Apparently, reading Slashdot and your outbound email was not good enough. Yes indeed, Cox did correct the immediate technical problem, but no one is swearing off creepy practices. Comcast, as usual, is going the last mile to assure everyone that Big Brother is watching but you can be sure that other ISPs have and will be using the same "technology" to spy on their users. How else will TIA happen?
Except this isn't "snooping." Actually they are reading Blogs so they can improve their service. This is after numerous stories in the media on comcastmustdie.com and Mona "The Hammer" Shaw. In fact, businesses do this all the time. The only time I can recall it resulting in a lawsuit was with Lowe's suing someone over the site lowes-sucks.com http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/21/lowes_threatens_legal_action/
It is still sad many businesses must resort to reading blogs rather than having more technical support personnel to answer the phones when someone needs it the most or to change their minds.
Perhaps it is safe. When I installed Windows XP with Service Pack 2, my machine was not auto-rooted at all. In fact, I have been free of malware for quite some time. I simply stay away from questionable sites and email. Then I also have Mozilla Firefox installed as well.
No matter how secure an Operating System is, there will always be someone who could be so ignorant enough to get malware. All it would take for any GNU/Linux install to get malware is for someone to be dumb enough to get access to the Root account and install software that has the malware linked to it. Not that I am condemning GNU/Linux as it is a great operating system as well. What I am pointing out is the user is generally the root of the problem.
Vista is a failure? Although it isn't an overwhelming success it is far from being a failure. Windows has actually improved since the real failure, Windows ME. Even hardcore Windows fans have long considered Windows ME a failure.
When Windows XP was first released, it had plenty of problems. Today Windows XP is more stable and secure. In fact, I haven't had any problems with Windows XP for the past couple of years.
As for Windows Vista Home Premium, one can purchase it from Amazon for around $98 . I imagine HP can purchase it in bulk for even less.
Well, let's see here. Office 2007 can be purchased for $290, or there is Staroffice, Openoffice.org, or even Wordperfect Office X4.
There are several image manipulation programs for Windows. Gimp is one of them. then there is Corel Painter, Corel Paint Shop Pro, and Adobe Photoshop CS3. I can vouch for Photoshop as it does have tools such as non-destructive layer effects, which unfortunately is not available in the GIMP. Corel Paint Shop Pro can be purchased for around $100
As for Vista, ultimate can be purchased for as low as $144.99, and it doesn't require expensive software if someone doesn't need it. However, if someone can make use with the $400 computer with the free software installed, then that is the option they should go with. Remember Twitter, an operating system, photo editing software, an office suite, and any other software are tools and use the best tool for the Job. Everyone's preferences change as to what the "best tool" is for the job. Similar to saying I like Coke while you like Pepsi and someone else likes RC.
A surviving DSL company, what a cute little thing. I see they have managed to get around the ATT last mile block by using wireless. A whole two counties worth of freedom, I bet they get twice the usual inspection at the ATT splitters.
Then there is also Bridgemaxx and Verizon on top of Comcast. This is in little ol' Richmond, IN. On top of that, there is also Hughesnet, StarBand, and WildBlue. Despite your wild claims Twitter, America is not run by Comcast.
Well, let's see. The so-called "death threats" against you are not death threats at all. A couple of them are asking you to commit suicide, another is even stating you will eventually self destruct. A "death threat" is where someone threatens to kill someone else. None of the comments had such wording or even remotely resembling the wording.
Also, those you call Microsoft or "M$" lovers and haters of free software are nothing of the sort. It is possible to like both closed source and open source software. Just because someone doesn't use M$, Micro$haft, or Windoze doesn't mean they hate open source or Linux. One example you gave was Keith Russell. If he hated open-source software and loved Microsoft as you claim, then he wouldn't be making statements like "This is one of the things that will allow Linux, and FOSS in general, to win in the long term. The multitude of voices and opinions tend to be self-correcting, with benelovent dictators like Linus Torvalds keeping the focus on building up their own products, not tearing down the opposition."1 or "I don't think Microsoft cares that Blu-Ray is Sony's standard, just that it's not Microsoft's standard."
There is no Microsoft conspiracy against you. The reason you have been modded down is because you use "M$" and "Windoze" Microsoft and Windows, which is just as childish as using "Linsux" and "Open Sores" when describing "GNU/Linux" and "Open Source" There are many people on Slashdot who speak against Microsoft and still get modded up. If it were a conspiracy then anyone speaking against Microsoft would be modded down on the spot.
As for Apple, if this is true then a lawsuit is the least of their worries. Apple should worry more about their customers leaving them. Microsoft does at least treats their employees well, homosexuals included.3456 Apple should be treating their employees with more respect.
Except the phrase you gave has absolutely nothing to do with either of the other two phrases.
The two phrases "If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse." and "They can have any color they want as long as its black" both imply he did not care what the customer wanted. That lack of customer care attitude remained with FORD (Figure On Repairs Daily), thus they lost customers when viable competition came around. "Toyota, Nissan, etc" Why do you think they are Third or lower?
As I was modded down as flamebait by an angry fucktard who sheepishly follows the communists fucktard taco, brokeback neil, RMS Titanic AKA Stallman, and Fucktard Linanus the fudgepacking linsux creator.
Just because you anger someone doesn't always mean you are right. Judging by the colourful metaphors you use I'd say you are a 12 year old who gets a kick from using such words.
If Microsoft did this, you would be stating "M$ is teh evil." The only reason you fucktarded shitdot sheeple are defending Fuckle over this is they are teh defenders of communist open-sores.
Not everyone on Slashdot is a Microsoft hater like twitter. Some use both GNU/Linux and Windows while some use Windows exclusively. It does appear, though, you do have the same type of hatred towards Google, slashdot, open-source, and GNU/Linux that twitter does towards Microsoft and closed-source software.
Why don't you communist fucktards go and slit your fucking wrists.
GO AHEAD FUCKING FLAME AWAY OR WASTE YOUR GODDAMNED MODPOINTS FUCKTARDED SHITDOT SHEEPLE!
Oh yeah, telling someone to slit their wrists is very mature and intelligent. NOT!
Indeed. Video games seem to have taken the place of tabletop roleplaying games as THE NEXT BIG EVIL THAT WILL TURN OUR KIDS INTO PSYCHOPATHS AND AWAY FROM JESUS!!!! It's the same sort of cranks with the same kinds of junk science, badly interpreted or even completely fraudulent statistics and with the same underlying support from the enemies of freedom; the Religious Right.
Wow, I didn't know Hillary was a part of the Religious Right. All this time I thought she was a leftist who is trying to ban the sale of violent video games to children. This is one step closer towards a total ban on video games someone doesn't like. IMO, Hillary is no different than Jack Thompson. Seems to me there is little difference between the right and the left as they both have their share of those who cry "Won't somebody please think of the children?"
BTW, I am a Christian who doesn't support bans on video games.
Looking at the source rather than going by your obviously biased Journal, Microsoft is striving to meet the goals of the demands. Unfortunately, some of the documentation has gone AWOL. As a result they are having to make their best guess. Microsoft is now documenting their code so they can be more compliant with the EU and the DOJ. BTW, Internet Explorer is more standards compliant and it is no longer tied into the rest of the operating system.
The market remains a stagnant monopoly where significantly better products struggle to gain traction.
A stagnant monopoly? I could have sworn PC manufacturers are including Ubuntu as an option and Firefox was gaining market share.
A better punishment would be for government to quit purchasing things from Microsoft and fine them the costs of transition.
Judging by your posts, the only way you would be satisfied is if Microsoft and every other software company went out of business.
The hot coffee incident. Everyone thinks this was a perversion of justice, thanks to McDonalds' PR team. In reality, they had reduced the amount of material in the cups to the point where they weren't structurally stable without a lid to save a few pennies, and they were keeping the coffee too hot, to make it last longer.
In a libertarian system, this lady would have been screwed. Simple, then the dumb woman should have waited to open it instead of in her car. In other words, if some idiot were to place their hand on a heated element on an electric stove when they should know better not to touch it, should that idiot be awarded anything when he or she sues the business who sold the stove or made the stove?
How does an unregulated free market stay free? Wouldn't money accumulate in fewer and fewer hands? The more money you have, the more power you have to affect the value of things. The more power you have to make more money without doing anything of value, by screwing people economically The free market doesn't work that way. What you are referring to is corporate socialism, which according to the ninth and tenth amendments it is unconstitutional. With laissez-faire capitalism, those who don't do anything of value are cast aside. For example, take a look at GM, Ford, and Chrysler. All three are not as big what they used to be as a result of the free market. They really never wanted to compete so once competition started popping up, they became irrelevant. That is how the free market works.
You could spend a lot of money to screw over people, say, by buying up all the land around them. They can't go on your property, and neither can anyone else. They have to pay whatever you charge for anything, as no one else has a right to traverse your land to sell to them. Guess what, that is already happing today with the unconstitutional government. Libertarians are not for eliminating the government, we are for limiting the government through the constitution. You are not against the constitution are you?
Money is power. Coercion can be economic, not just at the point of a gun. Again, that sounds like the government. If money is power the government has a whole lot of power. As they say absolute power corrupts absolutely and the government is just about there.
BTW, I take it from your comments you are a believer in the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx. Answer this question for me, where in the constitution does it authorize the government to use socialism or communism?
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A free market contains no checks or balances against the consolidation of power. Yes it does. Where is National Cash Register? Why isn't IBM so important anymore? Even Microsoft is on its way to become Microprofits...
A real free market comes with "creative destruction" deeply embedded; and the incentive to destruct/disrupt is always with those with no power. And that's why Microsoft is losing market share to Firefox and Linux.
Actually, greed isn't the problem; it is the action stemming from the greed that is the problem. Sometimes greed can lead to a business changing their policies when their customers are flocking over to the competition when there is a problem. One such example is Jack in the Box. When several of Jack-in-the-Box's customers had food poisoning from their products, the biggest punishment they received was from their customers. They had to struggle to win the trust of their customers back. Ford is another example. Ford has made many products that lacked in features and reliability. They even have gone so low with the whole Ford/Firestone ordeal. As a result, they are no longer a viable option to many people. They still are not seeing the whole picture. Why do you think they are losing ground to Toyota, Kia, Nissan, and Volkswagen?
As for Dell, it isn't the government they need to worry about, it is their customers. The customer service and product quality has been an issue for quite some time now. I even call them "Packard Dell" as they are no better than Packard Bell was in the 1990s.
My point was there really is no line to say what item or items are needed or deserved, so the government simply punishing someone for simply being greedy could very well introduce more problems. As for the Union Carbide incident, I agree the individuals involved should have been punished with the laws already on the books, not for being greedy but for what they did to save money. Another question is what can be done when a government does the same thing? A similar incident of eliminating the safety protocols led to the Chernobyl disaster.
BTW, just because I am stating greed is not a vice doesn't mean it is a virtue. IMO, greed is closer to being neutral as I have pointed out; both good and bad can come from greed.
It's the damn definition, if you don't like it, use another word. It's meant to be negative, and I'm sick of selfish fucks trying to "reclaim" it as a positive thing. It isn't.
Who's standards? Normal, cooperative, non-selfish people's standards. The standards 90% of people in the world use. The standard standards.
Here's an idea: rather than try to make people think greed is good, how about not being greedy? I am not making it good or bad. I am simply asking where the line is.
If you think there is a standard, then when exactly does desire become excessive? What item or items are needed or deserved? What item or items are neither needed nor deserved?
IF you really look at it, everyone has a different look as to what people need or deserve and when it becomes excessive.
As a result, if one were to truly go by the 90% of the world, then there would be two outcomes.
1. People neither need or deserve anything 2. People either need or deserve everything
So again,
Who's standards should be used to define where "excessive desire" is as opposed to "normal desire"? Who's standards should be used to define what is "needed or deserved"?
I would appreciate a rational response rather than an irrational, knee-jerk response.
Greed (noun): A selfish or excessive desire for or pursuit of more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions. What is wrong with greed? It's in the definition of the word: Excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved. You can try to redefine it to make it seem more palatable, but thankfully most of humanity is never going to get on the "greed is good" bandwagon. Who's standards should be used to define where "excessive desire" is as opposed to "normal desire"? Who's standards should be used to define what is "needed or deserved"?
Actually you can risk having the courts rule your patents null and void for sitting on them. American Graphophone Company (Columbia) and the Victor Talking Machine Co. found that out the hard way as they sought protection in the courts. In the 1922 case of Victor Talking Machine Co. vs. Starr Piano Company, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held the Victor patent void for lack of invention and for abandonment.
To determine if they are still a monopoly, let's see what a monopoly is.
Monopoly is defined as "exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices."
Does Microsoft have a exclusive control over a service? Let's see what services they offer.
Operating System : Windows XP/Vista Competitors : GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X
Web Browser : Internet Explorer Competitors : Firefox and Opera
Video Game Console : X-Box 360 Competitors : Nintendo Wii, Sony Playstation 3
Office Suite : Microsoft Office Competitor : Openoffice.org/Star Office
Search Engine : MSN Search Competitors : Alta Vista, Google, and Yahoo is still a competitor
There are numerous programming suites to compete with Microsoft programming suites both open source and closed source.
Although Microsoft could send an update to disable software such as Firefox and numerous other pieces of software I highly doubt they will as someone could move to GNU/Linux immediately.
Personally I don't think Microsoft should really be worried about the European Union as much as their customers. A business should always remember the golden rule "The customer is always right." In other words, a business should always respect their customers.
A twitter-like system could be built on top of xmpp. In much the same way that a gmail-like system can be built on top of SMTP/POP. That doesn't mean that SMTP/POP are web-based. I don't know if a twitter-like system would be a wise course of action for an instant messenger system let alone an instant messenger system using XMPP. Do you know what problems could arise from this? Text such as M$, Windoze, Micro$oft, or anything dealing with anti-Microsoft topics would pop-up in your message. This change could occur when you type in MS, Microsoft, Windows, or anything dealing with Microsoft; or just occur spontaneously.;)
Twitter or some twitter imitator wrote -
Why don't you read the fucking article fucktard or at least use your fucking common sense. The fucking drivers are closed-source so it wouldn't be on any fucking release of Hardy Heron. Why don't go back to your precious M$ Windoze and join the rest of the fucktarded Windoze luzers who are simply too fucking stupid to even exist let alone use a fucking computer. Better yet, why don't you perform the same fucking act your fellow fucktarded Windoze luzers try to tell us, go slit your fucking wirsts fucktard as you are too fucking stupid to even exist let alone use a fucking computer.
GO AHEAD FUCKING FLAME AWAY FUCKTARDED M$ WINDOZE LUZERS! ___________________________________________ Friends don't help friends install M$ junk. I think the post become illegible after the first dollar sign and the sixth f-bomb. I mean wow; all the original poster did was asked if the driver would be included in with the 64-Bit edition of Hard Heron. He or she didn't think the world would end by asking a simple question.
You must really be out of the loop if you think that Memory Stick support is exclusive to Sony products.
Name one piece of consumer electronics that supports MemoryStick exclusively other than Sony cameras and devices. Just because your laptop comes with a multi-flash-memory reader doesn't mean it was designed for memory stick. The only products that use Memory Stick are Sony products. Everyone else uses more open cards. So what you are stating is if a Non-Sony product doesn't use it exclusively, it doesn't use it at all?
The DiMAGE G600 from Minolta uses Memory Sticks. Heck, memory sticks are not even exclusively made by Sony. I have a Memory Stick Pro made by SanDisk (Yes, the Sandisk that created the CompactFlash memory card), and the reader I use is from Sunbeamtech.
Newegg.com sells MS Pro Duos from Sandisk and Lexar as well as Sony, comparable in price to any other flash technology.
Bad try - Ruby 1.9.0 does not "handle Requests", as it has nothing to do with web. It is a general purpose scripting language like python (not PHP).
You are talking about RAILS - which is something completely different. So true. Ruby is used for scripting in many applications. One example is the RPG Maker Series. RPG Maker XP uses the Ruby Game Scripting System (RGSS), which is a modified version Ruby for the specific task of RPG creation. With such scripting, the possibilities are endless depending on someone's coding skills in RGSS. RPG Maker VX will use RGSS2. Although RGSS scripts can be used in RPG Maker VX, RGSS2 scripts can't be used in RPG Maker XP.
Ruby on Rails, much like RGSS, is a modified version of Ruby. Unlike RGSS, Ruby on Rails is modified to utilize the Rails framework for web applications.
As a result, someone just needs to learn Ruby to learn the basics of RGSS/RGSS2 or Ruby on Rails.
You have it all wrong. Honda has never developed that kind of technology. On the other hand; Phillip Morris, Brown & Williamson, and R.J. Reynolds have not only have developed CIGS technology, but they have also been pushing CIGS on us for quite some time now.;)
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Apparently, reading Slashdot and your outbound email was not good enough. Yes indeed, Cox did correct the immediate technical problem, but no one is swearing off creepy practices. Comcast, as usual, is going the last mile to assure everyone that Big Brother is watching but you can be sure that other ISPs have and will be using the same "technology" to spy on their users. How else will TIA happen?
Except this isn't "snooping." Actually they are reading Blogs so they can improve their service. This is after numerous stories in the media on comcastmustdie.com and Mona "The Hammer" Shaw. In fact, businesses do this all the time. The only time I can recall it resulting in a lawsuit was with Lowe's suing someone over the site lowes-sucks.com
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/21/lowes_threatens_legal_action/
It is still sad many businesses must resort to reading blogs rather than having more technical support personnel to answer the phones when someone needs it the most or to change their minds.
Perhaps it is safe. When I installed Windows XP with Service Pack 2, my machine was not auto-rooted at all. In fact, I have been free of malware for quite some time. I simply stay away from questionable sites and email. Then I also have Mozilla Firefox installed as well.
No matter how secure an Operating System is, there will always be someone who could be so ignorant enough to get malware. All it would take for any GNU/Linux install to get malware is for someone to be dumb enough to get access to the Root account and install software that has the malware linked to it. Not that I am condemning GNU/Linux as it is a great operating system as well. What I am pointing out is the user is generally the root of the problem.
Vista is a failure? Although it isn't an overwhelming success it is far from being a failure. Windows has actually improved since the real failure, Windows ME. Even hardcore Windows fans have long considered Windows ME a failure.
When Windows XP was first released, it had plenty of problems. Today Windows XP is more stable and secure. In fact, I haven't had any problems with Windows XP for the past couple of years.
As for Windows Vista Home Premium, one can purchase it from Amazon for around $98 . I imagine HP can purchase it in bulk for even less.
Well, let's see here. Office 2007 can be purchased for $290, or there is Staroffice, Openoffice.org, or even Wordperfect Office X4.
There are several image manipulation programs for Windows. Gimp is one of them. then there is Corel Painter, Corel Paint Shop Pro, and Adobe Photoshop CS3. I can vouch for Photoshop as it does have tools such as non-destructive layer effects, which unfortunately is not available in the GIMP. Corel Paint Shop Pro can be purchased for around $100
As for Vista, ultimate can be purchased for as low as $144.99, and it doesn't require expensive software if someone doesn't need it. However, if someone can make use with the $400 computer with the free software installed, then that is the option they should go with. Remember Twitter, an operating system, photo editing software, an office suite, and any other software are tools and use the best tool for the Job. Everyone's preferences change as to what the "best tool" is for the job. Similar to saying I like Coke while you like Pepsi and someone else likes RC.
A surviving DSL company, what a cute little thing. I see they have managed to get around the ATT last mile block by using wireless. A whole two counties worth of freedom, I bet they get twice the usual inspection at the ATT splitters.
Then there is also Bridgemaxx and Verizon on top of Comcast. This is in little ol' Richmond, IN. On top of that, there is also Hughesnet, StarBand, and WildBlue. Despite your wild claims Twitter, America is not run by Comcast.
Well, let's see. The so-called "death threats" against you are not death threats at all. A couple of them are asking you to commit suicide, another is even stating you will eventually self destruct. A "death threat" is where someone threatens to kill someone else. None of the comments had such wording or even remotely resembling the wording.
Also, those you call Microsoft or "M$" lovers and haters of free software are nothing of the sort. It is possible to like both closed source and open source software. Just because someone doesn't use M$, Micro$haft, or Windoze doesn't mean they hate open source or Linux. One example you gave was Keith Russell. If he hated open-source software and loved Microsoft as you claim, then he wouldn't be making statements like "This is one of the things that will allow Linux, and FOSS in general, to win in the long term. The multitude of voices and opinions tend to be self-correcting, with benelovent dictators like Linus Torvalds keeping the focus on building up their own products, not tearing down the opposition."1 or "I don't think Microsoft cares that Blu-Ray is Sony's standard, just that it's not Microsoft's standard."
There is no Microsoft conspiracy against you. The reason you have been modded down is because you use "M$" and "Windoze" Microsoft and Windows, which is just as childish as using "Linsux" and "Open Sores" when describing "GNU/Linux" and "Open Source" There are many people on Slashdot who speak against Microsoft and still get modded up. If it were a conspiracy then anyone speaking against Microsoft would be modded down on the spot.
As for Apple, if this is true then a lawsuit is the least of their worries. Apple should worry more about their customers leaving them. Microsoft does at least treats their employees well, homosexuals included.3456 Apple should be treating their employees with more respect.
Sources :
1 - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=197140&cid=16158708
2 - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=497526&cid=22846284
3 - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3128913
4 - http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/346431_antiochmsft08.html
5 - http://www.vault.com/survey/employee/Microsoft-Corporation-EMPLOYEER-3726.html
6 - http://www.brianblog.com/archives/2005_05.html
Except the phrase you gave has absolutely nothing to do with either of the other two phrases.
The two phrases "If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse." and "They can have any color they want as long as its black" both imply he did not care what the customer wanted. That lack of customer care attitude remained with FORD (Figure On Repairs Daily), thus they lost customers when viable competition came around. "Toyota, Nissan, etc" Why do you think they are Third or lower?
And that's why I am able to get my Internet Service through Parallax , Oh wait...
As I was modded down as flamebait by an angry fucktard who sheepishly follows the communists fucktard taco, brokeback neil, RMS Titanic AKA Stallman, and Fucktard Linanus the fudgepacking linsux creator.
Just because you anger someone doesn't always mean you are right. Judging by the colourful metaphors you use I'd say you are a 12 year old who gets a kick from using such words.
If Microsoft did this, you would be stating "M$ is teh evil." The only reason you fucktarded shitdot sheeple are defending Fuckle over this is they are teh defenders of communist open-sores.
Not everyone on Slashdot is a Microsoft hater like twitter. Some use both GNU/Linux and Windows while some use Windows exclusively. It does appear, though, you do have the same type of hatred towards Google, slashdot, open-source, and GNU/Linux that twitter does towards Microsoft and closed-source software.
Why don't you communist fucktards go and slit your fucking wrists.
GO AHEAD FUCKING FLAME AWAY OR WASTE YOUR GODDAMNED MODPOINTS FUCKTARDED SHITDOT SHEEPLE!
Oh yeah, telling someone to slit their wrists is very mature and intelligent. NOT!
Indeed. Video games seem to have taken the place of tabletop roleplaying games as THE NEXT BIG EVIL THAT WILL TURN OUR KIDS INTO PSYCHOPATHS AND AWAY FROM JESUS!!!! It's the same sort of cranks with the same kinds of junk science, badly interpreted or even completely fraudulent statistics and with the same underlying support from the enemies of freedom; the Religious Right.
Wow, I didn't know Hillary was a part of the Religious Right. All this time I thought she was a leftist who is trying to ban the sale of violent video games to children. This is one step closer towards a total ban on video games someone doesn't like. IMO, Hillary is no different than Jack Thompson. Seems to me there is little difference between the right and the left as they both have their share of those who cry "Won't somebody please think of the children?"
BTW, I am a Christian who doesn't support bans on video games.
hmmm,well,what does seal taste like?
Good question as I do not eat human flesh. Plus, I highly doubt anyone will be able to say anything as he still seems to be recording and touring ;)
Grok law has a nice write up about how M$ continues to fail its five year compliance duties.
Looking at the source rather than going by your obviously biased Journal, Microsoft is striving to meet the goals of the demands. Unfortunately, some of the documentation has gone AWOL. As a result they are having to make their best guess. Microsoft is now documenting their code so they can be more compliant with the EU and the DOJ. BTW, Internet Explorer is more standards compliant and it is no longer tied into the rest of the operating system.The market remains a stagnant monopoly where significantly better products struggle to gain traction.
A stagnant monopoly? I could have sworn PC manufacturers are including Ubuntu as an option and Firefox was gaining market share.A better punishment would be for government to quit purchasing things from Microsoft and fine them the costs of transition.
Judging by your posts, the only way you would be satisfied is if Microsoft and every other software company went out of business.In a libertarian system, this lady would have been screwed. Simple, then the dumb woman should have waited to open it instead of in her car. In other words, if some idiot were to place their hand on a heated element on an electric stove when they should know better not to touch it, should that idiot be awarded anything when he or she sues the business who sold the stove or made the stove? How does an unregulated free market stay free? Wouldn't money accumulate in fewer and fewer hands? The more money you have, the more power you have to affect the value of things. The more power you have to make more money without doing anything of value, by screwing people economically The free market doesn't work that way. What you are referring to is corporate socialism, which according to the ninth and tenth amendments it is unconstitutional. With laissez-faire capitalism, those who don't do anything of value are cast aside. For example, take a look at GM, Ford, and Chrysler. All three are not as big what they used to be as a result of the free market. They really never wanted to compete so once competition started popping up, they became irrelevant. That is how the free market works. You could spend a lot of money to screw over people, say, by buying up all the land around them. They can't go on your property, and neither can anyone else. They have to pay whatever you charge for anything, as no one else has a right to traverse your land to sell to them. Guess what, that is already happing today with the unconstitutional government. Libertarians are not for eliminating the government, we are for limiting the government through the constitution. You are not against the constitution are you? Money is power. Coercion can be economic, not just at the point of a gun. Again, that sounds like the government. If money is power the government has a whole lot of power. As they say absolute power corrupts absolutely and the government is just about there.
BTW, I take it from your comments you are a believer in the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx. Answer this question for me, where in the constitution does it authorize the government to use socialism or communism?
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A real free market comes with "creative destruction" deeply embedded; and the incentive to destruct/disrupt is always with those with no power. And that's why Microsoft is losing market share to Firefox and Linux.
Oh, wait....
Actually, greed isn't the problem; it is the action stemming from the greed that is the problem. Sometimes greed can lead to a business changing their policies when their customers are flocking over to the competition when there is a problem. One such example is Jack in the Box. When several of Jack-in-the-Box's customers had food poisoning from their products, the biggest punishment they received was from their customers. They had to struggle to win the trust of their customers back. Ford is another example. Ford has made many products that lacked in features and reliability. They even have gone so low with the whole Ford/Firestone ordeal. As a result, they are no longer a viable option to many people. They still are not seeing the whole picture. Why do you think they are losing ground to Toyota, Kia, Nissan, and Volkswagen?
As for Dell, it isn't the government they need to worry about, it is their customers. The customer service and product quality has been an issue for quite some time now. I even call them "Packard Dell" as they are no better than Packard Bell was in the 1990s.
My point was there really is no line to say what item or items are needed or deserved, so the government simply punishing someone for simply being greedy could very well introduce more problems. As for the Union Carbide incident, I agree the individuals involved should have been punished with the laws already on the books, not for being greedy but for what they did to save money. Another question is what can be done when a government does the same thing? A similar incident of eliminating the safety protocols led to the Chernobyl disaster.
BTW, just because I am stating greed is not a vice doesn't mean it is a virtue. IMO, greed is closer to being neutral as I have pointed out; both good and bad can come from greed.
Who's standards? Normal, cooperative, non-selfish people's standards. The standards 90% of people in the world use. The standard standards.
Here's an idea: rather than try to make people think greed is good, how about not being greedy? I am not making it good or bad. I am simply asking where the line is.
If you think there is a standard, then when exactly does desire become excessive?
What item or items are needed or deserved?
What item or items are neither needed nor deserved?
IF you really look at it, everyone has a different look as to what people need or deserve and when it becomes excessive.
As a result, if one were to truly go by the 90% of the world, then there would be two outcomes.
1. People neither need or deserve anything
2. People either need or deserve everything
So again,
Who's standards should be used to define where "excessive desire" is as opposed to "normal desire"?
Who's standards should be used to define what is "needed or deserved"?
I would appreciate a rational response rather than an irrational, knee-jerk response.
Who's standards should be used to define what is "needed or deserved"?
Actually you can risk having the courts rule your patents null and void for sitting on them. American Graphophone Company (Columbia) and the Victor Talking Machine Co. found that out the hard way as they sought protection in the courts. In the 1922 case of Victor Talking Machine Co. vs. Starr Piano Company, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held the Victor patent void for lack of invention and for abandonment.
The lawsuit effectively end the majors monopolization of lateral recording and of the music industry.
http://www.waynet.org/nonprofit/gennett.htm
To determine if they are still a monopoly, let's see what a monopoly is.
Monopoly is defined as "exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices."
Does Microsoft have a exclusive control over a service? Let's see what services they offer.
Operating System : Windows XP/Vista
Competitors : GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X
Web Browser : Internet Explorer
Competitors : Firefox and Opera
Video Game Console : X-Box 360
Competitors : Nintendo Wii, Sony Playstation 3
Office Suite : Microsoft Office
Competitor : Openoffice.org/Star Office
Search Engine : MSN Search
Competitors : Alta Vista, Google, and Yahoo is still a competitor
There are numerous programming suites to compete with Microsoft programming suites both open source and closed source.
Although Microsoft could send an update to disable software such as Firefox and numerous other pieces of software I highly doubt they will as someone could move to GNU/Linux immediately.
Personally I don't think Microsoft should really be worried about the European Union as much as their customers. A business should always remember the golden rule "The customer is always right." In other words, a business should always respect their customers.
GO AHEAD FUCKING FLAME AWAY FUCKTARDED M$ WINDOZE LUZERS!
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Friends don't help friends install M$ junk. I think the post become illegible after the first dollar sign and the sixth f-bomb. I mean wow; all the original poster did was asked if the driver would be included in with the 64-Bit edition of Hard Heron. He or she didn't think the world would end by asking a simple question.
SanDisk Ultra II 4GB Compact Flash (CF) Original Price: $64.99 - You Save: $10.00 - Your Price:$54.99
I would have to say the costs are roughly the same, not 2x unless you compare different sizes or different speeds.
Name one piece of consumer electronics that supports MemoryStick exclusively other than Sony cameras and devices. Just because your laptop comes with a multi-flash-memory reader doesn't mean it was designed for memory stick. The only products that use Memory Stick are Sony products. Everyone else uses more open cards. So what you are stating is if a Non-Sony product doesn't use it exclusively, it doesn't use it at all?
The DiMAGE G600 from Minolta uses Memory Sticks. Heck, memory sticks are not even exclusively made by Sony. I have a Memory Stick Pro made by SanDisk (Yes, the Sandisk that created the CompactFlash memory card), and the reader I use is from Sunbeamtech.
Newegg.com sells MS Pro Duos from Sandisk and Lexar as well as Sony, comparable in price to any other flash technology.
http://www.mobilewhack.com/reviews/konica_minolta_dimage_g600_review.html
http://www.digit.no/wip4/konica_minolta_dimage_g600_fikk_sin_debut_paa/d.epl?id=30369
You are talking about RAILS - which is something completely different. So true. Ruby is used for scripting in many applications. One example is the RPG Maker Series. RPG Maker XP uses the Ruby Game Scripting System (RGSS), which is a modified version Ruby for the specific task of RPG creation. With such scripting, the possibilities are endless depending on someone's coding skills in RGSS. RPG Maker VX will use RGSS2. Although RGSS scripts can be used in RPG Maker VX, RGSS2 scripts can't be used in RPG Maker XP.
Ruby on Rails, much like RGSS, is a modified version of Ruby. Unlike RGSS, Ruby on Rails is modified to utilize the Rails framework for web applications.
As a result, someone just needs to learn Ruby to learn the basics of RGSS/RGSS2 or Ruby on Rails.
Sources
http://www.enterbrain.co.jp/tkool/RPG_XP/eng/
http://www.enterbrain.co.jp/tkool/products/rpgvx/eng/index.html
http://www.rpgrevolution.com/script/rgss.php
http://www.rpgrevolution.com/script/rgss2.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_on_Rails
You have it all wrong. Honda has never developed that kind of technology. On the other hand; Phillip Morris, Brown & Williamson, and R.J. Reynolds have not only have developed CIGS technology, but they have also been pushing CIGS on us for quite some time now. ;)