Everytime Microsoft does something people restart their process of assesing what happened and come to the same result: yes, they do have a hidden agenda and no, they're not thinking of the customers. Yes they have bad motives.
Everytime though, people go through the same cycle asking themselves, did MS finally see the light?
It surprises me that this continues, again and again, over and over.
You might say: Don't cry wolf, but somehow that doesn't apply.
Last time I took Sri Lankan from EU to CMB. I'm not allowed to have my swiss army knife in the cabin so I put it in my cargo luggage. When we got our meal it came with nice metal cutlery.
On arrival I put the metal meal knife in my hand luggage and walk out of the airport. One month later I go back to EU wondering what security would tell me checking in with one of their own knifes.
Nobody saw anything, now it's laying somewhere here around the house.
Even Clinton made some mistakes. No point in stressing it every time. The Bush administration is just inexcusable. DMCrAp is something temporary, give us another couple of years and all things will be shareable.
Wouldn't it be simple to know when an RFID is read by encasing it in a "passive reading device" which will be activated as soon as someone actually requests data from the RFID?
As far as I understoond an RFID broadcasts its data by getting power from the active reader, so the passive reader might pick that up?
I recently got a lot of spam through a contact form on one of my sites.
I added a checkbox which was checked by default saying "I'm a spammer" and a short explanation for people to uncheck it. A couple of days later I started getting spam again. Spammers aren't always stupid people (if you don't judge them by their actions).
Next thing was adding a captcha (from Free captchas) and now I don't get any spam anymore.:)
People building their own computers and playing with their hardware are likely to know something about computers. Those people choosing to run XP/Vista are actually good customers for Microsoft as they actually want to run Windows.
Other people not caring about the technical aspects are just going to go with what is the most popular, company decided OS and might change any time.
That's why computer enthousiasts are actually a very important target for Microsoft.
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Mod as you please.
And after a preview, it says all moderator stuff will be undone.
This might sound really dumb but OSS doesn't necessarily means commercial software.
I can imagine someone might patent a certain application which is doing X(Xpat) and some other people are writing an application which does X as well (Xoss). X might be patented in the US which doesn't mean X is patented somewhere else. Now if Xoss gets imported in the US it might become a patent issue in the US but for the rest of the world it isn't.
As far as I understand, the problem starts when US coders contribute to this software. Which means, as soon as they apply their fingers to the code, they become liable for violating patent law, if they are a person requiring credit for their work.
If non-US people create software which violates US patent law and US coders are starting to write code for it, the only way the US-coders won't be "prosecuted" is if they don't take credit for their work?
I'm a belgian and my mother tongue is Flemish. All Flemish people get French in school from grade 5 (10 years) till they finish High School.
So in most of the cases Flemish people at least understand French. I would assume the German speaking part does the same.
My girlfriend has a French speaking father and a Flemish speaking mother, so she got brought up in French. She speaks and understands Flemish but at home we always speak French.
The French speaking people are a bit more reluctant to learn Flemish as anyone understands French anyway.
The fact that a "small" private company sued google for caching their content is a mistake and a proper court will rectify that.
For all non-belgians around, we do have a legal system and we do follow certain fair practice laws. Maybe there's some corruption and lobbying as anywhere else but mostly things work out.
This might actually accelerate anti-copyright law.
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I would have to call bullshit.
I followed more or less the same path as you did and my perl knowledge never proved useless.
Once you know a language, all the other languages make more sense.
Well, most of them at least.
AFAIK Macs can netboot like any other recent computer.
Everytime Microsoft does something people restart their process of assesing what happened and come to the same result: yes, they do have a hidden agenda and no, they're not thinking of the customers.
Yes they have bad motives.
Everytime though, people go through the same cycle asking themselves, did MS finally see the light?
It surprises me that this continues, again and again, over and over.
You might say: Don't cry wolf, but somehow that doesn't apply.
Last time I took Sri Lankan from EU to CMB. I'm not allowed to have my swiss army knife in the cabin so I put it in my cargo luggage.
When we got our meal it came with nice metal cutlery.
On arrival I put the metal meal knife in my hand luggage and walk out of the airport.
One month later I go back to EU wondering what security would tell me checking in with one of their own knifes.
Nobody saw anything, now it's laying somewhere here around the house.
So much for regulations and security.
Depends on who's asking.
Even Clinton made some mistakes. No point in stressing it every time. The Bush administration is just inexcusable.
DMCrAp is something temporary, give us another couple of years and all things will be shareable.
Ah humanity.
Er zijn niets voor u om hier te zien, Belgische Burger!
:)
This should be:
Er is hier niets te zien voor u, Belgische Burger!
Sounds awkward but would be better than the stuff you wrote.
Or I missed the jest of the joke.
Francophone?
Everything started in Africa. Think back.
Wouldn't it be simple to know when an RFID is read by encasing it in a "passive reading device" which will be activated as soon as someone actually requests data from the RFID?
As far as I understoond an RFID broadcasts its data by getting power from the active reader, so the passive reader might pick that up?
I recently got a lot of spam through a contact form on one of my sites.
:)
I added a checkbox which was checked by default saying "I'm a spammer" and a short explanation for people to uncheck it.
A couple of days later I started getting spam again.
Spammers aren't always stupid people (if you don't judge them by their actions).
Next thing was adding a captcha (from Free captchas) and now I don't get any spam anymore.
It must be like this:
People building their own computers and playing with their hardware are likely to know something about computers. Those people choosing to run XP/Vista are actually good customers for Microsoft as they actually want to run Windows.
Other people not caring about the technical aspects are just going to go with what is the most popular, company decided OS and might change any time.
That's why computer enthousiasts are actually a very important target for Microsoft.
You must be new here.
What I meant is that you can't compare them with yahoo or netscape or whatever.
Souding like a googlot; they have the right attitude so I don't think they'll fail at whatever they do, if they can keep their heads open.
And rereading the GP beta means beta, it means; can have bugs, probably not.
Drive safe.
Maybe it's just me but I don't consider google in the same range as Yahoo, Netscape, ...
... always got something working against them. They lacked the final touch.
Yahoo, Netscape, Hotmail,
Google has been "right" from the start, there, listening to the users, making it how it should be.
A bit like Apple.
Not promising upgrades and then coming out with something different, mostly worse.
Uhm what other religion has a "similar" mindset?
Why don't you go overseas and get yourself fixed?
As an American you won't have any visa problems in most countries.
Moderator comment: I didn't want to put this as flamebait but was wondering as to tag this Interesting or Insightful.
;)
I'm using the new super AJAX interface so I was scrolling through the options as to find a better thing to tag it and when I scrolled a bit further down the page it automatically applied whatever was in the pop up, which was accidentally "Flamebait".
Mod as you please.
And after a preview, it says all moderator stuff will be undone.
Well, here we go.
Forget this post, it didn't happen.
This might sound really dumb but OSS doesn't necessarily means commercial software.
I can imagine someone might patent a certain application which is doing X(Xpat) and some other people are writing an application which does X as well (Xoss).
X might be patented in the US which doesn't mean X is patented somewhere else.
Now if Xoss gets imported in the US it might become a patent issue in the US but for the rest of the world it isn't.
As far as I understand, the problem starts when US coders contribute to this software.
Which means, as soon as they apply their fingers to the code, they become liable for violating patent law, if they are a person requiring credit for their work.
If non-US people create software which violates US patent law and US coders are starting to write code for it, the only way the US-coders won't be "prosecuted" is if they don't take credit for their work?
So stuff not patented in the US can be copied by everyone else, from a US perspective?
Does anyone living outside of the US actually care about US patents?
Just a question.
Remember you're on slashdot and actually admitting that?
I'm a belgian and my mother tongue is Flemish.
All Flemish people get French in school from grade 5 (10 years) till they finish High School.
So in most of the cases Flemish people at least understand French.
I would assume the German speaking part does the same.
My girlfriend has a French speaking father and a Flemish speaking mother, so she got brought up in French.
She speaks and understands Flemish but at home we always speak French.
The French speaking people are a bit more reluctant to learn Flemish as anyone understands French anyway.
Well, all of the country can read French. :)
The fact that a "small" private company sued google for caching their content is a mistake and a proper court will rectify that.
:)
For all non-belgians around, we do have a legal system and we do follow certain fair practice laws.
Maybe there's some corruption and lobbying as anywhere else but mostly things work out.
This might actually accelerate anti-copyright law.
Ok back to bed