No, just state up front 'we care about your business, we don't support your browser since its really really old and you may have problems, but good luck'. That would be a better solution to give a PAYING CUSTOMER.
Except for the *AAs ( and the book publishers now i guess ) which have completely lost their minds, when did it become accepted business practice to piss on your customers?
They would get zero on my business as i would take my business elsewhere if someone tried that stunt with me. It is as bad as demanding i have flash installed to buy stuff, which i also refuse to do, and take my business to their competition.
Remember we are the customer, and we are the reason you exist.
Forever, no. But when its making money for them i don't expect them to cut it off mid-story line and at least let them wind the series up if it is going to go away.
Its the ONLY time congress 'cares' about our rights and wave their 'look at me flag'. As soon as the elections are over, it will be back to business as usual.
I hated this, and only encountered it once, in my Econ 102 class. We had to "buy" the online pass to view the online "textbook", which was really just a document wrapped in a flash applet, with "interactive" homeworks, that expired after 6 months. I asked the professor if he had another alternative, but he said I could always drop the class.
Which i would have done, and perhaps even picketed outside the classroom.
The goal is to make the bar to high for the casual 'infringer'. that it causes grief for customers, or that the hard core will still do it, isn't part of their concern.
And yes, it can be done, once the very hardware itsself to view and copy is locked down. ( think mandatory TPM )
If you contact with a substantial company, and insure there are service agreements in the contract, with penalties for not meeting them, you will be no worse off than housing the data center on site.
Go with some fly by night or 1/2 free service, well, might as well have your boxes ready, just in case.
And if you read how i carry my laptop bag, you would see that they would have to either cut my hand or arm to even get close.. i would notice getting cut and use the other hand to shoot them.
Backpacks are unsafe as a rule. Normally my bag is over my shoulder, with my arm over it's body and hand supporting the bottom of it. ( crime aside, i have had a strap break once and while i caught it in mid-air that time, might not be so lucky next time ).
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But id be damned if i would take any effort to prevent it if i was canned. Screw 'em..
No, just state up front 'we care about your business, we don't support your browser since its really really old and you may have problems, but good luck'. That would be a better solution to give a PAYING CUSTOMER.
Except for the *AAs ( and the book publishers now i guess ) which have completely lost their minds, when did it become accepted business practice to piss on your customers?
They would get zero on my business as i would take my business elsewhere if someone tried that stunt with me. It is as bad as demanding i have flash installed to buy stuff, which i also refuse to do, and take my business to their competition.
Remember we are the customer, and we are the reason you exist.
Well, now they are targets.
Yahoo? Jabber?
Um, you really don't have a clue, do you?
The law needs to be repealed and anyone that supported it be bounced on their butts next election.
Trying to 'combat' it this way just lends it credibility and is only a temporary measure of limiting a much larger problem.
Comcast sucks...don't make me like them. please..
On a more cynical note, why should they care about piracy of their competition? Remember, they are also a content creator.
A mass exodus to another service.
Idiots.
Forever, no. But when its making money for them i don't expect them to cut it off mid-story line and at least let them wind the series up if it is going to go away.
Not just "network execs", but those bastards at 'syfy'. .
Don't forget Farscape, one of the first causalities by those idiots, and the sign of things to come.
At the rate they float these trial balloons then yank them back just as you get used to it, no thanks.
Google is far too unstable with their 'extra' offerings to even warrant a look at them.
Its the ONLY time congress 'cares' about our rights and wave their 'look at me flag'. As soon as the elections are over, it will be back to business as usual.
They don't care, they never have, never will.
I hated this, and only encountered it once, in my Econ 102 class. We had to "buy" the online pass to view the online "textbook", which was really just a document wrapped in a flash applet, with "interactive" homeworks, that expired after 6 months. I asked the professor if he had another alternative, but he said I could always drop the class.
Which i would have done, and perhaps even picketed outside the classroom.
The goal is to make the bar to high for the casual 'infringer'. that it causes grief for customers, or that the hard core will still do it, isn't part of their concern.
And yes, it can be done, once the very hardware itsself to view and copy is locked down. ( think mandatory TPM )
They do have a reason; kickbacks.
1/2 the processors wrote the damned text book, so they have a vested interest in making student buy copies.
If you contact with a substantial company, and insure there are service agreements in the contract, with penalties for not meeting them, you will be no worse off than housing the data center on site.
Go with some fly by night or 1/2 free service, well, might as well have your boxes ready, just in case.
It would be nice if EVERYONE switched over to open jabber servers. Get off all these proprietary services.
But then, who would pay for the server loads? Server resource and network bandwidth isn't exactly free.
While its not perfect, and not every release has been stellar, its consistent, which is important in a 'desktop' environment.
It was also more about getting work done and not being 'cute', until recently.
And early license issues aside, QT has always been more mature than the other tool kits.
Street corner cameras (+ automatic facial recognition ) are open season, no warrant required.
And if you read how i carry my laptop bag, you would see that they would have to either cut my hand or arm to even get close.. i would notice getting cut and use the other hand to shoot them.
Backpacks are unsafe as a rule. Normally my bag is over my shoulder, with my arm over it's body and hand supporting the bottom of it. ( crime aside, i have had a strap break once and while i caught it in mid-air that time, might not be so lucky next time ).
Also has a PPC edition, as does NetBSD.
One step on the way to accepting governmental surveillance.
Ill have my black electricians tape at the ready.
And they cant see boo. If they start reading my private messages and emails so they can mine 'emotional states', i'm suing for privacy invasion.
If i post something public that i can be identified by, well that is my fault.