One of the storage rooms in our building used to be a bathroom. The waste drains were (poorly) plugged and flew off the pipes one day. A co-worker and I had to get in there to re-plug the pipes (fortunately we managed to weasle out of the clean up). The smell was so bad we had to put Vick VapoRub under our noses and wear the resiprators from the paint booth.
The article is not necessarily defending fax.com or the other junkers, but condemning everyone who is so quick to file frivolous lawsuits that just end up costing the taxpayers.
Eat shit and die, communist pig!
Why is it that I shouldn't be able to own something I create? What's yours is yours and what's mine is yours, too?
Sorry, pal, but I don't live in a fucking commune.
Well, I've got no problem purchasing music I enjoy. As for the artists that produce "shit," I couldn't care less about that.
And as for abandoning physical distrubution of digital content, sorry, but when I shell out money for something (or even if I were to steal it) I enjoy having some kind of physical, tangible item (I don't consider burned CDs because of shelf-life, incompatibility with old equipment, etc.).
Why the fuck did this post get a troll rating?
It's definitely true, if not insightful or interesting.
If some of you could find a way to create edible copies of bread and beer, then you wouldn't have to pay for anything, and you probably wouldn't.
"Sure, after we send the Clintons, Tom Daschale, Barbara Boxer, Barbara Streisand, Madonna and that pinko phoney Howard Dean."
I'd also like to nominate Eddie Vedder, Kim Bassinger, Alec Baldwin, Teddy Kennedy, Ed Asner, Howard Dean, and Gary Condit.
I'll help pay for their tickets.
Damn, dude. Be more careful with your stuff. I wouldn't expect any brand of laptop (except for those OLD 286 "mobile computers" that were about 6 inches thick when closed) to survive a 3 foot drop.
"So does this mean they'll be taking a SCO approach and be going after whomever inherited ReplayTV and other companies with DVR's on the market?"
Big difference here:
TiVo has a patent proving its ownership of the technology. SCO is blowing smoke up everyone's ass with no proof of anything (cause it ain't true).
"There are no controls on Windows inputs. Any process can send any message to any other process."
While this is somewhat true, it is possible (and I wish more people realized this) to parse and look for appropriate messages to your application (I cut my teeth with Visual Studio on Win 9x).
I stumbled across this quite by accident while trying to find a way to make an edit field accept hexadecimal values (of course VS doesn't offer that filter, so I had to write my own).
Anyway, back to the original topic, 1) everyone should check his program's inputs and 2) always check for buffer overflows (*nudge nudge* Microsoft).
Sounds cool to me...but would it really be any fun to listen to a CD quality radio station that is full of static from poor reception, passing airplanes, and neighbors who violate every FCC violation in existence?:)
"There's a fine line between 'marketing' and fraud and MS flirts with it all the time."
And Microsoft falls on the "marketing" side of the line, this time.
It's not coming out and claiming anything without backing. It's just pointing to a single study (regardless of who commisioned the study, as long as a third party performed it) that claims (probably incorrectly) Windows has a lower TCO.
Now, if Microsoft were to come out and proclaim that Windows is the fastest, most stable and cheapest to run operating system in existence, they'd be commiting fraud (which we'd realize after we all stopped laughing).
Business is business. "My company's product is better than Company X's product" is what every company has said since the beginning of time.
Even with that said, from what I saw, Microsoft didn't say anything about Windows being better than Linux, just cheaper in some aspects. And looking at the costs of some of the Redhat Enterprise packages, that may actually be the case in certain instances.
Microsofts funding of the studies doesn't mean jack about them being objective or not. It just means they paid for it, but didn't actually perform the study. Technically, that makes it objective.
And I don't see what everyone's friggin problem is about Microsoft saying that its product has a lower TCO. At least they're not slandering people by calling them "lusers" or saying that their product "r0xors" or however the hell you "l33t" people spell crap.
The only problem I've ever had with Acronis has been copying a FAT16 OS/2 partition. I kept getting "drive has bad clusters" from Acronis and it took some massaging to get it to shut up and copy.
I've used Acronis to clone several Windows (98, 2000, and XP) and Mandrake Linux drives and partitions without a failure.
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One of the storage rooms in our building used to be a bathroom. The waste drains were (poorly) plugged and flew off the pipes one day. A co-worker and I had to get in there to re-plug the pipes (fortunately we managed to weasle out of the clean up). The smell was so bad we had to put Vick VapoRub under our noses and wear the resiprators from the paint booth.
Don't confuse this Dcube with NEC's D-Cube .
It's great to see a relatively unknown company come out with a (hopefully) great product that can compete with the big boys.
I've had a couple generic MP3 players over the years, but nothing that could compete with an iPod.
Chicken and the egg, my friend...chicken and the egg...
The article is not necessarily defending fax.com or the other junkers, but condemning everyone who is so quick to file frivolous lawsuits that just end up costing the taxpayers.
Eat shit and die, communist pig! Why is it that I shouldn't be able to own something I create? What's yours is yours and what's mine is yours, too? Sorry, pal, but I don't live in a fucking commune.
It's about time our laws were actually enforced for a change.
Imagine that...
Hey, Earth may be losing 20-16 but USA is winning 5-10!
USA! USA! USA!
Beats John Tesh, Yanni, Michael Bolton and Kenny G., or as Dave Attel refers to them: "The Four Horsemen of Queer."
Oh, yeah, optional. THAT's going to work.
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Cowboy Neal writes: Remove the optional anti-counterfeit plugin!
Well, I've got no problem purchasing music I enjoy. As for the artists that produce "shit," I couldn't care less about that.
And as for abandoning physical distrubution of digital content, sorry, but when I shell out money for something (or even if I were to steal it) I enjoy having some kind of physical, tangible item (I don't consider burned CDs because of shelf-life, incompatibility with old equipment, etc.).
So, would your post definitely be "flame bait" since I feel like setting your cowardly, anonymous ass on fire?
Why the fuck did this post get a troll rating?
It's definitely true, if not insightful or interesting.
If some of you could find a way to create edible copies of bread and beer, then you wouldn't have to pay for anything, and you probably wouldn't.
Imagine the blinding power of high output LEDs coupled with these reflecins...mwahahahahaha
"Sure, after we send the Clintons, Tom Daschale, Barbara Boxer, Barbara Streisand, Madonna and that pinko phoney Howard Dean." I'd also like to nominate Eddie Vedder, Kim Bassinger, Alec Baldwin, Teddy Kennedy, Ed Asner, Howard Dean, and Gary Condit. I'll help pay for their tickets.
I wish I'd saved some of my moderator points...this is the most intelligent post I've seen on Slashdot in quite a while.
Good point. Cash your chips and leave. And it's not like the casino isn't already watching your with the umpteen million cameras in the ceiling.
Dude, fuck off. It's getting annoying.
Damn, dude. Be more careful with your stuff. I wouldn't expect any brand of laptop (except for those OLD 286 "mobile computers" that were about 6 inches thick when closed) to survive a 3 foot drop.
"So does this mean they'll be taking a SCO approach and be going after whomever inherited ReplayTV and other companies with DVR's on the market?" Big difference here: TiVo has a patent proving its ownership of the technology. SCO is blowing smoke up everyone's ass with no proof of anything (cause it ain't true).
"There are no controls on Windows inputs. Any process can send any message to any other process." While this is somewhat true, it is possible (and I wish more people realized this) to parse and look for appropriate messages to your application (I cut my teeth with Visual Studio on Win 9x). I stumbled across this quite by accident while trying to find a way to make an edit field accept hexadecimal values (of course VS doesn't offer that filter, so I had to write my own). Anyway, back to the original topic, 1) everyone should check his program's inputs and 2) always check for buffer overflows (*nudge nudge* Microsoft).
Sounds cool to me...but would it really be any fun to listen to a CD quality radio station that is full of static from poor reception, passing airplanes, and neighbors who violate every FCC violation in existence? :)
"There's a fine line between 'marketing' and fraud and MS flirts with it all the time." And Microsoft falls on the "marketing" side of the line, this time. It's not coming out and claiming anything without backing. It's just pointing to a single study (regardless of who commisioned the study, as long as a third party performed it) that claims (probably incorrectly) Windows has a lower TCO. Now, if Microsoft were to come out and proclaim that Windows is the fastest, most stable and cheapest to run operating system in existence, they'd be commiting fraud (which we'd realize after we all stopped laughing).
Business is business. "My company's product is better than Company X's product" is what every company has said since the beginning of time. Even with that said, from what I saw, Microsoft didn't say anything about Windows being better than Linux, just cheaper in some aspects. And looking at the costs of some of the Redhat Enterprise packages, that may actually be the case in certain instances. Microsofts funding of the studies doesn't mean jack about them being objective or not. It just means they paid for it, but didn't actually perform the study. Technically, that makes it objective. And I don't see what everyone's friggin problem is about Microsoft saying that its product has a lower TCO. At least they're not slandering people by calling them "lusers" or saying that their product "r0xors" or however the hell you "l33t" people spell crap.
The only problem I've ever had with Acronis has been copying a FAT16 OS/2 partition. I kept getting "drive has bad clusters" from Acronis and it took some massaging to get it to shut up and copy. I've used Acronis to clone several Windows (98, 2000, and XP) and Mandrake Linux drives and partitions without a failure.