Well, I suppose this means you would also throw power steering, anti-lock braking systems, traction control and so on out of your car because you like it the traditional way.
I don't think a new word processor file format is a matter of Life & Death. Not like the other devices you list above.
'We've been asked by a lot of customers to provide tools to do mass migrations,
Somehow I doubt this strongly.
In fact, the only customers who could even use this would be ones who not only switch over everybody to office 2K+7 in one fell swoop, but also have every outside source they'll ever trade files with also switched, including everybody's home systems.
I can see why MS will want to switch entire companies over to the new, incompatible formats, but I personally doubt that anyone outside of MS is asking for this.
Mozilla Foundation has just welcomed the offer of help to get Firefox working properly in Vista
And just what does this say to you?
What it says to me is that Vista is very different from 95/98/ME/2K/XP, and a whole lot of other existing applications may not work on it as expected. FF problems should hardly be news, however, given how long Vista betas have been out. There's nothing in the beta tester agreement prohibiting using FF on Vista, is there?
Now if they want to get Windows Update working through FF, then it might become interesting.
Unless MS is trying to avoid a(nother) lawsuit that might claim they intentionally broke their largest browser competitor. This has been rumored to have happened before with other apps.
let me make clear that if broadband providers engage in anticompetitive conduct, we will not hesitate to act using our existing authority,
Why do we have to wait until we're actually screwed, then through years of hearings about possible remedies, followed by half-assed fixes and coupons for new services we don't want, while the lawyers are paid in real millions of dollars? Why not just preempt it from happening in the first place?
One immediate problem is that, driving 45mph through a 25mph zone is just as dangerous and foolish as doing 95mph on the Interstate, but only the latter might be caught.
An improvement to the system would be to take the GPS location, check it against known local speedlimits, and then register any driving +10mph over the local limit.
Another nice feature would be to report when the car travels more than a set radius of miles from home. If the kids are sneaking over the border for illicit activities, parents might wish to know this.
Went to the site, but I don't immediately see how this will scan Windows system from a Live CD that should be able to spot and remove rootkits that would evade detection when running under the operating system itself. They look more like they're into Linux solutions.
An E-Ticket is a virtual ticket that I don't have physically with me when I go to the airport. You can guess what my first guess for an E-Passport was.
The real problem isn't that they let this data escape.
The real problem is that they shouldn't have been keeping it in the first place!
If it can harm a consumer by its release, then it can harm that same consumer by the fact that the have it in their possession in the first place. Just how is AOL that much better or more trustworthy than the world at large?
What needs to be required here is that the black box data cannot be released without the owner's signed approval. And that retaliation cannot be taken against a car owner who refuses to release this data. Anything less is not enough.
So this way, rather than get something for their music online, they get nothing since P2P thrives on making available what you can't get otherwise. Sounds stupid to me.
A parent called up asking if we had switched to 802.11N yet...His child had to have the best and us be damned if if didn't exist in a functional form.
Do you have a recording of this call? Can you post it? I need a good laugh!
Did you consider telling him that with the 802.11o standard just around the corner that it might be premature to jump into 'n' too quickly?
Did you ask how somebody as stupid as he was managed to have enough money to send his child to your school -- or operate a telephone and call you in the first place?
Just the random thoughts that came to mind reading your unfortunately accurate these days post.
Btw, was his kid about to arrive with an 802.11n ready notebook computer to hook into your network with? Given what I've seen in the stores of pre-standard 'n', I'd love to see the cute not-so-little antenna on that notebook.
We also continue to work on modifications to our new DVRs, and to our DVRs in the field, intended to avoid future alleged infringement.'
I have a Dish Network DVR, and as of yesterday one of the features I like has quit working. This is the onscreen display of minutes remaining you can receive when you press the Select button during playback. I found that information useful, and miss it. It pisses me off that they can so easily remove functionality after I've agreed to take and use the unit as offered at the time.
In addition, they're taking away 10% of my hard drive space to pre-download PPV movies for instant viewing that I'm never going to watch! How dare they just take that space away from me. That's removing 10% of the functionality of the DVR with no recompense. I despise permitted modern business practices, and it's making my decision to leave Dish Network permanently easier ever day.
What users need, and I'm continually surprised that it isn't here already, is a Live CD Virus scanner. Download the ISO, burn the CD, boot it on suspect machines, and let it do the job of reading your system disc as a simple data disc. The idea that a program running on an infected system can spot and remove the infection seems questionable at best.
I think that would be a cool feature. I would like the ability to tag content with a review for others to read later on, add to or disagree with as they please.
See my comments below on how this is a Stealth Attack on P2P. This is not a cool feature at all, in the present climate, but is being sold as one to people like you who don't realize the ramifications of it. Wise up!
Sony describes a method for attaching a user history to content when it is shared among computers or other devices.
This is clearly a stealth attack on P2P. A wolf in sheep's clothing. By attaching a history to every file you've altered the file. That ends multi-homed downloads since every bit changed in a file changes it hash code and makes it not match any other version. As such, a file like this would only be able to be downloaded from one source, provided that they have the whole file, and stay on line long enough for you to receive it.
And just what evidence such a file on your machine might provide in court is equally dangerous. You would no longer be able to claim you ripped the file yourself, even if you were holding the CD in your hand, because their lawyer would point to its trail around the Internet in reaching you. Bad Move!!
Sony clearly does not have P2P user's interests at heart as they tout this as a must have feature for the future of P2P.
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I don't think a new word processor file format is a matter of Life & Death. Not like the other devices you list above.
Somehow I doubt this strongly.
In fact, the only customers who could even use this would be ones who not only switch over everybody to office 2K+7 in one fell swoop, but also have every outside source they'll ever trade files with also switched, including everybody's home systems.
I can see why MS will want to switch entire companies over to the new, incompatible formats, but I personally doubt that anyone outside of MS is asking for this.
And just what does this say to you?
What it says to me is that Vista is very different from 95/98/ME/2K/XP, and a whole lot of other existing applications may not work on it as expected. FF problems should hardly be news, however, given how long Vista betas have been out. There's nothing in the beta tester agreement prohibiting using FF on Vista, is there?
Now if they want to get Windows Update working through FF, then it might become interesting.
Unless MS is trying to avoid a(nother) lawsuit that might claim they intentionally broke their largest browser competitor. This has been rumored to have happened before with other apps.
Why do we have to wait until we're actually screwed, then through years of hearings about possible remedies, followed by half-assed fixes and coupons for new services we don't want, while the lawyers are paid in real millions of dollars? Why not just preempt it from happening in the first place?
An improvement to the system would be to take the GPS location, check it against known local speedlimits, and then register any driving +10mph over the local limit.
Another nice feature would be to report when the car travels more than a set radius of miles from home. If the kids are sneaking over the border for illicit activities, parents might wish to know this.
(LAMENESS FILTER FILLER: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQURSTUVWXYZ)
Went to the site, but I don't immediately see how this will scan Windows system from a Live CD that should be able to spot and remove rootkits that would evade detection when running under the operating system itself. They look more like they're into Linux solutions.
An E-Ticket is a virtual ticket that I don't have physically with me when I go to the airport. You can guess what my first guess for an E-Passport was.
Now implement that!
The real problem is that they shouldn't have been keeping it in the first place!
If it can harm a consumer by its release, then it can harm that same consumer by the fact that the have it in their possession in the first place. Just how is AOL that much better or more trustworthy than the world at large?
Don't go!! It's a trick!!
It's when it doesn't show up on Google with > 99 hits that it really doesn't matter.
Didn't take her long to screw up Big Time!
What needs to be required here is that the black box data cannot be released without the owner's signed approval. And that retaliation cannot be taken against a car owner who refuses to release this data. Anything less is not enough.
So this way, rather than get something for their music online, they get nothing since P2P thrives on making available what you can't get otherwise. Sounds stupid to me.
Do you have a recording of this call? Can you post it? I need a good laugh!
Did you consider telling him that with the 802.11o standard just around the corner that it might be premature to jump into 'n' too quickly?
Did you ask how somebody as stupid as he was managed to have enough money to send his child to your school -- or operate a telephone and call you in the first place?
Just the random thoughts that came to mind reading your unfortunately accurate these days post.
Btw, was his kid about to arrive with an 802.11n ready notebook computer to hook into your network with? Given what I've seen in the stores of pre-standard 'n', I'd love to see the cute not-so-little antenna on that notebook.
I have a Dish Network DVR, and as of yesterday one of the features I like has quit working. This is the onscreen display of minutes remaining you can receive when you press the Select button during playback. I found that information useful, and miss it. It pisses me off that they can so easily remove functionality after I've agreed to take and use the unit as offered at the time.
In addition, they're taking away 10% of my hard drive space to pre-download PPV movies for instant viewing that I'm never going to watch! How dare they just take that space away from me. That's removing 10% of the functionality of the DVR with no recompense. I despise permitted modern business practices, and it's making my decision to leave Dish Network permanently easier ever day.
What users need, and I'm continually surprised that it isn't here already, is a Live CD Virus scanner. Download the ISO, burn the CD, boot it on suspect machines, and let it do the job of reading your system disc as a simple data disc. The idea that a program running on an infected system can spot and remove the infection seems questionable at best.
Would this enchanced format require the death of MP3 to accomodate it? Replaced, perhaps, by something much more DRM-friendly?
Another corked demo. So what's new about that?
See my comments below on how this is a Stealth Attack on P2P. This is not a cool feature at all, in the present climate, but is being sold as one to people like you who don't realize the ramifications of it. Wise up!
This is clearly a stealth attack on P2P. A wolf in sheep's clothing. By attaching a history to every file you've altered the file. That ends multi-homed downloads since every bit changed in a file changes it hash code and makes it not match any other version. As such, a file like this would only be able to be downloaded from one source, provided that they have the whole file, and stay on line long enough for you to receive it.
And just what evidence such a file on your machine might provide in court is equally dangerous. You would no longer be able to claim you ripped the file yourself, even if you were holding the CD in your hand, because their lawyer would point to its trail around the Internet in reaching you. Bad Move!!
Sony clearly does not have P2P user's interests at heart as they tout this as a must have feature for the future of P2P.
Yes we have. It's called Political Correctness, and you only oppose it at your own dire risk.
Actually it sounds like the tactics of Scientology against any of their perceived enemies.
Lies,
Big Lies,
and Sony.