Ya, Verizon can do whatever they want with their own network. But, arguments like "if their customers don't like it, they will leave Verizon" are tiresome. Switch to whom? Comcast or SBC? What a joke, they're setting up comparable tiered-service rackets themselves. They're all in collusion as a corporate oligapoly.
The system is broken. Verizon's actions are probably legally sound, but I just don't think it's quite right to hold up their actions as ETHICALLY sound.
If there were truly a diversity of options for consumers, fine. But it's the lobbying interests of these network backbones that keep my town from setting up wifi in my neighborhood. Until Uncle Sam corporate interests get out of bed with my congressman, legal != ethical.
Any genuine indemnification would mean that end users could refuse to install the patch and Microsoft would accept liability for any lawsuits that might occur.
Indemnification means they're going to lengths to protect their customers as far as legally possible. But if you choose to use their product in an illegal manner, why should you expect to be protected?
Microsoft is paying out $8.9 million to this guy for previous infringement, they're providing a patch, and no one is being sued beyond Microsoft.
Presumably their clients who use the products in the legal-n-licensed are still indemnified. Please have a valid point when you Microsoft-bash or you lose credibility.
I built a MythTV box out of need... in my area, the cable company splits video out A/B... even now, no one offers dual-tuner PVRs except for Comcast, so I decided to give MythTV a whirl.
It is (or was) fairly finicky about which tuner cards worked with it; it's easy to find yourself in the weeds if you try anything besides Hauppauge 250/350. Once functional, MythTV was pretty nice. Very configurable, very stable, sleek looking, nice music library, neat weather display. But... it took like 6 seconds just to change the channel (worse than Tivo or Comcast or any other PVR I've seen). And, it wouldn't let the user select from either card. Ie, I could ONLY watch shows on the A side, unless I was recording a show on A side... in which case I can ONLY watch B side. I never resolved that problem after six weeks of research.
Eventually I caved and got the dual-tuner PVR through Comcast. It spams advertisements to my TV, has a crappy interface, and few features. But at least I can surf the B side again.
I call bullsh1t. Other Americans may be sheep but I value my vote and I expect my representative to be accountable. So, yes, I DO fault the politicians... only slightly more than I fault constituents like you who let them off the hook.
A group of people out there, let's call them 'elite hacker d00ds,' are able to skillfully craft Windows rootkits that evade almost any known detection system.
Shouldn't that be '1337 h4x0/2 d00dz'??? FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, STOP THE MADNESS!!
I can't see the drawings, maybe USPTO has been slashdotted. But from the abstract,
A determination is made as to whether a request to emphasize all of the numerical data in the electronic document has been received. If such a request is received, all of the numerical data within the electronic document is located and emphasized.
Sounds a lot like Google desktop. Hey, isn't that PRIOR ART????
1. Convince some small organization to switch from non-standard software widely considered crappy to our "standard" software
2. Post this "news" on/.
3. Soak in the sun of free PR
4. Profit
After the press conference, an unnamed government official added,
We also endorse education of Refactored Mathematics. All these folks who say 2+2==5, well, we may not agree, but we should at least teach the controversy so everyone will know what the debate is about.
What aspects of the Microsoft business model do you or the execs think are currently broken? Certainly the Shared Source model is a nod to OSS, but do you and Microsoft have future plans to adopt more processes or philosophies from OSS?
Mod this down. Summary:
1. Quote someone else
2. Oversimplifying rhetoric
3. Flamebait
Like it or not, patents ARE a good defensive strategy. Let's ASSUME company CEOs even dislike patents, and ASSUME they care to fight them in some way. (Very broad assumptions, both!) They still have to be practical... patents exist, and their is NO pending battle to change that anytime soon. Working within the system does not preclude trying to change the system.
Hey, why not? Paid execs at a credible linux-affiliate attacking another credible linux-affiliate, and with no evident Microsoft taint at all! Heh heh heh...
How did this posting get so top-heavy with pro-Microsoft postings here? Methinks MS-paid writers lay siege!
Really, Cliff. I'm neither pro-MS nor pro-Linux. I just think this is an ancient topic covered many times over... check the Slashdot archives or just google "total cost ownership microsoft linux".
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Here's another metrico rd1=wikipedia&word2=britannica
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&w
Ya, Verizon can do whatever they want with their own network. But, arguments like "if their customers don't like it, they will leave Verizon" are tiresome. Switch to whom? Comcast or SBC? What a joke, they're setting up comparable tiered-service rackets themselves. They're all in collusion as a corporate oligapoly.
The system is broken. Verizon's actions are probably legally sound, but I just don't think it's quite right to hold up their actions as ETHICALLY sound.
If there were truly a diversity of options for consumers, fine. But it's the lobbying interests of these network backbones that keep my town from setting up wifi in my neighborhood. Until Uncle Sam corporate interests get out of bed with my congressman, legal != ethical.
Any genuine indemnification would mean that end users could refuse to install the patch and Microsoft would accept liability for any lawsuits that might occur.
Indemnification means they're going to lengths to protect their customers as far as legally possible. But if you choose to use their product in an illegal manner, why should you expect to be protected?
Microsoft is paying out $8.9 million to this guy for previous infringement, they're providing a patch, and no one is being sued beyond Microsoft.
Presumably their clients who use the products in the legal-n-licensed are still indemnified. Please have a valid point when you Microsoft-bash or you lose credibility.
I built a MythTV box out of need... in my area, the cable company splits video out A/B... even now, no one offers dual-tuner PVRs except for Comcast, so I decided to give MythTV a whirl.
It is (or was) fairly finicky about which tuner cards worked with it; it's easy to find yourself in the weeds if you try anything besides Hauppauge 250/350. Once functional, MythTV was pretty nice. Very configurable, very stable, sleek looking, nice music library, neat weather display. But... it took like 6 seconds just to change the channel (worse than Tivo or Comcast or any other PVR I've seen). And, it wouldn't let the user select from either card. Ie, I could ONLY watch shows on the A side, unless I was recording a show on A side... in which case I can ONLY watch B side. I never resolved that problem after six weeks of research.
Eventually I caved and got the dual-tuner PVR through Comcast. It spams advertisements to my TV, has a crappy interface, and few features. But at least I can surf the B side again.
Bravo, HBO.
Bravo is a different channel, man
I call bullsh1t. Other Americans may be sheep but I value my vote and I expect my representative to be accountable. So, yes, I DO fault the politicians... only slightly more than I fault constituents like you who let them off the hook.
Misspellings til the cows come home
A group of people out there, let's call them 'elite hacker d00ds,' are able to skillfully craft Windows rootkits that evade almost any known detection system.
Shouldn't that be '1337 h4x0/2 d00dz'??? FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, STOP THE MADNESS!!
im not pwnd ur a totl n00b i luv css i can dance all day, i can dance all day - FPS Doug
I can't see the drawings, maybe USPTO has been slashdotted. But from the abstract,
A determination is made as to whether a request to emphasize all of the numerical data in the electronic document has been received. If such a request is received, all of the numerical data within the electronic document is located and emphasized.
Sounds a lot like Google desktop. Hey, isn't that PRIOR ART????
I'm not quite sure how this is newsworthy...
1. Convince some small organization to switch from non-standard software widely considered crappy to our "standard" software /.
2. Post this "news" on
3. Soak in the sun of free PR
4. Profit
I, for one, welcome our new music distribution overlords.
After the press conference, an unnamed government official added,
We also endorse education of Refactored Mathematics. All these folks who say 2+2==5, well, we may not agree, but we should at least teach the controversy so everyone will know what the debate is about.
Don't blame me, I voted for the other jacka$$.
... they could get abducted by the aliens that live on the other side of the moon ...
THAT'S NOT A MOON, THAT'S A SPACE STATION!!!
What aspects of the Microsoft business model do you or the execs think are currently broken? Certainly the Shared Source model is a nod to OSS, but do you and Microsoft have future plans to adopt more processes or philosophies from OSS?
Nuh-uh. Al Gore did. (But they did invent the PC, the word processor, and email. I, for one, welcome our new RSS overlords.)
atomistic mental objects which experience the world from a particular point of view.
Yea, that's Microsoft alright.
This way of putting it is misleading, however; monads ...are "windowless"
Windowless Windows? Isn't that, um, DOS?
Leibniz never tried Linux :p
Also, PHP is popular with bosses for writing windows drivers. This is called PHB-PHP-PNP.
My boss asked me to write some windows drivers in PHP. They were "PHB-PHP-PNP".
Mod this down. Summary:
... patents exist, and their is NO pending battle to change that anytime soon. Working within the system does not preclude trying to change the system.
1. Quote someone else
2. Oversimplifying rhetoric
3. Flamebait
Like it or not, patents ARE a good defensive strategy. Let's ASSUME company CEOs even dislike patents, and ASSUME they care to fight them in some way. (Very broad assumptions, both!) They still have to be practical
Too late, it's already been done.
Hey, why not? Paid execs at a credible linux-affiliate attacking another credible linux-affiliate, and with no evident Microsoft taint at all! Heh heh heh...
How did this posting get so top-heavy with pro-Microsoft postings here? Methinks MS-paid writers lay siege! Really, Cliff. I'm neither pro-MS nor pro-Linux. I just think this is an ancient topic covered many times over... check the Slashdot archives or just google "total cost ownership microsoft linux".