"Name me 50 companies that have predatory buisness practices and I will name you 50,000 that dont"
Name me 25 companies that have predatory business practices and I would name you 50,000 that have been destroyed by them (along with their countless displaced employees), if it weren't for the fact that when there's a big fish in the pond like that, the little fish never get big enough to have a name to for me to give you.
After having found the "long lost and then completed" beatles song found on the anthology, it was very apparent why nobody had tracked it down and finished it. Like many "long lost unfinished/unperformed works", it wasn't nearly up to par. I hope these turn out different, but i can't contain my doubt of how it will be.
linux, linux, linux. i know i'll probably get modded down for saying that, but free software will never be party to such things as "won't turn off" or "won't disconnect when I want to." As a non-business, the free software community makes software with options so they can use it how they want to, not software with friendly daemons to decide what you do. That's the difference between playing the corporate/political control game and writing a game of your own.
no...i ignored the point they wanted to make. I looked for a real point, the motives and objectives beyond the short term financial. By making OS X look like a viable opponent, and providing their own proprietary office tools to boot (so even the people not using Windows but choosing another controllable corporate entity which uses different hardware), they actually strengthen their monopoly rather than weaken it, by making a player who realistically doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of becoming dominant within the next several years if ever, seem like the "optional" choice, with great expense in changing. So in layman's terms, if a user is fed up with windows, and looks at the costs involved in OSX, they might balk at the price. If they don't see OSX as an option, they're more likely to look further and find a free OS that runs on their existing software, rather than decide that "THE option" of OSX isn't worth the couple grand it'll cost them, or can't afford.
Macs are already quite established as a niche market, and I don't anticipate any jumps to the contrary. Mac OS X is not going by any means going to ever hold a huge percentage of desktop and server systems. Free unices, however, which run on basically any hardware and do it way faster and much more stable than Windows, allows users to switch OSes without costly hardware changes, and already have quite a foothold in the server market.
PR is relations with the public. Manipulation is when something is falsely influenced or pushed. This is manipulation. Making OSX seem strong makes Microsoft look less like a monopoly, without actually having to take on the real competition publicly (read real competition as "BSD, Linux, (and maybe OpenBeOS someday)") which would make the public actually aware of these options.
For all its faults, Microsoft is not known for kicking its customers in the teeth.
That's right. Kicking someone in the teeth entails that someone has paid enough attention to them to not only see their face, but aim their foot at their mouth. To actually get noticed in enough detail to be kicked in the teeth, you must first climb their support ladder by exponentially paying them $50^X per rung until you become a corporate partner, get kicked in the teeth, and your wallet and other property stolen.
Who was it that said that the greatest danger to law enforcement was unenforceable laws?
I disagree. The greatest danger to law enforcement is laws that are easy to enforce but do little for the greater good. How many times have you seen people pulled over by speed traps when there were better things that could be done with the cop's time, like actually patrolling an area?
Laws need to be focused on things that can be agreed upon by society as a whole. If two large sides vigorously disagree yet something is made illegal, then obviously something should probably not be made illegal, since the purpose of the united states government as designed is to protect freedom, not to restrict it for the benefit of the minority.
thats true...but drinking beer isn't all about being Canadian. You can be a German drinking good domestic beer too. Being Canadian is about drinking Canadian beer, and being German is about drinking German beer. Therefore, most Americans with decent taste are really trying to be Canadians and Germans.
I drive a Police Interceptor (police edition Crown Victoria) and i second this. It comes stock with a souped up alternator, and can handle easily a lightbar, two-way radio, spotlight, loudspeaker, and all sorts of other law enforcement goodies without even straining. All it's got is a 4.6l V8, but military humvees with their (IIRC) big V12 fitted with a large alternator should have no problem doubling for at least bursts of power for this device.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was popular because of wire-fu and chinese martial arts. The reason it did better than your average Hong Kong flick in the US is because it got distributed widely in theaters and was given press attention. And from what i've seen, press attention is usually biased/inaccurate anyway.
is not the reason for this. The reason for this is manyfold:
-people are sick of the same old crap -prices are staying artificially inflated -non-RIAA music is seen more frequently as an option (mp3.com et al) -people who care about freedoms don't want to buy things from the RIAA, Vivendi, et al to fund them
At this point current music for the most part has gotten so bad that i couldnt tell you who's getting airplay these days...broadcast radio lost me as a listener more than a year ago. In hearing what i have in passing people listening to newer things, i haven't regretted that decision one bit. I'd rather explore unknown bands than eat anything they want to feed me. If I make myself a CD-R of MP3s available as free downloads, I'm more apt to end up with something worth listening to the whole thing anyway. Even most good albums you buy from stores have at least one song you won't particularly care for.
the point isnt exceptions. The point is that the internet invalidates current jurisdiction laws by being an international entity which cannot be ruled by a single government without fragmentation, which would end the internet and create two seperate networks, one of which would probably keep the title, and both of which would keep the name in common use i'm sure.
To boil down what the internet is: The internet is the world's largest TCP/IP Network. It is not controlled by any one country or entity. So basically, it's a giant WAN that has tried to become more than that and in the eyes of many (including lawmakers) has. The problem is not so much the technological advancements. The problem is the convergence of technological advances, which often results in contradictory laws. Telecommunications is one set of laws, publishing another, and intellectual property yet another (publishing being the act of distributing, IP being the act of ownership). The list is endless as to the different types of law which can collide.
Well, I'm still running every computer I have obtained since 1988. That makes my number alone 11. plus the one at work. Computers, it seems, are going the way of the TV...more than one perhousehold instead of a rare or impressive thing (like TV in the fifties). Then with VCR and Microwaves and CD players in the early eighties...it just increases the number as time goes on. Cell phones, DVD Players, and so on. it's just that the rate of proliferation of technology increases with time.
no, i don't read news from sites that require login. Slashdot is my only exception, and if login were required rather than optional you can bet your ass i'd quit that too.
ISP=Internet service provider.
Internet service = access to the internet and all the priveledges thereof, including DNS, access, and whatever applications you have to utilize these with (i.e. IE, Mozilla, ICQ, Apache, Sendmail, SSH, Telnet, Lynx, Etc. Ad Nauseum)
AUP disallowing DNS/blocking ports = internet access, not internet service.
For more on underground/abnormal exploration (especially the german bunker and catacombs): www.infiltration.org
it's more on the adventurous/curiosity side than the "wow! people live here!" side, but an interesting read if you find this sort of thing interesting
Microsoft admits to a flaw it has now patched. Big deal. When Microsoft admits to holes that aren't patched, then you'll be telling us something we don't already know.
Just because God is not mentioned it does not mean that the pledge asserts that god does not exist.
actually, removing the clause actively does imply this. ever hear of lying by omission? If the phrase had never been in there it'd be one thing, but removing it just plain feels blasphemous.
is if the FBI comes in on TOS violations like this, how are software companies going to pervert this into a way to get the FBI to enforce their EULA's in a similar manner.
no courts, no trial, no jury...there's nothing like the land of the free. at least not around here, apparently.
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"Name me 50 companies that have predatory buisness practices and I will name you 50,000 that dont"
Name me 25 companies that have predatory business practices and I would name you 50,000 that have been destroyed by them (along with their countless displaced employees), if it weren't for the fact that when there's a big fish in the pond like that, the little fish never get big enough to have a name to for me to give you.
Microsoft's real payment they recieve in return for OEM Windows: mindshare. The $8 they get per desk (from major OEMs) is negligible.
After having found the "long lost and then completed" beatles song found on the anthology, it was very apparent why nobody had tracked it down and finished it. Like many "long lost unfinished/unperformed works", it wasn't nearly up to par. I hope these turn out different, but i can't contain my doubt of how it will be.
linux, linux, linux. i know i'll probably get modded down for saying that, but free software will never be party to such things as "won't turn off" or "won't disconnect when I want to." As a non-business, the free software community makes software with options so they can use it how they want to, not software with friendly daemons to decide what you do. That's the difference between playing the corporate/political control game and writing a game of your own.
by the time this (hypothetically) happens, apple will be past OSX to OS XI or XIV, or something.
no...i ignored the point they wanted to make. I looked for a real point, the motives and objectives beyond the short term financial. By making OS X look like a viable opponent, and providing their own proprietary office tools to boot (so even the people not using Windows but choosing another controllable corporate entity which uses different hardware), they actually strengthen their monopoly rather than weaken it, by making a player who realistically doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of becoming dominant within the next several years if ever, seem like the "optional" choice, with great expense in changing. So in layman's terms, if a user is fed up with windows, and looks at the costs involved in OSX, they might balk at the price. If they don't see OSX as an option, they're more likely to look further and find a free OS that runs on their existing software, rather than decide that "THE option" of OSX isn't worth the couple grand it'll cost them, or can't afford.
Macs are already quite established as a niche market, and I don't anticipate any jumps to the contrary. Mac OS X is not going by any means going to ever hold a huge percentage of desktop and server systems. Free unices, however, which run on basically any hardware and do it way faster and much more stable than Windows, allows users to switch OSes without costly hardware changes, and already have quite a foothold in the server market.
PR is relations with the public. Manipulation is when something is falsely influenced or pushed. This is manipulation. Making OSX seem strong makes Microsoft look less like a monopoly, without actually having to take on the real competition publicly (read real competition as "BSD, Linux, (and maybe OpenBeOS someday)") which would make the public actually aware of these options.
For all its faults, Microsoft is not known for kicking its customers in the teeth.
That's right. Kicking someone in the teeth entails that someone has paid enough attention to them to not only see their face, but aim their foot at their mouth. To actually get noticed in enough detail to be kicked in the teeth, you must first climb their support ladder by exponentially paying them $50^X per rung until you become a corporate partner, get kicked in the teeth, and your wallet and other property stolen.
Who was it that said that the greatest danger to law enforcement was unenforceable laws?
I disagree. The greatest danger to law enforcement is laws that are easy to enforce but do little for the greater good. How many times have you seen people pulled over by speed traps when there were better things that could be done with the cop's time, like actually patrolling an area?
Laws need to be focused on things that can be agreed upon by society as a whole. If two large sides vigorously disagree yet something is made illegal, then obviously something should probably not be made illegal, since the purpose of the united states government as designed is to protect freedom, not to restrict it for the benefit of the minority.
thats true...but drinking beer isn't all about being Canadian. You can be a German drinking good domestic beer too. Being Canadian is about drinking Canadian beer, and being German is about drinking German beer. Therefore, most Americans with decent taste are really trying to be Canadians and Germans.
I drive a Police Interceptor (police edition Crown Victoria) and i second this. It comes stock with a souped up alternator, and can handle easily a lightbar, two-way radio, spotlight, loudspeaker, and all sorts of other law enforcement goodies without even straining. All it's got is a 4.6l V8, but military humvees with their (IIRC) big V12 fitted with a large alternator should have no problem doubling for at least bursts of power for this device.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was popular because of wire-fu and chinese martial arts. The reason it did better than your average Hong Kong flick in the US is because it got distributed widely in theaters and was given press attention. And from what i've seen, press attention is usually biased/inaccurate anyway.
no. it's bad enough to be subjected to ads for content, but for the os with which to use/get the content? not a snowball's chance in hell.
My car gets 40 rods to the hog's head, and thats the way i like it!
is not the reason for this. The reason for this is manyfold:
-people are sick of the same old crap
-prices are staying artificially inflated
-non-RIAA music is seen more frequently as an option (mp3.com et al)
-people who care about freedoms don't want to buy things from the RIAA, Vivendi, et al to fund them
At this point current music for the most part has gotten so bad that i couldnt tell you who's getting airplay these days...broadcast radio lost me as a listener more than a year ago. In hearing what i have in passing people listening to newer things, i haven't regretted that decision one bit. I'd rather explore unknown bands than eat anything they want to feed me. If I make myself a CD-R of MP3s available as free downloads, I'm more apt to end up with something worth listening to the whole thing anyway. Even most good albums you buy from stores have at least one song you won't particularly care for.
the point isnt exceptions. The point is that the internet invalidates current jurisdiction laws by being an international entity which cannot be ruled by a single government without fragmentation, which would end the internet and create two seperate networks, one of which would probably keep the title, and both of which would keep the name in common use i'm sure.
To boil down what the internet is: The internet is the world's largest TCP/IP Network. It is not controlled by any one country or entity. So basically, it's a giant WAN that has tried to become more than that and in the eyes of many (including lawmakers) has. The problem is not so much the technological advancements. The problem is the convergence of technological advances, which often results in contradictory laws. Telecommunications is one set of laws, publishing another, and intellectual property yet another (publishing being the act of distributing, IP being the act of ownership). The list is endless as to the different types of law which can collide.
Well, I'm still running every computer I have obtained since 1988. That makes my number alone 11. plus the one at work. Computers, it seems, are going the way of the TV...more than one perhousehold instead of a rare or impressive thing (like TV in the fifties). Then with VCR and Microwaves and CD players in the early eighties...it just increases the number as time goes on. Cell phones, DVD Players, and so on. it's just that the rate of proliferation of technology increases with time.
no, i don't read news from sites that require login. Slashdot is my only exception, and if login were required rather than optional you can bet your ass i'd quit that too.
"So if you want your machine secure, you also want microsoft to have free reign on your PC."
I thought it was "If you want your machine secure, don't use Windows." (obligatory stab)
ISP=Internet service provider. Internet service = access to the internet and all the priveledges thereof, including DNS, access, and whatever applications you have to utilize these with (i.e. IE, Mozilla, ICQ, Apache, Sendmail, SSH, Telnet, Lynx, Etc. Ad Nauseum) AUP disallowing DNS/blocking ports = internet access, not internet service.
For more on underground/abnormal exploration (especially the german bunker and catacombs): www.infiltration.org it's more on the adventurous/curiosity side than the "wow! people live here!" side, but an interesting read if you find this sort of thing interesting
Microsoft admits to a flaw it has now patched. Big deal. When Microsoft admits to holes that aren't patched, then you'll be telling us something we don't already know.
Just because God is not mentioned it does not mean that the pledge asserts that god does not exist. actually, removing the clause actively does imply this. ever hear of lying by omission? If the phrase had never been in there it'd be one thing, but removing it just plain feels blasphemous.
is if the FBI comes in on TOS violations like this, how are software companies going to pervert this into a way to get the FBI to enforce their EULA's in a similar manner.
no courts, no trial, no jury...there's nothing like the land of the free. at least not around here, apparently.