Legalize everything which creates a huge backlash on the right
And the left. Remember that the problem in question includes laws passed by a Democratic President AND was approves by a majority of Democratic representatives.
Additionally, there is a HUGE push for cencorship from the radical feminist left.
Its also worth noting that this isn't even an option anymore in Sql Server 2005.
No one cares. Hell, they still make BSOD jokes on this site. The trick to hating MS seems to be never recognize an improvement and always remember a mistake.
"Now it's finally released and it isn't the fantastic piece of software we thought it would be, partly I recon because the focus wasn't on the IDE, it was on making it and a ridiculous amount of satellite software all work together and integrate seemlessly"
Yeah, because the last thing you want in your IDE is an easy and simple way to build, manipulate and deploy your databases. Thats really a silly idea all right. Down with integration!
Or that incredibly slick Office SDK that makes it a absolute snap to build add ons for Office products that is light years ahead of what was there before. bad, bad idea.
Oh, and allt hat cool new stuff with tighter integration into the development locally hosted web server for better debugging and easier development of web services. Yeah, that was a dumb idea.
Microsoft's primary crime -- of which it has been found guilty and for which it has been sentenced -- was breaking monopoly rules.
This keeps getting trotted out on/. as if it means something. Obviously it is legally important, but it never ceases to amaze me how/.ers will hide behind the courts instead of thinkign for themselves in this ONE case...t hen ignore the courts any other time it's convenient.
Don't you get it? If YOU have ti and I want it then I get to copy it and tell you that your evil and informaitonw ants to be free,IP property is a fiction and so on.
If >I have it and you want to use it, then you have to do it on my terms (GPL) because its my IP.
In the slashverse, this is perfectly consistent thinking.
The problem is, Windows offers no easy way to move the default location of your user profile to another partition. You have to do some registry hacks to make it work. So everything in 'my documents' gets formatted with the system
Not really. The procedure for an end user to put My Docs (including My Pictures, My Videos, My Music and so on) someplace esle is VERY easy.
1) Right click My Documents, pick Properties
2) Hit the "Move" button
3) Tell it where you want your files to live
4) Get on with your life
It's really, really easy. Granted, some of your "prifile" info is still in the User Data folders, but for an end user this nicely lets them move their user created data to another drive without registry hacks.
"Deep down in your hearts, you WANT IE to be insecure, you WANT Windows to be insecure, you WANT Vista to bomb, just like you LOVED Win9x crashes."
Of course. This is why they wills till go on and on about the "blue screen of death" long after ti became an extremely rare occurance. They need things to stay the same because OSS can't match the rate at which a large company can bring resources to bear.
They will contineu to tell stories about old versions of Windows and comfort themselves with superiority that no longer exists.
"the mplayer.exe file kept on regenerating, as if by magic"
Since you are an admin on a Windows Server, you might reallyw ant to actually look into the technology. The system file protection stuff is very cool and totally controllable. If you want that file gone, just pull it from the protected files directory.
People will tell you that since MS lost the court case this is all fair now because the Government said they were a monopoly.
Of course these same people diagree with just about every other court ruling about technology. When it suits their bias they are all for it. What would have been funny is if MS had won that case... would these same peopel now be saying "well, at least they aren't a monopoly"? I doubt it.
For no cost, anyone can use these tools to create just about anything they want. It's pretty amazing, and fitting for Thanksgiving to show some appreciation, that we all have access to these incredible tools for free.
You know, alot of the comments here show that the "groupthink tools" mentality has really sunk in here.
Sunk in here? Hell, this sort of anti-MS groupthink is what built Slashdot. It isn't any worse than it every was. It might just be a sounding a little more desperate. After all it has been years and years now they have had to maintain their illusions while waiting for the revolutiont o happen.
It's pretty damn rude of a speaker to do something like that, especially when people drive to get to a meeting like that, just to find out it's not what they were promised.
Yeah, but its much better to talk about somethign else and just tell them if they want to know what you think on the topic they asked you to speak about they should buy your book.
Hell if Google had put out Visual Studio half the people who hate it would think it was the most "innovative" thing ever built.
This is all also interesting in light of the act that Rails, one of the current Open Source darlings on Slashdot, is one of the most "generate your code for you" tools ever built.
In fact, look at how many peopel use Perl to get their hands on CPAN - making SURE they depend on tens of thousands of lines of code they will never look at or understand.
(thats "innovative" in quotes because when Google does it it's an innovation (ajax, gmail) but if MS does it it's derivative because someone on earth did a bad version of it once)
You have a defective car which is know to crash randomly and kill the driver, the company offers you a fix and you reject it? Riiiight
But that way they can leep on complaining for YEARS. The thing is, MS is addressing and fixing the problems... windows is much better than it was an getting better allt he time.
The only way to keep whinign and moaning about it all is to come up with some convoluted reason to refuse the updates then keep blaming it all on MS.
I'd prefer it if *every* company simply ignored the gutter press.
I wonder if anyone on Slashdot will remember that the next time the Register says something stupid and ill informed. Well... ok, anytime the Register says anything.
So... a Microsoft employee talks to other Microsoft employees and finds Microsoft innocent of a long-standing allegation.
Welcome zealot! RTFP - unless you want to make sure you don't get a fact in the way of your bias...
"I first asked Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus, and his quote was "I've heard the stories over the years, but I don't have any specific recollection that there was a devious silent break of the kind you mentioned. I also have a bad memory." Kapor was kind enough to put me in touch with some old Lotus people he knew. And they all corroborated the story: "It's an interesting myth, and one I've heard about in general terms, although I've never heard the specific quote before. However, I have no recollection of any instance of its actually happening with 1-2-3 or with any other product I've worked on." And, "My memory of the early days (1984-85) is that we would get early betas of DOS to test with 1-2-3 and any errors that we found were 'bugs' in DOS and fixed by Microsoft." - quote in context
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I'll certainly agree that they shouldn't have such a policy, but by signing it, you pretty much gave up any right to complain about this
Agreed... the person in this story confused about the rights, obligations and licenses involved is the guy complaining.
Legalize everything which creates a huge backlash on the right
And the left. Remember that the problem in question includes laws passed by a Democratic President AND was approves by a majority of Democratic representatives.
Additionally, there is a HUGE push for cencorship from the radical feminist left.
Its also worth noting that this isn't even an option anymore in Sql Server 2005.
No one cares. Hell, they still make BSOD jokes on this site. The trick to hating MS seems to be never recognize an improvement and always remember a mistake.
Or could you just not resist yet another cheap, meaningless shot?
:)
You must be new here
"Now it's finally released and it isn't the fantastic piece of software we thought it would be, partly I recon because the focus wasn't on the IDE, it was on making it and a ridiculous amount of satellite software all work together and integrate seemlessly"
Yeah, because the last thing you want in your IDE is an easy and simple way to build, manipulate and deploy your databases. Thats really a silly idea all right. Down with integration!
Or that incredibly slick Office SDK that makes it a absolute snap to build add ons for Office products that is light years ahead of what was there before. bad, bad idea.
Oh, and allt hat cool new stuff with tighter integration into the development locally hosted web server for better debugging and easier development of web services. Yeah, that was a dumb idea.
Microsoft's primary crime -- of which it has been found guilty and for which it has been sentenced -- was breaking monopoly rules.
/. as if it means something. Obviously it is legally important, but it never ceases to amaze me how /.ers will hide behind the courts instead of thinkign for themselves in this ONE case...t hen ignore the courts any other time it's convenient.
This keeps getting trotted out on
How come no one has sued Microsoft for making xbox games unplayable on a playstation?
/. ... if someone DID bring that suit up lots of folks here would support it.
This is
Don't you get it? If YOU have ti and I want it then I get to copy it and tell you that your evil and informaitonw ants to be free,IP property is a fiction and so on.
If >I have it and you want to use it, then you have to do it on my terms (GPL) because its my IP.
In the slashverse, this is perfectly consistent thinking.
And another thing - is the irony of a lot of Slashdot users making fun of a lot of "12-year-old goth" MySpace users lost on everyone but me?
No.
The problem is, Windows offers no easy way to move the default location of your user profile to another partition. You have to do some registry hacks to make it work. So everything in 'my documents' gets formatted with the system
Not really. The procedure for an end user to put My Docs (including My Pictures, My Videos, My Music and so on) someplace esle is VERY easy.
1) Right click My Documents, pick Properties
2) Hit the "Move" button
3) Tell it where you want your files to live
4) Get on with your life
It's really, really easy. Granted, some of your "prifile" info is still in the User Data folders, but for an end user this nicely lets them move their user created data to another drive without registry hacks.
Actually, as I understand it--and I may be wrong--that's how subscription services work.
You're wrong. The Napster service does not report per listen statistics.
"If the agreement does not include Google reporting all ip adresses, it's kind of whiny to complain afterwards."
/. community would be screaming for blood instead of lookign for excuses.
Of course it we substitute Microsoft for Google the
"Deep down in your hearts, you WANT IE to be insecure, you WANT Windows to be insecure, you WANT Vista to bomb, just like you LOVED Win9x crashes."
Of course. This is why they wills till go on and on about the "blue screen of death" long after ti became an extremely rare occurance. They need things to stay the same because OSS can't match the rate at which a large company can bring resources to bear.
They will contineu to tell stories about old versions of Windows and comfort themselves with superiority that no longer exists.
"the mplayer.exe file kept on regenerating, as if by magic"
Since you are an admin on a Windows Server, you might reallyw ant to actually look into the technology. The system file protection stuff is very cool and totally controllable. If you want that file gone, just pull it from the protected files directory.
People will tell you that since MS lost the court case this is all fair now because the Government said they were a monopoly.
Of course these same people diagree with just about every other court ruling about technology. When it suits their bias they are all for it. What would have been funny is if MS had won that case... would these same peopel now be saying "well, at least they aren't a monopoly"? I doubt it.
For no cost, anyone can use these tools to create just about anything they want. It's pretty amazing, and fitting for Thanksgiving to show some appreciation, that we all have access to these incredible tools for free.
I agree, it is good to support and be appreciative for cool free tools for developers.
Do you believe in principles or not? Don't be hypocrites.
You must be new here.
You know, alot of the comments here show that the "groupthink tools" mentality has really sunk in here.
Sunk in here? Hell, this sort of anti-MS groupthink is what built Slashdot. It isn't any worse than it every was. It might just be a sounding a little more desperate. After all it has been years and years now they have had to maintain their illusions while waiting for the revolutiont o happen.
Yeah, this is Slashdot... you're only supposed to slant summaries against MS, Republicans or anyone hwo wants to protect their IP.
Slamming Democrats is just out of line here. We want out biases rigidly catered to.
Run out of space on a critical volume and you could always link to a new one.
You've been able to do this on windows for YEARS. Mounting a new HD as a folder under an old HD is trivial.
It's pretty damn rude of a speaker to do something like that, especially when people drive to get to a meeting like that, just to find out it's not what they were promised.
Yeah, but its much better to talk about somethign else and just tell them if they want to know what you think on the topic they asked you to speak about they should buy your book.
It's marketing, pure and simple.
Hell if Google had put out Visual Studio half the people who hate it would think it was the most "innovative" thing ever built.
This is all also interesting in light of the act that Rails, one of the current Open Source darlings on Slashdot, is one of the most "generate your code for you" tools ever built.
In fact, look at how many peopel use Perl to get their hands on CPAN - making SURE they depend on tens of thousands of lines of code they will never look at or understand.
(thats "innovative" in quotes because when Google does it it's an innovation (ajax, gmail) but if MS does it it's derivative because someone on earth did a bad version of it once)
You have a defective car which is know to crash randomly and kill the driver, the company offers you a fix and you reject it? Riiiight
But that way they can leep on complaining for YEARS. The thing is, MS is addressing and fixing the problems... windows is much better than it was an getting better allt he time.
The only way to keep whinign and moaning about it all is to come up with some convoluted reason to refuse the updates then keep blaming it all on MS.
I'd prefer it if *every* company simply ignored the gutter press.
I wonder if anyone on Slashdot will remember that the next time the Register says something stupid and ill informed. Well... ok, anytime the Register says anything.
So... a Microsoft employee talks to other Microsoft employees and finds Microsoft innocent of a long-standing allegation.
Welcome zealot! RTFP - unless you want to make sure you don't get a fact in the way of your bias...
"I first asked Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus, and his quote was "I've heard the stories over the years, but I don't have any specific recollection that there was a devious silent break of the kind you mentioned. I also have a bad memory." Kapor was kind enough to put me in touch with some old Lotus people he knew. And they all corroborated the story: "It's an interesting myth, and one I've heard about in general terms, although I've never heard the specific quote before. However, I have no recollection of any instance of its actually happening with 1-2-3 or with any other product I've worked on." And, "My memory of the early days (1984-85) is that we would get early betas of DOS to test with 1-2-3 and any errors that we found were 'bugs' in DOS and fixed by Microsoft." - quote in context