From my perspective (and some things I have read), I think Microsoft's problem is that they went from an engineering company that catered to software developers (great tools that made it easy to make software on Windows) to a marketing driven company that caters to CTO's (lots of flash and dog and pony show material). You cannot be successful without have a working product no matter how many big wigs you wow. Making it easy for people outside the company to write software for a OS is like getting developers for free (like Linux is doing now).
When there are ice storms in South Texas (a very rare event), me and a couple of buddies like to get some lawn chairs and a cooler and go sit at the end of an off-ramp of a freeway and watch people freakout while going >5mph and skidding uncontrollably. Everyone knows they are not suppose to be out, but there they are wrecking their cars anyway.
To bad there is nothing like that for the SCO board room.
It would be very funny to see the stats on the hits their site gets from google bots. I bet over time it drops off as people turn off or do not re-set their google bot browser setting in Firefox.
I really believe this has very little to do with fee's and DRM and everything to do with control. The music companies see that internet radio is killing off there payola cash cow FM and people are buying indie music or whatever. I see this as a stalling tactic till they can figure out how to make it work in the payola scheme or kill it all together to force people back to crappy FM and one hit wonders.
... everything resembles a nail. All they have is a FPS engine so of course they are going to suck the life out of this game and make it a FPS. I did not like oblivion so I am very sad. (and to those who have noticed that I have already posted this exact same comment before, it will be even better the next time I post it. If re-using the same FPS engine over and over again is good enough for Bethesda, it is good enough for my posts on their games.)
I think it would be better to charge by weight and fuel mileage rating. It you want to drive a hummer, 78' lincoln ltd, or mac truck you need to pay more for the car's pollution and abuse to the roads. Some guy who drives a 50k bmw and keeps it in top shape is not doing damage like the guy with a 3 ton truck pouring smoke out the tail pipe. This is one case where I do not see a graduated tax system doing the most good.
Just good lawyers? Screw that, how do we help them? Do they have a donation site setup. Do they need any information to stick it to the RIAA? Someone has balls, let's help them.
I could not agree with you more. Also, I hate all this, "we are at war" crap. Hussein has been executed, there is no Iraq state we are fighting. I wish there was a death cage match we could have with radical Islam and neo conservative christians. They are all the same crazy to me.
How about this for free market for Intel and their shareholders. I am not going to buy any of their chips as long as they do stuff like this. If they stop this strong arming of OLPC and then I consider them to be worth of looking at their products. Until then, I will buy AMD. Maybe I am only one person, but I hope alot of other people come to that conclusion.
I would have to agree. Anyone designing a web app with client side java should be slapped with a wet noodle. When ever I run into these applications and I am installing whatever version I need to get it to work I always wonder what they were thinking. Just bad decision making to do things like that.
If all that complexity is kept on the server, extremely complex web apps can be written and the end user does not have to troubleshoot the application.
I completely agree. This whole missile thing seems really far fetched. Expecially when there are much easier low tech attacks. You can destroy a plane and cause mass histeria just by throwing a large rock into the jet engine inlet. Figure out to do something like that in two or three airports at the same time and the whole country shuts down again. No missile required.
You would have thought they would have learned from the Mac. They refused to let anyone put software on it except them and look what happened with them vs. Microsoft. When I saw the phone I thought it was a death blow to Motorola and Nokia. Guess not. Maybe Apple will never learn this lesson.
If you put a "run as" link on my desktop to give me admin access for a specific app, you might as well give me admin rights. The "run as" command is not secure.
Well, the good news is, IF they start making the changes and charging, and when people start suing, Bush and his A-holes will be out of office in two years when the cases are decided. I am so glad that people are seeing Bush and DeLay and their ilk for what they are: sad, mis-guided, and incompetent little men that do not have their interests at heart.
Would be nice to know who will be re-developing a strategy to make this net-neutrality law happen before these telcom companies screw everything up. EFF?
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If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. I agree that ray tracing is getting close to being able to be used on a regular PC.
From my perspective (and some things I have read), I think Microsoft's problem is that they went from an engineering company that catered to software developers (great tools that made it easy to make software on Windows) to a marketing driven company that caters to CTO's (lots of flash and dog and pony show material). You cannot be successful without have a working product no matter how many big wigs you wow. Making it easy for people outside the company to write software for a OS is like getting developers for free (like Linux is doing now).
When there are ice storms in South Texas (a very rare event), me and a couple of buddies like to get some lawn chairs and a cooler and go sit at the end of an off-ramp of a freeway and watch people freakout while going >5mph and skidding uncontrollably. Everyone knows they are not suppose to be out, but there they are wrecking their cars anyway. To bad there is nothing like that for the SCO board room.
It would be very funny to see the stats on the hits their site gets from google bots. I bet over time it drops off as people turn off or do not re-set their google bot browser setting in Firefox.
Set up a paypal account so it is easy for folks to help.
Was your suspicion a "gut" feeling of terrorism? (like a high ranking gov official?)
Anyone have a picture of this guy. You cannot make up some of the stuff this guy does and I am curious to see if you can see the crazy in his eye.
What is the url. Might as well start looking off shore as I do not have very much confidence in the US Congress helping this situation.
I bet he would need 10 years to investigate all the tampering they have done in the last 6 months to "news" images.
Sounds like I will have a new port or something to block. Yippy!
If you like internet radio like I do, you can ask your congress persons to be a co-sponsor of the bills. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR020 60:@@@P - H.R. 2060
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:SN013 53:@@@P - S. 1353
Just email them at firstname.lastname@mail.house.gov or firstname.lastname@mail.senate.gov
This would stop the need for unreasonable agreements altogether.
I really believe this has very little to do with fee's and DRM and everything to do with control. The music companies see that internet radio is killing off there payola cash cow FM and people are buying indie music or whatever. I see this as a stalling tactic till they can figure out how to make it work in the payola scheme or kill it all together to force people back to crappy FM and one hit wonders.
... everything resembles a nail. All they have is a FPS engine so of course they are going to suck the life out of this game and make it a FPS. I did not like oblivion so I am very sad. (and to those who have noticed that I have already posted this exact same comment before, it will be even better the next time I post it. If re-using the same FPS engine over and over again is good enough for Bethesda, it is good enough for my posts on their games.)
Man, with them putting these suckers in Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child they are going to really rock!
... everything becomes a nail. Wish they would not bastardize my favorite game, because all they have is a FPS engine. Sad...
I think it would be better to charge by weight and fuel mileage rating. It you want to drive a hummer, 78' lincoln ltd, or mac truck you need to pay more for the car's pollution and abuse to the roads. Some guy who drives a 50k bmw and keeps it in top shape is not doing damage like the guy with a 3 ton truck pouring smoke out the tail pipe. This is one case where I do not see a graduated tax system doing the most good.
Just good lawyers? Screw that, how do we help them? Do they have a donation site setup. Do they need any information to stick it to the RIAA? Someone has balls, let's help them.
I could not agree with you more. Also, I hate all this, "we are at war" crap. Hussein has been executed, there is no Iraq state we are fighting. I wish there was a death cage match we could have with radical Islam and neo conservative christians. They are all the same crazy to me.
He will be gone soon, just not soon enough.
How about this for free market for Intel and their shareholders. I am not going to buy any of their chips as long as they do stuff like this. If they stop this strong arming of OLPC and then I consider them to be worth of looking at their products. Until then, I will buy AMD. Maybe I am only one person, but I hope alot of other people come to that conclusion.
I would have to agree. Anyone designing a web app with client side java should be slapped with a wet noodle. When ever I run into these applications and I am installing whatever version I need to get it to work I always wonder what they were thinking. Just bad decision making to do things like that. If all that complexity is kept on the server, extremely complex web apps can be written and the end user does not have to troubleshoot the application.
I completely agree. This whole missile thing seems really far fetched. Expecially when there are much easier low tech attacks. You can destroy a plane and cause mass histeria just by throwing a large rock into the jet engine inlet. Figure out to do something like that in two or three airports at the same time and the whole country shuts down again. No missile required.
You would have thought they would have learned from the Mac. They refused to let anyone put software on it except them and look what happened with them vs. Microsoft. When I saw the phone I thought it was a death blow to Motorola and Nokia. Guess not. Maybe Apple will never learn this lesson.
If you put a "run as" link on my desktop to give me admin access for a specific app, you might as well give me admin rights. The "run as" command is not secure.
Well, the good news is, IF they start making the changes and charging, and when people start suing, Bush and his A-holes will be out of office in two years when the cases are decided. I am so glad that people are seeing Bush and DeLay and their ilk for what they are: sad, mis-guided, and incompetent little men that do not have their interests at heart.
Would be nice to know who will be re-developing a strategy to make this net-neutrality law happen before these telcom companies screw everything up. EFF?