If you look here you will see that Bill Gates says: "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though, and as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours."
Do companies like Thermaltake, Coolermaster, Zalman, etc cringe when they see news like this. There will always be the 'tweaker' who will buy a CPU then throw the OEM out to replace with thier favourite brand, but will this damage the HSF aftermarket?
The other side would be that it could make the aftermarket more competitive, driving prices down and technology up so they could compete with the OEM.
People should think long and hard about passwords instead of having something obvious. I worked on a PC a few months back where the customer had WindowsXP Pro on their system and had 2 logins. Both logins had passwords. The first user password I didn't know so I tried clicking the "?" for the clue. Again, nothing I could just guess.
I clicked on the second user "?" and to my absolute surprise, the clue was "my wife". I typed the NAME OF THE TOP USER as the password and sure enough, into Windows I go!
I know this is just a home user where security is not an issue, but it's unnerving to know people actually do this. Why have a password so obvious. Don't bother with a password at all!!
The link to the site where the downloads are gets you to a track called "Stupify". I can tell you that has to be the most horrible rendition of the song I've ever heard.
If you're trying to 'sell' the idea of MIDI being an accurate copy of the original, it might be better to link to somewhere that has songs that at least sound like the original.
It's spyware that's the problem. I can live with ads on a website. The second any advertising tries to ass-rape my windows - thats when I get pissed. If advertising triggers popups, pop-unders, homepage hijaaking, registry hacking, active X, buffer overflows or installing any program then it's caner - nobody wants it.
For Windows 95 we got to hear "Start Me Up" by The Rolling Stones ad-nauseum. I hear that Windows Vista's theme song will be Billy Joel's number "For The Longest Time"
I work at a computer store as a technician. We do all kinds of upgrades, installs, maintenance, etc. We have 4 test benches setup with 15", 17" and 19" monitors. Each bench has a keyboard, optical mouse, IEC power cable, phone line cable, network cable and speakers all bound together with plastic tubing.
We also run a Windows (yes, everyone uses it - lets face it) server running XP with a large HDD in it. Removable rack ready for a customer's HDD and a DVD burner so we can backup customer's data before a reload.
We have a central place for all our tools hung up on the wall.
Granted, there are errors in the book. But I was speaking about the social issues the book brings up. Not about how realistic the billion core Intel PC is that exploded;)
"There is one I heard recently that has become somewhat of an urban legend. Although I can't vouch for the accuracy of the story, it's a perfect example of the sorts of things that we now hear happening all the time. Apparently, last year a priest from Utah sent E-mail to his sister in Boston. In his message he mentioned that some local teenagers had stopped by his church that day and baked him brownies. Hoping to impress his sister with his technological wizardry, he borrowed the church's new digital camera and took a photo of the brownies. Then he attached the photo to his E-mail and sent it off. Of course everything should have been fine.
Alas, it was not. In a cruel twist of fate, while typing his E-mail the priest made a single typo that changed his life forever. While writing the phrase "teenagers baked brownies", instead of typing "B" for baked, he missed and hit the letter "N" (the letter directly next to the "B"), resulting in the phrase "teenagers naked brownies."
Because he had unknowingly typed the words "naked" and "teenagers" next to each other in his E-mail, his message was flagged by a secret government computer scanning for child pornographers on the Internet. To make matters worse (much worse) the priest had attached a photo to his E-mail, so his transmission was flagged top-priority for immediate analysis.
When the task force went to examine the photo, however, they found that the file was corrupt and could not be opened. All they knew was that the photo was entitled "Brownies", and it was sent by a priest who was writing about naked teenagers. They tracked the priest's identity through his Internet service provider and secretly began investigating his church. They found to their horror that both the Cub Scouts and the Brownies met at there on a regular basis. They concluded that this priest had been sending pictures of naked Brownies... a felony. They arrested him."
WGA is part of Microsoft's ongoing commitment to protecting its customers from software counterfeiting and to helping support partners through education, engineering, and enforcement of policies and laws.
What they meant was "WGA is part of Microsoft's ongoing commitment to protecting it's profit."
WGA, designed to differentiate the value of genuine Windows-based software from counterfeit software, enables customers to enjoy the capabilities they expect, provides them with confidence that their software is authentic, and delivers ongoing system improvements, including approximately $450 in software offerings available only to genuine users.
BS! My pirated copy of windows has ALL the capabilities I expect. Nobody cares if their software is authentic and that vague software offer is just a magical number created by M$.
According to the Business Software Alliance, unlicensed and pirated software costs software vendors and national economies billions of dollars every year.
BZZT! Wrong. Pirated software costs MICROSOFT billions of dollars. It SAVES vendors and such billions of dollars.
"During the 10-month pilot of WGA, we have been very encouraged by the large number of customers -- more than 40 million in all -- who chose to participate in WGA because they were concerned about piracy and wanted a way to determine whether their Windows software was genuine," said Will Poole, senior vice president of the Windows Client Business at Microsoft.
OMG, take the rose colored glasses off and put down the bong! Customers were concerned that the big bad microsoft monster would come after them and litigate. It's scare tactics. They are SCARED. Nothing more.
It astounds me that people actually part with money for windows. If you're smart enough to get the corporate version then you should be smart enough by now to use a different key. When will microsoft learn? When you build a decent OS and sell it for a reasonable competitive price, maybe prices will go down.
Now that the RTA are buying overpriced garbage PC's, the cost of personalised plates will go up again. Not to mention how simple the customer service staff will get. "Look, my computer's aqua!!!"
Just when we're getting ass-reamed for driving a car, it gets worse!
This may or may not have been said already but if people can listen to and record off the radio, wouldn't that be piracy?
Radio is free. You only get the singles but if thats all you want, and you have a good setup for recording radio (even most TV tuner cards can record it digitally) you can get all the music you want. The faggoty RIAA can't police that!
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If you look here you will see that Bill Gates says: "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though, and as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours."
Maybe some PC manufacturer should do the same ads showing the millions of iPods with the 'sad face error' on screen. Apple are far from perfect.
...in other news, Microsoft buy Creative so as not to infringe copyright.
With the fossil fuels we use now burning away the ozone layer, I'm sure solar power has never been more feasable.
Imagine that. The RIAA suing the MPAA for unauthorised copying of the soundtrack of the movie. Let's all go to town!
Aww, c'mon. Somebody had to say it!
Do companies like Thermaltake, Coolermaster, Zalman, etc cringe when they see news like this. There will always be the 'tweaker' who will buy a CPU then throw the OEM out to replace with thier favourite brand, but will this damage the HSF aftermarket?
The other side would be that it could make the aftermarket more competitive, driving prices down and technology up so they could compete with the OEM.
Any thoughts?
People should think long and hard about passwords instead of having something obvious. I worked on a PC a few months back where the customer had WindowsXP Pro on their system and had 2 logins. Both logins had passwords. The first user password I didn't know so I tried clicking the "?" for the clue. Again, nothing I could just guess.
I clicked on the second user "?" and to my absolute surprise, the clue was "my wife". I typed the NAME OF THE TOP USER as the password and sure enough, into Windows I go!
I know this is just a home user where security is not an issue, but it's unnerving to know people actually do this. Why have a password so obvious. Don't bother with a password at all!!
...happens to be the vocal range of Celene Dion.
Laugh people - its funny.
The link to the site where the downloads are gets you to a track called "Stupify". I can tell you that has to be the most horrible rendition of the song I've ever heard.
If you're trying to 'sell' the idea of MIDI being an accurate copy of the original, it might be better to link to somewhere that has songs that at least sound like the original.
Intel are the worlds biggest marketing company!!!!!
Oh, and they also make computer cpu's on the side. And THAT'S where the priorities lie.
1. Take an Ipod Nano ......
2. Use 1 roll of black electrical tape
3. Use tape to attatch a car to the Ipod
4.
5. Profit!
It's a PORTABLE IPOD!
It's spyware that's the problem. I can live with ads on a website. The second any advertising tries to ass-rape my windows - thats when I get pissed. If advertising triggers popups, pop-unders, homepage hijaaking, registry hacking, active X, buffer overflows or installing any program then it's caner - nobody wants it.
:D
Can I get a witness?
For Windows 95 we got to hear "Start Me Up" by The Rolling Stones ad-nauseum. I hear that Windows Vista's theme song will be Billy Joel's number "For The Longest Time"
I work at a computer store as a technician. We do all kinds of upgrades, installs, maintenance, etc. We have 4 test benches setup with 15", 17" and 19" monitors. Each bench has a keyboard, optical mouse, IEC power cable, phone line cable, network cable and speakers all bound together with plastic tubing.
:D
We also run a Windows (yes, everyone uses it - lets face it) server running XP with a large HDD in it. Removable rack ready for a customer's HDD and a DVD burner so we can backup customer's data before a reload.
We have a central place for all our tools hung up on the wall.
Hope this helps alot
Granted, there are errors in the book. But I was speaking about the social issues the book brings up. Not about how realistic the billion core Intel PC is that exploded ;)
To elaborate, taken from http://www.danbrown.com/:
"There is one I heard recently that has become somewhat of an urban legend. Although I can't vouch for the accuracy of the story, it's a perfect example of the sorts of things that we now hear happening all the time. Apparently, last year a priest from Utah sent E-mail to his sister in Boston. In his message he mentioned that some local teenagers had stopped by his church that day and baked him brownies. Hoping to impress his sister with his technological wizardry, he borrowed the church's new digital camera and took a photo of the brownies. Then he attached the photo to his E-mail and sent it off. Of course everything should have been fine.
Alas, it was not. In a cruel twist of fate, while typing his E-mail the priest made a single typo that changed his life forever. While writing the phrase "teenagers baked brownies", instead of typing "B" for baked, he missed and hit the letter "N" (the letter directly next to the "B"), resulting in the phrase "teenagers naked brownies."
Because he had unknowingly typed the words "naked" and "teenagers" next to each other in his E-mail, his message was flagged by a secret government computer scanning for child pornographers on the Internet. To make matters worse (much worse) the priest had attached a photo to his E-mail, so his transmission was flagged top-priority for immediate analysis.
When the task force went to examine the photo, however, they found that the file was corrupt and could not be opened. All they knew was that the photo was entitled "Brownies", and it was sent by a priest who was writing about naked teenagers. They tracked the priest's identity through his Internet service provider and secretly began investigating his church. They found to their horror that both the Cub Scouts and the Brownies met at there on a regular basis. They concluded that this priest had been sending pictures of naked Brownies... a felony. They arrested him."
An example of what could happen with this bill.
Dan Brown's book addresses this very issue. The one line that echoes in my head when reading this story is a line from the novel.
"Who will guard the guards?"
Who will control what information will be read, not read, logged, not logged and who will police any corruption that is bound to happen?
How long did they have to rub their feet on the carpet to achieve such a current?
Taken from http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jul0 5/07-25WGA1PR.mspx
WGA is part of Microsoft's ongoing commitment to protecting its customers from software counterfeiting and to helping support partners through education, engineering, and enforcement of policies and laws.
What they meant was "WGA is part of Microsoft's ongoing commitment to protecting it's profit."
WGA, designed to differentiate the value of genuine Windows-based software from counterfeit software, enables customers to enjoy the capabilities they expect, provides them with confidence that their software is authentic, and delivers ongoing system improvements, including approximately $450 in software offerings available only to genuine users.
BS! My pirated copy of windows has ALL the capabilities I expect. Nobody cares if their software is authentic and that vague software offer is just a magical number created by M$.
According to the Business Software Alliance, unlicensed and pirated software costs software vendors and national economies billions of dollars every year.
BZZT! Wrong. Pirated software costs MICROSOFT billions of dollars. It SAVES vendors and such billions of dollars.
"During the 10-month pilot of WGA, we have been very encouraged by the large number of customers -- more than 40 million in all -- who chose to participate in WGA because they were concerned about piracy and wanted a way to determine whether their Windows software was genuine," said Will Poole, senior vice president of the Windows Client Business at Microsoft.
OMG, take the rose colored glasses off and put down the bong! Customers were concerned that the big bad microsoft monster would come after them and litigate. It's scare tactics. They are SCARED. Nothing more.
I could go on but I've bored you all enough.
...but good to see that people still have an interest in the muppets.
Never have 5 letters been so popular...
It astounds me that people actually part with money for windows. If you're smart enough to get the corporate version then you should be smart enough by now to use a different key. When will microsoft learn? When you build a decent OS and sell it for a reasonable competitive price, maybe prices will go down.
Now that the RTA are buying overpriced garbage PC's, the cost of personalised plates will go up again. Not to mention how simple the customer service staff will get. "Look, my computer's aqua!!!"
Just when we're getting ass-reamed for driving a car, it gets worse!
.... by the Beatles company Apple Corp?
/. a few months ago. IMHO, Windows is a generic term. Microsoft Windows is a trademark.
Couldn't be bothered looking for the link but it was on
I just copywrited the word "computer" so f**k you all!
This may or may not have been said already but if people can listen to and record off the radio, wouldn't that be piracy?
Radio is free. You only get the singles but if thats all you want, and you have a good setup for recording radio (even most TV tuner cards can record it digitally) you can get all the music you want. The faggoty RIAA can't police that!
Install windows. You'll never have to wonder if your system is being compromised, you'll know it is.
Oh, and "password" is not really a "password".