I would love to use Xmarks but it talks back to the mothership about where you've been. (Maybe a firewall rule could fix that...)
Also, what happens when you have 2 or more browsers open on different computer and 2 or browsers add a bookmark. Do they merge or does the last one to update "win"?
Don't get me wrong, I love FF but I am worried about what happens after the deal with google expires.
FF doesn't put out an MSI version of their windows package and doesn't do GPO policies *natively*. This stuff is all 3rd party after the fact and FF updates.
Meanwhile I read on/. that Chrome can use the same GPO as IE natively. (I can't find it, though)
Once Google pumps out MSIs for Chrome and its GPO support is common knowledge, FF will have lost the corps for market share.
Because IE 6 was designed to fail horribly when it can't understand the web page. Therefore web site developers have to make it work in IE or give it a way to fail nicely.
Good thing I never made a video of the Lego Guns I built as a kid. They were not elastic-propelled like this guy. You had to blow into a hole to blast the "bullets" out. I made semi-automatic, 3-round burst, and full-auto that looked like an Uzi. Me and my friends had "Lego wars" in the basement. My sister would come down for something and we greeted her with a hail of Lego bullets as she screamed back up the stairs. Afterwards we had a few cuts here and there but the walls had dents all over! We even smashed a light bulb, once.
Today, I'd use my air compressor to propel those Lego bullets. I wasn't called Denis-the-menace for nothing.
Why can't we do the same with the money we give them? They would have to right to getting our money but never be able to actually access the money. Seem fair if you ask me.
This way I get my money back when they stop providing *the Right* to access the content.
The industrial method to collect oil with this cloth could be like this:
-hold a 3' x 30' peice of the cloth in a way to make 30' long U-shapped ditch -Slope the U-Shaped cloth towards one end -At raised end, pour in the oil+H20 -The water will seep through the cloth and drain away -the oil comes out the lower end of the U-Shaped cloth with little or no water mixed in -Make the trench longer or shorter to keep up with the flow of the oil+H20 coming in.
RE: "They just want to pay a reasonable price for a game,..."
When I was a teenager I had friends that had hundreds of games for their Commodore 64. I ask one of them if they had played all of them. He told me he barely played any and that he spent most of his computer time copying the games themselves. That's when I realized that for some, copying games is "The Game". Collecting them, sorting them in alphabetical order, showing them off to your friends, trading with your friends and strangers, talking about the difficulty of copying some games. Nobody would pay for any of this but just "having them" was the thrill. The fact that it was "bad to copy" just adds to it.
In the end it's like pokemon: Gotta catch 'em all.
The companies should worry more about the guys who only copy one or 2 games and play the FSCK out of them. THOSE are the REAL lost sales.
AKA the Sue-torrent business model: Sue a bunch of people for small amounts w/o courts to collect a total higher than they would get by suing ONE person for large amounts in courts.
Reminds me of a scam were crooks were fake sending invoices to small companies for printer/copier toner cartridges that were never sent and demand payment. The scam worked because it was cheaper to pay the invoice(s) than paying a lawyer to go after them.
but it comes with Ms-Office time-bomb version and a whole whack of junkware that the laptop mfr get PAID to install it. That shovelware is where they get the $100 "saving"
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I would love to use Xmarks but it talks back to the mothership about where you've been. (Maybe a firewall rule could fix that...)
Also, what happens when you have 2 or more browsers open on different computer and 2 or browsers add a bookmark. Do they merge or does the last one to update "win"?
In XP, you can search INSIDE files for a text string *provided XP knows of the file extension*.
In Windows 2000, you could do this with ANY file extension.
In Windows 7, sorry. You can't do that anymore. No workarounds unless you go 3rd party.
So, if I want to look for a key word inside my 400+ VBS scripts using Windows 7 I AM FSCKed!
In Iran, rocks prevent adultery.
Don't get me wrong, I love FF but I am worried about what happens after the deal with google expires.
FF doesn't put out an MSI version of their windows package and doesn't do GPO policies *natively*. This stuff is all 3rd party after the fact and FF updates.
Meanwhile I read on /. that Chrome can use the same GPO as IE natively. (I can't find it, though)
Once Google pumps out MSIs for Chrome and its GPO support is common knowledge, FF will have lost the corps for market share.
Here it's the corps who have strict control over the media.
Joe six packs doesn't know shit about ACTA for a reason.
Because IE 6 was designed to fail horribly when it can't understand the web page. Therefore web site developers have to make it work in IE or give it a way to fail nicely.
Good thing I never made a video of the Lego Guns I built as a kid.
They were not elastic-propelled like this guy.
You had to blow into a hole to blast the "bullets" out.
I made semi-automatic, 3-round burst, and full-auto that looked like an Uzi.
Me and my friends had "Lego wars" in the basement.
My sister would come down for something and we greeted her with a hail of Lego bullets as she screamed back up the stairs.
Afterwards we had a few cuts here and there but the walls had dents all over!
We even smashed a light bulb, once.
Today, I'd use my air compressor to propel those Lego bullets.
I wasn't called Denis-the-menace for nothing.
probably not.
I think they have something against weapons like Apple has against nudy bits and iApps
But I bet they enjoy making the music way more than that helpdesk employee.
There is no law (yet) that state any twit that can make music is entitled to be super rich. Middlemen even less so.
Why can't we do the same with the money we give them?
They would have to right to getting our money but never be able to actually access the money.
Seem fair if you ask me.
This way I get my money back when they stop providing *the Right* to access the content.
You mean like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management#Obsolescence
Mod UP Parent!
The industrial method to collect oil with this cloth could be like this:
-hold a 3' x 30' peice of the cloth in a way to make 30' long U-shapped ditch
-Slope the U-Shaped cloth towards one end
-At raised end, pour in the oil+H20
-The water will seep through the cloth and drain away
-the oil comes out the lower end of the U-Shaped cloth with little or no water mixed in
-Make the trench longer or shorter to keep up with the flow of the oil+H20 coming in.
RE: "They just want to pay a reasonable price for a game,..."
When I was a teenager I had friends that had hundreds of games for their Commodore 64.
I ask one of them if they had played all of them.
He told me he barely played any and that he spent most of his computer time copying the games themselves.
That's when I realized that for some, copying games is "The Game". Collecting them, sorting them in alphabetical order, showing them off to your friends, trading with your friends and strangers, talking about the difficulty of copying some games. Nobody would pay for any of this but just "having them" was the thrill. The fact that it was "bad to copy" just adds to it.
In the end it's like pokemon: Gotta catch 'em all.
The companies should worry more about the guys who only copy one or 2 games and play the FSCK out of them. THOSE are the REAL lost sales.
iADS= Integrated Annoying Display of Scams
AKA the Sue-torrent business model:
Sue a bunch of people for small amounts w/o courts to collect a total higher than they would get by suing ONE person for large amounts in courts.
Reminds me of a scam were crooks were fake sending invoices to small companies for printer/copier toner cartridges that were never sent and demand payment. The scam worked because it was cheaper to pay the invoice(s) than paying a lawyer to go after them.
I don't bother submitting anything on /. b/c I *know* it's a waste of time.
Some users are favoured over all others.
This is the same for all blogs.
This would mean much more than anything else mentioned since Apple has now become what they were originally against when they started.
You have my vote
stop insulting the snails (the ones with the shell on their backs)
The real question is why allow indefinite copyright terms. Nothing has gone to the public domain since the 1920s.
look at what others do to avoid that pitfall.
http://www.appdeploy.com/packages/detail.asp?id=1328
Yep, it's about $ and Digg-envy.
I go to both.
If I want a laugh and kids that cant speel => digg
If I want interesting comment with people with a brain => Slashdot
Idle on /. should be removed as it is redundant.
It's because it is true
Time for a bunch of web sites to close up shop for a day to remind how this will affect things on the web.
but it comes with Ms-Office time-bomb version and a whole whack of junkware that the laptop mfr get PAID to install it.
That shovelware is where they get the $100 "saving"