I think this is all being done as a publicity stunt or attention whoring. Maybe he wants to keep up his "bad boy" image, who knows.
If anything, it's free advertising for him. If they used his song in the commercial, people might be inclined to go, "Hey, I like that song!" and plow off to itunes like good little sheep to pay for it and download it.
I know if I was an artist and a commercial that was to be seen by quite a few people played my song, I'd be grateful.
I don't imagine he's in any financial distress as he's sold over 33 million albums and has more than enough money to get by for quite a while, so that's even more reason to think he's just doing this to be all tough.
It wouldn't be cheaper because you could sue for the rate that you were asking plus "damages". So what would normally have cost them $10 million will now probably cost them 15-20.
Unless you want to pull a Ray Parker. The studios who made Ghostbusters (name eludes me at the moment) asked Huey Lewis for rights to use his songs in Ghostbusters. When he denied them permission, they took the music to "I want a new Drug" and sped it up. Put lyrics in by Ray Parker and made the Ghostbusters theme.
Of coursse, it went to court and they had to pay out the azz, but they still got what they want.
um.. why is this modded up? Sorry, but it has to be the *most* asinine opinion ever.
Reading the source will "taint" me as a developer? Uh.. I don't think so!
Sorry, but if looking at this code affects how you program, then I have to question your skills as a developer.
Also, this is WINDOWS source code. If anything, it's an example of what not to do, but if you discover a better method of doing something and you use it, how would MS know you took it from windows source?
MS can't magically see into your programs and say "oh, he took that from Windows source code!!!"
I'm a programmer. I'll take a look at the code, I don't care. How is looking at the code going to affect your future as a developer? You gonna start making crappy code as a result?
It's not like MS is gonna take a look at the source code to your apps. It's also not like you're gonna look at the source and the MS programmer's brain who coded it becomes part of you and as a result you "duplicate" code you saw.
If you look through it and see a more efficient way to do something, more power to you. I know I'll be taking a look through as soon as I get it.
Stonehenge, where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live and they do live well
Stonehenge
Where a man is a man and the children dance to
the pipes of pan
Stonehenge
Tis a magic place where the moon doth rise
With a dragon's face
Stonehenge
Where the virgins lie
And the prayer of devils fill the midnight sky
And you my love, won't you take my hand
We'll go back in time to that mystic land
Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow
I will take you there
I will show you how
My domain is 100% personal. I don't get any hits to it other than my own. I put my own stuff up there for friends to access, stuff I test in development, etc..
It's pretty much a domain for me. No one else.
There is absolutely no reason whatsoever for me to have my personal information available for whoever to see. That's like saying it's mandatory that since you use a phone, you have to have your address listed in the phone-book. It's bullshit and it's an invasion of my privacy. My who-is information is false because... well, no one has any right knowing who *I* am since my site is for *me* and me only.
Instead, if you run a website, you should apply for an online business license, which should require valid information for all to see.
Considering there's a vulnerability in almost anything (and just a matter of time before someone finds it), I think at *this* point in time it is a very bad idea to make something as important as VOTING something we can do online.
The last thing we need is a botched up election with later claims that the system was found vulnerable, etc..
It's handy, no doubt, but maybe we should wait a bit...
I heard that the US Government paid Microsoft millions of dollars to have them include copies of minesweeper.
Yeah, seems like a harmless game, but rumor has it if you win 100 times in a row you'll be contacted by a secret agent and whisked away to an underground weapons training facility where they send you out on various missions across the world dismantling the existing mines.
Isn't there SOMEONE in the higher ups at Microsoft that's realized, "Hey.. maybe what we're doing is fucking stupid and overkill. Perhaps we should let off."???
Surely their PR department doesn't feel that this is GOOD media coverage for a company... or do they?! No one's stupid enough to think, "People across america will completely understand and agree with our decision against this future threat to our company!!"
I would really just LOVE to sit in a meeting where they came up with the plan to sue Mike Row, a 17 year old kid, because he made "MikeRoweSoft.com" and because they HONESTLY felt threatened by what he put on the site...
I swear half the time the higher ups are on vacation spending their millions while their 11 and 12 year old children are making the decisions, because what they're doing is pretty fuckin ridiculous and childish (as you all know).
His heirs should be honored that his books have been made into some of the finest movies of ALL TIME and have generated an entire new generation of fans and followers.
Those movies are right up there with other classics like The Godfather and Star Wars and will be highly regarded for decades to come...
While a prequel might mean big bucks for the studio, it's really about another good film for the fans of the story.
What I don't get is why there aren't any plans for The Hobbit.. well, as of now, anyway. IMDB isn't showing it as a future release.
That'd be a pretty sweet movie. Why NOT make it? The Hobbit is equally as part of LOTR. Don't people want to see how the ring came into Bilbo's possession or the story surrounding it?!
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I think this is all being done as a publicity stunt or attention whoring. Maybe he wants to keep up his "bad boy" image, who knows.
If anything, it's free advertising for him. If they used his song in the commercial, people might be inclined to go, "Hey, I like that song!" and plow off to itunes like good little sheep to pay for it and download it.
I know if I was an artist and a commercial that was to be seen by quite a few people played my song, I'd be grateful.
I don't imagine he's in any financial distress as he's sold over 33 million albums and has more than enough money to get by for quite a while, so that's even more reason to think he's just doing this to be all tough.
It wouldn't be cheaper because you could sue for the rate that you were asking plus "damages". So what would normally have cost them $10 million will now probably cost them 15-20.
Unless you want to pull a Ray Parker. The studios who made Ghostbusters (name eludes me at the moment) asked Huey Lewis for rights to use his songs in Ghostbusters. When he denied them permission, they took the music to "I want a new Drug" and sped it up. Put lyrics in by Ray Parker and made the Ghostbusters theme.
Of coursse, it went to court and they had to pay out the azz, but they still got what they want.
Dunno the point of all this. Seriously, if you think about it, there's no way you can make your code 100% unreadable.
The tools that PROTECT your code can be reverse engineered as well. What then?
If I search on a P2P network for windows source and download it just to look at it, sorry, but that's not illegal.
How is it not illegal? Well, someone posted a few days ago snippets of code from IE5 that showed how the buffer overflow exploit for images worked.
That post was not illegal since it was used for "educational" purposes (showing us where and how the exploit worked).
Good luck trying to sue, MS... since, after all, that's all you know how to do!
Heavy Metal indeed.
It's rumored that GWAR originally came from the core of Jupiter before the Master sent them, the Scumdogs of the Universe, to an iceberg in Antactica.
um.. why is this modded up? Sorry, but it has to be the *most* asinine opinion ever.
Reading the source will "taint" me as a developer? Uh.. I don't think so!
Sorry, but if looking at this code affects how you program, then I have to question your skills as a developer.
Also, this is WINDOWS source code. If anything, it's an example of what not to do, but if you discover a better method of doing something and you use it, how would MS know you took it from windows source?
MS can't magically see into your programs and say "oh, he took that from Windows source code!!!"
hahaha... wtf are you talking about?
I'm a programmer. I'll take a look at the code, I don't care. How is looking at the code going to affect your future as a developer? You gonna start making crappy code as a result?
It's not like MS is gonna take a look at the source code to your apps. It's also not like you're gonna look at the source and the MS programmer's brain who coded it becomes part of you and as a result you "duplicate" code you saw.
If you look through it and see a more efficient way to do something, more power to you. I know I'll be taking a look through as soon as I get it.
Hopefully the developers of Wine can use this to improve their product! Damn... imagine it actually working for the majority of Windows apps/games!!
*That* would be something to make people start using Linux as a desktop!
Stonehenge, where the demons dwell Where the banshees live and they do live well Stonehenge Where a man is a man and the children dance to the pipes of pan Stonehenge Tis a magic place where the moon doth rise With a dragon's face Stonehenge Where the virgins lie And the prayer of devils fill the midnight sky And you my love, won't you take my hand We'll go back in time to that mystic land Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow I will take you there I will show you how
Wow, this is the 2nd advertisment "article" I've read this week. WTF?
It works when other people link to it, but when you type in &partner=GOOGLE, it doesn't work. How come?
I have a right to privacy, you know.
My domain is 100% personal. I don't get any hits to it other than my own. I put my own stuff up there for friends to access, stuff I test in development, etc..
It's pretty much a domain for me. No one else.
There is absolutely no reason whatsoever for me to have my personal information available for whoever to see. That's like saying it's mandatory that since you use a phone, you have to have your address listed in the phone-book. It's bullshit and it's an invasion of my privacy. My who-is information is false because... well, no one has any right knowing who *I* am since my site is for *me* and me only.
Instead, if you run a website, you should apply for an online business license, which should require valid information for all to see.
Anyone with a brain wouldn't attribute the actions of a few to a whole group.
I know my opinion is popular, but that's exactly the reason why we can just lay back, relax, and have a good laugh while this worm does it's thing.
Considering there's a vulnerability in almost anything (and just a matter of time before someone finds it), I think at *this* point in time it is a very bad idea to make something as important as VOTING something we can do online.
The last thing we need is a botched up election with later claims that the system was found vulnerable, etc..
It's handy, no doubt, but maybe we should wait a bit...
It honestly wouldn't surprise me if they started lawsuits over this and tried to blame it on "pirating".
Yeahh... that seems to be the new fad. When an idea fails horribly, ignore the fact that it was a dumb idea and aim for the P2P networks!!!
"If I send a letter to George Bush using Saddam Hussein for the return address, the president will not believe that the letter is really from Iraq!"
You sure about that?
I heard that the US Government paid Microsoft millions of dollars to have them include copies of minesweeper.
Yeah, seems like a harmless game, but rumor has it if you win 100 times in a row you'll be contacted by a secret agent and whisked away to an underground weapons training facility where they send you out on various missions across the world dismantling the existing mines.
This is wonderful! Hilarious, too.
SCO gets what they deserve!!
I was getting worried... it's kinda sad though that it took 2 years (!!!) for any Judge to make such a decision.
Now, to get the rest of it ruled as such...
Isn't there SOMEONE in the higher ups at Microsoft that's realized, "Hey.. maybe what we're doing is fucking stupid and overkill. Perhaps we should let off."???
Surely their PR department doesn't feel that this is GOOD media coverage for a company... or do they?! No one's stupid enough to think, "People across america will completely understand and agree with our decision against this future threat to our company!!"
I would really just LOVE to sit in a meeting where they came up with the plan to sue Mike Row, a 17 year old kid, because he made "MikeRoweSoft.com" and because they HONESTLY felt threatened by what he put on the site...
I swear half the time the higher ups are on vacation spending their millions while their 11 and 12 year old children are making the decisions, because what they're doing is pretty fuckin ridiculous and childish (as you all know).
That's crazy.
His heirs should be honored that his books have been made into some of the finest movies of ALL TIME and have generated an entire new generation of fans and followers.
Those movies are right up there with other classics like The Godfather and Star Wars and will be highly regarded for decades to come...
While a prequel might mean big bucks for the studio, it's really about another good film for the fans of the story.
What I don't get is why there aren't any plans for The Hobbit.. well, as of now, anyway. IMDB isn't showing it as a future release.
That'd be a pretty sweet movie. Why NOT make it? The Hobbit is equally as part of LOTR. Don't people want to see how the ring came into Bilbo's possession or the story surrounding it?!
Perhaps it was a crash in the software caused by someone putting a decimal in the wrong place.. or some other mundane detail like that.
His "Cha-ching" commercials got everyone thinking about booty.