True enough, and I didn't mean to imply that SoaP lost money (my apologies if I did) but for every Internet-based campaign that succeeds it seems there are one hundred that don't.
First of all, if Illustrator and InDesign are taking down your whole system, something is wrong with your configuration, your OS installation, or your hardware (RAM?).
Wah? According to prevailing/. propaganda, nothing should ever be able to take down your OS. Right? Oh wait, we're attacking Microsoft, right...
Given all of the Vista bashing going on, I'm wondering if those who criticize Vista so much are running the risk of discrediting themselves once more people start to use it.
No man, they're all the people in five years who will be laughing at the next iteration of the Microsoft Windows OS and proclaiming how much of a dog it is to use compared to Vista...which they love, by the way!!1!
None of the networks air South Park or Mythbusters the same time that they air in the U.S. In fact, the difference is about a month in both cases. Thank God for P2P.
Why was this moderated as insightful? I'm not saying that TheNetAvenger was right but WhiteWolf666 merely went "Your wrong!!1!" without adding a single thing to the discussion.
Fucking Slashdot. You make a dying Kuro5hin look better every day.
Well said. If it were millions of cute white babies dying every year, they'd be selling DDT in grocery stores. What's that? They're just black babies? Carry on!
>> These people are richer than you can ever dream to be yet are incredibly dumb when it comes to rights, technology and understanding on how their own products will rat on them.
Could be, Mr. Arrogant, they aren't doing anything that is illegal and therefore aren't worried about having their AV equipment hooked up to the Internet.
I know, I know, you'll respond with the "Did you just imply that people who have nothing to worry about shouldn't fear their equipment being hooked to the web?" No I didn't.
Absolutely nothing you said contradicted what I wrote. Those small independent operators who were bought out by SO and paid in the company's stock grew rich as a result if they kept those shares.
Well said. That letter only seemed to serve the purposes of revising history and finger pointing. Everyone is evil expect for Steve Jobs! The solution to ending DRM is someone else's problem!
There are certain aspects of Jobs' character I do admire but his "truthiness" isn't one of them.
What makes you think Apple wants to get their shit together for Vista?
So Apple has no problem abandoning their customers because they want to screw over a rival company? Nice ethics...Apple, meet Microsoft. Microsoft, meet Apple. You'll love each other, you have a lot in common.
BTW, Apples are built to a higher specification then your 750 dollar bosx.
The long and inglorious history of Apple hardware problems makes that statement nothing but sheer fanboyism. I'm not here to defend commodity hardware but if Apple's products are indeed "built to a higher specification" then the company ignores them an awful lot.
As an AAPL [google.com] stockholder, I'd prefer to let Steve Jobs decide the timing of announcing new products, not some Web site trying to sell banner ads, claiming free speech.
It's good to know you value freedom of speech as cheaply as Apple's stock price.
100% correct. Back then I went through the same decision making process and picked the Zip drive as well. I only knew one cat with a CD burner but a bunch of people with Zip drives.
And like you, some of my backed up data fell victim to that fecking "click" curse!
> Yeah, I'm sure they're crying all the way to the bank.
Yeah, they probably are since I know individuals who make more than the iTunes store does. And they haven't produced 2 billion of anything to do so. The store still doesn't make much money mang.
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You can link to any Wikipedia bullshit you want. Libertarianism and socialism go together like the notion of a black Klansman.
True enough, and I didn't mean to imply that SoaP lost money (my apologies if I did) but for every Internet-based campaign that succeeds it seems there are one hundred that don't.
Please don't combine the words "libertarian" and "socialist" again. Doing so betrays a lack of understanding of each philosophy.
How did that work out for Snakes on a Plane?
Wah? According to prevailing
No man, they're all the people in five years who will be laughing at the next iteration of the Microsoft Windows OS and proclaiming how much of a dog it is to use compared to Vista...which they love, by the way!!1!
Who modded this guy insightful? The summary says it's common to IE and Firefox running on Windows.
None of the networks air South Park or Mythbusters the same time that they air in the U.S. In fact, the difference is about a month in both cases. Thank God for P2P.
Well thank God for you twitter, you certainly have always been unbiased and even keeled when it comes to discussions about Microsoft...oh wait, M$.
Why was this moderated as insightful? I'm not saying that TheNetAvenger was right but WhiteWolf666 merely went "Your wrong!!1!" without adding a single thing to the discussion.
Fucking Slashdot. You make a dying Kuro5hin look better every day.
Well said. If it were millions of cute white babies dying every year, they'd be selling DDT in grocery stores. What's that? They're just black babies? Carry on!
Michael Geist is Canada's version of Lawrence Lessig.
>> These people are richer than you can ever dream to be yet are incredibly dumb when it comes to rights, technology and understanding on how their own products will rat on them.
Could be, Mr. Arrogant, they aren't doing anything that is illegal and therefore aren't worried about having their AV equipment hooked up to the Internet.
I know, I know, you'll respond with the "Did you just imply that people who have nothing to worry about shouldn't fear their equipment being hooked to the web?" No I didn't.
That quote probably would have been more effective if the IRA had actually managed to get lucky once.
Absolutely nothing you said contradicted what I wrote. Those small independent operators who were bought out by SO and paid in the company's stock grew rich as a result if they kept those shares.
Well said. That letter only seemed to serve the purposes of revising history and finger pointing. Everyone is evil expect for Steve Jobs! The solution to ending DRM is someone else's problem!
There are certain aspects of Jobs' character I do admire but his "truthiness" isn't one of them.
And the small independents only hated SO until they got super rich from the company shares that Rockefeller and Phipps paid them in, ha ha.
I say again, nice ethics.
So Apple has no problem abandoning their customers because they want to screw over a rival company? Nice ethics...Apple, meet Microsoft. Microsoft, meet Apple. You'll love each other, you have a lot in common.
The long and inglorious history of Apple hardware problems makes that statement nothing but sheer fanboyism. I'm not here to defend commodity hardware but if Apple's products are indeed "built to a higher specification" then the company ignores them an awful lot.
100% correct. Back then I went through the same decision making process and picked the Zip drive as well. I only knew one cat with a CD burner but a bunch of people with Zip drives.
And like you, some of my backed up data fell victim to that fecking "click" curse!
Scientists with long-standing political agenda to make political statement with clock metaphor. Big whoop.
> Yeah, I'm sure they're crying all the way to the bank.
Yeah, they probably are since I know individuals who make more than the iTunes store does. And they haven't produced 2 billion of anything to do so. The store still doesn't make much money mang.