[The] solution will enable laptop users to use cellular communication networks as if they were a local communications network. Intel will thus be able to realize an old company dream - the development of a computer enabling users to be connected, any time and any place, to the Internet.
When I see shine on language like that, I know that M$ or some other huckester is behind what's being talked about and it won't live up the hype. The word Enable is usually the biggest tip. What's wrong with direct language and specs? You know something along the lines of, "Intel designed the new chip to provide NetBios over WhateverRadioThingy with a 3 mile radius of communications. Several companies are planning to build a grid comunications network in several major cities, BLAH BLAH." That would be informative, and then people would know what to expect rather than excited and ready to spend more money.
Buzzzz, how hateful it is. It brings back memories -twitch- of VB endoctrination videos I was encouraged to watch for a job once. It dronned on about, "Totally new approaches to programing." and "Iteractive methods rather than proceedural methods." while building a dinky little database front end Mr. Potatoe Head style.
Right now, the Cox site makes you chose a location, then asks if you would like them to have them be your home page (thanks Microshit for making that possible). Then the reference fails, so I can't find the support page my wife did after 30 minutes of frantic clicking and digging. Yes she managed to find a "live operator" to answer questions. If you can find him you can ask too. If you don't have the latest M$ garbage, you might get the same answer I did to my question,
"Roses are Red,
the hell desk is blue,
are you a robot?
Tell me me true.
Answer, invariable:
WE DON'T SUPPORT YOUR OPPERATING SYSTEM!!!!!
Here I will continue rant my reply. I don't need your support for my operating system. Unlike many comercial OS that your pages indicate a preference for, my OS is well documented so I can fix it myself. Strangley enough it needs little fixing. What I want from you is Internet Provision. Give me a line and a IP number, bitch, and keep your garbage to yourself.
The BOFH may reed this and smile. He has indeed made me angry.
I get the last laugh, however. Without my money they looses their job as COX goes belly up. No one really wants to spend loads of money to trade the TV that spews trash they hate to have their PC spew much of the same. Prediction, bankruptsy in two years. Bye Bye BOFH, better learn to write a more flexible and friendlier shell script.
Arguing that ANY transfer of license at all is 'illegal' to bolster the 'open source' frenzy strikes me as very shortsighted.
I agree, those idiots in Redmond had better shut up. =:> I don't see the folks from Debian busting into grade schools looking for old versions of Emacs without documentation. The extortion of hundreds of thousands of dollars from US public school systems for "unregistered" and "pirated" coppies of Word and what not is a matter of public record. So, if second hand PC's get you that much trouble here, where M$'s avowed interest is the children, how do you think they will act overseas? The only frenzy I see is people reacting to the new blue screen of death, programs they pay for advertising at them, the mega improved clippy animations and quirkyness in general. They get a daily rise out of such insults. It's imposible to exaggurate the situation as people who don't have to deal with it all won't believe half of the truth.
Are we REALLY saying that if I found someone who had a LEGALLY LICENSED copy of Windows 95 from 1995, we could not engage in any sort of transaction to transfer the license (per whatever terms were stated in the Win95 original license) over to me?
Yes, Microsoft really says that, as was extensively documented here by Michael's excellent copyrant. Let's not forget the Naked PC effort, where M$ tried to quash the sales of any computer without an OS. Kinda goes to show you where there heart is.
Wrong tool, wrong settings? I'd say so...ME TOO!
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If your capture device is Video for Windows compatible, then VirtualDub can capture video with it.
Yeah, that's gonna work real good with M$'s new Digital Violations Operating System. While it's cool of them to make the effort, I doubt the rest of us will be able to make use of windows API calls when the time comes, but will just use everyone else's properly functioning X or SVGA routines. It's sad to see effort wasted making a product like Windows more palitable. Why do people put their effort into this stuff? It will only be used to oppres you later.
Am I bitter? Hell yes I am. Your computer is being made into a freaking TV that serves mostly to suck comercial crap. The internet is being used as the new pipe to shove yet more crap on us as opposed to the airwaves that have been dominated by three or four giant publishers for the last fourty years: They at least came at no cost but advert mark up at the store. Does'nt anyone else see the convergence of all this as the absolute destruction of original content from around the world? Do you imagine that this will be used to distribute anything but big media junk? The very tools of creation will be removed before long. Those who wish to create will be forced to spend loads of money for Apples that purposfully have file types that do not transfer to these new boxes. How well do you think apt-get is going to work with all of this crap flying around? Free Softwar in general will be choked by the telcos as they close in their grab on the net. You don't imagine it will be long before the new infrastructure has packet prioritization bassed on origin, not yours? Isn't forced DHCP a warning that none but the mighty shall publish? Voice over IP has been possible for years, but you still pay by the minute to talk to your friends, in fact the US is now paying more than ever for telco "services". I have seen the future and it is the past.
To all you warez dudes out there, You are a problem. While you think you are sticking it to the man with your cracked software, MP3s and comercialless Simpson episodes, you are really helping them. You are just dumping more comercial junk on the world and preventing people from looking elsewhere, even within, for solutions to their software and entertainment desires. Go out and make something. Fight like hell. Think, create, propagate your ideas.
I don't even watch TV, it clouds the mind. There are so many other sources of information and inspiration. Read, do things, live damn it, then write, sing and make films about it. You don't think real stories come from big media giant? No, they get ripped off, diluted and sold back to you. As you consume the dilution, so go your own thoughts and dreams.
Just imagine being able to suck up TV through your computer! The internet has nver been cooler. I'll never have to watch another advert again. Damn that talking Casino movie andvert that keep coming up! With Microsoft's new patentendead Digital Rights Management Operating System (TM) I'm sure this will furfill my wildest hopes for an ever expanding internet full of original ideas and new concepts from people all over the world, just like that TV show I saw, "The net". It's amazing how clueful real TV peopld can be. I feel like a winner tonight. Maybee I'll play that casino and take in some quality TV/Porn from CBS. Downloading Gilligan'z Island will only take 15 minutes with my speedy 128KByte/second DHCP enhanced cable modem I pay $50/month for. Now I feel like I'm getting my moneies worth with all that free TV. Oh the economy, the new economy and the Brave New Society that the Internet IS BECOMING! Behold the New World merge with the Old, and the internet becoms as free as the AIR and it's three owners. My computer is a TV and I can make it do exactly what they want me to. My storiws were borring they tolc me, so now I don't write. My voice was not as good as Nxync, so now I don't sing. My cerimoniessss were not as good as MTV's muxic awaards, so now I don't go to church. Books were not as lively as TV so now I don't read. This will let me suck just like I always wanted to. Me on my terminal, my wife on hers, who knows where the kids are. We will be so together and share the same experiencess. It will be like, "oh my god, that's just like what Kelly Bundie said. I can't believe you thought the same thing too." What a party this will be.
On second thought, I'm just going to cry myself to sleep. Yes, I'll shut up dear.
The reality is that people who pirate their software are an assent in mindshare.
He understood that, but is now trying to use that mindshare to make his company something an MBA would recognize. The goal is money. As he put it:
And as things go, this was all fine and good -- except that eventually Andrew graduated and everyone else got sick of pizza and beer. Ambrosia grew from an interesting sideline into a full time place of employment. The company became an entity with its own purpose, its own office space, and its own gravitational pull. It also had an insatiable appetite for cash, because as any MBA will tell you, the lifeblood of business is green.
They have made many obvious errors that you don't need an MBA to figure out. Their first error is to ignore their competition. The second is that they have provided an incentive for honest people to cheat.
These folks are going to have competition, large and small forever. I can walk into WalMart and buy any of ID software's fine games for $15, ten bucks cheaper than Ambrosia. Yep, then bucks makes a difference to pizza and beer budgets. It's funny how ID software has not made their games as bothersome as this, if you dissregard the backdoors that most pizza and beer dudes don't know about. Now that Mac is on a kind of BSD, this dude's competition problem is about to get worse. There will always be someone willing to make pizza and beer money, or even just friends, giving their software away.
The second huge mistake he's made is to inconvienence his honest clients. If his registration process was really easier than obtaining crack codes, honest people would not obtain crack codes. It's a really bad idea to give honest people that kind of incentive. It breeds the worst of ill will and makes them a friend of the cracker, who has now done them the favor of giving them back software they paid for and owned. That user might even go to that cracker later and give him $15 to obtain a cracked no registration version of your next game, no charge for his silent backdoors.
This is clearly undesirable and one of the reasons software should not have owners. What you end up with is a world littered with stolen, unmodifiable, backdoored computers. It's a place that ultimatly defeats itself but allows much other mischief at the same time. All those backdoors and cracks will be used for DoS attacks, setting up ftp servers that flood the world with more comercial crap, spam mail launces and what have you. The inconvienience of software registrations of this kind may be the only way his company can make as much money as he wants but look at the world it creates. ID Software has been moving in the right direction, and he might want to use them as a model again, before his mindsare dissapears.
I wish people would stop moderating articles with "overrated/underrated" just to avoid metamod; the parent is at score 3 with no moderation reason. And the parent msg is substantially incorrect.
Mod points to date are +2 interesting -1 troll. Go figure, I said what I thought at the time and someone thought it was interesting.
The parent message was an oppinion, bassed on my percetion. It looked like it would be hard to get at the source code and it was. As you say, "It did take some effort to get the X11 sources, and source for the PMON boot loader, but we have them all." At the time, I was unwilling to make that effort and it kept me from buying. If they wanted to build a community they needed to make it easy to help.
I had not thought of the content control aspect, but I did worry about hardware hacks and software interfaces that might change under me. My goal is to build a handheld that can do FFT to analyze noises in the plant where I work. Oh yeah, I'm doing it for fun, no company backing. I also have every intention of sharing any code I munge together. From GPL to GPL. The GSL has reasonable FFT routines that have saved me a bundle of time before. This platform was very attractive, but a bit over priced for a development toy that I might not be able to reproduce.
It's true, I was being lazy and cheap but that's my right. Another poster has pointed out that I might have been wrong about my assesment of their licenses. In this case the lesson is double: Even the perception of restictions is enough to keep a community from forming. It was enough to keep me from buying one.
As for that troll on the soap box, there are ways coders can make money besides working for some devilish company that wants to resell their telnet client ever year. I suggest you learn how, and fast.
By reducing frame rates to 15 or 12 frames per second or lower, a compressor immediately saves bandwidth, and as long as the frames are smooth the human eye tends to adjust.
Ten frames per second was real smooth about 100 years ago.
Their code base was not all GPL and the device was expensive. I remember some NDA type stuf on their page too. I was interested but those things kept me from going any further into it. Hardware vendors beware, software should be free. All of it.
I don't know anyone who would want their production Oracle database on Intel hardware. You can't just keep throwing faster cpus into the same outdated backplane and expect to get the kind of throughput performance that a db requires.
Additionally, who with a production system isn't going to want both the hardware & software reliability and 24/7 support of the caliber that Sun provides?
Yeah, you had better keep that old Sparc Station around. Linux != x86.
Sun or Oracle, which to toss... Oracle. Sun can always adopt Linux themselves, and Postress MySQL too. Sorry Lary, I'm sure you will do the right thing and we will have you around for years to come.
Would you trust M$N to block mail for you? I would not, nor should anyone who reads this sad story of how Micro$quish abused their junk mail filter for hot mail. Like my wife asked in outrage, "They can do that, why won't they block all those 'hot and horny teens' messages'?!"
Let's see, depositions, those are sworn testimony that can be used as a replacement to testimony in actual court, right? So the proceedings you talk about could consist entirely of include statements.
Much is usually lost in transcription. My mom became an OJ trial junkie while that mess was going on. There was a huge difference between watching the witnesses and reading a few blurbs. I got to see that lunatic that claimed she wore three writst watches all the time but was not and the father of LSD's broken leer as he tried to debunk DNA testing. It was much different from the AP garbage summaries.
What the public will lose here is a forgone conclusion. Though abuse of the worst kinds have been proved and are part of your precious public record that no normal person will ever see, the "punishment" will not be worth much. Our leaders have spoken and I am dissapointed. The whole thing is getting swept under the rug and this is just another piece of it.
This Win2000 mag article was one of 39,000 hits on a google search for "outlook reliability corrupt". It is one of dozzens of other winmag articles about how to improve the reliability of exchange and outlook. At least two service packs were seen. Essentially the article recomends limiting user access to the internet and throwing away user mail. Typical M$, blame the administrator, issue tools that don't work and limit the users.
While my co-worker's personal experience using the Outlook in a well supported fortune 500 corporate envionment is hardly scientific evidence, it's the one I trust. They got burnt. You can sit here and spew all the praise on MicroSquish you want, I'm going to believe my lying eyes.
You are welcome to search through the pile of Microsoft poop the search provides if you are really interested in finding a statistical study. Good luck.
I've given up trying. I print important email, knowing that my mail client is unreliable. As one person put it, "I use my computer like toilet paper. It's what the company gives us." Oh well, the company could throw all the puters out the window if it wanted to, it would make about as much sense as paying for the denial of service that Microsoft provides.
So, there won't be any reporter's spin on what he saw/heard during the depositions....you'll just have to read them yourself.
Oh right, like MicroStuff themselves are not going to continue to spend billions of dollars telling everyone that they are being persecuted for inovating, that they have exonerated themselves beyond a shodow of a doubt and that they will continue to bring you the world's finest software without interuption. The spin never stops. Pray tell, why are you here defending the evil empire's preference for the dark?
A normal company would want the widest possible public hearing when accused. What do they want to hide? While you dissmiss "reporter's spin", let's not forget the reason spin comes about, that the new institution itself was bought or has an interest in the outome of what they report. This is an outrage that only be protected against by having multiple news outlets owned by independent companies. Cool reason can only go so far when presented with lies. Reason only works with truth, and the truth only comes from informed but disinterested third parties.
It's too bad we won't get the details of the proceedings. A room full of reporters would be a good thing. Every paper in the US printing the mindless pro Microsoft wire story is what you will get. The news outlets that will be excluded will be the indepenent ones, Wired, the Register, and anything else not owned by M$, Disney, GE, Westinghouse or the Associated Press International. Microboft will make up what it wants you to hear, and it's usual friends will quote it as honest news. The depostition may not be important, but there's no reason to keep it secret.
If only they would put 1/100th of that money and effort into implimenting widely accepted standards and security measures, they would not need to break the law.
The dress code analogy is a good one -- it's his list to do with as he pleases.
As we know M$ has used it's binary formats to break other people's software in the past, banning M$ trash is more like self defense than etiquite. "Leave your weapons at the bar, gents".
If someone sends you a word doc, and you can't read it, its a big issue and everyone is serious.
If someone sends something that only linux users can read, its funny, and lets all shout "hurray!"
Think about it. And if you still think the second point, then you are, in fact, elitest.
Uhh, no it's more like when people post Outlook generated or M$ Word files to his mailing they might just break it. M$ ignores accepted standards and insists on using secret binary formats that they routinly use to break other people's software. Keeping that kind or trash off your list is not elitist, it's self defense.
Who this man let's post on his mailing list is his business.
Getting Word files in email is not that big a deal, but it does make sure that I don't get to read what you sent me. No, I'm not going to buy MicroShaft software anytime soon. I have better uses for my money. If you want to talk to me, you can kindly not give your money to M$ and send me plain text messages that I can read.
How absolutly arrogent for M$ to think that everyone in the world is going to either buy their inferior software or slave night and day to be able to read it. They are free to comply with real standards if they wish, and get down from that high whorse (imagine that). Their cost would be nothing.
OE is simple to use, fast, manages the 10,000 emails I have in folders without problems, doesn't make me manage each email account separately (though I could if I wanted), decent filtering, higher-security, etc. Whoever wrote this app at Microsoft had a clue as it's really well done.
Wow, have you been misled. Outlook has it's own crappy database format. It puts all of your mail into one huge binary file. As per the usual M$ deception it displays a tree of that file's contents in a way that makes you think you have put them into directories and have a well ordered mail system. Performance starts to crap out after a while, though making many subdirectories can help. When you learn that all of your mail is in one file and you worry that corruption can cause total loss you will be very dissapointed in the export features. It only does one directory at a time, so you have to mouse your way through all your subdirectories. The database always craps out in a year or two of normal usage, and we all know what happens to old M$ file formats. Co workers have taken the time to rename that file and write it out to zip disks because they got burnt that way. File compression typically reduces the stupid binary format by a factor of 10. I consider a it a very poor mail client that wisks all of your mail away to a bloated, unreadable binary format and then looses it. Beware, your mail might just go poof one day.
Thanks for the tip on Mozilla being able to pull my mail out. I remember Netscape's text exporter was very good, and I expect Mozilla's to work nicely too. Published and free standards eitherway. Hopefully it can ignore all of those nasty Power Point presentations.
No, I'm not saying Moffitt had anything to do with the creation of MyParty. But it's at least quite something of a coincidence when a furore over an Outlook bug is quickly followed up by an exploit for the very same.
No it's not so big a coincidence. There are so many exploitable bugs in M$ programs that you utter two or three of them everyday without knowing. This is especially true of people who program in visual basic.
Do not start messages with the word "begin" followed by two spaces.
Use only one space between the word "begin" and the following data.
Capitalize the word "begin" so that it is reads "Begin."
Use a different word such as "start" or "commence."
I'm laughing my ass off. That's just what out look does to my letters! Try to start a text message, and the stupid thing goes and capitiolizes the first letter for me. Try to use more than one space and the stupid thing puts green squigglies underneath it or changes it. "Start" They love that word. Start making sense M$, your code has a high level of presumption.
The specs are more like those of a $200 motherboard.
These folks are going to have a hell of a time selling boards with all the good quality stuff floating around for less than $100. A socket 7 mobo can be had for $70 with a 550MHz k6/2, brand new. I bought one used for $20 with 130M of ram to match a spare 400MHz k6/3 I had. While one of these newer boards might perform better, there are other $2,000 systems that can beat the crap out of it.
Three years and one recesion too late, I'm afraid. Good luck to them. I'd like to see them everywhere.
I mean, my wife gets e-mails telling her to enlarge her penis and I get e-mail telling me to enlarge my breasts....
M$ Harvester intentionally mistakes gender to keep your clients ammused. This enables you to send mails that are actually read and ensures positive complience with your program. Our power users love it. We've gotten a number of complaints about this feature from other users however and we will fix that buffer overflow in Havester2002.
Thanks for your interest! Keep using the M$ Spam Set, the only spam development sweet that's fully integrated with the operating system from your desk to your client's desks. Our helpful newsletter is atatched below and you have been added to our list.
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buy a "license" to spam, and renew it every year... something like $100/yr
So for $100 buck a year every not clown company on earth can send an unlimited amount of garbage out to the world and cost everyone just as much as "I love you"? No thanks. How about a nice meat space analogy to explain things:
Spam is like litter. Throwing a beer can out the window is not a big deal until everyone does it. Then you live in a world full of trash. It's oppresive, costly and wasteful. Someone has to spend their time picking it up rather than doing something creative or useful. The internet is every bit as public a place as the highway system. No one's rights are violated when you keep them from trashing the world and no one's rights are violated when you tell them they can't fill everyone's mailbox with garbage. They are just as free to put that trash on their web site as I am to sell manure or let people haul it away.
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When I see shine on language like that, I know that M$ or some other huckester is behind what's being talked about and it won't live up the hype. The word Enable is usually the biggest tip. What's wrong with direct language and specs? You know something along the lines of, "Intel designed the new chip to provide NetBios over WhateverRadioThingy with a 3 mile radius of communications. Several companies are planning to build a grid comunications network in several major cities, BLAH BLAH." That would be informative, and then people would know what to expect rather than excited and ready to spend more money.
Buzzzz, how hateful it is. It brings back memories -twitch- of VB endoctrination videos I was encouraged to watch for a job once. It dronned on about, "Totally new approaches to programing." and "Iteractive methods rather than proceedural methods." while building a dinky little database front end Mr. Potatoe Head style.
Visit to see for yourself. They are rolling out a new network due to at home's failure. They sent out a CD that supposedly breaks computers, Windows or Mac, and are purposfully interfering with the old network's funcitoning. Time outs that are just long enough to break a Putty connection every three minutes or so, no DNS (I serve my own), and other degraded service. The CD came with a number that no one will be answering untill feb 15th.
Right now, the Cox site makes you chose a location, then asks if you would like them to have them be your home page (thanks Microshit for making that possible). Then the reference fails, so I can't find the support page my wife did after 30 minutes of frantic clicking and digging. Yes she managed to find a "live operator" to answer questions. If you can find him you can ask too. If you don't have the latest M$ garbage, you might get the same answer I did to my question,
"Roses are Red,
the hell desk is blue,
are you a robot?
Tell me me true.
Answer, invariable:
WE DON'T SUPPORT YOUR OPPERATING SYSTEM!!!!!
Here I will continue rant my reply. I don't need your support for my operating system. Unlike many comercial OS that your pages indicate a preference for, my OS is well documented so I can fix it myself. Strangley enough it needs little fixing. What I want from you is Internet Provision. Give me a line and a IP number, bitch, and keep your garbage to yourself.
The BOFH may reed this and smile. He has indeed made me angry.
I get the last laugh, however. Without my money they looses their job as COX goes belly up. No one really wants to spend loads of money to trade the TV that spews trash they hate to have their PC spew much of the same. Prediction, bankruptsy in two years. Bye Bye BOFH, better learn to write a more flexible and friendlier shell script.
I agree, those idiots in Redmond had better shut up. =:> I don't see the folks from Debian busting into grade schools looking for old versions of Emacs without documentation. The extortion of hundreds of thousands of dollars from US public school systems for "unregistered" and "pirated" coppies of Word and what not is a matter of public record. So, if second hand PC's get you that much trouble here, where M$'s avowed interest is the children, how do you think they will act overseas? The only frenzy I see is people reacting to the new blue screen of death, programs they pay for advertising at them, the mega improved clippy animations and quirkyness in general. They get a daily rise out of such insults. It's imposible to exaggurate the situation as people who don't have to deal with it all won't believe half of the truth.
Are we REALLY saying that if I found someone who had a LEGALLY LICENSED copy of Windows 95 from 1995, we could not engage in any sort of transaction to transfer the license (per whatever terms were stated in the Win95 original license) over to me?
Yes, Microsoft really says that, as was extensively documented here by Michael's excellent copyrant. Let's not forget the Naked PC effort, where M$ tried to quash the sales of any computer without an OS. Kinda goes to show you where there heart is.
If your capture device is Video for Windows compatible, then VirtualDub can capture video with it.
Yeah, that's gonna work real good with M$'s new Digital Violations Operating System. While it's cool of them to make the effort, I doubt the rest of us will be able to make use of windows API calls when the time comes, but will just use everyone else's properly functioning X or SVGA routines. It's sad to see effort wasted making a product like Windows more palitable. Why do people put their effort into this stuff? It will only be used to oppres you later.
Am I bitter? Hell yes I am. Your computer is being made into a freaking TV that serves mostly to suck comercial crap. The internet is being used as the new pipe to shove yet more crap on us as opposed to the airwaves that have been dominated by three or four giant publishers for the last fourty years: They at least came at no cost but advert mark up at the store. Does'nt anyone else see the convergence of all this as the absolute destruction of original content from around the world? Do you imagine that this will be used to distribute anything but big media junk? The very tools of creation will be removed before long. Those who wish to create will be forced to spend loads of money for Apples that purposfully have file types that do not transfer to these new boxes. How well do you think apt-get is going to work with all of this crap flying around? Free Softwar in general will be choked by the telcos as they close in their grab on the net. You don't imagine it will be long before the new infrastructure has packet prioritization bassed on origin, not yours? Isn't forced DHCP a warning that none but the mighty shall publish? Voice over IP has been possible for years, but you still pay by the minute to talk to your friends, in fact the US is now paying more than ever for telco "services". I have seen the future and it is the past.
To all you warez dudes out there, You are a problem. While you think you are sticking it to the man with your cracked software, MP3s and comercialless Simpson episodes, you are really helping them. You are just dumping more comercial junk on the world and preventing people from looking elsewhere, even within, for solutions to their software and entertainment desires. Go out and make something. Fight like hell. Think, create, propagate your ideas.
I don't even watch TV, it clouds the mind. There are so many other sources of information and inspiration. Read, do things, live damn it, then write, sing and make films about it. You don't think real stories come from big media giant? No, they get ripped off, diluted and sold back to you. As you consume the dilution, so go your own thoughts and dreams.
Thank you, and good night. I am insane.
On second thought, I'm just going to cry myself to sleep. Yes, I'll shut up dear.
He understood that, but is now trying to use that mindshare to make his company something an MBA would recognize. The goal is money. As he put it:
And as things go, this was all fine and good -- except that eventually Andrew graduated and everyone else got sick of pizza and beer. Ambrosia grew from an interesting sideline into a full time place of employment. The company became an entity with its own purpose, its own office space, and its own gravitational pull. It also had an insatiable appetite for cash, because as any MBA will tell you, the lifeblood of business is green.
They have made many obvious errors that you don't need an MBA to figure out. Their first error is to ignore their competition. The second is that they have provided an incentive for honest people to cheat.
These folks are going to have competition, large and small forever. I can walk into WalMart and buy any of ID software's fine games for $15, ten bucks cheaper than Ambrosia. Yep, then bucks makes a difference to pizza and beer budgets. It's funny how ID software has not made their games as bothersome as this, if you dissregard the backdoors that most pizza and beer dudes don't know about. Now that Mac is on a kind of BSD, this dude's competition problem is about to get worse. There will always be someone willing to make pizza and beer money, or even just friends, giving their software away.
The second huge mistake he's made is to inconvienence his honest clients. If his registration process was really easier than obtaining crack codes, honest people would not obtain crack codes. It's a really bad idea to give honest people that kind of incentive. It breeds the worst of ill will and makes them a friend of the cracker, who has now done them the favor of giving them back software they paid for and owned. That user might even go to that cracker later and give him $15 to obtain a cracked no registration version of your next game, no charge for his silent backdoors.
This is clearly undesirable and one of the reasons software should not have owners. What you end up with is a world littered with stolen, unmodifiable, backdoored computers. It's a place that ultimatly defeats itself but allows much other mischief at the same time. All those backdoors and cracks will be used for DoS attacks, setting up ftp servers that flood the world with more comercial crap, spam mail launces and what have you. The inconvienience of software registrations of this kind may be the only way his company can make as much money as he wants but look at the world it creates. ID Software has been moving in the right direction, and he might want to use them as a model again, before his mindsare dissapears.
Mod points to date are +2 interesting -1 troll. Go figure, I said what I thought at the time and someone thought it was interesting.
The parent message was an oppinion, bassed on my percetion. It looked like it would be hard to get at the source code and it was. As you say, "It did take some effort to get the X11 sources, and source for the PMON boot loader, but we have them all." At the time, I was unwilling to make that effort and it kept me from buying. If they wanted to build a community they needed to make it easy to help.
It's true, I was being lazy and cheap but that's my right. Another poster has pointed out that I might have been wrong about my assesment of their licenses. In this case the lesson is double: Even the perception of restictions is enough to keep a community from forming. It was enough to keep me from buying one.
As for that troll on the soap box, there are ways coders can make money besides working for some devilish company that wants to resell their telnet client ever year. I suggest you learn how, and fast.
Quoth the article:
By reducing frame rates to 15 or 12 frames per second or lower, a compressor immediately saves bandwidth, and as long as the frames are smooth the human eye tends to adjust.
Ten frames per second was real smooth about 100 years ago.
Their code base was not all GPL and the device was expensive. I remember some NDA type stuf on their page too. I was interested but those things kept me from going any further into it. Hardware vendors beware, software should be free. All of it.
Additionally, who with a production system isn't going to want both the hardware & software reliability and 24/7 support of the caliber that Sun provides?
Yeah, you had better keep that old Sparc Station around. Linux != x86.
Sun or Oracle, which to toss... Oracle. Sun can always adopt Linux themselves, and Postress MySQL too. Sorry Lary, I'm sure you will do the right thing and we will have you around for years to come.
Would you trust M$N to block mail for you? I would not, nor should anyone who reads this sad story of how Micro$quish abused their junk mail filter for hot mail. Like my wife asked in outrage, "They can do that, why won't they block all those 'hot and horny teens' messages'?!"
Much is usually lost in transcription. My mom became an OJ trial junkie while that mess was going on. There was a huge difference between watching the witnesses and reading a few blurbs. I got to see that lunatic that claimed she wore three writst watches all the time but was not and the father of LSD's broken leer as he tried to debunk DNA testing. It was much different from the AP garbage summaries.
What the public will lose here is a forgone conclusion. Though abuse of the worst kinds have been proved and are part of your precious public record that no normal person will ever see, the "punishment" will not be worth much. Our leaders have spoken and I am dissapointed. The whole thing is getting swept under the rug and this is just another piece of it.
While my co-worker's personal experience using the Outlook in a well supported fortune 500 corporate envionment is hardly scientific evidence, it's the one I trust. They got burnt. You can sit here and spew all the praise on MicroSquish you want, I'm going to believe my lying eyes.
You are welcome to search through the pile of Microsoft poop the search provides if you are really interested in finding a statistical study. Good luck.
I've given up trying. I print important email, knowing that my mail client is unreliable. As one person put it, "I use my computer like toilet paper. It's what the company gives us." Oh well, the company could throw all the puters out the window if it wanted to, it would make about as much sense as paying for the denial of service that Microsoft provides.
For the public good! Don't let anyone know or say anything.
2+2=5. Once you have mastered this, all else follows.
Oh right, like MicroStuff themselves are not going to continue to spend billions of dollars telling everyone that they are being persecuted for inovating, that they have exonerated themselves beyond a shodow of a doubt and that they will continue to bring you the world's finest software without interuption. The spin never stops. Pray tell, why are you here defending the evil empire's preference for the dark?
A normal company would want the widest possible public hearing when accused. What do they want to hide? While you dissmiss "reporter's spin", let's not forget the reason spin comes about, that the new institution itself was bought or has an interest in the outome of what they report. This is an outrage that only be protected against by having multiple news outlets owned by independent companies. Cool reason can only go so far when presented with lies. Reason only works with truth, and the truth only comes from informed but disinterested third parties.
It's too bad we won't get the details of the proceedings. A room full of reporters would be a good thing. Every paper in the US printing the mindless pro Microsoft wire story is what you will get. The news outlets that will be excluded will be the indepenent ones, Wired, the Register, and anything else not owned by M$, Disney, GE, Westinghouse or the Associated Press International. Microboft will make up what it wants you to hear, and it's usual friends will quote it as honest news. The depostition may not be important, but there's no reason to keep it secret.
If only they would put 1/100th of that money and effort into implimenting widely accepted standards and security measures, they would not need to break the law.
As we know M$ has used it's binary formats to break other people's software in the past, banning M$ trash is more like self defense than etiquite. "Leave your weapons at the bar, gents".
Think about it. And if you still think the second point, then you are, in fact, elitest.
Uhh, no it's more like when people post Outlook generated or M$ Word files to his mailing they might just break it. M$ ignores accepted standards and insists on using secret binary formats that they routinly use to break other people's software. Keeping that kind or trash off your list is not elitist, it's self defense.
Who this man let's post on his mailing list is his business.
Getting Word files in email is not that big a deal, but it does make sure that I don't get to read what you sent me. No, I'm not going to buy MicroShaft software anytime soon. I have better uses for my money. If you want to talk to me, you can kindly not give your money to M$ and send me plain text messages that I can read.
How absolutly arrogent for M$ to think that everyone in the world is going to either buy their inferior software or slave night and day to be able to read it. They are free to comply with real standards if they wish, and get down from that high whorse (imagine that). Their cost would be nothing.
Wow, have you been misled. Outlook has it's own crappy database format. It puts all of your mail into one huge binary file. As per the usual M$ deception it displays a tree of that file's contents in a way that makes you think you have put them into directories and have a well ordered mail system. Performance starts to crap out after a while, though making many subdirectories can help. When you learn that all of your mail is in one file and you worry that corruption can cause total loss you will be very dissapointed in the export features. It only does one directory at a time, so you have to mouse your way through all your subdirectories. The database always craps out in a year or two of normal usage, and we all know what happens to old M$ file formats. Co workers have taken the time to rename that file and write it out to zip disks because they got burnt that way. File compression typically reduces the stupid binary format by a factor of 10. I consider a it a very poor mail client that wisks all of your mail away to a bloated, unreadable binary format and then looses it. Beware, your mail might just go poof one day.
Thanks for the tip on Mozilla being able to pull my mail out. I remember Netscape's text exporter was very good, and I expect Mozilla's to work nicely too. Published and free standards eitherway. Hopefully it can ignore all of those nasty Power Point presentations.
No, I'm not saying Moffitt had anything to do with the creation of MyParty. But it's at least quite something of a coincidence when a furore over an Outlook bug is quickly followed up by an exploit for the very same. No it's not so big a coincidence. There are so many exploitable bugs in M$ programs that you utter two or three of them everyday without knowing. This is especially true of people who program in visual basic.
To workaround this problem:
Do not start messages with the word "begin" followed by two spaces.
Use only one space between the word "begin" and the following data.
Capitalize the word "begin" so that it is reads "Begin."
Use a different word such as "start" or "commence."
I'm laughing my ass off. That's just what out look does to my letters! Try to start a text message, and the stupid thing goes and capitiolizes the first letter for me. Try to use more than one space and the stupid thing puts green squigglies underneath it or changes it. "Start" They love that word. Start making sense M$, your code has a high level of presumption.
These folks are going to have a hell of a time selling boards with all the good quality stuff floating around for less than $100. A socket 7 mobo can be had for $70 with a 550MHz k6/2, brand new. I bought one used for $20 with 130M of ram to match a spare 400MHz k6/3 I had. While one of these newer boards might perform better, there are other $2,000 systems that can beat the crap out of it.
Three years and one recesion too late, I'm afraid. Good luck to them. I'd like to see them everywhere.
M$ Harvester intentionally mistakes gender to keep your clients ammused. This enables you to send mails that are actually read and ensures positive complience with your program. Our power users love it. We've gotten a number of complaints about this feature from other users however and we will fix that buffer overflow in Havester2002.
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So for $100 buck a year every not clown company on earth can send an unlimited amount of garbage out to the world and cost everyone just as much as "I love you"? No thanks. How about a nice meat space analogy to explain things:
Spam is like litter. Throwing a beer can out the window is not a big deal until everyone does it. Then you live in a world full of trash. It's oppresive, costly and wasteful. Someone has to spend their time picking it up rather than doing something creative or useful. The internet is every bit as public a place as the highway system. No one's rights are violated when you keep them from trashing the world and no one's rights are violated when you tell them they can't fill everyone's mailbox with garbage. They are just as free to put that trash on their web site as I am to sell manure or let people haul it away.