This guy filed the lawsuit on his own probably because no attorney would take it because it is worthless. Pro Se (i.e. filed without the aid of conusel) class actions don't have a good record of victories.
Nuts file lawsuits every day. This is hardly news even if it is against Apple.
Microsoft hasn't done anything illegal, but we are a former Stalinist dictatorship, so we just raid people's businesses and homes for the fun of it and to keep them on their toes. It's all the rage. Even the U.S. is getting in on the game. We call it CHEKA-chic.
"I suspect [it doesn't compete well in the email marketspace] because thunderbird doesn't really offer anything more than its competitors"
It could also be the fact that it sucks. My experience with it has been that set up is equally as annoying as the MS alternative. It cannot format email consistently. Sometimes I like to set the size and font to one setting for quotes and another for replys, but Tunderbird likes to reset evrything to Helvetica 14 point. In my experience, it was not stable. It would crash frequently and lose partially prepared but unsent emails.
There is no reason surveillance cameras in public places or license plate readers in stationary locations or on aircraft should be vilified any more than any other piece of technology.
Really. So in your view a 24/7 surveillance camera aimed at your house so someone (anyone) can watch you and your family is not any more worthy of vilification than, say, a ball point pen or a band-aid?
But I cannot and will not fault the government or law enforcement for using technology such as this, whose costs it can ultimately justify to the public's satisfaction, in public places to attempt to fulfill their charge to society.
That's an interesting position. So, in your view, anything goes so long as the police can justify their actions to the public's satisfaction, a phrase which must necessarily mean some but not all of the public? Do you hold this opinion even if those actions violate the U.S. Constitution? What exactly is the police's "charge to society" and from what source does this derive?
Dude, I'm not sure I want a hit of whatever you're smoking.
"no mention on how much energy it takes to run the thing, or how much energy it puts out. it's not of much use if it costs a fraction to just bury the old plastic and make new stuff from scratch."
Also no point in doing it if it takes more energy to convert the plastic to oil and gas than can be receovered from the oil and gas.
Oh come on guys, this is funnier than half of the posts that are trying to be funny, but you modded it down to troll. I didn't think/. was so politically correct.
Becoming infinitely long and lasting until the end of time does sound like fun.
And with the new system update (1.8, I think) the PS3 has become a pretty darn good DVD player. I have replaced the set-top DVDplayer with the PS3 now.
Let's see, Blockbuster does basically the same thing as Netflics (ordering over the net with postal delivery) but you can drop the movies off at the store, if you want, so, yeah, I guess they are still relevant.
"I pretty much came to the conclusion that yes, Christianity was perfectly logical and justified given one base axiom that the bible is infallible"
Interestingly, starting from the same premise of the Bible's infalibility, I came to the conclusion that it is utterly illogical. For instance (and there are many examples, not just this one) contrast John 1:18 ("no man hath seen God at any time") with the Adam and Eve Story, the Abraham story, the Lot story, the Jacob story, the Moses story, and the Jesus story.
Wow, you're kind of ignorant. I guess you haven't heard of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_ZndelErnst Zundel who was sentenced to 5 years in prison in Germany for denying the holocaust or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_IrvingDavid Irving who was sentenced to three years in prison in Austria for disputing "facts" about the holocaust.
"If you say what you think and someone threatens your life for saying it, they have broken the law in most civilized countries."
Interestingly, in most "civilized countries" if you say what you think and what you think is contrary to the state approved position, (let's say you question the numbers or methods of the killings during the holocaust) then you have broken the law. Send them to jail!
Freedom means the freedom to disagree and the freedom to have opinions that the masses do not share and may even find repugnant. In even the most authoritarian state, one always has the authority to express ideas of which the goverment approves.
Frankly, I see little moral difference in the government threatening to send people to jail for expressing an unapproved idea and an extremist threatening death or bodily harm to a person expressing an unapproved idea.
Of course, I recognize a real world difference: the ability of the state to prosecute and the liklihood that it will is many times greater than the ability of the extremist to carry out his treat or the liklihood that he even will.
It may be the case the the average computer user is an idiot, but, more importantly to this disucssion, the average computer user is an ignoramus. I think it is not a streatch to say that most computer users are ignorant of how or why their computer works, that they are ignorant of alternative operating systems and alternative ways of acomplishing tasks, and that they are ignorant of the effect of marketing on their little minds.
Linux has always appealed to the tech savvy and all its marketing efforts have been directed at people who could really understand why it was a viable or better alternative than what they were already using. If people want Linux to have market-share, they need to spend lots of money blasging out ubiquitous but meaningless messages like "Linux rox! Windoze sux!"
But these messages can't be just here on slashdot where the unwashed ignoramuses dare not tread. These messages must be in magazines, on television, and on bulletin boards.
"It shocks the hell out of me that they were the first ones to realize this market even exists."
Actually, I think Microsoft figured it out with solitare and networked checkers, but they just didnt' figure out how to make money at it.
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The RIAA had to know they were in trouble when they sued a Sergeant named after Santa Claus and the Lord's Prayer.
This guy filed the lawsuit on his own probably because no attorney would take it because it is worthless. Pro Se (i.e. filed without the aid of conusel) class actions don't have a good record of victories.
Nuts file lawsuits every day. This is hardly news even if it is against Apple.
Microsoft hasn't done anything illegal, but we are a former Stalinist dictatorship, so we just raid people's businesses and homes for the fun of it and to keep them on their toes. It's all the rage. Even the U.S. is getting in on the game. We call it CHEKA-chic.
"I suspect [it doesn't compete well in the email marketspace] because thunderbird doesn't really offer anything more than its competitors"
It could also be the fact that it sucks. My experience with it has been that set up is equally as annoying as the MS alternative. It cannot format email consistently. Sometimes I like to set the size and font to one setting for quotes and another for replys, but Tunderbird likes to reset evrything to Helvetica 14 point. In my experience, it was not stable. It would crash frequently and lose partially prepared but unsent emails.
That is a priceless line! I agree with you completely.
There is no reason surveillance cameras in public places or license plate readers in stationary locations or on aircraft should be vilified any more than any other piece of technology.
Really. So in your view a 24/7 surveillance camera aimed at your house so someone (anyone) can watch you and your family is not any more worthy of vilification than, say, a ball point pen or a band-aid?
But I cannot and will not fault the government or law enforcement for using technology such as this, whose costs it can ultimately justify to the public's satisfaction, in public places to attempt to fulfill their charge to society.
That's an interesting position. So, in your view, anything goes so long as the police can justify their actions to the public's satisfaction, a phrase which must necessarily mean some but not all of the public? Do you hold this opinion even if those actions violate the U.S. Constitution? What exactly is the police's "charge to society" and from what source does this derive?
Dude, I'm not sure I want a hit of whatever you're smoking.
Geez, first we had the "blood libel," then "the holocaust," now we have "can't tell one jew reporter from another." When will this prejudice stop? :-P
"Of course, the software has to be installed by the owner of the Blackberry"
If this is true, RIM should go into the software security business and drop this whole phone thing altogether.
Am I the only one here who didn't know Zenith still existed?
"no mention on how much energy it takes to run the thing, or how much energy it puts out. it's not of much use if it costs a fraction to just bury the old plastic and make new stuff from scratch."
Also no point in doing it if it takes more energy to convert the plastic to oil and gas than can be receovered from the oil and gas.
I was just about to ask the same thing. The economic perceptions of some slashdotters confound me.
Oh come on guys, this is funnier than half of the posts that are trying to be funny, but you modded it down to troll. I didn't think /. was so politically correct.
Becoming infinitely long and lasting until the end of time does sound like fun.
And with the new system update (1.8, I think) the PS3 has become a pretty darn good DVD player. I have replaced the set-top DVDplayer with the PS3 now.
Let's see, Blockbuster does basically the same thing as Netflics (ordering over the net with postal delivery) but you can drop the movies off at the store, if you want, so, yeah, I guess they are still relevant.
"Haven't we figured out by now religion and science don't mix? Copernicus, Galileo, Da Vinci, and who knows who else?"
I'm not convinced that it is religion and science that do not mix, but I am pretty sure Christianity and science don't.
"I pretty much came to the conclusion that yes, Christianity was perfectly logical and justified given one base axiom that the bible is infallible"
Interestingly, starting from the same premise of the Bible's infalibility, I came to the conclusion that it is utterly illogical. For instance (and there are many examples, not just this one) contrast John 1:18 ("no man hath seen God at any time") with the Adam and Eve Story, the Abraham story, the Lot story, the Jacob story, the Moses story, and the Jesus story.
"And while I do not like a lot of things about Israel I would want to see us defend them against Iranian aggression."
Why?
Yep: Windows CE. As I recall those devices flopped 10 years ago. I don't expect this one to do any better.
Correction. 2001: A Space Odyssey was actually shot in the Panavision format.
2001: A Space Odyssey was originally shot in something called Cinerama that was a projected on a deep concave sceen.
You may be thinking about this or Super Panavision, a later descendant technology.Wow, you're kind of ignorant. I guess you haven't heard of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_ZndelErnst Zundel who was sentenced to 5 years in prison in Germany for denying the holocaust or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_IrvingDavid Irving who was sentenced to three years in prison in Austria for disputing "facts" about the holocaust.
"If you say what you think and someone threatens your life for saying it, they have broken the law in most civilized countries."
Interestingly, in most "civilized countries" if you say what you think and what you think is contrary to the state approved position, (let's say you question the numbers or methods of the killings during the holocaust) then you have broken the law. Send them to jail!
Freedom means the freedom to disagree and the freedom to have opinions that the masses do not share and may even find repugnant. In even the most authoritarian state, one always has the authority to express ideas of which the goverment approves.
Frankly, I see little moral difference in the government threatening to send people to jail for expressing an unapproved idea and an extremist threatening death or bodily harm to a person expressing an unapproved idea.
Of course, I recognize a real world difference: the ability of the state to prosecute and the liklihood that it will is many times greater than the ability of the extremist to carry out his treat or the liklihood that he even will.
It may be the case the the average computer user is an idiot, but, more importantly to this disucssion, the average computer user is an ignoramus. I think it is not a streatch to say that most computer users are ignorant of how or why their computer works, that they are ignorant of alternative operating systems and alternative ways of acomplishing tasks, and that they are ignorant of the effect of marketing on their little minds.
Linux has always appealed to the tech savvy and all its marketing efforts have been directed at people who could really understand why it was a viable or better alternative than what they were already using. If people want Linux to have market-share, they need to spend lots of money blasging out ubiquitous but meaningless messages like "Linux rox! Windoze sux!"
But these messages can't be just here on slashdot where the unwashed ignoramuses dare not tread. These messages must be in magazines, on television, and on bulletin boards.
they lost less money this quarter than the previous quarter. The bad news is that the losses were lower because the sales were lower. Doh!
"It shocks the hell out of me that they were the first ones to realize this market even exists."
Actually, I think Microsoft figured it out with solitare and networked checkers, but they just didnt' figure out how to make money at it.