No, not at all. But in SCO's case their assumption seems to have been that IBM wouldn't want to bother with a protracted legal case and would want to settle for less money that it would cost to defend themselves. That was the miscalculation. A sleazy outfit such as SCO never figured on IBM caring about their reputation in the marketplace, and so seems to have been caught off-guard by IBM's willingness to go the distance in erasing SCO from the face of the earth.
" "It simply filed a lawsuit in a court that it knew had no jurisdictional authority what-so-ever," Mumma explained. "Today's spammer tends to think it will escape prosecution because they've never been prosecuted. It has a false sense of security because nobody has come along and legally knocked it off its high horse."
A common tactic nowadays. Take someone to court even on a frivolous charge, knowing they can't afford to play the legal game. This works until someone takes the bluff and says, "OK, buddy, I'll see you in court and I intend to make you lose, and lose badly." For that you need a deep-heeled "victim," precisely the type that tends not to get sued in these sort of situations.
But every now and then a bully miscalculates, as we saw with SCO versus IBM. So what we need is for someone with bucks to take on these spamming sleazes, point out they are misusing the law with these abusive lawsuits, and knock them off their high horse.
"The MEAA Board decided that it could grant none of the dispensations sought by MOD Films, on the grounds that these would be "inappropriate."
Then the actors said they could grant none of the wishes sought by the MEAA Board, on the grounds that these would be "inappropriate."
Or at least I hope that what some of them say, though I don't know how hard that might hit them in the wallet. Look, the future is coming, and the MEAA can either join the 21st-century, or they can fade into irrelevance. Their choice, but the future already made its choice.
"Do the words "Spoiler Warning" mean anything to you? Gee whiz."
I thought about it, but I'm describing the first three minutes of the show, and the Playbill describes it even before the show starts. It's not as if I gave away anything more than one joke, and I promise you the show is worth seeing for the hundreds of other jokes it contains.
Easy, it's also known as the Golden Rule: Whoever has the gold makes the rules.
Microsoft has enough money to buy themselves out of the jaws of justice time and time again. The only way that won't happen is if a) someone goes after them where the motive isn't money and they can't be bought (sort of like what IBM is doing to SCO right now); or b) the government starts enforcing illegal monopoly regulations, and illegal business practices, or the like.
Until either of those occurs, Microsoft will buy their way out of justice every single time and laugh all the way home from the bank. Now remind me why people admire this company?
The Broadway Playbill that comes with the show even begins with production notes for a Finnish musical. Sure enough, as the narrator at the beginning of the show sets the time and place for the show, the curtain rises on a bright alpine village full of brightly-colored Finns. They then do the Python fish-slapping song. Then the narrator yells, "I said ENGLAND!" The Finns sadly trudge off the stage, the stage gets much darker and murkier, and then we see the monks chanting and slapping their foreheads as in the movie. It's very funny.
"The 3GB hard drive is similar to the type of hard drive that is found in Apple's Mini iPod."
But Apple has the good sense not to try to cram OS X-mini onto the iPod hard disk. Instead a much simpler, special purpose OS does the job simply and well. But cram Windows-mini onto a hard disk, and well, you've wasted a lot of space for no real valid reason.
Plus the delicious treat of viruses headed your way as a brand new target sits there and says, "Attack me, please."
Why can't people realize that special-purpose devices work best with special-purpose OSes?
OK, so his proposal is to drop the price of a song online from.99 to.05, and then supplement it with a 1% tax on ISP charges and computer purchases on the assumption that users of those service and equipment are the ones doing all the music downloading. I don't think the 1% tax will go down too well, although in Canada they already have such a tax on CDs and tapes. So I suppose people could adjust to the idea of paying $30.30 a month for an ISP instead of $30.
But the quotes at the end are hilarious!
"The recording industry is against Pearlman's plan. Richard Pfohl, general council for the Canadian Recording Industry Association, refuted Pearlman on numerous points at the conference forum, arguing that the plan would violate every international intellectual property law that Canada has signed in the last 100 years. [SO CHANGE THE LAWS!] It would also obliterate musicians' choices on how their music could be sold by conscripting them into a 5-cents-a-song system. [OR THEY COULD JUST OPT OUT AND DO THEIR OWN DISTRIBUTION AND CHARGE WHAT THEY WANT] And it would destroy record companies' incentive to invest in new acts, Pfohl said. [WHY, BECAUSE IT WOULD BRING IN HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN REVENUE?]
Pearlman said that Pfohl misunderstood the idea. [DUH!] Then again, another record-industry type, casually speaking to Pearlman after the talk, had perhaps the most succinct counter suggestion. Why not charge 10 cents, instead of 5, and double the revenue?"
ROFL! Don't you just know that will be the endless series of suggestions they will make. "Hey, look at how much money is coming in! Let's double again to 20 cents and get lots more moola!"
The reason is that you patent an invention, not speech, and software is speech. Software, like the written word in other forms of speech, is already protected by copyright. Patent protection on top of that is redundant and problematic in its own right, for how can you patent speech?
Yeah...
Uh huh
So destructive
I take you to the mountain top
I'll let you see the lava pop
Go 'head girl, don't you stop
Keep goin 'til you flee that spot (woah)
OK, more seriously, I think the era of NASA is in decline and the era of private spacecraft is in ascent. Some of those astronauts may yet fly, but they might have to retire from NASA to do it.
Oh, you'd rather be stubborn than right, huh? Fine. Here are your five earlier sentences:
1. Apple comes out with all kinds of crap people don't want.
That explains why they can't keep things in stock as the public lines up to buy their products.
2. Do you remember they came out with keyboards that folded up to prevent carpal tunnel.
No, I don't remember that, so I'll grant you that sentence.
3. How about the Mac mini, what a nich computer, its not going to sell to John Q public in America.
Just watch.
4. It doesn't even come with a keyboard or mouse, you can get a Dell with Windows XP that runs millions of software packages for the kids and parents alike or you can get a Mac which has about 10 current software packages.
It's not meant to come with a keyboard or mouse. There are not "millions" of software packages for Windows in existence. There are more like 10,000 Mac software packages, not 10.
5. What make Jobs different is the fact he doesn't accept that the Mac is a failed platform, its the Betamax of home computers.
Millions of people disagree with you and eagerly buy Macs. You don't have to be one of them, but quit trying to pretend everyone thinks as you do.
Wow, what a great troll! You wrote six sentences. Four of them are completely false. One is totally subjective and can be considered your opinion, an opinion totally contradicted by the stock market and the retail market. And one sentence that is I guess true (the keyboard sentence), but I don't know. Bravo.
Steve Jobs is capable of being mean-spirited, cruel, self-centered, and the like. If Apple were to take 90% of the computer market, I have no doubt he would bully people around. That said, no, I don't think Apple ever could be the next Microsoft just because he is not Gates. Microsoft is the way it is because of Bill Gates. His thirst for total domination goes beyond most CEOs. He is not satisifed with 90% and will continue to crush competitors until he has it all.
Jobs, in contrast, is at his core someone who knows marketing and wants to dazzle his customers. With Microsoft it's what they want and you have to go along with it. With Apple, it's about finding the best customer experience and using that for profit.
Look at the quality of their respective products. What kind of quality do you get from Gates? Convoluted, buggy, but hey it's got features so shut up. What kind of quality do you get from Jobs? Look at Pixar. They are a money-making machine, but they do it by providing customers with top-notch quality. People are glad to give them their money. With Microsoft, it's often a case of grudgingly giving their money.
So a world dominated by Steve Jobs would undoubtably have it's own problems, it would be different problems than we have seen from Bill Gates. Their personalities are different enough to ensure that.
OK, the Yahoo toolbar is not actually spyware, so let's not hyperventilate over this just yet. But it is kinda sleazy, in the typically advertising sort of way, to try to get people to accept software other than the one you wanted. It seems when you install Flash under IE you get the Yahoo desktop whether you wanted it or not -- unless you unclick the tiny button next to the great big Install button. OK, we can talk about clueless lusers who don't read what they are installing, but I think we all know people who will just see the big button.
What's going on here? Clearly Yahoo paid a bunch of cash to Macromedia. What's the matter, Yahoo? Can't get enough people to install your software on its own merits? Have to resort to tricking people into installing your software? That's the mark of a bad product. A good product people will seek out. A bad product has to be foisted upon an unsuspecting public.
Reading that article, I wondered how my Time Warner issued Scientific Atlanta DVR box would rank with Tivo (which I've never used). The article says at the top, however, that he was testing a Scientific Atlanta box with SARA software, not Passport software. The difference is striking! A lot of the advantages of Tivo disappear with Passport.
My box has the intelligent fast forward, and it amazingly gets me to the right place without going too far. Actually, that's not amazing, for I can envision exactly how to program that in, but whatever, they did it. My box also has much more flexibility on programming season-long programs. I can do Once, or All, or only first-run episodes, or only reruns or both, only on this channel, on any channel, only at this time, at any time, 5-minutes before the hour, or 5-minutes (or 10 or 15) after the hour, etc.
I think the point is that the cable companies intend to compete hard and fast here. If the progress from the SARA models to the Passport models advances the start of the art this much, Tivo had better be worried. Tivo still out-does my box in full text searching, and the like. But I would bet that the next version of my box will have more wonders to behold. And yeah, at $10 a month or so, and no phone line or Net connection to make, it's a great product.
Sweeps months are November, February, and May. How can you tell without looking at the calendar? Listen to your local news for lead-ins of the nature, "Something in your kitchen cabinet can KILL you! More after sports." Or "Think your local restaurant is safe and germ free? You'll be throwing up after this story."
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No, not at all. But in SCO's case their assumption seems to have been that IBM wouldn't want to bother with a protracted legal case and would want to settle for less money that it would cost to defend themselves. That was the miscalculation. A sleazy outfit such as SCO never figured on IBM caring about their reputation in the marketplace, and so seems to have been caught off-guard by IBM's willingness to go the distance in erasing SCO from the face of the earth.
A common tactic nowadays. Take someone to court even on a frivolous charge, knowing they can't afford to play the legal game. This works until someone takes the bluff and says, "OK, buddy, I'll see you in court and I intend to make you lose, and lose badly." For that you need a deep-heeled "victim," precisely the type that tends not to get sued in these sort of situations.
But every now and then a bully miscalculates, as we saw with SCO versus IBM. So what we need is for someone with bucks to take on these spamming sleazes, point out they are misusing the law with these abusive lawsuits, and knock them off their high horse.
Gesundheit.
Then the actors said they could grant none of the wishes sought by the MEAA Board, on the grounds that these would be "inappropriate."
Or at least I hope that what some of them say, though I don't know how hard that might hit them in the wallet. Look, the future is coming, and the MEAA can either join the 21st-century, or they can fade into irrelevance. Their choice, but the future already made its choice.
I thought about it, but I'm describing the first three minutes of the show, and the Playbill describes it even before the show starts. It's not as if I gave away anything more than one joke, and I promise you the show is worth seeing for the hundreds of other jokes it contains.
Easy, it's also known as the Golden Rule: Whoever has the gold makes the rules.
Microsoft has enough money to buy themselves out of the jaws of justice time and time again. The only way that won't happen is if a) someone goes after them where the motive isn't money and they can't be bought (sort of like what IBM is doing to SCO right now); or b) the government starts enforcing illegal monopoly regulations, and illegal business practices, or the like.
Until either of those occurs, Microsoft will buy their way out of justice every single time and laugh all the way home from the bank. Now remind me why people admire this company?
And do read that Playbill. It's hilarious.
A stoat is a stoat, and bloat is bloat,
and nobody wants to bloat a stoat,
unless that stoat is full of bloat,
and then you've bloated a stoat!
Sorry, your points were valid, but my mind is weird.
But Apple has the good sense not to try to cram OS X-mini onto the iPod hard disk. Instead a much simpler, special purpose OS does the job simply and well. But cram Windows-mini onto a hard disk, and well, you've wasted a lot of space for no real valid reason.
Plus the delicious treat of viruses headed your way as a brand new target sits there and says, "Attack me, please."
Why can't people realize that special-purpose devices work best with special-purpose OSes?
But the quotes at the end are hilarious!
"The recording industry is against Pearlman's plan. Richard Pfohl, general council for the Canadian Recording Industry Association, refuted Pearlman on numerous points at the conference forum, arguing that the plan would violate every international intellectual property law that Canada has signed in the last 100 years. [SO CHANGE THE LAWS!] It would also obliterate musicians' choices on how their music could be sold by conscripting them into a 5-cents-a-song system. [OR THEY COULD JUST OPT OUT AND DO THEIR OWN DISTRIBUTION AND CHARGE WHAT THEY WANT] And it would destroy record companies' incentive to invest in new acts, Pfohl said. [WHY, BECAUSE IT WOULD BRING IN HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN REVENUE?]
Pearlman said that Pfohl misunderstood the idea. [DUH!] Then again, another record-industry type, casually speaking to Pearlman after the talk, had perhaps the most succinct counter suggestion. Why not charge 10 cents, instead of 5, and double the revenue?"
ROFL! Don't you just know that will be the endless series of suggestions they will make. "Hey, look at how much money is coming in! Let's double again to 20 cents and get lots more moola!"
The reason is that you patent an invention, not speech, and software is speech. Software, like the written word in other forms of speech, is already protected by copyright. Patent protection on top of that is redundant and problematic in its own right, for how can you patent speech?
Yeah... Uh huh So destructive I take you to the mountain top I'll let you see the lava pop Go 'head girl, don't you stop Keep goin 'til you flee that spot (woah)
Here comes St. Helens
It's a mountain that reels
It's a mountain and it's gonna be blowin' up sometime.
It's gainin' on you so you better look alive.
It's busy revvin' up a powerful mud slide.
And when the odds are against it
And there's lava work to do
You bet your life St. Helens
Will see it through.
Flee St. Helens
Flee St. Helens
Flee St. Helens, Flee!
Yes, it is. Put your hands over your head. The geek police are on the way.
Why not? Current commies (China) make almost all our clothes, our toys, our machines....
OK, more seriously, I think the era of NASA is in decline and the era of private spacecraft is in ascent. Some of those astronauts may yet fly, but they might have to retire from NASA to do it.
Nah, that test will fail. Show a chimp how convenient cell phones are and you'll never get your phones back.
1. Apple comes out with all kinds of crap people don't want.
That explains why they can't keep things in stock as the public lines up to buy their products.
2. Do you remember they came out with keyboards that folded up to prevent carpal tunnel.
No, I don't remember that, so I'll grant you that sentence.
3. How about the Mac mini, what a nich computer, its not going to sell to John Q public in America.
Just watch.
4. It doesn't even come with a keyboard or mouse, you can get a Dell with Windows XP that runs millions of software packages for the kids and parents alike or you can get a Mac which has about 10 current software packages.
It's not meant to come with a keyboard or mouse. There are not "millions" of software packages for Windows in existence. There are more like 10,000 Mac software packages, not 10.
5. What make Jobs different is the fact he doesn't accept that the Mac is a failed platform, its the Betamax of home computers.
Millions of people disagree with you and eagerly buy Macs. You don't have to be one of them, but quit trying to pretend everyone thinks as you do.
Blue Screen Of Debt
Wow, what a great troll! You wrote six sentences. Four of them are completely false. One is totally subjective and can be considered your opinion, an opinion totally contradicted by the stock market and the retail market. And one sentence that is I guess true (the keyboard sentence), but I don't know. Bravo.
Jobs, in contrast, is at his core someone who knows marketing and wants to dazzle his customers. With Microsoft it's what they want and you have to go along with it. With Apple, it's about finding the best customer experience and using that for profit.
Look at the quality of their respective products. What kind of quality do you get from Gates? Convoluted, buggy, but hey it's got features so shut up. What kind of quality do you get from Jobs? Look at Pixar. They are a money-making machine, but they do it by providing customers with top-notch quality. People are glad to give them their money. With Microsoft, it's often a case of grudgingly giving their money.
So a world dominated by Steve Jobs would undoubtably have it's own problems, it would be different problems than we have seen from Bill Gates. Their personalities are different enough to ensure that.
What's going on here? Clearly Yahoo paid a bunch of cash to Macromedia. What's the matter, Yahoo? Can't get enough people to install your software on its own merits? Have to resort to tricking people into installing your software? That's the mark of a bad product. A good product people will seek out. A bad product has to be foisted upon an unsuspecting public.
Oh I see, yet another acronym article. OK.
My box has the intelligent fast forward, and it amazingly gets me to the right place without going too far. Actually, that's not amazing, for I can envision exactly how to program that in, but whatever, they did it. My box also has much more flexibility on programming season-long programs. I can do Once, or All, or only first-run episodes, or only reruns or both, only on this channel, on any channel, only at this time, at any time, 5-minutes before the hour, or 5-minutes (or 10 or 15) after the hour, etc.
I think the point is that the cable companies intend to compete hard and fast here. If the progress from the SARA models to the Passport models advances the start of the art this much, Tivo had better be worried. Tivo still out-does my box in full text searching, and the like. But I would bet that the next version of my box will have more wonders to behold. And yeah, at $10 a month or so, and no phone line or Net connection to make, it's a great product.
Sweeps months are November, February, and May. How can you tell without looking at the calendar? Listen to your local news for lead-ins of the nature, "Something in your kitchen cabinet can KILL you! More after sports." Or "Think your local restaurant is safe and germ free? You'll be throwing up after this story."