I was going to mod you down, but I'll disagree with you instead.
The grandparent actually understands history. From the tone of jis post, I reckon he has been in computing since the '80s and saw IBM turnaround from the big bad ogre to the well respected company it is now.
He will also have seen the rise of Microsoft from a company with a whiny CEO (Open Letter To Hobbyists) to a company with some seriously dysfunctional corporate behaviours. (Does Not Play Nicely with others. Cannot compete, only dominate).
Sit down, get some pop-corn, enjoy the show. and don't go taking any bets on the outcome from the likes of me or the grandparent poster.
Microsoft woud LOVE to rent you software. Say $10/month for Office. Then they have a guaranteed revenue stream. You stop paying, you lose all your documents.
I am sure they were trying to go to a rental model for licensing some time ago.
Whitehouse was a print magazine in the UK, back when porn was.. tits.
There was a campaigner called Mary Whitehouse who tried to organise the religious pensioners to protest against smut. The name of the magazine was a deliberate 'swivel' to her.
Many years ago it was priced in gallons - and people complained like. hell. Once it was priced in litres. it doesn't hurt so much. My car now takes £50 to fill the tank with 60 litres. It'll do me a week, just to work and back.
A year or so ago there was a national strike over petrol prices - something like 90% of it is pure tax.
That's how long it takes the Trademark Journal to be published. People then have (I think) three months to object, but the trademark becomes effective as from that date of publication unless there is an objection made.
Apple are VERY CAGY when it comes to trademarks, especially in the UK. This is because of the settlement agreement between Apple Computers and Apple Music (publishers of the Beatles) that there would be no contention between them. If there was to be contention, one or the other would have to give up the name.
I digress.
A few years ago, I owned a registered company name, Cyberdog Systems Ltd, in the UK. Apple were about to launch their Cyberdog document thingy, so I wrote and told them that I had prior rights to the name Cyberdog in the UK. (This is only slightly true as I didn't have a trademark, only a registered company name).
But I wanted either some money from Apple to walk away from my company, or written guarantee from Apple that there was no conflict of interest. I didn't want THEM coming after ME later, claiming I was trading on their reputation.
They didn't want to buy my company, but I have the letters from their legal department filed away somewhere. I was sending cheap letters by 2nd class post to their UK office, and receiving letters hand-delivered to my little house in the country.
Shame cyberdog never took off.
Ah, my moment of (nearly) being famous...
And I've just bought a shiny iMac G5 and it's gorgeous!
Illegal to discuss it? I wonder if anyone has ever written about murder. Some twisted old nutter called Agathe Christie did this a couple of times, and some how got away with it.
HD manufacturers always measured their disks like that.
Not true, back in the bad old days, when IBM was the enemy (remember that?), IBM sold its disk as unformatted capacity - ie, the complete length of a track multiplied by number of tracks. Formatted capacity was about 80% to 90% of that.
In the minicomputer market, Seagate sold their disk in Millions of bytes but called them Megabytes. By the time you accounted foe the loss due to formatting, to the binary/decimal 2.4% discrepancy, file system overhead, it seemd you were down to about 70% of the size you thought you had bought.
Tivo honours Macrovision. I found this out the hard way. The recorded version on the Tivo is perfect, but you cannot record it to VCR.
The way I found out was getting a Freeview (Digital Terrestrial - no subscription charge, UK only). Due to a cock-up, all channels were flagged as Macrovision. Freeview admitted the mistake but said they were reliant on Thompson (or someone) releasing corrected software. It took a month for them to do this.
Not the case with the current Tivo. When I record programs to VCR, I start the VCR at the beginning of the program and fast forward over the adverts, and stop recording at the end.
Not difficult.
As long as the DVD drive allows you to say when to stop and start recording, it's exactly like allowing editting.
And I REALLY REALLY want the PAL/UK version. Maybe after Christmas?
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The right way to translate the names of these groups is always to reverse the apparent meaning.
So Progress and Freedom is the last thing they want.
Wasn't it Software Choice, the Microsoft group saying you all need to buy only Microsoft?
I was going to mod you down, but I'll disagree with you instead.
The grandparent actually understands history. From the tone of jis post, I reckon he has been in computing since the '80s and saw IBM turnaround from the big bad ogre to the well respected company it is now.
He will also have seen the rise of Microsoft from a company with a whiny CEO (Open Letter To Hobbyists) to a company with some seriously dysfunctional corporate behaviours. (Does Not Play Nicely with others. Cannot compete, only dominate).
Sit down, get some pop-corn, enjoy the show. and don't go taking any bets on the outcome from the likes of me or the grandparent poster.
Microsoft woud LOVE to rent you software. Say $10/month for Office. Then they have a guaranteed revenue stream. You stop paying, you lose all your documents.
I am sure they were trying to go to a rental model for licensing some time ago.
What's not to like about it?
Everything, you say? Oh.
We're Team America, we DON'T CARE!!!
Fuckin-A!!
Whitehouse was a print magazine in the UK, back when porn was .. tits.
There was a campaigner called Mary Whitehouse who tried to organise the religious pensioners to protest against smut. The name of the magazine was a deliberate 'swivel' to her.
You *respect* their business tactics?
Jesus. Words fail me.
Do some reading, please.
Or here
You are spot on.
Many years ago it was priced in gallons - and people complained like. hell. Once it was priced in litres. it doesn't hurt so much.
My car now takes £50 to fill the tank with 60 litres. It'll do me a week, just to work and back.
A year or so ago there was a national strike over petrol prices - something like 90% of it is pure tax.
That's how long it takes the Trademark Journal to be published. People then have (I think) three months to object, but the trademark becomes effective as from that date of publication unless there is an objection made.
Apple are VERY CAGY when it comes to trademarks, especially in the UK. This is because of the settlement agreement between Apple Computers and Apple Music (publishers of the Beatles) that there would be no contention between them. If there was to be contention, one or the other would have to give up the name.
...
I digress.
A few years ago, I owned a registered company name, Cyberdog Systems Ltd, in the UK. Apple were about to launch their Cyberdog document thingy, so I wrote and told them that I had prior rights to the name Cyberdog in the UK. (This is only slightly true as I didn't have a trademark, only a registered company name).
But I wanted either some money from Apple to walk away from my company, or written guarantee from Apple that there was no conflict of interest. I didn't want THEM coming after ME later, claiming I was trading on their reputation.
They didn't want to buy my company, but I have the letters from their legal department filed away somewhere. I was sending cheap letters by 2nd class post to their UK office, and receiving letters hand-delivered to my little house in the country.
Shame cyberdog never took off.
Ah, my moment of (nearly) being famous
And I've just bought a shiny iMac G5 and it's gorgeous!
EU - no software patents. Yet.
Canada - it's jsut better. Period.
"At least technically it's possible to install most new apps on Windows 98 and old apps on Windows XP."
Not in the least bit true in my personal experience.
I find I need to run both XP and 98 on two separate boxes.
Digital Camera - can not be installed on Win98 as drivers do not exist for it.
Old games - will not run on Win XP
New games - will not run on Win98.
Four player is Massively Multiplayer?
Psycho Marine with Big Gun is Role Playing?
Boy, are you easily pleased. I've got a SCOSource license I'd like to sell you...
Because this story is about Windows.
Illegal to discuss it? I wonder if anyone has ever written about murder. Some twisted old nutter called Agathe Christie did this a couple of times, and some how got away with it.
But they're not infringing. Until a court says so. Which doesn't seem likely.
HD manufacturers always measured their disks like that.
Not true, back in the bad old days, when IBM was the enemy (remember that?), IBM sold its disk as unformatted capacity - ie, the complete length of a track multiplied by number of tracks. Formatted capacity was about 80% to 90% of that.
In the minicomputer market, Seagate sold their disk in Millions of bytes but called them Megabytes. By the time you accounted foe the loss due to formatting, to the binary/decimal 2.4% discrepancy, file system overhead, it seemd you were down to about 70% of the size you thought you had bought.
.. as a term currently used in accounting for exactly this sort of thing.
Tivo honours Macrovision. I found this out the hard way. The recorded version on the Tivo is perfect, but you cannot record it to VCR.
The way I found out was getting a Freeview (Digital Terrestrial - no subscription charge, UK only). Due to a cock-up, all channels were flagged as Macrovision. Freeview admitted the mistake but said they were reliant on Thompson (or someone) releasing corrected software. It took a month for them to do this.
Not the case with the current Tivo. When I record programs to VCR, I start the VCR at the beginning of the program and fast forward over the adverts, and stop recording at the end.
Not difficult.
As long as the DVD drive allows you to say when to stop and start recording, it's exactly like allowing editting.
And I REALLY REALLY want the PAL/UK version. Maybe after Christmas?