cell phones are not computers and therefore their software interface is designed to be feature limited, providing only the options the user purchases. Computers don't have this limitation.
Actually computers do -- right after you've inserted your latest Sony-BMG "music" CD.
That means that the record labels get $0.60 for doing jack-crap.
Actually, the labels get $0.60 for selling the only song on the CD worth owning, while foregoing (along with the record shop) $14.99 for a CD that costs them well <$1.00 to produce.
1: It's d@mn foolish to have said this publically without reason to know it's true, so chances are quite reasonable that this is a leak from behind the scenes negotiations.
2: Popular new releases will be priced higher than back catalog stuff.
3: Promises (i.e. spin) will be made that the average price of music is still $.99.
4: Further promises will be made that high priced music will drop in price over time as new songs arrive in the top price bracket.
Presumably if MS can get custom PPC chips, Apple will be getting the hottest and latest Intel chips--maybe even custom.
Yeah, maybe sometime after Dell gets them. Dell buys several times the number of Intel processors that Apple will. Who do you think Intel will favor first?
By making the new default file format their so-called open XML format, MS is ensuring that by default you will save you documents in a format which, at this moment, cannot be read by any other word processing program, including older versions of Microsoft Office.
Yeah, that's really going to help the average user.
Will it include a Don't be stupid mode? Something you can engage when forging political documents that turns off automatic superscripting and proportional spacing, and limits your font selection to what was available on a Selectric[tm] typewriter circa 1969. There are a few Democrats in Texas, and television producers in New York City, looking for this one.
Office 12 introduces a new interface based on tabs that organize sets of functions under headings such as 'Write,' 'Page Layout,' and 'Review,' plus a combination toolbar-and-menu called the ribbon, which displays a different set of icons and menu items depending on the tab selected, and displays different sets of icons depending on whether you're working with text, graphics, tables, or other kinds of data.
Yeah, great. Another new interface to learn. Of course it will also make working with both the "old" and "new" versions a true royal pain in the posterior.
I think it's all yet another trick to urge (force) everyone to update, and I am so very tired of playing this game.
1: Cameras, communications, hardware, and software -- (est.) $500/camera.
2: Spray can of black paint -- $3.99.
3: Afternoon out drinking beer with friends and spray painting over camera lens -- $50.
4: Sticking it to the Man -- PRICELESS!
You are in a Slashdot article with 3 mod points left. There's an obvious Troll on your left that deserves to be modded down to negative infinity. Ahead of you is a post you really want to respond to. The Reply button beacons to the right, offering you a chance to get your original thoughts higher up on the page. The Back button will return you to the mundane world.
Maybe FreeNet will win in the end. Don't know how they can threaten that one, although I'm sure they're trying.
Maybe yesterday will be remembered as a golden age in music when anything could be found and tried. I sure don't feel the same about the "legal" replacements I'm seeing coming to replace them. It still doesn't make me want to buy anything from Sony-BMG.
same effect on carbon dioxide emissions as planting 1 million trees.
I see we've now created the megatree enviromental impact measurement unit.
Of course that still begs the question, are all megatrees created equal?
(Remember, according to Slashdot policy I own is post, and hence this word when used in this context. Sort of like how Microsoft owns "windows". As such I will soon go after the other 955 Google hits on megatree for possible infringement.)
Unfortunately, the mission controller was named Bob
Isn't Bob an especially annoying of in-house developed Microsoft software. Maybe the final version of the source code to Bob was on the robot and this was the only way to get rid of it forever!
I'd love to see a class action suit that demands all CD's sold are to be replaced with DRM-free versions on Sony's dime. Then perhaps it would sink home they'd done something a little wrong.
This wouldn't hurt them that much. CD manfacturing has come down in price even faster than retail prices have gone up. I a few pennies at most to replace a $14.95 CD.
Any other business passes along their savings to their customers in the form of lower prices. The thieving music industry does just the opposite!
Microsoft should sue Sony and their DRM supplier under the DMCA for reverse engineering the security measures of Windows in order to undermine them.
Everyone else should sue Sony for their six biggest lies in regard to all this.
1: The software doesn't run when the CD isn't playing. WRONG!
2: It's not a RootKit. WRONG!
3: It doesn't interfere with your normal use of your computer. WRONG! (It intentionally damages the sound when CD's are ripped to MP3 - maybe for all CD's, and uses memory and cpu resources constantly.)
4: It doesn't phone home. WRONG!
5: It doesn't send any personally identifiable information when it does phone home. WRONG! (If the **AA can find you through your IP address, so can Sony.)
6: We don't save any personally identifiable information when our software phones home (Internet logs?), or when you fill out two pages of forms with your e-mail address (which must be right or you won't receive the necessary authorization codes) to get our full uninstall control. YEAH, RIGHT!!
Someone(s) as Sony should go to jail over this one.
So what if the Victim doesn't agree to the EULA for the software running on their computer? Does this mean that the software cannot be used to spy on the Victim until they agree to the EULA, and must be removed.
Not a funny question at all when you consider the ramifications of one person installing software on a computer and agreeing to an EULA that a second person then uses. How do you sort this out?
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It's not the idiocy of the teenagers. It's the idiocy of their parents who have forgotten how to say "No."
Actually computers do -- right after you've inserted your latest Sony-BMG "music" CD.
All I want is that tiny, missing 1%. I'll make millions with it!
Actually, the labels get $0.60 for selling the only song on the CD worth owning, while foregoing (along with the record shop) $14.99 for a CD that costs them well <$1.00 to produce.
1: It's d@mn foolish to have said this publically without reason to know it's true, so chances are quite reasonable that this is a leak from behind the scenes negotiations.
2: Popular new releases will be priced higher than back catalog stuff.
3: Promises (i.e. spin) will be made that the average price of music is still $.99.
4: Further promises will be made that high priced music will drop in price over time as new songs arrive in the top price bracket.
5: These promises will not be kept.
I'm sure Steve Jobs puts it differently.
Yeah, maybe sometime after Dell gets them. Dell buys several times the number of Intel processors that Apple will. Who do you think Intel will favor first?
See how far Apple has been looking and planning ahead. Microsoft should just close up shop now.
Yeah, that's really going to help the average user.
Will it include a Don't be stupid mode? Something you can engage when forging political documents that turns off automatic superscripting and proportional spacing, and limits your font selection to what was available on a Selectric[tm] typewriter circa 1969. There are a few Democrats in Texas, and television producers in New York City, looking for this one.
Yeah, great. Another new interface to learn. Of course it will also make working with both the "old" and "new" versions a true royal pain in the posterior.
I think it's all yet another trick to urge (force) everyone to update, and I am so very tired of playing this game.
Does it get a movie credit in the next Monty Python movie next to the lamma?
Britain: Land of really stupid criminals who don't know enough to switch license plates before committing a crime with a car.
Seems to me that Q knew what he was doing when he gave James Bond an Aston Martin with changeable license plates.
1: Cameras, communications, hardware, and software -- (est.) $500/camera.
2: Spray can of black paint -- $3.99.
3: Afternoon out drinking beer with friends and spray painting over camera lens -- $50.
4: Sticking it to the Man -- PRICELESS!
Or are we simply waiting for their current management to fall on their sword when the post bad-will boycott sales figures arrive?
My hope is that this will force companies to actually tell you what they've been able to hide behind the scenes and lawyers up to now.
Actually we use them as passwords, which is why it is so easy to break into Geek macines.
>_
Maybe FreeNet will win in the end. Don't know how they can threaten that one, although I'm sure they're trying.
Maybe yesterday will be remembered as a golden age in music when anything could be found and tried. I sure don't feel the same about the "legal" replacements I'm seeing coming to replace them. It still doesn't make me want to buy anything from Sony-BMG.
I see we've now created the megatree enviromental impact measurement unit.
Of course that still begs the question, are all megatrees created equal?
(Remember, according to Slashdot policy I own is post, and hence this word when used in this context. Sort of like how Microsoft owns "windows". As such I will soon go after the other 955 Google hits on megatree for possible infringement.)
Isn't Bob an especially annoying of in-house developed Microsoft software. Maybe the final version of the source code to Bob was on the robot and this was the only way to get rid of it forever!
I told you not to pinch your mother there!
IIRC correctly Shawn Fanning hardly ate or slept for many days while coding the first Napster, so consumed was he by his idea.
This wouldn't hurt them that much. CD manfacturing has come down in price even faster than retail prices have gone up. I a few pennies at most to replace a $14.95 CD.
Any other business passes along their savings to their customers in the form of lower prices. The thieving music industry does just the opposite!
Everyone else should sue Sony for their six biggest lies in regard to all this.
1: The software doesn't run when the CD isn't playing. WRONG!
2: It's not a RootKit. WRONG!
3: It doesn't interfere with your normal use of your computer. WRONG! (It intentionally damages the sound when CD's are ripped to MP3 - maybe for all CD's, and uses memory and cpu resources constantly.)
4: It doesn't phone home. WRONG!
5: It doesn't send any personally identifiable information when it does phone home. WRONG! (If the **AA can find you through your IP address, so can Sony.)
6: We don't save any personally identifiable information when our software phones home (Internet logs?), or when you fill out two pages of forms with your e-mail address (which must be right or you won't receive the necessary authorization codes) to get our full uninstall control. YEAH, RIGHT!!
Someone(s) as Sony should go to jail over this one.
Not a funny question at all when you consider the ramifications of one person installing software on a computer and agreeing to an EULA that a second person then uses. How do you sort this out?