I'd be willing to pay a subscription fee if it means I can download for instance QI episodes or Doctor Who episodes, and play it on my iAudio player without going through the more questionable alleyways of the Internet. Why not have that GEO-loc system give UK residents 'free' access, and the rest of the world a paywall? That would mean even more money for the Beeb (and other tv-networks that get behind this). More money for quality programming. Seems to me to be a win-win situation.
In a recent Dutch Podcast ictroddels.nl Microsoft was complaining that this brief would hurt their business, and that it was unwise of the Dutch government to opt for the ODF, because MSOffice could not read it natively, and that they should also include OOXML in the brief. In the same interview, Theo Rinsema, general manager of MS Netherlands also said that MS doesn't want to compete on Office formats. He also mentioned that the.doc format was also open enough, because many open source solutions could read and write to that format.
If that is all true, then why is the largest part of the itms still drm'ed? If the goal of Apple is to make it easy for the users, they'd have removed it eons ago.
No, the only goal that Apple has; is to make as much money as it can, and it doesn't care about DRM or open formats. It's all about the bottom line and the shareholders.
Don't drink the "Apple is good for you" Kool-Aid(tm)
Are you barbarians? I didn't think so. Give these prisoners of war as you call them access to at least a lawyer, and give them their human rights. Yes, you can incarcerate people. Nowhere did I imply that you couldn't, but not indefinitely, and without any charges. Let the charges be known, and give those detainees a chance at a fair trial. (Ever watched 'a thin red line'? with Richard Gere as a prisoner in China? Did you feel outraged because of the injustice there? Is America as bad as China as far as human rights go? Or even worse?)
Habeas Corpus doesn't apply according to the Bush administration, they removed that right from prisoners at Guantanamo Bay prison earlier this year. A validation system based on it, basically a washed out version of it, is not sufficient in my eyes.
If they are there with just cause, why not also put these people on trial, and come forward with proof.
That naval base just happened to be on Cuba, right?
I choose to fight infringes on basic human rights, that's my choice. And Gitmo is a jet black page in the US history.
Let us not speak of the secret CIA prisons scattered over Europe.
"Not that I disagree with you.. but I wouldn't say some of these people had many rights to begin with living under the Taliban rule." Sure, and let's just keep it that way, shall we. Let the unwashed people from the Taliban enjoy 'our American hospitality' in Guantanamo Bay prison
If you do that, you're no better than the Taliban. The US used to be a dream. Right now, it's more like a nightmare. And more often the word "American" is uttered in disgust.
Do you have proof that each and evey person incarcerated in "gitmo" actually fired a gun at your troops? No, you don't! You haven't seen any proof, about any of these guys. Just hearsay.
If you are under fire, during a war you can fight back, but if you then captured that person, you damn well present him in a court of law. Otherwise you'd be no better than 'the enemy' you are combatting.
"We do not owe a foreign enemy entity the same legal rights that are afforded to us by our constitution." And why not? Where in the constitution does it say: "Oh and btw, these rules are only applicable if you are an American"? It doesn't, and you know why? Because the lot of you were immigrants at the time of that writing. None of you are indigenous to the United States (aside from the 'native Americans').
"It has never been that way and it shouldn't be that way. We do own them humane treatment during their imprisonment and nothing more." You owe them the same rules and duties as you do to everyone else. I'd love to see some American (for instance someone from Blackwater) being put in jail over there in Iraq, and not have a fair trial (or any trial for that matter). We'd hear no end of 'invasion' and 'clearly a breach of the Geneva convention' and 'crying foul'. Then why is this any different?
Be happy in your boiling water... I will have none of it.
(btw, did you know that we have a court of law for war crimes like you described? It's in a city in my country... Namely in the city called 'The Hague')
At my current assignment we all have laptop stands, and some have an extra monitor (because they requested it, and they often sit at the same location, and coworkers do respect that where I work.)
Indeed, dirty keyboards can be an issue, not sure how they have worked that one out, probably overlooked that aspect. You'll find me washing my hands before I go to lunch, and I don't eat stuff with my hands at the desk, all stay in their wrappers.:)
And almost every coworker has his own safe deposit box, either locked with a key, or one with a keypad. (I'm one of the lucky ones to have one with a key) Some don't have that, but then again not everyone deals with top secret stuff.
Okay which is it. A) "These are not uniformed soldiers of a sovereign state; therefore, Geneva Conventions do not apply." or B) "These guys aren't criminals, they are soldiers in a new kind of war."
Either they are soldiers and the Geneva Convention applies, or they aren't. Can't be both.
And every person (read that again: *every*) is entitled to hear why they are being imprisoned and have the option to appeal. The people in the Guantanamo Bay prison often have had neither. And yes these people can be treated like any other person, including this little line: "Innocent until proven guilty", have you seen proof that the people right now in the Guantanamo Bay prison are guilty? I thought not.
The 'western' civilization used to be civilized and not barbaric. Guess that's not true anymore?
People are being sent there without just trial! You say "bill of rights + constitution" do not apply, how about the laws of the country where they were taken from? How about human rights? The US is in the business of kidnapping people and imprisoning them without any form of trial or appeal. How is that fair? How is that just? How is that according to your rules of the land? To me that's bullying behaviour: "We don't like him, let's put him behind bars in a place where he can't hurt us." How many innocent people are in Guantanamo Bay? And why did the US built that prison in a foreign country?
My current assignment is at a company that already has open work places, though granted we do have desks, but no one has his/her own desk. Generally we have people trying to get the same space everyday, but that's not a given. And of course people who are working together will sit together. Which is more easily done. If your project changes, you can sit somewhere else without any problems. And if you have a problem with that colleague across from you, there is nothing that prevents you from getting up, take your laptop with you and move to another location. (You'll also find that a 'clean desk policy' will actually work better in such environments)
I have yet to encounter any 'cubicles' here, but that's probably because I live in The Netherlands, and not in the States.
they are against a merger between XM and Sirius because it might become too big a player, but they want more consolidation for terrestrial radio? How does one correspond with the other? Or am I mistaken somehow?
1) Most documents I have to work on are at work. I have no need to go somewhere else to work on these documents. 2) At work I already have a computer with all the tools I need. 3) Collaboration sounds nice, but so far I have yet to find the instance where I have to do that, at the same time (except for our timesheets, but that works in Excel out of the box already. (you can set an excel sheet to 'share with others', and they can edit the same document at the same time as you.) 4) TANSTAAFL. Right now it's free, but you still pay in some other way. I'm sure there will be ads there, and from there it's a small step to inserting ads inside your documents. (As you often have with shareware applications) Unless you pay x amount to get the 'premium' package.
So the only reason that might apply to me is the collaboration tools. And that's not enough. Sure it's nice to work on documents from home as well as from work, but why? And it also means that your documents aren't stored on drive space that you own. Who knows what happens to them when you leave it there. Is it secure? I don't know. I wouldn't store sensitive data on those services.
I'm much more interested in decent version control, but then not online but inside the 'offline' office tools. (preferably in OOo, that way I have a hook to sell that office suite to my superiors)
I'm all for competition against MSO, but I fail to see the benefit of online office suites. And especially now that we have two. (and I'm sure MS is working on their version of MSOO (Microsoft Office Online))
The market for such online suites seem rather thin to me.
for my low income. I'm sure I can find some correlation between the record industry, and me not earning enough money with my work. And I don't mean because I buy CDs, because I don't.
Cry me a river, Gene Simmons. You do realize that these college kids are the core target for your publisher, although I doubt if an aging 'rockband' is in their interests, especially after your comments?
And if they were sued out of existence, you are biting off the hand that could feed you.
"Every little college kid, every freshly-scrubbed little kid's face should have been sued off the face of the earth. They should have taken their houses and cars and nipped it right there in the beginning." Right, and directly after that the music industry would really come to a complete standstill, because no one has money to pay for records, which would actually increase piracy, or decrease the will to even listen to music, if the industry was that vindictive and evil.
If you piss off enough of your paying customers, you will find that they will push back, and you will not like it if that happens.
Unless you use so-called "Ergo-tops", basically a desk-stand in which you place the laptop, and plug in a keyboard and mouse. You lose the portability at first, but for long runs behind the laptop it's better.
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The only thing I could think of when I read this article, was: "IBM is on the jazz again."
and was pleasantly surprised to see UPnP disabled out of the box.
Are router manufacturers finally learning?
> *People can get porn online easily these days. ;-)
Why do you think the Internet got so popular?
I'd be willing to pay a subscription fee if it means I can download for instance QI episodes or Doctor Who episodes, and play it on my iAudio player without going through the more questionable alleyways of the Internet.
Why not have that GEO-loc system give UK residents 'free' access, and the rest of the world a paywall? That would mean even more money for the Beeb (and other tv-networks that get behind this). More money for quality programming.
Seems to me to be a win-win situation.
In a recent Dutch Podcast ictroddels.nl Microsoft was complaining that this brief would hurt their business, and that it was unwise of the Dutch government to opt for the ODF, because MSOffice could not read it natively, and that they should also include OOXML in the brief. .doc format was also open enough, because many open source solutions could read and write to that format.
In the same interview, Theo Rinsema, general manager of MS Netherlands also said that MS doesn't want to compete on Office formats.
He also mentioned that the
Wait till you hear what the Cool Software Foundation has to say about this.
(listen to their interview with Aaron Seigo to know what I'm refering to)
If that is all true, then why is the largest part of the itms still drm'ed?
If the goal of Apple is to make it easy for the users, they'd have removed it eons ago.
No, the only goal that Apple has; is to make as much money as it can, and it doesn't care about DRM or open formats.
It's all about the bottom line and the shareholders.
Don't drink the "Apple is good for you" Kool-Aid(tm)
On the subject of Seagate:
Seagate snubs Linux
That would leave Hitachi or Samsung.
Are you barbarians? I didn't think so. Give these prisoners of war as you call them access to at least a lawyer, and give them their human rights.
Yes, you can incarcerate people. Nowhere did I imply that you couldn't, but not indefinitely, and without any charges. Let the charges be known, and give those detainees a chance at a fair trial.
(Ever watched 'a thin red line'? with Richard Gere as a prisoner in China? Did you feel outraged because of the injustice there? Is America as bad as China as far as human rights go? Or even worse?)
Habeas Corpus doesn't apply according to the Bush administration, they removed that right from prisoners at Guantanamo Bay prison earlier this year.
A validation system based on it, basically a washed out version of it, is not sufficient in my eyes.
If they are there with just cause, why not also put these people on trial, and come forward with proof.
That naval base just happened to be on Cuba, right?
I choose to fight infringes on basic human rights, that's my choice. And Gitmo is a jet black page in the US history.
Let us not speak of the secret CIA prisons scattered over Europe.
"Not that I disagree with you.. but I wouldn't say some of these people had many rights to begin with living under the Taliban rule."
Sure, and let's just keep it that way, shall we. Let the unwashed people from the Taliban enjoy 'our American hospitality' in Guantanamo Bay prison
If you do that, you're no better than the Taliban.
The US used to be a dream. Right now, it's more like a nightmare. And more often the word "American" is uttered in disgust.
Do you have proof that each and evey person incarcerated in "gitmo" actually fired a gun at your troops? No, you don't!
You haven't seen any proof, about any of these guys. Just hearsay.
If you are under fire, during a war you can fight back, but if you then captured that person, you damn well present him in a court of law. Otherwise you'd be no better than 'the enemy' you are combatting.
"We do not owe a foreign enemy entity the same legal rights that are afforded to us by our constitution."
And why not? Where in the constitution does it say: "Oh and btw, these rules are only applicable if you are an American"? It doesn't, and you know why? Because the lot of you were immigrants at the time of that writing. None of you are indigenous to the United States (aside from the 'native Americans').
"It has never been that way and it shouldn't be that way. We do own them humane treatment during their imprisonment and nothing more."
You owe them the same rules and duties as you do to everyone else.
I'd love to see some American (for instance someone from Blackwater) being put in jail over there in Iraq, and not have a fair trial (or any trial for that matter). We'd hear no end of 'invasion' and 'clearly a breach of the Geneva convention' and 'crying foul'. Then why is this any different?
Be happy in your boiling water... I will have none of it.
(btw, did you know that we have a court of law for war crimes like you described? It's in a city in my country... Namely in the city called 'The Hague')
At my current assignment we all have laptop stands, and some have an extra monitor (because they requested it, and they often sit at the same location, and coworkers do respect that where I work.)
:)
Indeed, dirty keyboards can be an issue, not sure how they have worked that one out, probably overlooked that aspect. You'll find me washing my hands before I go to lunch, and I don't eat stuff with my hands at the desk, all stay in their wrappers.
And almost every coworker has his own safe deposit box, either locked with a key, or one with a keypad. (I'm one of the lucky ones to have one with a key) Some don't have that, but then again not everyone deals with top secret stuff.
Okay which is it.
A) "These are not uniformed soldiers of a sovereign state; therefore, Geneva Conventions do not apply."
or
B) "These guys aren't criminals, they are soldiers in a new kind of war."
Either they are soldiers and the Geneva Convention applies, or they aren't. Can't be both.
And every person (read that again: *every*) is entitled to hear why they are being imprisoned and have the option to appeal. The people in the Guantanamo Bay prison often have had neither.
And yes these people can be treated like any other person, including this little line: "Innocent until proven guilty", have you seen proof that the people right now in the Guantanamo Bay prison are guilty? I thought not.
The 'western' civilization used to be civilized and not barbaric. Guess that's not true anymore?
People are being sent there without just trial! You say "bill of rights + constitution" do not apply, how about the laws of the country where they were taken from? How about human rights?
The US is in the business of kidnapping people and imprisoning them without any form of trial or appeal. How is that fair? How is that just? How is that according to your rules of the land?
To me that's bullying behaviour: "We don't like him, let's put him behind bars in a place where he can't hurt us."
How many innocent people are in Guantanamo Bay?
And why did the US built that prison in a foreign country?
I can't believe you can still sleep at night.
My current assignment is at a company that already has open work places, though granted we do have desks, but no one has his/her own desk.
Generally we have people trying to get the same space everyday, but that's not a given.
And of course people who are working together will sit together. Which is more easily done. If your project changes, you can sit somewhere else without any problems. And if you have a problem with that colleague across from you, there is nothing that prevents you from getting up, take your laptop with you and move to another location.
(You'll also find that a 'clean desk policy' will actually work better in such environments)
I have yet to encounter any 'cubicles' here, but that's probably because I live in The Netherlands, and not in the States.
they are against a merger between XM and Sirius because it might become too big a player, but they want more consolidation for terrestrial radio? How does one correspond with the other? Or am I mistaken somehow?
How do you perform a double whammy with the whammy bar?
1) Most documents I have to work on are at work. I have no need to go somewhere else to work on these documents.
2) At work I already have a computer with all the tools I need.
3) Collaboration sounds nice, but so far I have yet to find the instance where I have to do that, at the same time (except for our timesheets, but that works in Excel out of the box already. (you can set an excel sheet to 'share with others', and they can edit the same document at the same time as you.)
4) TANSTAAFL. Right now it's free, but you still pay in some other way. I'm sure there will be ads there, and from there it's a small step to inserting ads inside your documents. (As you often have with shareware applications) Unless you pay x amount to get the 'premium' package.
So the only reason that might apply to me is the collaboration tools. And that's not enough. Sure it's nice to work on documents from home as well as from work, but why? And it also means that your documents aren't stored on drive space that you own. Who knows what happens to them when you leave it there. Is it secure? I don't know. I wouldn't store sensitive data on those services.
I'm much more interested in decent version control, but then not online but inside the 'offline' office tools. (preferably in OOo, that way I have a hook to sell that office suite to my superiors)
I'm all for competition against MSO, but I fail to see the benefit of online office suites. And especially now that we have two. (and I'm sure MS is working on their version of MSOO (Microsoft Office Online))
The market for such online suites seem rather thin to me.
Indeed, they are DCMA notices instead of DMCA notices. (as per the article) :)
*puts up an American flag with a timer counting down and some loose wires hanging from it*
for my low income.
I'm sure I can find some correlation between the record industry, and me not earning enough money with my work. And I don't mean because I buy CDs, because I don't.
Cry me a river, Gene Simmons.
You do realize that these college kids are the core target for your publisher, although I doubt if an aging 'rockband' is in their interests, especially after your comments?
And if they were sued out of existence, you are biting off the hand that could feed you.
"Every little college kid, every freshly-scrubbed little kid's face should have been sued off the face of the earth. They should have taken their houses and cars and nipped it right there in the beginning."
Right, and directly after that the music industry would really come to a complete standstill, because no one has money to pay for records, which would actually increase piracy, or decrease the will to even listen to music, if the industry was that vindictive and evil.
If you piss off enough of your paying customers, you will find that they will push back, and you will not like it if that happens.
Unless you use so-called "Ergo-tops", basically a desk-stand in which you place the laptop, and plug in a keyboard and mouse. You lose the portability at first, but for long runs behind the laptop it's better.
Who killed Stuart Scott?
I suggest it was Microsoft in the Kitchen with an Axe!
You actually want RIAA pr0n?