for the past five or six years i have lived in a fairly small university town. i plan on moving to a real city in the n.e. this year. the small town vibe has it's pluses but i am much more a city person. i like to go out once or twice a week to a local bar or pool hall. i also enjoy catching the melvins if they play a show in town. these extra activities outside of work and bandwidth or important. then again, some geeks are not social people by nature:) i am. therefore cities like boston, new york, philly, and dc appeal to me. oh yeah...being able to travel a few hours to most anywhere is also a plus. like in cali you got the ocean, the mountains, and most everything in between all within your grasp for a weekend trip. i think a lot of people will agree that extra activities or essential.
valid point BUT....i sure dont want to be forced to register any software and requiring people who do a fresh install to register would be lame, especially since i have done multiple installs, the numbers could then be flawed:) and a simple note or recommendation to the user to add themselves to the counter wouldnt be so bad, but whats the point?
How can people be allowed to make laws regarding something they know nothing about. Are politicians being advised by professional programmers or sys admins or anyone else who might understand what's going on? It seems like politicians are not tech heads.
I work at UF, Food & Resource Economics Dept. The grad students have thier own computer lab. The computers in the lab are MS machines...nothing will change is MS strikes some deal with UF or vice versa. And.. the grad lab is controlled by us..not UF. UF has its main computer labs which are seperate and run windows, macs, and unix terminals...nothing would change.
whatever man... politics is politics... posix is posix... and personally i am not surprised that you feel way and i am not surprised MS has taken another step...it's just unfortunate..oh well...
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for the past five or six years i have lived in a fairly small university town. i plan on moving to a real city in the n.e. this year. the small town vibe has it's pluses but i am much more a city person. i like to go out once or twice a week to a local bar or pool hall. i also enjoy catching the melvins if they play a show in town. these extra activities outside of work and bandwidth or important. then again, some geeks are not social people by nature :) i am. therefore cities like boston, new york, philly, and dc appeal to me. oh yeah...being able to travel a few hours to most anywhere is also a plus. like in cali you got the ocean, the mountains, and most everything in between all within your grasp for a weekend trip. i think a lot of people will agree that extra activities or essential.
valid point BUT....i sure dont want to be forced to register any software and requiring people who do a fresh install to register would be lame, especially since i have done multiple installs, the numbers could then be flawed :) and a simple note or recommendation to the user to add themselves to the counter wouldnt be so bad, but whats the point?
How can people be allowed to make laws regarding something they know nothing about. Are politicians being advised by professional programmers or sys admins or anyone else who might understand what's going on? It seems like politicians are not tech heads.
I agree. One fact still remains:
I work at UF, Food & Resource Economics Dept. The grad students have thier own computer lab. The computers in the lab are MS machines...nothing will change is MS strikes some deal with UF or vice versa. And.. the grad lab is controlled by us..not UF. UF has its main computer labs which are seperate and run windows, macs, and unix terminals...nothing would change.
whatever man...
politics is politics...
posix is posix...
and personally i am not surprised that you feel
way and i am not surprised MS has taken another
step...it's just unfortunate..oh well...