The problem is that Typosquatting is not a crime, and only people like Microsoft are trying to declare it as such. It becomes a question of just how much space should you be allowed to own surrounding your domain name.
But then, what do you expect from a company who believes they have the right own the common word "windows"?
While the article itself is an obvious Troll, and should be modded as such, I feel it's going to take putting a couple FCC commissioners up against the wall and executing them in prime time pay-per-view to get their attention back on the people they're supposed to be serving and protecting. Junk faxes, network neutrality, open telephone and cable competition, municipal WiFi...the list goes on.
The problem is that the Democrats can't fight a war on terror, or keep Illegal (they call them Voters) immigrants out, while the Republicans can't keep Hollywood, the record companies, the telephone companies, the cable companies, or Microsoft off our backs.
I don't know about anyone else (see MSDE comments above) but the on-line help with VB.NET is virtually unreadable. Especially compared to the relative straight-forward and literate VB6 MSDN help files. I don't know who improved for.Net, but Microsoft should fire them for sabotage of the entire.NET initiative!
If I was the Post Office I'd be pretty PO'd (P.O.'d -- get it?) over this because, as a service provider to both NetFlix and BlockBuster for rentals by mail, they're trying to take away one of my big customers.
So shouldn't service providers have a say in patent fights like this? (Not that I find anything at all novel or original in the NetFlix patents under discussion here.
I'm coming to the point where I feel that the core Windows environment needs to be booted from CD, or some other read-only media that can't be altered. Yes, additional drivers and installed programs will need to boot from the hard drive, however, a Safe Boot option to run your virus scan from as part of the read-only boot could then be used to much more easy remove the malware.
Cringely is basically throwing mud gratuitiously. He may hide behind his sources, but eventually he's the one doing the mud job.
To Mud, or not To Mud, that is the Question?
Is Cringley throwing mud?
Or is Cringley reporting corroborated facts?
Or is reporting facts equivalent to throwing mud when the facts are ugly.
I don't know.
You don't know.
But I'm not the one concluding that because the purported facts are ugly that they are automatically equated with Mud.
Given Bill Gates access to lawyers, and Cringley's relative poverty and valuable reputation, I'd say RXC is certainly erring on the side of caution and has good reason to have said what he has said. Bill Gates, and Paul Allen who is also party to this, may not be as litigious as, say, Tom Cruise, but who wants to find out first?
Based purely on character (or lack of it), I confidently predict that Microsoft is going down.
Yeah, right.
Cringley is right. Maybe not today, maybe not this week, maybe not until Itantium controls the 64-bit computing market, but no monopoly survives forever. Especially one in such a fast moving field as tech. There's someone out there with the next great innovation -- the innovation you somehow managed to miss while maintaining your current monopoly position.
Does Microsoft really have to downgrade Vista to run on more, older machines? That reminds me of the late, but never lamented, Windows 2.0 286 being sold in the days of the 80386 processor's arrival.
Think about it?
1: It hard to be compatable with a wider variety of less capable machines and still provide the best performance on the latest+greatest hardware. It's also very expensive to maintain multiple, incompatible versions (e.g. 32- and 64-bit versions).
2: How many people with older machines are going to pop out another $200-$300 to run Vista slowly on their existing h/w, have to load it and activate it themselves, and break compatability with existing programs -- when for $600 you'll be able to have a faster machine with enough memory, a bigger harddrive, 64-bit processor, AND Vista preloaded?
3: Why is Microsoft worried if you can't run Vista on less capable machines? I don't think they are. You're still going to uh...buy XP from them anyway. They get you coming or going.
Intel finally loves Microsoft again because, for the first time in years, people are going to really have to buy new hardware, mostly with Intel processors and chip-sets, to run the newest killer application.
I doubt that a 32-bit Vista will survive long, given that it ever see the light of day anyway. And if it does, it will be crippled compared to a 64-bit version. I expect most 64-bit processors probably meet the minimum Vista requirement, and those are the people who will be running it.
Will 32-bit systems even still be being sold at the time of this latest slip to January 2007? Will even single core processors be common in new machines?
Eolas deserves nothing in this case. Why? Because they never produced any successful product implementing it.
Love it or hate it, IE is the currently most used browser. And this is one of the significant features of it. Since Eolas has no competing product, why do they deserve a penny? They can't show any damages. They can't show that they sold their idea to someone else who Microsoft ran out of business. All they can do is say we'll prevent the Internet from being a more convenient place unless we're paid lots of money.
I'm sorry that Eolas is sad that Microsoft is going to byte the bullet and dodge their patent. Wrong! I'm actually not sorry at all!
Inclining the bed at an angle of 6 degrees with the head at the lower end produces bone and muscle loss, decreases in cardiovascular activity, and reduced capacity to exercise similar to those produced by prolonged spaceflight.
good way to determine if your argument is logically sound is to replace the subject with something you personally feel differently about. Let's try that, switching anti-abortion with, say, environmentalism:
Guess what? You're wrong!
If Greenpeace is supporting ELF (Earth Liberation Front, a designated terrorist group), or their illegal tactics, with money, or even silence where they know of the lawbreakers, send them to jail!
If PETA is funding the ALF (Animal Liberation Front, also a terrorist group), take away their tax exemption and send them to the same jail cell as Greenpeace. Just don't stop their campaign of beautiful models and actresses proclaiming I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur from getting up close and personal with my face.
And if Slashdot readers are funding and protecting people bombing the lawyer's offices who are conducting the RIAA's Sue 'Em All campaign against P2P file sharers (as much as they may deserve it), you won't have my support when they're arrested. Maybe they can share a jail cell with the beautiful models and actresses from PETA.
I am not a hypocrite in my views, as apparently you are to have made such a post in the first place. If it's wrong, then it's wrong no matter who is doing it.
The right way is the ballot box. That's how we make changes in society. And just because we have voters dumb enough to inflict Ted Kennedy on the rest of us over and over again, only means that we, the voters, need to get smarter about all this.
Microsoft Employees are not happy with the double delay of Windows and Office being pushed back into 2007.
Why do they care about this? Is it their own bonus in jeopardy because the product didn't ship by a certain drop-dead date?
Whether Microsoft continues to sell old Office, or new Office, people are still buying Office. Whether they're selling XP or Vista, they're still selling a Microsoft OS onto the same number of computers.
WHY DO THEY CARE? THEY'RE STILL GETTING PAID THE SAME AS BEFORE!
Starting point: Alienware embarrasses Intel by being the best known seller of better performing AMD highest-end gaming systems, although they do sell Intel boxen too for buyers who want that.
1: Intel could Never buy Alienware and force them to become an Intel-only shop.
2: Dell Can buy Alienware because Dell is already in this business and attempting to compete at the top end with their own immensely overpriced ($9,900) system already.
3: It would have been worth it to Intel to give Apple a lifetime supply of Intel processors for Free just to silence their harshest x86 critic. (Maybe they have done exactly that, however, that's a theory for another day.)
4: If Dell switches Alienware over to Intel Conroe processors exclusively in a few months claiming that On This Day Intel is the best choice, therefore we are going to use them Forever Forward, this will not spawn any anti-trust suits because Dell is simply making a business decision.
5: Dell is now Intel's friend forever, and gets as good a deal with new processors as Apple is clearly seeming to be getting.
I know I left that tin foil hat around here somewhere.
It is used to go after political groups (anti-abortion groups is one case I'm aware of).
I'm not sure that qualifies as abuse of the act. An organized group of people (Operation Rescue) attempting to extort legal businesses (abortion clinics) into either changing or closing entirely through threats (see what is on some of their websites), intimidation (in-your-face confrontations directly in front of clinics), and violence (bombings and beatings tacitly accepted as part of the struggle), simply because their view isn't your view (First Amendment issue of everyone, including clinics have rights to free speech and association and freedom from religion)...
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So if you want the best stuff, convince them you're a review site and just wait for them to ship you the cream de la creme.
Google Beer. I can hardly wait!
80GB, huh. What's that? Two, dual-layer BluRay discs. Might make a great case for the next DVD technology.
But then, what do you expect from a company who believes they have the right own the common word "windows"?
The problem is that the Democrats can't fight a war on terror, or keep Illegal (they call them Voters) immigrants out, while the Republicans can't keep Hollywood, the record companies, the telephone companies, the cable companies, or Microsoft off our backs.
And obviously neither party can cut spending.
Makes nearly any book an improvement!
So shouldn't service providers have a say in patent fights like this? (Not that I find anything at all novel or original in the NetFlix patents under discussion here.
Just another item on my list of reasons I hate C-language. And I first started uisng C in 1977.
CR1: Is that the sound of a light-switch I hear?
CR2: Yes!
CR3: What should we do?
CR4: Run!
CR5: Do I have a second?
Maybe not!
I'm coming to the point where I feel that the core Windows environment needs to be booted from CD, or some other read-only media that can't be altered. Yes, additional drivers and installed programs will need to boot from the hard drive, however, a Safe Boot option to run your virus scan from as part of the read-only boot could then be used to much more easy remove the malware.
To Mud, or not To Mud, that is the Question?
Is Cringley throwing mud?
Or is Cringley reporting corroborated facts?
Or is reporting facts equivalent to throwing mud when the facts are ugly.
I don't know.
You don't know.
But I'm not the one concluding that because the purported facts are ugly that they are automatically equated with Mud.
Given Bill Gates access to lawyers, and Cringley's relative poverty and valuable reputation, I'd say RXC is certainly erring on the side of caution and has good reason to have said what he has said. Bill Gates, and Paul Allen who is also party to this, may not be as litigious as, say, Tom Cruise, but who wants to find out first?
Yeah, right.
Cringley is right. Maybe not today, maybe not this week, maybe not until Itantium controls the 64-bit computing market, but no monopoly survives forever. Especially one in such a fast moving field as tech. There's someone out there with the next great innovation -- the innovation you somehow managed to miss while maintaining your current monopoly position.
Is Bill Gates the way he is now because he didn't get a pony when he was young?
Think about it?
1: It hard to be compatable with a wider variety of less capable machines and still provide the best performance on the latest+greatest hardware. It's also very expensive to maintain multiple, incompatible versions (e.g. 32- and 64-bit versions).
2: How many people with older machines are going to pop out another $200-$300 to run Vista slowly on their existing h/w, have to load it and activate it themselves, and break compatability with existing programs -- when for $600 you'll be able to have a faster machine with enough memory, a bigger harddrive, 64-bit processor, AND Vista preloaded?
3: Why is Microsoft worried if you can't run Vista on less capable machines? I don't think they are. You're still going to uh...buy XP from them anyway. They get you coming or going.
Intel finally loves Microsoft again because, for the first time in years, people are going to really have to buy new hardware, mostly with Intel processors and chip-sets, to run the newest killer application.
I doubt that a 32-bit Vista will survive long, given that it ever see the light of day anyway. And if it does, it will be crippled compared to a 64-bit version. I expect most 64-bit processors probably meet the minimum Vista requirement, and those are the people who will be running it.
Will 32-bit systems even still be being sold at the time of this latest slip to January 2007? Will even single core processors be common in new machines?
Or that the Patent Office and Courts -- especially those with technological illiterates on the juries -- are Fucked!
Love it or hate it, IE is the currently most used browser. And this is one of the significant features of it. Since Eolas has no competing product, why do they deserve a penny? They can't show any damages. They can't show that they sold their idea to someone else who Microsoft ran out of business. All they can do is say we'll prevent the Internet from being a more convenient place unless we're paid lots of money.
I'm sorry that Eolas is sad that Microsoft is going to byte the bullet and dodge their patent. Wrong! I'm actually not sorry at all!
Cowards!
But does it feel as good as weightlessness?
Does he keep them away from Scientology as well?
768 Threads = 768 Memory Accesses.
So which is better? Vega, or IBM/Toshiba Cell Processor?
Guess what? You're wrong!
If Greenpeace is supporting ELF (Earth Liberation Front, a designated terrorist group), or their illegal tactics, with money, or even silence where they know of the lawbreakers, send them to jail!
If PETA is funding the ALF (Animal Liberation Front, also a terrorist group), take away their tax exemption and send them to the same jail cell as Greenpeace. Just don't stop their campaign of beautiful models and actresses proclaiming I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur from getting up close and personal with my face.
And if Slashdot readers are funding and protecting people bombing the lawyer's offices who are conducting the RIAA's Sue 'Em All campaign against P2P file sharers (as much as they may deserve it), you won't have my support when they're arrested. Maybe they can share a jail cell with the beautiful models and actresses from PETA.
I am not a hypocrite in my views, as apparently you are to have made such a post in the first place. If it's wrong, then it's wrong no matter who is doing it.
The right way is the ballot box. That's how we make changes in society. And just because we have voters dumb enough to inflict Ted Kennedy on the rest of us over and over again, only means that we, the voters, need to get smarter about all this.
Why do they care about this? Is it their own bonus in jeopardy because the product didn't ship by a certain drop-dead date?
Whether Microsoft continues to sell old Office, or new Office, people are still buying Office. Whether they're selling XP or Vista, they're still selling a Microsoft OS onto the same number of computers.
WHY DO THEY CARE? THEY'RE STILL GETTING PAID THE SAME AS BEFORE!
1: Intel could Never buy Alienware and force them to become an Intel-only shop.
2: Dell Can buy Alienware because Dell is already in this business and attempting to compete at the top end with their own immensely overpriced ($9,900) system already.
3: It would have been worth it to Intel to give Apple a lifetime supply of Intel processors for Free just to silence their harshest x86 critic. (Maybe they have done exactly that, however, that's a theory for another day.)
4: If Dell switches Alienware over to Intel Conroe processors exclusively in a few months claiming that On This Day Intel is the best choice, therefore we are going to use them Forever Forward, this will not spawn any anti-trust suits because Dell is simply making a business decision.
5: Dell is now Intel's friend forever, and gets as good a deal with new processors as Apple is clearly seeming to be getting.
I know I left that tin foil hat around here somewhere.
I'm not sure that qualifies as abuse of the act. An organized group of people (Operation Rescue) attempting to extort legal businesses (abortion clinics) into either changing or closing entirely through threats (see what is on some of their websites), intimidation (in-your-face confrontations directly in front of clinics), and violence (bombings and beatings tacitly accepted as part of the struggle), simply because their view isn't your view (First Amendment issue of everyone, including clinics have rights to free speech and association and freedom from religion)...
Yeah, IANAL, but I'd call that a valid RICO case.