Yep, this whole debate is about one bad film, god damn your a simpleton. Sneaking a camcorder into a movie and making a shitty copy you can sell on the street is good for nobody asshat. Your just pissed because those definitions of piracy and theft interfere in your getting more stuff without paying for it.
thinks it's okay to bootleg movies, even poorly? Christ, get some standards, you can't steal everything you want. It might be an extreme method but as long as you aren't going to jail who cares? Easy solution, if material is released under a copyright or trademark that includes criminal charges if violated, don't F'in steal it! Not everyone wants to give away their work for free and you have no right to chose for them.
Were you labeling your own post FUD, there's nothing close to a full screen reader in any version of Windows, and it will now be up to MS to steal inspiration from Apple again. Of course, they are used to it, and so are Windows/MS apologist so I don't suspect anyone will notice.
Have you been in a car lately, one of the idiot lights wouldn't shut off and they needed codes to tell why. There were no apparent issues with the breaks. I love it when people act like they know everything and everyone else is lying? Why, to impress you?
had to take my car to the dealership this weekend because the shop down the block didn't know what the codes meant. Turns out it was a misaligned break caliper, cost me $225 at the dealership, would have been about $130 down the street.
But people do want the stuff, they just don't want to pay for it. Perhaps you should seek a refund for any education you have paid for, clearly they didn't properly instruct you on critical thinking and analogy?
I already did, Mac OS X (both on the desktop and the server) and any number of Linux distros (on the desktop and the server) are more secure, stable and easy to use, let's not pretend that MS Windows really has a brilliant of intuitive user interface. Bring something to the table besides MS same old FUD, MS doesn't leverage it's monopoly to protect "average users" or to keep developement cost down, so don't insinuate that they do.
I find there are far better and a far greater variety of usable applications for the Mac and Linux than there are for Windows. The Windows platform is pretty much dominated by a few key players who charge premium prices for incremental upgrades and limited innovation. A quick trip to Versiontracker.com yeilds me numerous and better choices for my G4 iBook (I run my I.T. consulting business from my Mac, and over 80% of my clieints are Windows users) and I can get rafts of similair Linux software for my Intel desktop from numerous sources. All of them free or far cheaper than the latest incremental upgrade from Intuit, Symantec, etc... I have converted several of my clients to Macs and have several others looking at Linux servers for pilot programs. You can live without MS, and quite happily.
Next excuse for why people just can't live without insecure and unstable MS products???
I.T. departments want to support 2 notebooks for every executive user, this is a bad marketing ploy at best. Transmeta makes a nice chip, Sharp marketing clearly doesn't know what to do with it.
that it takes the EU to reign in our rogue corporation, makes me sad the DoJ didn't go further.
And I'm not sure why anyone would post that this isn't fair, if you can't see MS is once leveraging it's desktop monopoly to control yet another market, you are blind or at least obtuse. Do we really want another Netscape on our hands, it's taken 5 years for the likes of Mozilla, FireFox and Safari to revive browser innovation while IE 6 has remained a stagnant, insecure and non-compliant piece of junk. Killing competition in browsers hurt the web, although it will be years before the useless business analyst get around to acknowledging this. We don't want the same thing to happen in media players/codecs, instant messaging or a raft of other technologies. Time to stop MS now. And vote with your damn wallets, if you don't like what MS does then switch to Mac OS X or Linux and put your money where your mouth is!
they had to go back and make sure it had enough buffer overflow issues so they could keep the demand for MSCEs high?
Joking aside, I think these delays can be attributed to the whole "Trustworthy Computing" thing and MS discovering just how much junk code was floating around in each new version. They have deep enough pockets to ride out these kind of delays but it does open a great window of opporutnity for OS X and Linux along with a raft of other OSS solutions. A break in the constant upgrade cycle is an opening we should all be working to take advantage of, from desktop tech to database admin to kernel devs.
I have to assume you are being purposely obtuse, MS funded SCO to damage Linux. If this isn't clearly anti-competitive behavior I don't know what is? It's one thing to turn a blind eye, something quite different to ignore MS when they thumb their noses at past DoJ settlements.
are pretending to be something that doesn't suck to use? It's bad enough business relies on the ass of an interface called MS Windows, now they want to foist it on me in palm and phone based devices? No thanks, Apple should make a PDA and put PocketPC and Palm OS out of thier respective miseries, although as phones evolve I would guess the whole standalone Palm thing is near death as is.
While I see where some of your viewpoint comes from, and some of this you wouldn't know from not living here...
"that there are still people collecting trash, flipping burgers, driving trucks'
Service jobs at these levels have never been considered "blue collar" for wages and benefits, American companies selling these services have always underpaid and undervalued workers in the service sector. When my dad was getting out of school he was told to get a job in the factory to make a decent living, so he did. When they started exporting factory jobs they told him to get a management job and some more education, so he did. Then when the factories were gone and they didn't need all those managers they told him to start over, so he did. When it came time for me to find a decent job, he said "use your brain, knowledge workers will always have jobs" so I worked hard to get into I.T. Now my job is threatened in the same way my dad's was, and everyone keeps telling us that something new will come along, but I can't pay my bills (and I don't live an extrodinary lifestyle by any stretch) hauling garbage or flipping burgers. I'm not above working with my hands, and sometimes at 4 in the morning when another customer is collapsing under the weight of the latest Microsoft exploit is on the phone, I think how it would be nice if I could just go "flip burgers" and if things keep going like they are I might get to test that theory.
Freedom of expression needs some limits, specifically when that "expression" hurts others. Things like cannabalism and necrophilia aren't just socially unacceptable, they are massively detrimental to society as a whole. Have our standards gotten so low that we tolerate anything? We won't tolerate hate speech or child pornography online, but cannablism needs a "how to" page? Come on?
When we discuss "free expression" being limited I think of things like the Patriot Act or DMCA where people can be jailed (or greatly hassled) for discussing the wrong ideas/ideology or technologies in a public forum. The fact that we have to supress some topics based on those laws is an example of free expression being damaged. But the idea that my neighbor Fred can't pop online and find a recipe for making a pizza out of me seems not only good, but after reading some assertions here today, necessary.
While I don't disagree with your view, I'm posting at Slashdot, not an engineering or general political activism web site, so the point stands. The problem with most political people is they tend to generalize and not look at context.
obvious, expected, business as usual, not worhty of a headline, etc... But I think it's worthwhile to point this stuff out, software companies influencing political bodies are bad for everyone, equally bad are political bodies controlling software, think of it as a desperately needed techno-geek seperation of church and state. Maybe if people would take this more serioulsy instead of accepting that this is "the way it is" things might change.
interface sucks, and their plug in for MediaPlayer 9 barely works, and fails completely with large fonts enabled. On the other hand, iTunes works perfectly, delivers on every aspect of the experience, from simple purchasing, sleek library management, fast searching and easy burning and sharing with authroized PCs and devices. Apple, as usual, delivers on user experience while solutions based on WMA deliver on inconvenience. I was a long time Wintel/Musicmatch user, but iTunes wins hands down. Buh-bye napster 2, buymusic.com, MusicMatch and whateve half-cooked dish MS will serve.
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Yep, this whole debate is about one bad film, god damn your a simpleton. Sneaking a camcorder into a movie and making a shitty copy you can sell on the street is good for nobody asshat. Your just pissed because those definitions of piracy and theft interfere in your getting more stuff without paying for it.
thinks it's okay to bootleg movies, even poorly? Christ, get some standards, you can't steal everything you want. It might be an extreme method but as long as you aren't going to jail who cares? Easy solution, if material is released under a copyright or trademark that includes criminal charges if violated, don't F'in steal it! Not everyone wants to give away their work for free and you have no right to chose for them.
Were you labeling your own post FUD, there's nothing close to a full screen reader in any version of Windows, and it will now be up to MS to steal inspiration from Apple again. Of course, they are used to it, and so are Windows/MS apologist so I don't suspect anyone will notice.
Have you been in a car lately, one of the idiot lights wouldn't shut off and they needed codes to tell why. There were no apparent issues with the breaks. I love it when people act like they know everything and everyone else is lying? Why, to impress you?
It's a Ford Focus you idiot! Although it was probably built in Mexico.
had to take my car to the dealership this weekend because the shop down the block didn't know what the codes meant. Turns out it was a misaligned break caliper, cost me $225 at the dealership, would have been about $130 down the street.
But people do want the stuff, they just don't want to pay for it. Perhaps you should seek a refund for any education you have paid for, clearly they didn't properly instruct you on critical thinking and analogy?
I find there are far better and a far greater variety of usable applications for the Mac and Linux than there are for Windows. The Windows platform is pretty much dominated by a few key players who charge premium prices for incremental upgrades and limited innovation. A quick trip to Versiontracker.com yeilds me numerous and better choices for my G4 iBook (I run my I.T. consulting business from my Mac, and over 80% of my clieints are Windows users) and I can get rafts of similair Linux software for my Intel desktop from numerous sources. All of them free or far cheaper than the latest incremental upgrade from Intuit, Symantec, etc... I have converted several of my clients to Macs and have several others looking at Linux servers for pilot programs. You can live without MS, and quite happily.
Next excuse for why people just can't live without insecure and unstable MS products???
I.T. departments want to support 2 notebooks for every executive user, this is a bad marketing ploy at best. Transmeta makes a nice chip, Sharp marketing clearly doesn't know what to do with it.
And I'm not sure why anyone would post that this isn't fair, if you can't see MS is once leveraging it's desktop monopoly to control yet another market, you are blind or at least obtuse. Do we really want another Netscape on our hands, it's taken 5 years for the likes of Mozilla, FireFox and Safari to revive browser innovation while IE 6 has remained a stagnant, insecure and non-compliant piece of junk. Killing competition in browsers hurt the web, although it will be years before the useless business analyst get around to acknowledging this. We don't want the same thing to happen in media players/codecs, instant messaging or a raft of other technologies. Time to stop MS now. And vote with your damn wallets, if you don't like what MS does then switch to Mac OS X or Linux and put your money where your mouth is!
Joking aside, I think these delays can be attributed to the whole "Trustworthy Computing" thing and MS discovering just how much junk code was floating around in each new version. They have deep enough pockets to ride out these kind of delays but it does open a great window of opporutnity for OS X and Linux along with a raft of other OSS solutions. A break in the constant upgrade cycle is an opening we should all be working to take advantage of, from desktop tech to database admin to kernel devs.
I can go to India, apply for my old job and do the same work for less pay? Well that seems like the very definition of "fair trade".
or just opening the program on occaission.
just heard the entire universe yawn??? One marginal company swallowing another seems like some kind of new low for tech sector news.
I have to assume you are being purposely obtuse, MS funded SCO to damage Linux. If this isn't clearly anti-competitive behavior I don't know what is? It's one thing to turn a blind eye, something quite different to ignore MS when they thumb their noses at past DoJ settlements.
how much longer will the DoJ turn a blind eye to this, this has to violate the settlement on some level?
are pretending to be something that doesn't suck to use? It's bad enough business relies on the ass of an interface called MS Windows, now they want to foist it on me in palm and phone based devices? No thanks, Apple should make a PDA and put PocketPC and Palm OS out of thier respective miseries, although as phones evolve I would guess the whole standalone Palm thing is near death as is.
I've never seen you at the office, where do you sit?
"that there are still people collecting trash, flipping burgers, driving trucks'
Service jobs at these levels have never been considered "blue collar" for wages and benefits, American companies selling these services have always underpaid and undervalued workers in the service sector. When my dad was getting out of school he was told to get a job in the factory to make a decent living, so he did. When they started exporting factory jobs they told him to get a management job and some more education, so he did. Then when the factories were gone and they didn't need all those managers they told him to start over, so he did. When it came time for me to find a decent job, he said "use your brain, knowledge workers will always have jobs" so I worked hard to get into I.T. Now my job is threatened in the same way my dad's was, and everyone keeps telling us that something new will come along, but I can't pay my bills (and I don't live an extrodinary lifestyle by any stretch) hauling garbage or flipping burgers. I'm not above working with my hands, and sometimes at 4 in the morning when another customer is collapsing under the weight of the latest Microsoft exploit is on the phone, I think how it would be nice if I could just go "flip burgers" and if things keep going like they are I might get to test that theory.
I think we may have taken the fight for privacy to a new and illogical low? No wonder people lump tech geeks in with the tin foil hat crowd.
"What happened to freedom of expression online?"
Freedom of expression needs some limits, specifically when that "expression" hurts others. Things like cannabalism and necrophilia aren't just socially unacceptable, they are massively detrimental to society as a whole. Have our standards gotten so low that we tolerate anything? We won't tolerate hate speech or child pornography online, but cannablism needs a "how to" page? Come on?
When we discuss "free expression" being limited I think of things like the Patriot Act or DMCA where people can be jailed (or greatly hassled) for discussing the wrong ideas/ideology or technologies in a public forum. The fact that we have to supress some topics based on those laws is an example of free expression being damaged. But the idea that my neighbor Fred can't pop online and find a recipe for making a pizza out of me seems not only good, but after reading some assertions here today, necessary.
While I don't disagree with your view, I'm posting at Slashdot, not an engineering or general political activism web site, so the point stands. The problem with most political people is they tend to generalize and not look at context.
obvious, expected, business as usual, not worhty of a headline, etc... But I think it's worthwhile to point this stuff out, software companies influencing political bodies are bad for everyone, equally bad are political bodies controlling software, think of it as a desperately needed techno-geek seperation of church and state. Maybe if people would take this more serioulsy instead of accepting that this is "the way it is" things might change.
think what the porn industry could do with this?
interface sucks, and their plug in for MediaPlayer 9 barely works, and fails completely with large fonts enabled. On the other hand, iTunes works perfectly, delivers on every aspect of the experience, from simple purchasing, sleek library management, fast searching and easy burning and sharing with authroized PCs and devices. Apple, as usual, delivers on user experience while solutions based on WMA deliver on inconvenience. I was a long time Wintel/Musicmatch user, but iTunes wins hands down. Buh-bye napster 2, buymusic.com, MusicMatch and whateve half-cooked dish MS will serve.