Why should it have to pay for the bandwidth to support pirated copies? There is no benefit to them.
I think, my friend, that therein lies the issue. Think about it for a minute and try putting yourself in MS place... You already developed your software. You already paid for it. You are spending no money in distributing it. You are not supporting in any way the people w/ pirated windows copies. The bandwith costs are negligible. 95% of all the new desktop computers sold pay a forty or so dollars tax to you. You are sitting on 50 billon dollars in fairly liquid assets. You are scared silly of open source advances... why in the world would you not provide free upgrades to a couple hundred thousand computers when the alternative they might chose is what scares you silly in the first place?
This makes it sound like all you have to do is plug a windows machine into the net and your in trouble. As much as I can't stand working with windows I find this to be over the top.
It is kinda true. Plug in an unpatched win2k/xp and odds are, within hours, you'll get blaster, sasser and variations of one of these magnificent pieces of engineering. If you don't have at least a software based firewall, within maybe a couple days some script kiddy took advantage of an unpatched hole and your PC just joined the army of zombies of spammer X.
I've done it. Put a PC on a diff subnet at home, don't allow traffic between subnets, and sniff what happens...
What you say is actually pretty interesting. Imagine the connotations now, taking into consideration that I am sure most of these people have charge accounts at these places.
so it would be:
1) find RFID tag of one of these guys.
2) create duplicate
3) go buy tons of nice stuff w/ their money
4) resell at the local flee market for PROFIT! or,
If you don't like reading informative remarks, well-reasoned opinons, or getting factual link, I guess you can go somewhere else.
and where would we find these again?
no it's not. It's the same. The point behind this is our level of tolerance/intolerance when we're wronged on different situations. While I am more tolerant of being the subject of a robbery, you might be tolerant to being cut off while driving, and somebody else might be more tolerant of having a loved one murdered.
The fact that laws impose a less extricter penalty on Y doesn't make Y less worse than X. It is in the eye of the beholder, and the day you could really kill somebody on a non-extreme situation like catching 2 kids shoplifting in your supermarket, that day will be the day we live in anarchy.
I'm sure you'd consider it fair when someone puts a bullet in your wife for cutting him off in traffic.
These two things are hardly comparable
This response ("these two things are...") to the original statement is totally subjective. We could easily argue that by cutting him off in traffic, you're risking his life, and the life of every near driver. Or I could as easily say that I really don't care if you steal from me, as long as you never ever cut me in traffic.
As the original answer said to your ridiculous comment of killing somebody that steals from you... "grow a little".
This might sound harsh, especially considering the IT industry situation in the US, yet if it was me (not judging anybody, really), I'd have a hard time calling anybody reliable and honest after they work in a company that behaves like SCO. It is really hard to defend what they do.
The enron analogy is flawed because enrons insiders didn't really know what they were up to. It is totally different w/ SCO. They do what they do as publicly as possible.
At the end of the day, and this goes more as a question than as a statement, is it really "tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you who you are" as valid as some would like to think it is?
Because the unwashed masses will vote for them anyway. How many people do you think is aware of this? And out of those, how many care? Welcome to the 5% of 5%.
On a different note, I don't think is difficult to rationaly defend the idea of the *qualified vote*. The problem would be to rationally define qualified. Until you can come up w/ an acceptable definition of qualified, we'll stick w/ democracy, thank you.
-Facun.
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I swear the following to be the truth, hole truth and nothing but...
The setting: 1992 in Argentina (where we never had any type of qualms w/ pirating software) and w/ PC's getting fairly popular, the first places selling copied games were starting to appear. This places sold games in 5 1/4 disks for a small fortune.
So I go as a 12 year old kid w/ my hard saved *australes* ($$) and buy a copy of RICK DANGEROUS. Get home, put the disk in, execute the.com and... the file was either corrupted or the disk was damaged.
So i go back to the place to get it copied again and I explain the situation to the girl behind the counter (girlfriend of geek running the place probably). She takes the disk, looks at it and realizes that it was *unprotected* (no piece of scotch tape covering the *thingy* to copy protect them)... she said: "This is your fault, you should have protected it... It could have gotten a virus on your way home... couldn't it??"
What the fsck do we care? I cannot believe there's one of you guys that put your real address on any type of online form that doesn't involve shipping/payment... or maps.
I don't work @ microsoft, so I really don't _know_ the ins and outs of this, but the xbox thing doesn't look that bad for them from where I am standing.
They entered the console market to compete against veterans sony and nintendo. They sold millons of boxes, outselling the gamecube according to the latests numbers I read, gaining in the process a very interesting position in the market.
I really don't know what it'll happen, but embrace yourself for an xbox2 that will be more of a challenge for the playstation supremacy.
Remember, MS doesn't play to lose, and is never happy w/ half the pie. They wouldn't even be taking a shot @ this w/o a clear chance of succeding.
but then w/ *survival* you really don't mean *not-dying*.
I haven't read anything on the subject for a while now, so somebody please correct me if I am wrong, but we as a race stopped evolving a long, long time ago. Thanks to the church and technology (amongst others) we don't *weed out* the weak and the dumb ones anymore. Everybody *survives* and procreate, arguably, to the detriment of humans as a race.
Everybody mentions iTunes support as a reason for the iPod's popularity.
Please remember that for a considerable part of the iPod userbase this wasn't available until a couple of weeks ago. So while it is great, it's not the reason for its popularity (at least for what? 1/3, 2/5?)
The last time I check in a businessweek article I think, the iPod had sold almost 1M units and was expected to sell 300k shortly after been released for windows. (more than what entire line of macs had been sold)
BTW, does anybody knows exactly what % of iPod users are windows users? I tried to google this (didn't put a lot of effort into it thou) but came up unlucky.
-Facun
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the thing is that some of these guys wouldn't be there to begin with if not for all these companies. I am sure that for a bunch of them is payback time.
I'd like to think they've done a bunch of marketing studies and polls to determine the feasability of naming this new initiative NETSCAPE. Yet, considering the segment they seem to be targeting (users w/o big pipes needs, email, grandkids pics), it doesn't seem like NETSCAPE will have a lot of pull w/ those. The browser war has been over for years now, and people whose needs match what this service offers doesn't seem likely to really recognize it.
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I think, my friend, that therein lies the issue. Think about it for a minute and try putting yourself in MS place... You already developed your software. You already paid for it. You are spending no money in distributing it. You are not supporting in any way the people w/ pirated windows copies. The bandwith costs are negligible. 95% of all the new desktop computers sold pay a forty or so dollars tax to you. You are sitting on 50 billon dollars in fairly liquid assets. You are scared silly of open source advances... why in the world would you not provide free upgrades to a couple hundred thousand computers when the alternative they might chose is what scares you silly in the first place?
why are we even discussing this again?
It is kinda true. Plug in an unpatched win2k/xp and odds are, within hours, you'll get blaster, sasser and variations of one of these magnificent pieces of engineering. If you don't have at least a software based firewall, within maybe a couple days some script kiddy took advantage of an unpatched hole and your PC just joined the army of zombies of spammer X.
I've done it. Put a PC on a diff subnet at home, don't allow traffic between subnets, and sniff what happens...
So what will the publishing industry do in the near future when any of this turn mainstream:
a) .pdf of full books distributed p2p
b) audiobooks distributed p2p
specially b, since some people don't really enjoy reading from a monitor
Oh wait, that's SOME children (i.e. 0.000000001%).
there aren't enough children in the world to make a full person out of that number.and they have a website that updates in real time whever someone executes it
not anymore...What you say is actually pretty interesting. Imagine the connotations now, taking into consideration that I am sure most of these people have charge accounts at these places.
so it would be:
1) find RFID tag of one of these guys.
2) create duplicate
3) go buy tons of nice stuff w/ their money
4) resell at the local flee market for PROFIT! or,
4a) Start dressing in style and get laid more
Facun.
funnyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy mod him up!
and true...
If you don't like reading informative remarks, well-reasoned opinons, or getting factual link, I guess you can go somewhere else. and where would we find these again?
no it's not. It's the same. The point behind this is our level of tolerance/intolerance when we're wronged on different situations. While I am more tolerant of being the subject of a robbery, you might be tolerant to being cut off while driving, and somebody else might be more tolerant of having a loved one murdered.
The fact that laws impose a less extricter penalty on Y doesn't make Y less worse than X. It is in the eye of the beholder, and the day you could really kill somebody on a non-extreme situation like catching 2 kids shoplifting in your supermarket, that day will be the day we live in anarchy.
These two things are hardly comparable
This response ("these two things are...") to the original statement is totally subjective. We could easily argue that by cutting him off in traffic, you're risking his life, and the life of every near driver. Or I could as easily say that I really don't care if you steal from me, as long as you never ever cut me in traffic.
As the original answer said to your ridiculous comment of killing somebody that steals from you... "grow a little".
-Facun.This might sound harsh, especially considering the IT industry situation in the US, yet if it was me (not judging anybody, really), I'd have a hard time calling anybody reliable and honest after they work in a company that behaves like SCO. It is really hard to defend what they do.
The enron analogy is flawed because enrons insiders didn't really know what they were up to. It is totally different w/ SCO. They do what they do as publicly as possible.
At the end of the day, and this goes more as a question than as a statement, is it really "tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you who you are" as valid as some would like to think it is?
-Facun.nope, it connected to the stereo of the car using a tape. Yes, a tape. Not an iTrip or even Belkin's TuneCast.
They discussed this here .This has to be next obvious step to take. There are no decent, fairly priced, good looking, easy to install mp3 players for the car.
If not a full player, maybe just an iPod dock w/ a led that you could permanently install in the car, and just plug (insert) your iPod in.
Just wonder how much time it will take...
-Facun.Because the unwashed masses will vote for them anyway. How many people do you think is aware of this? And out of those, how many care? Welcome to the 5% of 5%.
On a different note, I don't think is difficult to rationaly defend the idea of the *qualified vote*. The problem would be to rationally define qualified. Until you can come up w/ an acceptable definition of qualified, we'll stick w/ democracy, thank you.
-Facun.The setting: 1992 in Argentina (where we never had any type of qualms w/ pirating software) and w/ PC's getting fairly popular, the first places selling copied games were starting to appear. This places sold games in 5 1/4 disks for a small fortune.
So I go as a 12 year old kid w/ my hard saved *australes* ($$) and buy a copy of RICK DANGEROUS. Get home, put the disk in, execute the .com and... the file was either corrupted or the disk was damaged.
So i go back to the place to get it copied again and I explain the situation to the girl behind the counter (girlfriend of geek running the place probably). She takes the disk, looks at it and realizes that it was *unprotected* (no piece of scotch tape covering the *thingy* to copy protect them)... she said: "This is your fault, you should have protected it... It could have gotten a virus on your way home... couldn't it??"
-Facun.What the fsck do we care? I cannot believe there's one of you guys that put your real address on any type of online form that doesn't involve shipping/payment... or maps.
-Facun.what the heck do you mean it failed?
I don't work @ microsoft, so I really don't _know_ the ins and outs of this, but the xbox thing doesn't look that bad for them from where I am standing.
They entered the console market to compete against veterans sony and nintendo. They sold millons of boxes, outselling the gamecube according to the latests numbers I read, gaining in the process a very interesting position in the market.
I really don't know what it'll happen, but embrace yourself for an xbox2 that will be more of a challenge for the playstation supremacy.
Remember, MS doesn't play to lose, and is never happy w/ half the pie. They wouldn't even be taking a shot @ this w/o a clear chance of succeding.
-Facun.because the monkey geek in the family keeps fixing those for them?
artists make money doing C O N C E R T S. Which is the same way they make most of their money now.
but then w/ *survival* you really don't mean *not-dying*.
I haven't read anything on the subject for a while now, so somebody please correct me if I am wrong, but we as a race stopped evolving a long, long time ago. Thanks to the church and technology (amongst others) we don't *weed out* the weak and the dumb ones anymore. Everybody *survives* and procreate, arguably, to the detriment of humans as a race.
-Facun.Definitely not, not even close.
Reasons for this are christianity, the church and technology amongst many others.Everybody mentions iTunes support as a reason for the iPod's popularity.
Please remember that for a considerable part of the iPod userbase this wasn't available until a couple of weeks ago. So while it is great, it's not the reason for its popularity (at least for what? 1/3, 2/5?)
The last time I check in a businessweek article I think, the iPod had sold almost 1M units and was expected to sell 300k shortly after been released for windows. (more than what entire line of macs had been sold)BTW, does anybody knows exactly what % of iPod users are windows users? I tried to google this (didn't put a lot of effort into it thou) but came up unlucky.
-Facun
Is it worth it? Do americans have a choice?
the thing is that some of these guys wouldn't be there to begin with if not for all these companies. I am sure that for a bunch of them is payback time.
I'd like to think they've done a bunch of marketing studies and polls to determine the feasability of naming this new initiative NETSCAPE. Yet, considering the segment they seem to be targeting (users w/o big pipes needs, email, grandkids pics), it doesn't seem like NETSCAPE will have a lot of pull w/ those. The browser war has been over for years now, and people whose needs match what this service offers doesn't seem likely to really recognize it.