"If it just so happens that Microsoft makes the best product at the best value (in the eyes of the average consumer, not the average slashdot reader), then Microsoft will "win.""
The average consumer hardly knows there are alternatives to MS.
"Free market capitalism RULES. Communist-style market controls SUCK." And there can be no inbetween-ground. Mixed economies have never existed and never will!
"That's why Microsoft wins in the market -- they pay attention to their USERS" I was under the impression that MS is currently winning due to its marketing techniques and monopolistic tactics.
"If it had sucked, people would have demanded -- and got -- Windows 98. " 50% of business PCs still with Win2k, because thats what they want. Yet support STOPS this year. How is that listening to user demands?
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Apart from this being a tech site where people can discuss there opinions ("I like dvorak", "I prefer qwerty"), this article includes a history of keyboards (quite relevant). You say you sympathise with people who suffer, yet try to deny them, and people who want to help them, a voice ("Can't they just do what they find works better for them and STFU about it?"). You mention atheists being evangelical. What about Evangelists? TV Evangelists who broadcast into my house. Preachers seting themselves up with huge buildings and Preaching Platforms. I have never had a body-artist try to persuade me to get a mod.
Can you keep a history of your search results? e.g. If I search my hard disk for "webpages I have made, this year, that have pictures in them" and also a search for "pictures that I have used in webpages this year", is it possible to make a "folder" to store these results (maybe not the actual files, but links to them... or is that how all file-systems work anyway....), so I can have them avaialble easily? If not, thats rubbish. I don;t want to have to search each time for commonly used files.
Did anybody else notice that the page title is "404 Not Found" ? After opening the page in a background tab (Firefox), I glanced to see it reporting 404. Dang, I thought,/.ed already. Moving to the page to close it, I saw it was there. I checked their tags
As with a lot of replies to this topic, there is a lot of "why do this? I know a technically-advanced way of gettign around it". These measures are not only being targetted at geeks. They are for the majority of employees (outnumbering geeks by 100-1?) "weak" security, combined with Acceptable Use Policy (Do as we say or you are fired) is similar to putting up "Do not walk on the grass" signs. Most people will stay off the grass. The few that stray will be challenged, and a small amount will sneak in at night to walk on the grass when no-one is watching. The majority are kept away from the grass not by the small picket fence 1' high around it ("D'oh! how's that meant to stop me? I am 6' tall and can step over it! Or get me a bike and bust straight throguh!") but by the sign itself, and the threat of consequences.
An interesting idea, and not just for computer (video) games. Patenting not anly encourages innovation by encouraging people to innovate by rewarding them with a limited monolpoly on their innovation, but, as a knock-on effect, encourages others to innovate by stopping them using an existing product/idea/solutio/etc.
Racing games. (TOCA, Rally, F1) Sim Games (The Sims et al, Sim City) Empire Games (Civilisation, Age of Empires) RTS (C&C, Warcraft) 3rd Person Adventure (Diablo, NWN, WoW)
There are already MANY ideas for games that do not involve FPS. And it would be nice to see more. Sure, patenting games, if it can be done, is a Bad Thing. All we'll get, like today, is the same game, but with a lawer watching over to make sure they are not treading on anyone's toes... or the same games, liscenced with decent "Original Author" copies and "liscenced" skinned, modded versions...
Big Business puts own profits ahead of other people's. Big Business recomends using its own products ahead of competitors.
Well bugger me backwards with a minimac, who'd have thunk it! Companies using other people's generosity to line their own coffers. What ever is the world coming to?
I know it was a while ago now, but I used to reboot my 486 to play each game. Floppy disks with memory management for each game and an autoexec that ran the game from hdd. And consoles all have to reboot to swap games. If you are going to be playing for an hour or two, what is the problem with a minute of reboot?
And my kitchen knife will rip through flesh pretty well. In fact it was specifically designed to. Sir, you cannot arrest me for murdering my neighbour, the cultery industry is to blame.
Or have we heard of personal responsibility for ones actions?
Stories of vigilante 'justice' remind me of a story in the UK where the media whipped up a storm about peadeophiles. Several people on the sex-offender register were hounded out of their homes and some assaulted. You may call this justice. When the ringleader of one mob saw that a local woman was a peadeotrician, they stopped reading after the first few letters and she was attacked. Vigilantes are all good and well when they get it right, but when they get it wrong they are just a lynch mob.
IIRC, there have been cases of shareholders sueing companies for not returning enough on their investment. A company taking the "ethical" route rather than the "profitable" route can be liable not just to its shareholders selling up/voting out the board, but also for legal action.
I may be wrong, but isn't it the UPLOADER (distributer) that is commiting the offence? If someone who owns the copyright to a material is allowing it to be distributed, then there is no offence.
My Mum learned to type for her first job as a secretary on a typewriter with blank keys. Sure helped her with touch-typing. She soon got used to not looking at the keyboard and remembering where the keys are.
" Challenger estimates that 4.8 million of those opening-day attendees are employed at least 35 hours per week. With those full-timers earning an average of $130.60 per day, the two-day cost in terms of lost wages and productivity would be a staggering $626,880,000, he said."
How much of this is from people taking the holidays they are entitled to? What next? "Going to church on Sundays loses Business $3,289,044,353,967 per week!" ? Every second that a person is not working his ass off for an employer is "lost productivity" ? ? ?
Credit Checking. In relation to " One of the dangers of automation is that when machines start to handle data the people forget it", I have found it almost impossible to find out how my credit-score is worked out. Anyone I ask tells me "the computer figures it out". More detail usually stops at "Your credit history is taken into account, along with your current financial status". Big News. I assume that anyone doing credit checking will not want to disclose thier exact algorithms, but it is disheartening to ask why they will not give credit/decent rates, only to be told "because the computer says so".
"... launched a suite of tools that once again takes advantage of GPL'd code..." What is wrong with this? GPL code is sellable. Can the summary please include the actual newsworthy bit? e.g. "... GPL code, without complying with the GPL..."
Reading "launched a suite of tools that once again takes advantage of GPL'd code " without any qualifiers makes me think "Oh, good! someone making a business model with GPL code! I like! I might buy that!"
I would ask about proof-reading, not just for spelling/grammar, but also content, but then, this is/.
The Users that are claiming they Created the community are unwilling to pay towards its maintainance? They would prefer that the website/forum closed down due to lack of funds?
"Sorry Guys, I can't keep losing money on this site... if you want me to keep it up, I need some money from somewhere..." "AARRGH! How dare you try to make money from your loyal custom^H^H^H^H^H^H^H readers!"
Slashdot Mirror
" ... and use the fluffy-bunny-friendly-sounding "copyright infringement" instead."
Burns: Look at them Smithers, enjoying their Embezzlement.
Smithers: I have a much uglier word for it sir....Misappropriation!.........
"So credit card companies could really care less."
So they do care. They _could_ care less, so their level of care must be high.
If they could _not_ care less, then their level of care must be as low as you tried to say (non-existant).
"If it just so happens that Microsoft makes the best product at the best value (in the eyes of the average consumer, not the average slashdot reader), then Microsoft will "win.""
The average consumer hardly knows there are alternatives to MS.
"Free market capitalism RULES. Communist-style market controls SUCK."
And there can be no inbetween-ground. Mixed economies have never existed and never will!
"That's why Microsoft wins in the market -- they pay attention to their USERS"
I was under the impression that MS is currently winning due to its marketing techniques and monopolistic tactics.
"If it had sucked, people would have demanded -- and got -- Windows 98. "
50% of business PCs still with Win2k, because thats what they want. Yet support STOPS this year. How is that listening to user demands?
Apart from this being a tech site where people can discuss there opinions ("I like dvorak", "I prefer qwerty"), this article includes a history of keyboards (quite relevant).
You say you sympathise with people who suffer, yet try to deny them, and people who want to help them, a voice ("Can't they just do what they find works better for them and STFU about it?").
You mention atheists being evangelical. What about Evangelists? TV Evangelists who broadcast into my house. Preachers seting themselves up with huge buildings and Preaching Platforms.
I have never had a body-artist try to persuade me to get a mod.
Note to self: Stop feeding trolls.
"And this is the computer that astronauts use to do their taxes!"
Can you keep a history of your search results? e.g. If I search my hard disk for "webpages I have made, this year, that have pictures in them" and also a search for "pictures that I have used in webpages this year", is it possible to make a "folder" to store these results (maybe not the actual files, but links to them ... or is that how all file-systems work anyway ....), so I can have them avaialble easily? If not, thats rubbish. I don;t want to have to search each time for commonly used files.
Did anybody else notice that the page title is "404 Not Found" ? /.ed already. Moving to the page to close it, I saw it was there. I checked their tags
After opening the page in a background tab (Firefox), I glanced to see it reporting 404. Dang, I thought,
(title)404 Not Found(/title)
As with a lot of replies to this topic, there is a lot of "why do this? I know a technically-advanced way of gettign around it".
These measures are not only being targetted at geeks. They are for the majority of employees (outnumbering geeks by 100-1?)
"weak" security, combined with Acceptable Use Policy (Do as we say or you are fired) is similar to putting up "Do not walk on the grass" signs.
Most people will stay off the grass. The few that stray will be challenged, and a small amount will sneak in at night to walk on the grass when no-one is watching. The majority are kept away from the grass not by the small picket fence 1' high around it ("D'oh! how's that meant to stop me? I am 6' tall and can step over it! Or get me a bike and bust straight throguh!") but by the sign itself, and the threat of consequences.
"If you get to the point of arguing the semantics of the letter of the law, you've already lost."
I thought that this is what lawyers were paid to do.
There is a real difference between commiting a crime and Intent to commit that crime. Both may be illegal, but are treated differently.
An interesting idea, and not just for computer (video) games.
Patenting not anly encourages innovation by encouraging people to innovate by rewarding them with a limited monolpoly on their innovation, but, as a knock-on effect, encourages others to innovate by stopping them using an existing product/idea/solutio/etc.
Racing games. (TOCA, Rally, F1)
... or the same games, liscenced with decent "Original Author" copies and "liscenced" skinned, modded versions ...
Sim Games (The Sims et al, Sim City)
Empire Games (Civilisation, Age of Empires)
RTS (C&C, Warcraft)
3rd Person Adventure (Diablo, NWN, WoW)
There are already MANY ideas for games that do not involve FPS. And it would be nice to see more.
Sure, patenting games, if it can be done, is a Bad Thing. All we'll get, like today, is the same game, but with a lawer watching over to make sure they are not treading on anyone's toes
Big Business puts own profits ahead of other people's.
Big Business recomends using its own products ahead of competitors.
Well bugger me backwards with a minimac, who'd have thunk it! Companies using other people's generosity to line their own coffers. What ever is the world coming to?
"3. Pick a popular format so that in 40 years everybody will have the same problem that you do, and you can be sure there will be a solution"
Probably the best idea I've seen so far (apart from Multiple Redundancy).
I know it was a while ago now, but I used to reboot my 486 to play each game. Floppy disks with memory management for each game and an autoexec that ran the game from hdd.
And consoles all have to reboot to swap games. If you are going to be playing for an hour or two, what is the problem with a minute of reboot?
And my kitchen knife will rip through flesh pretty well. In fact it was specifically designed to.
Sir, you cannot arrest me for murdering my neighbour, the cultery industry is to blame.
Or have we heard of personal responsibility for ones actions?
Stories of vigilante 'justice' remind me of a story in the UK where the media whipped up a storm about peadeophiles. Several people on the sex-offender register were hounded out of their homes and some assaulted. You may call this justice.
When the ringleader of one mob saw that a local woman was a peadeotrician, they stopped reading after the first few letters and she was attacked.
Vigilantes are all good and well when they get it right, but when they get it wrong they are just a lynch mob.
sounding ridiculous has never been a block to legislation/litigation.
IIRC, there have been cases of shareholders sueing companies for not returning enough on their investment. A company taking the "ethical" route rather than the "profitable" route can be liable not just to its shareholders selling up/voting out the board, but also for legal action.
3.5" floppy disks are still floppy. They are enclosed in a rigid protective casing to prevent damage to the disk.
I may be wrong, but isn't it the UPLOADER (distributer) that is commiting the offence?
If someone who owns the copyright to a material is allowing it to be distributed, then there is no offence.
My Mum learned to type for her first job as a secretary on a typewriter with blank keys. Sure helped her with touch-typing. She soon got used to not looking at the keyboard and remembering where the keys are.
" Challenger estimates that 4.8 million of those opening-day attendees are employed at least 35 hours per week. With those full-timers earning an average of $130.60 per day, the two-day cost in terms of lost wages and productivity would be a staggering $626,880,000, he said."
How much of this is from people taking the holidays they are entitled to?
What next? "Going to church on Sundays loses Business $3,289,044,353,967 per week!" ?
Every second that a person is not working his ass off for an employer is "lost productivity" ? ? ?
Credit Checking.
In relation to " One of the dangers of automation is that when machines start to handle data the people forget it", I have found it almost impossible to find out how my credit-score is worked out. Anyone I ask tells me "the computer figures it out". More detail usually stops at "Your credit history is taken into account, along with your current financial status". Big News.
I assume that anyone doing credit checking will not want to disclose thier exact algorithms, but it is disheartening to ask why they will not give credit/decent rates, only to be told "because the computer says so".
" ... launched a suite of tools that once again takes advantage of GPL'd code ..." ... GPL code, without complying with the GPL ..."
/.
What is wrong with this?
GPL code is sellable.
Can the summary please include the actual newsworthy bit?
e.g. "
Reading "launched a suite of tools that once again takes advantage of GPL'd code " without any qualifiers makes me think "Oh, good! someone making a business model with GPL code! I like! I might buy that!"
I would ask about proof-reading, not just for spelling/grammar, but also content, but then, this is
The Users that are claiming they Created the community are unwilling to pay towards its maintainance?
... if you want me to keep it up, I need some money from somewhere ..."
They would prefer that the website/forum closed down due to lack of funds?
"Sorry Guys, I can't keep losing money on this site
"AARRGH! How dare you try to make money from your loyal custom^H^H^H^H^H^H^H readers!"