Its interesting you mention broadcast2000. I used to use it, but gave up due to crashes and things, but it was a neat program if they ever got the bugs out of it.
After a long period of deliberation on the matter, Broadcast 2000 has been removed from public access due to excessive liability.
We've already seen several organizations win lawsuits against
GPL/ warranty free software writers because of damage that software caused to the organization. Several involved the RIAA vs mp3/p2p software writers. Several involved the MPAA vs media player authors. You might say that warranty exemption has become quite meaningless in
today's economy.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm not going anywhere near.NET. Applications installed on my hard drive, including opera, work just fine for me.
This is another example of M$'s ego. They keep trying to change the direction of personal computing and the internet, and seem to never have any thoughts about "well, what if this doesn't catch on..." What if they move all of their applications over to.NET, and no one uses it? My dad/brother were perfectly happy with office 97 until i gave them star office, and they both run windows 98SE. How soon until people get tired of having the way they compute changed and just stick with what works?
No, they still do it, with magazines as well. The covers are sent back to the manufacturer as proof the book/magazine was destroyed due to the book not selling or magazine going out of date, then the store gets a credit for the unsold stuff.
When I worked for blockbuster, I'd always take home the coverless magazines after we were supposed to destroy them. Everyone did, and no one told us not to.
Its called being on comission, just like car salesmen, etc.
The more they sell, the more they get paid. Wouldn't you try to sell as much as possible if your paycheck depended on it?
1) Making money, this happens from MSN and OS sales
2) Gathering data on you, as they do throughout the services they offer
3) Extending their monopoly, with passport, xbox, etc.
M$ isn't all about money. Why do you think they accepted a $100-$200 loss on every xbox sold? They were willing to pay that $100 so you would put that machine in your living room.
You must have gone before the truth in advertising suit came through and M$ was ordered to change the name of that workshop to "3 days of brainwashing"
Do you really want to give low income families access to computers and the internet? A welfare family gets a computer with an internet connection- is that going provide motivation for this family to get off thier ass and get a job? No, its going to give them a more entertaining thing to park thier ass at, even better than the TV. The digital world is a nice place, but we need to worry about the real world first.
This will get modded down because people won't agree with me, and thats fine.
This is the same technology you sometimes see in parking garages or on anything with a gate that vehicles drive though- a RF signal is transmitted from a transmitter usually above the gate- the signal bounces off a "rf tag" in the vehicle, mounted on the windshield. The RF tag modifies the signal in some way (someone help me out with that part), so that the gate can ID who is requesting access in their vehicle.
The only difference is that this is in money, not cars and gates.
DV is firewire. You would need a TV to firewire converter, which are about $400-500 last i checked, but to recieve the signal in the computer, all you would need is a firewire card.
> Now, if only Windows Media Player came with an Ogg codec preinstalled, Ogg could take over the world!
Now, if only everyone used Ogg, windows media player would be useless. Assuming M$ didn't implemet Ogg for a while, being scared of an open source protocol.
Us security guards have to work most holidays except for christmas, we have a lot of retail accounts that are closed today, so I was lucky enough to get the 24th off for family time, and the 25th off for time with friends. 2 days ago I let a bum keep his alcohol that we normally make them dump out, and let him sit in my car for a few minutes to warm up while I was working on his trespass paperwork. That was my good xmas deed. (Bums found in parking garages get served trespass notices on the first violation, get arrested on the second)
> Saying that it's "just" a word is horribly wrong. Language, built by words, is how we communicate information. That's a pretty important task, no matter what your personal philosophy is!
When did english majors start reading slashdot?
Right, I heard a firefighter equate it to a game of "pick up sticks"- if you move the wrong peice of debris, the pocket these people were surviving in is no longer.
I really think we are seeing a fitting punishment for computer crimes finally. This was not overreaction, he did cause a lot of financial damage to the web sites he DDOS'd. This was not underreaction either, he didn't go to the server rooms of these places and plant bombs.
Now if we can get persons who break into computers who deliberately do NO damage, just explore, or even deface the web page without rm'ing the index.html, to get fair sentences, things will be on the right track.
rm -rf/bin/laden
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From: http://heroinewarrior.com/bcast2000.php3
After a long period of deliberation on the matter, Broadcast 2000 has been removed from public access due to excessive liability.
We've already seen several organizations win lawsuits against GPL/ warranty free software writers because of damage that software caused to the organization. Several involved the RIAA vs mp3/p2p software writers. Several involved the MPAA vs media player authors. You might say that warranty exemption has become quite meaningless in today's economy.
Fucking dmca....
if you go to com.com, cnet/zdnet own it. clever, eh?
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm not going anywhere near .NET. Applications installed on my hard drive, including opera, work just fine for me.
.NET, and no one uses it? My dad/brother were perfectly happy with office 97 until i gave them star office, and they both run windows 98SE. How soon until people get tired of having the way they compute changed and just stick with what works?
This is another example of M$'s ego. They keep trying to change the direction of personal computing and the internet, and seem to never have any thoughts about "well, what if this doesn't catch on..." What if they move all of their applications over to
No, they still do it, with magazines as well. The covers are sent back to the manufacturer as proof the book/magazine was destroyed due to the book not selling or magazine going out of date, then the store gets a credit for the unsold stuff.
When I worked for blockbuster, I'd always take home the coverless magazines after we were supposed to destroy them. Everyone did, and no one told us not to.
Its called being on comission, just like car salesmen, etc.
The more they sell, the more they get paid. Wouldn't you try to sell as much as possible if your paycheck depended on it?
There are a few ways M$ can be happy:
1) Making money, this happens from MSN and OS sales
2) Gathering data on you, as they do throughout the services they offer
3) Extending their monopoly, with passport, xbox, etc.
M$ isn't all about money. Why do you think they accepted a $100-$200 loss on every xbox sold? They were willing to pay that $100 so you would put that machine in your living room.
I'd show your boss the part of the passport agreement that says anything you transmit over any passport/msn service becomes the property of microsoft.
This from a guy with a hotmail email address?
Actually, they can. However, you have the choice to NOT consent to the search and leave the theatre immediately.
> I just sat in on a 3-day .Net developer workshop
You must have gone before the truth in advertising suit came through and M$ was ordered to change the name of that workshop to "3 days of brainwashing"
Do you really want to give low income families access to computers and the internet? A welfare family gets a computer with an internet connection- is that going provide motivation for this family to get off thier ass and get a job? No, its going to give them a more entertaining thing to park thier ass at, even better than the TV. The digital world is a nice place, but we need to worry about the real world first. This will get modded down because people won't agree with me, and thats fine.
1 euro is equal to the following: Austrian Schillings = 13.7603 Belgian Francs = 40.3399 Dutch Guilders = 2.20371 Finnish Markka = 5.94573 French Francs = 6.55957 German Marks = 1.95583 Greek Drachmas = 340.750 Irish Pound (Púnt) = 0.787564 Italian Lira = 1936.27 Luxembourg Francs = 40.3399 Portugese Escudo = 200.482 Spanish Pesetas = 166.386
This is the same technology you sometimes see in parking garages or on anything with a gate that vehicles drive though- a RF signal is transmitted from a transmitter usually above the gate- the signal bounces off a "rf tag" in the vehicle, mounted on the windshield. The RF tag modifies the signal in some way (someone help me out with that part), so that the gate can ID who is requesting access in their vehicle.
The only difference is that this is in money, not cars and gates.
DV is firewire. You would need a TV to firewire converter, which are about $400-500 last i checked, but to recieve the signal in the computer, all you would need is a firewire card.
> Now, if only Windows Media Player came with an Ogg codec preinstalled, Ogg could take over the world!
Now, if only everyone used Ogg, windows media player would be useless. Assuming M$ didn't implemet Ogg for a while, being scared of an open source protocol.
Us security guards have to work most holidays except for christmas, we have a lot of retail accounts that are closed today, so I was lucky enough to get the 24th off for family time, and the 25th off for time with friends. 2 days ago I let a bum keep his alcohol that we normally make them dump out, and let him sit in my car for a few minutes to warm up while I was working on his trespass paperwork. That was my good xmas deed. (Bums found in parking garages get served trespass notices on the first violation, get arrested on the second)
> Saying that it's "just" a word is horribly wrong. Language, built by words, is how we communicate information. That's a pretty important task, no matter what your personal philosophy is! When did english majors start reading slashdot?
Right, I heard a firefighter equate it to a game of "pick up sticks"- if you move the wrong peice of debris, the pocket these people were surviving in is no longer.
I really think we are seeing a fitting punishment for computer crimes finally. This was not overreaction, he did cause a lot of financial damage to the web sites he DDOS'd. This was not underreaction either, he didn't go to the server rooms of these places and plant bombs. Now if we can get persons who break into computers who deliberately do NO damage, just explore, or even deface the web page without rm'ing the index.html, to get fair sentences, things will be on the right track. rm -rf /bin/laden