I don't think that any of us would want OUR work used and shared without our permission, but look at what happens to those who get caught with a black box. You get a fine and you (or your parents) don't get cable under their name for the rest of their lives.
But you aren't paying some rediculous fee for "each program" you watched, or could have watched.
Nope, they slap you with a small fine (not sue you for a huge one and settle if they will look like ogres if they continue). Doesn't the cable industry lose as much money from people stealing cable?
The Problem is the the **AA has found a profitable business model (read SCO) by being the scum suckers we sometimes accuse all lawyers of being (I'm sorry, protector of the record label's right to use creative accounting to screw artists, yet make bank themselves) and until a Congressman's daughter or niece get sued, no one will change the way it works.
Want a creative cracker job that will do some good? Start making the **AA think that governemnt officials and their family are sharing music files. Then let the fun begin. Its like the tobacco industry - as long as government officials are uneffected, or worse profit from the problem, nothing will ever stop it.
The point he is making, though, is that the average customer buys the whole car (if the point is to be able to go from point A to point B; the business process). But nobody takes care of the 20,000 foot view of their business needs in one step. Instead, they seem to work on "projects", buying different parts, and hope that they can get them all to work together seamlessly. Could this be a big reason why Microsoft will lose the server war? They try to offer a suite of enterprise-ish components that are supposed to work seamlessly, but it seems that there are open source components that work faster/better and are free. Thus, many companies seem more willing as the minutes tick by, to make use of said components with custom implementation, saving money while gaining flexibility and freedom from proprietary requirements.
He, working for Microsoft, wishes the industry ran more like Detroit and the mindset was such that people were willing to pay out the nose for a complete package of services and applications as they hoped when they planned out their company strategy. If you are to own a fleet of trucks, you get big discounts becuase you will service your own fleet and the manufacturer is released from most of the warranty. Your aunt needs Toyota to make sure her car runs while under warranty.
Microsoft is very lucky that the home user does indeed need a "complete solution". The Linux distro install CDs go a long way to appealing to the traditional home user. But the games that you need Microsoft to play, and getting your computer pre-loaded with an OS and many tools/plugins needed for consumer internet browsing is why Microsoft really has a leg up on Linux. Until a major manufacturer starts shipping with a desktop Linux distro with Gaim (can't a distro just come ready to emulate Windows if necessary?), Flash/Shockwave/Real/Acrobat/Quicktime capabilities on by default when they first boot up, it will be tought to ever appeal to a mass market...
If you click to purchase, you are given an email address to contact with the statement, "serious inquries only". $40,000 for a desk that, while is cool, is certainly worth no where near $40,000.
Shouldn't they be serious too if they expect us to be as well. And how can one be "serious" when buying a space ghost desk???
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no, that's being a cheap bastard by using used parts in a "new" house.
Good for him, lousy for someone paying for new materials.
while I too am angry at Belkin, something you said struck a chord with me.
What if Belkin was trying to reduce costs to be able to compete and one way is to get an increase of revenue from this hijacking of your http request.
Now, with all of us knowing this, does Belkin benefit in the long run? Absolutely not. But you wrote:
"Advertising shouldn't be on a product that is paid for."
Who is to say what we really paid for? I mean, supposedly, you pay for cable without commercials, but they end up placing products within your show. Isn't this sort of the same thing? Tivo is decimating an aging business model (8 minutes per hour of commercials seperate from and inturupting your show) and seemingly, the cost of manufacturing is forcing some companies to get truly and weirdly creative. I would be pissed if it happened to my router, but you almost want to hire (for purely selfish reasons) the guy who was smart enough to put the pieces together and create revenue from something it took people so long to notice.
If Belkin had been up front in any way about this, we would be less likely to complain. How about a $10 rebate for those customers who don't mind popups for savings. Personally, I would never. But there are MANY who would. That's a small price to pay to not only be able to serve you ads consistantly, but also track your browsing habits. That part is HUGE. Just like Tivo found out that people will pay them HUGE bucks to give up user usage data (glad I have a Replay).
Yeah, but it wasn't until the past couple years that security was even an issue. Sure, it was insecure, but no one really cared that much. It used to be that getting hacked meant someone stole your information. Now it means that your machine is succeptable to running attacks against others. That's a little more scary than someone being able to copy your word docs or delete your hard drive.
When security is more of an afterthought, its implimentation is messy.
I couldn't understand why in the train station, he couldn't do anything he wanted. Supposedly he had control of just about everything, including in the machine world. Yet, he couldn't in the train station.
At that point in the movie, I would have sworn he was indeed a program himself.
I was terribly disapointed in the movie. Its special effects were a little better than the second which smacked of PlayStation 1 at times. Nothing was cleared up.
I mean, clue us in a little better instead of 10 minutes of her bumping her ship around in the machine duct for 15 minutes. That was lame.
Apple should soon start receiving payola from labels/artists who can afford to pay for placement and higher visibility.
Payola, though traditionally frowned upon by the courts seem to thrive in other markets such as search engines (pay for placement).
You have to believe that there are some execs at Sirius who are loving life right now. (you mean I get bribes just to play music I probrobly would have to some extent anyway?!?)
Traditionally, Labels were the only ones to fork over payola in the form of money/whores/drugs to radio station managers for spots in the rotation regardless of talent or marketability.
Record companies have now removed the "stop", "FF", and "Rewind" buttons from your cassette player so you can only consume your entertainment the way that they intended for you to.
How is a Tivo any different? Because of the business model. the Fox show 24 does unbelievable product placement. Not only does everyone drive a Ford, but Apple, Dell and Gateway computers can be seen everywhere. And when I skip through the commercials, those particular brands are still getting my attention.
Through frankly, I don't see most federal agents driving a F-150
Right, so the only reason I can see that you even need a VoIP provider is so that you can connect to legacy POTS lines.
I don't see the VoIP industry going out of business as they can provide services that are far below the price of POTS business services.
Need voice mail? I have had a Dell from 6 years ago that had voice mail software used in conjunction with the modem.
I think there will reach a day soon when we all don't have to support the massive beurocratic infrastructure that the Bells instituted.
Let those who need land lines pay more for land lines. Use a cell instead. Use VoIP instead. Move to civilization instead.
Just like how email put the fear of God into the postal service. I don't want to pay stupid postal fees just to make it super cheap for businesses to send bulk mail.
You are right that the "old man" telecoms will lobby the hell out of VoIP. Just like the paper industry has lobbied the legal use of hemp out of mainstream use. Just like the auto industry lobbied the hell out of the alternate energy inovators. Just like the entertainment industry is lobbying the hell out of file sharing apps, blank digital media.
These old men are stifling inovation. It really sucks. They are trying to keep us from using technology to improve our quality of life so that they can keep making money off of the same old crap. Why can't they just embrace it, build better competitive products and still have a stranglehold on the market.
But if Microsoft wants shareholders to know what they are developing, they will let them know themselves, not a pimply faced temp.
And honestly folks, do we not think that Apple doesn't have some PCs in the building to develop Itunes for Windows? Or do they just use virtual PC?
Every software/hardware company I have worked for has the competition's equiptment and software. You will quickly go out of business if you aren't azs sure as you can be as to what they are up to.
Hell, I would fire an executive if they bad mouthed my company in ANY way, never mind a temp worker.
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I don't think that any of us would want OUR work used and shared without our permission, but look at what happens to those who get caught with a black box. You get a fine and you (or your parents) don't get cable under their name for the rest of their lives.
But you aren't paying some rediculous fee for "each program" you watched, or could have watched.
Nope, they slap you with a small fine (not sue you for a huge one and settle if they will look like ogres if they continue). Doesn't the cable industry lose as much money from people stealing cable?
The Problem is the the **AA has found a profitable business model (read SCO) by being the scum suckers we sometimes accuse all lawyers of being (I'm sorry, protector of the record label's right to use creative accounting to screw artists, yet make bank themselves) and until a Congressman's daughter or niece get sued, no one will change the way it works.
Want a creative cracker job that will do some good? Start making the **AA think that governemnt officials and their family are sharing music files. Then let the fun begin. Its like the tobacco industry - as long as government officials are uneffected, or worse profit from the problem, nothing will ever stop it.
Sorry, but I trademarked the word "truck" when specifically used in message board posting.
I will need an immediate retraction. I suggest you use the phrase "almost van" in its place.
Thank you.
"Knee-jerk-pot-smoking hippies! The whole bunch of you!"
Sounds like SOMEONE needs a joint....
The point he is making, though, is that the average customer buys the whole car (if the point is to be able to go from point A to point B; the business process). But nobody takes care of the 20,000 foot view of their business needs in one step. Instead, they seem to work on "projects", buying different parts, and hope that they can get them all to work together seamlessly. Could this be a big reason why Microsoft will lose the server war? They try to offer a suite of enterprise-ish components that are supposed to work seamlessly, but it seems that there are open source components that work faster/better and are free. Thus, many companies seem more willing as the minutes tick by, to make use of said components with custom implementation, saving money while gaining flexibility and freedom from proprietary requirements.
He, working for Microsoft, wishes the industry ran more like Detroit and the mindset was such that people were willing to pay out the nose for a complete package of services and applications as they hoped when they planned out their company strategy. If you are to own a fleet of trucks, you get big discounts becuase you will service your own fleet and the manufacturer is released from most of the warranty. Your aunt needs Toyota to make sure her car runs while under warranty.
Microsoft is very lucky that the home user does indeed need a "complete solution". The Linux distro install CDs go a long way to appealing to the traditional home user. But the games that you need Microsoft to play, and getting your computer pre-loaded with an OS and many tools/plugins needed for consumer internet browsing is why Microsoft really has a leg up on Linux. Until a major manufacturer starts shipping with a desktop Linux distro with Gaim (can't a distro just come ready to emulate Windows if necessary?), Flash/Shockwave/Real/Acrobat/Quicktime capabilities on by default when they first boot up, it will be tought to ever appeal to a mass market...
If you click to purchase, you are given an email address to contact with the statement, "serious inquries only". $40,000 for a desk that, while is cool, is certainly worth no where near $40,000.
Shouldn't they be serious too if they expect us to be as well. And how can one be "serious" when buying a space ghost desk???
no, that's being a cheap bastard by using used parts in a "new" house.
Good for him, lousy for someone paying for new materials.
I wonder what happens when a behemoth like Walmart, who crushes everyone with their brick and mortar stores, goes up against Apple and Dell.
As far as I am concerned, lets get prices lower, and more competition can do nothing but improve the cost/service.
excellent point - why can't the router create a new http request for an ad and have it appear in a new window?
while I too am angry at Belkin, something you said struck a chord with me.
What if Belkin was trying to reduce costs to be able to compete and one way is to get an increase of revenue from this hijacking of your http request.
Now, with all of us knowing this, does Belkin benefit in the long run? Absolutely not. But you wrote:
"Advertising shouldn't be on a product that is paid for."
Who is to say what we really paid for? I mean, supposedly, you pay for cable without commercials, but they end up placing products within your show. Isn't this sort of the same thing? Tivo is decimating an aging business model (8 minutes per hour of commercials seperate from and inturupting your show) and seemingly, the cost of manufacturing is forcing some companies to get truly and weirdly creative. I would be pissed if it happened to my router, but you almost want to hire (for purely selfish reasons) the guy who was smart enough to put the pieces together and create revenue from something it took people so long to notice.
If Belkin had been up front in any way about this, we would be less likely to complain. How about a $10 rebate for those customers who don't mind popups for savings. Personally, I would never. But there are MANY who would. That's a small price to pay to not only be able to serve you ads consistantly, but also track your browsing habits. That part is HUGE. Just like Tivo found out that people will pay them HUGE bucks to give up user usage data (glad I have a Replay).
me too, but honestly, with the amount of unemployment insurance I am getting and how little "looking for a job" I do, I think I am severely overpaid.
maybe they can help me stop getting emails from Kenyons trying to deposit money into my bank account.
My google toolbar has been blocking popus for weeks now.
I also feel good about installing something Google made. I feel safe that they wont screw me. And no, I didn't read the ELUA
gives new meaning to "human interface port"
Wouldn't it be great if it were a fight to the death.....
and they both died?
Yeah, but it wasn't until the past couple years that security was even an issue. Sure, it was insecure, but no one really cared that much. It used to be that getting hacked meant someone stole your information. Now it means that your machine is succeptable to running attacks against others. That's a little more scary than someone being able to copy your word docs or delete your hard drive.
When security is more of an afterthought, its implimentation is messy.
I couldn't understand why in the train station, he couldn't do anything he wanted. Supposedly he had control of just about everything, including in the machine world. Yet, he couldn't in the train station.
At that point in the movie, I would have sworn he was indeed a program himself.
I was terribly disapointed in the movie. Its special effects were a little better than the second which smacked of PlayStation 1 at times. Nothing was cleared up.
I mean, clue us in a little better instead of 10 minutes of her bumping her ship around in the machine duct for 15 minutes. That was lame.
Don't get me wrong, I saw it the day it came out.
I left wishing I had saved my money for Elf....
Apple should soon start receiving payola from labels/artists who can afford to pay for placement and higher visibility.
Payola, though traditionally frowned upon by the courts seem to thrive in other markets such as search engines (pay for placement).
You have to believe that there are some execs at Sirius who are loving life right now. (you mean I get bribes just to play music I probrobly would have to some extent anyway?!?)
Traditionally, Labels were the only ones to fork over payola in the form of money/whores/drugs to radio station managers for spots in the rotation regardless of talent or marketability.
*DRM 20 years into the futire*
Record companies have now removed the "stop", "FF", and "Rewind" buttons from your cassette player so you can only consume your entertainment the way that they intended for you to.
How is a Tivo any different? Because of the business model. the Fox show 24 does unbelievable product placement. Not only does everyone drive a Ford, but Apple, Dell and Gateway computers can be seen everywhere. And when I skip through the commercials, those particular brands are still getting my attention.
Through frankly, I don't see most federal agents driving a F-150
Right, so the only reason I can see that you even need a VoIP provider is so that you can connect to legacy POTS lines.
I don't see the VoIP industry going out of business as they can provide services that are far below the price of POTS business services.
Need voice mail? I have had a Dell from 6 years ago that had voice mail software used in conjunction with the modem.
I think there will reach a day soon when we all don't have to support the massive beurocratic infrastructure that the Bells instituted.
Let those who need land lines pay more for land lines. Use a cell instead. Use VoIP instead. Move to civilization instead.
Just like how email put the fear of God into the postal service. I don't want to pay stupid postal fees just to make it super cheap for businesses to send bulk mail.
You are right that the "old man" telecoms will lobby the hell out of VoIP. Just like the paper industry has lobbied the legal use of hemp out of mainstream use. Just like the auto industry lobbied the hell out of the alternate energy inovators. Just like the entertainment industry is lobbying the hell out of file sharing apps, blank digital media.
These old men are stifling inovation. It really sucks. They are trying to keep us from using technology to improve our quality of life so that they can keep making money off of the same old crap. Why can't they just embrace it, build better competitive products and still have a stranglehold on the market.
But if Microsoft wants shareholders to know what they are developing, they will let them know themselves, not a pimply faced temp.
And honestly folks, do we not think that Apple doesn't have some PCs in the building to develop Itunes for Windows? Or do they just use virtual PC?
Every software/hardware company I have worked for has the competition's equiptment and software. You will quickly go out of business if you aren't azs sure as you can be as to what they are up to.
Hell, I would fire an executive if they bad mouthed my company in ANY way, never mind a temp worker.
"photograph is an expensive hobby!"
So expensive, one can't afford the y
Windows E opens explorer.
Yeah.
Then I might actually be willing to watch commercials if they let me start watching what I want when I want...
I don't mind if they track me in case I make trouble....
They just better not try to market to me better
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Hitting "windows_key" and "d" will minimize all windows, which is great when your mother in law walks in on pics of lesbians.
Hitting just "windows_key" will bring up the start menu (and task bar which is nice if some browser window went full screen.