"[I]maginary property rights"? Wow, I guess in addition to being bad editors, Slashdot's paid staff also don't know the current state of the law.
I don't care whether you agree or disagree with those laws, the current state of the law makes a mockery of any argument that IP rights are "imaginery." Score another one for Slashdot as propaganda tool.
I'd like the meet the numbskull who thinks it's a good idea to edit files saved on their backup systems. I'm not defending Microsoft here, anything which can corrupt backups is inexcusable, but it's no less excusable to be using a backup system for anything but maintaining a laptop.
This looks to me like a proof of concept, that they could get an online version of OpenOffice working and were satisfied with that as a first step. The problem is that other online services are past this point.
That said, I'm still not sure why online office suites really need to exist. Commercial and FOSS versions exist that scale or shrink to most needs.
Ha ha, I've been called a lot of things in life but a fanboy of Microsoft is a new one. I'm surprised you didn't reach for the tired "shill" or "astroturfer" labels as well.
I cannot wait until the day Windows 7 is rolled out and all the people with their snide Vista comments begin to proclaim Vista to have been the be-all and end-all of Windows OS' and that Windows 7 is a failure on all counts.
I'll say it if no one else will. I like Vista for the most part. While there are some minor annoyances it has impressed me with its stability and increased security. I'm currently running Vista on a desktop I bought last month but I do plan on purchasing a copy and installing it on my laptop as well.
It's an amazing world we live in where roughly a year after Vista was released it has 90 million users -- more than all Macs in operation -- and its considered a "lame duck". Their recent quarterly results might disagree with you.
Look, I dislike IE as well, I've been using Firefox since it was a sub-1.0 release, but let's save hyperbole for a more appropriate context.
I don't see the problem. It's voluntary and most teens live public lives anyway. If they want to air every bit of their laundry then what's the harm, other than a lack of circumspection?
What exactly makes a member of Facebook less interested in their personal privacy then you, or less able to guard their own privacy? Facebook members can share as little or as much information about their personal lives as you do in interacting with people face to face, perhaps even less.
People who are in my friends' network know where I work, what music I like to listen to, what teams I cheer for and what TV shows I watch. Guess what, everyone I know basically knows that stuff about me because they're my friends.
> 4. The point with Vista is not whether it ACTUALLY prevents you from watching DVD's. The point is that it can in the future, and that you won't be able to do ANYTHING about it. Vista is taking all the decisions for you, and where you'd like to be asked "Cancel, or Allow?" regarding updates-from and reports-to Microsoft, you won't be. If Redmond decides to install a rootkit on your vista, you won't even notice!
No offence, but this exact same statement (well, statements) can be made about Apple as well. What's preventing them from injecting new DRM into OS X in a future update? Because Jobs wears turtlenecks? The only operating system I trust in that respect is Linux and its variants so I guess I'm agreeing with you in that respect. I'll tell you what -- and I am a man of my word and owner of Gutsy Gibbon on DVD -- if Vista ever screws with me when it comes to backing up or playing my digital media, I join the FOSS army faster than you can say Monkey Boy.
It's a common insult on/. if you one to impeach someone's opinion or experience without actually having to answer an argument. It means that you are being paid to defend or promote a company's products.
Fantastic. Only real weakness when it comes to Vista is that consumer adoption is outpacing corporate adoption. Don't you keep up with the news or do you just post on/. and hope no one responds with facts to your assertions?
At the risk of eventually being declared an astroturfer as you will undoubtedly be, I share the exact same experience that you do when it comes to Vista and my media. The operating system hasn't done one thing at all to get in my way of using legitimate or shadier media.
And while I'm digging myself a hole here on/. let me hand you a shovel as well and tell you that I like Vista. It's probably the best operating system Microsoft has ever released, though given some of their earlier efforts that's hardly unqualified praise, and surpasses OS X in several aspects (though it trails in others).
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Slashdot insanity reigns! I'm now a troll for pointing out that IP laws exist! Fuck this web site, I've had enough.
"[I]maginary property rights"? Wow, I guess in addition to being bad editors, Slashdot's paid staff also don't know the current state of the law.
I don't care whether you agree or disagree with those laws, the current state of the law makes a mockery of any argument that IP rights are "imaginery." Score another one for Slashdot as propaganda tool.
I'd like the meet the numbskull who thinks it's a good idea to edit files saved on their backup systems. I'm not defending Microsoft here, anything which can corrupt backups is inexcusable, but it's no less excusable to be using a backup system for anything but maintaining a laptop.
IE7 is demonstrably more secure -- at least on Vista and IE8 can pass Acid. What will /.ers complain about next? The UI?
> And when the fastest Vista notebook PC World has ever tested is an Apple MacBook Pro, there's something deeply wrong with the universe.
This statement was proven false a month ago -- and reported on Slashdot at that -- and yet it still pops up in a summary?
If Vista is the most disappointing product the second must surely be Slashdot. Vista is what it is, but Slashdot pretends to be so much more.
This looks to me like a proof of concept, that they could get an online version of OpenOffice working and were satisfied with that as a first step. The problem is that other online services are past this point.
That said, I'm still not sure why online office suites really need to exist. Commercial and FOSS versions exist that scale or shrink to most needs.
Ha ha, I've been called a lot of things in life but a fanboy of Microsoft is a new one. I'm surprised you didn't reach for the tired "shill" or "astroturfer" labels as well.
I cannot wait until the day Windows 7 is rolled out and all the people with their snide Vista comments begin to proclaim Vista to have been the be-all and end-all of Windows OS' and that Windows 7 is a failure on all counts.
I'll say it if no one else will. I like Vista for the most part. While there are some minor annoyances it has impressed me with its stability and increased security. I'm currently running Vista on a desktop I bought last month but I do plan on purchasing a copy and installing it on my laptop as well.
Shhhhhhh. Posting knowledgeable and reasoned responses to stories in Slashdot is verbotten.
You sir, win.
I remember nearly bricking my 1541 while installing JiffyDOS. Worked good though.
Pah! Kids! In my day we had to wait for the Big Bang to create the Laws of Physics before we could do anything.
It's an amazing world we live in where roughly a year after Vista was released it has 90 million users -- more than all Macs in operation -- and its considered a "lame duck". Their recent quarterly results might disagree with you.
Look, I dislike IE as well, I've been using Firefox since it was a sub-1.0 release, but let's save hyperbole for a more appropriate context.
No, you aren't alone, ha ha
I don't see the problem. It's voluntary and most teens live public lives anyway. If they want to air every bit of their laundry then what's the harm, other than a lack of circumspection?
People who are in my friends' network know where I work, what music I like to listen to, what teams I cheer for and what TV shows I watch. Guess what, everyone I know basically knows that stuff about me because they're my friends.
I'm not using microfluidic chips until they're immune to gravimetric distortions.
And I wonder why I spend more and more time at Ars Technica these days...
No, I make sweet, sweet love to it.
Please sir, can I punch the straw man too? Who said anything about bricking. Right, you.
So how much is Jimmy Wales paying you to promote Wikipedia with links? :-)
> 4. The point with Vista is not whether it ACTUALLY prevents you from watching DVD's. The point is that it can in the future, and that you won't be able to do ANYTHING about it. Vista is taking all the decisions for you, and where you'd like to be asked "Cancel, or Allow?" regarding updates-from and reports-to Microsoft, you won't be. If Redmond decides to install a rootkit on your vista, you won't even notice!
No offence, but this exact same statement (well, statements) can be made about Apple as well. What's preventing them from injecting new DRM into OS X in a future update? Because Jobs wears turtlenecks? The only operating system I trust in that respect is Linux and its variants so I guess I'm agreeing with you in that respect. I'll tell you what -- and I am a man of my word and owner of Gutsy Gibbon on DVD -- if Vista ever screws with me when it comes to backing up or playing my digital media, I join the FOSS army faster than you can say Monkey Boy.
It's a common insult on /. if you one to impeach someone's opinion or experience without actually having to answer an argument. It means that you are being paid to defend or promote a company's products.
At the risk of eventually being declared an astroturfer as you will undoubtedly be, I share the exact same experience that you do when it comes to Vista and my media. The operating system hasn't done one thing at all to get in my way of using legitimate or shadier media.
/. let me hand you a shovel as well and tell you that I like Vista. It's probably the best operating system Microsoft has ever released, though given some of their earlier efforts that's hardly unqualified praise, and surpasses OS X in several aspects (though it trails in others).
And while I'm digging myself a hole here on