Their intergalactic cries of "Look at this place. Where were you raised? In a barn?" contravene several interstellar conventions on peaceful coexistence.
Did you read the Inquirer article? They only reason they are offering to lower the price of Office in Taiwan is because it's part of a settlement with the Taiwanese FTC. And considering Microsoft's post-settlement actions in the U.S., I assume they will find some loophole that will lead to almost all users actually paying more then they are now. It's the MS way.
As for you compiles, how much money did they cost you? Were you forced to buy new computers to be able to run the newest bloatware put out by Linus? If you chose not to upgrade, would you find yourself unable to communicate with clients who had because their version of OpenOffice used a new proprietary format that your old version couldn't read?
Most importantly, your upgrades were for your reason (to get better functioning/support). They weren't artificially imposed on you by Microsoft, who needed to regularize their money flow.
We have so much proprietary software that a switch to linux corporate wide would be far more costly than getting raped by M$. In our case, Windows is cheaper.
Maybe today. Maybe not. But keep in mind, M$ hasn't stopped. They will continue to jack up their prices, lock you into expensive long-term "support" contracts, force you to upgrade hardware/software on their schedule, not yours. They do it because they can and that's who they are.
Comes a time when you have to stop the abuse and fight back. Short term pain for long term peace of mind.
Me and the wife are geeks. We've watched it for years. It was/is a great show. Funny, interesting, clever. If it had been anything but vampire slaying, SMG and AH would have been nominated for Emmys years ago.(They wouldn't have won because of their age, but they'd have been nominated.)
I even bought the cast album of "Once More, With Feeling", the musical episode.
Oracle and the others aren't Convicted Monopolists (tm). Oracle specifically has a sufficient number of strong competitors that their actions can easily lead to people choosing other products. I blame the computing press for not reporting more widely the Oracle problems.
MS has worked hard at creating an atmosphere of extreme distrust towards them. And since they've repeatedly denied/misled the press on real, dangerous exploits, it would disingenuous of them to request fair reporting on security problems.
Microsoft is a very successful company and there's a lot of people that don't like success.
There are also those who have nothing against success, but do have a problem with being gouged by Convicted Monopolists (tm) selling insecure bloatware.
The problem with Microsoft is because we have a big deployment base out there, we go very, very public with any vulnerability, with patches. Some we actively alert the press about. We know it's going to cause negative press but we have to do it. That's a problem for us.
a) Huh?!?
b) So it isn't the 72 security bulletins, and it isn't the fact that putting out that many overwhelms IT people, and it isn't the fact that the patching process can be so arduous and potentially destructive (can you say Slammer) that people will avoid it for months on end, and it isn't the fact that MS tends to be initially evasive/dismissive of a large number of exploits discovered. The problem is the going public.
c) I'm still not feeling the Trustworthiness.
Whether or not, in this particular case, the reported exploit is not the vulnerability described, there have been so many valid, exploitable, preventable, denied by Microsoft, bugs/cracks/flaws/exploits/holes that Microsoft is presumed guilty from the get go. And considering their programming and their behavior following, this is to be expected. They've created an atmosphere where the logical, understandable response is to mistrust them. That's their doing, and they're the ones to fix it (if at all possible).
The Last StarFighter. The StarFighter video game was a "stealth" training and selection tool. And the candidates were paying for their training. Cost effective.
Can the subject of a frivilous lawsuit sue the USPO for recklessly granting a patent when any sort of effort at prior art research would have shown the notion to be invalid? If they don't have an incentive to NOT grant patents, wouldn't this potentially give them one?
purchase a "replacement" diploma while securing my international drivers license? All while making $15,000 a month at home with no effort?
What about temp files?
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Even if your final documents are stored under the encrypted path, you have to worry about temp files that might have been created that are "stored" elsewhere.
MS products, in particular, like to create a large number of temp files and there is no way of configuring where they are kept. I'm not sure if OSS alternatives have this configuration ability.
And of course, you also have to worry about elements of documents in memory (which can be recovered).
If you go here, you'll see that they have three licenses: a Commercial Development licence, a Commercial OEM license and a GPL Development license. So it depends on what you're planning on doing with what you build. You can't build a commercial product with the GPL license.
It's damn cold for the "information brokers" to freely trade in the most intimate personal information about you that they've gleaned/compiled/extracted. It's damn cold for this particular IB to have sold the info that led to this woman being killed.
It warms the heart to know that this largely unregulated industry might suddenly have the fear-of-financial ruin checking their irresponsible ways.
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I'm going to go lie down now.
Their intergalactic cries of "Look at this place. Where were you raised? In a barn?" contravene several interstellar conventions on peaceful coexistence.
Oh, and Red Hat and the other Linux distributors aren't Convicted Monopolists (tm).
As for you compiles, how much money did they cost you? Were you forced to buy new computers to be able to run the newest bloatware put out by Linus? If you chose not to upgrade, would you find yourself unable to communicate with clients who had because their version of OpenOffice used a new proprietary format that your old version couldn't read?
Most importantly, your upgrades were for your reason (to get better functioning/support). They weren't artificially imposed on you by Microsoft, who needed to regularize their money flow.
Maybe today. Maybe not. But keep in mind, M$ hasn't stopped. They will continue to jack up their prices, lock you into expensive long-term "support" contracts, force you to upgrade hardware/software on their schedule, not yours. They do it because they can and that's who they are.
Comes a time when you have to stop the abuse and fight back. Short term pain for long term peace of mind.
1) Bohemian Rhapsody
2) Smells Like Teen Spirit
3) London Calling
I even bought the cast album of "Once More, With Feeling", the musical episode.
Now if Joss can convince ED to spin off ... Yeah!
MS has worked hard at creating an atmosphere of extreme distrust towards them. And since they've repeatedly denied/misled the press on real, dangerous exploits, it would disingenuous of them to request fair reporting on security problems.
There are also those who have nothing against success, but do have a problem with being gouged by Convicted Monopolists (tm) selling insecure bloatware.
a) Huh?!?
b) So it isn't the 72 security bulletins, and it isn't the fact that putting out that many overwhelms IT people, and it isn't the fact that the patching process can be so arduous and potentially destructive (can you say Slammer) that people will avoid it for months on end, and it isn't the fact that MS tends to be initially evasive/dismissive of a large number of exploits discovered. The problem is the going public.
c) I'm still not feeling the Trustworthiness.
Whether or not, in this particular case, the reported exploit is not the vulnerability described, there have been so many valid, exploitable, preventable, denied by Microsoft, bugs/cracks/flaws/exploits/holes that Microsoft is presumed guilty from the get go. And considering their programming and their behavior following, this is to be expected. They've created an atmosphere where the logical, understandable response is to mistrust them. That's their doing, and they're the ones to fix it (if at all possible).
The Last StarFighter. The StarFighter video game was a "stealth" training and selection tool. And the candidates were paying for their training. Cost effective.
Can the subject of a frivilous lawsuit sue the USPO for recklessly granting a patent when any sort of effort at prior art research would have shown the notion to be invalid? If they don't have an incentive to NOT grant patents, wouldn't this potentially give them one?
Asleep at the wheel, recklessly driving us all over a cliff of patent infringement lawsuits? Yeah, that's fair.
In competitors, agreed.
purchase a "replacement" diploma while securing my international drivers license? All while making $15,000 a month at home with no effort?
MS products, in particular, like to create a large number of temp files and there is no way of configuring where they are kept. I'm not sure if OSS alternatives have this configuration ability.
And of course, you also have to worry about elements of documents in memory (which can be recovered).
Since this is the case listed as establishing US law on phantom withdrawals, and is listed as a Citibank loss, anyone have further details?
Wait, what did you think I meant?
Talk about mixing the unmixable.
It's like mixing oil and water, assuming that all of the dissolved gases haven't been removed from the water.
Yeah, that rolls off the tongue.
Microsoft spends more than that every day on sweat pads for Ballmer. I'm not holding my breath.
If you go here, you'll see that they have three licenses: a Commercial Development licence, a Commercial OEM license and a GPL Development license. So it depends on what you're planning on doing with what you build. You can't build a commercial product with the GPL license.
Shoot the server. Take it out of the equation.
This "Speed" moment was brought to you by Mentos.
It warms the heart to know that this largely unregulated industry might suddenly have the fear-of-financial ruin checking their irresponsible ways.