My feature recommendation: Since you can shortcut to a platter you can see by clicking on it, there should be a top view option that lets you look down on all the open platers
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."--Oliver Wendell Holmes
If it is my gun I can give it to someone and let them pull the trigger while pointing it at themselves.
You don't have to use AOL or netscape, you can avoid them screwing you over simply by choosing an ISP and browser that promises not to sell your information or track your searches.
t's not the fact that it's done that pisses me off. It's the fact that it's done without telling the customer.
Well stated. I'll agree with that. AOL should include such information in their information and privacy policy. However, yours is not (IMO) the position of the poster I posted in reply to.
then I guess you're not one of the anti-Microsoft freaks who feel that the government should regulate what is done with Windows
Precisely. Microsoft is evil, but most of the government's case against them is pure B.S. It is a greater evil to have the government control Windows than to have an evil corporation (which ultimately has to answer to its consumers) control it. (My opinion, not a flame or a prosylitization).
Oh, wait, your posting history indicates otherwise. Let me guess; when it's big, bad Microsoft, it's totally different, right?
Oh, wait, it doesn't! (I'm not the only one with a sig in Latin around here, you know) Take a look through my posts, I have made only about two and a half dozen of them ever. At no time have I ever advocated giving the government more authority over the free market.
Hypocrite.
Anonymous Coward.
(Let us see your posting record.)
What you're basically saying is that AOL can do anything it wants with their browser
This is America. If it is your property you can do whatever the hell you want with it. It's called freedom. Sometimes it means you don't get exactly what you want, but it is supposed to be that way.
Not wow at all. If they just transfered from friends, then I am surprised it took so long. I have 1500 legal mp3s on my computer. On a campus network I can transfer those to a friend in a few hours. Call up four friends with similar sized collections and little overlap and you are done in maybe 12 hours tops! With only one person!
Not that any of that prooves Greene's point. In the real world people use much faster p2p networks. They don't select files en masse. And most people aren't in college right now, so don't have the fast transfer rates that go with it.
That is why campain reform is a MUST if USA is ever to see a goverenment that really looks out for the good of the people, and not just the good of the rich and powerful.
I must disagree. This is why campaign reform in every form in which it has been proposed is a MUST NOT. Limiting campaign giving is limiting free speech and it makes our politicians less accountable to us. It places near absolute power in the monopolist major parties. It also limits the degree anyone can communicate to the public. The result is that the encumbant automatically gets a major advantage.
An above poster had it right, normal people need to use donations to make their will felt and sever the dependancy of politicians on large corporations, lobby groups, labor unions, run-away government agencies and political parties.
I did not pay for M$ office. I have it on my computer, though. And I didn't pirate it. How? My college gave it to me free.
I know of no one at my college who actually uses Linux, Star Office or Gimp. Most people have never heard of these programs but can still download software on Kazaa.
It is far more likely that free versions of propreitary products make a much larger impact than open source equivalents
Hasn't anyone thought to blame the people who actually commit the crimes?
Of course not. We as a society need an appropriate demon. Two dead white rural maladjusts just aren't good enough for all of the societal blame that must be handed out. We need someone/thing rich, powerful and more easily demonized.
Voila! Violent video games! Corrupt movie industry! Now those fit the requirements much better.
So please tell me where he's implying that the company as a whole is going to go bankrupt. Can't find it? That's because he says NOTHING OF THE SORT
The original poster doesn't really say anything about miscrosoft going belly up either.
The argument of the article is that as prices fall, the percent paid to microsoft will be greater than the profit made, so Windows won't have a presence on very low priced machines. The poster points out that the fee paid to M$ isn't a constant. When they need to lower that fee so that windows will still have it's monopoly, they will. The columnist's logic makes perfect sense, as long as M$ does not respond to them. In the short run we will probably see this happen. But M$ would have to be, in the words of the original poster, "dumasses" not to respond by lowering their prices so as to preserve their monopoly.
Of course that itself presumes the DoJ won't interfere with M$, which is itself not certain.
DoJ: "So it's agreed, you have to charge $100 for your OS"
natural selection isn't just genetic. The mere fact that we Homo Sapiens exist is proof that fit also applies to social orders and technological skills.
As much as the green folks may deny it, we are a force of nature too, along with any other part of an ecosystem. The way we decide who lives and who dies/is never born is still a part of natural selection.
This doesn't make what we do right, but it also doesn't make it 'unnatural'.
And Steve Jobs will still claim that his 2 Ghz G6 is "twice as fast" on some obscure benchmark.
naw, by then Apple will have to be using some completely different processing model just so that it will further obfuscate any comparison between brands.
Indeed. Double talk abounds.
I was a bit surprised by the charactarization of Hotmail's SPAM prevention interests in the story. I seem to recall that they sell addresses.
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps, but I for one can tolerate ridicule as long as my filters and resizes are up to speed.
My feature recommendation: Since you can shortcut to a platter you can see by clicking on it, there should be a top view option that lets you look down on all the open platers
If it is my gun I can give it to someone and let them pull the trigger while pointing it at themselves.
You don't have to use AOL or netscape, you can avoid them screwing you over simply by choosing an ISP and browser that promises not to sell your information or track your searches.
Well stated. I'll agree with that. AOL should include such information in their information and privacy policy. However, yours is not (IMO) the position of the poster I posted in reply to.
Precisely. Microsoft is evil, but most of the government's case against them is pure B.S. It is a greater evil to have the government control Windows than to have an evil corporation (which ultimately has to answer to its consumers) control it. (My opinion, not a flame or a prosylitization).
Oh, wait, your posting history indicates otherwise. Let me guess; when it's big, bad Microsoft, it's totally different, right?
Oh, wait, it doesn't! (I'm not the only one with a sig in Latin around here, you know) Take a look through my posts, I have made only about two and a half dozen of them ever. At no time have I ever advocated giving the government more authority over the free market.
Hypocrite.
Anonymous Coward. (Let us see your posting record.)
This is America. If it is your property you can do whatever the hell you want with it. It's called freedom. Sometimes it means you don't get exactly what you want, but it is supposed to be that way.
Not that any of that prooves Greene's point. In the real world people use much faster p2p networks. They don't select files en masse. And most people aren't in college right now, so don't have the fast transfer rates that go with it.
I must disagree. This is why campaign reform in every form in which it has been proposed is a MUST NOT . Limiting campaign giving is limiting free speech and it makes our politicians less accountable to us. It places near absolute power in the monopolist major parties. It also limits the degree anyone can communicate to the public. The result is that the encumbant automatically gets a major advantage.
An above poster had it right, normal people need to use donations to make their will felt and sever the dependancy of politicians on large corporations, lobby groups, labor unions, run-away government agencies and political parties.
This article explains it better than I. Campaign Reform Bill Is Really "Incumbent Protection Act"
I know of no one at my college who actually uses Linux, Star Office or Gimp. Most people have never heard of these programs but can still download software on Kazaa.
It is far more likely that free versions of propreitary products make a much larger impact than open source equivalents
Of course not. We as a society need an appropriate demon. Two dead white rural maladjusts just aren't good enough for all of the societal blame that must be handed out. We need someone/thing rich, powerful and more easily demonized.
Voila! Violent video games! Corrupt movie industry! Now those fit the requirements much better.
The real irony is that if they had violated the GPL, it might be easier to sue them and win than for the record industry to sue them and win.
The theory of a free press is not that all will get it right, but that the truth will come out through many sources.
I had it working within a minute of turning on my computer for the first time.... and this was before I had a monitor on the machine.
The original poster doesn't really say anything about miscrosoft going belly up either.
The argument of the article is that as prices fall, the percent paid to microsoft will be greater than the profit made, so Windows won't have a presence on very low priced machines. The poster points out that the fee paid to M$ isn't a constant. When they need to lower that fee so that windows will still have it's monopoly, they will. The columnist's logic makes perfect sense, as long as M$ does not respond to them. In the short run we will probably see this happen. But M$ would have to be, in the words of the original poster, "dumasses" not to respond by lowering their prices so as to preserve their monopoly.
Of course that itself presumes the DoJ won't interfere with M$, which is itself not certain.
DoJ: "So it's agreed, you have to charge $100 for your OS"
M$: "But Linux doesn't charge any money at all!"
DoJ: "Ha Ha Ha ...... Ha"
natural selection isn't just genetic. The mere fact that we Homo Sapiens exist is proof that fit also applies to social orders and technological skills.
As much as the green folks may deny it, we are a force of nature too, along with any other part of an ecosystem. The way we decide who lives and who dies/is never born is still a part of natural selection.
This doesn't make what we do right, but it also doesn't make it 'unnatural'.
Not to mention dashing the hopes of countless geeks trying to get laid.
No. Seriously.
.... how sad.
I remember having loads of fun with an old powerbook recording all sorts of neat stuff. I miss this on my new computer.
Okay, that's just me up on a soapbox. I think Apple getting the award is pretty cool though.
and you don't think most of the people pushing these silly definitions believe them themselves?
naw, by then Apple will have to be using some completely different processing model just so that it will further obfuscate any comparison between brands.
Indeed. Double talk abounds. I was a bit surprised by the charactarization of Hotmail's SPAM prevention interests in the story. I seem to recall that they sell addresses.
Who actually still uses MSN messenger? Fire is far superior to any other messenger I have used before.
no question that M$ won't support linux. Macs are primarily a different market than Wintels. Linux aims to be precicely the same market as Windows.
We did have a contamination policy for the moon missions. It was completely ignored when the time came. Go figure.