The moral of the story: you can make a difference! Don't let corporations (or anyone) walk all over what you want. You exchange money for a product or service and you want what you paid for!
True that... with each newer operating system and update I see more and more 'report blah blah to Microsoft to improve quality'. It happens in Windows Media Player, whenever a process crashes, and probably other places as well.
How soon until they don't tell you that and just start reporting your web browsing favorites and selling that information to others?
Look at pricewatch.com, it already goes around collecting price data from many online stores.
I don't see why this is such a big problem... one site creates competitive prices based upon other sites' prices. In reality if a consumer reaches your site on the internet for your product they probably didn't do it by accident. They will evaluate all aspects of the business (licensing, service/support, upgrade cost, security of the site, etc) before they jump ship to another site to save a few bucks.
I'm sure Dell, Sony, and HP already keep an eye on eachother's prices.
This has always been the most dangerous thing, and it has gone all the way back to the ancient Greeks... they called it hubris, thinking you're better than god.
Improve the world, make life better, etc and you usually fall from the extreme arrgoance.
There is method to your madness... If god is all good and all powerful/perfect, how the hell did the evil snake get into the garden of eden?! It was a reference point to create a duality.
God needed night and day, right and wrong.... at least that's one explanation.
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Perhaps someone should have told them they were getting put on /., don't want their CDrom to catch fire ya know
Choice is always good.. Emacs/VI, Gnome/KDE, X11/???
Or can cops turn it off when they wanna go Rodney King on someone's ass
The moral of the story: you can make a difference! Don't let corporations (or anyone) walk all over what you want. You exchange money for a product or service and you want what you paid for!
Wait, I thought we didn't geek in the third world, we fabricated reasons for war and then went in and took their oil?
Perhaps you've never used Red Hat Network or Ximian's red carpet, I find both to be (almost) bug free and work very well.
Tomorrow in cwernli's journal, "Sleep can't be trusted!!"
True that... with each newer operating system and update I see more and more 'report blah blah to Microsoft to improve quality'. It happens in Windows Media Player, whenever a process crashes, and probably other places as well.
How soon until they don't tell you that and just start reporting your web browsing favorites and selling that information to others?
When we had the story that XP SP1 hogged memory.
Will a major company fix an expensive flaw for the masses and distribute it for free?
"Innocent until proven guilty" is the cornerstone of our legal system. So prove them guilty.
Ahem.. Iraq?
Oh.
Unless you're MS and you want to keep Linux out of a large organization! MWahahaha
Look at pricewatch.com, it already goes around collecting price data from many online stores.
I don't see why this is such a big problem... one site creates competitive prices based upon other sites' prices. In reality if a consumer reaches your site on the internet for your product they probably didn't do it by accident. They will evaluate all aspects of the business (licensing, service/support, upgrade cost, security of the site, etc) before they jump ship to another site to save a few bucks.
I'm sure Dell, Sony, and HP already keep an eye on eachother's prices.
True, I agree.. the free stuff and/or selective pricing is bad, but the second half of the text seems to say it's all been a waste anyway.
To want to beat out the competition.
Many large corporations drive prices down to crush the little guy.
Yeah, let's keep the tabloids to Lindows/Windows!
It also makes RTFA a ridiculous response to someone's comment for this story!
True this my anonymous friend!
But how will this affect the RIAA's cyberwar?
There are about 20,000 single guys who enjoy D&D and star wars in Canada!
So when you screw up how many "continues" do you have? ;)
first we have a review of a freebsd reference manual, and now some mindless celebrity gossip!
This has always been the most dangerous thing, and it has gone all the way back to the ancient Greeks... they called it hubris, thinking you're better than god.
Improve the world, make life better, etc and you usually fall from the extreme arrgoance.
Ah, wise man say he who make funny comment on slashdot ascend to higher karma! Welcome to blisstopia brother!
There is method to your madness... If god is all good and all powerful/perfect, how the hell did the evil snake get into the garden of eden?! It was a reference point to create a duality.
... at least that's one explanation.
God needed night and day, right and wrong.