Way to take things out of context. Here's the whole quote:
"Good. You should have been fired.
When a customer calls to cancel, it is the company's duty to find out why. Perhaps there does exist a solution the customer was not aware of. Perhaps its just frustration that can be mitigated with some service discounts. However, if these don't work, the customer shouldn't have to argue with the Sphinx to get the service stopped."
Pay attention to the last sentence in that paragraph. I don't like to argue with customer service reps any more than the next guy, but those reps should at least make some kind of effort to find out why the customer wants to cancel the account.
You're missing the point. The people who are legimitately buying the CD are not able to rip it to put the songs on their personal mp3 players. What's the solution? Buy the songs from an online store and burn them? But what if they want the original CD with cover art and such? Should they buy an electronic copy, and a CD? I say circumventing the copy protection on these CDs is defnitely justifiable.
Even if MS can stop them from using the.NET framework, I'm pretty sure I've seen (on some mailing list somehwere, or on a blog...don't really remember) Miguel talking about the fact one could develop applications using C# and GTK#, and make it run on Windows and Linux. So, one would be developing trully cross platform application without necessarily using the.NET framework.
People sometimes forget that Mono isn't just an implementation of the.NET frameworks, but it inludes much more.
This is my favorite quote from the article linked to above:
"In Drucker's words, "Nobody seems to realize that we import twice or three times as many jobs as we export. I'm talking about the jobs created by foreign companies coming into the U.S.," such as Japanese automobile plants making Toyotas and Hondas on American soil.
"Siemens alone has 60,000 employees in the United States," Drucker points out. "We are exporting low-skill, low-paying jobs but are importing high-skill, high-paying jobs."
My dorm room consists of a bedroom (with a small closet), a bathroom, and a little study room. There are 4 outlets in the bedroom, 2 in the bathroom, and 2 in the study room. However, THERE ARE 10 OUTLETS INSIDE THE CLOSET. And, no, it is not a walk-in closet. So any sparks that may fly in there are right next to that nice nylon winter jacket. It's not like THAT's a fire hazard, right?
I wouldn't be suprised if there were a few pieces of hardware floating around in some r&d lab for this. Someone is eventually going to make something like this. Sony just released a portable CD/DVD player that has a small LCD screen that attaches. It isn't too much of a stretch to imagine the drive replaced with a hard drive."
Whether it is good or not, I don't know. But here's an example of a device like that.
I would think that IBM is more interested in selling their PPC chips, and building a platform to deliver technologies such as the one mentioned here to corporations that require some kind of custom, secure, mobile solutions. I don't know what exactly. Maybe a hospital that wants secure PDAs for doctors to access patient information?
Aaaah, I'm just speculating here.
When the PowerMacs came out with DDR SDRAM support, I remeber a lot of people claiming (I don't know much about memory so, go easy on me if I'm wrong) that the PowerMacs didn't really take advantage of the DDR capabilities. I think they said the Macs actually operated pretty much like the regular SDRAM PowerMacs and that the DDR RAM was just wasted on the system.
Now I see that these are advertised as having DDR333. Can anyone elaborate on that? Do these PowerMacs make use of the advantages of DDR333 over regular SDRAM?
Ok, I saw the page, and they have a load of information, and a step-by-step guide on how to crate your own skins for quicktime. They say you only need a text editor (free), a graphics editor (they range in prices from real cheap to expensive), and quicktime pro ($30). How does that leave the little guy out again?
"Oddly, Apple allows some parts of Mac OS X system to be themed. The look of the QuickTime Player, for example, can be altered, but only by media with a theme embedded in the QuickTime file. This allows corporations to create themes for the media player, but locks out the little guy."
Does this guy mean you have to pay a lot of money to Apple to be able to customize the quicktime interface for your stream? Or is he just talking out of his ass? I went to www.quicktime.com (granted, I didn't have a lot of time to spend searching...) but I didn't find any info on customizing the interface. It can't be that hard, can it?
I think their ideas are dated back to April of this year. Now the question is: can their stuff be interpreted as pretty much being the same (therefore prior "art"?) as the Amazon patents? Or do I just not know what the hell I'm talking about at 7AM on a monday?
I don't know how redundant this is but I just thought I should mention my roommate. He plays EQ for more than 12 hours a day, and he has definitely quit going to classes this semester. He usually starts playing at 2PM,when he wakes up, and most of the time, when I wake up to go to work/classes at 6:30AM he is still playing. His family lives about 100 miles from here so he goes home every weekend. The worst part is that he hasn't told his family he isn't going to classes anymore, so he comes back to school only to spend every waking hour of the week playing that game.
Yesterday, the EQ servers were down and he was going insane in the room. When the servers came back up he sat in front of the computer for over two hours watching the a patch squeeze its way through our 56k dialup. True story..
The bottom line is that if you have an addictive personality (much like my roommate has) games can be a very serious business.
That is also what good old M$ wants by offering to settle the anti-trust case by providing, out of the goodness of their hearts, a couple thousand schools around the country with free M$ software.
Isn't there a version of the Mac OS X kernel that can be downloaded for free? I know all about the whole "but Apple is just taking without giving back to the community" deal, and I'm not about to argue that fact now. But what about the users who use it, along with Xfree and Gnome? I know that there are people who want to have rootless X along with the Mac OS Finder in order to use Gimp, or whatever. While some of them aren't actually replacing their systems completely with free software, they have to start somewhere, right? For most professionals with some pretty demanding needs, Photoshop is still the only way to go. But there are also those who either buy, or pirate Photoshop, to be used in simple taks that can be easily accomplished with Gimp. In a sense, that is slowly displacing the proprietary software, isn't it?
Remember Clockwork Orange? Can you imagine what could happen if someone inserted nice little messages like the ones in the movie into your "dream machine".
What's driving everyone up the wall is the fact that M$ would "donate" all that stuff to the school as a part of the punishment for having a monopoly. If they did it in any other circumstances, fine, I'm not going to argue that fact righ now. What is absurd here, is that they are using the punishment for having a monopoly to extend their monopoly. See the irony?
Wow. It never ceases to amaze me. So M$ will provide the schools with Wintel machines? Great! Now our kids will be conditioned to use M$ since their early school years. How is anyone going to be able to convince a kid that's only seen M$ during his entire life that there's more that that out there. How are we going to convince them to use other systems. I can hear the questions already: "Why would I want to learn Linux? I've been using M$ since I was 5. I don't want to learn to use another system..."
The bottom line is: the punishment for M$ monopoly is to allow them to further extend their monopoly without the risk of being punished again. But wait, if they get punished again, they'll be allowed to put more wintel machines in schools, further extending their monopoly...
Is it just me, or does this seem like an infinetely redundant cycle?
I don't think I know enough about networking to do something useful with them myself. But I do believe that people here on/. have the skill and the means to figure out if the header information is true, and maybe find out where the sender is (assuming the headers are real..). Since our friend JK said he knows the places that the message had to go through to get to him, I thought it would be nice to see someone who knows what they are talking about corroborate his story.
Personally, I think the whole thing is big pile of cow-dung. But that's just me...
is already done? I was discussing the whole iTunes2 issue with a friend over breakfast, and he said that we only agree to the license after the product is installed, and the damage is already done. I haven't had a chance to install iTunes2 yet, because I'm not on my computer so I don't know about that. But could the post-install agreement to the EULA give people grounds to fight Apple (sue them, or whatever)?
Slashdot Mirror
Way to take things out of context. Here's the whole quote:
"Good. You should have been fired.
When a customer calls to cancel, it is the company's duty to find out why. Perhaps there does exist a solution the customer was not aware of. Perhaps its just frustration that can be mitigated with some service discounts. However, if these don't work, the customer shouldn't have to argue with the Sphinx to get the service stopped."
Pay attention to the last sentence in that paragraph. I don't like to argue with customer service reps any more than the next guy, but those reps should at least make some kind of effort to find out why the customer wants to cancel the account.
You're missing the point. The people who are legimitately buying the CD are not able to rip it to put the songs on their personal mp3 players. What's the solution? Buy the songs from an online store and burn them? But what if they want the original CD with cover art and such? Should they buy an electronic copy, and a CD? I say circumventing the copy protection on these CDs is defnitely justifiable.
Mirror here
Link to gnunet: http://gnunet.org
Even if MS can stop them from using the .NET framework, I'm pretty sure I've seen (on some mailing list somehwere, or on a blog...don't really remember) Miguel talking about the fact one could develop applications using C# and GTK#, and make it run on Windows and Linux. So, one would be developing trully cross platform application without necessarily using the .NET framework.
.NET frameworks, but it inludes much more.
People sometimes forget that Mono isn't just an implementation of the
This is my favorite quote from the article linked to above:
"In Drucker's words, "Nobody seems to realize that we import twice or three times as many jobs as we export. I'm talking about the jobs created by foreign companies coming into the U.S.," such as Japanese automobile plants making Toyotas and Hondas on American soil.
"Siemens alone has 60,000 employees in the United States," Drucker points out. "We are exporting low-skill, low-paying jobs but are importing high-skill, high-paying jobs."
So programmers are low-skill, low-paying jobs?
My dorm room consists of a bedroom (with a small closet), a bathroom, and a little study room. There are 4 outlets in the bedroom, 2 in the bathroom, and 2 in the study room. However, THERE ARE 10 OUTLETS INSIDE THE CLOSET. And, no, it is not a walk-in closet. So any sparks that may fly in there are right next to that nice nylon winter jacket. It's not like THAT's a fire hazard, right?
Surely a user will have the choice of pushing the DRM button or not...
*cough* enabled by *cough* default.....
"* Video iPod.
I wouldn't be suprised if there were a few pieces of hardware floating around in some r&d lab for this. Someone is eventually going to make something like this. Sony just released a portable CD/DVD player that has a small LCD screen that attaches. It isn't too much of a stretch to imagine the drive replaced with a hard drive."
Whether it is good or not, I don't know. But here's an example of a device like that.
I would think that IBM is more interested in selling their PPC chips, and building a platform to deliver technologies such as the one mentioned here to corporations that require some kind of custom, secure, mobile solutions. I don't know what exactly. Maybe a hospital that wants secure PDAs for doctors to access patient information? Aaaah, I'm just speculating here.
When the PowerMacs came out with DDR SDRAM support, I remeber a lot of people claiming (I don't know much about memory so, go easy on me if I'm wrong) that the PowerMacs didn't really take advantage of the DDR capabilities. I think they said the Macs actually operated pretty much like the regular SDRAM PowerMacs and that the DDR RAM was just wasted on the system.
Now I see that these are advertised as having DDR333. Can anyone elaborate on that? Do these PowerMacs make use of the advantages of DDR333 over regular SDRAM?
Just thought I'd put a link to Dave Barry's recap.
Here it is...
Well, someone had to do it. You can find mirrors here: http://mozilla.org/mirrors.html
Ok, I saw the page, and they have a load of information, and a step-by-step guide on how to crate your own skins for quicktime. They say you only need a text editor (free), a graphics editor (they range in prices from real cheap to expensive), and quicktime pro ($30). How does that leave the little guy out again?
At the very end of the article it says:
"Oddly, Apple allows some parts of Mac OS X system to be themed. The look of the QuickTime Player, for example, can be altered, but only by media with a theme embedded in the QuickTime file. This allows corporations to create themes for the media player, but locks out the little guy."
Does this guy mean you have to pay a lot of money to Apple to be able to customize the quicktime interface for your stream? Or is he just talking out of his ass? I went to www.quicktime.com (granted, I didn't have a lot of time to spend searching...) but I didn't find any info on customizing the interface. It can't be that hard, can it?
Does anybody have more details on that?
I think their ideas are dated back to April of this year. Now the question is: can their stuff be interpreted as pretty much being the same (therefore prior "art"?) as the Amazon patents? Or do I just not know what the hell I'm talking about at 7AM on a monday?
I don't know how redundant this is but I just thought I should mention my roommate. He plays EQ for more than 12 hours a day, and he has definitely quit going to classes this semester. He usually starts playing at 2PM ,when he wakes up, and most of the time, when I wake up to go to work/classes at 6:30AM he is still playing. His family lives about 100 miles from here so he goes home every weekend. The worst part is that he hasn't told his family he isn't going to classes anymore, so he comes back to school only to spend every waking hour of the week playing that game.
Yesterday, the EQ servers were down and he was going insane in the room. When the servers came back up he sat in front of the computer for over two hours watching the a patch squeeze its way through our 56k dialup. True story..
The bottom line is that if you have an addictive personality (much like my roommate has) games can be a very serious business.
That is also what good old M$ wants by offering to settle the anti-trust case by providing, out of the goodness of their hearts, a couple thousand schools around the country with free M$ software.
Actually htey should probably get the hell out as fast as they can. But that's just my opinion...
Isn't there a version of the Mac OS X kernel that can be downloaded for free? I know all about the whole "but Apple is just taking without giving back to the community" deal, and I'm not about to argue that fact now. But what about the users who use it, along with Xfree and Gnome? I know that there are people who want to have rootless X along with the Mac OS Finder in order to use Gimp, or whatever. While some of them aren't actually replacing their systems completely with free software, they have to start somewhere, right? For most professionals with some pretty demanding needs, Photoshop is still the only way to go. But there are also those who either buy, or pirate Photoshop, to be used in simple taks that can be easily accomplished with Gimp. In a sense, that is slowly displacing the proprietary software, isn't it?
Remember Clockwork Orange? Can you imagine what could happen if someone inserted nice little messages like the ones in the movie into your "dream machine".
What's driving everyone up the wall is the fact that M$ would "donate" all that stuff to the school as a part of the punishment for having a monopoly. If they did it in any other circumstances, fine, I'm not going to argue that fact righ now. What is absurd here, is that they are using the punishment for having a monopoly to extend their monopoly. See the irony?
Wow. It never ceases to amaze me. So M$ will provide the schools with Wintel machines? Great! Now our kids will be conditioned to use M$ since their early school years. How is anyone going to be able to convince a kid that's only seen M$ during his entire life that there's more that that out there. How are we going to convince them to use other systems. I can hear the questions already: "Why would I want to learn Linux? I've been using M$ since I was 5. I don't want to learn to use another system..."
The bottom line is: the punishment for M$ monopoly is to allow them to further extend their monopoly without the risk of being punished again. But wait, if they get punished again, they'll be allowed to put more wintel machines in schools, further extending their monopoly...
Is it just me, or does this seem like an infinetely redundant cycle?
I don't think I know enough about networking to do something useful with them myself. But I do believe that people here on /. have the skill and the means to figure out if the header information is true, and maybe find out where the sender is (assuming the headers are real..). Since our friend JK said he knows the places that the message had to go through to get to him, I thought it would be nice to see someone who knows what they are talking about corroborate his story.
Personally, I think the whole thing is big pile of cow-dung. But that's just me...
is already done? I was discussing the whole iTunes2 issue with a friend over breakfast, and he said that we only agree to the license after the product is installed, and the damage is already done. I haven't had a chance to install iTunes2 yet, because I'm not on my computer so I don't know about that. But could the post-install agreement to the EULA give people grounds to fight Apple (sue them, or whatever)?