In the US, our government is bound by the Constitution which precludes them from doing certain things that a company could do.
True, but this isn't one of them, because the Internet wasn't created at the time the Constitution was.
Do you know what I see as being a BIG problem? The way the Constitution was originally created was that the federal government couldn't do anything unless it was expressly told so but now it effing thinks it can do anything it wants unless it's expressly told it can't.
On Feb 1995 I got my first computer, Intel 486DX2-66, 8MB RAM, 420GB HDD, 1MB S3 video card, and Windows for Workgroups 3.11. $2000 (plus HP printer, etc.) I tried to play one of the DOS games that was put on the computer by the shop that sold it to me but it wanted more _____ memory. I don't like limitations like that so I went out and bought another 4MB at $40+/MB. Same problem. A little research later and I learned that the game wanted EXPANDED memory for which I learned to use memmaker. Hmmm.
Now I was learning to use the GUI. I'd be downloading, via modem, of course, from BS, Compuserve or my school VAX system and I noticed that if I launched another application while downloading the download time would increase. Or how about formatting a floppy? Well, I guess I can stop doing everything else for a few minutes. Oh, wait, I tried to do to many things at once, I'm out of system resources. Ok, I'll close an app, nope resources still tied up. Ok, I'll close Windows, wait what is this Blue Screen? Oh, it's a BSOD.
I was ready to quit computers when a friend told me about IBM OS/2. Wow, no DOS memory issues (only issue was that some games like DOOM did not work with sound), it did not crash and it did not EVER run out of system resources. Why I would launch a Windows sessions, run out of system resources, launch another Windows session, repeat, then play Heretic, and continue downloading without the download getting interrupted. WTF?
And then came OS/2 Warp. 32 bit, preemptive multi tasking, memory protected, object-oriented, highly crash proof. The GUI with Object Desktop was... sublime. All the mags would say, though, was "this is great, too bad it won't be able to run Windows 32 bit apps which won't come out until next year." WHAT? Oh, yeah MS advertisement money...
When I learned about Microsoft's trade practices, buying off the mag reviewers, putting vendors into deals that would penalize them for installing other OS's in a dual-boot situation - heck even IBM's PC division could not resist. Maybe if their products did not suck so much, which they do compared to almost everyone else's, I wouldn't be bothered so much. And it's not like they've stopped doing that "evil" shit. Why do they refuse to compete on quality alone?
No, sir, Microsoft did not get as big as they are by having superior products but by doing things that **I** consider EVIL and plenty worthy of my hate!
The liberal would seek to embrace the new darkness and accuse those who complain as non-pc conservatives who resist all change.
He's just a little frustrated seeing pea-size brained conservatives saying that darkness could not just have existed thus a sure sign that God exists and wanting to teach that in the public schools!
I got a Physics degree in my attempt as a teenager to find out how I got to be. I lost interest in Physics as a path when I discovered this saying when I was in college:
One night, a neighbor strolling by Nasrudin's house found him outside under the street lamp brushing through the dust. "Have you lost something, my friend?" he asked. Nasrudin explained that he had lost his key and asked the neighbor to help him find it. After some minutes of searching and turning up nothing, the neighbor asked him, "Are you sure you lost the key here?" "No, I did not lose it here. I lost it inside the house," Nasrudin answered. "If you lost the key in the house, Nasrudin, why are you looking for it out here?" "Well, there's more light out here, of course," Nasrudin replied.
Quite honestly I don't think that current science will ever find the answer as to how the universe got to be (not that I think we should stop trying, though!) because everything is mind mind itself.
However, as far as "physical" Reality goes, I think that if we could look, and perhaps we will someday, that we would find the universe to be like a fractal, infinite in every direction and if we had an infinitely powerful microscope and an infinitely powerful telescope that we would find them to be exactly the same. Just like Xaos!
If compared, how does this not make MS Research and their $billions silly?
Don't you mean that 50% of students are below average?
Actually, no. It is a (very) rough estimate on my part after studying science, history, philosophy, and religious studies for approximately thirty years. Take wars and religions, for example - or even better, wars over religion... See my point?
Dude, I feel for you. Last year I had some intense shoulder/arm pain that I did not know what 'caused it but I "knew" it would go away sometime. **That** made it bearable. I was in bed for 3 days during which time I only got up to crap and do my taxes.
Anyway, "... (worst case scenario, I die, and the pain ends with it)." Dude, you gotta be a little more philosophically inclined: What if you die but the pain stays? Wouldn't that suck more?
So...Does anyone else on here just plain outright hate Microsoft?
Yes, sir. I have been since Feb 1995 when I bought my first PC (486dx2-66) and found that Windows 3.x sucked, sucked(!), and MS were doing unethical (by my standards) things to keep superior, competing products (mainly OS/2) from the masses.
To me they represent all that is vile about corporations, disregarding the greater good of all for their own financial enrichment...
this has anything to do with Microsoft's SCO involvement.
My own personal conspiracy theory is that Novell found something in the MS-SCO deal that the US Attorney General, even under the Bush Administration, would not have liked at all.
Your busines shouldn't be selling music CDs Your busines should be making people entertained by music.
Since discovering AllofMP3.com, I've felt that the RIAA is asking themselves the wrong question (either because they are stupid or because their stupidity is hidden by their greed), instead of asking themselves "How should we get the most money for each song?" they should be asking themselves "How can we get the most money out of each person?" I am of the belief that if they sold music for as little as AllofMP3 people would become hooked like people putting money into a slot machine. Well, some people, anyway.
In the late 1990's I worked for a national ISP who provided customers with trial versions of different parental control softwares. As part of our training we had to be familiar with the softwares, including how effective they were. Yes, folks, I had to go to various porn sites to see which were trapped and which were not. That was fun!
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Flamebait? Must have touched a sensitive nerve... you stupid fucking conservative moron.
There. Now, THIS is flamebait.
Do you know what I see as being a BIG problem? The way the Constitution was originally created was that the federal government couldn't do anything unless it was expressly told so but now it effing thinks it can do anything it wants unless it's expressly told it can't.
That pisses me OFF!!!
On Feb 1995 I got my first computer, Intel 486DX2-66, 8MB RAM, 420GB HDD, 1MB S3 video card, and Windows for Workgroups 3.11. $2000 (plus HP printer, etc.) I tried to play one of the DOS games that was put on the computer by the shop that sold it to me but it wanted more _____ memory. I don't like limitations like that so I went out and bought another 4MB at $40+/MB. Same problem. A little research later and I learned that the game wanted EXPANDED memory for which I learned to use memmaker. Hmmm.
Now I was learning to use the GUI. I'd be downloading, via modem, of course, from BS, Compuserve or my school VAX system and I noticed that if I launched another application while downloading the download time would increase. Or how about formatting a floppy? Well, I guess I can stop doing everything else for a few minutes. Oh, wait, I tried to do to many things at once, I'm out of system resources. Ok, I'll close an app, nope resources still tied up. Ok, I'll close Windows, wait what is this Blue Screen? Oh, it's a BSOD.
I was ready to quit computers when a friend told me about IBM OS/2. Wow, no DOS memory issues (only issue was that some games like DOOM did not work with sound), it did not crash and it did not EVER run out of system resources. Why I would launch a Windows sessions, run out of system resources, launch another Windows session, repeat, then play Heretic, and continue downloading without the download getting interrupted. WTF?
And then came OS/2 Warp. 32 bit, preemptive multi tasking, memory protected, object-oriented, highly crash proof. The GUI with Object Desktop was... sublime. All the mags would say, though, was "this is great, too bad it won't be able to run Windows 32 bit apps which won't come out until next year." WHAT? Oh, yeah MS advertisement money...
When I learned about Microsoft's trade practices, buying off the mag reviewers, putting vendors into deals that would penalize them for installing other OS's in a dual-boot situation - heck even IBM's PC division could not resist. Maybe if their products did not suck so much, which they do compared to almost everyone else's, I wouldn't be bothered so much. And it's not like they've stopped doing that "evil" shit. Why do they refuse to compete on quality alone?
No, sir, Microsoft did not get as big as they are by having superior products but by doing things that **I** consider EVIL and plenty worthy of my hate!
The liberal would seek to embrace the new darkness and accuse those who complain as non-pc conservatives who resist all change.
He's just a little frustrated seeing pea-size brained conservatives saying that darkness could not just have existed thus a sure sign that God exists and wanting to teach that in the public schools!
I got a Physics degree in my attempt as a teenager to find out how I got to be. I lost interest in Physics as a path when I discovered this saying when I was in college:
Quite honestly I don't think that current science will ever find the answer as to how the universe got to be (not that I think we should stop trying, though!) because everything is mind mind itself.
However, as far as "physical" Reality goes, I think that if we could look, and perhaps we will someday, that we would find the universe to be like a fractal, infinite in every direction and if we had an infinitely powerful microscope and an infinitely powerful telescope that we would find them to be exactly the same. Just like Xaos!
If compared, how does this not make MS Research and their $billions silly?
Does that mean that 1% of the richest are not quite the same as 1% of the top tax payers? What happened to the progressive tax system?
Well, they are the ones that make the laws. (In the US by sending a bill to a congressman along with a check to his party).
Anyone else getting tired of corporations getting fined instead of their leaders going to jail for crimes committed?
What is this bullshit doublespeak term "pretexting?"
Yeah, that shit cracks me up. Just like what you and I would call bribes but the media and our government call campaign contributions.
An algorithm one of us invents is just as valuable as a widget some mechanical engineer invents.
How much capital will it take to bring that mechanical widget into fruition versus your hypothetical algorithm?
My favorite!
I think the question here is why Sandisk isn't outselling the iPod.
Because they haven't spent $300,000,000 telling people to buy it?
Don't you mean that 50% of students are below average?
Actually, no. It is a (very) rough estimate on my part after studying science, history, philosophy, and religious studies for approximately thirty years. Take wars and religions, for example - or even better, wars over religion... See my point?
OK. I see your point...
I think it also takes a lot of cojones, as you say, to lie to the judge to his face.
Someone care to suggest an improvement on democracy?
... or Enlightened despot.
There's gotta be someone who won't get corrupted by power... Anyone know of any? Alexander the Great?
Bear in mind that Boies Schiller Flexner, SCO's law firm, is really, really good.
I understand BSF is supposed to be pretty good but I know them from three other cases and they sucked the big one there.
1. US against MS. Need I say more.
2. Al Gore vote recount in Florida in 2000. Ditto.
3. SCO vs IBM. Just check out Groklaw. Sleazy. Liars.
I say they suck.
This goes well with my theory that over 50% of human beings are idiots.
Nice post.
(Confusing? Quantum physics is like that.)
Quantum physics mixes very well with philosophy and LSD!
Dude, I feel for you. Last year I had some intense shoulder/arm pain that I did not know what 'caused it but I "knew" it would go away sometime. **That** made it bearable. I was in bed for 3 days during which time I only got up to crap and do my taxes.
Anyway, "... (worst case scenario, I die, and the pain ends with it)." Dude, you gotta be a little more philosophically inclined: What if you die but the pain stays? Wouldn't that suck more?
So...Does anyone else on here just plain outright hate Microsoft?
Yes, sir. I have been since Feb 1995 when I bought my first PC (486dx2-66) and found that Windows 3.x sucked, sucked(!), and MS were doing unethical (by my standards) things to keep superior, competing products (mainly OS/2) from the masses.
To me they represent all that is vile about corporations, disregarding the greater good of all for their own financial enrichment...
this has anything to do with Microsoft's SCO involvement.
My own personal conspiracy theory is that Novell found something in the MS-SCO deal that the US Attorney General, even under the Bush Administration, would not have liked at all.
Your busines shouldn't be selling music CDs Your busines should be making people entertained by music.
Since discovering AllofMP3.com, I've felt that the RIAA is asking themselves the wrong question (either because they are stupid or because their stupidity is hidden by their greed), instead of asking themselves "How should we get the most money for each song?" they should be asking themselves "How can we get the most money out of each person?" I am of the belief that if they sold music for as little as AllofMP3 people would become hooked like people putting money into a slot machine. Well, some people, anyway.
In the late 1990's I worked for a national ISP who provided customers with trial versions of different parental control softwares. As part of our training we had to be familiar with the softwares, including how effective they were. Yes, folks, I had to go to various porn sites to see which were trapped and which were not. That was fun!
Dude, I can't believe you've been modded 1 Troll. Sigh.
coincidence?
I THINK NOT!