What a pointless lawsuit. The information is classified and thus the Freedom of Information Act won't apply. Sure maybe they'll get lucky and a left leaning judge will initially side with them but there is no way they'll ultimately win this thing. I guess there's no harm in trying if they can afford it, other than wasting the time of an already overloaded court system.
I'm a new Mac user with a totally OT question. I'm coming from a Windows platform so I took a quick look at Safari and decided to download Firefox since that is what I was used to. Does Safari offer any advantages over Firefox that I'm not aware of? If so, what? Performance isn't an issue. Firefox runs fine.
MySpace is being criticized for exposing children to risqué content and sexual predators.
Oh, please! I get sick and tired of hearing it. On the Internet you can go anywhere and do anything. That means that predators are going to go the places the kids go... just like in real life... whether or it be MySpace, Yahoo Chat, AOL, etc. IMHO it's the parents and the pedaphiles who are at fault here. You need to monitor your children. You need to watch them when you go out and if you have a computer with an Internet connection at home then you need to watch them there too. We're all busy but if you don't have time to actually be a parent then you shouldn't have had children. Stop blaming everyone and everything else because you can't or won't do your job.
Rational readers can stop now cause I'm pissed and I'm going to vent. Not to go off on a rant here but man oh man do some Baby Boomers and some of the older Gen X'ers ever piss me off. Everything is all about them and nothing is ever their fault. With that "me, me, me, now, now, now" attitude (which is reflected wonderfully by the national debt and the fiscal insoundness of Socail Security and Medicare) you guys are really doing a bang up job of keeping everyting in order for the next generation. You know for a group of people who claims to care so much for your children you are really leaving us all up shit creek....
I'm not excusing my own generation either because lord knows most of us have that attidue as well but with parents like ours, can you really blame us? What I'm trying to figure out is how the hell you came from the Greatest Generation. They damn near sacrificed everything in order to make this world a better place for those of us who came after only to raise a group of children who, on the face of it, couldn't care less about anyone other than themselves. Flame on....
Until something actually rivals (or is beginning to rival) the iPod / iTMS combination, can we please stop having these stories? If I see one more iPod / iTMS rival and/or killer story then I'm going to throw up. They are just about as annoying as latest story on the next new thing that Google is supposedly working on.
Thanks to likes of the RIAA and MPAA, citizens are no longer able to enjoy the benefits of works entering the public domain in a reasonable period of time. The original intent of copyrights and patents was to give the copyright/patent holder a reasonable but limited amount of time to profit from their work before it became avaialable in the public domain to benefit everyone.
The RIAA and MPAA have essentially trampled on all of our rights as citizens in order to make some more money. Now, I think most of us are reasonable people here and we want to see people get rewarded for their work but the current copyright laws are just plain stupid. I'd prefer 25 years but I'd be willing to let that time limit be doubled. 50 years is more than enough time for any person or corporation to reap the benefits of their creations. After 50 years, copyrighted material should enter the public domain.
Remember that copyrights and patents aren't some inherient right. Copyrights and patents are contracts between creators and every other citizen of this counry. We agree to give the creator an exclusive right to control who can reproduce a work with the understanding that after a certain limited amount of time the work will enter the public domain so that everyone can benefit from it.
We'll be producing students who don't have basic math, science, reading comprehension or writing skills, who know nothing about history, but hey, they'll be well versed in I.P. law. What a joke! Let's worry about producing students with a firm grasp of math and science who can read, comprehend and write at an acceptable level before we worry about teaching them anything else.
I have nothing but praise for the education I received attending a public school but I only received a good education because I chose to take college prep and A. P. courses. Most of my friends took the easiest electives possible. I had friends who graduated from high school who never took anything higher than Algebra I. I'll be sending my children to private school where excelence is expected and achievement is the rule, not the exception. The education system in this country is joke.
Corpoations ought be worried more about actually educating students than teaching them about I.P. law. Afterall, students who go on to college and get a good job turn into adults who have plenty of spare cash and are actually willing to purchase what these guys are selling at the prices they are asking.
If I was a CEO I'd rather see a nation full of well to do individuals with money to spend than a nation of idiots who are more willing to beak I. P. law due to a lack of disposable income.
Frankly, those elements of our Republic which you (and our founding Fathers) espouse are being washed down the drain as we speak. We're going/gone right back to having an Emperor and a Senate of wealthy self-interests. It's all very democratic, if you happen to be a Senator or Emperor. It seems somehow more Feudal than Republican.
Really? Given the fact that the majority of our founding fathers were wealthy land owning white males I'd say that not all that much has actually changed. Yes we've seen the rise of the middle class and equal rights under the law for women and minorities but when you look at who really has the power it is still primarily wealthy land owning white males.
The founding fathers of the United States of America succeeded in developing a system of goverment that, for the most part, allows us to resolve our differences without resorting to violence and gives us just enough freedom and opportunity to keep us busy and well off enough not to really give a shit about how badly we're getting fucked up the upper 1%. It's an engenious system if you think about. The rich stay rich, the middle class keeps working for the rich insipired by those tales of fellow members of the middle class who were lucky enough to become rich and the poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class should they get any funny "ideas".
Hey, it's a deeply flawed system but it still beats the shit out of 99% of what's out there. If you work hard and either get an education or educate yourself, you can move move up in our system. In America if you work hard enough and have a little luck you can go from the guy getting fucked to the guy doing the fucking. Isn't it grand?
AMD has better and cheaper desktop chips and they keep gaining market share keeps on rising. If a user has an AMD chip and Skype will only support a 5 way conference call on AMD then I'd imagine the user would probably look to another VOIP solution instead of lookinf for a new PC with an Intel chip. It's a stupid move for Skype.
My experience was the exact opposite. We had a computer lying around that my uncle gave to us as a payment for something (I'm not sure exacltly what) but I never tried to use it until my NES broke. My buddies and I wanted to play some of the games that came with the computer so we fired the PC up and I started scanning the manuals. A Basic manual came as part of the documentation and once I discovered that, I was hooked. I often wonder what would have happened if my NES hadn't broken that day.
The more iPods out there, the more people who might visit iTunes Music Store or who might enjoy the iPod so much, they buy a Mac (which acourding to recent statistics actually seems to be working for Apple.)
Exactly! I went from downloading and loving iTunes for Windows, to buying and loving my iPod, to buying and loving a Mac Mini. I still keep my Windows PC around for gaming but as soon as a PowerMac is released with an Intel processor and someone figures out how to dual boot Windows so I can keep gaming then I'll buy it and give my old PC away. I think Mac sales will go through the roof when it becomes possible to dual boot Windows (which should be the case with Windows Vista as it will support EFI which Apple uses in it's Intel based systems instead of BIOS).
I think it's pretty well established, even with this development, that Appple won't be switching chips again anytime soon. The move was more about laptop chips than anything else. Laptop sales kept growing and IBM kept making promises it couldn't keep. Intel had a solution available and Apple liked the product roadmap of future chips so it jumped ship. I doubt Apple would suddenly switch back because IBM might have a much faster desktop chip in 2007. Desktop sales will probably be even further marginalized by then and IBM has a well established history of making promises about it's processors that it can't keep.
The criminals that committed the bombings in Londen were all British citizen, border checks would not have helped any.
Even the 9/11 criminals entered the US quite legally.
Right but who's to say the next group to try to hit us will do the same? There is no point in having any kind of terror watch list if you have an unsecured border.
If you want to know the key to evaluating the weaknesses of a Microsoft product simply look for any studies relating to the product. If there's a study saying a certain aspect of the product is well done then you can be sure that part sucks. When your a large company like Microsoft and you have a good product, it speaks for itself in terms of word of mouth. Regular advertising is all you need. When you've got a weakness then you need a "study" because the word of mouth isn't so hot.
I swear there is some kind of virgin devaluation thing going on here, last I heard it was said that there were 7 virgins to be had for perishing in some jihad de jeur. Now its 72.
It's always been 72 virgins. Why 72 you ask? In Arabic the number 72 is used much like we would use the phrase "hundreds". That is to say that it means that there is a large amount of them, not necessarily exactly 72. I always found the 72 virgins thing strange until that was explained to me.
Remeber the whole Tivo2Go fiasco last year? How long after it was announced did it take for Tivo customers to actually get access to the feature. I'm impressed by the specs but it probably won't be available for sale until 2007.
Fines are not enough and hurt shareholders more than those who are responsible: the executives. The true punishment should be fines and jail time for the COO, CFO, CEO and all the other Cx0's. What does fining a company do except bleed the shareholders?
Hey, wait just a second. Leave the poor CTO out of it:-)
Uh, I'd rather go to college than watch TV. Why is it that I can get help buying a digital TV, but can't get help with tuition?
You can, they are called student loans. I didn't get any help from my parents when I went to college. I applied and received student loans (both from the goverment at low interest rates and from private financial institutions at slightly higher rates) in order to put myself through school.
The idea that people don't go to college because they can't afford it is a joke. If you're on your own and really want to do it cheap you can get pell grants to put you through 2 years of community college and pell grants / student loans to put you through your final 2 years at a university. If you don't mind taking on more debt or can't get pell grants you can finance an entire 4 year stint at a university through either federal student loans or loans from private financial institutions. Everyone I know who either didn't go to college or didn't make it all the way through did so by choice. The money is out there, you've just got to be motivated enough to go out and get it and be willilng to take on some debt.
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I know the parent was modded Troll, but I'd actually like to further their point. With only 11 comments posted in the first half hour of this article being up, most people obviously don't care about it.
I hope your joking. Most people who would be interested in the book probably don't read and/or comment on Slashdot articles. This is a heavily anti-Microsoft, pro-Linux tech news site afterall. If you're a.NET developer, this is probably not the highest site on your priority list.
I have no problem paying $.99 for a song, but i will pay no more. This happens and I will be looking other places for my music for my iPod. They have to pay none of the traditional distribution costs of CD's, so they shouldn't even be the price they are now. you want to be greedy, i'll look elsewhere.
I'd totally buy into it if they also drastically lowered the price of less popular tracks. I don't listen to top 40 crap anyway. Go ahead and jack the price of Jessica Simpson tracks up by two or three times what they cost today just as long as you lower the prices of the less popular tracks by the same scale. You'd be doing us all a favor.
Of course we all know that's not how it would happen. If the RIAA had their way the popular tracks would be "raised slightly" to $3.00 a track and less popular tracks would "drop drastically" to $0.95 a track.
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OK, so your civil liberties are now restricted. What exactly were you doing before that you can't do now? That's what I thought ...
What a pointless lawsuit. The information is classified and thus the Freedom of Information Act won't apply. Sure maybe they'll get lucky and a left leaning judge will initially side with them but there is no way they'll ultimately win this thing. I guess there's no harm in trying if they can afford it, other than wasting the time of an already overloaded court system.
A service nobody will use. I give it a year tops.
Thanks for the laugh. I needed that ....
I'm a new Mac user with a totally OT question. I'm coming from a Windows platform so I took a quick look at Safari and decided to download Firefox since that is what I was used to. Does Safari offer any advantages over Firefox that I'm not aware of? If so, what? Performance isn't an issue. Firefox runs fine.
Oh, please! I get sick and tired of hearing it. On the Internet you can go anywhere and do anything. That means that predators are going to go the places the kids go ... just like in real life ... whether or it be MySpace, Yahoo Chat, AOL, etc. IMHO it's the parents and the pedaphiles who are at fault here. You need to monitor your children. You need to watch them when you go out and if you have a computer with an Internet connection at home then you need to watch them there too. We're all busy but if you don't have time to actually be a parent then you shouldn't have had children. Stop blaming everyone and everything else because you can't or won't do your job.
Rational readers can stop now cause I'm pissed and I'm going to vent. Not to go off on a rant here but man oh man do some Baby Boomers and some of the older Gen X'ers ever piss me off. Everything is all about them and nothing is ever their fault. With that "me, me, me, now, now, now" attitude (which is reflected wonderfully by the national debt and the fiscal insoundness of Socail Security and Medicare) you guys are really doing a bang up job of keeping everyting in order for the next generation. You know for a group of people who claims to care so much for your children you are really leaving us all up shit creek....
I'm not excusing my own generation either because lord knows most of us have that attidue as well but with parents like ours, can you really blame us? What I'm trying to figure out is how the hell you came from the Greatest Generation. They damn near sacrificed everything in order to make this world a better place for those of us who came after only to raise a group of children who, on the face of it, couldn't care less about anyone other than themselves. Flame on ....
Until something actually rivals (or is beginning to rival) the iPod / iTMS combination, can we please stop having these stories? If I see one more iPod / iTMS rival and/or killer story then I'm going to throw up. They are just about as annoying as latest story on the next new thing that Google is supposedly working on.
The RIAA and MPAA have essentially trampled on all of our rights as citizens in order to make some more money. Now, I think most of us are reasonable people here and we want to see people get rewarded for their work but the current copyright laws are just plain stupid. I'd prefer 25 years but I'd be willing to let that time limit be doubled. 50 years is more than enough time for any person or corporation to reap the benefits of their creations. After 50 years, copyrighted material should enter the public domain.
Remember that copyrights and patents aren't some inherient right. Copyrights and patents are contracts between creators and every other citizen of this counry. We agree to give the creator an exclusive right to control who can reproduce a work with the understanding that after a certain limited amount of time the work will enter the public domain so that everyone can benefit from it.
We'll be producing students who don't have basic math, science, reading comprehension or writing skills, who know nothing about history, but hey, they'll be well versed in I.P. law. What a joke! Let's worry about producing students with a firm grasp of math and science who can read, comprehend and write at an acceptable level before we worry about teaching them anything else.
I have nothing but praise for the education I received attending a public school but I only received a good education because I chose to take college prep and A. P. courses. Most of my friends took the easiest electives possible. I had friends who graduated from high school who never took anything higher than Algebra I. I'll be sending my children to private school where excelence is expected and achievement is the rule, not the exception. The education system in this country is joke.
Corpoations ought be worried more about actually educating students than teaching them about I.P. law. Afterall, students who go on to college and get a good job turn into adults who have plenty of spare cash and are actually willing to purchase what these guys are selling at the prices they are asking.
If I was a CEO I'd rather see a nation full of well to do individuals with money to spend than a nation of idiots who are more willing to beak I. P. law due to a lack of disposable income.
Really? Given the fact that the majority of our founding fathers were wealthy land owning white males I'd say that not all that much has actually changed. Yes we've seen the rise of the middle class and equal rights under the law for women and minorities but when you look at who really has the power it is still primarily wealthy land owning white males.
The founding fathers of the United States of America succeeded in developing a system of goverment that, for the most part, allows us to resolve our differences without resorting to violence and gives us just enough freedom and opportunity to keep us busy and well off enough not to really give a shit about how badly we're getting fucked up the upper 1%. It's an engenious system if you think about. The rich stay rich, the middle class keeps working for the rich insipired by those tales of fellow members of the middle class who were lucky enough to become rich and the poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class should they get any funny "ideas".
Hey, it's a deeply flawed system but it still beats the shit out of 99% of what's out there. If you work hard and either get an education or educate yourself, you can move move up in our system. In America if you work hard enough and have a little luck you can go from the guy getting fucked to the guy doing the fucking. Isn't it grand?
AMD has better and cheaper desktop chips and they keep gaining market share keeps on rising. If a user has an AMD chip and Skype will only support a 5 way conference call on AMD then I'd imagine the user would probably look to another VOIP solution instead of lookinf for a new PC with an Intel chip. It's a stupid move for Skype.
My experience was the exact opposite. We had a computer lying around that my uncle gave to us as a payment for something (I'm not sure exacltly what) but I never tried to use it until my NES broke. My buddies and I wanted to play some of the games that came with the computer so we fired the PC up and I started scanning the manuals. A Basic manual came as part of the documentation and once I discovered that, I was hooked. I often wonder what would have happened if my NES hadn't broken that day.
What is the average effective tax rate in the UK when you add up all of the taxes that the average citizen pays?
Gmail for Domains! Not only can we spy on you, now we can spy on everyone on your domain!
Exactly! I went from downloading and loving iTunes for Windows, to buying and loving my iPod, to buying and loving a Mac Mini. I still keep my Windows PC around for gaming but as soon as a PowerMac is released with an Intel processor and someone figures out how to dual boot Windows so I can keep gaming then I'll buy it and give my old PC away. I think Mac sales will go through the roof when it becomes possible to dual boot Windows (which should be the case with Windows Vista as it will support EFI which Apple uses in it's Intel based systems instead of BIOS).
I think it's pretty well established, even with this development, that Appple won't be switching chips again anytime soon. The move was more about laptop chips than anything else. Laptop sales kept growing and IBM kept making promises it couldn't keep. Intel had a solution available and Apple liked the product roadmap of future chips so it jumped ship. I doubt Apple would suddenly switch back because IBM might have a much faster desktop chip in 2007. Desktop sales will probably be even further marginalized by then and IBM has a well established history of making promises about it's processors that it can't keep.
Right but who's to say the next group to try to hit us will do the same? There is no point in having any kind of terror watch list if you have an unsecured border.
If you want to know the key to evaluating the weaknesses of a Microsoft product simply look for any studies relating to the product. If there's a study saying a certain aspect of the product is well done then you can be sure that part sucks. When your a large company like Microsoft and you have a good product, it speaks for itself in terms of word of mouth. Regular advertising is all you need. When you've got a weakness then you need a "study" because the word of mouth isn't so hot.
It's always been 72 virgins. Why 72 you ask? In Arabic the number 72 is used much like we would use the phrase "hundreds". That is to say that it means that there is a large amount of them, not necessarily exactly 72. I always found the 72 virgins thing strange until that was explained to me.
Remeber the whole Tivo2Go fiasco last year? How long after it was announced did it take for Tivo customers to actually get access to the feature. I'm impressed by the specs but it probably won't be available for sale until 2007.
Hey, wait just a second. Leave the poor CTO out of it :-)
Good for them! After all, the French Military deserve a success at least once a century.
You can, they are called student loans. I didn't get any help from my parents when I went to college. I applied and received student loans (both from the goverment at low interest rates and from private financial institutions at slightly higher rates) in order to put myself through school.
The idea that people don't go to college because they can't afford it is a joke. If you're on your own and really want to do it cheap you can get pell grants to put you through 2 years of community college and pell grants / student loans to put you through your final 2 years at a university. If you don't mind taking on more debt or can't get pell grants you can finance an entire 4 year stint at a university through either federal student loans or loans from private financial institutions. Everyone I know who either didn't go to college or didn't make it all the way through did so by choice. The money is out there, you've just got to be motivated enough to go out and get it and be willilng to take on some debt.
I hope your joking. Most people who would be interested in the book probably don't read and/or comment on Slashdot articles. This is a heavily anti-Microsoft, pro-Linux tech news site afterall. If you're a .NET developer, this is probably not the highest site on your priority list.
I'd totally buy into it if they also drastically lowered the price of less popular tracks. I don't listen to top 40 crap anyway. Go ahead and jack the price of Jessica Simpson tracks up by two or three times what they cost today just as long as you lower the prices of the less popular tracks by the same scale. You'd be doing us all a favor.
Of course we all know that's not how it would happen. If the RIAA had their way the popular tracks would be "raised slightly" to $3.00 a track and less popular tracks would "drop drastically" to $0.95 a track.