get rejected yesterday?
2004-03-03 15:10:50 Virus writers insulting each other in their code (articles,news) (rejected)
Okay, now I think people are beginning to go overboard.
What price was paid for this "IP license"? A claim like "our small fee would not go very far defending an action such as this, much less prosecuting one" is totally unconvincing while the amount of the fee remains secret. Moreover, obviously customers will be indirectly footing the bill for this, so they need to be able to figure out just how much it's costing them.
Nonsense. Customers also foot the bill for EV1's servers, air-conditioning, security services, and so on. Should EV1 (or anyone else) be forced to disclose those costs? If not, why not? It's the same principle.
In fact, why not take this to the logical conclusion? Does your company have customers? If so, those customers are paying your salary. Do you see where I'm going here?
Please. I'd have Katz back in a second if it would get rid of Michael. Katz could be irritating, but Michael is just plain abusive/nasty/egomaniacal/powermad. I'd put him on ignore except...once in a blue moon he puts up something interesting.
Most of the time -- the vast majority of the time, in fact -- he puts up meaningless drivel and then expounds on it in the most asinine fashion, and I want to throttle the dreadful little man. But for those rare occasions when he's on duty, a halfway decent story comes through, and he is actually able to recognize it as such -- well, for those increasingly rare moments, I must suffer through the garbage, drat it all.
Something else for Comcast to make a complete and utter mess. Oh, yay.
Is there anyone out there who was with another company that got taken over by Comcast that doesn't have a complaint about how terrible they are? Or witness the recent discussion on cable vs satellite TV, and how many anti-Comcast diatribes came out there. Or do you want another view?
If Comcast takes over Disney, be prepared for Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck unavailability on a frequent basis. Mind you, at least they'll be able to put a spin on all the comments about their Mickey Mouse technical support, so maybe that's the reason they're going for this.
Microsoft has actually been selling it since June 2003. Andrew McBean (MS Thailand's managing director, if you didn't RTFA) was, er, inaccurate.
BTW, this also neatly allows them to get around the one-price policy -- it's still a single price world-wide for XP, but a restricted version, well, that's different.