All that Microsoft sees, though, are the dollar signs that selling such a popular game on their platform will bring their way. They don't give a crap that its origins just happen to be from the exact opposite of their own ideas.
I am a freelance writer; I demand the best in mobile computing.
Well, she isn't going to get THAT with something as bloated as XP.
Did anyone happen to notice the "fine print" at the bottom of the page? The words "our writer" should be cause for some suspicion. If they didn't hire her in the first place, then I guess they own her (cute) arse now.
I've bought several CDs because I was able to grab a few tracks off of Napster or something similar, to try it out before I went and bought the CD. The track samples at, for example, CDNow.com, are nice, but not enough and in fact non-existent half the time.
No doubt the RIAA wouldn't recognize that use, but that's only because they're seeing the trees and not the forest.
I guess lawsuits could conceivably be a nice addition to the bottom line and excuse for bad accounting...
Perhaps, in an effort to justify the cost of the lawyers, they could somehow come up with this "missing income" they keep ranting about and become the next Enron or WorldCom.
Not quite so simple. The employee has to have some skill in the way of AIMING. What are the chances of that, unless you live in the deep south or West Virginia?
That is, unless he's going to constantly stroll up and down the aisles for 2, 3, etc. hours looking for camcorders.
Re:One thing the report forgot to mention ...
on
Open Source Studies
·
· Score: 1
People can argue that even Windoze can be customized - background, for example - but it ain't the same as cusomization via source code. Do you ever have the feeling, when you use commercial / close-source software, that some part of it are kinda stupid, cumbersome, or simply plain assinine?
...and if you find something buggy or obviously stupid (try an API in Windows that happily returns success upon certain failures), you can fix it yourself and send in a patch without having to pay for a service call just to say "you screwed up... fix it".
...and 5 minutes after the traffic control systems are "upgraded" by Microsoft, a BSoD graces the monitor and every traffic light in the city turns green.
I never stopped building, partly for that reason. It's slightly difficult to do that for laptops, though. That's where we're all stuck at the moment:-)
Slashdot Mirror
Apples and oranges, man...
MSN Messenger != Windows Messenger
It's only the next logical step after enabling viruses and worms.
Unbearably slow, too... do they have the server running XP on a P/133 or something? The response time for SF.net from here is at least 20x faster.
All that Microsoft sees, though, are the dollar signs that selling such a popular game on their platform will bring their way. They don't give a crap that its origins just happen to be from the exact opposite of their own ideas.
Well, she isn't going to get THAT with something as bloated as XP.
Did anyone happen to notice the "fine print" at the bottom of the page? The words "our writer" should be cause for some suspicion. If they didn't hire her in the first place, then I guess they own her (cute) arse now.
...and of course you would post that anonymously.
I've bought several CDs because I was able to grab a few tracks off of Napster or something similar, to try it out before I went and bought the CD. The track samples at, for example, CDNow.com, are nice, but not enough and in fact non-existent half the time.
No doubt the RIAA wouldn't recognize that use, but that's only because they're seeing the trees and not the forest.
I guess lawsuits could conceivably be a nice addition to the bottom line and excuse for bad accounting...
Perhaps, in an effort to justify the cost of the lawyers, they could somehow come up with this "missing income" they keep ranting about and become the next Enron or WorldCom.
Who's up next for the perp walk?
rm -rf . * certainly would be, at least in the population of idiot users :-)
Not quite so simple. The employee has to have some skill in the way of AIMING. What are the chances of that, unless you live in the deep south or West Virginia?
That is, unless he's going to constantly stroll up and down the aisles for 2, 3, etc. hours looking for camcorders.
People can argue that even Windoze can be customized - background, for example - but it ain't the same as cusomization via source code. Do you ever have the feeling, when you use commercial / close-source software, that some part of it are kinda stupid, cumbersome, or simply plain assinine?
...and if you find something buggy or obviously stupid (try an API in Windows that happily returns success upon certain failures), you can fix it yourself and send in a patch without having to pay for a service call just to say "you screwed up... fix it".
That, or they didn't have the bandwidth until they started gearing up for packeting P2P users.
...and 5 minutes after the traffic control systems are "upgraded" by Microsoft, a BSoD graces the monitor and every traffic light in the city turns green.
I never stopped building, partly for that reason. It's slightly difficult to do that for laptops, though. That's where we're all stuck at the moment :-)